Sad songs are the best songs
 

There are many Sad/Melancholic songs around. Some resonate with us, while others no so much.

Share the Sad/Melancholic songs you like best and tell us why.


@gbgoodies , @Chypmunk , @christine , this Thread is specially aimed at you.


A-HA - Stay On These Roads


It depicts an old man whose life long love is about to die, and as they exchange their last words to each other, promising to meet again on this earth she slips in and out of conscientiousness.

Personal appeal - I love old people.And many old people die alone. I've witnessed the deep claws of sadness that took my grandfather from this world after his wife died. He had a cancer for quite a while and he hold on to life to take care of my grandmother, cause she was blind and bed ridden for years.

Radiohead - Pyramid Song


Welll, most Radiohead songs are damn melancholic, but this one takes the cake. It's about suicide and peacefulness after loss.

Metallica - The Unforgiven I


Who hasn't ever felt that no matter how much we struggle, the world seems always to bury us under cold, unfair scrutiny? Powerful stuff.

King Crimson - Starless


Starless and Bible Black [or, if you prefer, sadness and hopelessness] is all about feeling depressed with no light of happiness at the end of the tunnel. I've been there, you've been there, we've all been there.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia

It could be any street in any city of any country. The lyrics say it all.

I love sad movies but am more into music that gets me riled up. These are some of my favorite sad songs-

https://youtu.be/jqMG3VR5PP4

https://youtu.be/t6CMSuT98-E

https://youtu.be/8QUX8fJ40RA

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x japan pulled some nice sentimental songs and they'd packaged in one album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNm06MbIhjI

For me, Frosti is the saddest song ever made. For personal reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S94Bmk8KRA

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gottta agree with radiohead ofc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPqZBMx7i4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWglVPKHQGM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYBSayCsH0

I cry my eyes out everytime I listen to this one. The lyrics relate to me on a deep, personal level.

Clay Walker - Where Do I Fit In The Picture is a song about a man who finds out that the woman he loves is marrying another man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTqgvlcUZyM

Tim McGraw - If You're Reading This is a song that is written in the form of a letter written by a soldier to his parents, that is supposed to be sent to them if he dies in combat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwoXmXA8BvY

Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) is a song written by Alan Jackson after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPHnadJ-0hE


Darryl Worley - Have You Forgotten? is another song about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6yLQRF-cEU

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Very good stuff, people.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FF_ncSeb8k

"This is a sad f*ckin' song. We'll be lucky if I don't bust out cryin'."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM0YCnehRcE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipG81lODrxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCrHyhIqD7U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ck-uuCJJBo

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Country music definitely holds the record for sobbin' in your beer music. A lot of people dismiss it, and sometimes I want to myself when it drops into the maudlin, I just want to laugh, but sometimes if you're in the mood it's a real killer. GBG finds the best ones. At the best they can just feel like they can relate to everyone without being dirgelike, at the worse they're unwittingly funny. I like the sad drinking ones.

post your favorite Sad Songs Christine.


You know you want to....

Nick Cave has some great tunes. Love this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzTCbaZj5HA

ok!
Here's some of mine, and these are really my favourites so if we do have a sad songs tournament you'll have to listen to them again

This one reduces me to tears
Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, Opus 14 - II. Andante

as does this, sung here by Maria Callas

from Puccini's Madama Butterfly Un bel di vedremo

Exquisite choices you have there. I applaud your good taste.