johnnymahoe Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 another one is coming back to me by jefferson airplane and golden slumbers by the beatles. If i were 2 name the greatest sad song ever it would be stairway to heaven- its not the saddest song ever or the greatest but its the greatest sad song. sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnymahoe Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 o yeah and wild horses and gimme shelter r sad and i think sway is kinda sad off of sticky fingers. So is Sister morphine. All of those r stones songs by the way. and cant u here me-no nevermind thats not sad. But i stil havent found what im looking for by u2 is also sad i think most songs are kinda sad actually, and most sad songs r better then happy songs. So my list goes on and on so ill try to stop here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMMYLAM Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 november rain by guns n roses don't cry by guns n roses more than word by extreme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 22, 2004 Report Share Posted December 22, 2004 I GOT IT!!!! it´s "IN THE GHETTO", Elvis... Makes me cry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kika Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 -i was formerly sal- greatest sad song... "Without You(can't live if living is without you)" -badfinger "In My Life" -beatles "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" -beatles "The Raing Song" - Led zeppelin (okay not really sad) "Little Wing" -a lot of people, Clapton, Hendrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 23, 2004 Report Share Posted December 23, 2004 Kika, welcome to songfacts! And happy Christmas! I prefer the original "Without you", by Harry Nilsson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audionut Posted December 28, 2004 Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 Man on the Corner - Genesis Into Deep - Genesis Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin Mind Games - John Lennon Celluloid Heroes - Kinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil__carrot13 Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 QUEEN - NO ONE BUT YOU ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les paul Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Shine on you crazy diamond... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil__carrot13 Posted January 1, 2005 Report Share Posted January 1, 2005 Nickelback is vaguley sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxy Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Drive - The Cars November Rain - GNR Don't Cry - GNR My Immortal - Evanescence With Or Without You - U2 Faithfully - Journey Blue Eyes Blue - Eric Clapton Running On Faith - Eric Clapton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireball Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 linkin park's my december from the inside,easier to run,crawling,breaking the habit,numb,somewhere i belong,+ many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrvana Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 This is my sad songs: A Child in Time- Deep Purple NIght Swimming-REM Champagne Supernova-Oasis The rest I'll........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhul Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 i have a folder on my computer for sad songs American pie-Don Mclean Everybody hurts-R.E.M Stairway to Heaven-Led Zepplin Goodbye yellow brick road-elton john Rocket man-elton john Something in the way-nirvana Under the bridge-rhcp Creep-radiohead Don't cry-gnr Time of your life-green day She-green day other songs i cant think of How is Stairway to Heaven sad?, it's not. It just makes you wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqualad Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 There are too many for me to agree, with but one that everyone left out has to be Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door Mama put my guns in the ground I can't shoot them anymore The Who - Behind Blue Eyes Seal - Kiss from a Rose alot of stuff from Journey The Doors - This is the End David Bowie - Ground Control to Major Tom (Space Odyssey) (I don't really know what it's called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalnet22 Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 Finally someone mentioned Knockin on Heaven's door. And I find it insane that nobody has mentioned Bruce Springsteen, one of the greatest sad, acoustic singers of all time. Here's my list: 1. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the Usa Acoustic 2. Don Henley - End of the Innocence 3. Sting - Fields of Gold 4. Bruce Springsteen - The River 5. Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven 6. Jackson Browne - For a Dancer 7. Bob Dylan - Knockin on Heaven's Door 8. Green Day - Time of Your Life 9. Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise 10. Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence 11. Pearl Jam - Better Man (Makes me cry everytime) 12. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town 13. John Lennon - Imagine (Only because his message is impossible) 14. Tom Petty - Learning to Fly (sounds happy, but sad when you think about it) 15. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 So many excellent contributions thus far--many that have been mentioned are some of my favorites of all time. Though I could probably compile a list of my own I will offer one song: Working Class Hero by Lennon (see signature below.) Not only is it a heartbreaking account of the pain of his upbringing, its last lines are an eerie foreshadowing of his death. Powerful and chilling all the way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 I´ve been listening to "On the beach" (Neil Young, obvious)... I love that album, but I must say that some songs are really depressive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genefloyd876 Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 wish you were here-pink floyd stairway to heaven-at least until the solo!-Led Zeppellin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 "There but for fortune" is very sad... And I still can´t hear "In the Ghetto" without getting depressed... "Drive", "Don´t Answer me" or "Eleanor Rigby" too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel2Velvet Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 David Bowie - Ground Control to Major Tom (Space Odyssey) (I don't really know what it's called. I always thought it was titled "Space Oddity." "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot is a very evocatively sad song. Especially if the listener places themself into the scenes described... such a sense of hopeless helplessness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 I´ve been listening to "On the beach" (Neil Young, obvious)... I love that album, but I must say that some songs are really depressive... I love "Ambulance Blues" off that album...wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandalynn Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 OK, so my list is huge, but I've seen MANY of them already listed (ie: Drive by the Cars and Tears in Heaven-Clapton, to name a slight few. Other songs that put me into the waterworks (yes...I'm a girl) that I did not see listed (sorry if they were) are as follows: No More Drama--Mary J. Blige (more hip hop though) Holiday--Green Day (listen to the words) Dust in the Wind--Kansas If I'd Been the One--38 Special Paint It Black--The Rolling Stones (ya'll remember when this was the theme to a show called "Tour of Duty"?...still makes me bawl) Fields of Gold--Sting/Eva Cassidy (really listen to the words) Jack & Diane--John Cougar Mellancamp (again...listen to the words...it's so true) Wonderful World--Louis Armstrong/Izzy K. (sorry, not really rock) Change of Heart--Cyndi Lauper Vincent--Don McLean Run for the Roses--Dan Fogelburg Wake Me Up When Sept. Ends--Green Day With or Without You--U2 Show Me the Way--Styx Teach Your Children--CSN (not too sad, but makes me bawl) Cat's in the Cradle--Cat Stevens Puff the Magic Dragon--PP&M (guarantees tears) Beth--KISS The Best of Times--Styx True Colors--Cyndi Lauper I'll See You in My Dreams--Joe Brown (done with a Uke, for George Harrison after his passing...can be found on the album "Concert for George"...too touching) Sadly, I know there's many I missed and many other excellent ones that have already been mentioned, so I'll bore you no more. In reflection, me thinks I must cry often. Thanks for reading :sleepy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 I GOT IT!!!! it´s "IN THE GHETTO", Elvis... Makes me cry... I'll go along with Edna. This is a story of utter hopelessness. Quite possibly Elvis' finest rendition of any song that he performed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancye1962 Posted February 9, 2005 Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 For me- it's "Tender" by Blur. My oldest daughter had a baby boy born in May of 1999. I still had two slightly younger daughters living at home then. My oldest daughter's son was "code blue'd" within 2 minutes of his birth, and she and I basically almost lived at the hospital near where he was born for the next three weeks. Then, smart me, I wanted him transferred to a "better" hospital, believing with all my heart they could help him. Well, they didn't. We had a meeting the day after they transferred him there, we were all told if he lived, he'd be a vegetable the rest of his life, etc. More to this story, believe me, we didn't find out certain things when we should have, but... still won't bring him back. Anyway, the kids chose finally to take him off of life support, and he died after 7 1/2 hours of not being on a ventilator. Well, the morning of his funeral, my youngest daughter came to me and said Mom- I have a song, I wonder if you could get the funeral director to play this in honor of Andy? Well, of course, by then, we couldn't have anyway. But, even if we could have, I, by then, wasn't into this type of music that of course my teenage daughter(s) were. But, we agreed to listen to it, she brought a cassette tape downstairs and put it into the stereo, while we were running around crying, trying to get dressed, etc., getting ready for the funeral. The song she played was Tender- by Blur. Ever since that morning, now, for all these years, every time I hear it, to me- it's my "Andy's song". So, yes, to me- this probobly is one of rock's "saddest songs". I loved my grandson, I only got to hold him in my arms one time, for maybe all of 15 minutes, but, still, to this day, when I hear that song,it is indeed my Andy's song. Yes, I know he's in Heaven, but for those 3 1/2 weeks, he was here, he was a huge part of my life. I'll always love him. And miss him. He even took a hold of my finger that morning I got to hold him for those 15 minutes, the Sunday morning that they took the life support off that night at 6 pm. He squeezed my finger like you wouldn't believe, I felt it then, he knew. Somehow, that sweet little boy knew. His grandma was there, holding him, loved him, and he knew. That little boy, he fought too, let me tell you. They took the life support off at 6 pm- he held on till 1:35 am. But anyway, to me, that's one of rock music's saddest songs, because it was the song that my youngest daughter wished to be played at my grandson's funeral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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