What do you think is the saddest song ever?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Vahan, Jan 6, 2015.

Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.
  1. Schoolmaster Bones

    Schoolmaster Bones Poe's Lawyer

    Location:
    ‎The Midwest
    Over-the-top manipulative songs usually leave me cold. There's a point where a song can tug so hard that it loses any impact.

    A few that get me every time:

    Johnny Cash - Send A Picture Of Mother
    Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words
     
    Gavinyl likes this.
  2. EddieMann

    EddieMann I used to be a king...

    Location:
    Geneva, IL. USA.
    Billie Holiday's version of Gloomy Sunday. Also known as the Hungarian suicide song.
     
    Texas T likes this.
  3. redfloatboat

    redfloatboat Forum Resident

    one of these:

    1st of may by the bee gees
    remember by nilsson
    i need you by america. actually its the opening line that i relate to and makes me sad. can't listen to it anymore.
    alone again[naturally] by gilbert o'sullivan.
     
    JeffMo likes this.
  4. Coaltrain

    Coaltrain Forum Resident

    Location:
    Bangkok, Thailand
    I haven't gone through the entire thread, but my votes would go for the following:

    I Who Have Nothing - Ben E. King
    Soul and Inspiration - the Righteous Brothers
     
  5. ImADrifter

    ImADrifter Forum Resident

    Location:
    USA
    "With Pen in Hand" - Bobby Goldsboro

     
    Eric B. likes this.
  6. Charlie DJ

    Charlie DJ Forum Resident

    Location:
    Dallas, Tx USA
    It wasn't meant to be a sad song but given the context, I'd say "Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon
     
  7. Muddy

    Muddy Large Member

    Location:
    New York


    Damn.

    That song ripped my heart out.
     
  8. Frippwire

    Frippwire Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Dearborn, MI USA
    Frank Zappa / Watermelon In Easter Hay
     
    Dark Horse 77 likes this.
  9. weirdo12

    weirdo12 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Toronto
    Pretty Angry (For J. Sheehan) - Blues Traveler

    Maybe not the saddest ever but it's right up there and hasn't been mentioned.
     
  10. Hey Vinyl Man

    Hey Vinyl Man Another bloody Yank down under...

    "Grow Old With Me", thanks to the context in which we now know he had only weeks to live when he recorded it.
     
    Majk and Mooserfan like this.
  11. muddy810

    muddy810 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Whippany, NJ USA
    The Assembly (Feargul Sharkey) - Never Never
    Leon Russell - Me and Baby Jane
     
    DonnyMe, Michael D and Tony Sclafani like this.
  12. sunspot42

    sunspot42 Forum Resident

    Location:
    San Francisco
    First song that came to mind when I saw the thread title. Epically sad. Tragic.

    Hard to get much sadder than Dusty Springfield's version of "If You Go Away". Also, "I Wish I'd Never Loved You". Her cover of "Yesterday, When I Was Young" is pretty breathtakingly sad too, considering she was something like 30 when she cut it.

    Annie Lennox's "The Saddest Song I've Got".

    Of course The Beatles "Eleanor Rigby".

    Joni Mitchell's "Blue", "Nathan La Franeer", "Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire", "The Silky Veils Of Ardor".

    "Superstar" by The Carpenters has to be one of the most achingly sad songs, ever.

    Marianne Faithfull's "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan".

    Neil Tennant knows how to haul out the sad. "Dreaming Of The Queen" and "Your Funny Uncle" are both incredibly sad.

    Now I'm depressed. Thanks for starting this thread, Vahan. :cussing:
     
    Michael D likes this.
  13. Ain'tNoRight

    Ain'tNoRight New Member

    Location:
    D.C.
    Gentle Shifts South - Jason Moran. Gets me every time.

     
  14. EddieT

    EddieT Forum Resident

    Location:
    London UK
    Someone's Final Song - Elton John
     
  15. Emmett66

    Emmett66 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Virginia
  16. Werner Berghofer

    Werner Berghofer Forum Resident

    “Marie” by Townes Van Zandt is hard to beat, but “Tecumseh Valley” by the same poet comes very close:

     
    CCrider92 likes this.
  17. sunspot42

    sunspot42 Forum Resident

    Location:
    San Francisco
    Forgot one - Tori Amos, "Silent All These Years". Came on the clock radio one morning - I'm slow to wake up - and when I finally roused during the last few seconds of the song I was crying.

    Never had anything like that happen before (or since).

    Speaking of which, I guess I could also add Kate Bush's "In Search Of Peter Pan" and "All The Love" to this list. I didn't realize just how sad both are until the recent album-by-album thread here on the forum.
     
  18. P(orF)

    P(orF) Forum Resident

    Karen Carpenter could make Happy Birthday sound like the end of the world.
    Goodbye to Love was hard to take before she died. Now it sounds like a recorded suicide note.
     
    sunspot42 likes this.
  19. Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat Forum Resident

    Location:
    Houston, Tx, US

    Some of Geeshies other stuff is just as sad , the NY Times ran a long article months ago about her partner thatvis on the record, a great article
     
  20. Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat Forum Resident

    Location:
    Houston, Tx, US
    William Kappell playing Chopins Mazurkas strikes me as sad at tines
     
  21. JRM

    JRM Forum Resident

    Location:
    Eugene, Oregon
    If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier
    She left here last early Spring, is livin' there, I hear
    Say for me that I’m all right though things get kind of slow
    She might think that I’ve forgotten her, don’t tell her it isn’t so

    We had a falling-out, like lovers often will
    And to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a chill
    And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart
    She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart

    If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
    I always have respected her for busting out and gettin' free
    Oh, whatever makes her happy, I won't stand in the way
    Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried to make her stay

    I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
    And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
    And I’ve never gotten used to it, I’ve just learned to turn it off
    Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft

    Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past
    I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
    If she’s passin’ back this way, I'm not that hard to find
    Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time

    Bob Dylan - "If You See Her, Say Hello"
     
  22. Thom

    Thom Forum Resident

    "River" by Joni Mitchell has my vote, but also perhaps "Half Acre" by Hem off their 2002 album Rabbit Songs.
     
    johnaltman, JediJoker and Alan2 like this.
  23. FrankenStrat

    FrankenStrat Forum Resident

    You'd be hard pressed to find a song more heart-wrenching than Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Unless, of course, it's Man Of The World by Fleetwood Mac.
     
  24. sunspot42

    sunspot42 Forum Resident

    Location:
    San Francisco
    Cristina - "Things Fall Apart"



    The ultimate Christmas song.
     
  25. jamiesjamies

    jamiesjamies Forum Resident

    Location:
    Leeds, England
    Sorry to hear about your loss..
     
    Tree of Life and Frippwire like this.
Thread Status:
Not open for further replies.

Share This Page

molar-endocrine