Saddest Songs
 

Haha I know this is a real n00b style thread, but bare with me.

I want to see what you guys here in Alt/Indie think are the saddest songs that you know of. I'm expecting some odd songs, some classics and even some new stuff.

Put down no more than 10 and no less than 3. If you guys think this is a dumb thread, just shout out and I'll get it closed. :thumb:

My Picks:

- Alice in Chains - [I]Nutshell[/I]
- Neil Young - [I]A Man Needs a Maid[/I]
- Calexico - [I]Woven Birds [/I] ( kinda uplifting aswell)
- Calexico - [I]Black Heart[/I]
- Brian Eno - [I]By This River[/I]
- Mission of Burma - [I]That's When I Reach for My Revolver[/I]
- Don Mclean - [I]The Grave[/I]
- Kaada - [I]Last Song[/I]
- Death Cab For Cutie - [I]Styrofoam Plates[/I]
- Sonic Youth - [I]Providence[/I] ( Does anyone else think this song is [I]really[/I] depressing ?)

Hmm, I don't listen to music to bring me down. I listen to music to bring me up.:p

Some songs that I like to listen to when I'm feelin' low:

Modest Mouse - [i]3rd Planet[/i]
The Faint - [i]Agenda Suicide[/i]
Jimi Hendrix - [i]All Along The Watchtower[/i]

Godspeed you black emporer!-the dead flag blues
Tom Mcrae-well most of his music
Smashing pumpkins-galapogos
Radiohead-fake plastic tree's
Grandaddy-jed the hummanoid/everything beautiful is far away

And last i will have to go with a silver mt zions '13 angels standing guard round the side of your bed'..check it out

Radiohead- Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Weezer- Butterfly
Eric Clapton- Tears In Heaven

[QUOTE=moderaterock222]Godspeed you black emporer!-the dead flaf blue[/QUOTE]

Ah yes, I'll also add some Godspeed onto my list.:thumb:

Bjork - I've Seen It All
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (from the Still cd)
Joy Division - Decades
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane
Pearl Jam - Footsteps

If I think of anymore, i'll add later

[QUOTE=IhateUsernames]
Jimi Hendrix - [i]All Along The Watchtower[/i][/QUOTE]

How is that a sad song?

Sorry but I have to add some Eels on here. E writes some depressing stuff.

Eels - Manchild
Eels - Flower

[QUOTE=ZEROthirtythree]How is that a sad song?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=IhateUsernames]Hmm, I don't listen to music to bring me down. I listen to music to [B]bring me up[/B]. [/QUOTE]

I didn't say it was a sad song. I said when I'm feeling sad, I like to listen to those songs.

[QUOTE=IhateUsernames]I didn't say it was a sad song. I said when I'm feeling sad, I like to listen to those songs.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I see.

It is an uplifting song i'll admit.

Eels - The Medication Is Wearing Off
Eels - Woman Driving Man Sleeping
Radiohead - High And Dry
Mogwai - Cody
Something For Kate - The Green Line Is You, The Red Line Is Them
Sandpit - No Rock

Peter Paul & Mary - I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane
Weezer - Butterfly
The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Jets to Brazil - Sea Anemone

"Melvins - Going Blind" and The end of the Butthole Surfers song "Shah Sleeps In Lee Harvey's Grave"

Johnny Cash - Hurt
Warren Zevon - Keep me in your heart for a while
Ween- She Wanted To Leave

Modest Mouse -- 3rd Planet... isn't that about how he lost a child or something? so sad

Eels -- Elizabeth Lying on the Bathroom Floor

Braid -- I'm Afraid of Everything

A Static Lullaby -- Love to Hate, Hate to Me

AFI -- Silver and Cold

Nirvana -- Paulie

Simon and Garfunkel -- the one that starts out "Hello darkness my old friend, it seems we have come to meet again"... I can't remember the name :(

The Get Up Kids -- I'll Catch You

Morrissey -- Angel, Angel Down We Go Together

Moth -- Leftovers

and so many more. :'(

[QUOTE=Spikey]
Simon and Garfunkel -- the one that starts out "Hello darkness my old friend, it seems we have come to meet again"... I can't remember the name :(
[/QUOTE]

The Sound Of Silence

:)

I mean :(.

Radiohead - "True Love Waits" ("I'm not living. I'm just killing time.")
Third Eye Blind - "Motorcycle Driveby" (easily relatable but very well-written)
Better Than Ezra - "At The Stars" (they have a lot of hit or miss stuff, but they got the nail in the head with this one)
Weezer - "No One Else (Acoustic)" (this version is so much sadder than the album version)
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah" ("Love is not a victory march. It's a cold and it's a broken 'hallelujah'")
Sunny Day Real Estate - "Sometimes"/"Song About An Angel" (both share similar lyrics and are equally powerful)
Death Cab For Cutie - "Transatlanticism" (Ben makes a lot of good sad songs but the repetition of "I need you so much closer" at the end half seals it)
Dispatch - "Flying Horses" (reminds me of the end of [U]The Catcher In The Rye[/U])
Dave Matthews Band - "#41" (old favorite)
Jimmy Eat World - "My Sundown" (are you listening?)

queen - bohemian rhapsody
brand new - quiet things that noone ever knows -video+audio for full effect - if one of your friends died in a car crash, this is really sad...
built to spill - twin falls - sad in that it just reminds me of how short life is and how fast everything goes by so fast.

Dam[I]n[/I] just reading these songs (especially the ones I forgot to list) is makin me sad!

Primitive Radio Gods - "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"
Grandaddy - "Why Would I Want To Die"
Jeff Buckley - "Last Goodbye"
Grandaddy - "The Warming Sun"

Oh, and the Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"

[QUOTE=Scott Herren]Oh, and the Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"[/QUOTE]

The Freshman is sort of a sad song too.

Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
Butterfly - Weezer

Anathema - Angelica
Anathema - Are You There?
definitely, definitely check these out. If you want to cry (for whatever reason), these 2 songs.. = :(
almost all Anathema really

and... Opeth - Hope Leaves

Slow Dawn - The Smashing Pumpkins
Pollyanna - Onelinedrawing
Gone to the movies - Semisonic
Custom Concern - Modest Mouse
In the arms of sleep - The Smashing Pumpkins
Lucky - Radiohead
Brick - Ben Folds Five
All Mixed Up - Red House Painters (I know its a cover)
August in Bethany - The Juliana Theory
Breathe - Mastodon

All pretty hopeless little numbers, except maybe All mixed up.

Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay
Anything from Elliott Smith really...
Beck - Lonesome Tears

[QUOTE=Tangy zizzle]
- Mission of Burma - [I]That's When I Reach for My Revolver[/I]
[/QUOTE]
Totally agree with you that one, man.

I can't think of good ones when I'm trying to, I'll just post these for now:

[B]Mission of Burma:[/B] Forget, Fame and Fortune, Train (I [I]think[/I] that's the track)
[B]Jimi Hendrix:[/B] Castles Made of Sand, Wait 'Til Tomorrow, Burning of the Midnight Lamp
[B]Skip James:[/B] Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Chris Thomas King did a version for "O' Brother Where Art Thou", you know when they're sitting around the campfire.)
[B]Robert Johnson:[/B] Love In Vain
[B]Pink Floyd:[/B] Comfortably Numb
[B]Smashing Pumpkins:[/B] Stumbleine(sp?), Silver****, Spaceboy (about Billy's brother, who I think is mentally handicapped)
[B]At the Drive-In:[/B] Embroglio

[QUOTE=LTJ386]Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
[/QUOTE]

What?!? That is one of the most uplifting songs ever, just read the lyrics!

"The impossible is possible tonight"

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]Eric Clapton- Tears In Heaven[/QUOTE]
On a completely unrelated note I decided to use this opportunity to say his son had the same name as me . . .

Anyway, the saddest song I've ever heard would have to be:

Bright Eyes - I want a Lover I Don't Have to Love

I haven't seen anyone mention The Cure yet.

Gary Jules- "Mad World"

obviously.

Radiohead - Karma Police