Quote :

"^SAY WHAT NOW!?!?!?!"

^^being that General Johnson wrote the song

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=7944

[Edited on August 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM. Reason : 2]

8/18/2011 5:43:42 PM

I've already Googled their version to try to understand your point of view.

Why does it matter who wrote the song?

Otis Redding wrote "Respect." Doesn't mean he did it better than Aretha Franklin.

8/18/2011 5:56:21 PM

"Lightning Crashes" by Live
"Brick" by Ben Folds
"Funeral March" by Chopin - can't believe nobody mentioned this
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
"Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" and pretty much all of In Utero - Nirvana

8/18/2011 6:03:46 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4JczptrGik
Gil Scott Heron - Home Is Were The Hatred Is

Not the saddest song ever, but pretty depressing

[Edited on August 18, 2011 at 6:05 PM. Reason : .]

8/18/2011 6:04:32 PM

This song is way more sad than Brick...to me, at least. Used to be a go-to breakup song when I was younger and lamer. Not even sure what it's about...

Evaporated - Ben Folds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaNAvV_8mMc

Apologize for the shitty user submitted video. Official video doesn't exist.



[Edited on August 18, 2011 at 7:27 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2011 7:22:42 PM

http://youtu.be/UVuvG4SKCf8


Third Eye Blind - The Background

8/18/2011 8:45:05 PM

Goodbye, my lover.

Goodbye, my friend.

You have been the one. You have been the one for me.

Goodbye, my lover.

Goodbye, my friend...

8/18/2011 8:58:10 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go ("Hurt" Johnny Cash)

8/19/2011 1:13:15 AM

"Here You Me" by Jimmy Eat World makes me cry like every time I hear it, but I associate it with one of my high school friends dying so ...... I probably find it sadder than most people

And I will second "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley

8/19/2011 1:33:56 AM

pussies

8/19/2011 1:37:34 AM

Add this one to your funeral playlist to make e'rybody cry. Wait for the hook!

9/26/2011 10:30:15 PM

9/26/2011 10:42:17 PM

^don't watch that if you're Irish.

9/26/2011 10:43:35 PM

The Postal Service - Nothing Better always makes me blue

9/27/2011 12:11:59 AM

for some reason "the war" and "joining the army" by lucero always depress the fuck outta me in a surprising way.

when i hear them i always think back to the couple times my grandmother's brother, grandfather (other side), and great grandfather opened up about the stuff they saw during wwII. they saw some fucked up stuff and it still affected them till the day they passed. my great grandfather is still alive and let out a little more last time i visited him. such conversations def give you a whole new perspective on not just how they lived, but your own life.

9/27/2011 1:11:13 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAe3sCIakXo

Ron Pope - A drop in the Ocean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LCBkkSdjEo

9/27/2011 1:16:08 AM

fleet foxes - meadowlark

9/27/2011 1:26:23 AM

Fuck all your drivel! Mine's the saddest!

9/27/2011 1:40:53 AM

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6t4Zs5Yq_k

9/27/2011 1:45:56 AM

^that's pretty sad...

9/27/2011 1:58:32 AM

Vege a Vliagnak by Rezso Seress and the Gloomy Sunday variants




chills.




My favorite of the English versions:



Pretty good version from a movie:



Billie Holiday:



piano score:

10/30/2011 1:33:40 PM

Saddest song ever?

Death Cab For Cutie - What Sarah Said

Aside from "She Stopped Loving Her Today", no other song on this list has shit on the above.

10/30/2011 4:22:13 PM

^ I was about to post that...

Death Cab for Cutie "Transantlanticism" is also a very sad one...

Quote :

"The rhythm of my footsteps crossing flatlands to your door have been silenced forever more. The distance is quite simply much too far for me to row"

Oh add Offspring "The Kids Aren't Alright" , Everclear "Father of Mine" and Evanescence "My Immortal"

[Edited on October 30, 2011 at 4:32 PM. Reason : .]

10/30/2011 4:28:30 PM

Indeed, that song is probably equal to What Sarah Said

10/30/2011 4:32:41 PM

Evanescence "Forgive Me" is probably the saddest song in my book... Maybe it's because I've got some personal attachment to it. Regardless, it belongs on the list.

10/30/2011 4:39:54 PM

I'm just going to let the entire song speak for itself.....

Quote :

""What Sarah Said" And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time As I stared at my shoes in the ICU that reeked of piss and 409 And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself that I'd already taken too much today As each descending peak on the LCD took you a little farther away from me Away from me Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines in a place where we only say goodbye It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground as the TV entertained itself 'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news And then the nurse comes round and everyone will lift their heads But I'm thinking of what Sarah said that "Love is watching someone die" So who's going to watch you die?.. "

[Edited on October 30, 2011 at 5:03 PM. Reason : :-(]

10/30/2011 5:02:35 PM

That's definitely a good one for this list.

10/30/2011 6:23:37 PM

shit dude, I dont even wanna listen to that song

10/30/2011 6:31:14 PM