Sadest song ever?

MiCr0

just re-heard it to day but Leavin' on a Jet Plane has to be sadest track i've heard in a looooooooong time.

thoughts/other songs?

bubbles

Lou Reed - Perfect Day

Sad sad song

Monkey

Lou Reed - The Kids

The song ends with the sound of children crying and screaming for their mother. The rumour is that the producer told his own kids that their mother had died to get the sounds.

scojones

eva cassidy's version of fields of gold.

therecklessone

Anything by Puddle Of Mudd:D

mike65

Julie London - Cry me a river.

Is that all there is? by Peggy Lee

Mike.

zAbbo

Originally posted by therecklessone
Anything by Puddle Of Mudd:D

shut up ffs

Anyway

Rem- Everybody hurts

and most songs by Leonard Cohen

Mewzel

lou reed - sad song
quite aptly named too

DiscoStu

Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
and
Pictures of You - The Cure
and
Disintegration - The Cure

PiE

Just about the whole of The Cures "Bloodflowers" album.

smiles

Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry

<< Fio >>

Fabritzo

Eric Carmen - All by myself
*sniff*
and Harry Nilsson - Can't live if living is without you
...I think i'll take a walk along the peer

Quorthon

hmm theres lots but since I just dug out the album there recently Im gonna say....


Down in a hole - Alice in Chains.

SOmething about this, probably Layne Staleys death, sends a shiver down my spine.

Q

MiCr0

smashing pumpkins - try,try,try
very sad video

bubbles

Pink Floyd are specialists is writing sad songs,


Goodbye Blue sky
Mother
Goodbye Cruel World
Comfortably Numb
Is there anybody out there?
Wish you where here
Breathe

Take your pick really.

therecklessone

Originally posted by bazH
shut up ffs

Are you a grumpy s**t by nature, or does it take years of hard work?

mike65

Originally posted by *******
Pink Floyd are specialists is writing sad songs,

I never think of Floyds songs as sad, rather they're wistful or elegiac which is slighly different.

Mike.

byte

Everybody Hurts, REM.

Comfortably Numb by PinkFloyd is a good mention too.

Makaveli

Saddest hip-hop song Wu-Tang Clan - I Can't Go To Sleep

superconor

hmmm yeh
Everybody Hurts - REM
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Smashing Pupkins version
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O Connor

imp

Originally posted by superconor
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Smashing Pupkins version

There is a version of this going around the net supposedly by the Smashing Pumpkins, but its actually just the Edge on guitar and vocals. Check out the Popmart video and you'll realise the similarity.

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Frank Grimes

The Bed by Lou Reed, actually most of Berlin.
Seasons in the sun by Terry Jacks too I guess, although I think that's more a miserable song than sad.

Kali

An acoustic guitar piece called "Fly Like A Mountain Bird" from a soundtrack to a Japanese series called BeachBoy is probably the saddest instrumental song Ive ever heard... definitely one to download if you can find it.

As far as REM goes, Nightswimming is a lot sadder than Everybody Hurts imo.

In terms of Floyd, theres a live version (performed just before the release of Meddle) of Fat Old Sun I came across a long time ago, which while not a sad song, was sung in such a way that it was.. must root it out somewhere.

some others that spring to mind..
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
Roger Waters - Every Strangers Eyes
Kila - Sean E
Yo La Tengo - Tears Are In Your Eyes
Beth Gibbons - Funny Time Of Year
Low - Laser Beam
Lamb - Gabriel
Piano Magic - No Closure

Mewzel

i also gotta stick in:
reindeer section - your sweet voice
sonic youth - superstar (cover of a carpenters song)

both depress the hell out of me

Clintons Cat

The Mash theme "Suicide is Painless",

theme to the deerhunter >The Shadows

heaven knows im misserable now <and/or> asleep<and/or>Last night i dreamt.. > the smiths

perfect day>lou reed

Days of our lives>Queen

Savage<and/or>You have placed a chill in my heart>eurythmics

Tracks of my tears<and/or>Have you seen?>Smokey Robinson And the Miricles

Dock of the Bay>Otis Reading

DerekD Goldfish

Thin Lizzy -still in love with you(live version of live and dangerous0

The Smiths-I know its over

Jeff Buckley - Halleluah/I know its over(off mysyery white boy)

rob1891

Leonard Cohen's old stuff, reminds me of a cold neon lit tram on a dark lonely night in Prague watching the couples sitting together, in peaceful solitude.

Famous Blue Raincoat would be a particular favourite.

Nick Drake, Pink Moon (the whole album). Look him up, a tragic fellow. Died 2 years later of accidental drug overdose (mistook his anti-depressants for sleeping tablets). He wasn't far off doing it himself though, Alanis would have called it Ironic.

fun!

frood4t2

The Verve's 'a northern soul' album is mostly really sad. The songs 'drive you home' and 'history' are two consecutive tracks that are particularly sad.

daveg

theme to the deerhunter >The Shadows

It's called Cavatina and it's by John Williams. If you've only heard the shadows version check out Williams version.. excellent.

I'd vote for fields of gold sting/Eva Cassidy. I think eva Cassidy's version is probably sadder due to the cancer add on TV... very sad. Queen's who wants to live forever,

Bard

Sad songs, is it now?

Chris Isaac - Wicked Game
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
Radiohead - Exit Music For A Film
Julian Lennon - Saltwater
Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Mal Pope - Please Don't Go
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Phil Collins - Separate Lives
Earl Thomas Conley - What I'd Say

daveg

Forgot to add John Lennon's imagine. Has to be the greatest and saddest song ever.