My Sad Songs

Last Monday, my good friend Josh blogged a list of his Top 10 Sad Songs. Today, I'm doing the same - here are my favourite nuggets of lachrymose musical loveliness, roughly arranged from least to most upsetting:

Mistakes by Tindersticks (from The Bloomsbury Theatre 12.3.95)

Stuart Staples' stunning song of regret first appeared on Tindersticks II, but this live performance, recorded at London's Bloomsbury Theatre, is the version to seek out - the lush orchestral arrangement is brought even further to the fore, significantly upping the songs 'curl up in a ball and weep' credentials.

Learning to Love Pink

I used to hate Pink. When I was in Year 9, my RE teacher (for reasons unknown) made the whole class listen to Family Portrait, and even at the relatively un-discerning age of 13, I found it to be really, really bad.

"Your pain is painful"

On that day, I decided that Pink was a musical abomination, not worthy of my ears (I was kind of an elitist back then). Never mind that she had three entire albums at that point in time - I had heard one song, and that was enough for me to dimiss her entire output, past and future.