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this tops the ***Chit-Chat All-Time Dirge Thread*** charts
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Ebony Eyes -Everly Brothers
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AT 17,.....Janis Ian.
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I'd like to nominate It's a Motherfecker by Eels. One of my all-time favourites. Very tragic story behind it for those unaware of the song.
David Fishwick Minibus Sales has been having trouble posting, but he's PM'ed me and asked if I could mention Billy Ocean's There'll be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) which I'm more than happy to do. |
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*sn igger*!
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Have to say I'm not religious, but "Abide With Me", as sung at very many funerals, has to get a mention!
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"Gloomy Sunday"
A Hungarian song, "Gloomy Sunday" was first recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis, and was recorded the same year by Paul Robeson, with lyrics by Desmond Carter. It became well known throughout much of the English-speaking world after the release of a version by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis's lyrics referred to suicide, and the record label described it as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". There is a recurring urban legend that claims that many people committed suicide with this song playing You can't get much sadder than that. |
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Cats in the cradle.Harry Chapin.
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Fields Of Athenry - Paddy Reilly
Everything I Own - David Gates Boulder to Birmingham - Emmy Lou Harris are three that spring to mind. All betting without the Clapton song which is in a different league to anything else for me. |
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It isn't going to be that way by Steve Forbert - think you can watch it on utube...
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Bobby Goldsboro...... "Honey".
One way or another it's enough to make you weep! |
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If You're Looking For A Way Out - Odyssey
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Roger Daltrey - Oceans Away
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Pearl Jam-Black
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Motel Blues - Louden Wainwright a close 2nd to Mike & The Mechanics
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Rain And Tears-Aphrodites Child
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Without You Nillson
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the green fields of france "willie mcbride"
Scottish Soldier by Andy Stewart, cheers. |
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Lyrically, I would go for Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. The contrast of the sing a long finale with the narrative which ends with him questioning his faith is very moving. It was the late Mrs Toteboard's favourite as well
 However, my nomination for the saddest piece of music ever is the Belgian sound sculptor Kreng's treatment of Chopin's Prelude number 20 in C minor. It was a mournful piece anyway, but getting someone to cry over the top of it makes it even more powerful; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIxkZF-6Iog Cheer up chaps!  |
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It ain't easy being green
Kermis the Frog Always makes me misty  |
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My Sister - Tindersticks.
Perhaps not the saddest ever but def worth a listen. |
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"Enola Gay" - Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark.
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anything by joy division nap
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The Day You Went Away - Wendy Mathews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfqusp7s5o0 |
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"Enola Gay" - Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark.
Aww, yes |
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Into my arms - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE |
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I suppose its how you as an individual define 'saddest'.
To me with a very few exceptions (Green Fields Of France, Enola Gay, Gloomy Sunday & perhaps "Will I see you in Heaven" Eric Clapton. The mass majority of songs mentioned are sad in only the fact that anybody bothered to record them and you have to be a total wuss for them to have any emotional effect. |
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Solitaire............carpenters
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Find me,by david gates
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Dance With My Father Luther Vandross. My father died when I was six.
Slipping Through My Fingers from Mamma Mia. It was the first time Id heard it even though Im a ABBA fan. It reminds me of how time goes by to quickly and trhe time spent with my daughter who is in Aus. |
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don't cry for me man utd by d. moyes and the regretters.
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The Winner Takes It All -Abba...throbs with melodious moroseness...
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No Distance Left To Run - Blur
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Don't laugh at me - Norman Wisdom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbwS9qcpi0k |
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Time by Pink Floyd is a shocking omission
Fotheringay by Fairport Convention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnLVvAJrec |
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Hurt-Johnny Cash.
Johnizere, respect mate  |
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Fotheringay sung by sandy denny is a wondeful song
Great nomination there Another sad and beautiful one is Barbara Allen sung by Emylou Harris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1z4rWpGUG4 Very ancient traditional song |
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Der Leiermann (The Hurdy-Gurdy Man) from Franz Schubert's Winterreise (Winter Journey)
Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenleider (Songs of Dead Children) Vier Letzte Leider (Four Last Songs) by Richard Strauss. |
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"Who knows where the time goes" by Fairport Convention..
Sandy Dennys voice singing a song that everyone in the world can relate to at some point in their lives. Stunning. |
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Another shout for 'Casimir Pulaski Day' by Sufjan Stevens
Someone made a amateur music video for the song, on YouTube, that is just fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhFBGHTmr5c but has barely any views! “Casimir Pulaski Day,” the seventh track on the Illinoise, concerns a young man’s memory of the week leading up to the death of his dearest friend. It is unquestionably the best song ever written about a 12-year-old girl dying of bone cancer. There is an adolescent and artless quality to the lyrics. There is no metaphor, no fancy fifty-cent words, no coherent structure. The story itself is poorly told; we must assemble and organize the traces of the narrator’s memory to deduce what happened. The music underscores this simplicity: the same four chords repeated over and over, uncluttered arrangement |