Saddest Song on the planet?

[JohnCU]

Katatonia - For Funerals to Come
or
Katatonia - Quiet World

end of thread.

 

[KevinF]

No one's mentioned Johnny Cash's "Hurt?"

 

[zoiks]

I used to love her. GnR

 

[MainFramed]

Originally posted by: Marauder911

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon

Originally posted by: Marauder911
I dunno about saddest, but I think Dust in the Wind by Kansas is a great song, and can bring a tear to my eye when I listen to it (it reminds me of my grandfather).

YOU'RE MY BOY BLUE Sorry, had to do it

My vote for saddest song is Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

Haha, Old School is such a great movie.

Yes it is.

St. Anger Is

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: guyver01
What do you find to be the saddest song?

I used to think it was CATS IN THE CRADLE... but now i'm 100% positive it's Last Kiss, by Pearl Jam.. it chokes me up every time.

I agree with Cat's in the Cradle...although Dan Fogelberg's Same Auld Lang Syne gets to me if it's cold and snowy outside.

If you think it's Cats In The Cradle, then you haven't delved deeply enough into Harry Chapin's library of music, and I strongly encourage you to do so.

I actually agree with Cats in the Cradle. I think it's sad, because it's so true for so many people.

Saddest song on the planet? No way. Like I said - grab some Harry Chapin albums and you'll hear sadder. In particular "The Shortest Story" on Greatest Stories - Live, but there are many others.

 

[z0mb13]

pearl jam, last kiss

 

[GarlicBreath]

Taps on the bugle, as mentioned above, is very sad. Especially if you've heard it for real. Along the same lines, those Scottish bagpipes they play at funerals are sad too. That, and "Danny Boy".

As far as popular music goes, George Jones' "I'll love you till I die" wins, hands down.

 

[Shockwave]

Coldplay - The Scientist. It definately helps to have seen the video.
Johnny Cash - NIN remix, cant think of the name of it right off....... Figures.....
Garth Brooks - The Dance

Theres a few others but I cant think of them right now...My brain is runnin kinda lean tonight....

 

[Bryophyte]

Annachie Gordon by Loreena McKennitt has my vote. Here's the lyrics, but without the music, they don't have as much impact: http://www.quinlanroad.com/lyrics/annachie_gordon.txt

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Afro000Dude
"Nutshell" and "Don't Follow" by Alice In Chains.

mmm... Alice in Chains.... I love them

 

[Vic]

Last Kiss by Pearl Jam is a cover, people. And a pretty bad one at that. Original by Frank Wilson is much better.

My vote for the saddest rock song of all time has always gone to Meatloaf's "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad".

Taps is probably the saddest of all though.

Day is done,
gone the sun,
from the lakes,
from the hills,
from the sky,
all is well,
safely rest,
God is nigh.

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: Ness

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Jack and Diane.

"Hold on to 16 as long as you can... changes come along real quick; make us women and men."

That line depresses the hell out of me. Gosh, I miss 16!

I'm only 21 and I miss it already, too

Can't say I don't enjoy 21, though :beer:

It's all downhill. I'm at 32 and the fun is over. I was on campus yesterday to pay tuition, watching all the nubile young undergrads walking around, thinking... well, thinking the same things as I thought in my undergrad days. Alas, those days are behind me.

 

[Czar]

Gary Jules - Mad World
Lamb - Gorecki
Portishead - Roads
Sigur Rós - Dánarfregnir og jarðafarir

all I can think of right now

 

[bmacd]

"are you sad?"
Our Lady Peace

-=bmacd=-

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

For some reason Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever always brought me down...

 

[Homerboy]

First off... who in the holy hell quotes Elton John songs?

Saddest song? Spiritual by J. Cash

 

[gistech1978]

Beatles - Yesterday
Beatles - Elanor Rigby

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: OREOSpeedwagon

Originally posted by: Marauder911
I dunno about saddest, but I think Dust in the Wind by Kansas is a great song, and can bring a tear to my eye when I listen to it (it reminds me of my grandfather).

YOU'RE MY BOY BLUE Sorry, had to do it

My vote for saddest song is Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

I have to agree with Clapton's song...I am not sure how he can sing it and not break down!


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[datalink7]

Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
Peter Gabriel - I Grieve
Willie Nelson - You Were Always on my Mind
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

 

[Tiggerbaby]

R. Kelly - If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time

 

[chrisms]

Alice in Chains - Nutshell... extremely depressing to me because I can almost relate to what it is about.
Pearl Jam - Black is another one as well.

 

[kingsrook7]

Steve Goodman - The Dutchman