s1ocki's Sad YouTube project

Bonnie Speeg
1 year ago

The name: Williams Mix, made in 1952, eerily represents my family. We five children growing up in the 50's amidst parental chaos, the atom bomb, increased modern media, McCarthy, the Red Scare and Rock n Roll. Our name was Williams, the grown ups drank, there were many secrets, much music and a lot of disconnectedness. I vote this John Cage to be the background if there were movies of my family . There aren't. My parents didn't even think to buy a movie camera to capture their 5 beautiful kids

"I had a little room in the east end of london in 1978 just after my marriage had broken up.. I had a little old record player and this single.. I put it on repeat and cried and cried and cried..."

romeo garcia 2 years ago
Yeah..i was 6 when this movie came out and a simply love it...They don't make movies like this...I show to all my friends and everyone loves it..specially this very touching scene...Thanks dad...The best movies i see in all my life was with you,,,

awww

Was the movie Predator?

no, universal soldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVetTbHiwjw

Cameron White4 months ago

Nancy, You walked in and my life began again. Thank you for being here. I miss you. Rest In Peace my darling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wq9B6KaIRQ&feature=kp

John d'Arke9 months ago

I used to entertain ideas of suicide throughout my teens. Attempted it once and indulged in lots of reckless behaviour in the hope I might not survive.

Years later I lost my best friend to it. I was the one to find him, and cut him down from the ceiling then cradled him in my arms while crying like a baby for what seemed like an eternity (probably only ~5-10 minutes) for the ambulance to arrive.

Even writing these few words brings tears to my eyes...about 8 years later. I really am shattered by these events even now. I found out later he was having marital issues and struggling after the arrival of his first child. I didn't even know.

This event tore my life apart, and his wife and daughter's, and touched many more. It being suicide made it feel all the more tragic and pointless. Much more than any other friend I've lost to car & motorbike accidents and drugs and cancer etc. I'm still hesitant to make new friends to this day.

I don't know if it'll help to share, but I how it might help someone.

Take care and talk to someone you trust - friend family or counsellor if you feel this way. 

i wonder about those

Yeah, the user name adds to the suspicion. This is a well-intention fiction. The opposite of trolling. Llorting.

i feel like i have a pretty good smell test about these, and there are a lot of ones that play out like fantasy melodramas that im suspicious of

devilkyn13 months ago

This song literally changed my life. When I was young I was afraid of coming out in the small town I lived in. After buying the Empire Records soundtrack I listened to this song over and over until I had the courage to move out on my own and start living my life. Happily things worked out fine, but like i said this song literally was my catalyst to change my life :)
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^ happy youtube

A friend sent me a link to this site a few months back, and I gotta say what's already been said: this is an amazing project. It's heartwarming to see people other than myself get all nostalgic over "I.G.Y.", one of my all-time faves

you're right people kill but they don't get imediate death penalty! no i don't have kids i got tons of cousins and yes some already were atacked by dogs and as always the dogs are always killed , makes me wonder if one day there aren't enough dogs to kill!

(post the youtube link too pls guys)

A recent interview...

http://www.nosuchthingaswas.com/2014/11/how-we-talk-about-ourselves-and-music.html

...which just now led to a mention by Andrew Sullivan.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/22/the-little-stories-of-youtube/

h/t man alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtnwcv-quE

Trevor Ferguson6 days ago
When this song was released. I was 9 years old(1997). It was the day of my grandfathers funeral. Heard this song just before the graveside service
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AxrOUJ62E

1969pontiac13 weeks ago

My wife passed away, she was no mistake. I miss her very much. Cherish the time you have with your loved one. We never know when it will be over. Happy New Year to all.
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Érica Ferreira Mazarini Kika2 weeks ago

Leste go
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Jader Loki1 week ago

Very sorry for your loss. All we can do is think about the good times with those we lost that we loved and put in a little extra for those we have not lost yet... We may be next. Too many to count for me
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1969pontiac11 week ago

+Jader Loki
Thanks for your kind words. I am sorry for your losses.. Take care, Bill
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOn6Am_opk

James Robo
6 days ago

Jim reminds so much of a man I called a friend, they looked so much alike. but my friend drank himself to death, i guess Jesus wasn't enough :(
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wow @ "I guess Jesus wasn't enough"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAriDxTeed8&list=RDVSQWcQXPtmA&index=5
Tdot heisenberg3 months ago

Rip to my late friend Doug, I miss you buddy I wish I would have known how you were feeling, I wish I could have saved you man, goodbye brother
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so good:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-220-1.2957497/sad-youtube-music-and-memory-1.2957500

Came here to post that. Heard it on the radio this weekend. Nice one, S1ocki!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuz5TKzaJoE

needfulthingsTYify 4 years ago
Why have I been early so late ... why have I not been there ... why do I have to carry on life knowing I will never see this magic with my own eyes ... life has become futile :-(

lol what was the video

Sisters of Mercy at Brixton Academy in 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8wDKEhQcv0

d3p3ch3mod3 7 years ago

this is so beautiful it makes me want to cry. i'm kind of glad i ruined 3 years of my life so that i could understand art like this

A new thing going!

http://sadyoutube.com/post/120615087195/introducing-sad-youtube-books

http://i.imgur.com/Vv7BkXf.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnt7ndS6dA

spacehimself 1 year ago
when this came out ,i was a teenage boy in a lonely place , detassling cornfields. i only looked forward to coming , going into garage and listening to this on a little panasonic portable cd player , with headphones where only one ear worked.

i watched ants in the garage running in lines building things fighting back tears

:(

Though sad, also cool as shit to me that there was some random kid finding solace in cerberus shoal in between cornfield detasslings -- gives me faith in music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNg5_Jtd8k

http://i.imgur.com/anDoloV.png

^the comment section is like 95% lonely meme dudes and 5% 'I enjoyed this song by the recording artist Tom Waits'. not sure if sad or lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltkyqfMjCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igNVdlXhKcI

Moped _26 2 weeks ago
Did you know that Marvin Gaye's dad killes him

I cri evry tiem 😢
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hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUwxKWT6m7U

I haven't heard this song in years, but this takes me back. I don't really know why I'm typing this whole wall of text, but here it goes. November of 2009, a guy I had a crush on asked me to be his gf, and I accepted. Let's call him J. I thought he was amazing, and for the first few months, he was. I was only 15, but I was convinced I was in love. And it was great until J graduated from high school in May of 2010. That was when his parents decided that a relationship with a high schooler was now inappropriate. He and I would find loopholes and see each other whenever we could. My parents found this new behavior sketchy, so he and I pretended to break up, but were still dating in secret, the only ones knowing being my best friend and his sister. September 2010, and he began college while I continued high school. Seeing him in the old church every Thursday night became the highlight of my week. Around the end of September, he made the bold move to come see a play I was performing in. After the play ended, he and I ran out into the alley behind the theater and kissed while it was raining, and I didn't even care who saw. It's unbelievably cliche, and probably something you'd see in a movie, but my adrenaline was surging. He was like a drug to me. After that night, things only got worse. A few people saw us, and word got back to both of our families. I was grounded for a month, and even after that I was rarely allowed to hang out with friends anywhere other than my house. I had to block and delete his number, and we didn't talk for almost two months. Fast forward to November 2010. I joined a local volunteer group and so did he. I could tell he was glad to see me, and we got back together again, this time, no one else but us knowing. But something was different about him. He had a hair-trigger temper now. He seemed way more stressed. But me, being ecstatic to even be around him again, I tolerated it. Late November, things started going south for me, too. I was getting migraines and my vision was worsening. I went to a doctor, they did an mri test, and found an abnormal lump in my brain, near my left optic nerve. December 3, 2010. I lied to my parents about going to study with friends and snuck out to see J, saying I had something important to tell him. I told J that I had a brain tumor and it might be cancerous. He broke up with me mere minutes after I said this. I was so angry, I couldn't even cry, and went home with a stoic expression. Thankfully it wasn't cancer, but I had to have surgery and spend about a month in the hospital. But then, in August of 2012, I got a phone call from a number I didn't know. I ignored it, but I was left a voicemail. It was J, apologizing for everything with so much detail, and then asking me if I'd be willing to come see him. I'd be lying if I said I didn't cry and even contemplate taking him back. But I called back, and said no. He left me during the most difficult time in my life. He hurt me so badly that I couldn't feel anything. I couldn't let him back in, because even after all of the happiness he brought into my life, it was dwarfed in comparison to how much pain and sadness he brought. We haven't spoken since. Now I'm starting to wonder how he's doing. I wonder if he still regrets what he did back in December. I wonder if he thinks of me every time he hears this song.

h o l y s h i t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdp4kiuT-U

Elizabeth Child 1 month ago
This and "Smiley's People" are like food and drink to me at this time in my life (age 70 and alone). They fill an empty place in my soul few, if any, movies could. A million thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuTEk2uqzTA

Susan Holm 1 year ago
This was one of my sissys favorite songs. She was an awesome person but cancer took her way too soon. I miss her terribly and so do her children.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvvRYYoGxg

Teamug96 6 months ago
My Grandfather is in the late stages of dementia, he doesn't remember any of his family, barely anything; yet he sings this song and this song only over and over again, word for word. It's so lovely to hear, brings me to tears.

;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mvz7I7Dp5c

Philippe Quinchard il y a 4 mois
Cela me rappelle, lorsque mon fils m'aimait. il chantait cette chanson avec le conservatoire de Fontenay sous Bois

(This reminds me of when my son still loved me. He used to sing this song with the Fontenay sous Bois music school)

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/peanuts2.jpg

K (~4 yrs old) will sometimes say to me when I have the guitar "I want you to play Freight Train because it makes me so sad." When I play it, she will then bawl. <3 :`(

http://sadyoutube.com/post/134867337470/sad-youtube-is-over-for-now

And what a lovely way to wrap up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csG6MBYsmOU

TheRAFfc 2 weeks ago
THANK YOU FOR THIS MEMORY. I REMEMBER SITTING IN THE PICTURE HOUSE IN THE EARLY 30.S ,IN LONDON WITH MY SISTER. WHO WAS 16 YEARS OLDER THAN I SHE HAS LONG LEFT ME, REST HER LOVING HEART AND SOUL. "BY A WATERFALL" THE MELODY HAS ALWAYS ENTRANCED ME, SO WELL SUNG BY DICK POWELL THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN:):):)

http://i.imgur.com/KWT5Ozg.png