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Photographs and Memories by Jim Croce. Actually almost everything Jim wrote is amazing and sad.
Could go with the easy one for Harry Chapin (Cats in the Cradle)...but instead heres a song about the crushing of a childs spirit: Flowers are Red.
Annies Song by John Denver
Well, now Im a bowl of sadness. Thanks Turner! :)
I think I can win this with A Boy and His Frog, performed here by Tom Smith. Warning: have tissues handy. Makes me tear up every damn time.
Thank you all for the great and varied sad stuff...and kessukoofah you almost won with your amazingly sad entry, but now I pull out the big guns: Baby of Mine from Dumbo. I cant even verify if this clip has the song. I just queued it up to see if the link worked and hit 'stop'. There is no going back if you click it.
Thank you all for the great and varied sad stuff...and kessukoofah you almost won with your amazingly sad entry, but now I pull out the big guns: Baby of Mine from Dumbo. I cant even verify if this clip has the song. I just queued it up to see if the link worked and hit 'stop'. There is no going back if you click it.
...You just had to go there, didn't you? *Sniff*
How It Ends by DeVotchKa. Lovely sad song.
VERY good song. I must also now add "The Clockwise Witness" to the list.
How It Ends by DeVotchKa. Lovely sad song.VERY good song. I must also now add "The Clockwise Witness" to the list.
YES! I LOVE Devotchka.
To this list, I must add:
Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem.
On the surface, it sounds like nothing more than mellow-ish dance music, but the lyrics speak of such profound loss. The video is an emotional punch in the gut, too.
To this list, I must add:
Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem.
On the surface, it sounds like nothing more than mellow-ish dance music, but the lyrics speak of such profound loss. The video is an emotional punch in the gut, too.
Sock Puppet already added this one, but it says something that it's a repeat. I haven't seen the video, but the song gets me choked up.
Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler.
Forgiven is a good one though. On the right days, a lot of their stuff is (for me, Hand of Sorrow and It's the Fear also apply).
Robert Dwyer Joyce's "The Wind that Shakes the Barley." It's been covered by the Dubliners, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Flogging Molly, and the Dresden Dolls, but I couldn't find a good version on the YouTubes...
Some other sad Irish tunes:
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - "Patriot Game"
Dropkick Murphys - "Walk Away" (up-tempo, but still bittersweet)
Luke Kelly - "On Raglan Road"
Holes in the Floor of Heaven by Steve Wariner. I'm teared up just listening to the song long enough to make sure it was the right version.
Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle. This one really started to get to me when I had kids.
The Christmas Shoes by Newsong. If this song doesn't make you cry, you have no soul.
Cold day in July by the Dixie Chicks
Fluffy by Ween (ignore the video)
The story so far by Flogging Molly
Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen
YES!
How It Ends by DeVotchKa. Lovely sad song.
LOVE this song. This and 'We're Leaving'.
I'd just add Lisa Gerard - Sanvean , which never fails to screw me up.
By the way, that video is one that some fan made. I'd never seen it til just now, but it's got some amazing footage. Worth watching.
At the risk of being Cheesy
The Winner Takes it All by ABBA
Nothing compares to you ..by Sinead O'Connor
I'm amazed it hasn't been mentioned yet... Eric Clapton- Tears in Heaven
Because that song is so sappy it makes us all roll Fort saves at DC 3000000 or wretch?;p
I'm amazed it hasn't been mentioned yet... Eric Clapton- Tears in HeavenBecause that song is so sappy it makes us all roll Fort saves at DC 3000000 or wretch?;p
True, but that particular effect is somewhat negated due to the fact that it's Eric Clapton.
I got one for you: "Soon We'll Be Dead" by Leftover Crack.
One of my favorite songs of all time, both to play and to listen to.
'My Curse' by the Afghan Whigs
There's a live version on youtube but the album version is much better.
You hurt me baby
I flinch so when you do
Your kisses scourge me
Hyssop in your perfume
Oh, i do not fear you
And slave i only use
As a word to describe the special way i feel for you
You look like me
And i look like no one else
We need no other
As long as we have ourselves
But i won't cry about it
Every time you get obsessed
Every time i came undressed
All ugly thoughts are gone
I'm sure we'll all be friends
I'll try to break your back
You'll try to make amends
Curse softly to me baby
And smother me in your love
Temptation comes not from hell but from above
And there's blood on my teeth
When i bite my tongue to speak
Zip me down, kiss me there
I can smile now
You won't find out ever
Hurt me baby
I flinch so when you do
Your kisses scourge me
Hyssop in your perfume
Oh i do not fear you
And slave i only use as a word to describe
The way i feel when I'm with you
If i have to lie about it every time i came undressed
The Twilight Singers' cover of Massive Attack's 'Live with Me'
That is the original video with the Twilight Singers' version dubbed over.
The original Massive Attack version is just as haunting.
Ive been working my through this list and I can only listen to 3-4 of the choices before having to move on to a silly song or a fist-pumping one or something. These are all great songs. Thank you! Music is important! Someone should capitalize on this list and make a "NOW! Thats what I call a bunch of sadsadsad VOL 1".
Zombie by the Canberries is another one that always gets to me. Maybe it's just because I can relate to the message of the song.
I posted a Richard Shindell song earlier, but almost all of his stuff is just as dark. For example:
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer are also good for writing sad songs:
(Also, here's an excellent cover of "The Mountain")
I can't find it anywhere on the internet, but Hamell On Trial's "A Little Concerned, That's All" is one of the best sad songs I've heard in a long time.
You in Austin or something? I used to go see him on occasion there in the early nineties @ the Electric Lounge, and didn't know he had much range beyond there. He was a hell of a lot of fun to see.
I can't find it anywhere on the internet, but Hamell On Trial's "A Little Concerned, That's All" is one of the best sad songs I've heard in a long time.You in Austin or something? I used to go see him on occasion there in the early nineties @ the Electric Lounge, and didn't know he had much range beyond there. He was a hell of a lot of fun to see.
Ed Hamell's originally from Syracuse, New York, and a few people I know have gone to see him (I haven't, mainly because I have no free time whatsoever) in various places in upstate NY.
