Best sad songs?

[nx1701g]

Twilight said:
"I'll be Home for Christmas"

always makes me cry

It get's to me too. That song was on when I found out my Grandmother had died.


Shadow of the Day is pretty sad, though the first time I heard it was right after a breakup.

 

[Velocity]

Twilight said:
"I'll be Home for Christmas"

always makes me cry

Me too. I always think of the singer as a soldier far away from home longing for the familiar things of Christmas with his/her family and, unable to get physically home, they'll be there in their thoughts and dreams. Bittersweet song.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Silent Lucidiy

 

[archeryguy1701]

Garth Brooks' "More than A Memory"

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Twilight said:
"I'll be Home for Christmas"

always makes me cry

That gets my mom because the last Christmas her mom was alive, she got home on Christmas Eve...
The song for me is "The Christmas Shoes."

 

[Deckard]

"Cut" by Adem
"Tears in the Morning" by the Beach Boys
"I Wish I Never saw the Sunshine" by Beth Orton
"No Distance left to Run" by Blur
"Letting the Cables Seep" by Bush
"Strange Glue" by Catatonia
"I Would be your Slave" by David Bowie
"A House" by Doves
"Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" by the Editors
"Only Time" by Enya
"Swim" "Moonshine" and "Yesterday Went Too Soon" by Feeder
"Everlong" by the Foo Fighters
"Helen" by Gemma Hayes
"NYC" and "The New" by Interpol
"Halellujah" by Jeff Buckley
"Atmosphere" and "Love Will Tear us Apart" by Joy Division
"Bedshaped" by Keane
"Under the Ivy" by Kate Bush
"There by the Grace of God" by the Manics
"Out of Nowhere" by Mark Lanegan Band
"Far Away" by Martha Wainwright
"Fade into You" by Mazzy Star
"Turn my Way" by New Order (with Billy Corgan)
"Country Feedback" by REM
"New Casablanca" by Shivaree
"That Joke isn't Funny Anymore" by The Smiths
"Strange and Beautiful" by Aqualung
"Patience" by Guns N' Roses
"Today" by Jefferson Airplane
"Another Day" by Roy Harper
"A Satisfied Mind" by Johnny Cash
"Wild Horses" by The Sundays (yeah it's a Stone's song but I prefer the Sunday's version)
"Talk Tonight" by Oasis
"Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Deck the Halls said:
"Atmosphere" and "Love Will Tear us Apart" by Joy Division

Along with everything else they ever recorded.

 

[Deckard]

Babaganoosh said:

Deck the Halls said:
"Atmosphere" and "Love Will Tear us Apart" by Joy Division

Along with everything else they ever recorded.

Not true. Granted a portion of their music was melancholic but a lot of their songs weren't sad, they were simply dark and abrasive
"She's Lost Control", "Interzone", "Shadowplay", "Wilderness" and "Transmission". Not what you'd call sad songs really just industrially dark and forebodingly sinister

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

"My Immortal" by Evanescence

Weird Al Yankovic's "You Don't Love Me Anymore"

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill
Now my scars are all healing by my heart never will...

 

[Just A Girl]

Fine Fine Line - Avenue Q
Freshman - Verve Pipe
Pretty much anything from Jewel's first album, if you want common go with Foolish Games or You Were Meant For Me or you could go with Painters - or, again, anything else from that album
Yesterday - Beatles
She Talks to Angels - Black Crowes
Round Here - Counting Crows
You Must Love Me - Evita
Leavin' on a Jet Plane - the Chantel version
Stay - Lisa Loeb - I think there are a couple of better Loeb songs but I'm not coming up with them at the moment.


I feel like I'm missing some obvious ones, but I can't get my library to load right now so I'll quit while I'm ahead

 

[marillion]

There are no two sadder songs than:

1. Out of this world - Marillion
2. Estonia - Marillion

These are songs to be listened to in the dark, with earphones and the volume up. They are beautiful, historical textured pieces that tell a story not only with their lyrics but the music as well. Seek these out at all costs.

For an older song -

3. Lucky Man - ELP...

 

[gblews]

"Anna", Arthur Alexander
"I'm So Lonsome I could Cry", Hank Williams
"Shes Leaving Home", Beatles
"Out Come the Freaks", Was (not) Was -- version from "What Up Dog?" CD.

 

[Moocey]

Brick - Ben Folds Five

 

[Alaedhros]

"Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac
"Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" by David Bowie
"Between the Bars" and "Say Yes" by Elliott Smith
"Evening on the Ground (Lilith's Song)" by Iron & Wine
"I Don't Know What I Can Save You From" by Kings of Convenience
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" by Bob Dylan (covered by Peter, Paul, and Mary)
"Exit Music (For a Film)" and "Let Down" by Radiohead
"Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens

Most of those are rather acoustic, which is probably not what you're looking for. Still, worth a shot, I guess.

 

[Philo]

Lots of good ones here. All I can really think of at the moment are Johnny Cash's version of Hurt and Elliot Smith's Needle in the Hay. Well almost anything by Elliot Smith will do.

Most of my sad songs have personal associations or just have a sombre but hopeful mood. Like Schubert's Ave Maria. And to any smart-asses out there, I know the tune wasn't originally set to the prayer, but I'd rather not have called it "Ellen's Third Song".

 

[James Bond]

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.

 

[WillsBabe]

Sting, but more usually Eva Cassidy's Fields of Golds. Sometimes I can't even listen to it at all.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

The tune is very peppy but the lyrics to "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by the Police always twist my intestines.

 

[Ethros]

Oasis - "Sad Song", obviously

 

[Aldo]

The Borgified Corpse said:
"My Immortal" by Evanescence

THAT'S PERFECT! I'm listening to this and it's exactly the story of her life. Thank you a lot! Going to add it to the playlist.