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/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 November 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
h/t man alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtnwcv-quE
Trevor Ferguson6 days agoWhen 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 serviceReply ·
― 龜, Thursday, 22 January 2015 04:06 (nine years ago) link
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.Reply · 1Hide replies
Érica Ferreira Mazarini Kika2 weeks ago Leste goReply ·
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 meReply · 1
1969pontiac11 week ago +Jader LokiThanks for your kind words. I am sorry for your losses.. Take care, BillReply · 1
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Thursday, 22 January 2015 04:17 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOn6Am_opk
James Robo6 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 :(Reply ·
― Οὖτις, Friday, 23 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
wow @ "I guess Jesus wasn't enough"
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 23 January 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAriDxTeed8&list=RDVSQWcQXPtmA&index=5Tdot 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 brotherReply · 17
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Saturday, 14 February 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
so good:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-220-1.2957497/sad-youtube-music-and-memory-1.2957500
― gr8080, Saturday, 14 February 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
Came here to post that. Heard it on the radio this weekend. Nice one, S1ocki!
― Brio2, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuz5TKzaJoE
― djh, Sunday, 8 March 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
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 :-(
― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Friday, 29 May 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
lol what was the video
― Ric Flairy (clouds), Friday, 29 May 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
Sisters of Mercy at Brixton Academy in 1983
― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Saturday, 30 May 2015 08:08 (eight years ago) link
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
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 31 May 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
A new thing going!
http://sadyoutube.com/post/120615087195/introducing-sad-youtube-books
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Vv7BkXf.png
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 12 June 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
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
― five six and (man alive), Sunday, 19 July 2015 03:39 (eight years ago) link
:(
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 19 July 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
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.
― five six and (man alive), Sunday, 19 July 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNg5_Jtd8k
http://i.imgur.com/anDoloV.png
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 31 July 2015 05:23 (eight years ago) link
^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.
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 31 July 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltkyqfMjCg
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 31 July 2015 05:27 (eight years ago) link
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 😢 Reply · 114
― five six and (man alive), Monday, 10 August 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 00:34 (eight years ago) link
h o l y s h i t
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdp4kiuT-U
Elizabeth Child 1 month agoThis 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.
― anonanon, Monday, 24 August 2015 22:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 07:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
;_;
― poster marked "WHITE PPL" (onimo), Friday, 23 October 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
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)
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 20 November 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
http://www.thevinylfactory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/peanuts2.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
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 :`(
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 8 December 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
http://sadyoutube.com/post/134867337470/sad-youtube-is-over-for-now
― gr8080, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
And what a lovely way to wrap up.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csG6MBYsmOU
TheRAFfc 2 weeks agoTHANK 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:):):)
― Tuomas, Saturday, 13 February 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KWT5Ozg.png
― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
:'(
― niels, Thursday, 17 March 2016 14:45 (eight years ago) link
what song?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
"A Boy Named Sue"
― pplains, Thursday, 17 March 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
Uploaded on Mar 24, 2011The first time I heard this song I was on a balcony while a typhoon was coming into town and a potted plant fell off and smashed in the courtyard four stories below my feet. I smoked a cigarette which lasted the exact length of this song, and as the rain came in I felt at peace with the weather.
― gr8080, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
Not surprisingly, much heartbreaking commentary here
20 years ago today we lost my dad to suicide. I was 21 when I had to get the police to break into his house and I had to identify his body. He always used to play this song every weekend when he took me and my sister to his local pub to play pool. Miss him still x
When I was 20yrs old just gave birth to my second son abandoned by my husband, there stood children service trying to sign away my baby for adoption, he was a beautiful baby, child service had a social worker who wanted him bad, my sister played this song knowing how much I listened to music, I gave her the paper back said I can raise my kids, now grown up, he is a wonderful Christian, good father, husband&son this song woke me up, i am so glad that my sister played this, I grew up that day
Last one on first page cracked me up though, perfect closer:
steve FromEngland vor 1 MonatI always hated this song because my brother was the biggest dick head you could ever meet, bollox to him
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
indeed
― niels, Thursday, 12 May 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrC034UHk50
Judyp774 months ago
I am a 72 year old granny whose 39 year old son had a massive heart attack and died May of 2010. I just found this CD with about 10 different songs that he recorded for his library in 2002. So, I thought I'd listen to it to see what songs he liked. This was one of them and I gotta say I kinda like it as well. Very nice. Now, I'm off to hear My Father's Eyes by Eric Clapton. My son was Charles Douglas (Doug) Pruitt.
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― www.ramenclassaction.com (man alive), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
something odd about the way she says his name... gets the feels stirred up.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
the dignity of it maybe
also very poignant the way she is on this journey through his song library to try to feel a connection with him
― www.ramenclassaction.com (man alive), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
same age as me too...
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
There's a lady in my building who lost her son to a heart attack around that age and also lost her daughter to alcoholism. Husband just went into a home. Reminds me that we've been saying we want to have her up for coffee some time, nice woman and lonely.
― www.ramenclassaction.com (man alive), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
That said, I hate it when people are referred to as William (Bill) Newman or James "Jimmy" Sanders.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
on Master P's "Gangstas Need Love Too"
Henry King2 months agoborn in 75 this reminds me of my only love ... forever still waiting for her to come back to me. Finally found her again 10 yrs later after talkin to her last waiting for her to move on from her relationship to get back with me. true love for this woman now we was young in 2001
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 12:23 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemG0cvc4oU
PeaceSunshiine5 months agoFor my friend I lost during the Paris attacks. For Lola and the other innocent people. Peace,love and rock n roll.
ColdWaterGaming135 months agoSo sorry for your loss
PeaceSunshiine4 months agothanks for your support ..
Anita Poling4 months agoim so sorry to hear that.... i dont even know u, and it hurts me
PeaceSunshiine4 months agothanks for you support .. This song reminds me her so much .. she was only 17 ..
― paolo, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Guess that's better than "You Really Got Me".
― pplains, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
doudream2 months ago
I was about 6 or 7 when I would play this game with my older brother. We spent hours achieving as much as we could in this game. because of this, I have always wanted to be the hero like the one we played in the game. unfortunately, my brother has passed, and the world isn't as magical as this game. or at least it isn't, yet
― emil.y, Saturday, 10 September 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link