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[Ya-ta Boy]

Well?

[bejarano-korea]

'Those were the days' Mary Hopkin!

Arrrrrgh!

I have to kick the radio when it comes on (its rare... but)

[Benicio]

"Seasons in the Sun"?


"My Humps"?
Because it is so unbelievably moronic- drop dead stupid!
It was a huge hit in the States.
Add to that 50 Cent with "I'll take you to the candy shop. I'll let you lick the lollipop".

That just makes me sad all over. My soul hurts!!!

[Katchafire]

I have to post this song ... It's by a New Zealand band called 'Goodnight Nurse' ... the lead singer wrote this about his grandfather just after he died. The main reason I'd say it would be the 'saddest' song I've heard is because in one of their first interviews on the radio, his grandfathers death had happened quite recently and he teared up talking about it .. and then had to play it with his band in the studio. Makes me go 'awww' every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8RD7EtMD4U

[captain kirk]

Marianne Faithful. If you listen to the span of her work she goes from a chirpy, idealistic, pretty Joni Mitchell folk type (Chelsea Morning and so on) to a world-weary, morose, languid suicide about to happen. Lots of her later songs are plenty depressing. The poppy Ballad of Lucy Jorden, bouncy and ebullient with 80's synthesizers, is still a total drag if you listen to the lyrics. Broken English is my favourite song of hers. Where she takes the moping and aims it at the anti-war theme.

[olabueno]

'Last Kiss' Pearl Jam

[ChopChaeJoe]

Not familiar with the tune, but a few sad ones I like:

In Dreams, Roy Orbison
I've got that Old Feeling, Alison Krauss
Chelsea Hotel, Leonard Cohen

[yawarakaijin]

Pictures of You - The Cure

The sadness however is balanced by the beauty of the lyrics themselves


i've been looking so long at these pictures of
you that i almost belive that they're real i've
been living so long with my pictures of you that
i almost believe that the pictures are all i can
feel

remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
i ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as
the sky fell in holding you close how i always
held close in your fear remembering you
running soft through the night you were bigger
and brighter than the snow and
screamed at the make-believe screamed at the
sky and you finally found all your courage to
let it all go

remembering you fallen into my arms crying
for the death of your heart you were stone
white so delicate lost in the cold you were
always so lost in the dark remembering you
how you used to be slow drowned you were
angels so much more than everything oh hold
for the last time then slip away quietly open
my eyes but i never see anything

if only i had thought of the right words i could
have hold on to your heart if only i'd thought of
the right words i wouldn't be breaking apart all
my pictures of you

Looking So long at these pictures of you but i
never hold on to your heart looking so long for
the words to be true but always just breaking
apart my pictures of you

there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you

[Underwaterbob]

I know John Prine but I don't know the song titles.

Is that the one that goes:

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose

?

[Ya-ta Boy]

No, that one is Sam Stone, which is right up there in terms of sad.

Donald & Lydia is the one about the fat girl and the soldier. It starts:


Small town, bright lights, Saturday night,
Pinballs and pool halls flashing their lights.
Making change behind the counter in a penny arcade
Sat the fat girl daughter of Virginia and Ray

(Spoken:)
Lydia
Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat
Behind her small eyes sunk deep in her fat.
She read romance magazines up in her room
And felt just like Sunday on Saturday afternoon.

Chorus:
But dreaming just comes natural
Like the first breath from a baby,
Like sunshine feeding daisies,
Like the love hidden deep in your heart.

[Been There, Taught That]

Really sad for me is 'One More Arrow' (really sad) by Elton John.

Also, 'Honey' by Bobby Goldsboro, and I would agree with Seasons In The Sun'. I might even be able to admit that 'Time Of Your Life' by Green Day is a sad song. In a sad song, the beat and instrumentation are supposed to be sad, but I think in the case of 'Our Song', the mood is, well, just moody and introspective, kind of a 'here's my self-interested response to you'--a lot like a lot of stuff out there. Plus, the lyrics are hard to get without really trying or having them right there to read along.
Listen to 'Honey' and you can feel the strings just weeping. You know sad lyrics are coming up. And well, 'Seasons In The Sun' is just straightforward about dying, though why is a mystery here. It was originally in French, I think, and that was probably even sadder-sounding.

When I was around 5 years old or so, I used to always get teary when I heard John Denver's version of 'Leaving On A Jet Plane', but I never would admit it to anyone. The death of John Denver itself was very sad.
Tom Jones had a sad one with Green Green Grass Of Home', too.

So those are some, but I haven't heard John Prine yet.

[BreakfastInBed]

I like where ChopChaeJoe is going with Roy Orbison. I nominate his song "It's Over."

"You won't be seeing rainbows anymore."

Everything good is irrevocably drained from life.[/i]

[Colorado]

The Great Mandela.
Peter, Paul and Mary.

Saddest song I know.

[Stormy]

Bright Eyes by I don't know who.

Not for the song itself so much as that scene from Watership Down. It always literally brings a tear to my eye whenever I hear it.

[Justin Hale]

Tool - 10,000 Days, part II

It's about Maynard's mom. She had a stroke 27 years (10,000 days) previously, leaving her paralyzed and in a very bad state indeed for the rest of her life. Her death and ascent to Heaven (according to her faith) is what the song's about here. The music is Tool at their best.