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Saddest Songs Ever
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animalkingdom said on April 28, 2004 10:22:
Just thought about wide-ranging the question as the general Roxette forum has this about the Roxette songs...
So what are the saddest songs (or pieces of music) ever in your opinion?
- THE LONELY SHEPHERD (featured on the soundtrack to Kill Bill Vol. 1)
- TAXI RIDE & A SORTA FAIRYTALE (by Tori Amos)
- AGENT ORANGE (by Depeche Mode)
- BARBER’S ADAGIO FOR STRINGS (by William Orbit, as on the album)
- RETURN TO INNOCENCE (by Enigma)
- HERE COMES THE FLOOD (by Peter Gabriel)
- TIME STOOD STILL (by Madonna)
annorlunda said on April 28, 2004 13:55:
the cure - trust
sinead o’connor - nothing compares 2U & black boys on mopeds
are the first which came to my mind...
Small-talker said on April 28, 2004 14:52:
I don’t really know if Time Stood Still would be one of the more sad Madonna songs. I’d have personally thrown ’Has To Be’ in there instead - “i should be glad that i’m alive/ it could have been much worse”...
But I agree with your choice on William Orbit’s Adagio For Strings - 9:31 of pure beauty!
And also... my choices:
A Camp ’My Misery Is A Mystery’
Moby ’Guitar Flute & String’
The Cardigans ’And The You Kissed Me’
Sheryl Crow ’Weather Channel’
Bjork ’Harm Of Will’
Natalie Imbruglia ’Hide Behind The Sun’
REM ’Falls To Climb’
Majdy said on April 29, 2004 03:35:
bad moon
happy together
foolish game-jewel
nothing compares 2 u-sinead o’connor
monday morning-rialto
so far away
I’ll be back with more sad songs :)
zeeshan said on April 29, 2004 12:59:
My Immortal - Evanescence
Spending my time - Roxette
Must have been love - Roxette
Z
Denstandigaresan said on April 29, 2004 14:38:
REM: Everybody Hurts.
Never fails to make me a little tearful.
vaxjoe said on April 30, 2004 02:47:
Roxette-It will take a long long time
Madonna-You’ll see
GNR-November Rain
TheRain1981 said on April 30, 2004 04:40:
Madonna - The Power Of Good-Bye (I agree with “Time Stood Still” as well though!)
Eurythmics - I Saved The World Today
Annie Lennox - Pavement Cracks
Evanescense - My Immortal
U2 - One
The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
Celine Dion - Think Twice
Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over
Eddie Money - I’ll Get By
Elton John - The Last Song
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Boy George - The Crying Game
Seal - Love’s Divine
Roxette - A Thing About You (one of my favorites anyway)
Robbie Williams - Feel
Natalie Imbruglia - Smoke
Mariah Carey - Butterfly
Lenny Kravitz - Stillness Of Heart
Journey - Faithfully
Jewel - Foolish Games
INXS - Searching
Heart - Alone
Guns N’ Roses - Patience
...and many more! But I’ll stop there.
Roxlander said on April 30, 2004 21:36:
After seeing Titanic I cried with “My heart will go on” again and again... and again, and again....
My Immortal is one of the saddest songs too.
coyboyusa said on May 1, 2004 13:34:
seal: a prayer for the dying
george michales: jesus to a child
sheryl crow: on the outside / i shall believe
annie lennox:why/ saddest song i got
alanis morrisette: that I would be good
sarah mclachlan: I love you
enigma: cross of change
ace of base: don’t go away
celine dion : with this tear
morrissey: lost
the cranberries: dying in the sun/no need to argue
everything but the girl: single
tori amos: china
spice girls: viva forever/ goodbye
garth brooks: to make you feel my love
sinead o’connor: in this heart
richard marx: right here waiting
melissa etheridge: lover please
no doubt: running/ simple kind of life
culture club: victims
vertical horizon: grey sky morning
indigo girls: leeds
cyndi lauper: sally’s pigeons
hole: northern star/ doll parts
dar williams: end of the summer
patsy cline: she’s got you
dolly parton: i will always love you
abba: the day before you came
Burke said on May 1, 2004 22:01:
Agent Orange is a very sad instrumental indeed, animalkingdom. Walking In My Shoes, The Bottom Line, Home, Insight are so too.
Has anyone already mentioned Sting’s Fragile?
roxtexanet said on May 2, 2004 01:47:
@coyboy: “The Day Before You Came” really is a very sad song! It’s my favourite ABBA song, though...
Saddest song: “Point Hope F.O.I.A.” by the Indigo Girls... the lyrics refer to a group of Native Americans who used to get together and watch atomic testing carried out by the US government as a sort of fun thing to do on a Sunday, with no awareness of what it was doing to their health... part of the story is told through the eyes of a woman telling her son that he doesn’t need to mine uranium for a living, and how years of exposure to uranium radiation killed his father and is killing her too... extremely sad! But a brilliant song...
roxtexanet said on May 3, 2004 21:15:
Alanis’ “That Particular Time” from “Under Rug Swept” is pretty sad... she recorded it right after breaking up with someone and her voice balances on the edge of breaking into tears through the whole song. Beautiful track from an under-rated album.
Sanna said on May 6, 2004 10:05:
Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor
Lene Marlin: A Place Nearby
Marie Fredriksson: Den Ständiga Resan (the song)
Many Secret Garden songs (I hope they will come to Finland some day to play!)
Aaso said on May 6, 2004 12:16:
November Rain - Guns ’n Roses
I donno why but it always make me sad when I listen to the song ...
vaxjoe said on May 6, 2004 12:49:
HIM-The funeral of hearts
The Rasmus-Heartbreaker
Queen-Who wants to live forever
Elton John-The One
George Michael-Jesus to a child
MiracleMan said on May 8, 2004 15:33:
Patty Griffin has a catalogue of great, sad songs:
Forgiveness
Goodbye
Mary
Rain
Nobody’s Crying
Long Ride Home
KixGuy said on May 9, 2004 01:27:
I think “Never Is A Long Time” is quite sad!
Also “Simple Together”, by Alanis...
Majdy said on May 9, 2004 07:36:
Take Me To Your Heart - MLTR
This Used To Be My Playground- Madonna
sweet_stalker57 said on May 10, 2004 05:52:
the motels - only the lonely
skrewdriver - mist on the downs
angelic upstarts - the soldier
the exploited - eyes of a vulture
the swans - universal emptiness
the cranes - paris and rome
JFA - the day walt disney died
concrete blonde - tomorrow wendy’s going to die
- song for kim
the smiths - I know it’s over
tanita tikaram - lovers in the city
- men and women
- it all came back today
- cathedral song
- valentine heart
- preyed upon
siouxsie and the banshees - the ghost in you
natalie merchant - almost all of ophelia
the velvet underground - all tomorrow’s parties
jane siberry - the walking
agent orange - living in darkness
peter murphy - marlene dietrich’s favorite poem
sarah mclachlan - touch
easterhouse - death on the dole
martika - toy soldiers
black market baby - white boy funeral
dead kennedys - the chicken farm
jane wiedlin - the end of love
tori amos - black swan
- playboy mommy
samhain - archangel
bauhaus - crowds
the bathers - something precious has been destroyed
this mortal coil - I come and stand at every door
animalkingdom said on May 18, 2004 19:33:
More from me..:
- Love’s Divine (SEAL)
- So Far Away (ROXETTE)
- Perfect Day (ROXETTE)
- Wonderful Life (ACE OF BASE - they do it so well, not too sure about the original)
Loud-Talker said on May 19, 2004 17:28:
There’s something about the ’mini version’ of The Cardigans’ “Hold Me” that really gets me. Maybe it’s because the song is only 36 seconds long, and maybe it’s just the sweet and haunting lyrics/melody.
Marie-fan said on May 19, 2004 20:27:
The winner takes it all ABBA
My haert will go on Celine Dion
Candle in the wind´97 Elton John
So far away Roxette
this are the songs are came in my mind.....
TheRain1981 said on May 20, 2004 05:48:
Let me add another to the list. It’s one I just recently re-discovered...
Mono - Life In Mono
An amazing song!
roxtexanet said on May 24, 2004 18:01:
The music in Per’s “Om Jag En Dag” sounds very sad to me, but for all I know the lyrics could deal with the joys of sex or something...
purplemedusa said on May 24, 2004 18:47:
okay here goes my list... some songs may have been mentioned...
Alanis M. - Simple Together
Alanis M. - unsent
Celine Dion - Fly
Celine Dion - Where does my heart beat now
Celine DIon - where is the love
Celine Dion - La Memoire D’Abraham
blink 182 - I miss you
Madonna - Live to tell
Madonna - rain
cranberries - Put me down
Cranberries - I’m still remembering
Robbie Williams - Nan’s song
go west - King of wishful thinking
Annie Lennox - Loneliness
Annie Lennox - waiting in vain
Annie Lennox - The gift
Annie Lennox - Love song for a vampire
REM - Everybody Hurts
PRetenders - Hymn to her
Sting - King of pain
Will Young - Leave right now
phil Collins - Least you can do
Peter Gabriel - In the sun
tiziano ferro - Sere Nere
Tiziano Ferro - Boom Boom
Tiziano Ferro - Il bimbo dentro
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Thats it for the moment!
Ferdan said on June 9, 2004 19:51:
How come no one mentioned Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven???
A song to his dead 4yr old son (he fell from a 53rd floor) :(
Tears In Heaven
——————-
Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong
And carry on,
’Cause I know I don’t belong
Here in heaven.
Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven?
I’ll find my way
Through night and day,
’Cause I know I just can’t stay
Here in heaven.
Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart,
Have you begging please, begging please.
Beyond the door,
There’s peace I’m sure,
And I know there’ll be no more
Tears in heaven.
Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong
And carry on,
’Cause I know I don’t belong
Here in heaven.
ROXIROX1998 said on June 14, 2004 00:55:
Don‘t know why but, since i was little (and i even use sometime to cry then when i heard it) the song “AMAZING GRACE“ who‘s suppose to be a song of hope makes me feeling sad...
there‘s also some others: “ì want love...“ from Elton John
“crying“ from the late Roy Orbison
“So far away“ from Roxette
ROXIROX1998 said on June 14, 2004 00:55:
Don‘t know why but, since i was little (and i even use sometime to cry then when i heard it) the song “AMAZING GRACE“ who‘s suppose to be a song of hope makes me feeling sad...
there‘s also some others: “ì want love...“ from Elton John
“crying“ from the late Roy Orbison
“So far away“ from Roxette
RoxHard said on June 15, 2004 23:03:
Evanescence’s Hello is pretty sad. It’s like a darker version of My Immortal (but with only a dark piano refrain... like Beethovan’s Moonlight Sonata)...
Hello
“Playground school bell rings again
Rainclouds come to play again
Has no one told you she’s not breathing
Hello
I’m your mind giving you someone to talk to
Hello
If I smile and don’t believe
Soon I know I’ll wake from this dream
Don’t try to fix me, I’m not broken
Hello
I’m the lie living for you so you can hide
Don’t cry
Suddenly I know I’m not sleeping
Hello
I’m still here, all that’s left of yesterday”
blunek said on July 1, 2004 21:23:
These are the days of our lives - Queen (and the video is even more sad...)
RoxHard said on July 2, 2004 00:58:
I generally think instrumental songs are some of the saddest songs you could ever hear. It’s all well and good when the song has lyrics - but, if it’s instrumental, you can come up with your own meaning. I think these are some of the saddest instrumental songs:
Beethovan: “Moonlight Sonata”
The Cardigans: “Nil”
The Corrs: “Rebel Heart”
Moby: “God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters”
William Orbit: “Pieces In A Modern Style 3”
William Orbit: “Ogive Number 1”
They’re all pretty sad...
Booho said on July 12, 2004 21:04:
Per Gessle: Sakta Mina Steg
Sheryl Crow: Weather Channel
Five For Fighting: Superman (It’s Not Easy)
Katie Melua: The Closest Thing To Crazy
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue: Where The Wild Roses Grow
Creme 21: Farbspiralen
James_Earp said on July 15, 2004 14:22:
it is a very difficult choice but here are two songs that i think is very sad.
- 4am by Our Lady peace
- Storm by Lifehouse
i_jera said on July 15, 2004 16:00:
When The Music’s Over by The Doors... Not really typical to be considered as a sad one or anything, but for me it’s one of the most moving songs I’ve heard.
realsuga said on July 22, 2005 10:13:
sooooo many!
Dixie Chicks - Top Of The World
Melissa Etheridge - I Will Never Be The Same
Five Star - Godsend
Sheryl Crow - The Difficult Kind
Blue - Breathe Easy
Cyndi Lauper - I Don’t Want To Be Your Friend / Hatful Of Stars
a-ha - Summer Moved On
Roxette - You Don’t UNderstand / Anyone (the video gives me goosebumps when Marie wakes up in end) / Beautiful Things / Never Is A Long Time / Go To Sleep
ABBA - My Love, My Life
kd lang - Crying
Debbie Gibson - Didn’t Have The Heart
Kelly Clarkson - Addicted
Heart - Stranded
Expose - I’ll Never Get Over You
Celine Dion - Water From The Moon
there r so many more but these ones alone give me the chills
Bibi said on July 22, 2005 12:10:
The sadest song ever is definitely
NUR ZU BESUCH
which means “Only visiting” in English. It’s a terribly sad farewell-song by the famous German punkrock band DIE TOTEN HOSEN. Though this song is no punkrock but a beautiful ballad. It really made me cry a few times. The singer of the band wrote it down after his mother’s death. The song is about someone who visits the grave of a dear person. It’s a kind of dialogue.
Bibi said on July 22, 2005 12:19:
For those who speak German! Here are the lyrics:
Nur zu Besuch
Immer wenn ich dich besuch, fühl ich mich grenzenlos.
Alles andere ist von hier aus so weit weg.
Ich mag die Ruhe hier zwischen all den Bäumen,
als ob es den Frieden auf Erden wirklich gibt.
Es ist ein schöner Weg, der unauffällig zu dir führt.
Ja, ich habe ihn gern, weil er so hell und freundlich wirkt.
Ich habe Blumen mit, weiß nicht, ob du sie magst.
Damals hättest du dich wahrscheinlich sehr gefreut.
Wenn sie dir nicht gefallen, stör dich nicht weiter dran.
Sie werden ganz bestimmt bald wieder weggeräumt.
Wie es mir geht, die Frage stellst du jedes Mal.
Ich bin okay, will nicht, dass du dir Sorgen machst.
Und so red ich mit dir wie immer,
so als ob es wie früher wär,
so als hätten wir jede Menge Zeit.
Ich spür dich ganz nah hier bei mir,
kann deine Stimme im Wind hören
und wenn es regnet, weiß ich, dass du manchmal weinst,
bis die Sonne scheint; bis sie wieder scheint.
Ich soll dich grüßen von den andern:
sie denken alle noch ganz oft an dich.
Und dein Garten, es geht ihm wirklich gut,
obwohl man merkt, dass du ihm doch sehr fehlst.
Und es kommt immer noch Post, ganz fett adressiert an dich,
obwohl doch jeder weiß, dass du weggezogen bist.
Und so red ich mit dir wie immer
und ich verspreche dir,
wir haben irgendwann wieder jede Menge Zeit.
Dann werden wir uns wiedersehen,
du kannst dich ja kümmern, wenn du willst,
dass die Sonne an diesem Tag auch auf mein Grab scheint -
dass die Sonne scheint, dass sie wieder scheint.
rox-kuryliw said on July 22, 2005 12:30:
im suprised not many people said roxette ’anyone’
Anyone who felt like I do
Anyone who wasn’t ready to fall
Anyone who loved like I do
Knows it never really happens at all
It’s over when it’s over
What can I do about it
Now that it’s over
Everything more or less is looking so meaningless,
And fades to grey
Lying awake in an ocean of teardrops,
I float away
Bibi said on July 22, 2005 12:40:
@ Marie-Fan:
Yeah Celine Dion’s “My heart will go on” and Elton John’s “Candle in the wind” are also quite sad. I agree! Also “Only time” by Enya. But all these songs got this attention because they are connected with really sad events like the death of Lady Di, the 11th september or the terribly sad movie “Titanic”.
I think the special thing about my song suggestion is that it is not conneted with any tragedy which was in the focus of the public. I mean when you listent to “Candle in the wind” you remember immediately the death of Princess Diana for instance.
But NUR ZU BESUCH is a very personal song everyone can identify with because everyone will experience sooner or later what is discribed in this song.
plectrum said on July 22, 2005 16:50:
ritchie valens- we belong together
buddy holly-true love ways
elvis presley-blue moon
pwbbounce (moderator) said on July 25, 2005 13:16:
A Place Nearby by Lene Marlin is very sad.
Also, Without You by Nilsson (not Mariah Carey’s version!) Lovely song.
Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt is also a song which makes my eyes water up EVERY time I hear it
alexandre100 said on July 25, 2005 23:06:
Ready To Go Home - Morten Harket
That I Would Be Good - Alanis Morissette
Live For The One You Love - Celine Dion
You’ll End Up Crying - A-Ha
I’m OK - Christina Aguilera
Goodbye - Natalie Imbruglia
I Ain’t Goin’ Down - Shania Twain
Oh Father - Madonna
Two Beds And A Coffee Machine - Savage Garden
Solace - A-Ha
The Change - Marie Fredriksson
Heart Of The House - Alanis Morissette
StupidGirl said on April 28, 2004 10:39:
the first song that comes to my mind:
24 Hours - Joy Division