The saddest song in the world? :cry:

I know it's over by The Smiths

awwwwwww

Mama I'm Coming Home - Ozzy Alone Again Or - Love LWTUA

Tom Waits and Gavin Bryars: Jesus Blood Never Failed me yet.

Strangely hopeful too, but seriously bloody sad.

Any song the BBC play to accompany the montage of England after they have been knocked out of the World Cup or European Championship

This time it was NUMB .

Not that i'm still sad.Soon got over it within 24 hours because i'm used to it now

Previous competitions it was Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis in the 2002 World Cup and in 1998 it was that song by Green Day (Time Of Our Lives?)

Words, don't come easy.... well, as I remembered it

most of the tracks from Xiu Xiu's first two albums!

i could have lied - rhcp

one of my very favorites, from one of the very best:

the saddest music in the world

wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Bob Konkel wrote: Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value)

seconded. one of my favourite songs of all time. yes it's sad, but at the same time its so uplifting and just generally makes me feel good.

the unplugged version is one of the best performances of it. followed by the live at benaroya hall version. absolute genius of a song.

dubstar, elevator song, acoustic version.

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode

Does anyone else have a song with no lyrics that gets to them?

For me it's Soviet by electronic, I don't know why. but towards the end of it, it just makes me well up.

Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

...lwtua...

Dam That River wrote:

Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be, can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

That's what I used to think until I was corrected by a friend who was a far bigger Pearl Jam fan than me.... Official Lyric check required

Pearl Jam's Black? ugh. I don't know about in Engerland, but over here no song that horrendously overplayed sounds sad anymore (not that it ever did in the first place to my ears). Makes me want to put a boot through the radio instead. Surely there is some other Pearl Jam song that is far sadder than that radio fodder...like Immortality or Off He Goes.

Minx wrote:

Dam That River wrote:

Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be, can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

That's what I used to think until I was corrected by a friend who was a far bigger Pearl Jam fan than me.... Official Lyric check required

I specified the acoustic version because among other qualities it has the added "we, we belong together" lyric at the end

Minx wrote:

Dam That River wrote:

Minx wrote:

Bob Konkel wrote: wow so many come to mind, I liked me some gloom rock back in the day...

James - out to get you Cure - Disintegration Led Zeppelin - Ten years gone Nine Inch Nails - something I can never have Pearl Jam - Black (acoustic for added tearjerking value) Peter Murphy - cuts you up Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go U2 - with or without you

Yep Black by Pearl Jam that can always get to me; specially the line ' I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky, but why, why can't it be, can't it be me!!!' I some times just re play that line if I'm drunk and in cry mode

ahem

i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star, in somebody else's sky but why, why, can't it be MINE.

That's what I used to think until I was corrected by a friend who was a far bigger Pearl Jam fan than me.... Official Lyric check required

and i am a bigger fan than you, and chances are i am a bigger fan than your mate. go check on the website, i think you'll find i am right.

POPE - off he goes and immortality good calls sir.

Surprised no one has mentioned the masters of depressing sad songs, Radiohead.

To name a few:

Pyramid Song Street Spirit Creep The Tourist

Most depressing, I think has to be: Exit Music (From a Film)

Minx wrote: Does anyone else have a song with no lyrics that gets to them?

For me it's Soviet by electronic, I don't know why. but towards the end of it, it just makes me well up.

one of the b side tunes on electronic, feel every beat cant think of the name as not at home but will post when ive checked

Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

1963 for me. The Substance version.

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

agreed

In a Lonely Place

Morrissey:

Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning Life Is A Pigsty Seasick, Yet Still Docked Late Night, Maudlin Street.

Oh, and The Last Broadcast by Doves.

Dam That River wrote:

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: Johnny cash's version of Hurt, the video is required for the full effect.

agreed

I think Trent Reznor even said Johnny's version was definitive.

"Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton from "unplugged"

Anything by Crazy Frog. I get all sad, weepy and emotional just thinking about it. :(