[QUOTE=LTJ386]The Freshman is sort of a sad song too.
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That's the Verve Pipe... not the Verve.

Yo La Tengo - Tears are in your Eyes

The Ataris - Between You And Me

I believe that's a pretty sad song. Can't say I'm a big fan of the band, but I love that song.

[QUOTE=StaticSynth]The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out[/QUOTE]

That is, IMO, one of the most uplifting songs ever written.

That reminds me:

The Smiths - Asleep

Very, very sad song. It's probably been mentioned, but i havn't looked through this thread. This is probably my favorite Smiths song.

Sigur Ros - Svefn g englar (not really sure what it's about, but I have a habit of listening to it when I'm sad)

Tom Waits - almost anything really.

Mineral - Parking Lot when I'm feeling emo

Weezer - Butterfly

[i]Broken Chords Can Sing A Little, Could've Moved Mountains, Movie (Never Made)[/i] by A Silver Mt. Zion
[i]Upward Over The Mountain[/i] by Iron & Wine
[i]16, Maybe Less[/i] by Iron & Wine and Calexico
[i]Slight Night Shiver[/i] by M83
[i]When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts, "I Will Be True...", Love Song For 15 Ontario, Steal Compass/Drive North/Disappear[/i] by Set Fire To Flames

Streetlight Manifesto - "The Big Sleep"
Streetlight Manifesto - "A Better Place, A Better Time"
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"

Pearl Jam - Black

John Wayne Gacy Jr.- Sufjan Stevens
Napoleon Solo- At the Drive-In
Play Crack The Sky- Brand New
Someday You Will Be Loved- Death Cab For Cutie
Fire And Rain- James Taylor
Omission- John Frusciante
This Place Is A Prison- The Postal Service


I'm sad now

I didn't read the whole thread, but
-Johnny Cash/NIN - Hurt

[QUOTE=guitarded_chuck]Mineral - Parking Lot[/QUOTE]

Really? That song seems to pick up after the first verse, after he gets the "violently crying guitar" part done. "Slower" seems much more depressing.

The Zombies - Maybe After Hes Gone
Husker Du - Never Talking to You again, broken home broken heart
Morrissey - Angel, angel, down we go together

Joy Division - The Eternal

The most depressing song I've ever heard.

[QUOTE=lilsolsman]That is, IMO, one of the most uplifting songs ever written.[/QUOTE]

Eh, something about the song really saddens me, though now that I think about it, it's not really one of the saddest I've heard.

car- five iron frenzy
il catch you- the get up kids
any dashboard(its more becuase it brings back memorys when i was like 11)
no seatbelt song - brand new

[QUOTE=RollerQueen]Really? That song seems to pick up after the first verse, after he gets the "violently crying guitar" part done. "Slower" seems much more depressing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, you could look at it that way too. The wailing guitar sounds really sad to me though. I can see what you mean.

Either way you look at it, great song.

Did anyone say Wang Chung - Everybody Wang Chung Tonight?

Ani DiFranco - Sorry I Am
Nick Cave - Love Letter

Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio
by the way, I'm drunk.

Modest Mouse-Whenever I breathe, You're Breathing In (Positive Negative)
Rolling Stones- Moonlight Mile
Johnny Cash- In My Life
Brian Eno- By This River
Prince- Purple Rain
Califone- Dime Fangs
Velvet underground- Pale Blue Eyes
The Smiths- Asleep

Radiohead - [I]How To Disappear Completely[/I]

jealous guy - john lennon

[QUOTE=lilsolsman][I]Romulus[/I] and [I]Casimir Pulaski Day [/I]are so much more heartbreaking.

Especially when he plays it live.

I almost cried.[/QUOTE]

John Wayne Gacy Jr. has always been the saddest to me, his voice is just so haunting in that song. But I love it.

[QUOTE=6Stringer]Streetlight Manifesto - "The Big Sleep"
Streetlight Manifesto - "A Better Place, A Better Time"
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"[/QUOTE]

I have never found a Streetlight song that made me sad. Ska always makes me [SIZE="5"]HAPPY[/SIZE]!

Oasis - "Sad Song"
Pearl Jam - "Last Kiss"
The Verve - "On Your Own"

Saddest Songs
 

[SIZE="3"]No Problem - Crash Basket ([url]http://www.crashbasket.com[/url])

Everybody Hurts - REM[/SIZE]

In the first couple of listens, I noticed that The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work" sort of sounds like The Smiths' "I Know It's Over."

Randy Newman's "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)" or maybe "Old Man."

"Dagger" by Slowdive sucks the life out of me.

The Delgados - The Drowning Years (especially on how the song fades out, with the vocals become more and more distorted. Man, that's really, REALLY depressing)

PJ Harvey - Teclo (she sounds so tortured on this song)

Nick Drake - Parasite (so beautiful how he progresses the guitar melodies)

dEUS - Right As Rain (a very naked song)

Eels - Understanding Salesmen (so f*ckin underrated...beautiful song. brings me to tears almost every time)

Bright Eyes - [I]Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh[/I]
Bright Eyes - [I]It’s Cool, We Can Still Be Friends[/I]
Bright Eyes - [I]An Attempt To Tip The Scales[/I]
Bright Eyes - [I]I’ve Been Eating For You[/I]

Oasis - Talk Tonight
Sad Song
Cast No Shadow
Some Might Say

Radio Head - any song

Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights
Elliott Smith - Kings Crossing
Sigur Ros - Untitled #4
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Bjork - Undo
Boards Of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
DNTEL - Anywhere Anyone

Atmosphere or Decades by Joy Division

Eric Bogle - And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Covered by The Pogues, Redgum, and many more. It appears on more than 100 albums apparently)

Redgum - I Was Only 19

"And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'" is pretty darn sad. I only heard it once or twice about 6 years ago, but it was pretty sadillyo.

Radiohead don't have even one song that isn't sad, but the sadest one is Bullet Proof

The Verve - [I]The Drugs Don't Work[/I]
Nirvana - [I]Something in the Way[/I] ... the best Nirvana Song ... it nearly makes me cry
Nine Inch Nails - [I]Hurt[/I] ... the Johnny Cash Version isn't even a little sad

Ohh, i forgot one, but it's only for people who speak german very well ... especially the austrian slang

STS - [I]I hab di leben g'sehn[/I]

Neil young - the needle and the damage done
Eels - Fu(ck)er
Eels - climb to the moon
(almost anything by the eels is sad as mark e everett is such a miserable man lol
Pink floyd - great gig in the sky
thats all i can think of but theres loads more, i just dont have a very good memory