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re: Saddest Song

Posted on 2/3/18 at 10:12 pm to
Posted by dbuchanon
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 2/3/18 at 10:12 pm to
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The winner is Alyssa Lies and it's not close


I gotta agree
Posted by 88Wildcat
Topeka, Ks
Member since Jul 2017
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Posted on 2/4/18 at 8:39 am to


First one I thought of was Brass Buttons-Gram Parsons
"And the sun comes up without her, it just doesn't know she's gone"

Also Wheels by Lone Justice and just about any version of Long Black Veil. Though I'm partial to The Band's version on Music from Big Pink.
Posted by DannyB
Bagram, Afghanistan
Member since Aug 2010
6141 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 8:55 am to
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Drugs Don't Work


Prefer the Ben Harper cover on his Live at Mars album

Also, Roses From My Friends by Ben Harper and besides Elephant, If We Were Vmpires by Jason Isbell makes me tear up every damn time I hear it.
Posted by HogX
Madison, WI
Member since Dec 2012
5042 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 9:20 am to
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What Sarah Said by Death Cab.


Oh, nice call. The "so who's going to watch you die?" part at the end always gives me chills.
Posted by tccdc
Washington, DC
Member since Sep 2007
3572 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 10:07 am to
More than have not been mentioned...

Ride On - AC/DC

It's another lonely evening
In another lonely town
But I ain’t too young to worry
And I ain’t too old to cry
When a woman gets me down



Black - Pearl Jam (sad love song)

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine?
Ooh why, ooh

I won't see you Tonight - Avenged Sevenfold

Cry alone, I've gone away
No more nights, no more pain
I've gone alone, took all my strength
I've made the change,
I won't see you tonight
Posted by WildFeather
Member since Oct 2015
27 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 10:10 am to
she love my cock - Jackyl
Lol, I still have a guitar pic that has that very thing on it I recovered from a concert in mid 90s. Good times, Jackyl actually put on a better performance than ZZ Top that night.
Posted by The Silverback
Neptune
Member since May 2013
2036 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 7:15 pm to
Boz Scaggs-Low Down
Posted by beatlejuice
Member since Jan 2016
178 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 7:28 pm to
Posted by IonaTiger
The Commonwealth Of Virginia
Member since Mar 2006
33053 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 8:03 pm to
There are a lot of truly sad songs in this thread. I saw Warren Zevon's "Keep Me In Your Heart" was posted. Truly a sad one, and even more so considering the circumstances under which it was recorded.

When I saw Les Miserables at The Kennedy Center in 1988 I was in tears listening to the total hopelessness of this song:

"I Dreamed a Dream"

It still brings me to tears.
Posted by cj35
Member since Jan 2014
6153 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 8:20 pm to
Posted by cj35
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 2/4/18 at 8:26 pm to
Posted by Rockbrc
Attic
Member since Nov 2015
7911 posts
Posted on 2/4/18 at 8:47 pm to
A bit melodramatic but I nominate "San Francisco Mabel Joy" by Mickey Newberry
Posted by Knox Harrington
Bucktown
Member since Sep 2009
96 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:22 am to
Death Cab For Cutie - "What Sarah Said"

youtube
Posted by 88Wildcat
Topeka, Ks
Member since Jul 2017
13934 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 11:12 am to
quote:

Boz Scaggs-Low Down


Any song with that bass line is automatically disqualified. Songs can't be sad and funky at the same time.
Posted by gizmoflak
Member since May 2007
11659 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 1:50 pm to
Here it is, ladies and gents....


The Saddest Song
Posted by beatlejuice
Member since Jan 2016
178 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 7:03 pm to
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Old school country but ever time I hear that song and think about William's life I always think for a person to have written a song like that he must have been truly sad.
Posted by IceTiger
Really hot place
Member since Oct 2007
26584 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 8:18 pm to
Posted by lake2280
Public intellectual
Member since Nov 2012
4289 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 9:32 pm to
Whiskey Lullaby has to be up there. Elephant was my first thought though.
Posted by MaroonWhite
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Member since Oct 2012
3691 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 10:34 pm to
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Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata is romantic; I never thought of it as sad


I interpret it as hauntingly sad, but to each his own.
This post was edited on 2/5/18 at 10:36 pm
Posted by metallica81788
NO
Member since Sep 2008
8414 posts
Posted on 2/5/18 at 11:23 pm to
Fiction by Avenged Sevenfold - written by the Rev who died before the album and they used some raw recordings from him on the final master. Lyrics are very sad - it’s almost like he knew he was going to die soon.

Tears in Heaven also good one.
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