The saddest song i ever heard.

Guess it's not your namesake

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

I have a brother called Ironneck

Dalliance for a sad Wedding Present song

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

Old Tige - Jim Reeves ;;

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.

Motel  Blues - Louden Wainwright

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.

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


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

For The Good Times.

Even sadder when sung by Willie Nelson
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https://youtu.be/sRiQ03cfmWY

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

Gladys Knight

So Sad The Song

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


What a singer.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

or Lighthouse by Patrick Watson

Tank Park Salute - Billy Bragg

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

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.

Mar 7, 2017 -- 10:47AM, 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?

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

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?

Mar 7, 2017 -- 11:15AM, 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'

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

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)

Mar 7, 2017 -- 7:09PM, 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

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.