Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 22:27     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Give My Love to Rose
On the Evening Train

Can't listen to either song without tearing up.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 22:26     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time
As a mother who has buried a young child "tears in heaven" has touched me like no other song out there. Ive left full grocery carts, dentist appointments and department stores upon hearing it. I just can't process that song in public yet. <3 it though.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 22:21     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Landslide" had my lip quivering earlier today...

Also, "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Beck, and "Fire and Rain".


Forgot about Fire and Rain- is the story correct that the song is about his girlfriend who died in an airplane crash- how his friends had paid to get her to see James Taylor to see him (I guess this was before he was wealthy?)..


Not according to Wikipedia.


The Flying Machine in pieces on the ground is a reference to a band of his, not an airplane crash.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 22:19     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:"Landslide" had my lip quivering earlier today...

Also, "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Beck, and "Fire and Rain".


Forgot about Fire and Rain- is the story correct that the song is about his girlfriend who died in an airplane crash- how his friends had paid to get her to see James Taylor to see him (I guess this was before he was wealthy?)..


Not according to Wikipedia.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 22:16     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Anonymous wrote:"Landslide" had my lip quivering earlier today...

Also, "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Beck, and "Fire and Rain".


Forgot about Fire and Rain- is the story correct that the song is about his girlfriend who died in an airplane crash- how his friends had paid to get her to see James Taylor to see him (I guess this was before he was wealthy?)..
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 21:59     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Seasons of Love, from Rent. My sister recently died and I played this song repeatedly. Sad but also cathartic.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 21:42     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time
Anonymous wrote:
In a bit of a different vein, any of you ever heard the song "Kilkelly, Ireland"? It is based on actual letters written between a father and one of his sons who left Ireland during the potato famine to find work in America. It's really lovely, but I always end up sobbing at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76kAivCb20


Made me cry. Sigh.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 21:27     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Sound of Silence
Blowin in the Wind

It was sad when that great ship went down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGRzNHom0F4
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 21:25     Subject: The saddest song of all time
"Landslide" had my lip quivering earlier today...

Also, "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Beck, and "Fire and Rain".
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 21:20     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time
"Perfect Day" by Lou Reed
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 21:12     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Empty Garden by Elton John.
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 21:11     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time
Biko
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 20:55     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Greensleeves
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 20:46     Subject: The saddest song of all time
The Offspring "Gone Away"
Pat Boone "Moody River"
Anonymous
Post 05/21/2014 13:33     Subject: The saddest song of all time
Millworker by James Taylor