Sad songs

[Frankiesays]

puff the magic dragon

 

[Frankiesays]

SOft cell bedshitter

 

[wow&flutter]

First three that spring to mind,

Peter Gabriel Father son
Mike & The Mechanics Living Years

And I think the most powerful

Chris Jones Thank You

 

[linnfomaniac83]

Okay, my nominations are pretty diverse but they’re all songs I like and listen to, they’re in no particular order,

Kate Bush-This Woman’s Work

REM-Everybody Hurts

Stevie Nicks-Beauty And The Beast

Dave Berry-The Crying Game

Tom Waits-Tom Traubert’s Blues

Bobby Goldsboro-Honey

Amy Winehouse-Love is A Losing Game

The Verve-The Drugs Don’t Work

Kings Of Leon-Revelry

Eric Clapton-Tears In Heaven

Callum Scott-Dancing On My Own

Beatles/Emmylou Harris-For No One (love both renditions)

Beatles-While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Paul Brady-The Island

 

[stefane]

Drive-By Truckers - Little Bonnie

A song written by Patterson Hood telling the story of his first cousin who died at the age of four, before Patterson Hood was even born. Nevertheless, her death remains present with the family decades after she is gone.
"Little Bonnie" was released on the Drive-By Truckers' album "A Blessing and a Curse" (New West, 2006).

"On the day that she was buried
Her daddy stood out by the cemetery fence
Prayed to God for forgiveness
As if this was punishment for sin"

 

[foxwelljsly]

Elvis Presley - Old Shep
Hank Williams - My son calls another man daddy.

 

[maccar]

Bonnie Raite, I Can't Make You Love Me
Beth Nielsen Chapman, Sand and Water
Alela Diane, Song For Sandy
Anais Mitchell, Shepherd
Barnaby Bright, Castle Rock
Bread, Diary
Cara Dillon, There Were Roses
David Wilcox, Jamie's Secret
Glen Campbell, By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente, He Fades Away
Karine Polwart, Half A Mile
All tracks available on Spotify if you're interested
Mac

 

[davidlf]

Mary Chapin Carpenter - The end of my pirate days
Jackson Browne - Song for Adam
Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa
Elton John - Last episode at Hienton
David Crosby - Laughing

 

[cj66]

Deep Purple ... Lelena
Shinedown... If You Only Knew (sadder, for me, than their often quoted Call Me)
Black Sabbath....Changes
Can't miss out Hurt, my preference goes to his blackness.
Etc.

 

[foxwelljsly]

Deep Purple ... Lelena
Shinedown... If You Only Knew (sadder, for me, than their often quoted Call Me)
Black Sabbath....Changes
Can't miss out Hurt, my preference goes to his blackness.
Etc.

The saddest song by Deep Purple is, surely, When a Blind Man Cries?

 

[35451]

 

[maccar]

Just thought of another, Allison Krauss, Jacob's Dream from her album A Hundred Miles or More
very sad
Mac

 

[foxwelljsly]

$1000 dollar wedding - Gram Parsons

 

[rod ayling]

Most of Sea Changes, Mutatations and Morning Phase by Beck.

Exquisite melancholy.

Ticket to ride, Julia by Beatles.

Almost Blue - Elvis Costello

I know its over - Smiths

Most of the Tindersticks back catalogue.

High and Dry - Radiohead

Most of Alice by Tom Waits.

 

[rod ayling]

Nothing by Adele , however

 

[DipsyDave]

Lovestrong - Jonathan Wilson
Overtime - Lucinda Williams
I Believe In You - Talk Talk
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
Friend Of Ours - Elbow
The Ballad Of Hollis Brown - Bob Dylan
The Eternal - Joy Division
Epitaph - King Crimson

 

[cj66]

The saddest song by Deep Purple is, surely, When a Blind Man Cries?

Hmmmm, personally think "Blind" is sadder still...

 

[matt j]

I listen to this a lot, it's actually better than the album version IMO

 

[Carlton]

I kept a ribbon from your hair, a breath of perfume lingers there....

 

[Gervais Cote]

Tom Cochrane - Big league (it’s/it was a true story......)