What are the saddest songs ever in the world?

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Ones that make you incapacitated with sadness? In reference to The one that got away - I need sad songs. Go mental. Or, more aptly, go morose.

― vwocihsoui, Monday, 27 February 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

"Lick My Love-Pump"

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

judee sill - looping alone through the cosmos.

once i thought belle and sebastain - boy done wrong again ("all i wanted was to sing the saddest song").now i cant stand the song.

codeine - broken hearted wine/barely real/d.

there are more..

― making arthur smile, Monday, 27 February 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Webb's cover of "Wichita Lineman"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

lopin' along through the cosmos,that is.

― making arthur smile, Monday, 27 February 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Capt Beefheart's I'm Glad

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 27 February 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

neil young - motion picture/ambulance blues

― make arthur smile, Monday, 27 February 2006 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Have you forgotten? - The Red House Painters

― Treblekicker, Monday, 27 February 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

calexico - all systems red

― bobby.lasers (bobby.lasers), Monday, 27 February 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Webb's cover of "Wichita Lineman"
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), February 27th, 2006.

OTM. This is heartbreaking.

― Ant, Monday, 27 February 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Webb's cover of "Wichita Lineman"
-- Dom Passantino (juror...), February 27th, 2006.
OTM. This is heartbreaking.

-- Ant (brasseye2...), February 27th, 2006.

except that jimmy webb couldn't cover it: he wrote it.

― whatever (boglogger), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

except that jimmy webb couldn't cover it: he wrote it.

TS: Can you cover your own song?

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Any chance someone could send me that Jimmy Webb song? I would like to be moved by it, maybe a little.

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

the theme tune to the incredible hulk

― danny invincible (michael w.), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Mogwai - Close Encounters; it worked especially well in Sex & The City

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Teh Smihts, I know it's over. (moz lays it on with a trowel and still manages not to cross the line into self-parody, for once).

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 27 February 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

if you have

― Mark Danjer (Danjer), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

the saddest song is Neyo so sick of long songz so sad its so

― Neicy, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

wtf. it only posted the first three words. here we go again:

if you have more than 6 beers and then listen to the guitar solo on funkadelic's maggot brain, you will weep (unless you're an android)

― Mark Danjer (Danjer), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Don't know about the saddest song, but the most latently morbid song I can recall is The Arcade Fire's 'Intervention'. Here's an extract from this fun-muffin of a hymn:

Working for the church while your family dies
Little baby sister gonna lose her mind
Every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope
Hear the soldiers graon, all quiet and alone.

Really, there's no need for it.

― mr_glide (mr_glide), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

That should be 'groan'. 'Graon' is not a word, as far as I'm aware. Bugger.

― mr_glide (mr_glide), Monday, 27 February 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

"Walking on Sunshine"
Katrina and the Waves

― Ron E. Mexico, Monday, 27 February 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Not your average love-gone-wrong type song, but 'She's Leaving Home' always does for me.

― Zora (Zora), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

the temptations never actually performed their own songs -- they in fact ONLY covered them.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

big star holocaust

― stewart downes (sdownes), Monday, 27 February 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

ok, bob dylan's COVER of hard rain's gonna fall. satisfied?

― whatever (boglogger), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:49 (twenty years ago)

holocaust by big star

― alex vakselis, Monday, 27 February 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

i actually didn't see that someone else agreed before i submitted that song, however i am delighted to see someone else did agree. so how about "lonesome suzie" by the band

― alex vakselis, Monday, 27 February 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I knew that Jimmy Webb wrote "Wichita Lineman", but my belief is he never recorded it himself (or at least released a recorded version) until the mid 90s (AllMusic.com backs me up on this). A "cover version" is a version of a song sung by someone else, rather than written by someone else, unless "Baby One More Time", to you, is a Max Martin cover.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Also Sean: check the YSI thread.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Tindersticks - "My Sister" ... though has nothing to do with your particular situation. So I'll substitute American Music Club - "Why Won't You Stay."

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Smog's "The Doctor Came At Dawn" Cd is pretty flawless as album long suffocating blankets of sadness go . . .

Leonard Cohen's "Songs of Love and Hate" also pwns this thread.

Tindersticks "Mistakes" might be apt

Cowboy Junkies "You Will Be Loved Again" certainly hits the spot.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

"Sometimes It Snows In April"

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

ok, so it was jimmy webb's cover of glen campbell's 'wichita lineman'? let's take this outside...

― whatever (boglogger), Monday, 27 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

"Walking on Sunshine"
Katrina and the Waves

9/1 changed everything?

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

"Walking on Sunshine"
Katrina and the Waves

9/1 changed everything?

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

if you have more than 6 beers and then listen to the guitar solo on funkadelic's maggot brain, you will weep (unless you're an android)

My mother is still alive, so I fail to hear the sadness in this.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Ambulance Blues OT-wrist-slitting-M

Caroline Says II - Lou Reed

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Oops...Raw, Uncompromising and Noodly just revealed to the whole world...that (s)he's an android!!!

Busted.

― danjer (Danjer), Monday, 27 February 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

Ghostface "All That I Got Is You"

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

The Cure: Funeral Party

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Geto Boys - "Size Ain't Shit"

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Apartments - Mr. Somewhere

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

joy division: "atmosphere". unimpeachable after all these years.

qv also: new order: "lonesome tonight" (but not the live version(s) where barney sings about his cock).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, "All That I Got is You" seconded, sheesh, what a tearjerker that song is.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:10 (twenty years ago)

the theme tune to the incredible hulk
-- danny invincible (wellsmj...), February 27th, 2006.

Seriously.

― ______, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Gravediggaz - "Burn Baby Burn" where Poetic raps about his cancer.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 01:21 (twenty years ago)

ABC's "All Of My Heart" owns this thread.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Dolly Parton, "Jolene"
Crowded House, "Don't Dream It's Over"
Pet Shop Boys, "You Choose"
Rosanne Cash, "Runaway Train"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

richard thompson 'the poor ditching boy'

― keyth (keyth), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

Robert Fripp w/Peter Gabriel - "Here Comes the Flood"

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:48 (twenty years ago)

George Jones! Like, about 65% of his catalog.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Tom Waits has two that come immediately to mind: "Ruby's Arms" and "Train Song."

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

miles davis - all blue

― the rock n roll nigga (the rock n roll nigga), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

But really, it is Robert Wratten who pwns this thread, writing almost nothing but the saddest songs ever in the world.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I always say Pretty Ballerina by The Left Banke. That's what does it for me.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I always say Pretty Ballerina by The Left Banke. That's what does it for me. Maybe not the saddest, but the most beautiful?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Walk Away Renee's sadder.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:55 (twenty years ago)

the lyrics are sadder, but the music of Pretty Ballerina is more melancholy.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Nick Drake - "Which Will"
American Music Club - "I've Been A Mess", "Apology For An Accident"
Mark Eitzel - "Mission Rock Resort"
Cat Power - "Water & Air"
Swans - "Blackmail"
Lenny Cohen - "Bird On A Wire"

Like a baby stillborn
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone
who reached out for me

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

"The Old Folks" from Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:38 (twenty years ago)

the first thing that always comes to mind with this question is richard and lindas "withered and died" ---- that's some emphatically sad sack shit right there. a sad sounding sad song about not a damn thing beyond being hopelessly sad --- & way too gorgeous and direct to roll your eyes at ----

― reacher, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

moonlight serenade - glenn miller orchestra

― whatever (boglogger), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

tim buckley - siren song

― milosz (milosz), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I already nominated a song but....

Isaac Hayes "Walk On By"

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue

Arvo Part - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

Joy Division - The Eternal
"My view stretches out from the fence to the wall"

Autechre - TearTear

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Also,

Townes Van Zandt, "Highway Kind."

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

A Case Of You

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:59 (twenty years ago)

Gracias a la vida by Mercedes Sosa.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

i used to be such a sad bastard. here's what i used to listen to then, before i got off painkillers:

Neutral Milk Hotel-Naomi
Low-Mom Says
the Replacements-Unsatisfied

along with other similarly minded (alcoholic, tranquilized) musics.

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

"Nice Dream"

― literalisp (literalisp), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Arab Strab - "Serenade"
Pulp - "A Little Soul"

― Jimmy_tango, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

A lot of stuff off of Born Into trouble As Sparks Fly Upward by A Silver Mt. Zion. At least for me.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:54 (twenty years ago)

"crying" by roy orbison. nothin' beats it.

― rockaction (rockaction), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Man Of The World, Fleetwood Mac

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 03:33 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/saddest06a.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 03:36 (twenty years ago)

the langley schools version of desperado 4 lyfe

― methanie tanner (methanie tanner), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Songs that make you cry

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Please explain the lyrics of "$1000 Wedding".

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

syd barrett - dark globe/the las song in "madcap" - what was it?"last night" i think.

― fdsfsdf, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Want To Have To Do It - The Loving Spoonful, or Julie Driscoll's equally sad cover.
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
Asleep - The Smiths
but to my mind, the saddest song ever sung is
I'm So Lonesome I could Cry - Hank Williams

― George David Henderson, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Also Hot Burrito #1, and Brass Buttons by the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons (I think) respectively are pretty sad, and a lot of things by Johnny Cash. That movie made me cry.

― George David Henderson, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

If I'm in the zone pretty much anything can tip me over, but possibly only Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart narrates the aetiology and pathology of sadness while taking the actual symptoms for granted.

― George David Henderson, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

"Asleep - The Smiths"

damn, i'd forgotten about that - the one really sad Smiths song I think. But don't feel sad for me...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

*the one really sad Smiths song I think*

what, sadder than I Know it's Over?

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I Know it's Over sounds like self-pity, which is only partly sad. Asleep sounds like defeat. Anyway, it's Morrissey, so disqualified on the grounds that sad is his schtick.

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

well i suppose it's hilariously OTT really - help mummy, i'm being buried alive! but the tune just pulls and pulls at the heartstrings till you don't notice anymore

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Something off Elegeion's "Odyssey Into Darkness" might qualify.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

"Anyway, it's Morrissey, so disqualified on the grounds that sad is his schtick."

Not any more...see this month's Mojo - he's found lurve...so it probably won't last...

― Ned T.RIfle II (Ned T.Rifle II), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Answering Machine - Replacements

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

If You Go Away-Scott Walker
Don't Smoke In Bed-Nina Simone
Dreams To Remember-Otis Redding
And Before The First Kiss-The Field Mice
It Will Never Happen Again-Tim Hardin

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt - breaks my heart

― Christine, Monday, 13 March 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

"Here You Come Again" and "Always On My Mind"

― cnwb (cnwb), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

top 100 saddest songs of all time

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Growing Pains theme song saddest song ever?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

OPO: Saddest line from a song

Saddest opening lyrics?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

The Saddest Songs Not About Relationships or Health

Saddest/most moving hip-hop lyric?

What is are the saddest hiphop tracks of all time?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

it's all so damn depressing

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

What's the most depressing music?

the most depressing album in the world ever

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

LUOMO-TESSIO-THE MOST DEPRESSING SONG EVER?????

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Do you listen to depressing music?

the most depressing song

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

top 100 sad sack songs

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

haha ok tracer we get the point.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

Tracer's sure done his homework! Jesus Christ...

My choice for saddest = Lennon's "My Mummy's Dead"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 05:31 (twenty years ago)

Love Hurts the Roy Orbinson's version > http://x818.com/junk/RoyOrbisonLoveHurts.mp3

― apmorris (apmorris), Sunday, 26 March 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

dixie nightingales "all i need is sunshine in my life"

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Sunday, 26 March 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

okay, prepare yourselves...

...thread WON by The Teardrop Explodes, '...And The Fighting Takes Over/The Great Dominions' (I count this as one, INCREDIBLE, song, that elicits an emotional response from me EVERY TIME).

Other noteworthy contenders:

The Cure - A Strange Day
Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
Talk Talk - Wealth
Mogwai - Kids Will Be Skeletons
Passengers - Your Blue Room
The Beta Band - Space Beatle
Explosions In The Sky - Your Hand In Mine
XTC - Wrapped In Grey
Bardo Pond - Two Planes

*bursts into tears*

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

the smiths - i know it's over

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

If You Go Away-Scott Walker
Don't Smoke In Bed-Nina Simone

goooood choices. although I think maybe the dusty version of '...go away' is even better.

in addition:

first orgasm - dresden dolls
throw your arms around me - the doug anthony allstars
wichita lineman - glenn campbell (better than jimmy's version...)
rebekah del rio - crying (from the mulholland drive soundtrack)

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Monday, 29 January 2007 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Whoever said Fleetwood Mac "Man Of The World" is right.

― harvey.w (harvey.w), Monday, 29 January 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

~Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

Touches me deeply each and every time. Human loss in the face of mother nature.

~The Last Resort - Eagles (hotel cali)

Brilliant narrative and stirring melody. Nature relentlessly destroyed by us humans.
Best thing they ever put out IMHO.

Both seriously sad.

― david bailey (particlewave), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Eleanor Rigby is really sad and scary. It made me weep when I was a child.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

i always think "rocking chair" by the band is really touching.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

My stock reply to this is Tom Waits - "Good Old World (Waltz)"

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

oo! oo! tom waits' 'that feel'! a heartfelt 4AM lament by a crowd of whisky-ravaged muppets.

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Thompson's "How Will I Ever be Simple Again?" is a good one for general weepiness.
I'm also a sucker for the really poppy ones you're not supposed to admit to liking.
"Can't Cry Hard Enough" (?)by some sappy duo, although only because I heard it when I was going through probably the worst time of my life.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

"That Feel" I've always heard of as more of a rousing torchsong to the down-and-outs rather than genuinely sad.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

obligatory "Katy Song" mention here

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 29 January 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Boulder To Birmingham", Emmylou Harris

― tiit (tiit), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

"That Feel" I've always heard of as more of a rousing torchsong to the down-and-outs rather than genuinely sad.

I hear it more as lamenting the loss of the one thing you can't lose. they're speaking from experience.

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought the one thing you couldn't lose was that feeling of being really pissed.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

somebody way upthread mentioned Big Star's "Holocaust", to which I would add the following dead-parent songs:

Go-Betweens - "Dusty In Here"
Felt - "Down An August Path"

― hank (hank s), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to Fleetwood Mac and it's a cliché but "Landslide" needs to be mentioned.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

so true, even though cliche.

Breeders, Off You - i've said it before and i'm sayin it again!

― surmounter (rra123), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Aphex Twin - "CD1, Track 3 on Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II" (aka "Rhubarb")

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure if this is necessarily INTENDED to be a sad song, and actually, it is rather hopeful in many ways, but I always sob like a baby when I hear Bonnie 'Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney's "Beast for Thee" off the album Superwolf.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Arvo Pärt - De Profundis
Double N - The Ride

― jon person (jon person), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

Style Council w/Tracy Thorn, "Paris Match"
(a real weeper)

― douglas eklund (skolle), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

threads about feelings are funny. it's like, feelings, in an internet window. ae;lakjdfpokajfe;lkajfdf;lkjdaf;akj

― surmounter (rra123), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Bird Stealing Bread , by Iron & Wine.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

obligatory "Katy Song" mention here

Man I was just coming here to post the same thing. Still cannot listen to that song without getting teary, even now after all these years. "I am a Rock" as well.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

(both of which Red House Painters obv)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Band's version of "I Shall Be Released."

― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Leonard Cohen can bring on the doom and gloom. But I'm not sure which version of "Bird On A Wire" is the saddest. I'm thinkin' Cash, right now.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Mr Blobby," taking into account other definitions of the word "sad."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 08:44 (nineteen years ago)

Anything from Nico's Chelsea Girls really, but especially These Days. Life is so shit that even ending it would be a waste of time, there's just no point in doing anything anymore. That's cold. Song plus voice = heartbreak. And it IS the voice, cos Jackson Browne's version sounds like a less interesting Eagles.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

yes, totally - you know i mentioned These Days on a "songs that make you feel thread" a while ago and found out she didn't write it

disappointing. still heartbreaking.

― surmounter (rra123), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

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