Favourite sad songs

Elvis' In The Ghetto' always makes me think of how others are forced to live their lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVJux_dnps


Wilco - Another Man's Done Gone. Woody Guthrie musing on death. 90 seconds of sheer, unadulterated beauty.

Gilbert O'Sullivan.  Alone again (naturally)

Johnny cash covering Hurt, The White Stripes, White moon.

Ian Curtis (joy division) love will tear us apart

Don't think twice it's alright - Robert Zimmerman

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Y3KfJs6T0

The video of Johnny Cash and Hurt is very moving.

Too Much Love Will Kill You

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFEjZ98Q4s&list=PL7F43245BECE8FFE9&index=8

In a lonely place - Joy Division

Nick Cave & Kylie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xnax0u03Ew

would have been crying except every time i hear it i remember the only fools and horses episode where some guy sings it so i will settle for crazy by Patsy Cline

Smiths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnP_foQsBWQ

Killing of Georgie - Rod Stewart

Last Flowers - Radiohead

If you could read my Mind by Gordon Lightfoot is very beautiful.

"Ballad Of The Absent Mare" by Leonard Cohen

Old Tige - Jim Reeves

So sad the song - Gladys Knight

Old Shep - Elvis
Jezebel - Sade
For All We Know - Billie Holiday

Father and Son - Cat Stevens

Fading out - Radiohead

It would be nice if the youtube links were posted with each song.

The Cure - Just Like Heaven ..beautiful song

and found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3nPiBai66M

Apologies Bigmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbFOiIKVmRA

Thanks Muntz Street. It's nice to have a listen to the songs.

There'll be sad songs (to make you cry.)

Mon Amie La Rose.        Francoise Hardy
All Over The World.        Francoise Hardy
End Of The World.         Skeeter Davis
I Go To Sleep.               The Kinks
Famous Blue Raincoat.   Leonard Cohen

Vincent, Don MCclean.

Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute

https://youtu.be/2jO82fkgmoI

A love letter to his dead father

Sad, in some ways, from the best Western ever made imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4a_1UhwgFU

Father death blues - Alan Ginsburgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNXNZIEEtk8&list=PLSd8pJ-ywcemoR4vROs8VwKIfB_V1ApPX&index=2

Still In Love With You - Thin Lizzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=261uidoVOVk

Skinny Love - Birdy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aNzCDt2eidg

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables - Les Miserables (thought Eddie Redmayne did a good job with this in the film version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqqSa9n2ZQk&feature=player_detailpage

Johnny Was - Stiff Little Fingers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8iSLb5j6us&feature=player_detailpage

Opposite - Biffy Clyro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7z52N9hbOY&feature=player_detailpage

Wings/Paul McCartney - Treat Her Gently (Lonely Old People)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqjf4eHp_Zs

The Beatles - She's Leaving Home - with Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rqj43vjU-A

dunlaying

Old Shep - Elvis

great shout

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kezoXHhk8Y

Hi Lilli Hi Lo (Sp?)

Plaisir D'Amour- Nana Mouskouri

Le Temps des Cerises -Yves Montand

Eleanor Rigby-Beatles

Blue Bayou-Roy Orbison

Goodbye My love Goodbye -Demis Roussos

Die Blumelein Sie Schlafen = Lotte Lehmann

Both Sides Now -Judy Collins

I was only listening to Old Shep the other day, for the first time in years.

A heartbreaking song indeed.

kenny are you aware of any similar songs which recount the loss of a feline loved one?

Bruce Springsteen mentions canine homicide in 'Reason To Believe'

HTH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gOFk3qVlElk

Everybody hurts.

How can this thread have got this far without these two Smokey Robinson and the Miracles classics?

Tracks of My tears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwkZrj2VT4&list=RDBCwkZrj2VT4#t=4

Tears of a Clown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaMX0Cs5Bc4

Yes, of course I am Sultan.

Try this one, very sweet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFUIVRLXD68

Doesn't relate to a loss but it's a record.

... or the Walker Brothers, No Regrets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceafx0Y3bB0

Tears in Heaven is a shocking omission

Bully, Cat Power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFyLwc2UGzo

lol kenny - class

stay close - the blue nile

even by their exalted standards the ultimate 3am track imho .

broken heart - spiritualized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNfWDRuBNY
boooooom

So many and some wonderful songs already listed but a double recommendation for two very different but equally wonderful songs. So Sad The Song by the incomparable Gladys and Opposite by Biffy. Even a glass eye would be streaming and a dead dog would get up and howl from the pain of loss if it listened to I Wish I Were Blind by Springsteen.

This masterpiece by The Streets  (Mike Skinner) gets my vote:

https://youtu.be/NHOf3s70w-c

In A Lonely Place features the all-important canine reference:

Warm like a dog `round your feet
How I wish you were here with me now

Then there's some nonsense about hanging yourself, but it's that line about the dog which I always remember.

As usual..the tree hits the spot..rem on top of their game.

Could name a couple of dozen written by richie Edwards and sung and played by james dean Bradfield,the mans different class...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWZaz7cNys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hw5ATh72I8

Richie.

Another great shout from earlier in Both Sides Now but I refer the original. If we are going for great forgotten vocalists who shone briefly Show Me Heaven Maria McKee is a belter.

Damien Rice - Accidental Babies

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aoh1uDhxZCM

A sad and achingly beautiful song.

honey-bobby Goldsboro
puff the magic dragon--peter,paul and mary, and I aint kiddin

Yes, Puff is a great song, and sad at the end.

I have to turn it off before the end Kenny to be honest

Mama - Roy Orbison

youtu.be/L9Xe7aBXYL0

A song that always makes me cry, (I'm crying now)!

Remembering my Mum & Dad who both tragically died before I was 20 years old!

Love you both, always,

You big softie Tel.

TNM, only heard this song with the same title by Dave Berry.

Superb song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ7EzQpybk

This song will have you crying your eyes out guaranteed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNf771GtK

the guy in this track knows he's lost the love of his life  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyxSk3IqOnQ
if you haven't seen it I can recommend the bands full video of their last concert "the last waltz"

Already mentioned, but no doubt emotionally charged

And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken

Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKZkkTBd2_A&t=2m47s

with or without you U2

cant stand it misread thread title

That's like the where where you when you heard Kennedy or Lennon were shot or Elvis could squeeze that fat one out on the bog controller. I was laying behind the sofa with the ear phones on and The Edge came in with that riff and bang. Only really happened to me with with one other song which was Reel Around The Fountain which would be a bit left field for this discussion. Memories.

what were you doing when you heard Elvis was dead ?
By screaming from beneaththewaves on 16 Oct 14 22:24
I was eating dessert in a restaurant with a mate and his family. His mother cried in the gateau.

Music for a brimming heart on here, much I've never heard before. I'm a sucker for a half-spoken sad song.
Endorse Shep and Honey. Here's a suggestion, in the same style, not clever but piercing

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyxSk3IqOnQ

seasons in the sun terry jacks

in the gateau.

very droll my son

thegiggilo
     15 Oct 15 01:05

Could name a couple of dozen written by richie Edwards and sung and played by james dean Bradfield,the mans different class...


You're right of course. The riff and the lyrics on this one always get me....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvk&feature=player_detailpage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWAUCVbnDUg

If lovin you is wrong - Luther Ingram

Eddie Fisher - Oh! My PaPa 1954

Probably the saddest of the lot, particularly for those who no longer have dads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dWOsP_wly0

Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down
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http://youtu.be/ED5s1-Fe9FA

After The Ball

Levi Stubbs Tears by Billy Bragg.
It might border on depressing rather than sad though.

Another vote for Puff the Magic Dragon.  Poor Puff.

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    16 Oct 15 18:51   


Levi Stubbs Tears by Billy Bragg.
It might border on depressing rather than sad though. 


Also 'The Home Front' from the same album.

Seasons in the sun for me as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8

1977 My Grandmother died. My Mum was inconsolable, a few weeks after I played some recordings I had made, seasons in the Sun was playing and Gramar was talking in the background. I shouted my Mum, she came and listened. My Mum is no longer here do doubly sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cdFuMgMkBM

Billy Don`t Be A Hero

Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Another Day
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvt5YnocRp8

not the saddest but uplifting .. The Beatles- Hey Jude (with lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCazMqCJVMc

I once spent the night in a police station cell after beating up a policeman ( he started it and no charges were pressed - perhaps because a former neighbour was working there as a pc )
I couldn't get the following song out of my head.

The Beatles - Yer Blues - Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz8adCa9d0U&list=PLTzjKIHThOWYwm1dKyJ7mvs4XP...

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT-National **** Day
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FR842KUaOw

I'm sure a Beatles afficionado can confirm or refute but wasn't Hey Jude written for John's son Julian with the words being changed at a later stage?

yes ... or John's mother Julia ?


originally Hey Jules

Marianne Faithful and The Ballad of Lucy Jordan.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc

Daniel Lanois and Jolie Louise

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt0LDopjNbg

Keep me in your heart - Warren Zevon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dscsGRjpxk

J.J Berrie - No Charge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiaY2GQuuzA

A real emotional tear jerker

don't know if anyone will know this one,
very sad anti war song "daddy what'll happen to me" b side of a adam faith disc from "67

Alone again naturally is the pinnacle of sad songs for me, Father and Son also deserving of its mention imo.

But I was just listening to this (and reading the lyrics) and, whether it's because of tiredness or just that I'm getting soft(er) in my old age, this song just made me weep a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RChMqvbHVs

Yesterday when I was young (original) by Charles Aznavour

No Man's Land by Eric Bogle. Alternatively, The Green Fields of France by the Fureys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok

Sunday Morning Coming Down johnny cash or kris Kristofferson both do it justice.

you'll never walk alone for the last 20 years

Any mention of TERRY yet?


RIP Twinkle

I found Alone Again really depressing and couldn't listen to it to the end.

In a blind deserted alley in the once green Rhondda Valley
A man was sadly searching for his soul,
And his eyes are unforgiving, when they took away his children
They buried all his pride beneath the coal

From the Fureys (original line up with the great Finbar on vocals) Hearts on Fire.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt7yc9nJolo

You could fill this thread with stuff from Eric Bogle.
Really talented guy who wrote Leaving Nancy and The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.

Memory and songs is a funny thing, I just heard a song on the TV from an album I used to have. I looked up the album, saw a song title, heard the chorus in my head, then had a very vivid memory of having a bath with that playing in the next room years ago .

Just Checking  • October 18, 2015 11:09 PM BST 
Memory and songs is a funny thing, I just heard a song on the TV from an album I used to have. I looked up the album, saw a song title, heard the chorus in my head, then had a very vivid memory of having a bath with that playing in the next room years ago

Proving yer not a celtic supporter.

Whenever I hear anything from the 60s it normally evokes some fantastic memories I have of that time.
Hey Jude for instance always reminds me of a party and a very nice girl I met at it.