let alone the saddest song ever.

It's sounds like 'I Like Birds' by eels. Srs.

bit where his voice rises as he sings "and everything that you do / makes me wanna die".
great song.

Twilight >>>>>>>> The Biggest Lie, in terms of sadness. Actually, it probably >>>>>> everything. Good Woman by Cat Power pushes it close though, as does Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Another Day Full of Dread. And Long Drive Home by Adem.

Cat Power - Metal Heart
Dirty Three - Some Summers They Drop Like Flies
Boards of Canada - Melissa Juice

most of the songs off disk 2 of orphans :)

casimir pulaski day-sufjan stevens
5verses-jeremy warmsely
strange things will happen- the radio dept.

songs ever.

this

Twilight and also Needle In The Hay by Elliott Smith

Casimir Pulaski Day by sufjan stevens

Chelsea Girls - Nico

and at the moment Ys makes me well up a bit, but it's not really that sad.

amazing choice.
the desolation, loss, loneliness, guilt, experience, knowledge that the end is coming... how did he get it all into one song?

Agreed

i love creedence-casiotone for the painfully alone.

is there a specific person then?

Agreed also. I hunted down the meaning for this song and you're right it is very sad. Listening to that song just makes me feel alone, and cold. You feel like its you driving that freezing cold car on boxing day morning. damn ive gotta listen to that song now

are underrated.

red house painters - loads of stuff
ryan adams - loads of stuff off heartbreaker
nick drake - loads of stuff off pink moon

It's romantic.

a sad song.

Kings Crossing by Elliott Smith. It's in my top 5 songs ever but is so sad when you consider he was dead a few days after recording it.

Also...I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams. That dude KNEW pain.

That song really gets me - the bit that's '27 people/even more, they were boys with their cars/summer jobs, oh my god' is just so full of emotion, the way he sings it...

Also, How Do You Keep Love Alive by Ryan Adams. Holy fuck is that ever a killer heartbreak song. Would sound like treacle if it were by anyone else, but he gets away with it. For me it's the ultimate saddest song ever written.

Shoot me for saying this, but some of the Queen ones written while Freddie was dying get bonus poignancy points for that...

Mt. Eerie - Get Off The Internet

(so true)

The most depressing are the most hopeless.

that's why hurt and disarm are so powerful. Especially hurt, where he talks about finding a new home at the end.

Pajo

4st 7lbs - Manics

end of discussion!

i think that song is one of the music movings i have ever heard

Picture Soundtrack was the first thing that came to my mind. It's not really depressing though.

gets me every time

That song is truly, truly desolate and sad. The video brings a tear to my eye every time.

Also, the hollow bitterness and despair of "Dirt In The Ground" by Tom Waits.

There's real pain in Lou Reed's "Baton Rouge" as well. It reads like bitter, lost, nasty, forlorn letter to his ex-wife, and manages to be sincerely nasty and desperately regretful and vulnerable at the same time. The entire "Ecstasy" album is massively underrated actually.

i was going to say that
otherwise new friend by smog

Kenickie - And that's why
Nothing stays the same - Elastica

also Switching Off by Elbow...

And I See Monsters, Harder Now That It's Over, Blue Sky Blues - a lot of Ryan is sad.

by The Flaming Lips.

Black Eyed Dog - You know he was lost to depresesion when you hear this song. Painfully sad. Also, Things Behind The Son from Pink Moon.

Bonnie Prince - Knockturne from I see a darkness

Cat Power - Half of you from You are Free. Dont know why, it just gets me everytime

On a happier note, i'm gonna get drunk tonight!

its all by myself by eric carmen

especially Twilight and Casmir Pulski Day - that 'And he takes and he takes and he takes' bit at the end is heartbreaking.

I always thought CODY by Mogwai was quite sad too.

Maybe The Weeping Willow by Grandaddy (fantastic and beautiful piano lines and the lyrics of course...."To wakre and be haopy again"....very self indulgent, or Perfect Day by Lou Reed....

Not in such a sad way but full of hope at times, especially the last section withe "Reap what you so" part......the strings, piano etc are just beautiful.

but also Explosions In The Sky - The Moon Is Down - the guitar at 5.45 always makes my heart sink. But that song has a lot of hope too.

yep, that's a pretty hard hitting one

Sir Slooppy John B... obviously.

Also....

"I Don't Wanna Grow Up"

the Ramones

"There were three of us this morning, I'm the only one this evening"

truly sobworthy

No distance left to run for def is one

Hear Me Now by Jimmy Eat World .... and there was a song from randall and hopkirk deceased series by pulp vs spacek sisters (i think) .. which gets to me but i forget the name of the track and i aint going upstairs to check the cd case

Gets my vote... But it's close.

Poses by Rufus wAinwirght is also soul-crushing.

I just put it on for the first time in an age and I'm very grateful that you got me to do that. There are many very moving songs amongst the 69 and i guess it's how we interpret them to personal experience that makes them affecting. Epitaph to my heart didn't do it for me though.

scott walker - the old man's back again
stina nordenstam - crime, dynamite, this time john, so this is goodbye, little star.... stina covers all the 'sad music' bases.

and as you all hate girls/women here is one of the most heart-wrenching ever from The Manics, Wish i Had Been Born a Girl - off This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, second only to Nobody Love you about Richey.

'i break horses' makes me die a little bit, everytime i listen to it... it's quite nasty and quite lovely at the same time.

Especially Switching Off, which is just about my favourite song.

Also: Ballboy - I gave up my eyes - just heartbreaking.

I got shivers down my spine reading through peoples' choices on this thread. Great stuff.

Switching Off very nearly reduced me to tears at V04. The sky was purple, it was a warm evening and i had a lump in my throat as Garvey sang the last line of the song.

August and September is also indeed stunning.

Samson by Regina Spektor is incredibly moving, but thts for personal reasons.

In the same way that Id on't want to get over you by the magnetic fields also brings a lump to my throat.

atmosphere, decades, the eternal.

broken heart

"Well I Wonder". It's even got rain effects on it!

you are wholey correct

daniel johnston

its 'i want you' by elvis costello. devastating.
'levi stubbs tears' by billy bragg makes me cry.

by Bruce Springsteen - relentlessly bleak and pitiless.

Also much of Sophia's earlier stuff.

I lost you, but i found country music
I found country music to hold me and soothe me
the way you used to do

and I miss you, but luckily there's music
luckily there's music
to get me through

and I think of you everyday of my life
and everyday I miss you and wonder and guess
what you are listening to
and everyday I miss you and wonder and guess
what you are listening to
what you are listening to
what you are listening to

for me they are

Bamboleo - gipsy kings
im with you - avril lavigne
chasing rainbows - shed seven