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CarCluster
124 posts
8 months
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Kentish said: What to you is the saddest song you have heard? I nominate - Luther Vandross; Dance with my Father. Maybe not the saddest I've ever heard but tugs at the old heart if you have ever lost a parent  Indeed - on my list of songs that bring a tear to the eye. Bizarrely I have a whole list, or a bizarre list: As mentioned - Luther Vandross; Dance with my Father. Mike + Mechanics; Living Years Olivia Newton John; Banks Of The Ohio (!?) Bette Middler; The Rose Frank Mills; Music Box Dancer (no idea why - maybe because she's on a music box and can't escape!) Abba; The Day Before You Came
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realjv
341 posts
36 months
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CrabDan
568 posts
13 months
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6th Gear
1,234 posts
64 months
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Rowan138
215 posts
21 months
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TwigtheWonderkid
6,313 posts
20 months
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kiteless
6,332 posts
74 months
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6th Gear said: See, I've always found that romantic rather than sad (still a wonderful piece, though)
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chilistrucker
1,501 posts
21 months
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agree with loads on here with their choices.
mine,
venicequeen, by the red hot chili peppers. the song tells the story of gloria scott, who i think helped the band clean themselves up from their wilder days, with drugs and stuff. she then became a close friend of the band. she got cancer, and her wish was to live out the rest of her days looking over venice beach i believe.
so the band got her a condo with said view for the rest of her days.
lyrics in the song, kind of tell her story, and what she meant to the band, its a cracking track.
lost my mum to cancer, and for me personally the words are spot on too what my mum meant to me, there is a cracking version of the song, live, on youtube, when the band played slane castle. can't watch it to this day without abit of grit getting in my eye.
also,
acoustic version of my hero, by the foo fighters.
played at my dads funeral this year,
nuff said
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onlynik
2,597 posts
63 months
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I agree with a lot of songs, and the overiding opinion seems to be something acoustic, which reminds you of someone or something speaical.
For me:
Jim Reid - The Wild Geese / Norland Wind.
The Whitlams - Buy Now Pay Later (Charlie No. 2)
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AlleyCat
229 posts
41 months
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Fluid
667 posts
55 months
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TwigtheWonderkid said: An incredibly moving piece of music. I've always preferred it played by a military brass band.
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Trophybloo
654 posts
57 months
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Unknown Legend - Neil Young- achingly sad
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sparkyhx
1,702 posts
74 months
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epom
1,332 posts
31 months
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Always found Still in Love with You by Thin Lizzy a sad song.
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The Hypno-Toad
7,081 posts
75 months
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Camphill Villan
975 posts
8 months
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"J" Is For Jules - 'Til Tuesday, Aimee Mann's band before she went solo,
"Luka" by Suazanne Vega, about a battered kid, just gets me, you know?
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The Hypno-Toad
7,081 posts
75 months
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Camphill Villan said: "J" Is For Jules - 'Til Tuesday, Aimee Mann's band before she went solo. Good call.
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Camphill Villan
975 posts
8 months
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The Hypno-Toad said: Camphill Villan said: "J" Is For Jules - 'Til Tuesday, Aimee Mann's band before she went solo. Good call. Why thank you, Hypno, what about "Lucy" on Nick Cave's The Good Son album?
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The Hypno-Toad
7,081 posts
75 months
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Camphill Villan said: Why thank you, Hypno, what about "Lucy" on Nick Cave's The Good Son album? Not a Cave fan but that's an interesting tune. A bit OTT at the start and then a very melancholic (sp?) ending.
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Lost_BMW
10,841 posts
46 months
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"Elizabeth On The Bathroom Floor" by Eels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2ipWNm9Fwabout his sister's suicide (after a totally wasted, dysfunctional life - closing lyrics, "My life is s t and piss" and then the heart beat beep stopping) seen from her point of view as it happens. How he could write something so personal from this viewpoint - and especially perform it live later - is beyond me. Cathartic maybe but must have been heart wrenching.
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