The Sadest song of all time?

Heisenberg.

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BaZmO*

Apparently it's "Gloomy Sunday" a song that was banned from BBC Radio up until 2003 due to it's link with mass suicide according to Stephen Fry on QI last week.

After hearing the song I can understand why you want to kill yourself after listening to it. It is sooo depressing...

cormie

This one is quite sad, this is a lip sync to the original song and the video takes away from the song so please don't watch the video and just listen to the song to get the proper effect.

John

Coil's cover of the "Are You Being Served?" theme tune. Only they could take this and turn it into this. It's a sad sounding song as it is but add to the fact that it's the last song that the singer, Jhonn Balance, performed live before his death. Going up indeed.

Sinfonia

cormie wrote:

This one is quite sad, this is a lip sync to the original song and the video takes away from the song so please don't watch the video and just listen to the song to get the proper effect.

before clicking the link: "this is bound to be Leonard Cohen"
after clicking the link: "yup"

"Loser" by The Last Tycoons (formerly Porn Trauma), Dublin band, they haven't played it live in a while, but there you go. Very sad.

kinaldo

Quite a few spring to mind...

Atmosphere by Joy Division

Perfect Day by Lou Reed

The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve

History by The Verve - unfortunately the video is an edit of the song so it loses some of the emotional impact

OctavarIan

Dream Theater - Space-Dye Vest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhaJbUoeBZI
Porcupine Tree - Heartattack in a Layby (no vid sorry)

Whim

It's Cool We Can Still Be Friends by Bright Eyes for me. There's a recording of the song accompanied by a photo of the man himself here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZjDaKQTFqE

faceman

I go with the OP's choice here. Its a timeless piece of music and definitely stirs even the happiest of us.

Failing that, quite a few tracks on his album "Has Been" are very depressing but only if you listen to the lyrics.

Kolodny

There are loads of songs that make me feel a bit sad but The Beatles - She's Leaving Home always has me close to tears.

metrovelvet

Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel

Moonriver always brings a tear to my eye.

Oddly Tears of a Clown, its so upbeat but it compounds how sad the lyrics are.

Garret

decades by joy division is up there

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LivingDeadGirl

Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

is_that_so

Hurt - Johnny Cash version - very emotional, send shivers down my spine.

flyingdagger

every time i play 'lovers spit' by broken social scene it gets me...such a beautiful song

the_obsolete

is_that_so, NIN's version i think is far more emotional than Cash's...ANWAYS...

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

Darkness - Disturbed

Hello - Evanescence

i know the thread only calls for one, so sorry!

p~b

its cats in the cradle by ugly joe kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDpfhEf1Cec&mode=related&search=

or

tears in heaven by eric clapton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx-4CiBmIPY

pokypoky

Whitney Houston... I will always love u, my God that woman owns my heartstrings

Bodhidharma

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

kinaldo

pokypoky wrote:

Whitney Houston... I will always love u, my God that woman owns my heartstrings

no that can't be top of your list, what about this or this or this...?

You need to get past that Charlie Chaplin thing and give her a chance!

Orizio

Cash's version of hurt is infinitely superior to NIN's version imo.The video makes the track.

Closer by Goapele comes to mind of the tracks I have heard of late, its got that kind of ambience to it.Rain by Ty and Good Morning(A Nice Hell) by Bronze Nazareth as well.

MrJoeSoap

The ending to Muse's Citizen Erased is quite sad, as is Jeff Buckley's Forget Her. Not the saddest ever, but personal favourites.

Also, Ben Folds' Late deserves a mention.

county

My immortal-Evanescence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84-qrDxYtE8

JC 2K3

Orizio wrote:

Cash's version of hurt is infinitely superior to NIN's version imo.The video makes the track.

I wouldn't say superior. The original is empty, depressing, yet beautiful. Cash's version is simply, and extremely effectively sad. A genius choice for a cover, but it's not like the original wasn't great. It's amazingly emotional live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60KfGKXXtBg&mode=related&search=

Cash's version is probably "sadder", but when NIN play it live it's more emotional.

Capt'n Midnight

is_that_so wrote:

Hurt - Johnny Cash version - very emotional, send shivers down my spine.

even just thinking about it

Orizio

I'm going to say the beautidul Delicate by Damien Rice as well.

kinaldo

Anytime I hear The Power of Goodbye by Madonna on the radio, loads of memories from 1998 (when they used to play it regularly) come flooding back. I'm an absolute sap I know but that song really hits me emotionally, and yet it doesn't seem to have quite the same effect when I listen to it on the Ray of Light album.

Pighead

The saddest song ever was without a shadow of a doubt written by Jason Pierce. Its just a matter of picking which one. Pighead would probably plump for this one.

Its called Broken Heart. Heartbreaking stuff! Written after his Mrs left him for that spanner Richard Ashcroft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0dz6rEXwpQ

J.R.HARTLEY

JC 2K3 wrote:

I wouldn't say superior. The original is empty, depressing, yet beautiful. Cash's version is simply, and extremely effectively sad. A genius choice for a cover, but it's not like the original wasn't great. It's amazingly emotional live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60KfGKXXtBg&mode=related&search=

Cash's version is probably "sadder", but when NIN play it live it's more emotional.

no point in arguing over it as it's down to personal preference what you find to be more moving.
Johnny Cashs Hurt is very emotional but the NIN version obviously does it for JC 2K3, noones wrong and noones right.


anyway one that always hits me is "Days" by kirsty MacColl, a song i always thought wa happy until i listened to the words, it's about how her mother died and she misses her:o

but this is my favourite sad song Queen-Who wants to live forever


who has forever anyway

Pighead

J.R.HARTLEY wrote:

anyway one that always hits me is "Days" by kirsty MacColl, a song i always thought wa happy until i listened to the words, it's about how her mother died and she misses her:o

Actually tis about Ray Davies mother, Kirstys mam is alive alive oh.