Kim Bodnia Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 A survey in the British journal The Telegraph has found these to be the 20 saddest songs of all time: Everybody Hurts - REMCandle in the Wind - Elton JohnThe Living Years - Mike and the MechanicsI will always love you - Whitney HoustonNothing compares to you - Prince/Sinead O'ConnorHallelujah - Leonard Cohen/Alexandra Burke/Jeff BuckleyMy heart will go on - Celine DionFix You - ColdplaySeasons in the sun - Terry JacksWithout You - Harry NilssonYesterday - The BeatlesAll by myself - Eric CarmenMy Way - Frank SinatraSound of silence - Simon and GarfunkelAint no sunshine - Bill WithersLove will tear us apart - Joy DivisionLeaving on a jet plane - Peter, Paul and MaryEleanor Rigby - The BeatlesAnnie's Song - John DenverEverybody's got to learn sometimes - Korgis Link to article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9051673/REMs-Everybody-Hurts-voted-most-depressing-song-of-all-time.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Ole shep? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 "Hot Burrito #1 (I'm Your Toy)" gets my vote. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spui Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 How about Tears In Heaven? I can barely listen to that song. Also, I don't consider Everybody Hurts all that sad, I think it has more of a Bridge In Troubled Water type message. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Two that get me every time are Long, Long Time by Linda Ronstadt (was there ever a relationship or was it all a fantasy?) and I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt. Aaaack! Maybe that's why I tend to listen to more men singers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Plumplechook Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7r12Rg490 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kim Bodnia Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 Peter Buck once said he cried to "The Foggy Dew" a song by Sinead O Connor and The Chieftains.http://www.sinead-oc...-praises-sinead Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radiatortunes Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Johnny Cash's cover: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGChMWLiO_c or , of course, but I like Sam's version better Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smells like flowers Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 When I was little the song "Wildfire" brought me to tears every time. Poor pony... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Inside of Outside Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 When I was little the song "Wildfire" brought me to tears every time. Poor pony...I know it wasn't supposed to, this being a thread about all time sad songs, but this made me laugh out loud! Not that it is not a sad song, but the poor pony part is a crackup to me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7r12Rg490 Damn that was nice. What a heartbreaker of a song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DewieCox Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 My Heart's Killin' Me-Black Croweshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=petCF6JZ9pE&feature=fvst that fiddle crescendo gets me every time Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thingfishp Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 http://youtu.be/SmVAWKfJ4Go Trent Reznor wrote this for Johnny; he just didn't know it at the time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cooperissup3r Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 ya know, as a kid, "The King of Wishful Thinking" by Go West was, for some reason, super sad. When I hear it now I still kinda feel the same way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Plumplechook Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Surely one of the saddest most beautiful songs ever. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
a-me-with-a-you Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I have some old favorites but of my recent favorites, this Girls song top the listhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIrjFnnit5A Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Grandaddy has quite a few of them but this one takes the cake for me: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Here's the vid for my pick:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VP_frpZK30 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Artifice Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I cant see those vids (yay work filters), so apologies if this is redundant: 1) I always have a hard time picking a single Elliott Smith song. I don't like the sad-sack label he gets nailed with. He had his demons, but to just say that dismisses the brilliance of his work. Many of his songs are so deeply affecting.2) Call me cheesy - but Last Kiss made a little boy cry (parents played me the J Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers version). And despite the mountains of mediocre tripe they've put out since, Pearl Jam's cover in '99 made a grown man tear up again. 3) Daniel Rossen can slay me too. In Ear Park and his new one, Saint Nothing, both rip me to pieces.4) How about this one... I have a hard time making it through this until I build up some immunity via frequent listens. The first time I hear it after a break it is so raw that it is difficult to get through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijf8MN0-nEI (Antlers - Kettering) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP7r12Rg490Yes it is,,,,, LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shug Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 Steve Earle's Goodbye (also recorded by Emmylou Harris and separately by Chrissie Hynde) - I'm sure somewhere in there I made you cry, but I can't remember if I said "goodbye" Love Hurts - Everlys, Gram and Emmylou, Keef and Nora Jones, lots of good versions, what a great great song I know he can be a pathetic idiot and makes it so easy to dislike him AND some of the lyrics in this song exemplify these qualities, but Come Pick Me Up by Ryan Adams is still a song I love to hear. I could go on and on. Ditto on Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me and The Band It Makes No Difference and Hot Burrito. A Song For You - Leon Russell "when my life is over, remember when we were together, we were alone and I was singing this song for you" A Song For You - Gram Parsons "I loved you every day and now I´m leaving And I can see the sorrow in your eyes I hope you know a lot more than you´re believing Just so the sun don´t hurt you when you cry" Dark End of The Street - Dan Penn, many versions Never Again, Withered and Died, The End Of The Rainbow - Richard and Linda Thompson Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ViaBuffalo Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart It cuts me deep. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Frank Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Personally there is a clear winner. The Tom Waits track 'I'm Still Here' from the Orphans box set is sadness absolute. The way I see it the songs relates the story of an old married couple. The woman has tired of romance and the man is feeling empty and unloved'. I'm still in my thirties but I can imagine the old guy in the song and it breaks my heart everytime. "You haven't looked at me that way in yearsYou dreamed me up and left me hereHow long was I dreaming forWhat was it you wanted me for You haven't looked at me that way in yearsYour watch has stopped and the pond is clearSomeone turn the lights back offI'll love you til all time is gone You haven't looked at me that way in yearsBut I'm still here" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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