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Saddest songs ever

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Linda Ronstadt - Long Long Time

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Post by twentysixdollars »

1. The Beach Boys - "Caroline, No"

I don't think anything else compares!

Some others, in no particular order:

Iris DeMent - "Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day"
Marvin Gaye - "Distant Lover" (studio version)
McCoy Tyner - "Contemplation"
Sam Cooke - "Get Yourself Another Fool"
Otis Redding - "I've Got Dreams to Remember"
Gene Clark - "Think I'm Gonna Feel Better" (esp. as sung by Clarence White)
Leonard Cohen - "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy"
and Sonny Rollins's version of "God Bless the Child"
also, Joni Mitchell - "The Last Time I Saw Richard" (not that great a song, but there's no denying how sad it is)

...and, since we're saying "ever", how 'bout some folk tunes?
- "The Ballad of Four Maries" aka "Mary Hamilton"
- "The Trees They Do Grow High"
- "Wagoner's Lad"
- "Butcher's Boy" aka "Railroad Boy"
- "Pal of Mine"
Joan Baez did remarkable versions of all of these on her first two albums.
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karen dalton - somethings on your mind


daniel johnston - true love will find you in the end


tom waits - innocent when you dream 78


the smiths - last night i dreamt...


nick cave- (are you) the one i've been waiting for


washington phillips - what are they doing in heaven today


the beach boys - forever (acapella)


gorecki - symphony of sorrowful songs


joy division - the eternal


lazycame - bluejune (william reids solo album)


sparklehorse - sad and beautiful world



wow,i could go on and on and on, ohh, opps, I DID.


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John Lennon-My Mummy's Dead

Daniel Johnston-Some Things Last A Long Time

These two are getting me right now.
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Post by Stuart X.Hunter »

F.U.S.E~Nitedrive from Dimension Intrusion

The sound is like a sad lament seen through neon eyes

Also, the song title 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child' tears me up
So many intepretations of that trad spiritual...
Anyone got a fave?
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Post by Shaun »

eleKtroniK:musiK wrote:
Also, the song title 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child' tears me up
So many intepretations of that trad spiritual...
Anyone got a fave?

I'm not surprised someone mentioned that trad.

This one here ( http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF213817-01-01-01.mp3 ) by Kathleen Emery is pretty cool.
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eleKtroniK:musiK wrote:F.U.S.E~Nitedrive from Dimension Intrusion

The sound is like a sad lament seen through neon eyes

Also, the song title 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child' tears me up
So many intepretations of that trad spiritual...
Anyone got a fave?
blind willie mctell.


hmmm, scratch that the staple singers do a great version.


hey electro, any chance of uplaoding your recommmendation???
i'm curious because the bluejune track is an electro lament.
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2 good choices already mentioned - My Mummy's Dead John Lennon's highly personal lo-fi classic recorded with overtones of Arthur Janov's 'primal scream' therapy. Also Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me which along with Paint A Vulgar Picture are the absolute highlights of The Smiths final album for me.

Other contenders I can think of:

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths. A tune that's haunted and enchanted me since I was about 13.
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Take Care - Yo La Tengo. An ostensibly sad song but sung so beautifully.

Both Sides Now (orchestral version) - Joni Mitchell. A song that references so many things one can relate to in a life-affirming way but ultimately encapsulates so articulately the disappointments life inevitably throws your way.

Call The Doctor - Spacemen 3. An exquisite exposition of a tragic situation that is too much to put into words if you're in that position, but a concise and articulate description of ones thoughts and feelings when it happens, distilled down from all the other shit that accompanies such unfortunate events.

Adagio For Strings - William Barber. An instrumental exploration of tragedy, misfortune and sadness that resonates universally.

I'm Waking Up To Us - Belle & Sebastian. Stuart Murdoch has a brilliant lyrical and musical talent for combining happiness and sadness, but this very open account of the break-up with Isobel Campbell while he was still working with her in the band seems to be his cathartic response to that situation.

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who. I've got blue eyes and been called worst than a bad man in my time...but if I swallow anything evil please keep your fingers away from my throat :wink:
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Post by alan_cohaul »

At least on the Spiritualized end, there's alot of weepers--"Stay With Me", "Lay It Down Slow", "Broken Heart" (probably the saddest, most melancholy SPZ song), "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space", "Home Of The Brave", "I Didn't Mean To Hurt You", "Hold On", etc. Praise the lord for the slow and majestic songs.

Edit: and I recently thought of the "top songs to kill yourself to", haha. At the top of the list was Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver". Now that's a depressing song! Listen to the lyrics, too. Man, get out the razorblades already! :D

A big weeper that I just thought of is Neil Young's "Oh Lonesome Me".
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I find Neil's "Oh Lonesome Me" too enervating to hear any sadness in it. On the whole I prefer the Beau Brummels' version, which is not a phrase I utter often.

"The Ballad of Richie Lee" is up there as far as Spiritualized goes. "Shine a Light" too.
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On the Glitterhouse 'Nevermind' compilation there's a song that goes "...you take that to be hope" at the end of disk 1 (I think it's by Shack? I'm not sure-not got any other stuff by them).

Rainer's 'The Farm' or his version of 'Time Slips Away' by Willie Nelson.

I find anything by James Blunt induces me to want to kill myself...
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Hardly the saddest ever, but off the top of my head, 'Straight To Hell' by the Clash
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Gruff wrote: I find anything by James Blunt induces me to want to kill myself...
You and me both, Gruff.

I was doing the dishes earlier when The Lighthouse Family came on the radio. I lost the will to live for a couple of minutes. I couldn't even muster up the power to turn it off!

They've gotta run Blunt close too.
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Slow Dancing Angels by Vellocette. I just wish more people knew of it.
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Step off, Lighthouse haters! Tunde is in the canon! Paul Tucker and 1.5 million Brit Awards watchers can't all be wrong!
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Joy Division - The Eternal/Sound Of Music
Spacemen 3 - Lord Can You Hear Me?
Washington Philips - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
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Post by a beautiful noise »

natty wrote:Washington Philips - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?

i do hope that everyyone who picked any songs has heard of Washington Phillips. his work is by far some of the most hauntingly beautiful music i have ever heard.

i'm not gonna claim (like someone) that everything else doesn't compare or is irrelevant (now, that would be ignorant!!), i just really think the more people that hear it will get that same feeling i do.


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Etta James - At Last
Billy Swan - Don't be cruel
Mark Lanegan - 100 Days
The Carpenters - Superstar
Dion - Born to be with you
Candi Staton - Stand by your man
Hank Williams - I'm so lonesome I could cry
Diamanda Galas - The Desert
Prince - Sometimes in snows in April
William Bell - Tribute to a King
Velvet Underground - Candy says...
Dolly Parton - Jolene
Cat Power - Live in bars
Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
Lee Hazlewood - The nights
Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine
Townes Van Zandt - Poncho & Lefty
Sam Cooke - Bring it on home to me

Some amazing tunes that are actually very sad. With a few exceptions [Diamanda!], all are sad-but-also-uplifting. I love them. Heavy on the country. Sunday music. There is a lot more where those came from..

such as the classic :

James Blunt - You're beautiful
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Aww fuck. Forgot about Candy Says.
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End of the road - Boyz II men
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Post by Shaun »

John Prine ~ Sam Stone.

Queen ~ Save Me.


They're quite sad, especially Sam Stone.
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MUFCSPACEMAN wrote:The saddest song of all time is "Out In The Streets" by The Shangri Las.
yes.
did you notice - I just followed your link, there - Mary Weiss has a youtube account?
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Post by ThiefofFire »

A lot of my favorites have been mentioned already but here are some others...

Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos

Dennis Wilson - Moonshine

John Lennon - Grow Old With Me

Daniel Johnston - You Put My Love Out the Door

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Part 2

Sparklehorse - Morning Hollow

Grandaddy - This Is How It Always Starts
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a beautiful noise wrote:
eleKtroniK:musiK wrote:F.U.S.E~Nitedrive from Dimension Intrusion

The sound is like a sad lament seen through neon eyes

Also, the song title 'Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child' tears me up
So many intepretations of that trad spiritual...
Anyone got a fave?
blind willie mctell.


hmmm, scratch that the staple singers do a great version.


hey electro, any chance of uplaoding your recommmendation???
i'm curious because the bluejune track is an electro lament.
F.U.S.E~Nitedrive http://www.megaupload.com/?d=15W8DC8L

Lucky Pierre~Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KYALU8Q4

If these megaupload links dont work it is because i am sh.t.
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Trailways- Red House Painters
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Nick Cave - Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
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Post by Gruff »

The song/band I was thinking of is not Shack at all- I just checked the box and it's 'Savouy Grand' and the song is called 'took'.

Anybody else got anything by them? I like that song but haven't heard anything else...
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Post by Stuart X.Hunter »

a beautiful noise wrote:lazycame - bluejune (william reids solo album)
Shonn, you're a rascal

Can I call you a rascal

I read your later post as F.U.S.E/Hawtin/Plastikman having an electro lament entitled bluejune...

Much of my day has been spent trying to find this imagined track.

Note to self, read back through posts...sometimes

I caught a 30sec clip of Lazycame~Bluejune on amaCon.com

any chance of hearing it in its entirety

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Post by a beautiful noise »

haha, elecrto, you're the 2nd person in my life that has claimed that i've imagined 'bluejune'.


i will "attempt" to figure out yousendit again tonight. i'll get you the track one way or another. it's such a wonderful peice of music.



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ha! i love you!!


i tried once before and somehow got lost. i'm doing better though.


manc man, thank you so much. i'll be really excited to share some tracks with everyone, i'm tired off not being able to give back to the rest of you.


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p/s- if the board patrol wanna remove those they can, i printed them out.

again, thanks MUFCSPACEMAN. you're a star.


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Yr welcome, Shonn. Hope it helped.[/quote]

we'll see.


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The above images should be useful to many people here. So I think they should stay.

edit: oh man, they're already gone!
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Duk Koo Kim
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jesse sykes and the sweet hereafter - birds over water
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A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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god damn the sun- the swans.



that's more like purely misrerable.



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a beautiful noise wrote:god damn the sun- the swans.



that's more like purely misrerable.



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yes, that's Downright Despair.
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Post by eeee22 »

Some more that haven't been mentioned here...

Rachel's - Last Things Last
The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside
Bright Eyes - It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends
The Cryin' Shames - Please Stay (off the Spacelines comp)
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Mazzy Star - Look On Down From The Bridge
Cat Power - Good Woman
Mogwai - R U Still Into It?
and of course...
SP3 - Lord, Can You Hear Me?
SPZ - Broken Heart
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An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno

No words, but the saddest achiest sounds ever. If you're feeling desolate, this could well send you over the edge.
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Post by herman »

...from the top of my head...

Rolling Stones - No expectations (Beggars Banquet)

Mötörhead - Love me forever (1916)

You la tengo - I trew it all away (President)

...so far for the sadness...
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Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - Flaming Lips
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"Disco 2000"
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twentysixdollars wrote:"Disco 2000"
Brilliant suggestion.

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twentysixdollars wrote:"Disco 2000"
Anyone familiar with the Nick Cave version of this? It's great, he turns it into a waltz. I think it was recorded for Pulp to use as the B-side for 'Bad Cover Version'.
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MUFCSPACEMAN wrote:
radioshack wrote:Brilliant suggestion.
Seconded.
It was actually your suggestion that reminded me. "Disco 2000" is a similar notion, expressed at least as eloquently. An exquisitely poignant, bitterly funny ("De-bor-ah, De-bor-ah"), musically irresistible song.

"Deborah, do you recall - your house was very small, with woodchip on the wall..."
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MUFCSPACEMAN wrote:What Became Of Me - The First Class

"What became of the boys on a fight-night, going home on a bus in the early light
What became of the girl on the motorbike, what became of the boy that she didn't like..."



Incredibly sad. Amazing song, and a brilliant production.



Great Motorhead pick, Herman.
ah man those lyrics could be the sequal to young's unknown legend...

do you happen to have that 'What Became Of Me' trsck please?
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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MUFCSPACEMAN wrote:
bunnyben wrote:do you happen to have that 'What Became Of Me' trsck please?
Also makes a good Song Of The Day.
http://www.spiritualized.com/message2/v ... 9103#49103


The bit I quoted is bookended by the jaded/faded/wasted rock star lamenting his condition, the middle section a rousing and poignant flashback to his youth.

Adjunct:
I see Dennis Wilson's "Friday Night" as a companion in the same vibe, a flashback to youth and the strips Dennis and his buddies had haunted in the early 60's. According to Dennis' own explanation - "That's another spontaneous song. It's a memory of when I was young and Friday night came. The white punks were out having fun. I am the white punk!"

15 years and much discontent and destruction down the line, he finds himself stalking his old stomping ground, alone this time and in the small hours, changed but still the same (the strip and him both), with vodka and orange juice, restless, scarred by life and love - "hats off to the drummer's little lady" - and heading down the path to alcoholic, coke-ravaged, brain-blown oblivion. Still the white punks play, play on.
Incredibly, incredibly sad. The difference, I guess, is that Dennis wasn't even lamenting, he was celebrating.

The passages on him from Steven Gaines' Heroes And Villains are really worth checking out, if you have an interest in Denny.

wow. that's so poigniet. could you possilbly upload that also?

btw if anyone still wants the william reid track blue june i have the album and will gladly upload the track for anyone who wants it?

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now each in his holy hill
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then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
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bright eyes- luna

'but me i'm not a gamble you can count on me to split...'


Bright Eyes:
Well I know that is it freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor's westside loft
Supplies are endless in the evening, in the morning they'll be gone
When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
Get my coffee and a paper and my own conversations
I see the sidewalk and the pigeons in my window's reflection
The mascara in the evening, by the morning looks like shit
And I know you have a heavy heart
I can feel it when we kiss
And maybe men stronger than me
have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble, you can count on me to split
The love I saw in you in the evening, by the morning won't exist
You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
Just keep going to bathroom and you say you'll be right back
Well it takes one to know one, I think you've got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening, by the morning such a drag
I've got a flask in my pocket, we can share them on the train
And if you promise to stay conscious I will try to do the same
We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening by the morning seems insane
And I'm not sure what the trouble was
that started all of this
The feeling, the reasons all had run away
But the feeling never did
It's not something I would recommend
But it's one way to live
Because what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
Yeah, it was simple in the moonlight, now it's so complicated
It's simple in the moonlight
It's simple in the moonlight
It's simple in the moonlight


so beautiful yet so heart breaking
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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MUFCSPACEMAN wrote:
bunnyben wrote:do you happen to have that 'What Became Of Me' trsck please?
Also makes a good Song Of The Day.
http://www.spiritualized.com/message2/v ... 9103#49103


The bit I quoted is bookended by the jaded/faded/wasted rock star lamenting his condition, the middle section a rousing and poignant flashback to his youth.

Adjunct:
I see Dennis Wilson's "Friday Night" as a companion in the same vibe, a flashback to youth and the strips Dennis and his buddies had haunted in the early 60's. .
also

seems so long ago, nacy by mr leonard cohen. the one that was idolised and glorified left on the side
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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If I remember correctly, the real Nancy (that is, the Montreal bobbysoxer by whom Cohen's song was inspired) was coerced into having an abortion by her much older politician lover and family, and soon afterwards shot herself.

But no matter. I suppose we've all had a friend who wore green stockings and slept with everyone, and whose voice we can't help but hear in the hollow of the night when we're cold and numb.

I'm surprised I didn't pick that one myself. Maybe I did.
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Post by Shaun »

"Disco 2000"


Hahaha. Bitterly funny, perhaps. A quirky and comical little twist for a yearning of nostalgia. Puts a different perspective to the thread.
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Post by Shaun »

A song about how many people the world over may feel like daily, or have at least looked back and reflected upon in a similar way.

The The ~ 'This Is The Day'
Matt Johnson wrote:Well, you didn't wake up this morning because you didn't go to bed
You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red
The calendar on your wall is ticking the days off
You've been reading some old letters
You smile and think how much you've changed
All the money in the world couldn't buy back those days

You pull back your curtains
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across a clear blue sky
This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place

You could've done anything If you'd wanted
And all your friends and family think that you're lucky
But the side of you they'll never see
Is when you're left alone with the memories
That hold your life together ... like glue

You pull back your curtains
And the sun burns into your eyes
You watch a plane flying
Across a clear blue sky
This is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place

This is the day your life will surely change.
What more can the heart of a man desire?
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