What's the saddest song you've ever heard

Penn

Black - Pearl Jam (especially the live acoustic version from MTV Unplugged)

I know some day you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody elses sky
But why?
Why?
Whhyyyy can't it be
Can't it beeeee miiiiiiinnnneeee....

We.... We belong.... We belong together.... together!!

davylee

phil lynotts old town always gets me.
It's like he knew he was at the end.
brilliant song. Very sad.
good post kold

Censorsh!t

Colourblind by counting crows always brings a tear to my eye. It's so beautiful.

Hometown Glory by Adele because it was played in that episode of skins, and makes me get pretty emotional. It's also a beautiful song anyone. I love the piano in it.

Nicest Thing by Kate Nash. It's just so perfect at describing being in love with someone who doesnt love you...it's so simple and sweet, and it has a deeper thing to it..

cautioner

If anyone's ever read and enjoyed John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, the song "Goodbye Sky Harbour" by Jimmy Eat World (that band whom I seem to be referencing in every second post on these boards) is quite tragic.

I'd like to pick a song from Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, but it's not really an album that accomodates cherry picking... Oh Comely, I suppose, coud work.
For those who are unaware, the album was inspired by the story of Anne Frank and is exceedingly beautiful in an unconventional kind of way.

keane2097

cautioner wrote: »

If anyone's ever read and enjoyed John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, the song "Goodbye Sky Harbour" by Jimmy Eat World (that band whom I seem to be referencing in every second post on these boards) is quite tragic.

I'd like to pick a song from Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, but it's not really an album that accomodates cherry picking... Oh Comely, I suppose, coud work.
For those who are unaware, the album was inspired by the story of Anne Frank and is exceedingly beautiful in an unconventional kind of way.

Haven't listened to the album you're talking about, but what I've bolded there sounds very much like Bon Iver's album, which deserves an honorable mention in this thread imo...

larrykinney

Grr :mad: I just don't get that NMH album, people on message boards always banging on about it, didn't like it at all.

Sad songs, let's see...

'Here' by Pavement:
'I was dressed for success but success it never comes'

'Bewitched' by The Wedding Present:
'There's a thousand things I wish I'd said and done but the moments gone'

'Black Eye' by Uncle Tupelo; 'Here comes a regular' by The Replacements; 'Cody' by Mogwai; 'Galbraith Street' by Ron Sexsmith...

Jules

crap i remember finding an old record of my mums and it had tell laura i love her on it. Used to listen to it over and over.

Mine would have to be my immortal by evanesence, Hurt by Johnny cash and The second you sleep by saybia.

tech77

paddyirishman85 wrote: »

Black - Pearl Jam (especially the live acoustic version from MTV Unplugged)

I know some day you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody elses sky
But why?
Why?
Whhyyyy can't it be
Can't it beeeee miiiiiiinnnneeee....

We.... We belong.... We belong together.... together!!

Vedder just pours his heart and soul into that song.
One of my favourite songs of all time.
It's just pure emotion in musical form.

seanybiker

lean on me.
Tis well up there in the sad songs. Friend of mine died when he was 15. He had cancer and knew he was on his way out so he planned every last bit of his own funeral and got them to play "lean on me" at it. Bloody hell it was hard to listen to that day and ever since.

B.E.S.T.

Luke Kelly-Scorn not his simplicity.(youtube)

Wrote by Phil Coulter about his own autistic son. It troubled Luke Kelly that much he was only ever filmed singing it I think twice. Others have recorded it, but no-one did it like Kelly.

seanybiker

B.E.S.T. wrote: »

Luke Kelly-Scorn not his simplicity.(youtube)

Wrote by Phil Coulter about his own autistic son. It troubled Luke Kelly that much he was only ever filmed singing it I think twice. Others have recorded it, but no-one did it like Kelly.

I know a chap that was there when it was recorded. Said it was something he will never forget .

stokesy

Grace.

Geri Boyle

Anachie Gordon by Mary Black. I think its a cover. Its an old scottish song.. but Mary Black's is the only version I've heard. It definitely paints a picture, very beautiful and powerful song. Also In Every Sunflower by Bell X1

jenipher_b

eric clapton - tears in heaven, definatly the saddest song ive heard! gets me every time

Birneybau

"My Love Has Gone" by Josh Rouse.

"And I sleep with the t.v. on,
Its the only sign my loves gone"

thielfer

jenipher_b wrote: »

eric clapton - tears in heaven, definatly the saddest song ive heard! gets me every time

a very differend kind of pain but agree - it's one of top saddest songs ever

Laphroaig52

The Train by Frank Sinatra from the little know and hugely underrated album Watertown.

But it doesn't work in isolation - you have to listen to the entire album to get it.

It's heartbreaking even to a cynical old gob****e like me - and only Sinatra could convey the emotion like that.

Laphroaig52

Flyer28 wrote: »

... even to a cynical old gob****e like me...

Boards censors naughty words?
I never knew that!

DARKIZE

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, because the man had voice that could raise hairs on the back of your neck, and it reminds me of someone I lost.

Same song by Leona Lewis for a completely different reason.:(

thielfer

DARKIZE wrote: »

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, because the man had voice that could raise hairs on the back of your neck, and it reminds me of someone I lost.

and Rufus Wainwright version from Shrek is also worth listening
I've found a lot of sadness and anger also in fresh Corey Taylor ballad from latest Slipknot release - All hope is gone, it's called "Snuff"...very good piece of melancholy and pain...

TeletextPear

streamline by from autumn to ashes can often make me cry, not quite sure why coz it's got quite a happy message...

also, dont speak by no doubt coz it reminds me of a particularly horrible break-up

dancing_d

Cool thread btw!
Jeez there's about ninety songs in my head but the best have to be
1. orchard rd - leo sayer (reminds me of my family)
2. one for the road - sinatra (my dads song)
3. hide and seek - imogen heap (weird song but it takes you to a different place altogether)
4. I grieve - peter gabriel (you will be in bits if you have ever lost anybody)
5. the main theme from braveheart or from last of the mohicans

It's really crazy what songs can do to you :rolleyes:

Maccattack

Wonderland - Big Country

jenzz

All I Know - Five for fighting

lump throat every time x

Dryad

The Whiskey Didn't Kill the Pain by Mary Coughlan
Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits

Tales of love lost and star crossed love.....

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Page 3 and no-one's mentioned the suicide song, Gloomy Sunday, sung by Billie Holiday.

Captain Darling

Waitin' for a superman-The Flaming Lips.

Fcuking beautiful, sad song.

'Is it getting heavy?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gKEdq23le8

af_thefragile

NIN - All That Could Have Been.

Hands down the most depressing song ever written. Especially with its dark atmosphere and the lonesome lyrics...

Arthur foxworth

Stings version of Angel Eyes, if you listen to it you'll get it, most new songs that are considered sad, imo, are in large written by pretentious musicans who think sad songs are cool, and lack any real depth

keane2097

Arthur foxworth wrote: »

Stings version of Angel Eyes, if you listen to it you'll get it, most new songs that are considered sad, imo, are in large written by pretentious musicans who think sad songs are cool, and lack any real depth

Dude seriously, Sting is the most pretentious man in the history of music...