Saddest song ever??

[moody]

well?

youtube links please.

 

[moody]

BTW, I mean tear jearkers, not sad as in shite.

 

[Pip]

Don't laugh but Emotions has a special place in the adolescent bit of my heart

 

[El Jefe]

 

[miniGMgoit]

No contest

Its one

 

[quimcunx]

Otherwise known as the Hungarian Suicide Song:

 

[albionism]

My Father by This Mortal Coil.

 

[albionism]

Otherwise known as the Hungarian Suicide Song:

Good call...i love the version sung by Billy MacKenzie

 

[Stigmata]

 

[Bakunin]

Try this one for size:

 

[paulhackett]

dorothy moore - misty blue (as a miserable fucker could you make it a top 10 saddest songs..)?!

 

[El Jefe]

dorothy moore - misty blue

good call

 

[N_igma]

What's the occassion?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

The Billy Holiday song is moody but at the end it is not sad where she wakes up. It is just a beautiful song beautifully executed. I don't understand the Hungarian Suicide connection.

The Mortal Coil song is new to me and just seems very slow. I dragged the pointer along the bottom of the picture to try to get to the point of the song but could get no satisfaction.

The most powerful and sad song I have ever heard is by Billy Holiday. It is Strange Fruit. I have a CD with this song on. I usually skip that track because it is just too much to take.

Edited to add: Yes Dorothy Moore Misty Blue is a goodun. I had forgotten that. I really love the version by Monica and Mary J Blige:

 

[gosub]

No contest

Its one

thought it ended being more fitting for the Robbie Williams version (only ever heard it on an Orb compilation)


Billy Holiday FTW

 

[paulhackett]

to hell with it, another.. peggy lee - is that all there is

 

[moody]

I'm loving all these, I'm in such a good mood that these are only making me happier, in fact I'd like to do a 'Sad Song Mix Tape'.

Here's my choice, a bit of a dark horse....it's the theme to that great tv show...The Littlest Hobo



Sob.

 

[paulhackett]

i thought you said sad as in not shite?!

That's like the eurovision song from Father Ted

 

[moody]

i thought you said sad as in not shite?!

That's like the eurovision song from Father Ted

well, it used to make me cry, but that was in the 80s.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Oh yes I love that Peggy Lee Song. It has hints of German Cabaret from the thirties in the tonality of the tune. It is not wholly sad though, but very emotional. It is more about acceptance.

I come back with another Mary J Blige song;

 

[quimcunx]

For everyone who has clung onto someone's ankles as they got on the train at liverpool street station on a drunken friday slurring ''but I loooooooove yoooooooooo''

 

[albionism]

I find Pink Glove by Pulp to be quite a sad song

 

[seeformiles]

This isn't really a sad song but the melody is quite melancholic - tugs at my heartstrings anyway!

 

[Pip]

I'm loving all these, I'm in such a good mood that these are only making me happier, in fact I'd like to do a 'Sad Song Mix Tape'.

If you're feeling happy, nobody beats Maz for euphoric misery

We Belong Together


I Wish You Knew


Without You


Sticking to the good ballads to shout when you're pissed theme, how about



Tread carefully, for you tread on some really funny memories

 

[foo]

dorothy moore - misty blue (as a miserable fucker could you make it a top 10 saddest songs..)?!

oh god, this used to make me well up.

 

[phildwyer]

Ella Fitzgerald's version of "Miss Otis Regrets" takes a lot of beating.

 

[Pip]

Oh yes I love that Peggy Lee Song. It has hints of German Cabaret from the thirties in the tonality of the tune. It is not wholly sad though, but very emotional. It is more about acceptance.

I come back with another Mary J Blige song;

It's not often I prefer covers, but PJ Harvey's is much better IMO

 

[Ron Merlin]

Sorry to get all French on you, but I find "Les Vieux" (The Old) by Jacques Brel utterly heartbreaking. Hard to pick out his saddest one, but this does it for me.

Subtitled version:

 

[5t3IIa]

I burst into tears in Hackney Tesco listening to this on my sony ericsson last year



Headed straight for the feminine hygiene products aisle. I know how to read the signs.

 

[ericjarvis]

I have to say I find "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division pretty much impossible to listen to simply because of the emotions it generates, though not all of that is the song itself. It's one of the few songs I will leave a room to avoid hearing, other than songs that are complete kack.