seanp33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Last summer my wife and I had the opportunity to see the Milk Carton Kids. They were absolutely fantastic and could probably have a career as stand-up comedians. Tom Brosseau opened for them and I had only heard one of his songs before which I had liked so I was excited to hear more of him. For the concert he was playing a 1947 Martin 00-18. He told me after the show he was planning to sell it to finance his this new album that is coming out in March of this year. After playing some songs from his previously released albums he played a song he was working on called "Hard luck boy". It is the saddest song I have ever heard in my life. He has gotten around to recording it for his new album: My link What's the saddest song you've ever heard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin 1940D28 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 The "September Song". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Don't recall the name but it was in the key of D minor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Don't recall the name but it was in the key of D minor. for certain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Don't recall the name but it was in the key of D minor. A trilogy ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duane v Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZzW13XxJ4U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 For me it is Frida's version of You Know What I Mean - Music & Words written by Phil Collins: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 These two I have in my play list, and I'm learning the last one Lonesome, Yet….beautiful……"I'm so lonesome I could cry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q18OoqeNcks "Tennessee Waltz" "Hard Times, Killing Floor" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOESTONE Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Without a doubt, it's "Barney" by Ian Tyson. Don't know it it's available on line; it's on an old Columbia album entitled Ian & Sylvia. It's about a man putting down his horse (and underneath, it's about a whole lot more). If it don't make you cry, nothing will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I am sure so many of you will post up a song that will make me say, "oh yeah... that is the saddest..." Anyhow, I saw John Hiatt play this song with Lyle Lovett last year. It was the first time I had heard the song. I was tearing up listening to the story in John's song. I thought how sad it must be to be this cold and forlorn lonely woman in this bar. Icy Blue Heart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurfbird Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Townes Van Zandt has at least a dozen: "Marie," "Waitin' 'Round to Die," "Nothing," "Tecumseh Valley" but the most painful to hear because it's so devoid of hope would be "A Song For" off the album *No Deeper Blue*. The studio version sounds like he can barely make it through the song. The shakes have gotten so bad he can barely sing it. Chokes me up every time. Ribbons of love, please keep me true sane Until I reach home on the morrow Never, never to wander again I'm weak and I'm weary of sorrow London to Dublin, Australia to Perth I gazed at your sky, I tasted your earth Sung out my heart for what it was worth Never again shall I ramble There's nowhere left in this world where to go My arms, my legs they're a-tremblin' Thoughts both clouded and blue as the sky Not even worth the rememberin' Now as I stumble and reel to my bed All that I've done, all that I've said Means nothin' to me, I'd soon as be dead All of this world be forgotten No words of comfort, no words of advice Nothin' to offer a stranger Gone the love, gone the spite It just doesn't matter no longer My sky's getting far, the ground's gettin' close My self goin' crazy, the way that it does I'll lie on my pillow and sleep if I must Too late to wish, I'd been stronger Too late to wish, I'd been stronger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 And I reckon #2 for me would be Mickey Newberry's "San Francisco Mable Joy". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Smurf I stand down. I knew I would. You are so dead right about the song having no hope, and how it seems he can't make it through. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYK-jNZ0xhQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Glen Campbell's 'I'm not going to miss you" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8TsAh-zYFI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones Vince Gills Go Rest High on That mountain is sad as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayyj Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Any ballad by Spiritualized is always a tearjerker for me (bonus points to this clip for the Gibson forum in that he's playing a beautiful black '30s L-0) Classic'60s girl group heartbreak: Past, Present, Future by the Shangri Las Elvis Costello has a great voice for sad songs, especially when he covers George Jones https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQlU3hussQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L8_4thesh0w Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 More than one broken heart conveyed in this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmbx4Y1UmbA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroAussie Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 The Jack - AC/DC ... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretplay Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Surely it's got to be the Everly's 'So Sad' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 SmurfBird, Wow. I read a biography on TVZ a couple of years ago. That song ("A Song For") is the icing on the cake. I had thought "He Stopped Loving Her Today" was my #1 Saddest. No more. I'll have to give "Icy Blue Heart" a couple of spins though. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 333 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Warren Zevon's Keep Me In Your Heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KjRLq4uF4A Red 333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hall Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 It's N. Young's, "Requiem For The Rockets". Edit: Some sad ones also on Pearls Before Swine's album "Use Of Ashes" re: "Rocket Man" in particular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurfbird Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Glad to hear I'm not the only one completely agape at the hopeless of TVZ at his most bleak and hopeless. Throwing a curveball in here, Mark Kozelek, of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon, has a number of sad songs that match a voice that is deceptively simple but that conveys great emotional pain. On one of his many solo LP/EPs, he wrote and recorded "Ruth Marie," a song about his girlfriend's grandmother living in a home with Alzheimer's. My mother passed this way, so I know how close he comes to nailing it. I grew so old in that house I lived in They brought me here 'cause I can't take care I lost my worth and my purpose here I feel you cry, but I can't speak my mind Will you hold me and never let me go? 'Cause I hated when you walk outside that door 'Cause I know I won't ever see your eyes The eyes I gave you When my eyes shut, they'll take me to the land For fifty years I lived there with my man And on my own, I lived for forty more I watched you grow up from babies on the floor To the beautiful women that you are And I hated that you've gone away so far 'Cause I know I won't ever see those eyes The eyes I gave you The evenings fall, they'll drag me out the hall Up to my bunk and drug me 'til I'm numb But pass the haze, I see your pretty face Remember me when I'm gone You know I love you, though I can hardly say And I hate it when you see me in this way But in darkness, I'll always see those eyes The eyes I gave you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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