s1ocki's Sad YouTube project

the one man alive posted in May last year made me well up.

I say "well up" but it was a bit more than that...

i also really love that Sonya Spence song that i had never heard before.

Youtube is Wild, Reason #64,807: half of the comments on Roy Orbison's "Crying" are "The Walking Dead brought me here" and the other half are the deepest, darkest thoughts of the elderly and lonely pic.twitter.com/1miYaJg2t4

— Patrick Lyons (@P_Lyons_) March 24, 2018

cpecpecpe1 year ago
Brings a tear to my eye. Have Stage four cancer. Looking for the rainbow connection.

Joanne Starr
2 years ago
It was 1987 An older kid named Craig brought his tape out to the front porch and started to play the album "hey you have got to listen to the new album" huh. I had never even heard the last album. More and more songs played. The night was warm ,the air filled with the sounds of the Substance album. as Craig played it over and over. From that day on I was a New Order fan.. Sadly My friend Craig Passed away a few years later. I always remember Craig when I play this album. My youth, My friends, Peace. Music lives on....

;_;

✌️New Order✌️

Gino7 months ago
I hope this song is being played in heaven when I'm reunited with my sweet mother Shirley .How I wait for that moment,you're son,Gregg.

Gxxxxxxx xx xxx
4 months ago
My dad died in April 2018 aged 63 years, he was a big fan of Cream, we never paid much attention to him about music but when he died we googled the band and sat together, brothers and sisters, quite emotional. We don't know if this was his favourite tune or even rated but we all agreed it's the sort of thing he would have loved, as best we can guess. We do he was a Cream fan for more than 40 years. RIP Dad the last great generation of British people are leaving us.

Rxxxx Pxxxxx
3 months ago
Gxxxxxxx xx xxx I can guarantee you that this is one of his favorite songs. My deepest condolences on your devastating loss. I read this song was about the draft. You should check out Blind Faith. Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker are the guitarist and drummer here. Jack Bruce on bass and vocals. Unfortunately Ginger and Jack disliked each other so Cream broke up. You may have heard of Steve Winwood, he's a child prodigy and musical genius. I think you'll find great comfort in Sea of Joy, Can't Find My Way Home and Presence of The Lord. I'd bet your dad loved Do What You Like on the self titled album Blind Faith. I lost my mom 11/27/14, unexpectedly. It was the day after Thanksgiving. My dad followed her in March of 2016. The pain never goes away, I don't think. It does become tolerable. Best regards to your family.

Mxxxxxx Oxxxxx
2 months ago
Imagine your father, age 13, hearing this song for the first time and loving it. It is also highly likely that he or one of his friends bought the album and there was a listening party of their close buddies where every cut on the double album was played back to back. I hope that is a good (imaginary) memory.

I am wondering if your meme is from the Bayeux Tapestry.

v good, thanks

Survivrs
Survivrs
11 months ago
I first heard this at a funeral for a 15yo kid who was one of those kids that all parents wish they could have. Beautiful November day in Iowa and 4 friends took one of their dad's pickups out for a joy ride. Two boys, 2 girls, and being the good kid, he let the girl next to him wear the seatbelt. They were on a gravel road, not hurting anyone, but I guess the boy driving lost control and rolled the truck in the ditch. That great kid was killed instantly because they had the windows open and without a seat belt, his head was crushed and he died instantly. I was less than 2 months away from having our second baby. This boy's mom was our babysitter. We'd had a fun day, bought some cheap bread, took our 2yo to a familiar small lake where the geese were tame enough that they would come and take bread from your hand. I had a series of pictures. My little boy took the piece of bread from dad, took a bite himself, then a goose came close and he held out the bread so the goose could chew off a bite, then he took another bite, and we still remember that day as if it was yesterday. We were back in town, sitting at DQ having ice cream cones when 2 ambulances went flying by with lights and sirens going, and we knew it was bad, but not how bad until an hour later when we got a call that we would have to get someone else to babysit. When my husband got off the phone and turned to me and told me what happened, I couldn't believe it. We went to their house where many others were already there. That kid's older brother picked out 2 of the songs for his funeral. This one and Somethin' to believe in by Poison. The funeral had to be held in the high school gym because there wasn't a church or any other place big enough to hold everyone. That was 1990 and it just never goes away.

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^from a video for Brickyard Road by Johnny Van Zant

David golf
3 years ago
I wish i was 18 again in 1985! My life stopped after that year. I never grew up and now I am a hermit and lonely.. now I am 48, but do not feel alive until I listen this magic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZkLV3ZjeI

Oh, jeez, ok ... gonna have to sit down

8 months ago
. Im reall sick. I got a serious tuberculosis. I've comed to hospital too late and, well, im scared. Anyway. I can't stop thinking about my life, what's going to happen. This music cheers me up every night. It makes me forget what im living. I go to other world. Thank you a lot for this song. If it wasn't for it, I would have psicological problems too.

893

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyY4IZ3JDFE

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I lost my unborn child today. Immediately went to my records when I got home. This is the first I picked out of many, accompanied with my fifth of Jameson I am coping...thank you for your music Lily's...the sadness is white washed in melancholy shoe gaze that deserves recognition beyond "today's music". People don't listen to emotion anymore and it's a God damn travesty....I love that you calmed my soul even the slightest and I sincerely thank you from the bottom of what's left of my heart. Keep it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3P9nUxY2Mg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9ZkYViEIs

graywolflmr
4 years ago
My cousin was a Sam Stone. Four tours in Veitnam. Never got off the drugs and stayed in and out of trouble his whole life. Found him dead in dumpster when he was 60 years old. Never got his life on track after that damn war.

Dancwwolvs
5 years ago
as a nam vet I can relate to this song,never made it out as they say, always there in my mind,1st cav div,2/5th 1966-1968 I only hope the men I left behind made it home,bless each and every one, I've never forgotten you,you will always be in my heart

brad Kennett
5 years ago
When I came home from CU-CHI Vietnam in 1970 My cousin gave me a John Prine record. I thought there was something wrong with me because when I heard this song I was the only one crying

SurreySlum
2 years ago
This song reminds me of my dad. Vietnam vet addicted to heroin and alcohol played this song almost every night with a glass of whisky.... childhood memories

Cal M
1 year ago
I will always remember My father was such a strong and cruel man. He used to listen to this so loud on those long trips to the lake. He always looked at me and would say never be like me but he was always so strong and mean. Later in life after living the same life I realized he actually wanted a good life for his kids but couldn’t do it because of all the bad stuff and it breaks my heart because he actually was a good man.

Jordan Ellington
9 months ago (edited)
My brother and I were junkies doing the whole “idolizing heroin” shtick for years. I got clean and worried about him, crying each time I heard this. He finally passed away last June after his umpteenth overdose and I can barely listen to this now without bawling. He left behind a beautiful big eared pitcher of his own. Addiction is a bitch but the addicts in our lives are just loving, struggling people like you and me. Never give up on them, never support their habit, but never turn a cold shoulder either

Robert Mckenna
9 months ago
I have loved this song for many years, and though I tried self-medicating, I found that all the dope in the world would not take away the horror a soldier is subjected. Worse, I remember as if it was yesterday that warm enveloping feeling of peace, quiet, and emotional security, rushing through my body, lying to me, telling everything will be alright, and too even worse is the memory of using calls to me even with over 16 years of sobriety. The music of John Prine in this song helps people understand the complexities and interaction of drugs and alcohol in a relationship, a family, and society. No Pain No Gain

Spanky The Pubstar
3 years ago
that's my uncle who did the stunt scene who is now dying of liver failure =( and I wanted to see this again!

442rocketdave
3 years ago
This was my best friends favorite song then he went to Vietnam he never came back Its been 44 years and I still think of him every time I hear this song! NEVER FORGET YOU MIKE!!!

jr johnston
1 year ago
When I was getting my drivers license I had to take the driving class at a nearby public school. When we drove up to the lawn I saw a most beautiful girl sitting on the green grass....her legs tucked up under her skirt. She was the kind of girl that is so beautiful ...it makes you sorry. Her name was...you guessed it...Joanne ... and I could not help it...I loved her. She used to meet me here and there ...never letting me see where she lived or meet any of her family. MAN I had it bad. Finally she walked me through the woods to an old house I had seen before...thinking it was empty. Crying she explained that she was a foster child...and had suddenly been told she had to leave...to where she did not know. Now at 62 I hear this gentle song and remember the girl...Joanne.

Jay Gilllan
2 years ago
What a beautiful song; although when I listen to it I can't help thinking, where did my life go so wrong...I guess it's just in the movies where dreams come true.

Justin Olson
4 months ago
My grandma's name was Virginia and we called her Gramma Virgie. She passed away while I was in the ICU following open heart surgery. I was 17 and the only thing I could think or talk about back then was being a cattle rancher. She'd smile and tell me about granddad and his big herd.

Well, I've got my herd now and I'm raising show cattle on the farm she and granddad built together.

I must not have grieved properly when she passed because this came on one day while clipping for a show and I broke down sobbing in front of the college kids I have working for me. It was so cathartic.

Idk why I'm telling a bunch of strangers but this feels good too.

Tyler may be a wild mountain man, but he's a good boy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFL5QcYDnmw

under 'Magic' by Pilot

vivandav67
1 year ago (edited)
This song is joyous...yet it brings a tear to my eye..i miss childhood..😭

Sue Blackwood
1 year ago
I miss it to i just wish i could go back

vivandav67
1 year ago
@Sue Blackwood I'm ready when you are..😁🎈

Duck Man
1 year ago
Yes

Goodness Gracious
1 year ago
Take me with you guys if you find a way to go back.

Slades VW Beetle
1 year ago
vivandav67 Yes I agree! Time has went too fast

em jay
1 year ago
If you guys have a time machine I'd love to jump on board. There's no good music here!

Miguel Oneto
1 year ago
Im too
my friend

frank connelly
1 year ago
me too,it was the sorta better time in my life,and Friday nights and talking to real friends down at the bowling alley and sharing pizza at long john santoros and roaming the streets in boston on sundays having coffee at dunkin donuts,yea,those were the better times and the lost songs of the seventies on that radio station. I miss home but I cant go back

Pacific Blue
11 months ago
vivandav67 don’t forget me....

Doug S
11 months ago
You got that right! Things were so much easier then, it seemed that we had so much to look forward to in life, it truly seems like it was just yesterday......but 44 years ago wow, where did it all go?

jim Graf
11 months ago
I understand, I,ll never forget Nancy and her Orange Subaru

alan spagnolia
9 months ago
know what? ME TOO !!! Happy tears for sure, however a time that will never return. At least we were able to grow up then to enjoy these songs, and can hear them again and again !

frank connelly
8 months ago
@Sue Blackwood to go back and be the innocent and happy kid i was then,well,at least allow me to know what i do now,to change what would bring too many tears and seeing the death and loss of the real and true freinds i miss terribly,the relationships,and the people that caused it,one in particular,i wouldnt shed a single tear,and doing what was offered when i was younger.

davida chapman
8 months ago
Yes I do too. To go back and know what we know now...@Sue Blackwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dw2r45Xzg

Tammy Majewski
Tammy Majewski
10 months ago
One night my late husband and I were listening to music. He was singing this song to me. He asked me to make sure that this was played at his funeral when he passed. Because of circumstances, I wasn't able to play it. But, I did however have "I was singing this song for you" with music notes as quotes, put on his headstone. Needless to say, this song will always hold a place in my heart, and I always have the tissues handy when I listen to it. I am blessed that I had him in my life. Rest in peace Daniel R. Majewski.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UluH0QmnwfM

I work as a garbage collector in those trucks where we are two or three people in each truck we work manually and I love my job. What scares me and worries me is that technology is advancing and someday by 2040 we will be replaced by advanced machines and we will lose our work since you use automatic trucks with cranes and only one person operates it and I sincerely hope not to lose my appreciated work for that, and I hope it is as always 2 men picking up trash by hand, I love my job, greetings from Oklahoma,

I need a blog that collates everyone's "jamming to this during lockdown" comments

good luck with that, as that's presently every video on youtube that plays a piece of music.

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

Romney Wordswerth
4 weeks ago
My papaw was dying in the hospital, when I was young. I couldn't take it, and my aunt turned me to this CD. I love you everything.

Sarah McLachlan - Hold On (live)

Sonja

This song makes me think of December 31, 2008. I was in the hospital having a baby I named Sarah who didn't make it. The next day I started chemotherapy for the cancer that took my daughter the day before. Not knowing if I'd live for my husband or my other children was scary. Thank God I'm still alive. So hearing this really touches a sensitive spot in my heart. Thanks Sarah for getting me through this.

why was this project discontinued? i always liked it.

Something doubly sad about how some of the video hotlinks no longer work, leaving only an empty space and a comment

I posted this on a different thread, a comment on Melanie/Edwin Hawkin's "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)":

"It was 1971, I was 31 years old, a low almost suicidal point in my life after I got out of the service. I drove up to Topanga Canyon above Malibu and stopped at the Corral. A young lady asked me to play this song on the jukebox. We chatted and in the end she changed my life. Strange but true. Joanne McDonald...here's to you where ever you are!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2hTQjK1Fa4

Determined Di
1 year ago
I was thinking of my dog who passed in December tonight. This song popped into my head. No disrespect to people but I loved my dog.

Jessability
Jessability
4 years ago
I can't listen to this without crying. I miss all those who have passed.

layssa bianchini
3 years ago
I was looking my dad's facebook because I missed him. He posted this song in 2013 and died in 2015. I will always miss him. <3

Tom Berlied
Tom Berlied
2 years ago
I have cancer and this is the song that I want at my funeral. Sorry James. You have to stop writing tunes that mean so much to me. I live in Acton ma. Your music h as made me live this long. You are the boy that has ties here. I always loved my Boston friends. Thank you James!

ThePersonNextToYou
6 years ago
From the first time I ever heard this song I have wanted it to be the song I hear as I am taking my last breath. I know it is morbid, but I can't imagine a nicer song to be playing as I go...

Max
2 years ago
My dog passed away today. I've always loved this song and it's helped me through the worst times, and it'll help me through this one too.

susanolney
6 months ago
I am playing this song to my husband of 46 years as he lays dying. Maybe he can hear the lyrics. I hope so. ❤️

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Samantha Henson
3 years ago
I lost my dad sept 27th 2017 and this is the song his friend and brother played at his funeral. rest in heaven daddy

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Tami Yomes
1 year ago
This song has a new meaning since my Mom just passed over.. Thankyou for this.. 😓

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Cathi Hixson Mingus
3 years ago
this was the last song that my ex husband ever sang for me....he died 3 months later. It was only appropriate to have it at his funeral. rest in peace my love....I will be home soon to you

Richard Gregory
5 years ago
Will play this song for mum on monday when we say our last goodbye's going to miss her..

Goddamnit, another version came up after, comment section is destroying me

John Goedecke
John Goedecke
1 year ago (edited)
My older brother used to sing this song for me when I was going to sleep.He died of leukemia when he was 20 years old and I was just 3.Its about all I can remember of him and it still moves me to tears everytime I hear it.To this day I sing my girls to sleep at night to JT songs.One day they came in while I was watching an old JT vid on YouTube like this one and my younger daughter says “ Daddy,he’s singing your song”.I was floored and all I could think of to say was.....” bet you didn’t know you had a famous dad huh? “ They’ll figure it out someday but for now it’s how I keep my brothers memory alive.Thank you JT for all the years and the songs!

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ice la honk 2 months ago

music to spend my last night with my dog to.

good boy, Charlie. you're almost there bud

This entire comment section

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjEq-r2agqc

Lesli D
1 year ago
Found this while dealing with a loved one's fatal illness...........so beautiful. I carry it with me.......thank you.

Daniel Eptein
4 months ago
Im sorry Lesli thats awful. Hopefully this song gave you some comfort.

Siberius Wolf
4 months ago
Shit quality version unfortunately. Click on a different upload of this song and the sound is normal.

how sad

['Invisible Sun' by the Police]

Alpha9Z
6 years ago
I recently came across a letter from my ex which she wrote many years ago, when we were still young. She told me how amazing she thought this song was. I can't remember ever having listened to it. So i thought i'd google it and indeed - this song seems pretty great.
Unfortunately, she left me last year, but I am glad she still was able to add something positive to my life by introducing this song to me, even though it wasn't on purpose. She really was the most beautiful, smart and caring woman I have ever met and I am sad I lost her. But life goes on, so now i should just be glad that at least I got to know this song because of our break-up. Thank you, Judith! <3

P.S. sorry for making you read a long and sad comment from a stranger :p you should go to the kitchen and get yourself a cookie as a reward for reading it (; Have a nice day! (:

I looked at that person's user page and someone had left this comment on the 'discussion' section:

judgedeath3
12 years ago
Thanks for adding me as a friend!:D
I think you know who I´m already but this is judge death from MB.
Nice to see you on youtube.

judge death

This was my moms recovery song. My mother clean from heroin in the late 80's and she would have this on repeat. R.I.P. mom

;_;

milo I’m sorry. I’m glad you can remember clean times for your mom and that she felt recovered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSVkb_XLt4

low's "lullaby" has over 20M views when you combine this and the official one. there are a LOT of comments in turkish here.

like:

bu kadar insan bu şarkının altında sözleşmiş gibi toplanmışız, farklı yaşantılar, aynı acılar. Hepinize teşekkür ederim, yalnız değilmişim..

translated: So many people gathered under this song as if they were contracted, different experiences, the same pain. Thank you all, I was not alone.

theres dozens more like this. i cannot figure it out, but its fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaX64o71vGQ

Tanmay Gudhekar
5 days ago
Every time I play this song, I visualize me and my best friend, dining in a house, she has wore the red dress and we do exactly as the lyrics say. I cannot express how happy it makes me! I can only hope that I actually get to do it in reality with her because I'm just a best friend to her and atm she has no romantic feelings towards me.

aphex twin's "rhubarb" is quite a motherlode

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

[The Lifting by REM]

@Snagman67
2 years ago
I remember first hearing this song in the summer of 2001. I was 25 years old living in Portland OR, and it was one of the most awful years of my life. I Went through a really bad break-up with my then fiancé, the World Trade Center attacks, and my dead end job where I worked the graveyard shift was finally starting to get to me. I was going through a great deal of depression that year. This was one of the songs I listened to quite often that year, and believe it or not I get a great feeling of wonderful nostalgia hearing this today for the first time in probably 15+ years. Funny thing is, hearing this song reminded me of all the good times that I actually tried to make out of it all that year, which is why I actually find this song comforting.

@heathkitchen4315
3 years ago
I used to mow my Dads lawn to this album. Lot of introspection going on to these beautiful and spacey tunes back then. Thanks R.E.M.