Ship building.

Bonnie prince Billie - "Raining in Darling" from I See a Darkness

Nick Drake - "Fly" (the version off Time of No Reply is achier than the one off Bryter Layter)

Miles Davis - "It Never Entered My Mind"

fIREHOSE "In Memory of Elizabeth Cotton" from If'n

Tom Waits "Johnsburg, Illinois" from Swordfishtrombones

Vic Chesnutt "West of Rome" from West of Rome

Yo La Tengo "Our Way to Fall" from ...And Nothing Turned itself....

Shearwater - "Palo Santo" from Palo Santo

Holy Sons - "Stunned" from I want to Live a Peaceful Life

Plush "See it in the early Morning" from More You Becomes You

Pavement - "Strings of Nashville" from Gold Soundz

Getz/Gilberto "Corcovado" from Getz/Gilberto

Guided by Voices - "Learning to Hunt" from Mag Earwhing!

Broadcast "Tears in the Typing Pool" from Tender Buttons







....and Shellac's "Squirrel Song", cause it's a sad fucking song.

No one's mentioned the ever-obvious Magnetic Fields?

"100,000 Fireflies" is pretty sad, as is "I Don't Believe in the Sun" from 69 Love Songs.

anything off leonard cohen's album songs of love and hate. it's hard to out-sad an album whose first line is, "i stepped into an avalanche."


also, "madame george" and "cyprus avenue" from van morrison's astral weeks.

"Brick Layer Cake"


I find this band to be, in equal parts, the funniest and saddest band ever.


My vote also goes to "Eureka IV" by the Grifters.

Ike

Mogwai:

Sad DC (!)
2 Rights Make 1 Wrong

"Rocket Ship" by Daniel Johnson.

You could pick other DJ songs as well.

Elvis Presley, "Old Shep"

Ike wrote:My vote also goes to "Eureka IV" by the Grifters.

Good song.

Katie Cruel - Karen Dalton (also 'Ribbon Bow' and a whole slew of others)

Country Blues - Dock Boggs

Hard Time Killing Floor - Skip James

Parchman Farm - Bukka White

Cod'ine - Buffy Sainte-Marie

1952 Black Vincent - Richard Thompson

I, Confess - Kevin Coyne

Ruby - Kenny Rogers

Horses - Palace

Ugly Face - Nina Nastasia

Frozen Warnings - Nico (also 'No One is There')

Blue - Joni Mitchell

Lungs - Townes van Zandt

From Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris (possibly the saddest)

Kiss and Say Goodbye - The Manhattans (Thanks BER)

Shiloh Town - Tim Hardin

(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew - Tim Rose

Cheryl's Goin' Home - Bob Lind