The saddest song

[Villavic]

Looking for movies that have Mac songs in their soundtracks, to check if I've seen them and refresh my memory, I found this page that lists the Fleetwood Mac 4 saddest songs.

Landslide
So afraid
Storms
When I see you again

I wouldn't choose WISYA cause it's not a good song, I don't like it, but I admit its lyrics are very sad. And I found Landslide more nostalgic than sad. If I had to choose a Stevie (Mac) sad song, it would be Silver Springs.

Yes I'm So Afraid is sad, perfectly combined with a dark melody. Never Going Back Again is sad too. But the live version of Say Goodbye is THE Lindsey saddest song, to me.

I find Songbird and Never Make Me cry nostalgic but not sad. I can't remember a real sad Christine song right now, I have to check her entire catalog to find one.


https://americansongwriter.com/4-of-...d%20ages%20us.

[Mr Scarrott]

How about Over and over? Many of Christine's songs seem to tell of overcoming sadness and moving on (Why, Don't Stop, All over again spring to mind. Over and over maintains a more melancholic feel, at least to me.

[FuzzyPlum]

The Second Time is sad.
It’s also just…. sad!

[Macfan4life]

Easy one. Why still can water my eyes. The emotional slide guitar beginning makes me weep and so do the lyrics and Chris's singing.

Never Make Me Cry is an opposite of sad song. Its a strong song. Go and do what you want because you will never make me cry. Its power and strength not sadness.

Storms is emotional but not nearly as sad as Why.

[FuzzyPlum]

Wish You Were Here is a pretty sad CM song

[BLY]

This is a good one but a hard one. If I looked at only the five albums from 1975-1987 it would be…

I’m so Afraid
Songbird
Beautiful Child (so many “sad songs” IMO on Tusk
Wish You Were Here
When I see You Again

[Macfan4life]

We all see songs differently. I don't see Songbird as a sad song. Its a love anthem and very uplifting.

[SteveMacD]

Man of the World
Wish You Were Here
Goodbye Baby
Say Goodbye (probably more melancholy than sad)

[Street_Dreamer]

Man Of The World is easily Fleetwood Mac's saddest song and I don't think anything else comes close.

[David]

Crystal is sad to me — when you’re feeling more than mildly depressed and you hear the words “I turned around / And the water was closing all around / Like a glove / Drove me to the sea.”

Dragonfly is not exactly sad but nostalgic — the kind of nostalgia that makes you take in your breath with a tiny gasp.

Never Forget makes me a little sad because it quietly ushers out not only the last Mac album of the Seventies but an entire era. The song has that little tag out that feels like you’re the last one left in the recording studio and you have to turn off the lights for good.

When Man of the World kicks in with its turn-around bridge — “I don’t say I’m a good man / Oh, but I would be if I could” — it makes you feel rather lost for the guy who wrote it in despair.

Did You Ever Love Me isn’t exactly sad but, again, nostalgic, wistful: “You made me happy / But time has gone by / Please leave me something.” You feel bad for the McVie relationship.

A lot of the great torchy blues songs that they either wrote or covered — Love That Burns, I Have to Laugh, Leaving Town Blues, I Loved Another Woman, Something Inside of Me, Worried Dream — are great examples of feeling morose, down in the dumps, enraged, whatever, but not sad, exactly.

When Stevie sounds so dispirited and deflated in The Second Time, it’s a great sad song. “And someone that you love / And would always love.” This is the song that is more shipper than any of the songs the shippers pine over.

[bombaysaffires]

Why.

Heartbreaking.

[HomerMcvie]

For me(and y'all ain't going to believe this), it's

HAEWAFY, followed by

Do You Know.

Both of those songs happened during difficult breakups for me.

[aleuzzi]

Never Make Me Cry
Oh Daddy
Don’t Stop (it’s also, paradoxically, among the happiest)
Songbird
Beautiful Child
Storms
When I See You Again

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Why.

Heartbreaking.

The Way That I Feel from the same record is also a weeper.

[Macfan4life]

Yes for sure Man of the world is very sad. The mood of the song projects loneliness and you feel Peter's sorrow.

Why is heartbreaking.

Come A Little Bit Closer is also heartbreaking and very sad. Don't let the synth strings and the upbeat tempo fool you. Chris is begging "please don't leave me all alone cause I cant make it on my own" I think we had a thread about this song where there was an old demo or something that took the song in another direction. The lyrics are sad but the music is uplifting. The contrast works nicely IMHO.