Saddest song ever??

[Wintermute]

Am I allowed Johnny Cash's version of ?

 

[ohmyliver]

by the time I get to phoenix either by

glen cambell

or
nick cave


or lightening express by the everly brothers


or thousand dollar wedding by gram parsons (would have chosen in my hour of darkness, but this pips it just)

 

[ohmyliver]

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.

Leonard Nimoy's version is better, I kid you not.

 

[rutabowa]

i'll post a couple by bonnie prince billy:

http://moviesofmyself.typepad.com/files/03-i-see-a-darkness.mp3

 

[Sunspots]

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

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).

 

[tar1984]

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

God Machine - In Bad Dreams

 

[Sunspots]

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'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.

 

[Sunspots]

This one fucking destroys me every time I hear it:

.

Two and a half minutes of perfect and utter heartbreak.

 

[youbeauty]

This always gets me - Tank Park Salute

 

[goldenecitrone]

Always brings a tear to my nose.

 

[tufty79]

always gets me.

 

[stavros]

Am I allowed Johnny Cash's version of ?

Yes, because for me it is undoubtedly the saddest, most moving song ever.

 

[AverageJoe]

Yes, because for me it is undoubtedly the saddest, most moving song ever.

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)))))

 

[Geri]

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Seconds

 

[butchersapron]

 

[stavros]

Agreed - but given added power if you watch it with the video.

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.

 

[Stoat Boy]

Thread over.

 

[Geri]

Solitaire - The Carpenters

That's lovely, but this is my favourite Carpenters song.

Caught Between Goodbye & I Love You



Karen Carpenter had the most gorgeous voice ever.

 

[Stoat Boy]

Actually I was wrong.

This is the saddest song ever.



Always makes me want to cry

 

[Geri]

Willie Nelson's version of You Were Always On My Mind always brings a tear to my eye, for some reason.



Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You A Picture

And when i see you
You just turn around and walk away like we never met
Oh we used to be so brave
I dreamt the world stopped turning as we climbed the hill
I dreamt impossible dreams that we were lovers still

 

[Sunspots]

Killer track.

I've got that on a great old Charly album dedicated to the SSS/Silver Fox labels.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

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.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

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...

 

[Upchuck]

Though not a sad song, it makes me kinda sad as Courtney Love was such a star, real rock and roll pacgage and image, and now she is old and lost. I wonder if she damns Kurt for dying and remaining young and bright, while she was condemed to struggle with life

 

[berniedicters]

Am I allowed Johnny Cash's version of ?

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...

Willie Nelson's version of You Were Always On My Mind always brings a tear to my eye, for some reason.

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]

(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).

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]

Am I allowed Johnny Cash's version of ?

Yes, yes you are.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Good call.

Mine's a vote cast for 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young.

 

[Miss Potter]

this one
there are probably sadder songs out there but this does it for me personally cos I still miss my Dad so much