Saddest songs

[gorgon53]

Decades ago, it gave me shiver when i first heard it, and understood the lyrics....still does...even, gladly, those days are gone...

"Strange Fruits" performed by Billie Holiday

 

[jjasniew]

"Strange Fruits" performed by Billie Holiday

https://progressive.org/latest/strange-fruit-caused-the-murder-of-billie-holiday-180220/ Dont even know what to say...

 

[gorgon53]

I feel your pain...am born austrian....
There is not much that could be said...except... nowdays americans hopefully remember Billie...not only as a great Artist...but foremost as the couragious woman that risked her life, and propably gave it, to change things for the better

 

[Charles Darwin]

Yazoo - Tuesday

 

[StevenCrook]

Alison Krauss: Forget About It

Either the title track or the whole album. So much sad in one place is quite cathartic...

 

[BATE VANKO]

Red Apple - "You Care About Me'':

 

[motosapien]

Cortez the killer - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Thinking about what "civilized" Europeans did to the Peoples of the New World is very sad.

 

[motosapien]

The Carpenters aren't known for sad songs
yeah but it wasn't penned by Karen's brother.
Covered by the Carpenters and Sonic Youth ( Read the YT description)
YouTube

Sonic Youths video version is a wrist cutter.

Sonic Youth opened for Neil Young and Crazy Horse at the Rosemount Horizon in suburban Chicago on the first show of their Weld tour. Took, my wife to that one.

 

[djn]

 

[Freedom666]

Memorable event in time: national guard shooting at innocent students.

 

[luxwinter]

Julian Cope. The Armenian Genocide. Nothing I've heard, except for maybe Strange Fruit, comes close.