Wintermute
easy tiger
Am I allowed Johnny Cash's version of ?
Saddest song ever??
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ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
i'll post a couple by bonnie prince billy:
http://moviesofmyself.typepad.com/files/03-i-see-a-darkness.mp3
http://moviesofmyself.typepad.com/files/03-i-see-a-darkness.mp3
I think I first heard it used in the film version of Jesus' Son a few years ago, when Fuckhead asks Mira for a slow dance to it at an AA social event. It's a happy moment, but it is indeed a sad song.
There was also a really lush version in 2002, with vocals by Taka Boom (-and backing vocals by her siblings Chaka Kahn and Mark Stevens).
God Machine - In Bad Dreams
I've never thought of it as a sad song. It's disappointment and disillusionment, but I find it really defiant, uplifting, and kind of existential.
Cristina's version is my favourite; I'd love it to be played at my funeral.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Always brings a tear to my nose.
Yes, because for me it is undoubtedly the saddest, most moving song ever.
AverageJoe
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Agreed - but given added power if you watch it with the video.
For personal reasons, this is my saddest song ever.
Solitaire - The Carpenters
Its the words.... ((((((Average Joe)))))
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
True, although it really touched me with just the audio version first. Cash paints a million pictures with his voice on that track.
Also, as this is my 10,000th post, I'll dedicate it to that song.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
That's lovely, but this is my favourite Carpenters song.
Caught Between Goodbye & I Love You
Karen Carpenter had the most gorgeous voice ever.
Killer track.
I've got that on a great old Charly album dedicated to the SSS/Silver Fox labels.
Kristin Hersh, Your Ghost
http://open.spotify.com/track/0A7qioko14RIfc0xd5Vqqi
(Spotify link as it's too gorgeous a song to be heard in one of the shoddy live versions on youtube)
The bits with Hersh and Stipe are amongst the most lovely bits ever.
http://open.spotify.com/track/0A7qioko14RIfc0xd5Vqqi
(Spotify link as it's too gorgeous a song to be heard in one of the shoddy live versions on youtube)
The bits with Hersh and Stipe are amongst the most lovely bits ever.
For some reason that doesn't actually open the song, just spotify, but it's pretty easy to search for 'kristin hersh' and your ghost...
Oh yes, without doubt. On several occasions, my contemplating-serious-self-harm/suicide song - I can't face it "straight", but fuck me up and watch me listen...
This may be the same reason it brings a tear to my eye, too, but since I'm not quite sure why that is, either, I couldn't say it's the same reason.
Other offences I'd like to have taken into consideration...
(I have to admit that it's the Stereophonics cover that does it for me, but that might be by association more than anything else).
I expect there'll be more as I think about it...
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Don't recall hearing the Stereophonics version, but I don't find the song at all sad. Even though I vaguely knew Euan. I love the story about how and why the song was written. Peggy Seeger (Mrs Euan McColl) had a gig and was told she had to do a longer set than she expected, so she phoned hubby for some suggestions of more songs she could do, and he pretty much wrote it whilst singing it down the phone.
It's a totally gorgeous tune, and a wonderfully simple lyric. But not, to my mind, sad.
However, a song that is sad, and which gets me every time I hear it is Local Boy In A Photograph by the aforementioned Stereophonics.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Yes, yes you are.
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Good call. 
Mine's a vote cast for 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young.
Mine's a vote cast for 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young.
Miss Potter
hates mice
this one
there are probably sadder songs out there but this does it for me personally cos I still miss my Dad so much
there are probably sadder songs out there but this does it for me personally cos I still miss my Dad so much
