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The saddest song you know

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  • Dark Globe or Vegetable Man - Syd Barrett
    Where one of the most creative artists of the late 60's starts to confront his own alienation and descent into mental illness.
    You could probably pick any number of songs from his solo work.
  • Hope she'll be happier with him
    Bill Withers

    https://youtu.be/NYog2KV_yOU
    How do you turn a duck into a singer?


    Put it into a microwave and wait until its bill withers.
  • Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    No one likes us, we don't care.
  • Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of The Broken Hearted

    https://youtu.be/cQywZYoGB1g
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Dance with my father - Luther Vandross
    +1 beat me to it.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    Father and Son - Cat Stevens. On a personal level at least, though it needn't necessarily be sad I suppose.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Needle and the damage done - Neil Young

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd3oqvnDKQk
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    Eric Carmen - All By Myself
  • Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
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  • Two Winters Only by My Dying Bride.
  • Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven. 
  • Tell Laura I love her.
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    edited September 2019
    Seasons in the Sun  -  Tery Jacks  -   Miserable as f"%/
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    edited September 2019
    Seasons in the Sun  -  Tery Jacks  -   Miserable as f"%/
    It's the English version of another
    Jaques Brel song...

    Every English version of Brel's song sounds like a soapy babaganoush
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    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 :(
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    edited September 2019
    Aloe Blacc - Momma hold my hand . Gets me every time I hear it .


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gkeYkXEyyY&feature=share
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Adele has a whole catalogue of sad songs......”Someone like you” being the saddest I guess.
    Her live version at the Brit Awards a while back was truly awesome.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Do you realise? - the flaming lips
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,458
    'if this is goodbye'
    Mark knopfler& Emylou Harris

    It's about the twin towers victims last calls to loved ones.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sWfKfM10g6g
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  • Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics 

    I wasn't there that morning 
    When my father passed away 
    Didnt get to tell him 
    All the things I had to say 

    Those lines, given my dad died suddenly and unexpectedly, get me every time. 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,242
    Before anyone knew our name ~ Stereophonics 

    Songs about loved ones not being around and memories get me, songs about heartbreak are bullshite generally and very generic as I suppose popular songs have to be. A memorable couple are Sheila by Jamie T and Dry your eyes by the streets. They don't sadden me but they do a pretty good job of analysing young men and how they respond to seeing the girl they thought was the salt of the earth being finger banged in the back garden of the pub by another lad 
  • Everything I own - Bread
  • another for me would be Roy Harper - When an Old Cricketer leaves the Crease 
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,048
    @Pringle @Jessie Agreed on The Blue Nile and the Craig Armstrong album version.  Also love Johnny Cash's version of Hurt.

    I'll add in Jake Bugg's Broken...beautiful, albeit, sad track.
  • Broken Bicycles by Tom Waits

    https://youtu.be/eF-HAAUY45c
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,727
    Dry your eyes - The Streets
  • Little Green joni Mitchell

    https://youtu.be/jIzJnBWovOs
  • Also, Daniel Johnston - Some Things last a long time 
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,701
    McBobbin said:
    Do you realise? - the flaming lips
    That's a beautiful song. Every time I play it i have to play it again straight away. I dont actually like The Flaming Lips much, but this song is genius.