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The saddest song you know

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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,052
    Walker Brothers - the sun ain't gonna shine anymore
  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,355
    Elthamaddick said:
    Dance with my father - Luther Vandross
    Gets my vote. Put it on in my car and explained the jist of the song at the start to my 11 year old son and told him to listen as it’s a really nice song. Driving along in silence listening intently, at the end I turn to him to ask his opinion of it and he’s in sobs of tears, snot dripping down his face the lot lol bless him. 
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,455
    AFKABartram said:
    More than words - Extreme
    Really? It always struck me as a thinly disguised "why won't you shag me?" song.
  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,413
    Queen - These Are The Days Of Our Lives
  • snowinberlin
    snowinberlin Posts: 807
    Nessun Dorma always sets me off
  • holyjo
    holyjo Posts: 1,326
    “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child” - Van Morrison ( and other artists ) is not very cheery . 
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,466
    AFKABartram said:
    I’ll be missing you - Puff Daddy ft Faith Evans 
    One of the few examples where even those who don’t like rap would find it hard to argue that the original was better.
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,466
    Plan B - Cast a Light
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,858
    aliwibble said:
    AFKABartram said:
    More than words - Extreme
    Really? It always struck me as a thinly disguised "why won't you shag me?" song.
    I already have quite a few of those songs... 
  • Low_Ears
    Low_Ears Posts: 695
    Sylvia's Mother by Dr Hook

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  • CAFCBourne
    CAFCBourne Posts: 3,794
    Smile Nat King Cole
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    I love The Winner Takes It All by Abba for its sadness.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    jimmymelrose said:

    Martin Rossiter - Three Points on a Compass

    Is this not the saddest song ever written?

    It describes how he feels about his father. Incredibly frank. 
    You might be right, beautiful album.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,201
    So, to sum up, there are a lot of good, sad songs. 
  • snowinberlin
    snowinberlin Posts: 807
    Uboat said:
    So, to sum up, there are a lot of good, sad songs. 
    Excellent Summary
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    I fill up every time I hear A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke, not that the lyrics are sad; they're more angry and awake than anything. It just such a beautifully melancholy melody, and that voice...
  • Silverdreammachine
    Silverdreammachine Posts: 373
    Kiss and say goodbye - The Manhattans
    Worked for me!
  • Silverdreammachine
    Silverdreammachine Posts: 373
    MISTY BLUE
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50VWOBi0VFs&list=RD50VWOBi0VFs&start_radio=1
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    edited September 2019
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  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    JohnBoyUK said:
    When you say the saddest song you know, do you mean by the lyrics?  the way it makes you feel?  reminds you of the past?

    Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla.  I guess most would think its an uplifting song but I well up like a loon when I listen to it for no apparent reason.  No idea why.

    One of my baby daughters toys plays the same tune as my dear old Nan's jewellery box.  That absolutely destroys me and I had to keep walking out the room into the garden.  My wife has hidden the toy away now.

    And totally randomly, we was out somewhere in the summer and we heard an ice cream van play a tune that I hadn't heard for 35 years and it took me right back to my childhood, sitting in my Nan's garden with my Grandad on the Downham Estate during the summer holidays.  The only place I'd ever hear that tune was there.  There was no other ice cream van that played that tune.  I didn't think to record it but I hummed it back into the voice recorder on my phone and played it back to my Mum and Brother and they both remembered it.  Ah FFS.  I feel proper sad now :(
    Yes John...Carpenters 'It's only just begun' was played at my sisters funeral (Jan 2017), I really struggle if I ever here it....she would have been 64 yesterday, she was my little sis, I've got two older then her...both are very well....I'm just short of being 54 btw.
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    Glad all over. 
  • Isawsummersplay
    Isawsummersplay Posts: 1,428
    Nights in white satin - The Moody Blues.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    When the Tigers broke free - Pink Floyd
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    The saddest song I know is 'Glad All Over.'
  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,750
    John Wayne Gacy, JR -Sujan Stevens
    Drop - Mark Kozelek
    Carissa- Sun Kil Moon
    Anna Begins- Counting Crows
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,644
    Beautiful and sad and lonely in perfection...

    Great with cigarettes, whiskey and melancholy...  

    Tom Waits - Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVo5mjK4eg
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,745
    Tell my father from the musical Civil War. 

    The character singing is dead - singing to his father who lives.

    This is how it's meant to be done:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tFV69A7QQ

    This is me giving it a go:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avq7WuZqO0E
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,745
    Save Myself - Ed Sheeran. 

    Not very well known as Ed Sheeran songs go but feel like every single word speaks to me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2Ucb1nRHs
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,882
    In the style of Len Glover - posted without reading:

    Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
    Living years  - Mike and the mechanics

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