Saddest songs.

[BandWP]

This is a sad performance of a sad song.

 

[Banned Tosspot]

 

[Adidas Sharston]

Prince ft Rosie Gaines - Nothing Compares 2 U

 

[Ballet-on-ice]

This one isn't meant to be but I think it's really sad...

 

[DWIFF]

Wind beneath my wings
Bette Midler

 

[rushts]

I've checked the thread and am surprised no one has mentioned 'Ghosteen' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was very difficult explaining to the wife why i was crying like a baby when she walked in and caught me listening to this album.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

 

[fredmont]

Always loved this song but years before I actually listened to the lyrics.

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Candi Staton, singer

I was playing what they called the chitlin circuit – backwoods, R&B, juke joint-type clubs with women dancers painted on the walls, no proper dressing rooms and hecklers. Two shows a night and most nights you’d have to chase down the promoter to get paid.

I’d just signed to Warner Brothers, though, and they were opening this new disco department. A producer called David Crawford was always in their office hustling and he’d wanted to work with me for years, so we finally got the chance. He fasted for 40 days before we went in the studio, because he wanted to get into a more spiritual realm, and asked me where I was in my life. I told him I was trying to get out of a really bad relationship: this guy was threatening me and telling me that if I ever left him he’d kill me or kill my kids. I was so fearful. He was a pimp and a con man: every female artist will get one of these guys, once. He drugged me and I don’t even remember the day I was supposed to have married him. I think it was all a setup and I don’t think it was ever registered.

David poured all this into writing Young Hearts Run Free. He had a lot of great songs, but said they were album cuts, not hits. But when he came up with Young Hearts Run Free, I instantly loved it. I heard the music first, then he sang it to me once and gave me the lyric sheet. Then I sang it in one take. I pleaded with him to let me do it again and he said: “You can, but I’ve got it.” As an artist, the first take contains the raw emotion. The hurt in my voice is real. I was singing my life.

 

[journolud]

What a great band they are/ were

 

[uncle fester]