What's The Saddest Song You Have Ever Heard?

Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell (there are others, but that one has always been quite haunting

virtute the cat explains her departure- the weakerthans

My Vampire Heart - Tom McRae

Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism" has always been really sad for me.

Oddly - The Good Left Undone by Rise Against is horribly sad for me.

Dropkick Murphys - Green Fields of France
"Barbara Allen" by anyone who's ever done it, but some are better than others
"Almost Lover" A Fine Frenzy

^^ Barbara Allen is really fucking sad.. there's a play based off of that song called 'Dark of the Moon' It's really good.

"Self-Conclusion" by The Spill Canvas

"Strange Fruit" - Josh White
"House of the Rising Sun" - Josh White Jr.
"The Way We Were" - Kupek
"Something I Can Never Have" - NIN
"Bottom of the World" and "Picture in a Frame" - Tom Waits
(Seth Walker does a pretty good version of "Picture in a Frame" too)

That's even sadder in original form by Billie Holiday

Drowning - Stabbing Westward

I'll have to check that out.

Also

Radiohead/How I Made My Millions
Thom Yorke/Cymbal Rush
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers/Hope On Board
Passengers/Theme From The Swan
Tom Waits/Take It With Me

hmmm... maybe

Anathema - Fragile Dreams

That's what I was going to go with. Not only one of the greatest sad songs ever, but one of my favorite NIN tracks, and that's saying something.

The version of Pushit from Salival always hits me hard too :sniff:

Placebo-My Sweet Prince

Check out the version by Nina Simone, too.

Hands down Asleep by The Smiths its makes me sad every time I hear it but I have to stop what I am doing and take it in.....sigh.

I found the versions by both Billie Holiday and NIna Simone and they were both very good. But I think I like the Josh White version better.

Hat tip to Stosbet and ElysianZero for pointing these out to me.

Jeff Buckleys version of Hallelujah or NIN's Something I can never have

The edited version of "I will wait for you" by Connie Francis that futurama used


The full version isn't as sad I think.

And throw in another vote for jonny cash, hurt

a tie between:

"And All That Could Have Been" - NIN

and

Barber's "Adagio For Strings, Op.11" performed by Agnus Dei and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.

the first fills my heart with leaded memories and the second literally brings me to tears every time i listen to it with it's utterly overpowering, haunting beauty. i started crying a little just thinking about it, and i'm normally fairly stoic.

Roy Orbison's "Crying" breaks my heart every time i hear it.

His heartbreak is so raw and it's like, every other song. Love, love, love.

This:



The music is "Gortoz a Ran" by Denez Prigent (I think). From "Blackhawk Down".

The letter is actually from a real letter written by the Union Soldier Captain Sullivan Ballou to his wife Sarah, shortly before his death at the battle of Bull Run in the Civil War.

the cure "from the edge of the deep green sea"