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[DanWCE]

Sad songs for me are probably not universally sad.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car hits pretty deep, was played at my mates funeral many moons ago.

Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane was the first song I heard after getting the news about my Grandpa passing away and I can't really listen to that one without turning to water.

Who's cutting onions in the office?!

 

[Bender_]

Sad songs for me are probably not universally sad.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car hits pretty deep, was played at my mates funeral many moons ago.

Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane was the first song I heard after getting the news about my Grandpa passing away and I can't really listen to that one without turning to water.

Who's cutting onions in the office?!

100% Fast Car makes me stare off into the distance.

 

[Dazzler9]

Is it weird that I Am Australian makes me choke up for no apparent reason?

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Sad songs for me are probably not universally sad.

Oh yeah songs are like that.

There's a bunch of songs that were on the radio when I was going through my cancer treatment (over 10 years ago now ... much closer to 15 actually, damn) and I can't listen to them now because hearing them reminds me of how godawful and sick I felt.

 

[happy_eagle]

Another left field one is "Stop this Train" by John Mayer.

A song about watching your parents get old.

 

[DanWCE]

Oh yeah songs are like that.

There's a bunch of songs that were on the radio when I was going through my cancer treatment (over 10 years ago now ... much closer to 15 actually, damn) and I can't listen to them now because hearing them reminds me of how godawful and sick I felt.

Congratulations on the progress!

 

[Dazzler9]

Goddam it, it's done it to me again.

 

[Bender_]

Goddam it, it's done it to me again.

Maybe more goosebumps than choke up? But I'm a bit desensitised to it these days after hearing 3 times a day in ABC Kids for 6 months.

That's right, I was watching toddler shows all day, on my own.

 

[Dazzler9]

Maybe more goosebumps than choke up? But I'm a bit desensitised to it these days after hearing 3 times a day in ABC Kids for 6 months.

That's right, I was watching toddler shows all day, on my own.

No, I literally choke up. First at the end of the first verse, and again when Judith Durham comes in.

 

[DanWCE]

Maybe more goosebumps than choke up? But I'm a bit desensitised to it these days after hearing 3 times a day in ABC Kids for 6 months.

That's right, I was watching toddler shows all day, on my own.

I think the version of all the kids singing it on ABC is the one that gets me

 

[Bender_]

I think the version of all the kids singing it on ABC is the one that gets me

The indigenous language is a nice touch.

 

[Keys]

I’m just young enough not to know what impact the Vietnam war had (and the ones before that thank you very much) but this still hits hard- it took a long time before Vietnam veterans were properly recognised and to an extent they still aren’t

 

[Truckosaurus]

Is it weird that I Am Australian makes me choke up for no apparent reason?

No, said the person who gets a tear in the eye from Qantas ads

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

No, said the person who gets a tear in the eye from Qantas ads

Remembering that piece of luggage that never found its way home?

 

[Forward Press]

I imagine the Cats in the Cradle type regret is what a Dockers supporting father feels like when they make their child follow Freo and they grow up and realise that they're both losers together.

My child arrived just the other day
He came to support Freo in the usual way
But there were games to watch, and memberships to pay
He learned to be a flog while I was away
And he was talking flags 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, coach"
"You know I'm gonna be like you"

And there's nothing in the cabinet but a wooden spoon
Flagless Pav and Ross Lyon the loon
"When we winning flags, coach?" "I don't know when"
But we'll get together then
You know we'll have a budding time then...

 

[Mr Eagle]

The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics

and a certain verse of Paul Kelly's Deeper Water.

 

[Dazzler9]

Stacy's Mom. A heart-wrenching tale of unrequited love.

 

[Goroyals22]

How has nobody raised this sad excuse up?

 

[Bender_]

How has nobody raised this sad excuse up?

Pretty sure it was the first reply.

 

[kane249]

Lyrics to this one is depressing

 

[Dazzler9]

Can't believe we all forgot this mournful lament.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Pretty sure it was the first reply.

Literally the first reply .

 

[Ochre]

Can't believe we all forgot this mournful lament.

Let the record show Badge wanted Cam McCarthy

 

[Bender_]

I believe there's a distinct point in your life when you know that your best days are behind you, and that's when kids blowing backwards through their straw to make milk bubbles annoys the shit out of you.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

How about a song that’s called Sad Song but doesn’t actually sound that sad?