Saddest of sad songs . .

Mike Nomad · « **Reply #40 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 03:20 pm »

A couple that come to mind:

Janis Ian - At Seventeen

James Taylor - Fire and Rain

nathanm · « **Reply #41 on:** 19 Apr 2010, 04:16 pm »

Simon & Garfunkel "Barbriallen" (I don't know if this song is in D Minor or not, but I weep instantly when I hear it.)

Purcell - Dido & Aneas "When I Am Laid In Earth"

Warning "Faces"

Cathedral "Ebony Tears"

Paul Simon "American Tune"

Current 93 "A Sadness Song"

silver_foxx · « **Reply #42 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 04:33 pm »

Sarah McLachlan - Arms Of An Angel Lyrics
Roy Orbison - Cry
Linda Ronstadt - Alison

toobluvr · « **Reply #43 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 04:57 pm »

Quote from: nathanm on 19 Apr 2010, 04:16 pm

Simon & Garfunkel "Barbriallen" (I don't know if this song is in D Minor or not, but I weep instantly when I hear it.)

Is this on a S & G album too? Which one?

It is on my vinyl copy of "Angel Clare" -- Art Garfunkel's first solo album.

Absolutely beautiful song, I listen to it all the time.

PS: It is a traditional folk song spelled "Barbara Allen" on the album cover. I assume it's the same one.

rajacat · « **Reply #44 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 05:21 pm »

The Lighthouse's Tale......Nickel Creek....Nickel Creek

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #45 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 05:47 pm »

Heart Like a Wheel- Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

Yeah, Mike. Good call on Fire and Rain.

pjchappy · « **Reply #46 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 06:57 pm »

This song/version gets to me.

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.

Paul

nathanm · « **Reply #47 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 08:17 pm »

Quote from: toobluvr on 20 Apr 2010, 04:57 pm

Is this on a S & G album too? Which one?

It is on my vinyl copy of "Angel Clare" -- Art Garfunkel's first solo album.

Absolutely beautiful song, I listen to it all the time.

PS: It is a traditional folk song spelled "Barbara Allen" on the album cover. I assume it's the same one.

The one I have is this one; it's on disc 2 of this box set:
http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Studio-Recordings-1964-1970/dp/B00005NKKU

Luckily, the brief Amazon preview didn't make me cry, which is good cause I'm at work.

mitch stl · « **Reply #48 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 08:27 pm »

Check out the song "Loneliest Person" by Pretty Things (from the 1968 album "S.F. Sorrow")

arthurs · « **Reply #49 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 08:32 pm »

"Paper Aeroplane" by Kasey Chambers off the disc Wayward Angel

toobluvr · « **Reply #50 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 08:56 pm »

Quote from: nathanm on 20 Apr 2010, 08:17 pm

The one I have is this one; it's on disc 2 of this box set:
http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Studio-Recordings-1964-1970/dp/B00005NKKU

Luckily, the brief Amazon preview didn't make me cry, which is good cause I'm at work.

Same song....different spelling ....different version.

Hopefully this snippet won't bring on the waterworks!

http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Allen/dp/B00137XZH4/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1271796830&sr=1-7

sfox7076 · « **Reply #51 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 08:59 pm »

If you go away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCVxPEPx5Y

nathanm · « **Reply #52 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 09:34 pm »

Quote from: toobluvr on 20 Apr 2010, 08:56 pm

Same song....different spelling ....different version.

Hopefully this snippet won't bring on the waterworks!

http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Allen/dp/B00137XZH4/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1271796830&sr=1-7

Nah, I can tell right away that version wouldn't affect me. For me the sound and performance is the emotional driver, and secondarily the lyrics. I suspect if happy, upbeat lyrics were substituted with the Barbriallen version same performance it would still choke me up.

Oh, I just thought of another one:

"She's Leaving Home" The Beatles. Oh yeah, that's a tear-jerker.

RUR · « **Reply #53 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 09:47 pm »

John Doe No. 24 by Mary Chapin Carpenter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFyfY7D9LDE

NB: This version lacks Branford Marsalis' lovely alto sax accompaniment, found on the album version.

rajacat · « **Reply #54 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 10:22 pm »

She's Leaving Home (Lennon/McCartney)....from
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begings
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her hankerchief Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Quietly turing the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.
She (We gave her most of our lives)
is leaving (Sacraficed most of our lives)
home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me.
She (We never though of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye
Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.
She What did we do that was wrong
Is having We didn't know it was wrong
Fun Fun is the one thing that money can't buy
Something inside that was always denied
For so many years. Bye, Bye
She's leaving home bye bye

ecramer · « **Reply #55 on:** 20 Apr 2010, 10:40 pm »

Song To The Siren - Tim Buckley

i will take any of these

John Frusciante - Song To The Siren

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren "Cocteau Twins"

Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren

simoon · « **Reply #56 on:** 21 Apr 2010, 07:12 pm »

Pain of Salvation - Trace of Blood

This song is about Daniel Gildenlow's (band leader) experience when his wife miscarried their first child. There's not a single part of this song that fails to convey the pain and heartache of their experience.

The lyrics speak for themselves:

Touching ground Going home to those I miss
Safe and sound Weeks of exile turn to bliss
But there's something in her voice When she is calling me
A trace of blood to lead me
Through roads of agony With blood taste in my mouth
And clouds before my eyes
I kneel beside the bed Where my bleeding dryad lies

Three young souls in misery

Hitting ground Nausea wakes me up at dawn
Hopes are found
Dissected, turned and then
Withdrawn
A chair of steel and wire Her legs are open wide
Helpless in myself I stand there cold beside
The doctors stay away Leave us with this dismay
To see the colours of a miracle Fade and turn to gray

Then a cry and rivers of blood Flow so sadly
bringing you
Our dreams pour into a cold tray Two young souls in misery
Missing you

"How quickly the colors change
from blue to red to black
and why am I always away
wrapped up in something
unable to live with all this
love
I ask of the world to leave
to be silent and pretend
that it never happend"

I never knew your name but I will miss you just the same
I was to live for you I lost the will to live at all the day you came
It'll never be the same but I will love you just the same
You were to be the first, how wonderful
Now I will always fear to hope again

The irony Of seeing me whispering through her skin
So joyfully To our child there deep within
Or of when she called to me To tell me cheerfully
That she had seen your shape On a hospital screen
And of nurses being concerned That you never moved or turned
Too late we see the warnings Too late we learn

I never saw your face and now you're gone without a trace
Except the trace of blood that's deeply scarred into my eyes To fill your place
It'll never be the same but I will love you just the same
I was prepared to be your father How can I ever prepare for that again?

Still I follow that trace of blood Always leading back to you
Hollow years of damming that flood Two young souls in misery

Missing you... missing you...

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #57 on:** 1 May 2010, 10:40 pm »

4 + 20- CSN&Y, maybe more haunting than actually sad; Lost The Will To Love- Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

chadh · « **Reply #58 on:** 1 May 2010, 11:21 pm »

I can't believe that I didn't think of this one sooner - but Brothers in Arms always makes me teary. I got to hear Mark Knopfler do it live earlier this week, too. Wonderful song.

Chad

ngomez745 · « **Reply #59 on:** 1 May 2010, 11:48 pm »

For me it's Radioheads "Last Flowers"

appliances have gone berserk
i cannot keep up
treading on people's toes
snot-nosed little punk

and i can't face the evening straight
you can offer me escape
houses move and houses speak
if you take me there you'll get relief, relief, relief, relief

and if i'm gonna talk
i just want to talk
please don't interrupt
just sit back and listen

cos i can't face the evening straight
you can offer me escape
houses move and houses speak
if you take me there you'll get relief, relief, relief, relief
relief, relief

it's too much, too bright, too powerful
too much, too bright, too powerful
too much, too bright, too powerful
too much, too bright, too powerful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDdleGysNys