Favorite sad songs?

[thepoetinmyhear]

I've been toying with the idea of making a few mix cd's. After checking with some friends a mix of sad songs won out, just barely over 80s party music. I've been making a few lists and thought I would ask for some imput. I'm trying to not have any band overrepresented. Here's what I've got so far?

"Pretty Good Year" - Tori Amos
"HAEWAFY" - Stevie
"Storms" - FMac
"Adam's Song" - Blink 182
"I will Remember You" - Sarah McLachlan
"Mad World" - Gary Jules
"Name" - Goo Goo Dolls
"River" - Joni Mitchell
"Grieve" - Peter Gabriel
"Why" - Annie Lennox
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Tori Amos
"Hurt" - Johnny Cash

So, what are some of your favorite songs? Any suggestions would be appreciated and although I haven't started the 80's mix, feel free to comment on that if you'd like. Any and all suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks

Michael

EDIT: recieved a couple suggestions already! FMac - "Why" and James Taylor - "Fire and Rain" added.

[DeeGeMe]

I'm a big ole' sap so I've got a long list but I've excluded any FM songs.

A Place Called Home-Kim Richey
The Sky is Crying-Stevie Ray Vaughn (my other favorite Stevie)
Full of Grace-Sarah McLachlan
Fire and Rain-James Taylor
The Pretender & Sleep's Dark & Silent Gate-Jackson Browne
Empthy Handed Heart-Warren Zevon
Accidentally Like a Martyr-Warren Zevon
Helpless-Neil Young
Ghost-Indigo Girls
Long Black Veil & Hurt-Johnny Cash
Taxi-Harry Chapin
I Hope I Don't Fall in Love With You (Closing Time)-Tom Waits
Nobody's Girl-Bonnie Raitt
It Makes No Difference-The Band

[GateandGarden]

Here are a few that came into my mind-

"Without You" Kim Richey
"Beautiful Child" Fleetwood Mac
"The Secret Marriage" Sting
"Tryin' to Get Over You" Vince Gill
"If You're Gone" matchbox twenty

Hillary

[ThePenguin]

Todd Norcross, 'Damn This Storm'

Always gets me a little choked up...
-Lis

[Pisces Queen]

One of my most favorite sad songs is "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphy. I just love this song but everytime I hear it I get a lump in my throat and tear up. Beautiful.

[hayley]

I copied my current melancholy playlist off of my iPod, which I update every week for new moods (what can I say, I like being sad):

Sad songs that everyone should think are sad:
Why- Annie Lennox
I Wonder- Chris Isaak
I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You-Colin Hay
Chelsea- Counting Crows
Never Is A Promise- Fiona Apple
Peter Pan- Patty Griffin
Here Comes the Flood- Peter Gabriel
Keep Me In Your Heart- Warren Zevon
I Still Miss Someone- J.C.
Always on My Mind- Willie

Songs that aren't necessarily sad but make me sad:
Thirteen- Big Star
Thunder Road- Bruce Springsteen
Amy Hit The Atmosphere- Counting Crows
A Long December- Counting Crows
Goodnight Elisabeth- Counting Crows
Slip-Away-David Bowie
End of the Innocence- Don Henley
Ballad of Big Nothing- Elliott Smith
Lover, You Should've Come Over- Jeff Buckley
Farewell, Angelina- John Mellencamp
Black Books- Nils Lofgren
Spanish Dancer- Patti Scialfa
Mary- Patty Griffin
High and Dry- Radiohead
The Horses- Rickie Lee Jones
I Dreamed I Stopped Dreaming- Sam Phillips
New Slang- The Shins
The Boy With the Thorn in His Side- The Smiths
Wild Horses- The Sundays
Wicked Little Town- Hedwig
Closer to You- The Wallflowers
Side of the Road- Lucinda Williams (the saddest song I think I know)

[dissention]

ISlip-Away-David Bowie

Chant of the Ever-Circling Skeletal Family is something else. That one is unbelievably weird and depressing.

[dissention]

I think all Aimee Mann songs would fit into the "Saddest Songs" category. Especially her songs for Magnolia.

[hayley]

I think all Aimee Mann songs would fit into the "Saddest Songs" category. Especially her songs for Magnolia.

I was going to list Aimee and then realized I'd have to put the entire tracklist for Magnolia and half of Bachelor No. 2!

[dissention]

I was going to list Aimee and then realized I'd have to put the entire tracklist for Magnolia and half of Bachelor No. 2!

:laugh: I know! I think we could safely include every song from I'm With Stupid, too. She sure is depressing, but for cripes sake, she's amazing. I'm salivating for a new album.

[hayley]

:laugh: I know! I think we could safely include every song from I'm With Stupid, too. She sure is depressing, but for cripes sake, she's amazing. I'm salivating for a new album.

Agreed!

She could be singing about bunnies and Happy Meal toys and fuzzy slippers and it would still sound sad. I love her.

[dissention]

Agreed!

She could be singing about bunnies and Happy Meal toys and fuzzy slippers and it would still sound sad. I love her.

:nod:

Did you pick up the limited edition of Lost In Space? It's the next best thing to a new album because it has an extra disc of live songs, b-sides, and unreleased tracks. Truly fantastic set, IMO.

[Johnny Stew]

Probably one of the single saddest songs ever commited to tape... Fleetwood Mac's "Man Of The World."

Breaks my heart every time I hear it. (Which must make me a masochist, I guess, because I love that song and listen to it often!)

[hayley]

:nod:

Did you pick up the limited edition of Lost In Space? It's the next best thing to a new album because it has an extra disc of live songs, b-sides, and unreleased tracks. Truly fantastic set, IMO.

I did, it's great! She's done amazing things as a businesswoman, too, in the industry, and I give her major props for that.

I second JStew on "Man of the World"- it's a heartbreaking song.

[wondergirl9847]

I Will Remember You - Amy Grant

I will be walking one day
Down a street far away
And see a face in the crowd and smile
Knowing how you made me laugh
Hearing sweet echoes of you from the past
I will remember you.

Look into my eyes while you're near
Tell me what's happening here
See that I don't want to say good-bye
Our love is frozen in time
I'll be your champion and you will be mine
I will remember you.

Later on
When this fire is an ember
Later on
When the nights not so tender
Given time
Though it's hard to remember darlin'
I will be holding
I'll still be holding to you
I will remember you.

So many years come and gone
And yet the memory is strong
One word we never could learn
Good-bye
True love is frozen in time
I'll be your champion and you will be mine
I will remember you
So please remember
I will remember you
I will remember you
I will remember you
I will remember you


Hello Goodbye by Michael W. Smith (song about the death of a child :( )

Where's the navigator of your destiny
Where is the dealer of this hand
Who can explain
Life and its brevity
'Cause there is nothing here
That I can understand
You and I
Have barely met
And I just don't want to let go of you yet

Chorus:
Noah, hello, good-bye
I'll see you on the other side
Noah, sweet child of mine
I'll see you on the other side

And so I hold your tiny hand in mine
For the hardest thing I've ever had to face
Heaven calls for you
Before it calls for me
When you get there save me a place
A place where I can share your smile
And I can hold you for more than just awhile

[DeeGeMe]

A friend of mine once commented that any Sarah MacLachlan album should be renamed to "Songs to kill yourself by". He's kind of right. I love her but she's not the most upbeat of artist's!

[cliffdweller]

Ooooh, cool topic.

My choices are:

Belladonna, OTR, HSML, and Beauty and the Beast: (the tragedy just under the surface kills me.) There are tears under the triumph.

IKINW, SMAP, WATL, and TSYHA: (reasons--see above)

"Storms": (God, this song was painful to hear the first time through. I teared up, it is SOOOO emotional.)

"Beautiful Child"--The line, "...even if I never hold you...again" always gets me.

"Songbird"

And the Non-F.M. choices:

"Heart Like a Wheel": Linda Ronstadt

"I Believe in You", and "Birds": Neil Young

"The Loneliest Guy," "Rock and Roll Suicide", and "Five Years": David Bowie

Most things by Cat Power

"Blue," "Let the Wind Carry Me," and "Down to You": Joni Mitchell

"Wise Up": Aimee Mann

"Lonely Sinking Feeling", "Bea's Song (River Song Trilogy: Part II)," and "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry": Cowboy Junkies

"All I Left Behind," and "Red Dirt Girl": Emmylou Harris

"Alone": Heart

"Sad Lisa" and "Wild World": Cat Stevens

"Kathy's Song": Simon and Garfunkle

"Suzanne": Judy Collins' version

"Two Women": The Angels of Light

All of Bruce Springsteen's album "Nebraska"





I think this list could go on and on which makes me realize that I mainly like sad songs! This is depressing...:laugh:

[cliffdweller]

Slip-Away-David Bowie
High and Dry- Radiohead
The Horses- Rickie Lee Jones


These are great choices!!

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

I'm not a fan of his but 'Dance With My Father' by Luther Vandross chokes me up everytime I hear it


Others I can think of off the top of my head are

Goodbye My Friend - Linda Ronstadt
Flesh and Blood - Wilson Phillips


Pip

[Johnny Stew]

Also, add George Michael's "Jesus To A Child" to the list.

[heyjupiter678]

These are the songs on my "sad song" playlist in iTunes:

Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
Trouble - Coldplay
Birds - Jann Arden
Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos
These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding
Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel
Sign on the Door - Edwin McCain
Let it Roll - Train
Top of the World - Patty Griffin
Hold On -Sarah McLachlan
A Long December - Counting Crows
Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams
Comfortable - John Mayer
Guess I'm Doin' Fine - Beck
Let Go - Allison Moorer
Memories - Ryan Adams
I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding
Mark My Word - Allison Moorer
Hanging By a Thread - Jann Arden
Lost Cause - Beck
Wild Horses - The Sundays
Famous Blue Raincoat - Tori Amos
Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye - Black Crowes
Lenny - John Mayer

And not on my list, but one of the saddest songs ever : Back When We Were Beautiful, by Matraca Berg.

[DrummerDeanna]

A friend of mine once commented that any Sarah MacLachlan album should be renamed to "Songs to kill yourself by". He's kind of right. I love her but she's not the most upbeat of artist's!

:laugh: :laugh: omg...so true! But I love her...so a lot of my favorite sad songs come from her....but my favorite favorite is probably Full of Grace...

[amber]

There's this one that Linda Ronstadt did...It's probably called love something, but the chorus is: And I think i'm, gonna love you, for a long, long, tiiiiiiiiiime...Yes I've done, EVERY THING I KNOW...TO TRY AND MAKE YOU MINE!! And I think i'm, gonna love you...for a long, long, tiiiiiime...
Amber

[amber]

Goodbye My Friend - Linda Ronstadt
Flesh and Blood - Wilson Phillips


Pip
Wait, is that the same one i'm talking about? Goodbye my friend?
Hi, Pip! :wavey:
AMber

[heyjupiter678]

There's this one that Linda Ronstadt did...It's probably called love something, but the chorus is: And I think i'm, gonna love you, for a long, long, tiiiiiiiiiime...Yes I've done, EVERY THING I KNOW...TO TRY AND MAKE YOU MINE!! And I think i'm, gonna love you...for a long, long, tiiiiiime...
Amber
That's a great song. :nod: I believe it's called "Long, Long Time."

[amber]

That's a great song. :nod: I believe it's called "Long, Long Time."
Ah, yes, that sounds right. Thank you! Isn't it, though? :o And it's such a joy to sing...especially when you're sad!
AMber

[DeadliestPoison]

:nod:

Did you pick up the limited edition of Lost In Space? It's the next best thing to a new album because it has an extra disc of live songs, b-sides, and unreleased tracks. Truly fantastic set, IMO.
How good is Aimee? I'm interested. All I've really heard from her are a couple of 'Til Tuesday songs and "Pavlov's Bell," which I LOVELOVELOVE.

Anyway, sad songs!
Nelly Furtado - Scared Of You
Nelly Furtado - Onde Estas (It sorta makes me sad)
Angie Hart - Blue
Spice Girls - Viva Forever (shut up -_-)
Moby - Porcelain (*I* think it's sad)
Poe - If You Were Here
Geri Halliwell - Walk Away (once again, shutchomouf)
Melanie C - Why
Blondie - Fade Away & Radiate

[Johnny Stew]

Sheesh, how could I forget to mention my favorite Madonna song?

"This Used To Be My Playground."

[estranged4life]

A couple come to mind:

"Estranged" by Guns N Roses
"My Immortal" by Evanescence

These songs were hard on me this past winter when Deb was critically ill...

Brian j.

[DrummerDeanna]

Kathy Matea - Where've you Been? -- Such a sad song - about the couple and one ends up with alzheimer's or something...so sad.

Madonna - Take a Bow, This Used to by my Playground

Carole King - Now and Forever (hmm...also from A League of Their Own)

Heart - Alone

From Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Origin of Love

[seteca]

Also, add George Michael's "Jesus To A Child" to the list.

Madonna - Take a Bow,

These 2 songs, plus "Wild World" by Cat Stevens, remind me of 3 ex-girlfriends, and REALLY get to me every single time I hear them, because I (masochistically, in retrospect!) listened to them non-stop when each relationship ended. Just even thinking about how any of these 3 songs sound makes me feel like someone's punched me in the stomach.

[amber]

These 2 songs, plus "Wild World" by Cat Stevens, remind me of 3 ex-girlfriends, and REALLY get to me every single time I hear them, because I (masochistically, in retrospect!) listened to them non-stop when each relationship ended. Just even thinking about how any of these 3 songs sound makes me feel like someone's punched me in the stomach.
:xoxo: I had a similar situation with Wild World and a boyfriend breakup...
AMber

[thepoetinmyhear]

Wow, so many good suggestions. I've added a bunch to the list and decided to make it a three disc set. Thanks again!

Michael

[jadegypsy]

Well some of these have been listed, but...

All of My Love: L. Zepp
Winter: Tori Amos
Me and Bobby McGee: Joplin
This Used to Be My Playground: Madonna
Goodbye Baby
Say Goodbye
Sometimes Love Just aint Enough: Patti Smith & Don Henely
Total Eclipse of the Heart: Bonnie Tyler
Bookends: Simon and Garfunkle
Let it Be: Beatles
All Things Must Pass: George Harrison
Fragile: Sting
Smile: Judy Garland
Iris: Goo goo dolls
Time of Your Life: Greenday
The Rose: B. Midler
Little Wing: Jimi Hendrix
You Don't Bring Me Flowers: Strisand& Diamond
I've Seen it All: Bjork
Tears in Heaven (acustic): Clapton
On My Own: Les Mes (Broadway Play)
Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Mamas and Papas

[Mari]

Statuettes with wounds - Ryan Adams
Hasten down the wind - Warren Zevon
Time the revelator - Gillian Welch
I believe in you - talk talk
Woman of heart and mind- Joni Mitchell

there's more but I'm so terrible with titles ;)

[heyjupiter678]

Time the revelator - Gillian Welch
I love this whole album. It's so beautiful. :)

[Serrart]

Just some, not including FM or Stevie songs:
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Send In The Clowns -preferably sung by Barbara Cook
Victims - Culture Club
My Funny Valentine - preferably sung By Ella Fitzgerald
So in love - sung by K.D Lang
Fame - David Bowie/John Lennon
This Is Not America - David Bowie
Mr. Writer - Stereophonics
Zombie - Cranberries
All Apologies - Nirvana
Pictures Of You - Cure
Losing My Mind - sung by Barbara Cook or Ute Lemper

Romy

[hayley]

Pictures Of You - Cure


Pictures of You is my "the world is not cooperating with me and I just want to cry" song.

[amber]

I just thought of a really dorky one that always makes me sad, though...I think it's called shooting star, or something? But a line in it is...
"Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day..." and "a bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his bed" (not exact?)
Also, every since i was little "Night Moves" made me sad...generally nostalgic things make me the most sad...
AMber

[Merf]

Lovesong- The Cure
I Can't Make You Love Me- Bonnie Raitt
Eden- Hooverphonic
Love Is- Stevie Nicks
I Shall Believe- Sheryl Crow

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

I Shall Believe- Sheryl Crow
I totally adore this song. :nod:

[face of glass]

Statuettes with wounds - Ryan Adams
[...]
Time the revelator - Gillian Welch
I believe in you - talk talk
:xoxo:

Some of what I have here isn't necessarily sad, but within the musical context they're meant to be listened to they're all tear-inducing.

Sly And The Family Stone: "Family Affair"
The Beach Boys: "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)"
The Beach Boys: "I'll Bet He's Nice"
The Beach Boys: "It's Over Now"
The Beach Boys: "Still I Dream Of It"
Brian Wilson: "One For The Boys"
Joy Division: "The Eternal"
Joy Division: "Ceremony"
New Order: "Subculture" (in spite of ripping off a chord structure from Bach that's also in "Wild World" and "It's A Sin")
Big Star: "Holocaust"
Peter Gabriel: "Mercy Street" (the topic is quite frankly, disturbing)
Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Once I Loved"
Bob Dylan: "Blind Willie McTell"
"By The Time I Get To Phoenix" (whether by Glen Campbell, Nick Cave or even Isaac Hayes)
"Walk On By" (whether by Dionne Warwick, or bleedin' Isaac Hayes)
Lou Johnson: "The Last One To Be Loved"
The Carpenters: "Rainy Days And Mondays"
Abba: "The Winner Takes It All"
Abba: "The Day Before You Came"
Steely Dan: "Third World Man" (even though it's probably about some dictator somewhere)
Steely Dan: "Deacon Blues" (even though they probably laughed their asses off when they wrote the lyrics)
Talk Talk: "It's Getting Late In The Evening"
Talk Talk: "Chameleon Day"
Talk Talk: "Taphead"
Spiritualized: "Broken Heart"
Radiohead: "Exit Music (For A Film)"
Prefab Sprout: "Goodbye Lucille #1"
Prefab Sprout: "All The World Loves Lovers"
Genesis: "Carpet Crawlers"
Genesis: How Dare I Be So Beautiful segment of "Supper's Ready"
Yes: I Get Up I Get Down segment of "Close To The Edge"
King Crimson: "Book Of Saturday"
King Crimson: "Starless"
Coil: "At The Heart Of It All"
The Smiths: "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"
Curtis Mayfield: "We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue"
Slint: "Washer"
Galaxie 500: "Decomposing Trees"
Pavement: "Here"
The Velvet Underground: "Candy Says"
The Velvet Underground: "Femme Fatale"
Lou Reed: almost all of Magic And Loss. And hell, all of Berlin.
Neil Young: "On The Beach"
Neil Young: "Tired Eyes"
David Bowie: "Neuköln"
Robert Wyatt: "Alifib"/"Alife"

Man. I must be feeling suicidal.

[xdreamsunwindx]

U2 - Running to Stand Still, All I Want is You, One (this song has made me cry many times before)
Fleetwood Mac - Beautiful Child, Say Goodbye, Why, Oh Daddy
The Pretenders - Kid (hey, I think it's sad), Back on the Chain Gang (same), Goodbye, The Losing
The Eagles - Pretty Maids All in a Row
No Doubt - Too Late, Don't Speak, Suspension Without Suspense
Matchbox 20 - Bright Lights
Garbage - Special (I think it's sad)
Guns N Roses - November Rain

-Kate

[jwys_soapbox]

Everytime I listen to Sting's "The Soul Cages" and REM's "Out of Time," I get very misty. Two albums that came out around the time my grandpa died and I was going through an unrequited love. Captured that time very, very well.

John

[GypsySorcerer]

Everybody Hurts -- REM
Nothing Compares 2 U -- Sinead O'Connor
Why, Songbird, Storms, Beautiful Child, Say Goodbye -- FM
Lonesome Day -- Bruce Springsteen
Lullabye (Good night, my Angel) -- Billy Joel

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Everybody Hurts -- REM

This gets to me everytime since it was played at my cousins funeral when he died of leukemia at 27

Pip

[Mari]

Man. I must be feeling suicidal.

or hyperactive? but please don't make jokes about that, dear :xoxo:

[estranged4life]

"These Are The Days Of Our Lives"-Queen (The first time I saw the video I nearly cried...Nearly!!!)

"Who Wants To Live Forever"-Queen (I will NEVER grow tired of this song...)

Brian j.

[misterbug]

i find these songs to be real downers...


sad-eyed lady of the lowlands (joan baez's cover)

abba-when all is said and done

renee fleming-un bel di vedremo (from puccini's madame butterfly)

david bowie-everyone says hi

procol harum, annie lennox-whiter shade of pale

edith piaf-hymne a l'amour

bob dylan-not dark yet, standing in the doorway

carly simon-danny boy

barbra streisand-memory