The Sadest song of all time?

NeiloMac

Hurt By Johnny Cash is very good, leaves you thinking,

Another less known one is by a guy called Don Mescall, I went to see him last week in the CobbleStone, Very good, but this one song call "your still the only one", is so said, its written from him mothers point of view, His dad died when he was very young, and its about her growing old on her own, but never forgetting him
This song can melt even the hardest stone hearts

You can listen to it on his Myspace, http://www.myspace.com/donmescall

Have a listen

v10

For me it's THIS ...

or Johnny Cash Help Me and at least half of his Album 'A Hundred Highways'

gustavo

rabbitinlights wrote:

Pearl Jam - Black

Classic:)

Songs that make me emotional
Garth Brooks - Belleau Wood
Baz Lurhmann - Sunscreen song - especially the bits about family
Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7
Eminem -Stan
Beatles -In my Life
Luke Kelly -Raglan Road.

Killaqueen!!!

I love sad songs!And the obvious ones like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt, and Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah stick out. I had time on me yesterday and wrote a list http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=59755&page=4 - just got into it!!!

For me, Mad World by Gary Jules is amazing. Also love Who Wants to Live forever by Queen and Too Much Love Will Kill You by Queen. Also, recent songs such as Where'd You Go by Fort Minor. The Scientist by Coldplay, most stuff by Damien Rice (Delicate/The Blowers Daughter standing out), for some reason Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits...

Also, I find I prefer Johnny Cash versions of songs. For example, In My Life, I Hung My Head, Hurt, One etc.

Speaking of U2 songs; One, With or Without You, Staring at the Sun...

Sonnenblumen

Jane Siberry-Calling All Angels

gustavo

Killaqueen!!! wrote:

I love sad songs!And the obvious ones like Johnny Cash's version of Hurt, and Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah stick out. I had time on me yesterday and wrote a list http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=59755&page=4 - just got into it!!!

For me, Mad World by Gary Jules is amazing. Also love Who Wants to Live forever by Queen and Too Much Love Will Kill You by Queen. Also, recent songs such as Where'd You Go by Fort Minor. The Scientist by Coldplay, most stuff by Damien Rice (Delicate/The Blowers Daughter standing out), for some reason Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits...

Also, I find I prefer Johnny Cash versions of songs. For example, In My Life, I Hung My Head, Hurt, One etc.

Speaking of U2 songs; One, With or Without You, Staring at the Sun...

I left out everything you said they are all great too!

Heisenberg.

This post has been deleted.

Gillie

gustavo wrote:

Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7

Manics. Hmm.
Yes, Roses in the Hospital (Actually the whole Gold Against the Soul album),
Motorcycle Emptiness, Let Robeson Sing....Thats only a few!

Killaqueen!!!

Does anyone know the song 'Hey There Delilah' by Plain White Ts? Beautiful song, kinda sad.

Also, These Are The Days of Our Lives, Mother Love and My Life Has Been Saved (considering the circumstances when Freddie Mercury was recording it) by Queen.

evad_lhorg

rabbitinlights wrote:

Pearl Jam - Black

that one does hit the spot alright


foo fighters - everlong acoustic is one that gets to me as well

tears in heaven by eric clapton has to be up there as well

aidan_walsh

Maybe a bit obvious, but Sarah McLachlan's Angel always kills me.

Zapho

What about Radiohead - Exit Music?

or Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Ruu_Old

Zapho wrote:

What about Radiohead - Exit Music?

or Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Is that the one from the scene in Father Ted where Kevin (Tommy Tiernan goes home on the bus and gets depressed listening to the song radio?) The last time this thread was done, it would be that one, whatever it is.

kinaldo

Ruu wrote:

Is that the one from the scene in Father Ted where Kevin (Tommy Tiernan goes home on the bus and gets depressed listening to the song radio?) The last time this thread was done, it would be that one, whatever it is.

I think it was used in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet film.

tolosenc

It has to be Thin Lizzy/Gary Moore's Still In Love with You, particularly the Live and Dangerous version.

Zapho

Ruu wrote:

Is that the one from the scene in Father Ted where Kevin (Tommy Tiernan goes home on the bus and gets depressed listening to the song radio?) The last time this thread was done, it would be that one, whatever it is.

Yup, thats the one......absolute classic moment!

John

kinaldo wrote:

I think it was used in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet film.

Was "Talk Show Host" not in R&J?

kinaldo

John wrote:

Was "Talk Show Host" not in R&J?

According to imdb they both were.

blastman

Killaqueen!!! wrote:

for some reason Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits...

Actually, the Indigo Girls do a great version of this, sung with much more emotion (IMO) than the Dire Straits version. Worth checking out if you like the song.

cashback

Hmmm... Probably
Husker Du - Hardly Getting Over It
or
R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows

Xavi6

Ruu wrote:

Is that the one from the scene in Father Ted where Kevin (Tommy Tiernan goes home on the bus and gets depressed listening to the song radio?) The last time this thread was done, it would be that one, whatever it is.

Ha ha I can never take that song seriously again after it being in Fr. Ted. What a scene.

I've a couple of favourites,

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

Idlewild - Goodnight

Offspring - Gone Away

Men At Work - Overkill (People may be more familiar with the Colin James Hay acoustic version that was used in 'Scrubs')

Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet

Bush - Glycerine

Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

REM - At My Most Beautiful

Rigsby

"Old Shep" ( Elvis )

Mr. Presentable

St James Infirmary - by various (my favourite being Memphis Slim)

faceman

Xavi6 wrote:

Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

no no no!!

hiscan

waterboys--- stolen child

BobbyD10

Any song by Brian Kennedy

BaZmO*

There's a new song out at the moment, "Black and White" by a band called The Upper Room. The video is so sad too, if you get a chance check it out.

Also, "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" by Deathcab For Cutie.

Lemming

Adagio in G minor, Albinoni

Only song to ever move me to tears. Truly move me to tears.

m83

Vangelis - Rachel's Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13C1j_PGCe0

EDIT: Oops.. meant to post this in the other thread!

Jesus Wept

Country Road.

Capt'n Midnight

Billy Connelly - Country & Western Supersong

Yes my granny is a cripple in Nashville, friends
...
Well a wheel came off of that wheelchair, friends
And on three wheels it trundled away
And it trundled right over the edge of a cliff

Now the boy who was pushing the wheelchair
Was a little blind orphan call Joe
...
And he ran right over the edge of the cliff


Well the doctor and the ambulance came rushing, friends
They were rushing from two different ways
And they crashed with a BIFF and shot over the cliff


Well they sent for brave Father Maloney
To pray for the poor souls repose
...
But too many people had gathered
And the edge of the cliff gave way
And they dropped with a yell and they all shot straight to hell

cjmcork

this is one for me.......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Dl9Q4jCPg it just makes you think of the waste of war.........but it's also bittersweet, cos it makes me think of Vincent Hanley's MT-USA!

Princessa

The verve - The drugs don't work. Excellent thread by the way, some great songs that i completly forgot about. Cheers.

CSC

Never mind the Strangers - The Saw Doctors. Always find this really emotional.

Hagar

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Hurt - NIN / Johnny Cash
Old Man - Simon & Garfunkel

eviltimeban

The saddest song of all time has to be "Ruth Marie" by Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters / Sun Kil Moon fame. It is written from the perspective of a dying old woman who is living against her will in a nursing home, singing to her daughters as she sees them for the last time before she dies... my god, even thinking about it is welling me up. He could sing the phone book and make it sad.

I've been scouring youtube for it but I can only find someone doing a cover version so I don't know what its like.

If that doesn't work, Katy Song by Red House Painters is also pretty sad:
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=NFQ4nuUuwNo

Tabnabs

A song that always brings me down is the homeless Englishman's recording of 'Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet'. The story is here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAGDVu4sC4

The other tune I think is really sad is Nina Simone's version of 'My Father', another superior cover IMHO

deadhead13

REM's "Everybody hurts" is supposed to be a song about hope, but I always find it to be utterly depressing.

mark182

Adams Song - Blink-182.....

juan.kerr

"Always On My Mind"

SilverScreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn2eR7Xq4KM

The most depressing song from the most depressing album of all time.

Malice

juan.kerr: Please don't bump old threads. The post before yours is from March 2009.