Saddest Song on the planet?

[UglyCasanova]

The Album Leaf - Over The Pond
Arab Strap - Who Named The Days
Carissa's Wierd - September Come Take This Heart Away
Cat Power - Colors and the Kids
Cat Power - everything else she has ever done
Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back and Forth
Four Tet - Slow Jam
Hood - In Iron Light
Low - Violence
Low - Closer
Mogwai - Helicon 1
Mogwai - Burn Girl Prom Queen
Mum - The Land Between Solar Systems
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pearl Jam - Nothingman
Red House Painters - Song for a Blue Guitar
Sigur Rós - Njósnavélin
Sigur Rós - Samskeyti
Six Parts Seven - Slowest Way of Saying So Little
Twilight Singers - Twilight
Ugly Casanova - Hotcha Girls
Yo La Tengo - Last Days of Disco
Yo La Tengo - Damage

There's a few sad songs, all really good.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: five40
Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore

Good one.

I personally think Anna Begins is more sad..

 

[CptObvious]

Speaking of Counting Crows, the song Another Horsedreamer's Blues has possibly the most depressing lyrics I've read

 

[RadioHead84]

Radiohead...


Street Spirit
I will
and many more..it is radiohead after all.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: guyver01
Ok.. hands down.... the one song that can now make me cry on command..

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere over the Rainbow.


It's the version sung on ER when Dr Greene passed away..

it also appears on Finding Forrester, and 50 First Dates.

Also Meet Joe Black.

 

[thegimp03]

Braveheart theme song gets my vote.

 

[chuckywang]

All the good songs have already been posted. But I also really like Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word by Elton John.

EDIT: If you like country:

The Baby by whoever, I don't remember
Paint Me A Birmingham by Tracy Lawrence
Whiskey Lullabye by Brad Paisley w/Alison Krauss

 

[sharkeeper]

Hank Williams Sr. - I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Hear the lonesome whiperwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I?m so lonesome I could cry

I?ve never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide it?s face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That means he?s lost the will to live
I?m so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I?m so lonesome I could cry

 

[SilentZero]

Originally posted by: guyver01
Ok.. hands down.... the one song that can now make me cry on command..

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere over the Rainbow.


It's the version sung on ER when Dr Greene passed away..

it also appears on Finding Forrester, and 50 First Dates.

Or on the radio here in hawaii every 30 minutes. lol

 

[thegimp03]

Oh yeah....that version of somewhere over the rainbow rings a bell now that I think of it in Finding Forrester.

 

[Connoisseur]

Originally posted by: BW86
gary jules - mad world

Another vote for Mad World but I'd also like to add Live-Lightning Crashes. I can't believe no one's mentioned this one yet.

 

[JetBlack69]

Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own

 

[TerryMathews]

Call Me Call me from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.

Only sad if you've seen the episode it goes with.

And yes, it's in English for all the haters out there.

 

[chuckywang]

Hmm...what about Two Beds and a Coffee Machine by Savage Garden?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: TerryMathews
Call Me Call me from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.

Only sad if you've seen the episode it goes with.

And yes, it's in English for all the haters out there.

I don't think the not being in English is the part people hate on.

I absolutely hate all things anime but Space Lion from Cowboy Bebop is pretty good I'll admit.

 

[Cerb]

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Four Walls of Raiford
Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon
EL&P - Lucky Man
Faith No More - RV

 

[Ionizer86]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Hmm...what about Two Beds and a Coffee Machine by Savage Garden?

That's really sad, definitely. How about The Ataris - The Saddest Song? Haha, it's just called that; it's not really that sad.

Simple Plan - Perfect

 

[deftron]

I'm sorry, but it's


Sinead O' Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U



saddest song ever.

period



Runner Up:

Willie Nelson: Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain

 

[Schrodinger]

After looking over the pages, searching and listening to the songs I've come the conclusion it is VERY subjective.

I don't know how any of those songs can even compare to Barber's Adagio for Strings but to each their own

 

[KLin]

The Greatest Man I Never Knew - Reba McEntire

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: aplefka
How could I forget The Verve Pipes' The Freshman?

because it's pathetic. "oh woe is my teenage angst"

it's not teenage angst. it's about these two guys who are best friends who dated this one girl at seperate times. it tells how she gets an abortion with the one guy and how she kills herself eventually and the guys are all sad about it.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: CptObvious
Speaking of Counting Crows, the song Another Horsedreamer's Blues has possibly the most depressing lyrics I've read

the whole album is excellent.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: mpitts

Originally posted by: five40
Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore

Good one.

I personally think Anna Begins is more sad..

Anna Begins is pretty sad I guess. But Adam is over it now... " it's funny she's married now and she's got a kid and she still lives in Sydney. I still talk to her every once in a while, not too much but, and whenever I talk to her she says that she still loves this song, and I do too... and this is Anna Begins..."

 

[Pocatello]

For some reason Miss American Pie by Don McLean makes me sad.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Originally posted by: deftron
I'm sorry, but it's


Sinead O' Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U



saddest song ever.

period



Runner Up:

Willie Nelson: Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain

Agreed

I would also add The Dance just cause of personal experience.