The Best Sad Songs

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Neil Mace

agreed

Alan: 'Oh yeah, I like the Beatles too'
Ben: 'Really? Whats your favourite Beatles album?'
Alan: 'Hmmm....I'd have to say ''The Best Of The Beatles'''

From I'm Alan Partridge

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Hound Dog

Elvis Presley - Don't

I'm Going To David Copperfield Show On 16.Dec 2004
Cool?

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: brent_krebs

ah....... hound dog and elvis.......

desperado?

"I really like my job at Burger King," Richards said. "But I just couldn't give back the SpongeBob."

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: playthefunk

"Tears Are In Your Eyes" by Yo La Tengo.

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Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: Kid-Kenobi

Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan

Wonderful - Everclear

"If you walk away, I'll walk away.
Just tell me which road you will take...
I don't wanna risk our paths crossing some day, so
You walk that way, and I'll walk this way."
- Bright Eyes, 'One Foot in Front of the Other'

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Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: southsoccer

sting - i hung my head

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: brent_krebs

Oasis - Little James

"I really like my job at Burger King," Richards said. "But I just couldn't give back the SpongeBob."

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: powrtocw

Sleeping- The Postal Service

think i'm gonna have to disagree.....

but i'll add

beck - lonesome tears

beck - its all in your mind

they'll never catch me man.........cuz i'm fucking innocent

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: brent_krebs

wallflowers - i started a joke

"I really like my job at Burger King," Richards said. "But I just couldn't give back the SpongeBob."

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: sparklle

oh, i love that song.. i love the wallflowers and i heard it in a movie recently. Zoolander?

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You think that you're too cool for school, but I have a newsflash for you Walter Cronkite... you aren't.

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: brent_krebs

*ding ding ding*

"I really like my job at Burger King," Richards said. "But I just couldn't give back the SpongeBob."

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: sparklle

heh. thought so.
i love jakob dylan.

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You think that you're too cool for school, but I have a newsflash for you Walter Cronkite... you aren't.

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: ilovebenfolds

Wow I don't know how I forgot about this one before:

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

"My goat knows the bowling score, hallelujah."

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: chotacabras

i like neil diamond. come on people.
COMEANAWYEAHAAAA!!!!!!

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: ChuckMetcalf

I Started A Joke is a Bee Gees cover. I've heard the original, but not the Wallflowers verssion. I take it that its good?

It's more of a drug song, but Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd has an underlying sadness to it. Americn Triangle by Elton John is really good too.

Love is fleeting but art never dies.

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: kingfelix

james william hindle does a nice cover of "i started a joke." much better than the original.

Dec 13th (6 years ago)

Posted by: southsoccer

The Wallflowers cover of the Bee Gees song is actually much better than the original

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: emaline03

Mad World - Tears for Fears version
Elliott Smith's Thirteen, Last Call, and Waltz #2
Theme from Mahogany - Diana Ross
Karma Police - Radiohead
Fade To Black - Metallica

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: traviskid

i know whenever i am sad i listen to
St. Ides Heaven- Elliott Smith
or
The Calender Hung Itself- Bright Eyes

situations get fucked up, turned around, soon or later

Can we get something straight? Ben didn't write 'The Luckiest' about you and your boyfriend. In fact, it has nothing to do with you two. I would go as far to say there will never be ANYTHING written about you that approaches that level of beauty. We should not listen to 'The Luckiest' in first person, we are on the outside looking in, admiring the view, but seperate.

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Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: wenfolds78

alright folks, I've got a hell of a list....

I Love You - Sarah McLachlan
Raining in Baltimore - Counting Crows
Operator - Jim Croce
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Hold On - Sarah Mclachlan
Nothing compares 2 u - Sinead oconnor
1000 oceans - Tori Amos
Dust in the wind - Kansas
To Wish Impossible Things - Cure

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: traviskid

The thing is, 90% of the great songs in this world are sad. Adam Duritz said it best when he said that when you are happy there is just not the same need to write.

something to think about.

situations get fucked up, turned around, soon or later

everything is exactly right, as I walk around here drunk every night, with an open container from 7-11, in St. Ides Heaven

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Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: traviskid

also, "Why Does it Always Rain on Me?" by Travis is great.

situations get fucked up, turned around, soon or later

everything is exactly right, as I walk around here drunk every night, with an open container from 7-11, in St. Ides Heaven

purevolume.com/kevinfuller

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: !gas!panic!

how is little james sad?

"get some devastation in the back." --bill frist

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: Nepenthe

The Calender Hung Itself- Bright Eyes

or anything from fevers and mirrors...

or any bright eyes, actually..

Nothing Gets Crossed Out

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: darkvulkan

God, I could name about 25, but I don't feel like it.

~j.

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: I WANT MY MONEY

I agree with many already listed. Add:

Putting The Damage On - Tori Amos
People Ain't No Good - Nick Cave

"You've fucked it up now!!!"
~my dad

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: darkvulkan

I haven't looked yet, but "Me and a Gun" by Tori Amos gets me every time.

~j.

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: SirLaitier

Damien Rice's whole album is pretty sad. Even though it's very heartfelt, it's still sad.

"I thought about...your mommy..." --Ben

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"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: I WANT MY MONEY

Baker Baker - Tori Amos
And So It Goes - Billy Joel ...worth mentioning again

"You've fucked it up now!!!"
~my dad

Mar 6th (5 years ago)

Posted by: trigger

It's Not Going To Stop - Aimee Mann

just beautifully sad

When money talks I hate to listen, but lately its been screaming in my ear.