Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Saddest songs on my iPod

I saw some Yahoo music blog that rated the 25 saddest songs of all-time. Now, I can't say I agree with all their choices, but it gave me an idea. What are the 10 saddest songs on my iPod?

Starting with No. 10, here they are!

10. "Don't Speak" by No Doubt. Massive hit my sophomore or junior year of college. We all wanted to be Gwen Stefani.



9. "This Used to be my Playground" by Madonna. Nothing like using a song about HIV/AIDS in the club scene in New York as the theme for a movie about The All-American Girls Baseball League, but its haunting lyrics suited the movie's ending well, esp. for those of us who had no clue about NYC clubs. Truthfully, I could fill this entire list with Madonna songs.



8. "Broken" by Seether featuring Amy Lee. Amy makes her first, but certainly not her last appearance on my list.



7. "Mix Tape" by Butch Walker. We've all been through this right? The "friend" that you really wish was a hella lot more, but you settle for friendship so they stay in your life.



6. "Hurt" by Johnny Cash. Technically about heroin abuse (yet another recurring theme on this list, along with Amy Lee), but Cash's version was about so much more than that given that he recorded it close to the end of his life.



5. "My Immortal" by Evanescence. Amy Lee's second appearance. Sometimes a particular person just won't leave your thoughts, and you find yourself unable to move forward. You're stuck. The past is the past, but you're not nearly ready for the future yet.



4. "The Dance" by Garth Brooks. Perhaps the having the experience and then losing it is better than never having it, but it still hurts.



3. "I Wish I Wasn't" by Heather Headley. A strange choice for me. No guitars, just a woman with a powerhouse voice pouring out her pain.



2. "I can't make you love me" by Bonnie Raitt. This was so close to being the saddest song of all time on my iPod, but a three-way tie for saddest seemed really silly!



1B. "Better than Me" by Hinder. It's not the song per se, but rather the video. It hits way too fucking close to home for me.



1A. "Me and a Gun" by Tori Amos. No comment needed.



And yes, like the Big Ten, I can't count and really have 11 songs. Bite me!

2 comments:

Jerry Beach said...

No Def Lep? No "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?" I don't even know who you are anymore. :D

SmearedEyeliner said...

1) That's a horrendous song.

2) Def Lep isn't really, well, sad music for me.