Author Topic: The Saddest Songs (Read 6264 times)

LEE · « **on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:16:52 pm »

What gets your nomination as the saddest song?

What would be the backing track playing as your gilrfriend/boyfriend walked away?

What would come on the radio as you drove "Fido" to the vets that final time?

Here's my nomination

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RJZ-yB5pLvA&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/RJZ-yB5pLvA&rel=1</a>

her_welshness · « **Reply #1 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:20:04 pm »

Crying by Roy Orbison
Never Said Goodbye by Cerys Matthews

Charlotte · « **Reply #2 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:20:50 pm »

Nothing compares 2 U always makes me cry

Greenbank · « **Reply #3 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:22:05 pm »

Morrissey - Disappointed

Someone will be along soon with Sweetest Smile by Black.

eck · « **Reply #4 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:26:32 pm »

From a different era, but Burns' "Ae Fond Kiss".

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/YIKWHuxljFE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/YIKWHuxljFE&rel=1</a>
Utterly heartbreaking.

clarion · « **Reply #5 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:36:54 pm »

Bessie Smith's Take Me To The 'Lectric Chair

Chris S · « **Reply #6 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:37:44 pm »

Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun

* runs away *

clarion · « **Reply #7 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:40:26 pm »

Ah, but that reminds me of

Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas

and

Mary Coughlan - The Ice Cream Man

onb · « **Reply #8 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:44:01 pm »

Kate Rusby I am stretched on your grave.

The Band sang Waltzing Matilda ,I prefer the June Tabor verion

and for purely personal reasons Baby can I hold you tonight by Tracy Chapman.

clarion · « **Reply #9 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:44:51 pm »

Nina Simone - When I Was A Young Girl

Chris S · « **Reply #10 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:47:04 pm »

Jim Reeves - Old Tige

tiermat · « **Reply #11 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:47:05 pm »

For me it would have to be:

Seeing Things - Black Crows
Goodnight Elizabeth - The Counting Crowes
Brown Eyes Blue - dunno who it's by but always reminds me of my late uncle

Get me everytime

clarion · « **Reply #12 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:50:36 pm »

Oh

Mariama Kaba - Boubacar Traore. A lament for his late wife.

LEE · « **Reply #13 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:50:55 pm »

Quote from: Charlotte on 05 March, 2009, 04:20:50 pm

Nothing compares 2 U always makes me cry

Skinhead O'Connor version I assume. (Pronounced Skin-Heed)

That was the last vinyl record I ever bought.

tiermat · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:51:45 pm »

One more:

Elderly Woman Behind The Counter in a Small Town - Pearl Jam

clarion · « **Reply #15 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:52:45 pm »

Bricks in my Pillow - Robert Nighthawk

Stones In My Passway - Robert Nighthawk as well, but on a rather different subject.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #16 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:53:33 pm »

Quote from: Chris S on 05 March, 2009, 04:37:44 pm

Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun

* runs away *

Not Honey by Bobby Goldsboro?

clarion · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:56:31 pm »

I Can't Go Home - Robert Cray

Nobody mentioned 'Patches'?

PaulR · « **Reply #18 on:** 05 March, 2009, 04:59:10 pm »

"World without mercy" by Violent Femmes

Malandro · « **Reply #19 on:** 05 March, 2009, 05:01:26 pm »

Ruby's Arms by Tom Waits

Gandalf · « **Reply #20 on:** 05 March, 2009, 05:06:59 pm »

Lover you should have come over by Jeff Buckley, reminds me of a relationship which might have been many moons ago.

Aidan · « **Reply #21 on:** 05 March, 2009, 07:00:07 pm »

The butcher boy also by Sinead O'Connor

Aboout some one who kills themselves because their love cannot be fulfilled because they arent a virgin

rogerzilla · « **Reply #22 on:** 05 March, 2009, 09:00:45 pm »

OK, some one's already mentioned "Sweetest Smile", so I'll have to have George Michael's "A Different Corner", from his pre-cottaging days, and "Bullet" by Furniture, a half-sung, half-spoken elegy in blank verse to a doomed relationship.

Oh, and any of Roy Orbison's ballads

dasmoth · « **Reply #23 on:** 05 March, 2009, 09:02:50 pm »

Never be Mine -- Kate Bush.

bikenerd · « **Reply #24 on:** 05 March, 2009, 09:04:29 pm »

Pavement - Major Leagues
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Anything from the Boatman's Call album, but especially Brompton Oratory and Are You The One I've Been Waiting For? (The answer is no).

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