Saddest song?

[ManBearPig]

Eleanor Rigby

What do you think is the saddest song?

 

[Anubis]

Don't Follow - AIC

 

[IronWing]

I'm not sure what the saddest song is but I do know that a man that's tied up to the ground gives the world its saddest sound.


Edit:

Deportee by Woody Guthrie is in the running.
Sunday Morning Coming Down

 

[SandEagle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNaf8DdzNNk

 

[IronWing]

Billy, Don't Be A Hero
Stranded at the Drive In

 

[AFurryReptile]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GobN10ECybc

No words at all, yet you can hear the sorrow in it.

 

[IronWing]

Fly, Fly My Sadness - Angelite & Huun-Huur-Tu

Possibly one of the best songs ever recorded in the history of the universe, really.

 

[DominionSeraph]

The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku

 

[DominionSeraph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNaf8DdzNNk

What's sad about that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GobN10ECybc

No words at all, yet you can hear the sorrow in it.

Are you trying to force wistfullness on that? It's got a pretty good tempo to it with a ton of high notes -- really seems to go up-down-up-down-up-down.
I'd say it's primarily hopeful/motivational.

 

[datalink7]

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son,[1] Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0

 

[Scotteq]

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs



...not least for what it represents




{Edit} - While I'm on a Jazz kick: Miles Davis - "Generique" Don't worry guys - It's short

 

[DaveSimmons]

Not the saddest, but melancholy:

Tori Amos - Josephine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG68pQyYzwk

David Bryan (w/Edgar Winter) - Netherworld Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYEkEpTUwP0

 

[lxskllr]

Bobby Darin - Artificial Flowers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDK_R9JVQgc&feature=related

 

[JimKiler]

Queen - who wants to live forever

 

[Jeeebus]

Cats in the Cradle for me.

 

[shortylickens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ti5f-LHp4

I cried.

 

[sjwaste]

D-Minor is the saddest of all the keys, that is for sure.

 

[HAL9000]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOhnrjdYOc&ob=av3e

Probably this, because of the obvious Diana connotations.

 

[meister]

Seasons in the sun---goodbye my friend.

 

[IronWing]

How could I forget:

Last Kind Words Blues - Geechy Wiley

 

[DominionSeraph]

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

...not least for what it represents

GOP-tards just got pwnt.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Cats in the Cradle for me.

Yeah, this one always gets me. My Dad passed away in December so hearing that really hits me sometimes.

This one does too. My Dad was a musician and Kurt Cobain was one of his favorite artists. I remember him calling me after Kurt killed himself...this from a guy who never called me for really much of anything.

Tori Amos-Smells Like Teen Spirit

 

[Scotteq]

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs



...not least for what it represents




{Edit} - While I'm on a Jazz kick: Miles Davis - "Generique" Don't worry guys - It's short

GOP-tards just got pwnt.

Do you *never* pass up an opportunity to spew politics?

BTW - You may want to take a little time and research the political history of the south between the Civil War and Kennedy/Johnson. Then you might not look like such an idiot.

 

[zinfamous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoOhnrjdYOc&ob=av3e

Probably this, because of the obvious Diana connotations.

disgraceful, what he did to that song about Marilyn Monroe.

 

[HAL9000]

disgraceful, what he did to that song about Marilyn Monroe.

He changed it to make it about Princess Diana, I cried.