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according to some boffin it's Drugs Don't Work.

His list:

1. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
2. Robbie Williams - Angels
3. Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
4. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
5. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
6. Will Young - Leave Right Now
7. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight?
8. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
9. James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
10. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees.

I agree Drugs Don't Work is sad but not in the sense he meant. Miserable toss if you ask me. What always gets you holding back the tears to paraphrase a ginger nut?

For me:

Joy Division... where do you start? But Atmosphere, Decades and Love Will Tear Us Apart are up there because they are sad but brilliant too. The Parting Glass by The Pogues because of the tender words and wonderful music. And loads of stuff by Billy Bragg in his prime.

The only songs that ever 'upset' me were:

The whole of the Anthony and the Johnsons album, I am a bird, heh - all of them are heartbreaking.

Lupen's 'Shake baby shake' makes a tear crawl down my cheek.

Cat Steven's Wild World - it's the way he sings it you know?

Pulp, Wickerman - something haunting about it. That will do for now.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

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Life is what happens when you are busy making plans - John Winston Lennon

I may have alzheimers but atleast I don't have alzheimers - ?

The Drugs Don't Work is a sad song. Besides, a lot of people associate it now with the death of Diana as it got to number one on the weekend she died and summed up the mood of the entire country perfectly.

For me...

Cat Power's cover of Moonshiner, which she plays in a miserable A minor, especially when she starts screaming 'You're already in Hell, I wish I could go to Hell..." and her cover of Michael Hurley's Werewolf Song, where even the cello sounds like it's crying.

Tom McRae's Language of Fools and 2nd Law from his first album. "Tell all my friends I have gone to the moon/Tell all my friends I will write them soon/Tell them, if you see them, that I am better left alone." In fact, I can sit and sulk to that whole record.

Must admit Paul Heaton singing about a past girlfriend's miscarriage on The Beautiful South's Have Fun brings a tear to my eye. "And we should have a baby, then I wouldn't feel quite so bad/Then I'd feel like Paul the Saint and not Jack the Lad/A baby that would make me feel so very glad/I've had a life of booze, but that's all I've had."

Rufus Wainwright's The Art Teacher and Tom Waits' Another Man's Vine are both pretty tragic and There's No Love To Be Made Here Now by Luke Doucet always reminds me of an ex girlfriend.

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Back off Warchild, seriously.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

"where did your long hair go? What happened to the girl I know..."

*sniffles back manly tears*

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hot burrito #1 - flying burrito brothers

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Back off Warchild, seriously.

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Ooh... The Magnetic Fields - Acoustic Guitar. Don't get much sadder dan dat.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

Better the Devil You Know - Kylie

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.

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Back off Warchild, seriously.

http://elvers.bandcamp.com/

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Tall, moustachioed alcoholic - plays firewood with a bow.

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Back off Warchild, seriously.

http://elvers.bandcamp.com/

Alone Again Naturally by the immortal Gilbert O'Sullivan.

I mean, check out the lyrics:

In a little while from now,
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promised myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower,
And climbing to the top,
Will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it's like when your shattered
Left standing in the lurch, at a church
Where people 're saying,
"My God that's tough, she stood him up!
No point in us remaining.
May as well go home."
As I did on my own,
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday,
I was cheerful, bright and gay,
Looking forward to, but who wouldn't do,
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down,
Reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch,
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt,
All about God and His mercy
For if He really does exist
Why did He desert me
In my hour of need?
I truly am indeed,
Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that
There are more hearts
Broken in the world
That can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

(instrumental break)

Now looking back over the years,
And what ever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to have cried the tears
And at sixty-five years old,
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn't understand, why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart
So badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally

Jesus!

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In work not working