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Prince did a great version of that Eric Clapton solo.

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Feels appropriate for this thread…little history lesson of a song that fits this category…

There's literally a song called "The Suicide Song" that was released in the pre-WWII (more Great Depression timeline I think) era in Hungary AKA the Hungarian Suicide Song called "Gloomy Sunday". If you google the original it's in Hungarian so you likely won't understand it but there's been English translations you can find…

Apparently the number of suicides that were related to this song became so much reported the song was banned on the radio at a certain point…and the original writer of it died of suicide some time later….

But if you go listen to it now (like I did) you'll likely think the same thing as I, "Really? This song did that? Pretty lame if you ask me…." But that was almost 100 years ago and during the Great Depression, so….different times different mindset….

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jenn96 said:

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T dizl televizl said:

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Tuesday's Gone by lynyrd skynyrd puts me in a weird funk or melancholy state. Don't know how to describe it or why it does.

Love the song and when I go to listen to it I'm just kinda down afterwards.

Can't think of any other songs that really affect me like that.

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Don Henly's Boys of Summer does that to me. It's one of my favorite songs, but it fills me with this bittersweet sense of yearning for something that's gone and never coming back. Just the first few chords are enough.

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That makes me feel better. Can definitely see some nostalgia kicking in with boys of summer. Simpler times.

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Boys of Summer and about a million other songs from my high school days make me happy and sad at the same time. Thinking about the good old days when young, innocent, not a care in the world makes you happy and then sad that it is all gone.

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Sunset Grill does that to me.

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T dizl televizl said:

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Tuesday's Gone by lynyrd skynyrd puts me in a weird funk or melancholy state. Don't know how to describe it or why it does.

Love the song and when I go to listen to it I'm just kinda down afterwards.

Can't think of any other songs that really affect me like that.

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Don Henly's Boys of Summer does that to me. It's one of my favorite songs, but it fills me with this bittersweet sense of yearning for something that's gone and never coming back. Just the first few chords are enough.

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Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone

Some of y'all may read that stanza as a metaphor for lost time. It works. Meanwhile, I have to hear it every September and take it a bit more literally. The upper mid-west veil of grey is about to descend and bring its 5 months of snow and cold. Thank you SW airlines for your winter schedule...

"Wherever You Will Go" by The Calling. It was released and rose to prominence while I was working at Best Buy, and it was one of about 10 songs they played on repeat all day long for several months. I don't know why I didn't grow to hate the others on the playlist (or even remember them), but I remember The Calling. And I still hate it with a passion.

In terms of songs that actively make me sad, but not necessarily upset, number 1 with a bullet is "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens. It's easily the most beautiful and heart-wrenching song about loss that I've ever heard.

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Desperados waiting for a train always makes me think of my grandpa. Bittersweet.

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This 100x. Reminds me of every old farmer I grew up around. Can just see them all in their old pressed khaki pants and khaki work shirts. Remember goi g with my grandpa to the "domino hall" (terms used loosely). Was an old shack by the grain elevator in town that only had a window unit running and an old lightbulb hanging down from a wire. Those old men would sit there for hours everyday talking, laughing playing dominoes. I miss them all.

"Come on Jack that son-of-a-***** is comin' "