Top 40 Saddest Songs Ever Made - Page 4

**thunderfly** · January 10th, 2015, 10:57 PM

Jake Bugg - Broken.
Not a well known song perhaps but still very sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQMq5dO8Vb4

**catweasel28** · January 10th, 2015, 11:58 PM

A song so sad, it's downright dangerous and has received Government Health Warnings - or, at least, vocal versions were banned by the BBC during World War 2, as it was feared the song would damage national morale.

Composed in 1933 by pianist Rezső Seress, it soon earned the soubriquet of the "Hungarian Suicide Song". It was frequently rumoured that people took their own lives whilst this song was playing although substantiation is hard to find.

Rezső Seress did indeed commit suicide in January 1968, some 35 years after writing the song. He survived jumping out of a window in Budapest, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire.

Despite - or, more likely, because of the song's infamy, it has been frequently recorded - usually by women, although there is nothing gender-specific in the lyrics. More recent versions have been by Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor and Bjőrk. Although, for me, the utter despair has never been captured better than in the 1941 Okeh version by Billie Holiday.

http://youtu.be/50E3tL1YMeU

Sunday is gloomy my hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thought of ever returning you
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday with shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided to end it all
Soon there'll be candles and prayers that are sad I know
Let them not weep let them know that I'm glad to go
Death is no dream for in death I'm caressing you
With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you
Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep in the deep of my heart dear
Darling I hope that my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you how much I wanted you
Gloomy Sunday

**Dr Shipherd** · January 11th, 2015, 01:21 AM

"End of the Rainbow" by Richard Thompson.

Avoid sharp objects and high elevations while listening to this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRwc_1sILkQ

MisterE · January 11th, 2015, 08:19 AM

I tend to try and avoid listening to 'sad' songs b/c I think I'd always rather be in a better mood, but still some of them creep in.

In this case the song I'm posting doesn't come off SOUNDING sad, but is lyrically moving when you realize it's about losing his father, and I am always struck by how powerful the song is.

"Fallen" by Volbeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Z42rPr_cU

**handcircle** · January 11th, 2015, 11:08 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough
She's stood him up"
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally

**catweasel28** · January 11th, 2015, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Shipherd

"End of the Rainbow" by Richard Thompson.

Avoid sharp objects and high elevations while listening to this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRwc_1sILkQ

Richard was certainly in full nihilism mode with that one.
Walking On A Wire, written during the break-up of his marriage to Linda, is almost unbearably despairing too:

http://youtu.be/7o3h7eyVRp8

But, the one that never fails to bring a tear to my eye at the end is, actually, this jaunty little number:

http://youtu.be/5yw2yKNLEPc

wakman11 · January 14th, 2015, 08:21 PM

These are my contribution to the top 40!

Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers
Nobodys Child - Karen Young
Lightning Express - Everly Brothers
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
Its you - Freddie Starr (its true!)
Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Vallance

Have fun

**buttsie** · January 15th, 2015, 07:35 AM

Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1990 HQ)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJI1y0i1mk

Redgum - I Was Only 19 (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

Above song dissected / explained - 2005 hip-hop version by different artist linked

https://10protestsongs.wikispaces.co...+Greenlight%29

Ozzy sings "Take Me Out To The Ballgame". (gives new meaning to sad)

Not surprisingly soon after

The Chicago Cubs recently announced that they have decided to pull the plug on a Wrigley Field tradition: celebrity guests singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the 7th inning stretch. The reason? Well, I think ostensibly it’s to return to the more old-fashioned ballpark traditions and make the games less about out-of-town celebrities. But if that’s the official reason, the unofficial one is that so very many of the performances in recent years have really, really sucked. I mean, with some of these performances, if they didn’t force you to turn away or cover your ears, then they made you roll your eyes or scratch your head.

totalprosports .com /2013/03/05/worst-performances-take-me-out-to-the-ball-game-at-wrigley-field/

**blondifan** · May 9th, 2015, 08:24 PM

Watermarks on the ceiling
I can see Jesus and he's frowning at me
I see a dead seal on the beach
The old man says he's already saved it three times this week
Guess it just wants to die
I would wanna die too
With people putting oil into my air
But to be fair, I've done my share
Guess everybody's got their different point of view

I was walking down Sunset Strip,
Phillip Island, not Los Angeles
Got me some hot chips and a cold drink
Took a sandy seat on the shore
There's a paper on the ground,
it makes my headache quite profound
As I read it out aloud
It said "The Great Barrier Reef it ain't so great anymore
It's been raped beyond belief, the dredgers treat it like a whore"

I drank 'til I was sinking, sank 'til I was thinking
That I'm thankful for this view
We either think that we're invincible or that we are invisible
When realistically we're somewhere in between

We all think that we're nobody but everybody is somebody else's somebody

Don't ask me what I really mean
I am just a reflection
Of what you really wanna see
So take you want from me

So take what you want from me

Satellites on the ceiling
I can see Jesus and she's smiling at me
All I wanna say is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-TDyc83g3o

**rotobott** · May 9th, 2015, 08:59 PM

This is not to be viewed when sad or feeling suicidal, beautiful though and makes you realise things could be worse.

Gorecki's third symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4

January 10th, 2015, 11:58 PM	#32
catweasel28 Vintage Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Camberwick Green Posts: 564 Thanks: 4,629 Thanked 9,579 Times in 561 Posts	Gloomy Sunday A song so sad, it's downright dangerous and has received Government Health Warnings - or, at least, vocal versions were banned by the BBC during World War 2, as it was feared the song would damage national morale. Composed in 1933 by pianist Rezső Seress, it soon earned the soubriquet of the "Hungarian Suicide Song". It was frequently rumoured that people took their own lives whilst this song was playing although substantiation is hard to find. Rezső Seress did indeed commit suicide in January 1968, some 35 years after writing the song. He survived jumping out of a window in Budapest, but later in the hospital choked himself to death with a wire. Despite - or, more likely, because of the song's infamy, it has been frequently recorded - usually by women, although there is nothing gender-specific in the lyrics. More recent versions have been by Marianne Faithfull, Sinead O'Connor and Bjőrk. Although, for me, the utter despair has never been captured better than in the 1941 Okeh version by Billie Holiday. http://youtu.be/50E3tL1YMeU Sunday is gloomy my hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers will never awaken you Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you Angels have no thought of ever returning you Would they be angry if I thought of joining you? Gloomy Sunday Gloomy is Sunday with shadows I spend it all My heart and I have decided to end it all Soon there'll be candles and prayers that are sad I know Let them not weep let them know that I'm glad to go Death is no dream for in death I'm caressing you With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you Gloomy Sunday Dreaming, I was only dreaming I wake and I find you asleep in the deep of my heart dear Darling I hope that my dream never haunted you My heart is telling you how much I wanted you Gloomy Sunday

January 11th, 2015, 01:21 AM	#33
Dr Shipherd Vintage Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: On the dirty linoleum floor, sipping cheap Scotch Posts: 428 Thanks: 8,274 Thanked 7,625 Times in 409 Posts	"End of the Rainbow" by Richard Thompson. Avoid sharp objects and high elevations while listening to this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRwc_1sILkQ __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. BLUE DEVILS - 2023 DCI CHAMPIONS!! NUMBER 21 - AND A 3-PEAT!!

January 11th, 2015, 11:08 AM	#35
handcircle Vintage Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Sitting at my Computer Posts: 472 Thanks: 13,264 Thanked 15,749 Times in 456 Posts	Alone again naturally Gilbert O'Sullivan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8 In a little while from now If I’m not feeling any less sour I promise myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower And climbing to the top will throw myself off In an effort to make it clear to who Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered Left standing in the lurch at a church Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough She's stood him up" No point in us remaining We may as well go home As I did on my own Alone again, naturally To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay Looking forward to well wouldn’t do The role I was about to play But as if to knock me down Reality came around And without so much, as a mere touch Cut me into little pieces Leaving me to doubt Talk about God and His mercy Or if He really does exist Why did He desert me in my hour of need I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally It seems to me that there are more hearts broken in the world that can’t be mended Left unattended What do we do? What do we do? Alone again, naturally Now looking back over the years And whatever else that appears I remember I cried when my father died Never wishing to hide the tears And at sixty-five years old My mother, God rest her soul, Couldn’t understand why the only man She had ever loved had been taken Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken Despite encouragement from me No words were ever spoken And when she passed away I cried and cried all day Alone again, naturally Alone again, naturally __________________ Porn is what sex should be like! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

January 15th, 2015, 07:35 AM	#38
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,301 Times in 12,746 Posts	Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1990 HQ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJI1y0i1mk Redgum - I Was Only 19 (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY Above song dissected / explained - 2005 hip-hop version by different artist linked https://10protestsongs.wikispaces.co...+Greenlight%29 Ozzy sings "Take Me Out To The Ballgame". (gives new meaning to sad) Not surprisingly soon after The Chicago Cubs recently announced that they have decided to pull the plug on a Wrigley Field tradition: celebrity guests singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the 7th inning stretch. The reason? Well, I think ostensibly it’s to return to the more old-fashioned ballpark traditions and make the games less about out-of-town celebrities. But if that’s the official reason, the unofficial one is that so very many of the performances in recent years have really, really sucked. I mean, with some of these performances, if they didn’t force you to turn away or cover your ears, then they made you roll your eyes or scratch your head. totalprosports .com /2013/03/05/worst-performances-take-me-out-to-the-ball-game-at-wrigley-field/ Last edited by buttsie; January 15th, 2015 at 07:53 AM..

May 9th, 2015, 08:24 PM	#39
blondifan Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 4,406 Thanks: 55,000 Thanked 60,211 Times in 4,401 Posts	Kim's Caravan written by Courtney Barnett Watermarks on the ceiling I can see Jesus and he's frowning at me I see a dead seal on the beach The old man says he's already saved it three times this week Guess it just wants to die I would wanna die too With people putting oil into my air But to be fair, I've done my share Guess everybody's got their different point of view I was walking down Sunset Strip, Phillip Island, not Los Angeles Got me some hot chips and a cold drink Took a sandy seat on the shore There's a paper on the ground, it makes my headache quite profound As I read it out aloud It said "The Great Barrier Reef it ain't so great anymore It's been raped beyond belief, the dredgers treat it like a whore" I drank 'til I was sinking, sank 'til I was thinking That I'm thankful for this view We either think that we're invincible or that we are invisible When realistically we're somewhere in between We all think that we're nobody but everybody is somebody else's somebody Don't ask me what I really mean I am just a reflection Of what you really wanna see So take you want from me So take what you want from me Satellites on the ceiling I can see Jesus and she's smiling at me All I wanna say is... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-TDyc83g3o

January 10th, 2015, 10:57 PM	#31
thunderfly Vintage Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 896 Thanks: 6,620 Thanked 11,386 Times in 896 Posts	Jake Bugg - Broken. Not a well known song perhaps but still very sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQMq5dO8Vb4

January 11th, 2015, 08:19 AM	#34
MisterE Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13 Thanks: 97 Thanked 77 Times in 9 Posts	I tend to try and avoid listening to 'sad' songs b/c I think I'd always rather be in a better mood, but still some of them creep in. In this case the song I'm posting doesn't come off SOUNDING sad, but is lyrically moving when you realize it's about losing his father, and I am always struck by how powerful the song is. "Fallen" by Volbeat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Z42rPr_cU

January 14th, 2015, 08:21 PM	#37
wakman11 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Robin Hood Country Posts: 139 Thanks: 1,307 Thanked 1,035 Times in 124 Posts	These are my contribution to the top 40! Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers Nobodys Child - Karen Young Lightning Express - Everly Brothers Honey - Bobby Goldsboro Its you - Freddie Starr (its true!) Tell Laura I Love Her - Ricky Vallance Have fun

May 9th, 2015, 08:59 PM	#40
rotobott Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 32,111 Thanks: 174,792 Thanked 634,673 Times in 31,432 Posts	This is not to be viewed when sad or feeling suicidal, beautiful though and makes you realise things could be worse. Gorecki's third symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4