Saddest song ever?

[Gerry1time]

Yep. Can't even listen to that one anymore. But sad ones i still can include...


and especially

 

[heinous seamus]

a good sad one, by songs ohia:

 

[heinous seamus]

Arab Strap - Who named the days

 

[tendril]

strange fruit

 

[DeepStoat]

gloomy sunday
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday

Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coaches
Sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldnt they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy sunday

Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and i
Have decided to end it all
Soon therell be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that Im glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death Im caressin you
With the last breath of my soul
Ill be blessin you

Gloomy sunday

Anybody fancy some skag?

 

[blossie33]

'Many rivers to cross' I find very moving and sad.

 

[8ball]

Danny Boy

 

[Pingu]

*sobs uncontrollably*

is that a song about paedo truckers?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Slobberbone - Lumberlung -

James Carr- Dark End of the Street -

 

[aylee]

Elbow - Scattered Black And Whites.

The saddest song in a major key that I can think of.

Radiohead - Street Spirit.

The saddest song in a minor key that I can think of.

 

[El Jefe]

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

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[kabbes]

Pearl Jam's cover of Last Kiss. Eddie Vedder's perfect for it.

Definitely this. Definitely.

Also, despite the fact that it is by that annoyingly twee James Blunt, Goodbye My Lover always does it for me.

 

[matt m]

'Weepy Doesn't Know' by Utah Phillips usually gets me going. A song about someone who washes dishes who's a bit slow. The killer line is the one that explains how, even though he's picked on by everyone, he doesn't really want to leave when social services threaten to take him away.

 

[matt m]

Pete Seegers acapella version of 'Black is the colour of my true love's Hair' is really moving and I almost blubbed first time I heard it. Though on reflection it's not really sad song, it's a love song.

 

[8ball]

Radiohead - Street Spirit.

The saddest song in a minor key that I can think of.

Never really think of that one as 'sad', but then I have no idea what he'd blathering on about.

It's in C major, btw.

 

[aylee]

Never really think of that one as 'sad', but then I have no idea what he'd blathering on about.

It's in C major, btw.

No, A minor.

http://www.guitaretab.com/r/radiohead/15433.html

Not sure if I know what the lyrics are really about either, as Yorke's lyrics are almost always so opaque, but the music is absolutely desolate.

Stunning video as well.

 

[Meltingpot]

Twinkle - Terry

 

[catinthehat]

 

[Jackobi]

Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus

Gets me going everytime I hear it.



*wipes tears*

 

[pootle]

Sometimes It Snows in April - Prince

 

[Geri]

Don McLean - Vincent

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

 

[8ball]

No, A minor.

There's a little more to deducing a key than looking at the first chord, and tabs on these sites tend to be made by beginners, not that there's anything wrong with that.*

If you don't believe it's C major ask Jazzz, it's something he can be completely trusted on.

I think I find Black Star one of radiohead's saddest songs.

* - could be setting myself up for egg on face here but I'm pretty sure

 

[rennie]

Bruce Springteen - Nebraska

 

[kabbes]

I've been running through Street Spirit in my head and it does sound like it is in a major rather than a minor key to me. It repeatedly resolves to the major third*. Interestingly, however, I can't think of many incidences of an augmented seventh resolved to a tonic, which is why it might well be mistaken for being in the minor equivalent. Unless the mistake is mine, of course.

*This after using the minor third first though, which also gives the impression of a minor key.

 

[Andy the Don]

Snow Patrol - Open Your Eyes
song that was played at one of my best mates funeral as they carried his coffin into the church. I still "well-up" if I hear it played on the radio.

 

[El Jefe]

a song about Bragg's father dying which was a big part of my life when my dad died. I even wrote to Bragg about it (anonymously, cos I vaguely knew him and it felt weird)

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Jimmy Cliff: Many Rivers to Cross

Ted Hawkins: Sorry You're Sick

 

[editor]

Lake Shore Drive by Innocence Mission.

The singer (who has a beautifully haunting voice) has just lost her father and she's walking through town thinking of him and wishing he was still around so she could talk to him. It's incredibly poignant.

Regret has gone down in my estimation now.
The old world had you smiling out,
putting your arms around.
I tell myself now
things I would have told to you,
the smallest plan, the greatest news.
The more days come, the more it’s true.

Right now I’ve got to get back home,
in from the sad day out.
Missing you forever,
yes, I shout, yes I, yes I, yes I am.

I'm going down the Lake Shore Drive.
I think I see your face,
now I'm looking for you every place
yes I, yes I, yes I am.

It seems the right time
to let go of the steep incline
of this day and to know you’re mine
forever and I will be fine.
In me will you shine,
shine, shine, will you shine.

 

[matt m]

I've been running through Street Spirit in my head and it does sound like it is in a major rather than a minor key to me. It repeatedly resolves to the major third*. Interestingly, however, I can't think of many incidences of an augmented seventh resolved to a tonic, which is why it might well be mistaken for being in the minor equivalent. Unless the mistake is mine, of course.

*This after using the minor third first though, which also gives the impression of a minor key.

I can't remember how the verse of Street Spirit goes at all – maybe it's in a major key. But the chorus (the 'Fade Out..' lyric) bit is surely in a minor key, no? Isn't it a major chord descending down a third to a minor chord? eg C major down to A minor. If I was playing it on guitar, I'd play it as C major; C-major-with-B-in-the-bass; A minor. To my mind, if there's a resolve it's to the minor key: the C major is an ascent up a few steps from home and the descent back down ends at an A minor home.