What's Your Favorite Sad Song?
 

This may be a recent topic, but I was watching that Elton John vid "I Guess That's Why They Call it The Blues" (or whatever it's really called lol!) this morning on VH-1 Classics and thinking about how sad the song and vid are and how much I used to LOVE this song when I was like 10 or so. Anyway, other sad songs I love:

"I've Been Away" by Kathleen Edwards on her new album "Back to Me" just rips my heart out. I literally tear up every time I listen to it.

I also think Neil Young has some of the saddest songs I've ever heard: Birds, I Believe in You, After the Goldrush--just to name a few.

"Blue" by Joni Mitchell gets me too.

So what are your favorite sad songs?

Sad music is my favorite!!!

Morrissey: I've Changed My Plea to Guilty/Will Never Marry
The Cure: Trust/The Loudest Sound
Emmylou Harris: Goodbye/Prayer in Open D
Tori Amos: Hey Jupiter/Sugar
Patty Griffin: Useless Desires/When It Don't Come Easy/Nobody's Crying
Erasure: Stay With Me
Loreena McKennitt: Dante's Prayer
Ani Difranco: Dilate
Meshelle N'Degéocello: Bitter
Peter Gabriel: I Grieve
The Smiths: Asleep
Kent: 747
Tanita Tikaram: I might Be Crying/Lovers in the City
Kate Bush: Under the Ivy/This Woman's Work
Joni Mitchell: A Case of You

I could go on!!!

I'll think of a million more as soon as I post this.

Why- Annie Lennox
Blue- Lucinda Williams
Here Comes the Flood- Peter Gabriel
Wise Up- Aimee Mann
Never is a Promise- Fiona Apple
Moses (& all of Living With Ghosts)- Patty Griffin
Lover, You Should've Come Over- Jeff Buckley

ETA: Yeah, okay, I'm totally down with all the same's suggestion of Kate Bush's This Woman's Work, and I'll see his I've Changed My Plea to Guilty and raise with Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me.

Totally forgot about Lucinda! She has some doozies! Love her! New live record comes out in a couple of weeks I think!

Deathly by Aimee Mann and Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage have always been my favorites.

I LOVE Lucinda. I should've put my favorite song of all time of hers, Side of the Road. And yes, the live album is out in May. There's a great cover story on her in the new issue of Tracks.

Agreed. I absolutely love them both.

There are several that will stop me in my tracks and break my heart;

Wildfire - Michael Martin Murphy
Beautiful Child - FM
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
November Rain - G&R
History Repeats Itself - A.O.S.

The only one I can think of right now is Fire and Rain by James Taylor. Oh...Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton) is pretty sad, too.

Awesome
 

Hey, is that the one that goes "she ran calling wiiiiiiiiiiiildfire, she ran calling wiiiiiiiiiildfire..." and it's about a horse? That song is really sad, I haven't heard it in years, though. Fire and Rain is sad, too, Becky. I always forget songs until someone else says them. Anyway, I thought of Sometimes, by No Doubt:


Sometimes sunshine
Does not want to shine on me
And sometimes I find myself blind
At first I cannot see and then I see it's me

I chose a road when I was young
In search of fun temptations won
And all my soul I did surrender
If I had a chance to go back now
Would I redeem my moral vows
Or would I repeat for my own laughter

From now on, I will behave, but in
The back of my mind, I will be enslaved
Repeat

Sometimes I hide somewhat
Like a bulb behind a shade
And sometimes I ask myself why
Is it cause the lights are too bright
Or because my eyes are closed too tight

Sometimes I find myself blind
Don't use my brain don't use my mind
Distorted feelings always leading my way
But I must forgive myself
and let the past lay down to rest
And be prepared to face myself in another day

From now on I will behave
But in the back of my mind I will be enslaved

Where've you been - Kathy Mattea
I Would've Loved you Anyway - Trisha Yearwood
Storms - Stevie :D
November Rain - GnR
While My Guitar Gently Weep - Beatles
Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper

You have excellent taste!!! :wavey:

Yes, that's it. Sing it for me sister!!! :xoxo:

;) Fantastic song - one of the very few that touch my icy heart :laugh:

Also:
Still In Love With You - Thin Lizzy (with that solo)
She's Gone - Black Sabbath
Caroline - Danny Kirwan :distress:

:laugh:
That song really is very sad, I'm kind of glad I haven't heard it in awhile. Instant tears, really. :( It's the "watching Old Yeller" of songs....

Thanks!
 

Just looking through the songs on my computer:

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
Hey Jupiter, Winter - Tori Amos
Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel
Stolen Car - Bruce Springsteen
Cold, Cold Earth / Let Go - Allison Moorer
Hangin' by a Thread - Jann Arden
Long December - Counting Crows
Long Black Veil / I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Guess I'm Doin' Fine - Beck
Peter Pan / Top of the World - Patty Griffin
These Arms of Mine / I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding

My Funny Valentine sung By Etta James.
Samba Em Preludio -Vinicius De Moraes
Storms
Losing my Mind sung by Barbara Cook or Ute Lemper

Then, not in order:
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - sung by Etta James or Bing Crosby
So in Love sung by K.D.Lang
Est Ce Ainsi Que Les Hommes Vivent? sung by Yves Montand
Goodbye Baby
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
The boy with the thorn in his side - The Smiths
Beautiful Child
Manha De Carnaval sung by Maria Bethania
Just some... :D

Romy

Disinteregation-The Cure
Figurehead-The Cure
Mother- Tori Amos
Asleep- The Smiths
The Overload- Talking Heads
All is full of love- Death Cab for Cutie
At the Bottom of Everything- Bright Eyes


I really dont listen to music that is too sad. I am in a happy point in my life lol :wavey:

Awesome taste!!! I forgot about Jann Arden! She can bring anyone to tears. Hanging By a Thread kills me!!!

Into the West- Annie Lennox
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
November Rain- Guns n' Roses
Don't Cry- Guns n' Roses
Nothing Else Matters- Metallica
So Far Away- Carole King
You Can Close Your Eyes- James Taylor
Life By The Drop- Stevie Ray Vaughn
Running To Stand Still- U2
Storms
Beautiful Child
The Tower

I'm sure there's many more I'm forgetting.

No discussion: Moonshine by Free
(and many, many others)

I Wanna Know What Love Is

freakin' love widfire & i live in nebraska just like in the song!!! :wavey: ~

any1 remember "shannon" by harry gross, the 1 about the dog?, i think the rumour was it was 1 of the beach boys dogs who was swept out 2 sea~ i bought a 70"s compilation cd & this was on, i can't listen 2 it w/ out tearing up every time :distress: ~

No, thank goodness. I'd probably cry my eyes out. Swept out to sea!? That is soooo sad. :(

funny you should ask, this is my current playlist entitled "slash"

sorry so long, something for everyone...

NIN - Hurt
Jimmy Buffet - Someone I Used to Love
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Morphine - The Night
Hole - Doll Parts
Pearl Jam - Long Road
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
REM - Leaving New York
Moby - Porcelain
Ani - Untouchable Face
Neil Young - Four Strong Winds
Bush - Glycerine
Candlebox - Far Behind
Chris Isaak - I Wonder
Counting Crows - Goodnight Elizabeth (live)
Evanescence - My Immortal (origins)
Fiona Apple - Sullen Girl
Gathering Field - Blue Sky Song
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (tori's version rocks)
Jewel - Foolish Games
Led Zeppelin - Going to California
Mike Doughty - Book of Love (Magnetic Field cover)
Moxy Fruvous - Fly
Nico - Fairest of the Seasons
Sarah Slean - I Know
Steve Poltz - One Left Shoe
The Band - It Makes No Difference
U2 - One (orchestra)

OOh forgot -

Long December - Counting Crows

I forgot I Shall Believe by Sheryl Crow. That's a great one.

And I forgot The Boxer by Sime and Garf. Oh, and Lather is sad to me, too.

OH MY GOD!

I totally forgot about that one..it's one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITE Sheryl songs...

and therefore one of my favorite sad songs as well...

OH and I forgot:

Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan

Everybody Hurts -- REM
Tears in Heaven -- Eric Clapton
Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) -- Billy Joel
Songbird
Storms

Lovesong, The Cure
Lucky Ones, Bif Naked
Don't Leave the Light On Baby, Belle & Sebastian
Everything, Lifehouse
Breathing, Lifehouse
I Shall Believe, Sheryl Crow
Difficult Kind, Sheryl Crow
Home, Sheryl Crow
Love Is, Stevie Nicks
Fragile, Sting
Eden, Hooverphonic

And I want you to show me!!! I wanna feel what love is!!! And I know you can show me!!!

awesome! :lol:

I probably shouldn't even tell this story! It's a total doozy!

My friend owns a building and was showing some office space in it on the 8th floor. There's a rooftop patio just outside the office that was accessible from it. But it has no guard railings around it. Just an open area. So, this couple was viewing the space and had their cute little fluffy dog with them. They let the dog out on the patio and it got all excited and ran out onto the patio. As it reached the edge of the roof, it started putting on its breaks but was going to fast and fell off the edge to its death. My friend Blake ran down the stairs to pick up the body while the bewildered owners basically stood in absolute shock. Can you imagine? Sorry you guys. I shouldn't have even told that story. Terrible, eh? This happened like a week ago. :(

Half-Jill/Half-Jack by The Dresden Dolls
Very Loud by the Shout out Louds
^^^
Omg that song is so sad, everyoen downlaod it

I don't really like her, but Wynonna's version is outstanding. It gives me the chills. :nod:

isn't that foreigner or something? who is the she you're talkin' about?

Foreigner was the first to do it. W. Judd remade it last year. It's powerful.