Everybody Hurts: saddest song of all time

[wellendcanons]

Actually I find Everybody Hurts rather uplifting. But perhaps it has a different effect if you're a man.

Not for me Didi. I find this song very uplifting too. It has a sad feel about it but it's all about hope and survival. I play it a lot and it lifts me up every time.

Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton and Streets Of London by Ralph McTell, both already mentioned, are certainly two of the saddest songs I can think of.

wec

[jaycad]

I must really dislike 'sad songs' because I hate every song in that list except for 'Yesterday'!
'Love is Blindness' by U2 is quite a miserable yet enjoyable song but the song that I find most depressing is 'For No One' by 'The Beatles'.

[didi-5]

Lilac Wine. It's not that it's sad per se, but it is emotionally draining, especially seeing Elkie perform it live.

[dremble wedge]

The Kilkelly letters.....

"He called for you at the end..."

Kilkelly is in its own league of sadness.

[Mark O]

Not the one which has the lyric 'I'm like a flower, just growing wild'? Can't bear that record.

That's the one Didi, I think other artistes have recorded it also.

It's been mentioned on another thread but 'I've never been to me' by Charlene (putting aside the cheesy narration bit) is a bit of sad one too, "for I have this need to tell you, why I'm all alone today" etc; etc;

[captainhaddock]

I certainly feel sad every time I hear Candle in the Wind, especially when he changes the lyrics to try to make it apply to whoever has just died

Steve

yes thats right
candling the wind is the saddest song of all time
the diana tribute record that was originally written about someone else

[Steve Crook]

Streets of London by Ralph McTell, it has to be the original version, always brings tears to my eyes.

Check out Ralph McTell's "Old Brown Dog"



Steve

[Freddy]

Sinead O'Connor singing Phil Coulter's Shores of the Swilly, a beautifully haunting song about the loss of his sister.

[Mark O]

yes thats right
candling the wind is the saddest song of all time
the diana tribute record that was originally written about someone else

To be fair to Elton he did only have a week to write alternative lyrics, it would have taken much much longer to compose a brand new song as a tribute to poor Di............

[jimw1]

To be fair to Elton he did only have a week to write alternative lyrics, it would have taken much much longer to compose a brand new song as a tribute to poor Di............

Bernie Taupin Elton Johns long time Writing partner wrote the Lyrics Mark....

[faginsgirl]

Bernie Taupin Elton Johns long time Writing partner wrote the Lyrics Mark....

It wouldn`t matter if the lyrics were written by Kenny Everett Jim, Mark would have thought it was marvelous since it was dedicated to a Royal

[jimw1]

It wouldn`t matter if the lyrics were written by Kenny Everett Jim, Mark would have thought it was marvelous since it was dedicated to a Royal

this is True.......

[captainhaddock]

they should have left it as it was being a song about marylin monroe
nobody asked for or needed a song about diana

[jimw1]

they should have left it as it was being a song about marylin monroe
nobody asked for or needed a song about diana

I would have thought was a matter for them....they wrote the original...unfortunately some people Liked it.. and some people bought it....

[wellendcanons]

Add Bobby Goldsboro's Honey, Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms and Boom Town Rats' I Don't Like Mondays to my list. Also, Abba's The Winner Takes It All.

wec

[faginsgirl]

I agree Dave, Honey is extremely painful to listen to!

But I do like `I don`t like Mondays` because although there is an awful story behind it, it brings back memories as the first record I ever bought myself. And it should be given credit for coming across as being one of the most powerful and moving songs of all time IMO.

Another one that really gets to me and sends shivers down my spine is `Under pressure` by Queen and David Bowie. For some reason, I feel all emotional and tingly inside when I hear it.

[Mark O]

Bernie Taupin Elton Johns long time Writing partner wrote the Lyrics Mark....

So he did Jim, I appreciate the correction, I'd forgotten all about Bernie to be honest and automatically assumed it was all Elton's work, maybe Bernie collaborated with the rewrite, I don't really know, I still find it hard to listen to though, but then I would I guess.

[Mark O]

It wouldn`t matter if the lyrics were written by Kenny Everett Jim, Mark would have thought it was marvelous since it was dedicated to a Royal

aaw, really Michelle!

Though as her brother said, she had no need of a royal title to spread her particular brand of magic, that magic being everything she did for disadvantaged, dispelling myths about AIDS, cradling sick children, landmines, real hands on in everyway she was, bless her, there'll never be another like Princess Diana.

[faginsgirl]

Though as her brother said, she had no need of a royal title to spread her particular brand of magic.

But it helped

We could all spend our lives doing charity work if we had Diana`s status and wealth.

[Harbottle]

Their caterwauling might bring tears to my eyes but not much else about that to be honest. I can think of two genuinely sad songs already mentioned, Ralph McTell's Streets of London or The Beatles Eleanor Rigby (but they are more than 20 years old so probably don't count).