Songs About Frustration, Disappointment, and the Blues

[NEforceUConn]

The one and only. Bob Marley

 

[Hoops66]

I was going to go with "Daydream Believer" but this fits better...

 

[Bigboote]

Here’s a classic that checks all the boxes:

 

[Scud49]

Like Bob and the Wailers sing, "we gotta keep on movin':

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Kelly Clarkson THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE IS

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Whitney Houston DIDN"T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL

 

[Zorro]

 

[Bigboote]

A thousand likes. It was great in 1929, the first time Clapton recorded it the first time in 1970, and every bit as good or even better for Unplugged.

 

[oldanintheway]

"These Days" - great sad song song by Greg Allman, and a terrific photo montage of him over the years:

Wasn't quite sure if you meant Greg wrote this, It was written by Jackson Browne when he was freakin' just 16 years old!

 

[Scud49]

Wasn't quite sure if you meant Greg wrote this, It was written by Jackson Browne when he was freakin' just 16 years old!

Right - this was Greg's version which he did some years later, I was always kinda partial to it.

 

[Monte]

 

[Woof 101]

Great song and hook by a great song man.

 

[oldanintheway]

I read somewhere that Mickey Mantle late in life really related to this song as he lamented how much greater he could've been if he had taken care of himself,(less booze and late nights in Manhattan.) R.I.P. Mick.

 

[Littlemin]

Not meant to offend anyone on Christmas but a most unusual Christmas song very appropriate to the thread theme, for me, I play it every Christmas to remind me of the fragility of the real world.

 

[Zorro]

 

[Zorro]

"The Nickle" is Fifth Street in L.A.; the skids.

 

[Bigboote]

Speaking of Tom Waits, here’s a wonderful song of his. I hadn’t seen this live version, which is,wonderful. Y’all might also check out Rod Stewart’s version, which I also came across just now.

 

[jimazee]

"and here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice"

The Lyrics ... worth a read if you aren't familiar with them. Surely there are folks here who know every word in the amazing lines...

 

[Bigboote]

"and here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice"

The Lyrics ... worth a read if you aren't familiar with them. Surely there are folks here who know every word in the amazing lines...

I’m one of those. This might be my favorite Dylan song, great choice.

 

[Littlemin]

jimazee, great song and you beat me to the punch!! Version here is from a fantastic and very ambitious live album by Old Crow Medicine Show called 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde. They arranged all the songs on the classic album for the 50th anniversary of its release and played them live in the album order a handful of times culminating in the live album.

 

[Scud49]

So Sad - great tune form Mylon Lefevre and the old Ten Years After guy Alvin Lee:

 

[Boreifs]

I’ll nominate Pamina’s aria from Act 2 if the Magic Flute. Mozart knew how to use a minor key.

 

[Scud49]

 

[Zorro]

 

[Zorro]