Post the saddest song

[chuckywang]

Keep Me In Your Heart by Warren Zevon

If you knew the backstory to that album, you'll know why it's sadder than just a normal ballad.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

That one just gets to me.

Also any song playing when a dog or cat dies in a movie.

- M4H

ya, Last Kiss.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I don't know if it is the saddest song, but.... 3 doors down, away from the sun
kinda describes how I've felt before

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

That one just gets to me.

Also any song playing when a dog or cat dies in a movie.

- M4H

ya, Last Kiss.

It's actually originally done by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. Pearl Jam's version is a cover.

 

[Jeff7]

Anything by Britney Spears.
Just sad.


Seriously though, I guess I just don't listen to sad music.

 

[kirkaptain]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: kirkaptain
Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain" is the saddest song I have ever heard. As legend has it, George Clinton told Eddie Hazel to "play as if his mother had just died." I can't sit in a darkened room and listen to that song without bawling.

WTF..that's not a sad song, it's an instrumental. It's just atmospheric.

How about The Baby by Blake Shelton? Kinda cheesy I know, but the lyrics are really sad.

EDIT: Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

Hazel weeps through his guitar. That song sounds in several spots like someone is crying and sobbing to the point of exhaustion. Hazel lets the listener relax several times, but returns with the sounds of agony. It's like being broken after losing someone you love, remembering somthing about them, getting that pain out by crying, relaxing, and then remembering something else... Maggot Brain is pleasent on the ear but painful on the heart.

I wish I could be more descriptive. I am not especially knowledgable about music theory or criticism. But of course, as is has been said: "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."


You may not find it sad. I certainly do.

Give it another listen and try to ignore the (IMO) pointless Clinton voice-over at the beginning.

 

[zanieladie]

Concrete Angel (country song about a girl being abused).

A sad one for me (personally) is Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.

 

[OhioState]

Mad World - Gary Jules very slow somber sound to it also from the movie Donnie Darko


All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places
Worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going no where
Going no where
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression
No expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow
No tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday
Happy birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen
Sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me
No one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me
Look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles it's a very very
Mad world
Mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world

 

[Pepsi90919]

moby - my weakness

 

[DaiShan]

Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary is pretty sad

 

[Lurknomore]

"motherless children have a hard time"
Blind Willie Johnson

 

[Reckoner]

AIC - Nutshell


We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...oooh...
Oooh...oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can?t be my own
I?d feel better dead

Oooh...oooh...
Oooh...oooh...

 

[five40]

Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore
Johnny Cash - Hurt (video is very sad)

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: five40
Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore
Johnny Cash - Hurt (video is very sad)

Hurt is an awesome song, IIRC it was written and originally performed by NIN, but they asked Johnny Cash to perform it, and he did a phenomenal job.