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the durutti column – tomorrow
From the album Circuses and Bread (Factory Benelux,1986)Filed under: dream, music Tagged: the saddest songs on earth, tomorrow never comes
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radiohead – exit music for a film (zeffirelli’s romeo and juliet)
Filed under: freedom, impermanence, love, music, politics, remix, spirit, violence Tagged: forbidden, ok computer, radiohead, romeo and juliet, suicide, the saddest songs on earth
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damien rice and lisa hannigan – volcano (live)
Filed under: love, music Tagged: the saddest songs on earth
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anita lane – the world’s a girl
Filed under: gender, love, music, violence Tagged: misogyny, the saddest songs on earth
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aimee mann – wise up
Aimee Mann in 1999. With diegetic sound from the denouement montage in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, to which the song is central.Filed under: film, music Tagged: the saddest songs on earth
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morrissey – seasick, yet still docked
One of the most beautifully orchestrated of all Morrissey’s abject songs about self-pity. From the 1992 album, Your Arsenal.Filed under: music Tagged: abject, disappointment, hopelessness, loneliness,...
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shellac – shoe song
From 1000 Hurts (2000).Filed under: love, music Tagged: missing, the saddest songs on earth
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hungry ghosts – i don’t think about you anymore, but i don’t think about you...
Not to be confused with the group of the same name from the UK. From Melbourne, these guys unfortunately disbanded in 2001 after having self-released an EP, and then two albums produced by Steve...
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daniel johnston – life in vain
Filed under: music Tagged: aloneness, depression, loneliness, mental illness, persistence, the saddest songs on earth
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