What are the saddest songs made in the last 15 years???

(Kinda inspired by CanuckAmok's thread)

Here's a few of my choices:

"Creep" by Stone Temple Pilots - A song about a horrible childhood

"Something In The Way" by Nirvana - Kurt's song about him living underneath a bridge when he was younger

"The World I Know" by Collective Soul - I used to cry to this song when I was undergoing depression in junior high. Song about suicide

So, what are some of your choices???

eom

"Creep" by Radiohead sounds real sad too, though.

IMHO Radiohead's Creep is the far better song.

Lover You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley

Sour Times - Portishead
The Dancer - PJ Harvey
Real Bad News - Aimee Mann
Save Me - Aimee Mann
Sleep - Garbage
Black - Sarah McLachlan
Ice - Sarah McLachlan
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

all the boy toy band music, all the teenage girl music, pretty much everything done by pop R&B musicians (or whatever category they call themselves now).

Actually, it's been a pretty sad 15 years for music overall.

By Eric Chapton ...

His son was real close to my son's age ...

I hope none of my children die before me. I couldn't bear that pain. I know I couldn't. The song itself isn't nearly as sad as the reason he wrote it.

if you know the underlying story and that song does not cause a lump then you have no soul.

1)Rufus Wainwright's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah (much better and more heartbreaking than Jeff Buckley's more wanky version of same).
2)Soul and Fire by Sebadoh
3)Plainsong by the Cure (I would have said Pictures of You but it's status as the background music to a commercial now taints it for me)
4)All I Want Is You by U2
5)New Jersey by the Red House Painters

'1916' by Motorhead
'See you on the otherside' by Ozzy Osbourne

And the original is much more sad, particularly because of the more inept musicianship of the Vasellines.

i thought all their songs on "Unplugged in New York" were the best. I need to get an album from them :-)

For me it would be most of the songs of Leonard Cohen, The Sisters of Mercy and certainly Morphine.
Songs :
"Il faut savoir" Charles Aznavour
"Blue Hotel", Chris Isaac

And my absolute favourite is the entire CD "Streetwalking" from Gerry Rafferty.

Jee I must have a sad life with so many sad songs :-)

If not the saddest then the sorriest.

Maybe it's because I heard this record in an all-nite Mexican cafe in south Minneapolis shortly after Kurt Cobain offed hisself, when we were all depressed and highly bummed and broke and unemployed.

There's something about the music and the vocals-- that kind of heroin fog where it all kind of blends together. You can hear the cries for help, but they're way too distant for you to do anything about it.

BTW, this is still the only record by Alice In Chains I own and can listen to repeatedly.

is a song called "Letting Go" by Nitin Sawhney

"Now i often talk of my heart
How can i turn to the dark
And the swaying silence
I see, there's nothing i can hold on to
You can't breathe if i hold you tight
You can't breathe if i hold you tight

Don't be afraid of letting go
Don't be afraid of letting go

Not of anything out of anyone
All alone here with my demons

Am i ready to move on
To a person or place
Alone away from here
And i miss you
And i lose you
And i found you
I choose to follow my heart

Don't be afraid of letting go
Don't be afraid of letting go

Not of anything out of anyone
Out of anything out of anyone

Don't be afraid of letting go"


About a year ago our most beloved cat, Willy, was struck and killed by a car. It was a devastating loss for my wife and me and this song came to symbolize our grief.

The lyric "don't be afraid of letting go" really helped me to get past our loss.

right now the only song I ever hear that causes me immense sadness is "Hail to the Chief".

A cover of a built to spill song that destroys the original on all fronts...An overwhelmingly sad tune.

Also:

"Fight Test," the Flaming Lips

Country music has some great songs that can get me all teared up in no time;

Where Have You Been by Kathy Mattea
For My Broken Heart by Reba McIntyre (one of the best songs about loss)
Love, Me and In This Life by Collin Raye
The Dance by Garth Brooks
The Song Remembers When by Trisha Yearwood

"Heart Shaped Box" Nirvana
"Down in a hole" Alice in Chains

by Warren Zevon. Because of the timing and the man himself.

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile

There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Carrying A Torch - Van Morrison
I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine - Beth Orton
Standing In The Doorway - Bob Dylan

Off of her most recent cd Bare. It's brutal and I've still not been able to listen to it without crying.

Though I agree "Keep me in your heart" by Warren Zevon is a close second. Funny how they both came out in 2003. I guess it was a good year for sad songs.

The "best" lost love song, ever. Emily Saliers can deliver a vocal like no one else...whew.

by Neutral Milk Hotel

Last Kiss-Pearl Jam
One Headlight-The Wallflowers

And this after putting out 4 stellar albums, what a sad waste.