Sad songs

[Kentish]

What to you is the saddest song you have heard?

I nominate - Luther Vandross; Dance with my Father.

Maybe not the saddest I've ever heard but tugs at the old heart if you have ever lost a parent

[HowMuchLonger]

Not necessarily sad, but definitely melancolic; anything by Anthony and the Johnsons.

[johnvthe2nd]

'Our Town' Iris DeMent

[broken biscuit]

Changes by Black Sabbath - the original, not the stupid Ozzy / Kelly rubbish

[HowMuchLonger]

NeMiSiS said:

Dancing Queen by Abba.

Just sad to like it.

No offence meant.

[Kentish]

NeMiSiS said:

Dancing Queen by Abba.

Really?

Too much Mama Mia?

[pacman1]

NeMiSiS said:

Dancing Queen by Abba.

snigger

[The Lukas]

Sigur Ros do some pretty sad stuff.

[Dibble]

Not a song, I realise, and perhaps slightly clichéd, but Barber's "Adagio for Strings" gets me every time.

After 9/11, the BBC proms changed the "Last Night" programme, and Adagio for Strings was on of the pieces played. The conductor was an American guy, Leonard Slatkin. If you want to see barely restrained emotion, have a look at his face at the end of the piece, from about 9'45" in the YouTube clip.

[Easy_Targa]

Listen to Lisa Gerard, especially "Sacrifice".
My kids call her the "whale woman" but I love a miserable song.

[Cock Womble 7]

"Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M.

[Fort Jefferson]

Ludovico Einaudi's, Fuori Dal Mondo.

[YarisSi]

Two Little Boys or Nothing Compares 2 U

[Alfachick]

Neil Young, Old Man.
I think that's the title of the song anyway. Its such a good song but it makes me sad

[miniman]

Cock Womble 7 said:

"Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M.

I suppose "sad" can, in some cases, mean "nauseating whiny drivel"?

[Lefty]

In the living years.

Mike and the Mechanics?

[al1991]

Cock Womble 7 said:

"Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M.

Agreed.

I seem to have some sort of bizarre masochistic obsession with listening to songs that make me feel sad!

Edited by al1991 on Friday 21st January 15:41

[Comfortably Dumb]

'Tears in heaven' by Clapton. Written following the death of his 4 year old son...

[Shaw Tarse]

Lefty said:

In the living years.

Mike and the Mechanics?

I heard the reason he wrote it. quite moving.

[Sim89]

Fort Jefferson said:

Ludovico Einaudi's, Fuori Dal Mondo.

I agree, although possibly Dietro Casa or Nuvole Bianche