Saddest song?

[MotionMan]

Billy, Don't Be A Hero
Stranded at the Drive In

This and...

Cat's In The Cradle (Even more so now that I am a father).

MotionMan

 

[schneiderguy]

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" always gets me.

"Your Hand In Mine" by Explosions in the Sky, especially at the ~2:25 mark.

"Fidder on the Green" by Demons and Wizards (Blind Guardian/Iced Earth)

 

[zinfamous]

Not a sad song...?

...do you experience the concept of "emotions?"

:hmm:

 

[Loop2kil]

I'm not a huge country music fan but my wife is and this song almost makes me cry every time I hear it.
Tim McGraw - Don't take the girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMk8YWV7te8

Staind - Epiphany
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bobskjQwWI

 

[jmarti445]

Edgar Winter-Dying to Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opGVGKw_lDU

Its about soldiers in Vietnam facing the struggle at war and returning to war.

 

[Loop2kil]

Edgar Winter-Dying to Live

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opGVGKw_lDU

Its about soldiers in Vietnam facing the struggle at war and returning to war.

Wow, that was a sad yet awesome song.

 

[Fayd]

certainly not the saddest, but american pie is a good example of a sad song.

 

[ShreddedWheat]

Scott Stapp "Broken"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcpQswGTxBc

 

[jmarti445]

Also the song Moonlight Shadow is another sad song especially since I believe it drew its inspiration from the death of John Lennon. I'm surprised that Groove Coverage was able to turn it into a dance song since I doubt Mike Oldfield had intended it.

 

[DominionSeraph]

...do you experience the concept of "emotions?"

:hmm:

It wasn't sad.
Nothing sad in the song's imagery, and the pouring of his ashes into the Pacific was a celebration of the man.

 

[zinfamous]

It wasn't sad.
Nothing sad in the song's imagery, and the pouring of his ashes into the Pacific was a celebration of the man.

the video is irrelevant, listen to the song.

this version, particularly, however, has in recent times, been almost exclusively connected to mourning/celebration.

it is not sorrow, it is not pity, it is not despair. It is celebration but always, at its core, extremely sad. plus, knowing a bit about the musician, it is certainly sad.



you may not be able to appreciate these things, though, b/c you spend you life with cartoons and thus have no ability to relate to humans and connect on an emotional level.

 

[thescreensavers]

Mad World (Gary Jules): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

I was gana post this

/thread

and this

 

[Angry Irishman]

I'm not really a country fan, but this song is sad and the vocals are very good...especially alison Krauss.

whiskey lullaby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvCCk0hojc

 

[zinfamous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naub344xEBE

 

[Locut0s]

Fly, Fly My Sadness - Angelite & Huun-Huur-Tu

Possibly one of the best songs ever recorded in the history of the universe, really.

Isn't this orphans lament?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGaTLs-GsFw

But either way I agree one of the saddest and one of my fav. Was it you who introduced me to this? Someone posted it in a thread of mine long time back.

 

[HAL9000]

I think the Lady Di emo explosion is just one of those things you had to be there for. From a distance it looked ridiculous but for the folks there it seems to have meant a whole lot.

Yeah it meant a massive amount to the English, she was loved over here.

 

[Locut0s]

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son,[1] Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Locut0s]

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs



...not least for what it represents

Thanks for that!! I literately got shivers from that.

 

[Locut0s]

The Sleeping tune as played on violin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meGWcNfnCUg&feature=related

Almost brings tears to me eyes.

 

[DominionSeraph]

the video is irrelevant, listen to the song.

this version, particularly, however, has in recent times, been almost exclusively connected to mourning/celebration.

What a thing is attached to != the thing.
The song has spiritual connotations which can be used to intensify grief. That does not make the song itself sad. There's nothing about the song that's sad.
You should watch the video, so you can notice that the cheering at the end is not out of place. The absence of an emotional contradiction there proves that it ain't a sad song.

So congratulations, in a thread for "saddest song" you epically failed by trying to /thread with a song that isn't even sad.

Sad

 

[IronWing]

Isn't this orphans lament?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGaTLs-GsFw

But either way I agree one of the saddest and one of my fav. Was it you who introduced me to this? Someone posted it in a thread of mine long time back.

Yeah, they seem to be the same tune and possibly the same words. When Angelite kicks in on Fly, Fly My Sadness it is just chilling.


Also, check out the Lian Ensemble & Chirgilchin - The Window album, it is really good. The Lian Ensemble is Iranian - American and Chirgilchin is another Tuvan group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjNyzXRxMqQ

 

[JimKiler]

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" always gets me.

"Your Hand In Mine" by Explosions in the Sky, especially at the ~2:25 mark.

"Fidder on the Green" by Demons and Wizards (Blind Guardian/Iced Earth)

Hurt. NIN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs&ob=av3e

I am a Nine Inch Nails fan but the Johnny Cash cover is definitely the more emotional version.

 

[Jeffg010]

I think we had this thread before.
TAPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taps

 

[CallMeJoe]

I can't be sure it wasn't mentioned (not clicking any of the unlabeled links from work) but Lou Reed did an entire album of abject depression- Berlin.

 

[BeauJangles]

Paul Simon - American Tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3kKUEY5WU