What is the Saddest song ever written?
Oct 30, 2007 at 7:50 PM Post #407 of 656
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Have you heard the Johnny Cash version of Hurt? Much more haunting than the NIN version, IMO.


I sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who prefers NiNs version by a landslide, including trent apparently
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Cash's cover of "I hung my head" almost always brings a tear to my eye though. Only one other song does, but it would be embarrassing to admit what it is
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Oct 31, 2007 at 1:51 AM Post #408 of 656
just throwing some in......

space dye vest-dream theater(but it's actually a kevin moore song)
epitaph-king crimson
heartattack in a layby-porcupine tree
 
Nov 1, 2007 at 12:24 AM Post #410 of 656
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Originally Posted by tygger /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Mahler - Oft Denk´ Ich, Sie Sind Nur Ausgegangen
From Kindertotenlieder
Especially when sung by Ferrier


Wild that was actually my first thought.

A couple more:
A Survivor from Warsaw - Schoenberg
Die Mainacht - Brahms
 
Nov 1, 2007 at 2:35 AM Post #411 of 656
Purcell's "Dido's Lament" - 320 years old and still arguably the best song ever written in the English language (and certainly sad). Schubert's "Erlking" is a contender. As mentioned earlier, Mahler's "Songs on the Death of Children" (Kindertodenlieder) must be considered. Most of the songs mentioned so far will be unknown in a matter of years or decades at the most.
 
Dec 3, 2007 at 4:34 PM Post #412 of 656
I was going to say Pink Floyd's Time. Maybe it's not exactly say though.

Stone Roses - Made of Stone
Tanaka Rie - Ningyo Hime
 
Dec 3, 2007 at 4:42 PM Post #413 of 656
I Will Wait for You-Connie Francis (Watch the Futurama Episode Jurassic Bark. If you don't get teary eyed at the end you have no soul.)
We'll Meet Again-Vera Lynn
 
Dec 3, 2007 at 11:45 PM Post #414 of 656
Great thread, esp. the meta-discussion of what constitutes "sad". I vote for:

Pink Floyd - The Wall - starting just about anywhere, and finishing just about anywhere;

Tammy Wynette - D.I.V.O.R.C.E.;

The Velvet Underground - The Gift - poor Waldo Jeffers;

Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five - The Message; - maybe it's more depressing than sad, but it ain't happy;

The aforementioned Seasons In The Sun, and Cat's Cradle, and if not mentioned, that song about a horse (Wildfire, IIRC), Alone Again, Naturally, The Pina Colada Song, One Tin Soldier, by Coven, and Abba's Fernando. Maybe the 70s was a golden era of sad pop;

Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done; and

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit.

O.K. I'm done.
 
Dec 9, 2007 at 1:13 AM Post #417 of 656
Country Death Song- Violent Femmes
 
Dec 9, 2007 at 1:22 AM Post #418 of 656
Ballad of Hollis Brown- Bob Dylan
 
Dec 9, 2007 at 1:28 AM Post #419 of 656
"Danny Boy"
 
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