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The saddest song i ever heard.

brassneck

05 Mar 17 21:56

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Brothers in arms .the Joan Baez version.

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creatureinthesky When: 05 Mar 17 22:05

Guess it's not your namesake

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doantwin2easy When: 05 Mar 17 22:06

The saddest thing I've ever seen on my TV screen was a dying man who died for his dream.

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brassneck When: 05 Mar 17 22:10

I have a brother called Ironneck

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creatureinthesky When: 05 Mar 17 22:16

Dalliance for a sad Wedding Present song

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zorrostrikes When: 06 Mar 17 04:46

johnny cash - hurt - and you can have it all, my empire of dirt.

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Make my hay When: 06 Mar 17 13:05

Old Tige - Jim Reeves ;

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dunlaying When: 06 Mar 17 13:28

On the Lady In Satin album Billie Holiday is "carried" through it by the orchestra. Several of the songs are real heartbreakers. Moving stuff best taken with a bottle of something strong.
Sinatra had some suicide material issued on the Capitol label.
Old Shep sung by Elvis is a tearjerker too.

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RLKingPunter When: 06 Mar 17 17:42

Motel Blues - Louden Wainwright

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blackbarn When: 06 Mar 17 18:25

Interesting!. I think Motel Blues is one of the most magical songs ever written, I have never found it sad though. No crit. intended, it regularly seems to mean different things to different people.

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Alices When: 06 Mar 17 19:35

The Blind Man in the Bleachers by David Geddes or Kenny Starr

Rocky bt Austin Roberts, who also sang the Scooby Doo theme.

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Makybe_Diva When: 06 Mar 17 20:57

For The Good Times.

Even sadder when sung by Willie Nelson

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https://youtu.be/sRiQ03cfmWY

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Makybe_Diva When: 06 Mar 17 21:03

Mary Black - No Frontiers
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https://youtu.be/3ggeZ9YZYbc

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crystalhunt When: 06 Mar 17 21:12

Gladys Knight

So Sad The Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMEQuwZsl8

What a singer.

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SlippyBlue When: 06 Mar 17 21:41

Fields Of Barley by Eva Cassidy gets me everytime. Such a beautiful song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVjjcOUJLE

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GEORGE.B When: 06 Mar 17 22:48

Softly As I Leave You - as performed by Matt Monro live at the BBC in 1974!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7vxWa-47VM

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chavman When: 06 Mar 17 23:31

gypsy-suzanne vega-girl i was seeing died in a car crash,they played it at the service.(i never forget her to this day)

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RLKingPunter When: 06 Mar 17 23:48

The Cinematic Orchestra ( feat Patrick Watson ) To Build a Home

or Lighthouse by Patrick Watson

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rogerthebutler When: 07 Mar 17 07:33

Tank Park Salute - Billy Bragg

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Facts When: 07 Mar 17 09:34

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_bQGRRolrg0

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lfc1971 When: 07 Mar 17 10:47

had never heard `Softly as I leave you`
very beautiful and sad, reminded me of another `By the time I get to Pheonix`

`Let me try Again` was sung by Gracie Fields at a concert in London just after WW2. She had left Britain for the wars duration and was afraid of how the British public would react.

She sang Let me try again, and at the end there was a brief moment of silence, long enough to think and gather the emotion, and then the rapturous applause...
and everything was forgiven.
it was one of the great moments in musical history.

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rogerthebutler When: 07 Mar 17 11:06

Mar 7, 2017 -- 4:47AM, lfc1971 wrote:

had never heard `Softly as I leave you` very beautiful and sad, reminded me of another `By the time I get to Pheonix``Let me try Again` was sung by Gracie Fields at a concert in London just after WW2. She had left Britain for the wars duration and was afraid of how the British public would react.She sang Let me try again, and at the end there was a brief moment of silence, long enough to think and gather the emotion, and then the rapturous applause...and everything was forgiven.it was one of the great moments in musical history.

Poignant I'll grant you but surely not as tear-jerking as Crass getting bottled off stage by pi$$ed up BM thugs at the Northampton Roadmenders in 1981?

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lfc1971 When: 07 Mar 17 11:15

must admit I had never heard of Crass, will check that one out.
Not sure who BM are either, do recall sid viscous hitting an NME journalist over the head with a bicycle chain circa 1980

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lfc1971 When: 07 Mar 17 11:21

punk rock was the least intellectual of art forms perhaps, that lovely things like that exist is a lovely thought but it`s not the sort of music that you would like to die listening to?

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rogerthebutler When: 07 Mar 17 12:34

Mar 7, 2017 -- 5:15AM, lfc1971 wrote:

must admit I had never heard of Crass, will check that one out.Not sure who BM are either, do recall sid viscous hitting an NME journalist over the head with a bicycle chain circa 1980

They have a pretty extensive and soulful body of work.

As a neophyte I'd point you at some of their early work, such as 'Bloody Revolutions' before taking on their more weightier and poignant offerings such as 'Do They Owe Us A Living?' and what many regard as their apotheosis 'Reality Asylum'

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Slicer When: 07 Mar 17 14:44

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas- No one there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh3jVWZh4AU

Joan Baez- Diamonds and Rust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSwBM_CbyY

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TheBaron When: 07 Mar 17 19:09

Jilted at the alter
Despair
Suicide
Grief
Death
Loneliness

I give you the saddest song of all time

Gilbert O'Sullivan's Alone again (naturally)

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rogerthebutler When: 07 Mar 17 20:36

Mar 7, 2017 -- 1:09PM, TheBaron wrote:

Jilted at the alterDespairSuicideGriefDeathLonelinessI give you the saddest song of all timeGilbert O'Sullivan's Alone again (naturally)

Yeah but it happened to Gilbert O'Sullivan - making it a comedy record

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lfc1971 When: 07 Mar 17 21:12

what is sad music?

something is missing when I haven't been listening to music,
and when I hear sad music then I really feel that something is missing

that's one way to try and describe it?
I don't know.