[agentz]

Rabbit In Your Headlight - U.N.K.L.E. feat. Thom Yorke

[AlbertWu]

Evanescence - Tourniquet

The Ataris - The Saddest Song

[Macfreak7]

Originally posted by Kilbey:
*snip*

However the saddest song for me that makes me want to eat a bullet is "Sorrow" by Pink Floyd on Momentary Lapse of Reason. Pure art.

that and High Hopes.

[Spliff]

Originally posted by christ:
If this thread was about the 'best song', then I would go for NIN over Cash. But it isn't, it's about the saddest song, and Cash's rendition of Hurt, along with all of the other renditions on this album, is heart-rendingly sad. Sad lyrics, sung emotionally, by a man who was once the greatest and was about to die, and then did.

I stand by Cash as the saddest.

[Ken Masters]

Pink....Stop Falling

[GRAFF]

Everytime we say goodbye
I die a little.
Everytime we say goodbye
I wonder why a little -
Why the gods above me,
Who must be in the know,
Think so little of me,
They allow you to go.

When you're near,
There's such an air
Of spring about it.
I can hear a lark somewhere
Begin to sing about it.
There's no love song finer,
But how strange the change
From major to minor
Everytime we say goodbye

(Cole Porter)

[GRAFF]

The sun comes up, I think about you.
The coffee cup, I think about you.
I want you so
It's like I'm losing my mind.

The morning ends, I think about you.
I talk to friends and think about you.
And do they know
it's like I'm losing my mind?

All afternoon doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright.
Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor
Not going left, not going right.

I dim the lights and think about you
Spend sleepless nights to think about you.
You said you loved me,
Or were you just being kind?
Or am I losing my mind?

(Stephen Sondheim)

[gerbnl]

Damn, this is really indicative of the sorry state of these forums: over a hundred posts about sad songs and no-one even mentions Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The sadmaster himself! I bet i could counter any song mentioned here with an even sadder song by Nick and still have songs left to nominate by themselves. Duh!

However the one i nominate isn't strictly by Nick Cave, but he did do the lyrics and does a guest appearance to sing it:

Barry Adamson - The Sweetest Embrace (from the album Oedipus Schmoedipus)



Our time is done my love
We've laid it all to waste
One thousand moonlit kisses
can't sweeten this bitter taste
My desire for you is endless
and I'll love you 'till we fall
I just don't want you no more
and that's the sweetest embrace of all

To think we can find happiness
hidden in a kiss
Ah, to think we can find happiness
that's the greatest mistake there is
There is nothing left to cling to babe
There is nothing left to soil
I just don't want you no more
and that's the sweetest embrace of all

Ooohhh where did it begin
When all we did was lose
There's nothin' left to win

So lay your weapons down
they serve no purpose in your hands
And if you wanna hold me
then go ahead and hold me
I won't upset your plans
If it's revenge you want
then take it babe
Or you can walk right out the door
I just don't want you anymore
And that's the sweetest embrace of all

Ooohhh where did it begin
When all we did was lose
There's nothin' left to win

It's over babe
And it really is a shame
We are losers you and me babe
In a rigged and crooked game
My desire for you is endless
And I love you most of all
I just don't want you no more
and that's the sweetest embrace of all

[edit: dug up the lyrics somewhere]

[suprz]

sarah mclachlin: "i love you"

"and i forgot
to tell you, i love you
and the night's too long
and cold here without you..."

[bleuvixen]

Hurt - NIN
The Great Below - NIN
No Need To Argue - Cranberries
Crestfallen - Smashing Pumpkins
Me And A Gun - Tori Amos
Putting The Damage On - Tori Amos
Brick - Ben Folds Five

[brink]

The saddest songs are the happy ones that remind you of better times. </deep thought>

But here's some downers I don't think anyone's mentioned yet:

Lucky, Radiohead
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd
Michael's Bones, Morrissey
One Man Guy, Rufus Wainwright
Apart, The Cure
How Soon Is Now?, The Smiths
This Time It's Goodbye, Perry Blake
Vi�rar vel til loft�r�sa, Sigur R�s

[thunderous_funker]

Originally posted by WinsOBoogi:
Jeff Lynne as a forgotten genius? That's a rough call. He certainely has a lot of talent...but...genius? I don't know.

His pioneering efforts in production alone would make him worthy the title, IMO.

I think appreciating how influential and seminal his music was, you have to keep in mind the context and timeline of when it happened.

ELO's stuff occupies a kind of singular nexus between Earth, Wind & Fire and The Beatles. It was kitchy yet insidiously catchy pop with groovy disco soul plus ingenius studio/productuion tricks and over-arching thematic material (like an entire album being a time capsul from the future).

[york28]

"Zero Chance" - Soundgarden

[SomeToast]

Originally posted by suprz:
sarah mclachlin: "i love you"

And the one she sings in Toy Story 2, "When She Loved Me". That one gets me every time.

(may just have to pop that DVD in now)

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Good call on Nick Cave!

I prefer "Stagger Lee" when I'm in a sad mood, myself....



greg

[OB1]

Redd Kross - Yesterday Once More (cover of The Carpenters song) Warning! Do not listen to this track. Its harrowing. info

[DBursey]

Neil Young - A Man Needs a Maid
Bruce Springsteen - My City in Ruins
Blue Rodeo - Falling Down Blue

Moxy Fruvous - The Drinking Song:

We lived in the noise and the sweet amber poison
Peekin' up the skirt of the end
And we'd drink, two gnarly dudes and some records
Much like plates of black food
We filled up our faces, saw some far places
Stood on the roof in the nude

And the band played on
As the helicopters whirred
Drunk on the lawn in a nuclear dawn
My senses finally blurred

[dencamp]

One more:

Waltzing Matilda - THe Pogues

[gumby5647]

Shostakovich:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major; Second Movement

[suprz]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DBursey:
[B]Neil Young - A Man Needs a Maid

great song! and a very true statement too!