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Saddest Songs Ever

BenzorBenzor Posts: 886
edited August 2007 in Other Music
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
Everybody Hurts - REM
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
With or Without You - U2
Black - Pearl Jam
Right Where it Belongs - Nine Inch Nails
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Gone Away - The Offspring
The Scientist - Coldplay
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  • StereotypeStereotype Maribor, Slovenia Posts: 885
    How about Somewhere over the Rainbow? I know it is not meant to be sad but the melody just breaks my heart...
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  • bestsanebestsane Posts: 131
    One - Metallica
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Long Road - Pearl Jam
  • hendrix78hendrix78 Posts: 507
    Anything in D minor - the saddest of all keys.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    "He stopped Loving Her Today"-George Jones
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  • pouch15pouch15 Posts: 436
    The song from Pinoccio the movie, "When you wish upon a star..." I dont know why but it makes me cry, its no joke.
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    hendrix78 wrote:
    Anything in D minor - the saddest of all keys.

    Lick My Love Pump just breaks my heart every time I hear it.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    On the subject of songs that are supposed to be happy but instead are heartbreakingly sad, how about What a Wonderful World. That song should be one of the happiest songs ever, but instead it just kills me. I'm not sure why.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • Blind MelonBlind Melon Posts: 911
    Modest Mouse - "Trailer Trash"
    Beck - "Lost Cause"
    Radiohead - "How to Disappear Completely"
    Blind Melon - "Mouthful of Cavities"
    Eels - "Woman Driving, Man Sleeping"
    Guster - "Rainy Day"
    Sigur Rós - "Refur"
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,939
    Last Soldier hands down is the saddest song PJ has ever done.
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  • darthvedder88darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    Pearl Jam - "Black," "Light Years"
    Nine Inch Nails - "Right Where it Belongs," "Hurt"
    Alice in Chains - "Nutshell"
    Smashing Pumpkins - "Galapogos," "Muzzle," "Soma," "By Starlight"
    Blind Melon - "Change"
    Metallica - "Fade to Black"
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Tearjerker"
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  • dirtyTdirtyT Posts: 3,620
    i disagree that Everybody Hurts is a sad song. IMO, it is about hope and inspiration and never giving up or in tothe the problems we may face. Yes, I am Dr. Phil.
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  • righteousbaberighteousbabe Posts: 662
    Hurt sung by Johnny Cash.
  • prytocorduroyprytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    Creep - Radiohead
  • Peter CPeter C Posts: 237
    Mad Season- River Of Deceit
    Eels- It's A Motherfucker
    Smashing pumpkins- Perfect
    Elliot Smith- Needle In The Hay
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    I'll second River Of Deceit, and also add To Sheila by Smashing Pumpkins - never fails to pull on my heart strings.
  • Maggot BrainMaggot Brain Posts: 22
    Something like 'River' or 'A Case Of You' by Joni Mitchell spring to mind for me... She was such an angel...

    Also, 'Helpless' and 'Helplessly Hoping' by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Hurt - Reznor or Cash
    Something I Can Never Have
    Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana (the silence before he finishes it off is deafening)
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  • Maggot BrainMaggot Brain Posts: 22
    I'm going to add Jeff Buckley's version of 'Hallelujah' to my list... Heartbreaking.
  • righteousbaberighteousbabe Posts: 662
    Amazing grace.
  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    the sadest happy song I ever heard that makes me sad, but kinda happy (but mostly sad cause it reminds me of my grandfather) is What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.

    happy/sad at same time:) :(
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  • DanimalDanimal Posts: 2,000
    Oh me. - Nirvana
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  • GraySaturdayGraySaturday Posts: 2,878
    Evaporated - Ben Folds Five

    "Here I stand, sad and free.. I can't cry and I can't see...What I've done, oh God what have I done? .... I poured my heart out... I poured my heart out.... It evaporated, see?"
  • pjl44pjl44 Posts: 9,921
    A Perfect Circle - "3 Libras"
    Porcupine Tree - "Stop Swimming"
    Cave In - "Breath Of Water" (maybe just creepy, but affecting either way)
    Big Wreck - "Under The Lighthouse"
    Black Lab - "Gates Of The Country"
    Chris Cornell - "Wave Goodbye"
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Mad World by Tears For Fears and some other dude that covered it for Donnie Darko
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Benzor wrote:
    Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
    Nutshell - Alice In Chains
    Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
    Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
    Everybody Hurts - REM
    Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
    With or Without You - U2
    Black - Pearl Jam
    Right Where it Belongs - Nine Inch Nails
    agree with all of these. tears in heaven is the only clapton song I can listen to. he's normally horrendously cheesy and middle of the road.

    Right Where it Belongs is stunning but so sad.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Danimal wrote:
    Oh me. - Nirvana
    I know you meant Meat Puppets...
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • bryn_cmbsbryn_cmbs Posts: 407
    End Of The Road - Boyz II Men
    Travelin' Soldier - The Dixie Chicks
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  • clutching_benjaminclutching_benjamin Posts: 95
    The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
    Cat Power - Names

    And the saddest song I've ever heard:

    Lou Reed - The Kids
  • who's_pearljam?who's_pearljam? Posts: 2,104
    No words on this one, and you've heard it.
    This piece gets to me every time.
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