Saddest Songs Ever

Being about the only sort of song that hasn't been covered yet, I thought I'd give it a bash. What songs always leave you with a lump in your throat, or even a tear in your eye? Some of mine include:


Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Queen - The Show Must Go On

Duran Duran - Ordinary World

Tears For Fears - Mad World

George Michael - Praying For Time

Pearl Jam - Black

Metallica - The Unforgiven

REM - Losing My Religion

Linkin Park - In The End

Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

Alice In Chains - Nutshell


If you only click on one of these, make it Nutshell...

Evanescence - My Immortal

Queen - Save me

Queen - Who wants to live forever

Meatloaf - Heaven can wait

Offspring - Gone Away

Wasp - Forever free

Birdy - Skinny love

Good thread! I wouldn't say lyrically depressing as such for these, but very moving all the same - well they made me before:

U2 - Running To Stand Still/October/All I Want Is You/Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Mumford & Sons - After The Storm
Ray Lamontagne - All The Wild Horses
Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Manic Street Preachers - Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky/The Everlasting
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Villagers - Ship of Promises (not the album version, the acoustic version)
Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City/I'm On Fire

I can't put links up like Dyre has!

Dyre - I agree on the Tears for Fears song, but I think Gary Jules version is more moving because of the way they stripped it right down and brought out the lyrics more. It doesn't sound so dated either.

Queen - Those Were The Days
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Agree with Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah as well.

tigerrobins wrote:Evanescence - My Immortal

Queen - Save me

Queen - Who wants to live forever

Meatloaf - Heaven can wait

Offspring - Gone Away

Wasp - Forever free

Birdy - Skinny love

My favourite ever Queen song.

Other sad songs - Sorry seems to be the hardest word - Elton John

Appropriate this week

Dream Theater - Sacrificed Sons (all about 9/11)

U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own (reminds me of Bono singing it live, and the hairs on my neck standing on end. Such an emotional track.)

Will Young - Who Am I? (no idea why)

Manic Street Preachers - Golden Platitudes, William's Last Words, Cardiff Afterlife, The Second Great Depression

Dido - White Flag (was on the radio when I heard my grandfather had passed away)

Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody

As Demon brought up Will Young, how about Leave right now as well.

Gary Barlow - Forever Love

Well I'm surprised to see Wil Young and Gary Barlow on this thread. Are you lads softies at heart?

Just a couple of other suggestions from me:

Madonna - Promise to Try - an acoustic album track from Like A Prayer for her mother who died when she was little.
Jewel - Amen

It's ok to reveal you are a softie when no-one knows who you are

Dare I reveal that despite my rock roots, I hold Gary Barlow in my Top 5 favourite songwriters ...

Oops I just did.

To be fair - Gary was/is the talented one in Take That - probably cause he was also the fat one who couldn't dance...

What about Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel? I bet that makes some of you blub...

Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor

Bright Eyes Heartbreaking

Extreme - More Than Words

Oddly gives me even more of a lump in my throat when I'm playing and singing it, rather than listening to it.

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Chris Rea - Tell me theres a Heaven
Chris Rea - Heaven

System of a Down - Lonely Day

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven is a great shout.

Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow
Buddahead - Holding Me Back
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

Stereotypical answer here but The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

Comfortably Numb - The Who
Dust In The Wind - Kansas

No-one going for the Princess Diana Theme Tune - biggest selling song of all time?

Davie wrote:Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

great choice

Electric Demon wrote:No-one going for the Princess Diana Theme Tune - biggest selling song of all time?

Elton John is the only artist I can think of who murdered their own song.

REM - Everybody Hurts

Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon, Comfort in Sound

A lot of Leonard Cohen songs.

If anyone can YouTube the Heaven - DJ Sammy (9/11 version) and watch that without crying your a better man than i am....has a little girl talking about her dad not coming home in parts, gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

GG wrote:A lot of Leonard Cohen songs.

They're not sad - just depressing

Scott is Back wrote:If anyone can YouTube the Heaven - DJ Sammy (9/11 version) and watch that without crying your a better man than i am....has a little girl talking about her dad not coming home in parts, gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

i was gonna say that......it is a sad song.

DJ Sammy - Heaven (9/11 Remix)

I cant believe nobody mentioned Johnny Cash's version of Hurt

and if you cried to some of the songs mentioned you really need to buy yourselves some tampons

They ARE ultra absorbant, but I find the tissue works better for the absorption of tears Dicey. I think it's because a tissue is a more malleable shape. You could have an eye out with a tampon if you're not careful.

You could always buy some Always Ultra pads and just stick them across your eyes??

I read your comments in a strong Irish accent - is that weird?

A sad song doesn't necessarily have to make you actually cry. They can just effect you emotionally and make you feel down compared to what you were.

I think this thread demonstrates that effectively.

Electric Demon wrote:I read your comments in a strong Irish accent - is that weird?

Not unless it was a diddly diddly irish accent

A sad song doesn't necessarily have to make you actually cry. They can just effect you emotionally and make you feel down compared to what you were.

I think this thread demonstrates that effectively.

Thats me told then

Dicey Reilly wrote:

A sad song doesn't necessarily have to make you actually cry. They can just effect you emotionally and make you feel down compared to what you were.

I think this thread demonstrates that effectively.

Thats me told then

And don't you ever forget it!

Celtic Warrior wrote:A sad song doesn't necessarily have to make you actually cry. They can just effect you emotionally and make you feel down compared to what you were.

I think this thread demonstrates that effectively.

Very true. In the same way a sad song doesn't have to have melancholic lyrics - in fact music can be emotional without any lyrics.

Here Without You- Three Doors Down

Absolutely love this song;

Alter Bridge

Got to agree with Dicey on Johnny Cash - Hurt. Gives me the chills!

Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter

Coldplay - Fix You. I absolutely sobbed.

Blink 182 - Adam's Song. I played this to my missus because I was so moved by it and she refused to listen to it ever again as she cried so much.

Good Riddance - Green Day. Lump in the throat always. The acoustic guitar gives it that raw feel.

Green Day - Wake Me Up, When September Ends

Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

Robbie Williams - Mr Bojangles

Reel Big Fish - Drunk Again

Chris Rea - Set Me Free

Scorpions - Send me an Angel

Meatloaf - For crying out loud

Bonnie Tyler - To love somebody

Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore

U2 - One

Five for Fighting-Two Lights,

very emotional song about a man waiting to hear whether his son, a soldier, has survived when they know someone from his company has passed away

That reminds me of The Only One by Radiohead about the last surviving World War I veteran.

James Blunt - Carry You Home.

Cowboy Junkies cover of I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Gives me goosebumps.

Oh and I have to add Otis Redding - These Arms Of Mine

Not the saddest but still gets you just where a song should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhhRLIgfqt8

Mazzy Star - Into Dust
(Yes it's the song from the Gears of War 3 trailer)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHgY_J63Ik

Ryan Adams - New York
(The video was filmed 4 days prior to 9/11)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EK5RluCvCE&feature=related

Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYsGWh_vpE&feature=related

Portishead - Roads



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMqXj-eVCjI

Radiohead - Exit Music