Favorite Sad Songs....

[Black&Tan]

So I'm working on this massive project, and I've got a stack of CD's beside me. I grabbed Queen's "Made in Heaven" yesterday, and popped it in my player. It's still in the player today. There's something about this album that really clicks, the music, the cover design, the history. It's almost like saying good bye to a dear friend. The music is phenomenal, but it leaves me with a bittersweet feeling.

Songs can trigger so much emotion, so many memories. These are a few of the ones that mean a lot to me:

1. Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen
2. Keep Me in Your Heart - Warren Zevon
3. Hurt - Johnny Cash
4. It was a Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
5. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

What songs affect you in a similar manner?

 

[Queso]

For a Friend by The Communards. Memories of someone very special who is no longer with us.

 

[shirley]

faverite sad songs

5000,miles........ the prouges (he knows why)

angels ........... robbie williams


unchanined melody........ righteous brothers

 

[MattG]

Some good ones I've discovered:

Keane: We Might As Well Be Strangers
Old 97's: Salome
Allison Moorer: Mark My Word
Lucinda Williams: Ventura
Death Cab for Cutie: Tiny Vessels

 

[iSaint]

Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word - Elton John
One Tree Hill - U2

I'm sure I'll think of more...

Phil Collins has some good, sad stuff.

 

[mactastic]

Phil Collins has some good, sad stuff.

Well he has some sad stuff at least...

Natalie Merchant's "Beloved Wife" is pretty sad.
Same with James McMutrey's "Can't Make It Here Anymore".

 

[OwlsAndApples]

Two More Years - Bloc Party
No distance left to run - Blur
My favourite sad songs

Guess they're not too depressing actually...

 

[Lovesong]

Ida- Don't get sad
American Football- Stay Home
Red House Painters- Song for Blue Guitar
Radiohead- Gaging Orders

 

[bbergie]

What would your memories do –– George Strait
Wanted –– Alan Jackson
Touch me –– Willie Nelson
Don't close your eyes –– Keith Whitley
Baby's gotten good at goodbye –– George Strait

 

[®îçhå®?]

Two More Years - Bloc Party
Guess they're not too depressing actually...

Darn right its not!! That is one of my happy songs!! (because of memories attached to it)

Fields Of Gold - Eva Cassidy. The closest that i have ever come to drying during a song

 

[Lone Deranger]

From my 'The Blues' iTunes playlist...

Konstantine - Something Corporate
Everything You Know is Wrong - Black Lung
Stille Nacht - Autopsia
Plainsong - The Cure
Blade Runner Blues - Vangelis
Highschool Lover - Air
Playground Love - Air
The Scientist - Coldplay
Haunted Heroes - Chris & Cosey
Gorecki - Lamb
Odin's Raven Magic - Sigur Rós & Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Samskeyti - Sigur Rós
Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys
Jewel - Amen (Live bootleg)
Jewel - Foolish Games (Live bootleg)
Jaia - Alone
Louden - Celtic Cross

 

[siurpeeman]

chris isaak - somebody's crying
natalie merchant - my skin
u2 - running to stand still

 

[AP_piano295]

Remake of Mad World but I dont really enjoy slow/sad music to much so I tend not to listen to it much.

 

[MacNut]

"I don't want to close my eyes, I don't want to fall asleep cause id miss you babe, and I don't want to miss a thing."

 

[SamIchi]

Remake of Mad World but I dont really enjoy slow/sad music to much so I tend not to listen to it much.

Who made the original? I'm assuming Gary Jules is the remake? I love that song, th piano is so awesome.

Cunninlynguists - Appreciation (remix)
Beautiful song about 9/11. Gets me everytime...

 

[ErikCLDR]

How am I suppose to live without you

micheal bolton



hahah, that was the first thing that came to mind.

 

[AP_piano295]

Who made the original? I'm assuming Gary Jules is the remake? I love that song, th piano is so awesome.

Cunninlynguists - Appreciation (remix)
Beautiful song about 9/11. Gets me everytime...

Tears For Fears not a big fan of the original though it's very techno rockish with some weird tarzanish riffs and idk, the acustic fits the song way better in my opinion.

 

[timswim78]

If you could read my mind - performed by Johnny Cash
- Hands down, the saddest song that I have ever heard on a recording, especially, when one considers the circumstances under which he recorded it. His wife had just died, and he was dying and in constant pain. His vision was so bad that he was unable to read his lyrics sheets. So, his son read them aloud to him before each studio session.

 

[SamIchi]

Tears For Fears not a big fan of the original though it's very techno rockish with some weird tarzanish riffs and idk, the acustic fits the song way better in my opinion.

Cool, I'll probably give it a listen.

 

[CEAbiscuit]

Louisiana 1927. Haunting.

 

[calyxman]

u2 - running to stand still

Ditto, very depressing song indeed.

 

[0007776]

3. Hurt - Johnny Cash

I like that one also. My other ones are Peace On Earth by U2
On the Evening Train by Johnny Cash, and most of the rest of the songs from that CD
Yesterday by the Beetles

 

[obeygiant]

"Where The Story Ends" by The Sundays

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M6o9mMpyk

 

[ReanimationLP]

Michiru Oshima - Fullmetal Alchemist Conqueror of Shamballa - Sad Resolution ~ Seperation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vae8PMNNR5w

Heres a link of it that I could find on youtube. Wrong anime though.

Its an instrumental, but very depressing and moving.

Rather short though.

 

[spicyapple]

Nothing Compares - Sinead O'Connor
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia