What’s the saddest song you ever herd?

[CaptainCrunch]

Let it rain by Phil Collins with Eric Clapton on guitar.

Great sad song.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Don't laugh but the first time I saw that video when I was probably 15 or 16, I thought the lyrics were "I wanna beat somebody, beat somebody blue" instead of "I wanna be somebody be somebody soon". Its was sort of a teen anthem for me.

you're killing me here, Captain.



My co-workers are all staring at me, laughing my ass off at my computer screen.


Goon has it nailed with Tears in Heaven, can't think of anything sadder than what that song is about.

[troutman]

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthr...ick+folds+five

Saddest video ever, especially if you have children (Modest Mouse, Little Motel):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqQTODR3kR8

[how do you properly link youtube video?]

[Eastern Girl]

Hear You me - Jimmy Eat World
Suicide Note - Johnette Napolitano
Can't Make you Love me - Bonnie Raitt
You Lie - Reba McIntyre
Winter - Josh Radin
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

[BlackEleven]

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

[Slava]

^ Good call on Hurt above.

I also think some of the Elliott Smith stuff is pretty saddening, but I just love it.

[J pold]

Another

Ocean Breathes Salty- Sun Kil Moon

[Aeneas]

Hurt, Johnny Cash version
Girl Of Mine, Blue Rodeo
The Man With The Child In His Eyes, Kate Bush
Half A World Away, REM
Valentine Heart, Tanita Tikaram
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes, Ultravox
Black Boys On Mopeds, Sinead O'Connor (or Drink before the war)

If I had to go with one, it would be Tanita Tikaram

[hatty]

My immortal - evanescence

[troutman]

Originally Posted by J pold

Another

Ocean Breathes Salty- Sun Kil Moon

Isn't that another Modest Mouse song?

[peter12]

We All Lose One Another - Jason Collett.

Cheesy as it sounds... everytime I listen to it, I think of the human tragedy.

[Top Shelf]

Yeesh, I got a few sad songs, usually that have been played at funerals.

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
The Dance - Garth Brooks
How to save a life - The Fray
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Amazing Grace - Scottish bag pipes, seems like it is at a lot of funerals

[J pold]

Originally Posted by troutman

Isn't that another Modest Mouse song?

Yeah in fact is it

The Album "Tiny Cities"

The full-length album is composed of covers of songs by Modest Mouse, released on Kozelek's own label, Caldo Verde Records. Much like his AC/DC tribute What's Next to the Moon, Kozelek has re-interpreted the often frenetic, noisy and rhythmically complex songs of Modest Mouse into a midtempo suite of delicate, acoustic guitar led ballads, with Kozelek's vocal stylings very much to the fore. From the first track "Exit Does Not Exist" to the closing "Ocean Breathes Salty," he seems to have fashioned a loose concept of travel and transition (physical and emotional) from the Modest Mouse discography.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Cities

[CaptainCrunch]

We all die young by Steel Dragon

Come on who doesn't cry when Marky Mark falls down the stairs in the movie.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by habernac

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot always brings a tear to my eye.

I know I say this every time someone mentiones this song, but IMO, it has one of the greatest lyrics ever written.

*Ahem*

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say she'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put 15 more miles behind her

The might have split up or they might have capsized
they may have broke deep and took water
Now all that remains are the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters


Gives me chills.

[the crispy badger]

Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis from Tom Waits..
she sounds so positive about the changes in her life until you reach the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktCocv-bBDg


I Will Follow You Into The Dark from Death Cab for Cutie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfBw0IWwO5U

[Flame Of Liberty]

Originally Posted by hatty

My immortal - evanescence

Evanescence - Hello

It's about a child dealing with death. Amy was 6 when her sister, who was 3 years old, died.

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by peter12

We All Lose One Another - Jason Collett.

Cheesy as it sounds... everytime I listen to it, I think of the human tragedy.

This is a fantastic song.

[czure32]

the World i know - Collective soul
It cant rain all the time - Jane Siberry

[Kev]

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton for sure

If you have kids, and know the story behind the song you can't help but get choked up.

On March 20, 1991, Clapton's four-and-a-half-year-old son, Conor died when he fell from a 53rd-story window in a New York City apartment. He landed on the roof of an adjacent four-story building.

Conor was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress Lori Del Santo, and they were staying in the apartment during a visit to New York from Italy.
Eric, was also in New York (his permanent home is in Surrey, England) and was staying at a nearby hotel at the time of the tragedy. Clapton and Del Santo never wed.

After Conor died Eric wrote “Tears In Heaven", “Signe”, “Circus”, and “My Father’s Eyes” to help work through his grief.
"Tears in Heaven" is a tribute to his son.