Exceedingly O.T.

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Sun Nov 23, 2025 9:19 pm

Recently Brother Wilhelm B. Powell posted a link to some most entertaining music of the sombre, mournful variety. I like a sad song. As odd as it sounds, such music actually cheers me up. How about some links to your favorite teary songs ?

I don't have an absolute favourite as there are so many to choose from but I'll start the list with this one.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Hs8Ot37 ... GM7w%3D%3D

Staying in that general genre.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OZgTZJQ7T ... Bnb2xkoAcB

As mister B. Quinn of Dover Tn. is wont to say : "Now that'll wet a glass eye !"

mickbr · Post by **mickbr** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 4:29 am

Nice ones. I always like the last of the mohicans theme. And the dark island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV3H3xT ... rt_radio=1
I couldnt listen to Bright eyes by Simon and Garfunkle for a long time as it reminded me of my mother struggling in the late 70's after my father left. Nowadays I can enjoy it.

Walt · Post by **Walt** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 10:58 am

Ray, I was going through an unwanted divorce at the time that Dan Seals song came out. That line about "someday you'll know the cost" was a consolation of sorts.....karma...

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:13 pm

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Tue Nov 25, 2025 2:43 am

Any deadheads out there ? Talk about sombre ! The story of a young, romantic couple leaving their post-nuclear holocaust bomb shelter for their last walk in the deadly fallout laden morning dew.....

Clapton & Harrison only thought their guitars gently weeped. Cousin Jerry's guitar notes are as sad as the words.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fpKQOvlDr ... AHAQ%3D%3D

"let phil sing !" The great poet robert hunter pens the lamentable son's last goodbye to his comatose, dying father.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdWTxJYNj ... VhdXR5oAcB

and of course, the smooth "ripple".....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSwV35EZa ... AHAQ%3D%3D

ywaltzucanrknrl · Post by **ywaltzucanrknrl** » Tue Nov 25, 2025 11:17 am

Yes, some good ones. I always thought Springsteen's "Downbound Train" was one of his better songs.

My wife tells me there is no talent out there any more, she likes the 60's and 70's bands, but I disagree and I think it's more of the way music is marketed these days. I pretty much just listen to Americana or Alt Country these days and Arlo Mckinley does some great sad songs. Probably a lot of folks who live in the Midwest can relate to him.

This is one of my favorites of his. The Ghost Of My Best Friend.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/v ... ction=view

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Tue Nov 25, 2025 3:17 pm

More Band.....Not a particularly sad song by design but the cracking pathos in richard manuel's cigarette and gran marnier damaged voice certainly darkens the wistful theme.

https://vimeo.com/127180623

And.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qzVteLPhm ... BsaXZloAcB

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6-v857a3I ... BsaXZloAcB

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Tue Nov 25, 2025 4:33 pm

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My former girlfriend Marilyn McCoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmS29C ... rt_radio=1

THIS takes me back to the heydey of 60's and 70's music - so many families transitioning through the Boomer generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7HgO9 ... rt_radio=1

This one isn't as sad as it is beautiful - but still brings tears - Roberta Flack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_fLu2 ... rt_radio=1

Another former girlfriend here - Karen Carpenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxj ... rt_radio=1

And yet another former girlfriend whose heart I broke - Lara Fabian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNVR0yK ... rt_radio=1

I don't think Janis liked men much, but her song certainly gave voice to what so many young women (and men) go through in their teens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESS0eKJ ... rt_radio=1

Ray · Post by **Ray** » Tue Nov 25, 2025 5:40 pm

Doc, being a few years your junior, some of those acts precede me but I do remember having quite a juvenile crush on ronstadt and later nicks. That demure "shirley temple" pout of stevie completely captured little ray's infatuations.

That clip of harrison ostensibly negotiating garfunkel's help in the studio instead of listening to carly is most entertaining.

piller · Post by **piller** » Thu Nov 27, 2025 10:07 pm

Dan Seals grew up off of Dowdy Ferry Road just a little south of I20 and east of I45. He and John Ford Coley named an album after that road. It is not far from my house.

rossim92 · Post by **rossim92** » Fri Nov 28, 2025 10:21 am

listen to alan jackson. he made two songs that make me tear up. first one is " I'll try" and second one is "remember when" WE used the second one for father/daughter dance at my daughters wedding. lot of tears on that, of course, we coupled it with a homemade video of her childhood pictures with me..

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