Saddest Songs Ever

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Being about the only sort of song that hasn't been covered yet, I thought I'd give it a bash. What songs always leave you with a lump in your throat, or even a tear in your eye? Some of mine include:


Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Queen - The Show Must Go On

Duran Duran - Ordinary World

Tears For Fears - Mad World

George Michael - Praying For Time

Pearl Jam - Black

Metallica - The Unforgiven

REM - Losing My Religion

Linkin Park - In The End

Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

Alice In Chains - Nutshell


If you only click on one of these, make it Nutshell...

Oh Mazzy Star! That's a real blast from the past Hero. I have their first album on vinyl somewhere, not listened to it in yonks. I'm going to dig that out, thanks for the reminder

Not a popular song i fact most people wont have heard of it ....

Don Johnson - Cant take your memory

Percy Sledge - At The Dark End of the Street

Radiohead - Creep - Youtube Click Here

Gives me goosebumps.

You all have excellent taste in sad songs

Get your hankies out for this.... Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down

Good choice Y I. Perfect "teen angst" song.

The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
Thought I'd better pick this instead of the Limp Bizkit version.

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow - Picture

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes

You might need your hankies again for this one

KingKenny7Heaven wrote:Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Good choice, Kenny.....I love this song but it makes me feel so sad I can't listen to it anymore.....here's a link Chasing Cars

I went to a funeral of a school friend awhile ago , one of the songs was
Eva Cassidy's Over the rainbow ............... i cant listen to it now without think of my friend which sad and good at the same time .

Faithfully - Journey

Solerina wrote:The Script - I'm Yours

Their most moving song is Anybody There IMO.

Everything must go, Manic Street Preachers

Truly Madly Deeply - Savage garden
My Heart - Paramore (live version off final riot )

Enforcer wrote:Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor

I think the Stereophonics version its sadder. I've got it from the Radio 1 Live Lounge and its quality.

Few that come to my mind are:
The Wire - Paul Weller
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Good Riddance - Greenday (Played at me mates funeral)

Boys Of Summer - Don Henley.

My father has always maintained that this is the song he wants played at his funeral, so it natural depresses the hell out of me.

The Space Between - Dave Matthews Band

I think the tone of the song does it for me.

Candle in the wind.

Titanic theme tune.

Starsailor - Way to Fall (link for those not familiar with it, some gamers will recongnise it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n30gxo5vwCM

U2 - Love is blindness

Stevie Wonder - Lately

The Cars - Who's Going To Drive You Home.

Good shout on the U2 song. I can't believe Achtung Baby is 20 years old!!!

Good call Celtic Warrior - thats a brilliant song!

I'll add:

A Toute Le Monde - Megadeth
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve

Embrace - Gravity

Gary Jules - Mad World

Most of the two Glasvegas albums especially "Stabbed"

Fists of Fury wrote:Candle in the wind.

Titanic theme tune.

Fists
I thnk you've interpreted 'saddest' differently from everyone else

Otherwise some great nominations - the video to Hurt is also probably the most moving ever made. The juxtaposition between the images of the 'Man in Black' and the frail old man and the woman he loved through his life, allied to those words and the incessant drive of the tune are absolutely classic.

My father died nearly 3 years ago (at only 57 years old, and just months after taking early retirement), and I've found the song 'Dance with my Father' very difficult to listen to since - I know it's a bit cheesy at times, but some of the lyrics get a bit close to the bone.

fernando wrote:Embrace - Gravity

Good call, and I'd add "Glorius Day" as a very moving song of theirs too.

Alter Bridge - Loving Memory (sorry about the shocking video)

Alter Bridge - Watch Over You

Linger - The Cranberries

Charmaine - Plan B

Enya - Only Time

First time I hard it was on a youTube video of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it had jumpers plumeting to their deaths. It can bring me to tears if listen to it.

[quote My father died nearly 3 years ago (at only 57 years old, and just months after taking early retirement), and I've found the song 'Dance with my Father' very difficult to listen to since - I know it's a bit cheesy at times, but some of the lyrics get a bit close to the bone.[/quote]

I completely understand dummy_half, my father died 11 years ago, also at the age of 57. I still struggle to listen to a Sam Brown song, sums up the sub-conscious reaction, even after all this time

Celtic Warrior wrote:The Cars - Who's Going To Drive You Home.

I LOVE THAT SONG! Great lyrics.

Spoiler:

I'm a fool to want you, Billie Holiday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNgy5zDtW-s

also Creep by Radiohead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk&feature=relmfu

and
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk&feature=relmfu

Oddly, I never thought of Creep as a sad song...more the usual teen angst type of track. Perhaps Radiohead did "Emo" before anyone had coined the term?

Here's one that always gets me. Perhaps the best song Johnny Cash never recorded. Think the Man In Black could've done a great cover version.

Spoiler:

Celtic Warrior wrote:The Cars - Who's Going To Drive You Home.

Good choice, I love that song! I think 'Philadelphia' by Bruce Springsteen is pretty sad because of the film.
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Robbie Williams - Come Undone
Adele - Somebody like you

Aloe Blacc - Mama Hold My Hand

This is a song that always gets to me.It's very beautifully written

This years love, christ cant remember who sings it.

Enya - Only Time

Great shout.

westisbest wrote:This years love, christ cant remember who sings it.

David Gray from his White Ladder album.

westisbest wrote:This years love, christ cant remember who sings it.

David Gray, and you're right it's a brilliant song.