Saddest Songs

[Tangy zizzle]

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.

My Picks:

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

[Luxor]

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

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

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
The Faint - Agenda Suicide
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

[moderaterock222]

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

[br3ad_man]

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

[Luxor]

Originally Posted by moderaterock222

Godspeed you black emporer!-the dead flaf blue

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

[talk show host]

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

[ZEROthirtythree]

Originally Posted by IhateUsernames

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower

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

[Luxor]

Originally Posted by ZEROthirtythree

How is that a sad song?

Originally Posted by IhateUsernames

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

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

[ZEROthirtythree]

Originally Posted by IhateUsernames

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

Oh, I see.

It is an uplifting song i'll admit.

[gaslight]

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

[outoftune]

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

[AK47]

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

[Doctor D.]

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

[Spikey]

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. :'(

[gaslight]

Originally Posted by 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

The Sound Of Silence



I mean .

[RollerQueen]

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 The Catcher In The Rye)
Dave Matthews Band - "#41" (old favorite)
Jimmy Eat World - "My Sundown" (are you listening?)

[Lowend]

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.

[Tangy zizzle]

Damn just reading these songs (especially the ones I forgot to list) is makin me sad!

[Scott Herren]

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"

[Scott Herren]

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