what are the most saddest songs you have ever heard?

Danny BUTTERFIELD wrote:

Wombat in my Pants wrote:

Telemann's Concerto in D for Trumpet is another good one.

There is a Telemann piece Concerto for Flute and Oboe I believe, I heard years ago. I've lost the exact title..not sad exactly but the oboe voice positivly weeps at points.

I believe the actual piece is Trumpet Concerto in D. It's a trumpet with a harpsichord and strings as harmony.

bloody chili wrote:

Gillian Welch - Annabelle

Patty Griffin - Making Pies

yes! Making Pies is very sad. Patty Griffin can tell an awfully sad story with just a few words. Such as with Top of the World, mentioned above, or Long Ride Home.

I'll add Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, for the sound/mood.

and

John Prine -- Far From Me

Concerto in E for transverse flute, oboe d amore, viola d amore,strings and Continuo maybe? I am soundless so can not sample it. He was so prolific who knows what I may have heard but years later this Q sent me right to that long ago heard piece.

Pre-classical is not really my forte. Tom and Dick doing the Troubador Song madrigal is as close as I get to Baroque.

Blaze Foley- If I could only fly

Bob Dylan - Blowing in the wind

- Mr Tamborine Man

Rustic Overtones - Dear Mr President

metro gnome says cheep cheep wrote:

Concerto in E for transverse flute, oboe d amore, viola d amore,strings and Continuo maybe? I am soundless so can not sample it. He was so prolific who knows what I may have heard but years later this Q sent me right to that long ago heard piece.

Pre-classical is not really my forte. Tom and Dick doing the Troubador Song madrigal is as close as I get to Baroque.

I looked it up and the actual title is trumpet concerto in D adagio. Here's a version from youtube:

It's not bad, but the version I had from Time-life 100 greatest classical masterpieces is better.

Apparently I'm a semi-retarded idiot because youtube does you no good when you're soundless. Maybe if you watch closely, you can pick up on the fingering of the trumpet player. Maybe not.

Is he fingering his trumpet in Ameslan?

Somewhere over the rainbow - by that Israel guy from Hawaii

Glad I\'m Not A Kennedy - Shona Laing

I Know It\'s Over - The Smiths

Randolph\'s Going Home - Shayne Carter

The Living Dead - Suede

James Brown - Try Me

Velvet Underground - After Hours

Nothing is more sad than Amazing Grace played on bagpipes. The sorrowful wail of a great bagpipe corps blasting it never ceases to raise a hair or two on me. Incredibly sorrowful, yet strangely uplifting at the same time.

Pete wrote:

A vote for Elinor Rigby, by the Beatles. I probably already nominated it on that other thread, but I forget.

That would probably be my pick. It captures chronic loneliness as well as any song I can think of.

Along the same lines is one of my personal favorites, "Dock of the Bay," by Otis Redding.

"Twilight" by Elliott Smith

Backstreets by Bruce Springsteen

Zat0pek wrote:

Nothing is more sad than Amazing Grace played on bagpipes. The sorrowful wail of a great bagpipe corps blasting it never ceases to raise a hair or two on me. Incredibly sorrowful, yet strangely uplifting at the same time.

ditto.