To Cheer You Up - Page 7 - Clubhouse

Dalya

07/09/2002 at 16:56

Evening all,

Hard to name definitive sad songs or films because of their subjective nature, but the following are good for copious weeping:

Songs (plural): Kindertotenlieder by Gustav Mahler

Film: just about anything by Ingmar Bergman - how about 'Cries and Whispers'?

XFR Bear

08/09/2002 at 09:09

Saddest film: City of Angels, but it's sort of joyous at the same time.

Saddest music:Sound track to the above, Concierto d'Aranjuez (2nd movement), "All by Myself", Eric Carmen.

Favourite Film: The Company of Wolves

Favourite music: So many!

Iain

Gnasher

08/09/2002 at 14:14

saddest film: Fried Green Tomatoes
fave film: The Great escape
saddest song: Everybody cries (sometime) - don't know who it's by but reminds me of the Dunblane massacre every time I hear it.
fave song: Bridge over troubled water

Barkles

08/09/2002 at 14:43

Gnash is that Everybody hurts by REM?

Gnasher

09/09/2002 at 06:40

Barkles - that's the one! I can never sing along to it without crumpling into a teary heap. My kids I am sure think I have lost the plot.

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 11:02

Possible Others:

Eleanor Rigby and You've Got to Hide Ypour Love Away (Beatles).
If Only and Will You (Hazel O'Connor)

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 13:00

And "Lovesongs" - New Model Army

AmandaP

09/09/2002 at 13:04

I used to think that Puppy Love by Donny Osmond was the saddest song around. Aged about 12, I would sit on my bed, gazing up at my Donny poster with him wearing his purple cord hat (hmmmm nice) and tears rolling down my face. I am sure he wrote it just for me....

Barkles

09/09/2002 at 13:57

Sad

Fox

09/09/2002 at 16:05

saddest music - that bit out of Handels messiah - "he was despised and rejected" has me bawling like a baby - I save it for when I'm feeling really sorry for myself.

For some reason Torch song Trilogy, though desperatley funny had me leaving the cinema with a coat over my head having sobbed for 2 hours.
Also can anyone remember that film with Peter sellars in it where he was a gardener and his boss died etc etc the whole film broke my heart.

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 16:09

Being There?

AmandaP

09/09/2002 at 16:34

Sad? Yes, very. Particularly when I realised that he wasn't just singing for me but apparently for my friend Rachel too....

In fact, I was so upset that I gave him up for David Essex. I've never quite forgiven him.

But what's worse is that Mr P (unknown to me at the time obviously as I would never have married him had I known him and his musical tastes) liked Marie Osmond singing Paper Roses. He assures me he has grown out of that now...

Barkles

09/09/2002 at 18:08

What about that happy singalong 'Time to say goodbye'. Sarah Brightman and that italian bloke.

Gnasher

10/09/2002 at 00:32

.....and Jimmy Osmond - I'll be your long haired lover from Liverpool...it was JO wasn't it? Barkles - you'll know

Barkles

10/09/2002 at 08:27

Yup
Pint sized tub of lard did that one.

Fox

10/09/2002 at 09:07

Thanks Tim, thats the one, I'm wiping a tear away as i'm thinking about it.

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