saddest non musical song youve ever heard
saddest non musical song youve ever heard
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#0saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:47pmi know theres a thread about saddest songs, but that included broadway. whats the saddest song youve heard thats not from a musical?
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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#1re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:49pmThe song "In A new york minute" that had all the 9/11 comments added in.
#2re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:52pmAnything that comes out of Britany Spears' mouth. Sad sad sad sad sad sad sad.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#3re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:52pm
hahaha, capnhook. just to clarify, i meant sad in an emotional way, not sad in a horrible way 
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
#4re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:54pmLeann Rimes' "Probably Wouldn't Be This Way". Paired with the video, it's especially heartbreaking.
#5re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:56pmThe September 11th anniversary remix of "Heaven".
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#6re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:04pmThe song Night Swimming(Don't know who it's by. Sorry.)is very sad. Another song that is very sad is, oooooo what is it called? It stars like "Kilcoah, Ireland, 1817" Something like that? Anyway, it's not even deep, sad. It's just dead depressing.
"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question."
-cheezedoodle
-cheezedoodle
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#7re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:08pm"Ain't No Way" - Aretha Franklin
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#8re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:14pm
theatrebabe - REM sings Night Swimming.
My vote is Don't Take the Girl by Tim McGraw. That's also one of the best songs I've heard.
Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#10re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:38pmThanks timote!!!!
"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question."
-cheezedoodle
-cheezedoodle
#11re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:49pm
My Funny Valentine
I'll Be Missing You
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#13re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:05pmEverybody Hurts- REM
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
#14re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:07pmbillie holiday's "strange fruit" its so startiling i want to cry every time i hear it. i can't really listen to it often because it's so chilling.
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#15re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:14pm
TORI AMOS makes me bawl. If you are interested here are a few little songs:
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1996-07-11_butterfly.mp3
butterfly
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1996-09-23_angie.mp3
Angie
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1996-10-23_cooling.mp3
Cooling
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/2001-11-11_boys_in_the_trees.mp3
boys in trees
and of course...(you HAVE to listen to this)
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1999-08-24_little_earthquakes.mp3
Little Earthquakes
This is the first song I heard of Tori's and it holds a VERY special place in my heart. I came out to my friends listening to this and it has helped me through some very tough times.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#16re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:19pmThere's this one song that I can't listen to because it's so sad. But I don't know the name. It's about a father and a son and the father isn't around, and when the son grows up he ends up just like his father. It's like, "We'll get together then, dad, you know we'll have a good time then." or something.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#17re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:20pm
boytobroadway...no mention of "Me and A Gun"? Or maybe "Hey Jupiter"?
A few Idina Menzel songs come to my mind. "You'd Be Surprised," especially. Though her original arrangement of that song is about 100 times more powerful then the one that ended up on her CD.
#18re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:23pm
ashley that song is Cats in the Cradle. Harry Chapin sang it.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Updated On: 10/13/05 at 10:23 PM
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#19re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:25pmnothing compares 2U - Sinead O' Connor's version of the Prince song.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#20re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:32pmconcrete angel, the christmas shoes, gods will, and grown men dont cry. country music in general is very sad at times...
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#21re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:45pm
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1996-10-30_improv-hey_jupiter.mp3
Hey Jupiter (I should have put that in bwaygirl107)
and
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1996-05-06_mother.mp3
Mother...this makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. this is a must hear to.
#22re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 10:45pmElton John's Last Song
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#23re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/13/05 at 11:51pmMichael Penn's "The Big Top". It's the first song you hear in the movie, Boogie Nights.
#24re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 3:45amI don't know who sings them, but Christmas Shoes and Dance With My Father Again are 2 of the saddest songs I know. Oh, and when I first saw Josh Groban sing To Where You Are on Ally McBeal I cried like a baby.
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