Sad YouTube: A Blog Devoted to Heartbreaking Memories and the Songs that Evoke Them

“Brian Hyland – Sealed with a kiss 1962″

“God this song brings so many memories to me.. This is the last song I heard with my brother the night before he died.. Than like if he was telling this will be our special song, This same song was playing when we were making arrangements for the funeral next day.. This will always be my brothers and my song..”

– thelma1212,

Mark Slutsky’s blog, Sad YouTube, is devoted to highlighting YouTube music and the comments it evokes–specifically the saddest, most poignant and nostalgic comments. Hard times, breakups, unrequited love and even separation brought about by death are all recurrent themes. It’s tearful reading at times, and the feeling of sadness heightened by a song is a familiar one to us all.

http://sadyoutube.com/

 

Johnny Cash Holiday Message

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There’s a Bustle in my Hedgerow

Pie Chart to Heaven

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Songs You May Have Missed #266

Lhasa: “La Confession” (2003)

Mexican-American World Music singer-songwriter Lhasa de Sela left us with only scant recorded legacy before breast cancer claimed her at age 37: two albums of husky-voiced Mexican ranchera, gypsy-influenced folk and French chanson, and a third album recorded in English.

“La Confession” is from her second, The Living Road. The English translation is in the below video.

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Songs You May Have Missed #265

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Jo-El Sonnier: Tear-Stained Letter (1987)

From an era when Country music’s banquet table served up a relative feast of diverse flavors comes Louisiana Cajun singer/accordionist Jo-El Sonnier’s top ten cover of Richard Thompson that actually beats Thompson’s original for raucous energy.

Lines like “she danced on my head like Arthur Murray/The scars ain’t never gonna mend in a hurry” and “my head was beatin’ like a song by The Clash/She was writin’ checks that my body couldn’t cash” are pure Thompson.

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