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What's your saddest song ever.

SunfadeSunfade 799 Posts
edited May 2018 in Strut Central
Gil Scott - Winter in America

many o tear shed to this one
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  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
  • Bon VivantBon Vivant The Eye of the Storm 2,018 Posts
    The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again Naturally
  • coffinjoecoffinjoe 1,743 Posts
    Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place Of You
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,899 Posts
    Bon Vivant said: 
    The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

    For a smiths song I would think I know it's over

    "Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
    And as I climb into an empty bed
    Oh well. Enough said.
    I know it's over - still I cling
    I don't know where else I can go
    Oh ..."

    "If you're so funny Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    And if you're so clever Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    If you're so very entertaining Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    If you're so very good-looking Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
    I know ... 'Cause tonight is just like every other night That's why you're on your own tonight
    With your triumphs and your charms While they're in each other's arms..."
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    bassie said:
    Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

    Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
  • HollafameHollafame 844 Posts
    This is a familiar thread topic, and I'm sure I've posted this before in response:

    Muddy Waters - Whiskey Blues
  • edith headedith head 5,106 Posts
    I can't do anything when this song is playing.

    LEE HAZLEWOOD FOR ONE MOMENT
  • tabiratabira 856 Posts
    Blue Nile - Family Life
  • GatorToofGatorToof 582 Posts
    Isn't there a song by Billy Vera & Judy Clay called 'the saddest thing ever?'

    Your probably thinking, anything by those two has got to be joyful. I agree it is kind of joyful in a weird how-ya-sat-it kinda way.
  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
  • Juan CocktolstoyJuan Cocktolstoy 216 Posts
    Bullet Proof Soul- Sade

    This woman was my first love!
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,899 Posts
    HarveyCanal said:
    bassie said:
    Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

    Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday

    Thats what I was thinking as well.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts


    I had a roommate who used to play this, and I always thought it was so sad.
    At the same time I used to play an arcade game called Phoenix. When you got to a certain level it would play this.
  • MondeyanoMondeyano Reykjavik 863 Posts
    A friend of mine put me onto this, he said he almost couldn't handle the sadness the first time he heard it and I thought he was exaggerating but I had the same reaction.

    Arvo Pärt, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,889 Posts
    Anything by The Carpenters. No way was she feeling on top of the world, evar.

    To be honest, doe, life is like, well short enough without dropping sad tunes L, R & C. Muhfug gets home to his trailerpark home from a hard day's work (:cough:), man wants chillaxation, not to reflect on his own perceived ineptitudes or what-personal-demons-have-you. The wife will do that for me just fine.

    I used to put Japan's "Ghosts" on the local pub jukebox just to get a rise out of J*mmy Price. He used to ask the landlord to switch it off as it was "Music to slit your wrists by." (I think the chords are nice, it takes more than lyrics dropped by a man wearing make-up to harsh my mellow of several Guinesses and a Baileys chaser)
  • Sweet_PremiumSweet_Premium 368 Posts
    Can't believe no one has posted this yet:
    Reuben Bell With The Casanovas - It's Not That Easy
  • RAJRAJ tenacious local 7,779 Posts
    This one showed up on the shuffle the other day and brought tears to my eyes:

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I am a loyal slave to this song...



  • Possum SlimPossum Slim 353 Posts
    I can't think of many songs bleaker than Transmission by Joy Divison.
  • Possum SlimPossum Slim 353 Posts
    DOR said:
    Bon Vivant said:

    For a smiths song I would think I know it's over

    "Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
    And as I climb into an empty bed
    Oh well. Enough said.
    I know it's over - still I cling
    I don't know where else I can go
    Oh ..."

    "If you're so funny Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    And if you're so clever Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    If you're so very entertaining Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    If you're so very good-looking Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
    I know ... 'Cause tonight is just like every other night That's why you're on your own tonight
    With your triumphs and your charms While they're in each other's arms..."

    I was a big fan of the band at the time but with the benefit of retrospect it feels to me that Morrissey tried a bit too hard at being miserable whilst someone like Curtis was genuinely disturbed.
  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    SP 1200 said:

    I was a big fan of the band at the time but with the benefit of retrospect it feels to me that Morrissey tried a bit too hard at being miserable whilst someone like Curtis was genuinely disturbed.

    Morrissey always has been and always will be a whiny, maudlin, navel-gazing asshole trying way too hard to come off as deep and tragic. Dude gets the bozack.
  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    Absolutely devastating.

    From the Soul Power doc - totally caught me off-guard. Was happily watching the insanity of putting together the Zaire 74 concert and then this came and punched me in the stomach. I was bawling in my seat.

  • Otis_FunkmeyerOtis_Funkmeyer 1,321 Posts
    Nina Simone - My Man's Gone Now

    Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band - Martin's Funeral
  • vintageinfantsvintageinfants 4,537 Posts
    bassie said:
    Absolutely devastating.

    From the Soul Power doc - totally caught me off-guard. Was happily watching the insanity of putting together the Zaire 74 concert and then this came and punched me in the stomach. I was bawling in my seat.



  • Possum SlimPossum Slim 353 Posts
    bassie said:
    Absolutely devastating.

    From the Soul Power doc - totally caught me off-guard. Was happily watching the insanity of putting together the Zaire 74 concert and then this came and punched me in the stomach. I was bawling in my seat.


    Agreed. The live version at Carnegie Hall is hard to beat.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    vintageinfants said:
    bassie said:
    Absolutely devastating.

    From the Soul Power doc - totally caught me off-guard. Was happily watching the insanity of putting together the Zaire 74 concert and then this came and punched me in the stomach. I was bawling in my seat.






    That movie changed the way I thought of Bill Withers singing.
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,899 Posts
    SP 1200 said:
    DOR said:
    Bon Vivant said:

    For a smiths song I would think I know it's over

    "Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
    And as I climb into an empty bed
    Oh well. Enough said.
    I know it's over - still I cling
    I don't know where else I can go
    Oh ..."

    "If you're so funny Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    And if you're so clever Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    If you're so very entertaining Then why are you on your own tonight ?
    If you're so very good-looking Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
    I know ... 'Cause tonight is just like every other night That's why you're on your own tonight
    With your triumphs and your charms While they're in each other's arms..."

    I was a big fan of the band at the time but with the benefit of retrospect it feels to me that Morrissey tried a bit too hard at being miserable whilst someone like Curtis was genuinely disturbed.


    Personally I don't thing Moz was ever "trying". He's a miserable sod. I was just meaning of picking sad Smiths songs, that's the one that comes to my mind.

    And I will always ride for Smiths. I can't handle Moz on his own. But with Marr... Yes!
  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,899 Posts
    After Sunday night...

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