Sad songs

[chrismcg1]

'Wind beneath my wings' Bette Midler.

Going back 20 odd years my father had just passed away from cancer and my Mum thought my sister and I and her needed an evening out - so we went to see (not knowing the story) Beaches. Well that was a happy outing............

[thehappyotter]

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs&ob=...

And many more of their songs!

[Mrs OwenK]

I think a happy song for someone can be a very tearful one for someone else.

these two for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO_nNnfvxsE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y
or the bbc cover

[Jasandjules]

Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy. I have to turn it off.

[BlackVanDyke]

Hallelujah as sung by k d lang. Gets me every time.

When I was very young and very, very unhappy (terrifying as yet undiagnosed degenerative condition and unending bullying at school), I finally learnt how to ‘have a cry’ with the aid of Bridge Over Troubled Water. Can't listen to it any more.

And a few of the pieces that were my very best moments as a classical musician, just the thought of which has me nearly weeping like a girl - notably the Brahms Sextet in B flat, the Mendelssohn Octet and most of all Schutz Four Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross. It has no religious significance to me at all but it was the best thing I ever did as a Baroque musician and symbolises most what I've lost.

[callyman]

Muntu said:

If I Could Be Where You Are - Enya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qKmIc2U8rc

Never heard this before, that is beautiful.

[ritmo]

Every day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8Wji15oio

I Want You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6sgsRAeSbM&fea...
it doesn't really get going till a 3rd of the way in

[callyman]

Adele - make you feel my love.

[Penny-lope]

Kate Nash - Nicest Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYWv_NSBZQI

[Mr_Good]

Digitonal - Silver Poetry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aite6IF4aA

[ritmo]

2 more
The Queen & the Soldier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQVXa3_-sRI&fea...

Luka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIU_xP7dos&fea...

[Gretchen]

Just heard Don McLean - Vincent played at the end of The Simpsons. I think that's a sad song. And can relate to the suffering of those with Menieres disease.

[AndrewTait]

A couple have already been mentioned - Brothers in arms, due to attending a very moving theatre production, which finished with this. Bridge over troubled water, don't know why, just gets to me.

The one that does get me everytime, is Snows of new york by Chris De Burgh, as it was played at a friends funeral.

[DubZeus]

The script - The man who cant be moved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16nOViwmSJ4&ob=...

Reminds me of when I split up with my first love, thankfully moved on but I still think about her occasionally.

[Ultuous]

turbolucie said:

Ellie Goulding's current cover of Your Song. Brings me to tears

Me too - doesn't move me in the slightest tho!

(Sorry - just think it's an abomination of the original, and I'm no Elton fan!)

[Laplace]

Aimee Mann - Wise Up

Stops me in my tracks every time, probably do to its use in Magnolia where I first heard it.

[paulshears]

Flipsyde - Happy Birthday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQG8v8kTGs&ob=...

Nelly Furtado - Try
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOY6IeQS6KA

The Wreckers - Stand Still Look Pretty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK0pAM1LNYM

Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MSqF_rQ6Mw

[Gaspode]

Marianne Faithfull's version of The Ballad of Lucy Jordan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ws6qeLIKFU

or Kate Bush, The Kick Inside http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Kz26VSpqg

Or more or less anything by Dory Previn, especially Lady with the Braid or Lemon Haired Ladies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGWnC-OkrI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH45N9gg3pI

Edited by Gaspode on Tuesday 18th January 21:35

[kiteless]

Not a "sad" tune, by any stretch of the imagination. But - for me - still weepy greatness from Saint-Saens:

Softly Awakes My Heart

This also gets the tear ducts going as well:

Sugar Mice

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Jane's Addiction - The She Did

A song about the Death of Perry Farrel's girlfriend and the Suicide of his mother when he was 3...