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OK,
What is the saddest song you can think of? :(:(:(:(
My suggestions:
Monday morning church - Alan jackson
Hurt - Jonny Cash
Accidental Trespass - Alan Fletcher
Oh wow...plenty...BUT
1. Read 'Em and Weep by ML
2. Non-ML - Don't Speak by No Doubt
szakal88
27 Jul 2006, 14:15
1.Objects in the rear view mirror ma appear closer than they are by Meat Loaf
2.Long distance love by Little Feat
mariella
27 Jul 2006, 14:19
How am I supposed to live without you - Michael Bolton
I would agree with Objects in the rear view mirror, also think Did I say that is a sad song.
amethyst
27 Jul 2006, 19:13
Goodbye my lover - James Blunt
Is nothing sacred - Meat Loaf
Memories (Way we were), unless you've seen the Naked Gun version.
MeatGrl1
27 Jul 2006, 20:12
When I first heard Read 'Em And Weep it made me have chills, the way Meat delivers this song is spine tingling and the lyrics are amazing but quite sad when you listen to them closely. Probably why I am drawn to this song so much.. Strange I know but there you go. And for the record Barry Manilow stinks, talk about murdering a fantastic song!
AndrewG
27 Jul 2006, 20:13
I can think of a billion sad songs I suppose. Tell me when to stop:
1. "Niemand in de Stad" (No-one's in the City)- De Dijk (if there was ever a sad song, this is it IMO)
2. Racing in the Street - Bruce Springsteen
3. American Skin - Bruce Springsteen
4. For You - Bruce Springsteen (piano solo version brings shivers down my spine)
5. The River - Bruce Springsteen
6. Did I say That? - Meat Loaf
7. More than you deserve - Meat Loaf
8. Objects in the rearview mirror - Meat Loaf
9. What Part of my Body Hurts the Most - DE (Meat Loaf singing this is still a dream)
10 Left in the Dark - Jim Steinman's version
but honestly countless and countless I can think of. IMO sad songs are sometimes the best as they can convey emotion that well and if the performer/artist is good (like the ones above) well then magic hits the night IMO.
come back to me - Big Country
mr Bojangles - Robbie Williams
There are a few that always make me cry
Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters and Collectors
We've Got Tonight - any version
Branded Man - Lee Markwell
I'm On Fire - Bruce Springstein
Amazing Grace
Meh, that'll do for now
Pretty Angry - Blues Traveler
How can i tell you - Cat Stevens
The Best is yet to come - Justin Hayward
For Crying out Loud - Meat Loaf
Ageing Bat
27 Jul 2006, 22:54
Only You - The Platters
My Prayer - The Platters
Missing You - Puff Daddy (or whatever he likes to call himself these days)
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Yesterday - The Beatles
Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
23rd Psalm..... The Lord's My Shepherd
Left In The Dark.
But there are some close ones in Objects ITRVMMACTTA, More Then You Deserve (with the intro on storytellers - wow!). And non-Meat, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word by Elton John.
MeatGrl1
28 Jul 2006, 00:21
Left In The Dark.
But there are some close ones in Objects ITRVMMACTTA, More Then You Deserve (with the intro on storytellers - wow!). And non-Meat, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word by Elton John.
OMG yes! Meat's introduction and story of Rabbit before singing the song choked me up, I didn't cry but I was close to it and knowing that background, More Than You Deserve holds a deep and powerful message. It's beautiful but extreemly sad.
Rob The Badger
28 Jul 2006, 03:01
She's Leaving Home -Beatles
Candy Says - Velvet Underground
The Flying Mouse
28 Jul 2006, 03:46
:twisted: Lemme see :roll: (i'm trying to stay off the obvious ML ones :wink: )
Don't You Love Me Anymore -Joe Cocker.
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables - Les Miserable B^$tards :lol:
Forever Autumn - Justin Heywood.
Still Got The Blues For You - Gary Moore.
Layla - Eric Clapton.
Don't Cry - Guns "N" Roses.
Un Bel Di (One Fine Day) - Madam Butterfly.
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers.
Blue Angel - Roy Orbison.
And sorry, wanted to avoid the ML songs as they are too obvious, but I HAVE to give special mention to ............
Why Isn't That Enough.
The REALLY was my song last year.
God only knows how many beers I sunk to that one :cry:
There are the obvious ML songs:
For Crying Out Loud
Did I Say That
Objects...
Others:
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkle
Many more I've forgotten at present.
But, at the risk of getting driven 'out of town', the one breakup song guaranteed to get the tears flowing, as it did for me a long time ago, and can still shift the mood down fast:
The Love Inside - Barbra Streisand, written by Barry Gibb
Whiskey Lullaby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fr0PlEmw4k&search=whiskey%20lullaby)
Alan Jackson - Remember When (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4WX3YImzXE&search=Alan%20Jackson)
Sara Mclachlan - When she loved me - from Toy Story 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV42O8Apn9U&search=when%20somebody%20loved%20me)
Paul191
28 Jul 2006, 14:02
Meat Loaf:
For Crying out loud
Objects in the rear view mirror
More than you deserve
Two out of three ain't bad
For me, songs that make me sad aren't necessarily sad songs. Sad songs to me are ones that I link to things that made me sad.
Love Changes Everything always sets me off as it was played at my Uncle's service of rememberance last year and that's definately not a sad song.
I shall have a think!
:twisted: Lemme see :roll: Empty Chairs At Empty Tables - Les Miserable B^$tards :lol:
Forever Autumn - Justin Heywood.
.
And sorry, wanted to avoid the ML songs as they are too obvious, but I HAVE to give special mention to ............
Why Isn't That Enough.
The REALLY was my song last year.
God only knows how many beers I sunk to that one :cry:
Have to agree with you on those ones Mousie...i love the Empty chairs at empty tables song, would love to hear Meat Loaf sing that one
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
MeatGrl1
28 Jul 2006, 20:49
For me, songs that make me sad aren't necessarily sad songs. Sad songs to me are ones that I link to things that made me sad.
Love Changes Everything always sets me off as it was played at my Uncle's service of rememberance last year and that's definately not a sad song.
I shall have a think!
Aspects Of Love is a fantastic play and yes Love Changes Everything is pretty sad.
RadioMaster
28 Jul 2006, 21:21
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
Absolutely! There is no one which could come close, especially if you know the fact that Clapton sang it short time after his son died on a car crash.
The thing that makes me sad too is that every "artist" who "thikns" he/she/they can "sing", sings it when something sad happens to earn money.
The last one that comes to my mind was a bunch of stars singing it as a tribute to the tsunami in Indonesia.
Some Frank Sinatra songs are sad too, like the classic My Way and my FS favourite: It was a very good year. Espically the edited version with the Simon&Garfunkel sound-a-like intro and outro, I forgot who did it.
Meat: FCOL and HCW
Other ones: Like Chris said Hurt by Johnny Cash, shortly before his dead recorded, and Queens/Freddie Mercury´s The show must go on.
The sad thing on this one is that Freddie knew that he would die within a few months and he recorded as many songs as possible togehter with Queen in the short time he had left. And this one is for his band and fans written for the time after his death.
The best version of This one is on Queens Greatest Hits III, a live performance after Freddies Death with Elton John. You can really hear his sadness in the song.
But all in all I agree with Andrew that there are many great sad songs because they´re so emotional.
Meat is one of the few artists who can manage it to sing a not sad song emotional, I think thatswhy I´m a fan :))
R.
PS: I seem to really like sad songs because I see how much I wrote in this one post...
MeatGrl1
28 Jul 2006, 21:37
Aspects Of Love is a fantastic play and yes Love Changes Everything is pretty sad.
Also can I add Anything But Lonely, it's sad but she has to learn that Alex has grown and has found happiness with Guliettia, I can't go into the story too much because I'd be here all day but he's in a bit of a triangle, let's just leave it at that!
Forgot the important one...
Unchained My Heart - Joe Cocker
RadioMaster
29 Jul 2006, 17:58
If you think of Meat´s Songs (or in this case Jim, if you like that one better) one of the saddest songs is definitely Left in the Dark
I personally like Jim´s version better, especially with the speech intro. To me he shows the pain more than Meat in that song, and I dont like the guitar overload on WTTN at all too much.
dant796
31 Jul 2006, 03:00
I was just listening today to Warren Zevon's last album - The Wind - recorded when he was in final stages of lung cancer. One of the best and saddest songs on the album - El Amor de mi Vida.
Another song I always find sad is Watching the Wheels - John Lennon. The song itself isn't sad, but that song always makes me think of all the songs John had left in him that we're never going to hear now.
Rock 'n Roll hero
31 Jul 2006, 04:07
All outta love - Air Supply
Nothing Sacred - Mr. Loaf
More than you deserve - Mr. Loaf
It's all coming back to me - Celine Dions version!
Knocking on heavens door - Guns 'n Roses (the dunblaine version really got to me!)
There's loads more....I like all that kind of music!
Rock 'n Roll hero
31 Jul 2006, 05:39
It's all coming back to me - Celine Dions version!
Oh, and Meat Loaf's version....which I downloaded but thought it was only a one off thingy....after having seen the preview of Batt 3 however, I know it wasn't!
The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics..... listen to those words, you cannot help but be affected by them.....
For me they rang perfectly true.........
Another Time, Another Place - Mike and the Mechanics again......
This one also rang perfectly true for me.....
Cried a lot to these to over the past weeks I can tell you...........
Ageing Bat
02 Aug 2006, 09:34
How could I ever for get this one?
Candle in the Wind - Sir Elton John. The version he released following the death of Princess Diana, 'Goodbye England's Rose'...... well, I still find it very difficult to listen to that. How he managed to perform it at her funeral without breaking down, I'll never know.
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - U2
Stuck in a moment you can't get out of - U2
Everything to everyone - Everclear
Wonderful - Everclear
For a few more. :lol:
Father Time by Richie Sambora
RadioMaster
02 Aug 2006, 18:12
[QUOTE=Lotus96]Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - U2
QUOTE]
Right, good one,
one of my favorites!
:Up:
Hypnobabe
09 Aug 2006, 17:25
One of my favourites that I was reminded of yesterday is the bonus track on Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill
I went to your house, walked up the stairs, I opened the door without ringing the bell.
Walked down the hall, into your room, where I could smell you.
And I shouldn't be here, without permission. Shouldn't be here...
Would you forgive me, love, if I dance in your shower?
Would you forgive me, love, if I laid in your bed?
Would you forgive me, love, if I stay all afternoon?
I took off my clothes, put on your robe, went through your drawers, and I found your cologne.
Went to the den, found your CD's, and I played your Joni.
And I shouldn't stay long, you might be home soon, I shouldn't stay long...
Would you forgive me, love, if I dance in your shower?
Would you forgive me, love, if I laid in your bed?
Would you forgive me, love, if I stay all afternoon?
I burned your incense, I ran a bath, I noticed a letter that sat on your desk.
It said hello, love, I love you so, love, meet me at midnight.
And no, it wasn't my writing, I better go soon, it wasn't my writing...
So forgive me love, if I cry in your shower...
So forgive me love, for the salt in your bed...
So forgive me love, if I cry all afternoon...
MeatGrl1
11 Aug 2006, 22:59
Recently it was Don't Cry Daddy a virtual duet between Elvis and Lisa Marie Presley, that's the best tribute anyone could ever give Elvis, and it had to be his daughter that did it, it moved me so much how the duet worked with footage from 1970 The Lost Performances and Lisa today, it was just so beautiful and well done.. It made me ball my eyes out!
RadioMaster
11 Aug 2006, 23:08
Actually not a sad song, but very melancholic:
Boyz 2 Men (or however that´s written)
I´ll make love to you
Rockette
12 Aug 2006, 06:19
Gone Too Soon - Michael Jackson
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