What is the absolute saddest song in the history of the universe that you know
 

Freebird, and Everybody Hurts come to mind

Aaron Carter- My Internet Girl

Big Star - Holocaust

Simple Plan - Untitled

The Beatles - She's Leaving Home

Some others that come to mind:

The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Elliott Smith - Fond Farewell
Death Cab For Cutie - Styrofoam Plates
Weezer - Butterfly
The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)
Sublime - Poolshark
Gary Jules - Mad World
Alkaline Trio - Enjoy Your Day
All Time Quarterback - Send Packing
The Cure - A Night Like This
The Cure - Last Dance
The Cure - Homesick
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 1)
Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
Sunny Day Real Estate - Grendel
The Get Up Kids - A Newfound Interest In Massachusettes

Pretty much all of the Requiem For a Dream soundtrack, and a lot of songs by Explosions In The Sky.

Yeah, I got bored.

Whiskey Lulabies

Lou Reed - The Kids.

John Frusiciante - Fallout

Also AIC - Nutshell [/The Mask]

That YTMND emo song.


How could this happen to meeeeeeeeeeeee?

Gary Jules - Mad World
The Verve - The drugs don't work

Don't Worry, Be Happy

The Chris Perez Band - Best I Can (Chris Perez's song about his late wife, Selena Quintanilla Perez)
Bad Company - Shooting Star
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Alan Jackson - Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
Martina McBride - Independence Day
Alice In Chains - Nutshell
Travis Tritt - Tell Me I Was Dreaming
3 Doors Down - Here Without You
The Beatles - Let It Be
Don McLean - American Pie
Harry Chapin - Cat's In The Cradle

"Nutshell" by Alice in Chains is the saddest song ever.

No contest.

Stone Temple Pilots - Wonderful
Stone Temple Pilots - Bi-Polar Bear
Stone Temple Pilots - Atlanta
Stone Temple Pilots - Hello, It's Late
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Alice in Chains - Don't Follow (WAY sadder than Nutshell)
Sublime - Poolshark
Sublime - Right Back
Temple of the Dog - Say Hello to Heaven
Temple of the Dog - Time of Trouble
Audioslave - Shadow on the Sun
Audioslave - Getaway Car
Zwan - Honestly
Bush - Glycerine
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
James Taylor - Woodstock (Joni Mitchell cover)
RHCP - Dosed
RCHP - Breaking the Girl
RHCP - My Friends
RHCP - Soul to Squeeze
RHCP - Under the Bridge
Staind - The end track of dysfunction (Unpacked Baggage i think)
QOTSA - Long Slow Goodbye
QOTSA - In the Fade
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Creed - Whos Got My Back? :shifty:

I missing a lot. And some of those might not be considered a "sad song".

Death Cab For Cutie-Tiny Vessels.

Always gets me verklempt.

Post more l8r.

Gary Jules - Mad World
Guided By Voices - Hold On Hope
Lightning Seeds - Bound In A Nutshell
Travis - River (Cover of Joni Mitchell, but better than the original!)

Always been a sucka for No Doubt- Don't speak. Honorable mentio goes to 3 Doors Down- Here without you. Johnny Cash's Hurt is sad too. Shiiiiiit, the last 2 songs I mentioned were both used on the Eddie G Tributes.

saddest SONG.

Not saddest 28 songs, JOEY ROXER

Kiss- Hard Luck Woman.

Gary Jules - Mad World

Tears in Heaven - Clapton
Down in a Hole - AIC


I Touch Myself - Dyvinals :shifty:

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton (he won't even play the song live)
Enjoy Your Day - Alkaline Trio
Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams

Benton Falls - Sad Like Winter Leaves
Death Cab For Cutie - Styrofoam Plates
Death Cab For Cutie - Tiny Vessels
Sunny Day Real Estate - Grendel
Engine Down - Closed Call
Cursive - After the Movies
Cursive - Sierra
The Get Up Kids - A Newfound Interest In Massachusetts
The Appleseed Cast - Fight Song
The Good Life - A New Friend
The Good Life - Night and Day

And like FakeRazor said, a lot of Explosions In The Sky stuff, as well as Mogwai.

Many of the ones I would put have been mentioned, so to name a few that haven't:

Alone- Alice in Chains
I See a Darkness- Johnny Cash
Brick- Ben Folds Five
Stone Temple Pilots- Creep

What part of SONG don't you people understand?

SONG

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Led Zep - Since I've Been Loving You

Forgot about Mogwai.

Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

System of a Down - Bounce

IAM - Un Cri Court Dans La Nuit

The first time I heard "Flame Trees" by Cold Chisel I nearly cried.

Apart from that, Overkill by Men at Work is ridicu-sad

The saddest SONG I know is...One fine day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men (Partly because it was played at my grandfather's funeral)

Oh no, don't get me started on songs played at funerals :'(

THANKS FOR OPENING UP OLD WOUNDS, GUYS

I agree.

The only time I have cried in like the last 10 years was when this song was played at a mate of mines funeral

Yeah, I had the misfortune of that as well.

Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven is a sadder song to hear at a funeral. Waterworks-o-rama.

My Immortal is perhaps the only song that actually makes me WANT to die, but for saddest? Who Let the Dogs Out. They never find out...

Its a tie b/t "Roses" K.West Late Registration album and "Goodbye My Lover" James Blunt

:|

LOL BRILLIANT

Anyway the answer is blatently Exit Music - Radiohead

Toni Braxton - Unbreak my Heart

:D

But seriously:

Today is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail


if you don't want to kill yourself after that you're probably already dead:y:

Down in a Hole & Nutshell - AIC

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Don't Follow by AIC is 100X sadder. IM TELLING YOU.

Untitled #1 by Sigur Ros

God damn, that is a good list.
Oh, and Sleep Said The Monster - Step Counts

Big Star - Holocaust is clearly the winner though.

Clapton - Tears in Heaven

In Da Club - by Pocket change (50 cent)

My humps - Black eyed peas

ignition- R kelly ( a dance I went to played it 6 fuc*ing times !!! :@

Hips don't lie - Shakira

Stupid Girl - Pink

Anything by the Trews

Hold On - Good Charlette

Picture - Kid Rock/ Sheryl Crow

Jenny From The Block - Lopez

Who Let the dogs out - baha boys or whoever they were

hey ya - outkast

and pretty much all other rap and hiphop songs because I find them all sad and annoying.

also Watson if you thing anything sung by Johnny Cash is bad ,either, you don't much care for any country music because he was the best country singer or that you have poor opinions toward one of the best singers of this century.

Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah

also, Hayley Westenra- Never Say Goodbye, holds a personal sadness for me (again, from being played at a funeral)... I can't listen to more than the first 20 seconds without having to turn it off.

Armin Van Buuren- "burned with desire" I cried when i heard him spin it live......probably cause i was on alot of E

lmao Alter Bridge

I vote for the whole AIC "MTV Unplugged Album". Watching the video is even worse.

Tears in Heaven -- Clapton
Exit Music -- Radiohead
Hurt -- Johnny Cash

Despite having no lyrics, "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber is probably one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. There's something very tragic about it.

Linkin Park's "My December" holds some emotion from personal experiences.

:y: Adagio is about the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard.

Wish you were Here - Pink Floyd

"Lightning Crashes" from Live has always been a very sad song for me.

Linkin Park-Crawling, everytime I hear it I want to cut myself :shifty:

Shit, how could I have possibly forgotten The Pretender by Jackson Browne.

knowing what i know now, Junkhead-AIC is really f'ing sad.

Dont Follow and Nutshell

Eyedea - Bottle Dreams.....its a sad song and eyedea tells it so poetically so you have to listen to the song over and over again

Another one is Immortal Technique's You Never Know....great story telling and somewhat of a surprising ending.

Actually I don't think I got what this thread was about I was under the impression it was saddest song ever to listen to, and not something like sad song that makes you cry.

Sorry if I messed up peoples minds

But some songs that make you feel sad

Hurt- Johnny Cash ( When played at Eddies Memorial It almost made me cry)
Broken - Seether and Amy Lee
Nothing Else matters - Metallica
When Im Gone- 3 Doors Down
My Sacrifice - Creed
My Immortal - Evanescense (spelling)

These songs for some reason get you to think about people, who have passed away, friends you haven't seen in awhile, arguements with friends etc, but this list is a small one compared to what I could list.

oooh, i listened to this for the first time in years:

Soundgarden - 4th of July


depressing as fuck, but yeah, good shit

"Dead Girl" by Acid Bath

Totally forgot about this one. The remake by Agents of Oblivion is pretty good too, but... different.