Is this the saddest song....
 

....ever recorded?

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Now most everyone has heard that song, it is well known.

There are a ton of old blues and country songs pretty damn sad, hell....."took a Smith and Wesson and blew out my brains" how about...."he threw carbolic acid in my face".....then there is..."blood, blood, blood, blood"....remember Ruby took her love to town, old Hank was so lonesome he could cry, J.Frank Wilson in "Last Kiss".

What is your saddest song?

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This is probably in my top three sad songs.

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River Man by Nick Drake always gets me. Especially considering that Drake committed suicide. One of the most hypnotic songs I've ever heard, too.

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EDIT: River Man = the ferryman on the river Styx.

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That's not even the saddest Aaron Watson song.

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This is my submission to the thread. There are some damn rough ones in this thread.

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I actively hate Tim McGraw but this is a hell of a song.

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Fair enough.

I will be listening to all of these before posting any more.

Yeah...any song about the loss of a child is as sad as it gets. All of My Love by Led Zeppelin is another one of those...


This song by Jason Isbell is a hell of a song.



She said, "Andy, you're better than your past"
Winked at me and drained her glass
Cross-legged on a barstool, like nobody sits anymore
She said, "Andy, you're taking me home"
But I knew she planned to sleep alone
I'd carry her to bed, sweep up the hair from her floor

If I'd ****ed her before she got sick
I'd never hear the end of it
She don't have the spirit for that now
We just drink our drinks and laugh out loud
And bitch about the weekend crowd
And try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow

She said, "Andy, you crack me up"
Seagram's in a coffee cup
Sharecropper eyes, and the hair almost all gone
When she was drunk, she made cancer jokes
Made up her own doctors' notes
Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone

But I'd sing her classic country songs
And she'd get high and sing along
She don't have a voice to sing with now
We burn these joints in effigy
And cry about what we used to be
Try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow

I buried her a thousand times, given up my place in line
But I don't give a damn about that now
There's one thing that's real clear to me
No one dies with dignity
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow
Somehow

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From Ed Podolak

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Here's another one from Drake. Guy was a tortured soul, for sure.

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And

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What goes unnoticed is what a supremely talented guitarist Nick Drake was. He commanded an audience like few could, I've heard.

Joey & Rory Feek were a married country recording duo. When I'm Gone is a song in which the protagonist, who's dying, comforts the one left behind. That's pretty sad in and of itself.

I'd recommend listening, then reading this... ...and listening again. It might break you into little pieces.

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Yeah, I don't know much about the actual technical side of guitar playing but that's what my buddy said. I remember him commenting on how bizarre River Man feels to play, too.

I can listen to him all day. Never get sick of him.

Dots and Dashes is a song by Silversun Pickups and it has lesbians having a grand ole time then at the end the popular girl went back to being popular like their lesbian day off never happened.

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:deevee:

Nope, it's this song.

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For those who love sad ska/ punk songs:
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Finally finished listening to all that sadness, that was great and....sad.

I could post another dozen or so sad songs but I don't wanna hear anymore sad songs. i didn't think when posting this thread., yep....my bad!

How about we cheer our selves up, I don't wanna be sad no more,


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I was going to post this. Good choice.

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Concrete Angel or something like that. I can't even listen to it anymore

Third Eye Blind's song that sounds very happy and was in probably every teen movie in the late 90s, when I listened to the lyrics I was surprised how dark it was.

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There was a song called 'To build a home' or 'To build a house' that was used in a lot of commercials, but it's actually kind of sad if you listen to it in its entirety with lyrics.

I'll try to find it.

This is one i was thinking of.

This is by far the saddest song ive ever heard. But it requires context. Remember that he's suffering from alzheimer's as he writes this song to his wife.

Yeah. It’s imperative to watch this with the video.

I mean if you hate your family or whatever I guess it probably wouldn’t matter too much, but this one hit me square.

Jeez. Obviously the radiostation of my youth that would bleep our “damn” obviously didn’t read the lyrics when they played it 800 times a day.

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From about 3:20 on is some of the most emotional music ever written...

"Ill steal a hacksaw from my dad...cut the braces off your legs"

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I kind of feel like it's the entire album Disintegration.

I'm surprised this one has not been posted yet.

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The correct answer is whichever song they are currently using on the animal abuse commercials asking for help.

i started to see if I could find that then it hit me, nope because that breaks my heart.

Good one:thumb:

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Something about this groovy jam, cuts deep to the core....hits my Soul every damn time! Twas actually featured on an Episode of Kevin Costner's Western Series, "Yellowstone.

https://youtube/_AcPnI7oRss

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Good stuff!

Figured some of you would appreciate it like I do. For the Record, their entire Album, "Mud" is a damn good listen as well! Just sayin'. 💯🤘🏼

I’m on my phone or I’d link it but you should post up Broken Window Serenade by WM. It’s definitely different than something like I’m not going to miss you or the ones about kids but it hits a guy in the feels. WM is so damn good.

That's one of my favorite albums...

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well, sort of, to me
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Kind of an emo / gayish song, but it's sad nonetheless. Not the saddest, but sad.

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I will give you "Tears in Heaven" - Very Sad

But (at least to me) this is the saddest song ever written......

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Holy Guacamole,
This song is like a novel.
So to summarize, some fat ugly waitress is serving a "little" man and he explains how he banged a hot chick once, she left, and then the fat broad and the "little" man hook up.
Little dude ends up getting his dinky stinky at the end, I don't see how this is a sad song. Is it sad because the waitress was fat & ugly? (Wait, that actually makes a lot of sense...:deevee:)

It's classic Harry Chapin. He was a story teller. most of his songs took a "tad" longer than the 3:00 radio stuff. ;)

The song itself, if you read between the lines, is about "losers". No hope, no future and just trying to get by. Misery loves company.

Anyway - that has always been my take on it.....that's the beauty of music. It's the listener who determines what they hear - no right or wrong.

This is not so much sad, as it's unique and somewhat original considering the words pertain to today's environment.

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This is just the most explicitly sad alice in chains song...but almost every song from the dirt / jar of flies / tripod album fit in this thread

He sings a lot of sad stuff...
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Video doesn’t work for me, but I’m assuming Nutshell?

Yep. I recommended it.

Funny story. My buddy got tickets from this company the coop does business with. Anyway my buddy was talking shop with the dude with the tickets so I’m sitting there and the dudes wife and some other chick are talking about music. They like Luke Bryant, Jason Aldeen and other hacky fools. They saw them blah blah blah. Whatever. Then the dudes wife starts talking about these long haired guys that sat behind them at Kauffman. They said they were in a band and played Kauffman the night before. It was something weird. Like whiskey something.

So I chimed in. Whiskey Meyers? You should look them up. They can jam.

These 2 gals looked at me like I was from Mars or something. LOL. Fine. Just keep listening to garbage ass Luke Bryant. Do you Man.

The saddest song is the one that wakes you up on Monday morning.

Many may disagree because...well, it's metal. But this song by Pantera about a friend in a catatonic state always got me.

Hollow:

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I was into Taking Back Sunday in College (Many moon ago). I recently dug up some of their stuff that aged pretty well while I was bored on the tractor. Poking around their albums, this one came up. Taking Back Sunday got a lot wrong, but this one hit some notes. Pretty heavy shit. Probably not the saddest ever, but well done.

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For sure the saddest song every written.

Townes didnt have to wait around to long, booze and codeine took him quik what a loss.

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Nobody can match townes for sad songs

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They say Hank Sr was Country music God and Townes was countrys Jesus. I believe it!

Sadka Song

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