Inspired by Leigh S
What do you peeps consider to be the saddest song?
Not a fan of the band but I think Brick by Ben Folds Five is pretty sad.
http://youtu.be/Wt5EHAqhR1c (http://youtu.be/Wt5EHAqhR1c)
The Mary Chain: you trip me up always made me a wee bit sad. Z
Oooh - probably the first time i ever inspired something!
I'm known for my love of a good sad song - I always make a "now thats what I call the Samaritans" compilation every couple of years or so... need to update it though... While the Lengths would be up there and always included. i'm sure I could throw a few more into the ring! :),
I've always found The Streets' Dry Your Eyes to be an effectively blunt bit of post-pub melancholy even if I can do without anything else he/they've done. Likewise Tori Amos' Winter always makes me sad, but fuck only knows what it's about as the woman's wired to the moon - ditto China, also from her Little Earthquakes album which I quite like as I'm not old or middle class enough to like Kate Bush.
Almost all of Johnny Cash's American 4 album is pure class as he knew he wasn't long for his accounting by then and the songs about death and the wages of sin seemed to offer more agency (Trent Reznor has even gone on record as saying he considers the deeply personal Hurt to now be a Johnny Cash song), but this "cover" Cash did with his wife back in the 1990s before their health began to fail always gets me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sPc8ahc7iI
Also try and have a listen to the Beach Boys' A Day In the Life of a Tree if you can find it, and keep telling yourself that yes, they were totally serious.
The very existence of Tori Amos makes me sad. :'(
Tom Wait's 'Martha' always gets me. Although this can be offset by remembering that he was all of 23 when he wrote it.
But yeah, the Cash version of 'Hurt', while by now a cliche, is just superbly moving. His cover of 'We'll Meet Again' from the same album is also remarkably powerful.
Radiohead with this absolutely beautiful and powerful song.
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=RByvzmmEFiQ
Cheers
Quote from: Spaceghost on 11 June, 2014, 08:10:32 AM
The very existence of Tori Amos makes me sad. :'(
Oi! I've already defended my dodgy music taste once this week.. can't make a habit of it... Saddest tori songs are mostly on Boys For Pele (my favourite album ever) - or are B-sides from (or written) around that time...
http://youtu.be/gSIty6Reils
This is cooling faster than I can...
http://youtu.be/mu9gbEf3aPQ
Most recent sad song supremo...
Quote from: Leigh S on 11 June, 2014, 10:14:07 AM
http://youtu.be/mu9gbEf3aPQ
Most recent sad song supremo...
I like the way she has had her misery-snot immortalised in a piercing.
Quote from: TordelBack on 11 June, 2014, 10:19:22 AM
Quote from: Leigh S on 11 June, 2014, 10:14:07 AM
http://youtu.be/mu9gbEf3aPQ
Most recent sad song supremo...
I like the way she has had her misery-snot immortalised in a piercing.
Yes! Very odd piercing that... not quite as weird as those big hole in yer ears things - what is THAT all about??
Uh-oh, that ominous clanking sound is the cyborg pierced forum contingent coming to take us for some pointy re-education...
http://youtu.be/mQ_o7NonpPo
Favourite Tim Buckley sad song... where my sad song obsession started I think...
We may bunker down on this thread....a personal accentuation discussion is rearing its head! Z
Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain
And ironing out the rough spots
Is the hardest part when memories remain
And it's times like these when we all need to hear the radio
`Cause from the lips of some old singer
We can share the troubles we already know
Turn them on, turn them on
Turn on those sad songs
When all hope is gone
Why don't you tune in and turn them on
They reach into your room
Just feel their gentle touch
When all hope is gone
Sad songs say so much
If someone else is suffering enough to write it down
When every single word makes sense
Then it's easier to have those songs around
The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you
and it feels so good to hurt so bad
And suffer just enough to sing the blues
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say so much
(I miss Roger)
Duran Duran, Ordinary World....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv89s
PSB- Later Tonight;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0FKmNhGCw
Erasure-
Where were You?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz5fH9PdUpo
Home For Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_XumB0fezY
I think the saddest songs are those that relate to real-life tragedy.
Johnny Cash's Hurt has already been mentioned but its hard not to be moved by it when you know how long he had left. A lot of Nirvana's Unplugged album also has the same impact. The Unplugged album wasn't released until after Kurt's death so songs like 'Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam' have extra impact.
Suzanne Vega's Luka is also quite poigniant.
Love the Queen and the Soldier for a Ms Vega sad song...
If you want not so much "sad" but bleak and depressing, you can't do much better than Richard & Linda Thompson's "End of the Rainbow" - the title track is a father singing to his infant son that "there's nothing at the end of the rainbow, nothing to grow up for anymore"* and it also features tracks with uplifting titles such as "withered and died". He once described that period as " 'adrift-alone-in-the-Atlantic-with-only-a-squeezy-bottle-to-cling-to' kind of music"
*check full lyrics here (http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-end-of-the-rainbow-lyrics-richard-thompson.html)
Bleak you say..?
http://youtu.be/1LTiKJlB62g
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 June, 2014, 12:23:21 PM
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say
Sad songs, they say so much
(I miss Roger)
I can think of another half dozen drippy and miserable tunes which actually glory in the name
Sad Song. They're all uniformly awful, and useless for any purpose other than providing the background muzak in Errol Raine's Dankendreer sweet shop.
Quote from: sauchie X on 11 June, 2014, 04:59:11 PM
I can think of another half dozen drippy and miserable tunes which actually glory in the name Sad Song. They're all uniformly awful, and useless for any purpose other than providing the background muzak in Errol Raine's Dankendreer sweet shop.
I can think of at least one that ain't (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE_LAwZc9VI) :D
Treated myself to a taxi into work this morning. On the radio, some sad cunt is singing "All by Myself ! " with the same, desperate level of emotion as I feel when opening my Electricity bill. Just the start to the day that a lonely, middle-aged batchelor needs, lol.
Quote from: Leigh S on 11 June, 2014, 03:06:42 PM
Love the Queen and the Soldier for a Ms Vega sad song...
Oh god, I love that one! I'm not usually into sad songs, preferring hard, fast, empowering metal and suchlike. However, I love Ms Vega.
When I saw her at a gig in Newport, Wales, about 25 years ago I was sat at the front. Between songs I called out to her 'Please play Queen and the Soldier!' She looked right at me, smiled, and said 'No.'
I will also admit to a soft spot for Simon and Garfunkel. 'I am a Rock' always reminds me of my difficult teens, and makes me melancholy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 12 June, 2014, 12:31:51 PM
Quote from: Leigh S on 11 June, 2014, 03:06:42 PM
Love the Queen and the Soldier for a Ms Vega sad song...
Oh god, I love that one! I'm not usually into sad songs, preferring hard, fast, empowering metal and suchlike. However, I love Ms Vega.
When I saw her at a gig in Newport, Wales, about 25 years ago I was sat at the front. Between songs I called out to her 'Please play Queen and the Soldier!' She looked right at me, smiled, and said 'No.'
I will also admit to a soft spot for Simon and Garfunkel. 'I am a Rock' always reminds me of my difficult teens, and makes me melancholy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlSVNxLB-A
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.
Amazing song from one of my favorite albums. And like yourself, I usually favor ultra fast metal.
Cheers
This song makes me sad. It was never off the radio when I broke up with my first ever proper girlfriend when I was 14.
http://youtu.be/_ehhhJOPvLE (http://youtu.be/_ehhhJOPvLE)
:'(
I'm absolutely fine with THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG5X4kOjEX8) as long as I don't listen to the lyrics.
This takes me back to long hot summer evenings in the 80s. It conjures up a scene of family life. A full house, everyone winding down, getting ready to sign off for the night, my late father lying on bed reading and BBC Arena on TV with theme music 'Another Green World' by Brian Eno. (Took me years to find out it was an Eno track.)
Only 1:42 mins long. Drifts in and out.
Days gone by.
Man...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/bbcmusic/2010/02/brian_eno_and_the_arena_bottle.html
It's amazing how subjective sad songs are - happy songs are understandable I think, even if they're evocative there must be something in them that's capable of making you grin. Sir Duke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sIjSNTS7Fs) is one of those - that beginning flips me out and even now with a severe chest infection I'm croaking along.
I'm not an Elvis fan as such but--- Don't Cry Daddy & In The Ghetto.
"Don't Cry Daddy"
Today I stumbled from my bed
With thunder crashing in my head
My pillow still wet
From last night tears
And as I think of giving up
A voice inside my coffee-cup
Kept crying but
And ringing in my ears
Don't cry daddy
Daddy, please don't cry
Daddy, you've still got me and little Tommy
Together we'll find a brand new mommy
Daddy, daddy, please laugh again
Daddy ride us on your back again
Oh, daddy, please don't cry
Why are children always first
To feel the pain and hurt the worst
It's true, but somehow
It just don't seem right
'Cause ev'ry time I cry I know
It hurts my little children so
I wonder will it be the same tonight
Don't cry daddy
Daddy, please don't cry
Daddy, you've still got me and little Tommy
Together we'll find a brand new mommy
Daddy, daddy, please laugh again
Daddy ride us on your back again
Oh, daddy, please don't cry
Oh, daddy, please don't cry
"In The Ghetto"
As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago mornin'
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
'cause if there's one thing that she don't need
it's another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto
People, don't you understand
the child needs a helping hand
or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day
Take a look at you and me,
are we too blind to see,
do we simply turn our heads
and look the other way
Well the world turns
and a hungry little boy with a runny nose
plays in the street as the cold wind blows
In the ghetto
And his hunger burns
so he starts to roam the streets at night
and he learns how to steal
and he learns how to fight
In the ghetto
Then one night in desperation
a young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don't get far
And his mama cries
As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto
As her young man dies,
on a cold and gray Chicago mornin',
another little baby child is born
In the ghetto
The Jam - "English Rose"
I've been accused of liking too many 'mournful aule dirges', and mostly songs don't make me sadder than I was already what with catharthis and stuff, but this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEpD5pj48qA) has a tendency to produce the tears.
M.
Sad songs ahhh - I have always found Stanley Holloway's Brahn Boots incredibly sad and shows how petty our cultural obsessions can be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeAfYTlA-ls
Billy Holiday's version of Gloomy Sunday I have always found very sad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUCyjDOlnPU
In a similar way Tom Waits' a Soldier's things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC8ETa0pg
Glen Campbell, You Might As Well Smile: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H_VkwU2-jKQ
Tori Amos, China: http://m.youtube.com/watch?list=RD7pEfCe1-KTw&v=7pEfCe1-KTw
Kate Bush, Moments Of pleasure: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5hjWVS3ho
Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg
And how could I forget!
Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7Vr3yQYWQ&list=RD9Q7Vr3yQYWQ
And if this doesn't get the waterworks going, you're not human: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0JGjKYVdU
It occurs that the piece of music that strikes me as the saddest is Morricone's 'Gabriel's Oboe'* (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU), from The Mission. As with many of the above, this is contextual. In the late '80s I lived in a lively work-shared house where one of the early-rising lads used to put on The Mission soundtrack as a gentle wake-up for the rest of us, and it was always a fairly pleasant if nostalgic association. Some years later my favourite uncle died suddenly, and being short on transport for various infirm relatives my Dad (his baby brother) and I took his car to the funeral. When the car was started, the tape player recommenced playing, right in the middle of Gabriel's Oboe. It was desperately sad thinking he'd never hear that track to its end, and that powerful sense of life's pleasures cut short hits me every time I hear it.
*Stop sniggering down the back.
not a song per se but "hymn to the fallen " by john Williams always gets me thinking of granddad and never fails to get me blubbing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_qPTyy4itI
The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcKGqgwLzjA
Joy Division - 08 - The Eternal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbn6o5tiPds
Eric Carmen - All By Myself (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQGRRolrg0
Harry Nilsson - Without You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCdlX-5UjE
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
I can go on all day...in fact i might.
Nothing Compares to You as sung by Sinead O'Connor. Overplayed, but haunting still.
Love of my Life, Queen
EDIT: The Winner Takes It All, Abba
Oh yeah, and this:-
90 seconds of sadness (http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Justin+Currie+In+The+Rain+%28Album+Version%29)
From an obscure Justin Currie (of Del Amitri) album
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 18 November, 2014, 11:37:23 PM
Oh yeah, and this:-
90 seconds of sadness (http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Justin+Currie+In+The+Rain+%28Album+Version%29)
From an obscure Justin Currie (of Del Amitri) album
Read
criminally obscure. Top tunes and twisted lyrics across all his solo stuff.
I don't know if it's as much sad as terribly bleak:
One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgGTTtR0kc) - Metallica