What Are Some of Your Favorite Sad Songs

[userlander]

mayonaise - smashing pumpkins. just about that whole cd in fact.

theft & wandering around lost - cocteau twins

 

[CrazyRay]

John Prine
Sam Stone

 

[theprezz]

The title track from Over the Rhine's "Ohio" double album.

 

[sonci]

I was impressed by a song during Michael Jackson funeral, performed by one of his brothers,
sorry the ignorance but never got in The Jackson 5

I think it was smth like "when you smile", but don't know the title or the original composer,
that performance was incredible, highly recommended..

 

[Sladeophile]

Nick Drake and Elliot Smith have some incredibly sad songs. They both ODed due to their depression. It is some very nice acoustic work as well.

 

[sno1man]

skeletons- Rickie Lee Jones- the highlight of what already a very melancholy album, Pirates. It's about losing a love tragically and the way she half whispers half sings the word skeletons at the end gets me every time

Edit- Pirates also has the song Lucky Guy which must be written about Tom Waits

 

[revolink24]

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Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif Barber: Adagio for Strings does that count as a song?

Mmmmmmm Barber. Yes, I think it does count.....

 

[wantmyf1]

Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin & I also like Ugly Kid Joe's version

 

[Xan7hos]

Coldplay - The Scientist
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Born Secular

EDIT: Silversun Pickups - Table Scraps

 

[00940]

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Originally Posted by hiddenninja /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hurt by Johnny Cash. Amazing cover to the Nine Inch Nails original. It's just so...haunting and powerful.

Seconded.

I'll add "Blind Willie McTell" of Bob Dylan to the list.

 

[Ham Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by hiddenninja /img/forum/go_quote.gif Hurt by Johnny Cash. Amazing cover to the Nine Inch Nails original. It's just so...haunting and powerful.

I actually teared up the first time I heard the Johnny Cash version. Hauntingly powerful given his past drug problems and personal problems. He did a cover of a song and made it his own, as if it was written for him.

 

[falis]

"Grief" from Henry Threadgill's "Song Out Of My Trees" album. No lyrics but some amazingly affecting vocalizing. This is edgy jazz.

- Ed

 

[Happy Camper]

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Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif I actually teared up the first time I heard the Johnny Cash version. Hauntingly powerful given his past drug problems and personal problems. He did a cover of a song and made it his own, as if it was written for him.

I agree and felt the same. He sung from a part of his soul that only one who has been consumed by drugs can identify.

Cristofori's Dream

YouTube - David Lanz - Leaves On The Seine

YouTube - David Lanz - Before The Last Leaf Falls

YouTube - Very Sad piano music

YouTube - Candle In The Wind: A Princess Diana Tribute

YouTube - Elton John - Tonight Live in Sydney 1986

YouTube - king crimson-epitaph live

YouTube - Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa

YouTube - Cat Stevens - Lady D'Arbanville (live)

 

[buddhashenglong]

"Down, Down, Down," by Joe Satriani is sure-fire party killer. Right up there with Floyd's "Wish You Were Here".

 

[00940]

How could I forget this one ? Arguably one of the best songs ever written in French.

Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas

PS: yes, all the "If you go away" songs are covers of this one. The original French text is darker though.