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.
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...
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.
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I Want You
Elvis Costello
The Victim - Headeast.
Worked for me!
Drop - Mark Kozelek
Carissa- Sun Kil Moon
Anna Begins- Counting Crows