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Every time I hear, "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin I tear up. It's an oldie but goodie and still pulls on my hearts strings. It doesn't make me sad really just sentimental and realization that time moves on and we need to embrace and enjoy time now.
Thanks for starting this thread. Jim Croce had a number of somber songs (normally nothing wrong with that) but it is kind of eerie that he was killed in his prime (1973) in a plane crash. Also, I really had trouble fighting tears when Minnie Riperton died in 1979. Her big hit "Lovin' You" was not only a tearjerker but had a line "stay with me while we grow old and we will live each day in springtime"... it really was VERY disturbing and upsetting that in January 1976 (less than a year after her hit charted) she was diagnosed with fatal breast cancer and just barely didn't live to see 1980. I recently read Maya Rudolph (comedienne who is Minnie's half-daughter) once was asked by her very young daughter "where is grandma Minnie now"? Maya answered "well, she's in heaven and I guess she sings up there". I am really NOT a sensitive person (just naturally not, I wasn't trained to hide emotions, but I never really had someone close to me die either) but that article had me crying. And of course on her tombstone, "lovin' you is easy because you're beautiful" is carved.
But I do have to wonder... is it sometimes good in a way that music stars, movie stars, etc often die before their extreme popularity fades away? In fact, some celebrities have committed suicide in middle age or sooner because their fans (many years or decades after stardom) lost interest in the star.
Jimmie Dodd (host of the original Mickey Mouse Club from the 1950s) died in 1964, which really seemed a bit too soon after his fame went away. He was born in 1910 so it really was a short life for a celebrity. Sometimes though when I watched his show, I really felt like smashing his guitar. I was crying of HILARITY when I first saw the guitar smashing scene in "Animal House" in 1978. With all due respect for the dead, I must say when John Belushi smashed that guitar, I was totally thinking of Jimmie.
The ending of New Order's 'Blue Monday' moves me to the point that I've shed a tear listening to it (just the build-up, then the guitar melody playing over all that hot synth-energy...it just gets to me, I love the song).
As a kid Thomas Dolby's 'One Of Our Submarines' had a haunting sadness to it (as did his 'Europa and the Pirate Twins, a song of lost childhood love and friendship).
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Gets me every time...
