The current Mrs Hughes said to me the other night, put some music on, something romantic. So I went to my vast library of CDs and my hand alighted on the Best Of Bread, just the answer I thought. Sadly not, that choice was about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit. Bread as a group and David Gates who was their lead singer and songwriter in their 70s golden period had some great songs, ok they weren't big rockers or very leading edge but they had in their catalogue some the the most romantic and saddest songs ever. Take the song Diary for example, has there ever been a better song written about unrequited love and loss? To start - 'I found her diary underneath a tree, and started reading about me, The words she's written took me by surpise you'd never read them in her eyes, They said that she had found the love she waited for, Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.' and then 'I found her diary underneath a tree.and started reading about me, The words began stick and tears to flow,Her meaning now was clear to see, The love she'd waited for was someone else not me, Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it. '
You really need to hear it beacuase the tune is a killer too.
there have been some great sad songs written, though not many lately. Here are some of my favourites
- Diary - Bread
- Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Lost Without Your Love - Bread
- Without You - Nilsson
- The Way We Were - Gladys Knight and the Pips
- If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
There are probably loads more, but I can't think of any at the moment. Strangely all of the above are from the 70s. We always liked a good wallow in sadness then, as if there wasn't enough sad stuff going on in real life!
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It is funny how history treats some bands or artists, I was talking to a girl in her 20's who was a singer in a band and she rated Lulu as one of the great British soul singers of the sixties, and she had her albums on vinyl, now, we who lived through the Scottish shouter's career would classify her as no more than a pop act, so who knows in the future maybe Chicory Tip will be seen as a seminal band.
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