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April 3, 2010 7:49 PM   Subscribe

What is a sad song, sang by a male artist, about a guy who is nostalgic about his exgirlfriend?

I think the lyrics go something like how they got in trouble at the grocery store, how she never got him, and that they are now broken up. It's very Ben Folds-like in terms of melancholy songs. I checked to see if it was Ben Folds, or Ben Folds Five, but it was not him or John Mayer. However, it is by a male singer and is quite a depressing song.
posted by penguingrl to Media & Arts (16 answers total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Comfortable by John Mayer (I know you said it wasn't by him)
posted by null terminated at 7:55 PM on April 3, 2010


Do you mean Dan Fogelberg? CAUTION: Images of Thomas Kinkade paintings not safe for work OR ANYWHERE ELSE!
posted by crazylegs at 7:55 PM on April 3, 2010 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: OMG, how was it not on iTunes?!?! Thank you!
posted by penguingrl at 7:56 PM on April 3, 2010


Response by poster: null terminated, you are awesome...now if only i can find more songs similar to this... thank you!
posted by penguingrl at 7:57 PM on April 3, 2010


now if only i can find more songs similar to this...

You might enjoy a similar-feeling (and, in my mind, better) song in Machine Gun Fellatio's Unsent Letter.
posted by revmitcz at 9:05 PM on April 3, 2010


aint no sunshine when she's gone - bill withers
posted by happydude123 at 9:21 PM on April 3, 2010


Everything Reminds Me of Her and I Better Be Quiet Now by Elliott Smith. Two of his not-completely-bitter songs about ex-loves.
posted by dephlogisticated at 9:29 PM on April 3, 2010


One of the greatest songs ever put to tape, a song that still puts chills down my spine every single time I hear it, is a tune recorded by the great John Peel before his radio career: Mike Hart singing his song "Almost Liverpool 8."

It is better than all these other songs, as fine as they may be. And it ought to be heard much more often.
posted by koeselitz at 10:33 PM on April 3, 2010 [2 favorites]


You might want to give an album called "In Loving Memory Of" by Big Wreck a try.
posted by mhoye at 5:24 AM on April 4, 2010


I can't listen to "Good Life" by Francis Dunnery without choking up. Same kinda thing.
posted by jbickers at 5:37 AM on April 4, 2010


Anything on Josh Radin's "We Were Here" album.
posted by honeybee413 at 9:19 AM on April 4, 2010 [1 favorite]


Conway Twitty: "Fifteen Years Ago"

You're in the wrong genre, pal.
posted by fourcheesemac at 11:18 AM on April 4, 2010


Babyface, "Nobody knows it but me". Ignore the 'talking part' at the beginning.
posted by misha at 1:46 PM on April 4, 2010


There's also the throw-it-into-Pandora trick, if you want more that's similar.
posted by NoraReed at 2:09 PM on April 4, 2010


If You're Not the One by Daniel Bedingfield
posted by Night_owl at 8:32 AM on April 5, 2010


Cornerstone on the Arctic Monkey's recent album Humbug is a little more rock-oriented, but one of the saddest nostalgic songs I've ever heard.
posted by hungrybruno at 8:53 AM on April 5, 2010


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