Topic: Saddest Good Song? (Read 30539 times)

Spartan Pho3nix · « **on:** 21 Apr 2006, 00:31 »

What's the saddest song you know...a song that always makes you depressed and kinda emo...but isn't emo and isn't bad?

Coreh · « **Reply #1 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 00:35 »

I'm kind of imbalanced so Bright Eyes' Bowl of Oranges will make me happy one day and then the next will make me want to kill myself. But I love it.

blanko blanco · « **Reply #2 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 00:36 »

Anal Cunt - Recycling is Gay.

I tear up every time.

Bunnyman · « **Reply #3 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 01:21 »

Autechre - Teartear

Amber as an album moves me to tears.

The Hammered · « **Reply #4 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 02:05 »

I like early Swans for depressed/pissed-off moods, though I don't think that's really what you're asking. Not really sad in the tear-jerking sense. Haven't heard their later stuff yet, but I want to.

As for particular songs (and something more "conventionally sad" than Swans), probably Here Today, Gone Tomorrow or I Just Want to Have Something to Do by the Ramones. Actually, the former is pretty whiny, but I'm not sure about emo (because I honestly don't know what counts as emo or not). The latter is one of my favorite songs, period.

Freelance_Physicist · « **Reply #5 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 03:49 »

Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon

...

Just shut up...

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #6 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 04:42 »

Low - (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace

i knew this girl when i was young
she took her spikes from everyone
one night she swallowed up the lake
that's how you sing amazing grace

I don't cry when I hear this song but it is stinking close.

Filk · « **Reply #7 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 05:28 »

Dream Theater - space dye vest

Garcin · « **Reply #8 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 06:32 »

The saddest song in the world is a song about a young girl who is told by her mother and father that she will never be pretty. And then, they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it.

Thrillho · « **Reply #9 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 07:09 »

Joy Division - Decades.

Atmosphere maybe...I dunno. One of those two.

Johnny Cash - Hurt

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #10 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 07:45 »

EElS - Electro-shock Blues (the song, not the album)

It just sounds so goddamn DESOLATE.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #11 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 09:03 »

Stop Your Crying - Spiritualized
It's odd, because it's a plea to someone loved to stop crying, but it's so sad itself. I love the line "I feel so broke inside but I'll devote my life to loving you"

Mikendher · « **Reply #12 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 09:16 »

Elliott Smith - Twilight

KharBevNor · « **Reply #13 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 09:19 »

I could not choose one: I could try three or four...

Current 93 - A Song For Douglas After He's Dead

Incredible. Unlike many sad songs, this ones meaning is hidden in layers of allusion, but even if you don't understand it, the power of the delivery is enough. And oh, the scope. It's about the death, not just of a soul, of a life, but of all romance and beauty and ideals. Incredible.

Dead Can Dance - The Wind That Shakes the Barley

This is all in the vocal delivery. Well, it is a cappella. But I mean...fuck.

Sol Invictus - Here Am I

This is more a personal one, that just sliced me to the core one bad night with two, very simple lines:

"And here you are, drunk and scared,
You've finally realised that life's not fair."

My Dying Bride - The Crown of Sympathy

It's hard to pick one song from the beautifully orchestrated expression of grief, desperation and anguish that is MDB's timeless opus 'Turn Loose the Swans'. But if I had to, this would be it.

"I'd fallen before, but it never hurt like this.
Don't leave me here to crawl through the mire.
I'm without fault before the throne of God...
Take from me the Crown of Sympathy.

*DOOMIEST FUCKING RIFF EVER*"

pip_helix · « **Reply #14 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 09:28 »

bjork - the next to last song.

"this isn't the last song,
there's no violin.
the choir is quiet,
and no one takes a spin.
this is the next to last song,
and that's all."

not your typical bjork fare. there's no music, it's just her in an execution room, basically praying for her son. poor woman barely makes it through the second verse, and then she gets hung.

(sorry for spoiling the end of dancer in the dark. it'll still hit you in an odd way.)

karl gambolputty... · « **Reply #15 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 10:19 »

I can't choose between Cat Power's Good Woman and Knife in the Water's Norma.

Evan · « **Reply #16 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 10:26 »

Cursive - Driftwood: A Fairy Tale

I dunno why, it's just sad.

SailorPunk · « **Reply #17 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 10:54 »

fred jones part 2 - ben folds

it's just so ...real....

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #18 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 11:12 »

Okay, here's a painful admission: When I first got into puberty, I was a lot different from who I am now. I was a little geek just DYING for acceptance (ironically, I got accepted after I stopped caring about being accepted) and things, and at some point, I was shot down by three girls in one week. I was angsty, incredibly depressed and hated myself.

Then I heard Dashboard Confessional's 'This Old Wound' at around eight P.M., and then I broke down and cried until eight A.M. the next morning.

It doesn't really fit the topic because it's not a good song, but it still makes me feel incredibly sad and emo. Or, alternatively, it makes me want to start punching things for ever having been such an incredible loser.

Azathoth · « **Reply #19 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 11:21 »

Bert Jansch - Needle of Death

tomselleck69 · « **Reply #20 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 11:22 »

sufjan - john wayne gacy jr.

mberan42 · « **Reply #21 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 13:18 »

Yeah, I went through a wonderfully horrific emo phase and listened to nothing but Dashboard Confessional and Bright Eyes' "Lover I Don't Have to Love."

Songs that I love listening to when I'm depressed:
Radiohead - Exit Music for a Film and Talk Show Host
Sigur Ros - Pretty much their entire catalogue
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (the song from album of same name)
astrid - Play Dead (the song from album of same name)
The Album Leaf - In A Small Place (the album)
Idlewild - The Remote Part / Scottish Fiction
The Notwist - Neon Golden (the song from album of same name)
The Wrens - She Sends Kisses

That's a pretty good start to my list. I love depressive / -ing music.

Valrus · « **Reply #22 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 13:56 »

Quote from: pip_helix

poor woman barely makes it through the second verse, and then she gets hung.

Hanged.

Misereatur · « **Reply #23 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 15:09 »

Acid Bath - Scream Of The Butterfly
Acid Bath - Venus Blue
Acid Bath - The Bones Of Baby Dolls

But basically, all of Acid Bath's album are filled in melancholy and depression. Sweet sweet melancholy.

Temple Of The Dog - Say Hello 2 Heaven (written in memory of Mother Love Bone's vocalist, who's name escaped me because I'm sick and I'm allowed to forget things right now. In fact, Temple Of The Dog was formed in his memory as a single album project)
Bethlehem - Tagebuch Einer Totgeburt
Novembers Doom - Silent Tomorow
Paradise Lost - As I Die
Paradise Lost - Your Hand In Mine
Paradise Lost - Pity The Sadness
Paradise Lost - Widow
Paradise Lost - True Belief
Paradise Lost - Weeping Words
Paradise Lost - Forever Failure

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #24 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 15:31 »

Marillion - The demo version of 'alone again in the lap of luxury'. And ... well, basically, the whole of 'Misplaced Childhood'. Minus 'White Feather'.

Kai · « **Reply #25 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 15:42 »

I get pretty iffy after listening to the acoustic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
Tom Waits - Diamonds and Gold. More of the tone of the song than anything.
Pink Floyd - Hey You, but that's because I have some memories attached to it.
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done really gets me pretty worked up too. Couple things; bad drug memories and it's generally just a sad song.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #26 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 15:48 »

For some reason I can't listen to Yellowcard songs without tearing up o.0

Thrillho · « **Reply #27 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 15:59 »

Quote from: Kai

Pink Floyd - Hey You, but that's because I have some memories attached to it.

The Pink Floyd stuff that gets me choked up is The Final Cut as a whole - but especially 'When The Tigers Broke Free;' yeah I got the reissue version, so sue me! - and also 'Jugband Blues,' because it's just...Barrett bowing out, and it's so sad.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #28 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 16:26 »

The Doors - The End

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Goodbye Blue Sky and Hey You

Rush - 2112 (Part VI: Soliloquy)

And, although it's far from my favorite song by them, the last part of Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Losing Time/Grand Finale) is really depressing.

MusicSim8 · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 18:04 »

Quote from: SailorPunk

fred jones part 2 - ben folds

it's just so ...real....

I agree almost completely. Just something about the song that's so tragic.

There are a few songs for me that aren't emo and aren't bad (In my opinion at least. I know a lot of people don't like the Dave Matthews Band, but they have a few tracks that are just horribly sad, but are never emo.)

Stay or Leave-Dave Matthews solo is very sad, especially after going through a rough break-up

wake up naked drinking coffee
making plans to change the world
while the world is changing us
it was good good love
you used to laugh under the covers
maybe not so often now
but the way i used to laugh with you
was loud and hard
remember we used to dance
and everyone wanted to be you and me
i want to be too
what day is this
besides the day you left me
what day is this
besides the day you went
so what to do
with the rest of the day's afternoon
hey well isn't it strange how we change
everything we did
did i do all that i could

rive gauche · « **Reply #30 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 18:09 »

Quote from: Freelance_Physicist

Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon

...

Just shut up...

Oh my gosh, seriously. I was going to say that song. I think it is the saddest song that has ever been written.

Quote from: Moiche

The saddest song in the world is a song about a young girl who is told by her mother and father that she will never be pretty. And then, they open the front door, and on the porch is a little white suitcase, with all of her things in it.

No, the saddest song is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken someday. And that they'll play in a field when it gets better.

Melodic · « **Reply #31 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 18:09 »

Death Cab's A Lack of Color. A beautiful song that never ceases to bring a tear to my eye.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #32 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 18:24 »

Tiger Army- "Remember Forever"

Pearl Jam- "Save You"

Ravenbomb · « **Reply #33 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 18:29 »

"The Shortest Story" by Harry Chapin
I am born today
the sun burns a promise
in my eye
Mama strikes me
and I draw a breath and cry
above me a cloud
slowly tumbles through the sky
I am glad, to be alive
It is my seventh day
I taste the hunger
and I cry
My brother and sister
cling to mama's side
she squeezes her breast
but it has nothing to provide
someone weeps, I fall asleep
It is twenty days today
mama does not hold me
anymore
I open my mouth
but I am too weak to cry
above me a bird slowly crawls across the sky
why is there nothing
now to do but die?

Panbombadil · « **Reply #34 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 18:48 »

Eli, the Barrow Boy by The Decemberists

“Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe
Made of gold and silk Arabian thread
But she is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove
And I must push my barrow all the day
And I must push my barrow all the day”

Poor Eli, he'll never have any peace.

Johnny C · « **Reply #35 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 18:55 »

If "Left And Leaving" by the Weakerthans was a person, it would suffer from depression, I think.

Also: Okkervil River's "Song Of Our So-Called Friend," from Black Sheep Boy, is such a devestating culmination of the rest of the record that I can't quote from it without ruining some of its impact. Suffice to say, great album, sad songs, and that one's probably the saddest.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #36 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 19:12 »

Quote from: mberan42

Radiohead - Exit Music for a Film and Talk Show Host
Sigur Ros - Pretty much their entire catalogue
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (the song from album of same name)

Quote from: Mikendher

Elliott Smith - Twilight

AGREED! Twilight might just be the most soul crushing song ever.

On my personal list of sad songs:
Alkaline Trio - Sorry About That, Radio
Death Cab For Cutie - Styrofoam Plates, Tiny Vessels
The Spill Canvas - The Tide
My Bloody Valentine gets me depressed
Mogwai - Take Me Somewhere Nice
Martha Wainwright (in general)
The Dears (in general)
Jets To Brazil - Further Noth (If you want to feel lonely, listen to Perfecting Loneliness. It's a brilliant a powerful record, just horribley depressing and heartbreaking).
Hayden - Bad As They Seem
The Cure - the Blood Flowers cd (once again, terrific but hella sulky)

EDIT: Johnny C, Left & Leaving: AMAZING. It get's me everytime too.

MusicSim8 · « **Reply #37 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 19:58 »

Oh yeah, She's Leaving Home by the Beatles.

and for some reason a purely instrumental song that always brings a tear to my eye, Captive Delusions by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

killerstarfish · « **Reply #38 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 20:17 »

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here and Hey You
Beatles - Golden Slumbers (this one has some memories...)

Soidanae · « **Reply #39 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 20:34 »

The entirety of the Tori Amos Crucify ep.

Kai · « **Reply #40 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 20:50 »

Eels' Electro Shock Blues is generally a downer (Up until P.S. You Rock My World).

Not An Addict · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 21:01 »

Put me in just the right horrible mood and any song becomes sad. The last time I had my heart broken I cried at Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams". Like, bawling. It's not even a sad song!

U2's "With or Without You" tends to get me, too. Yes, it's a cliche, but damned if my heart doesn't sink a few notches when the bassline kicks in.

FreshJive787 · « **Reply #42 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 21:54 »

Bright Eyes - padrick my prince

and at least 4 elliot smith songs.

MajinTrunkz · « **Reply #43 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 22:00 »

Quote from: Evan

Cursive - Driftwood: A Fairy Tale

I dunno why, it's just sad.

I agree with this one. Also:

"My Tiger My Heart" - The Boy Least Likely To
"Bankrupt on Selling" - Modest Mouse

soak · « **Reply #44 on:** 21 Apr 2006, 23:48 »

Adams Song by Blink-182 is the most heartfelt song about Suicide in like ever. If it doesn't make you cry your an evil hearted bastard.

Quote from: Blink-182

I never thought I'd die alone
another six months I'll be unknown
give all my things to all my friends
you'll never step foot in my room again
you'll close it off, board it up
remember the time that I spilled the cup
of apple juice in the hall
please tell mom this is not her fault

P.S. Have you seen the new emo-type band featuring one of the ex-Blink guys WTF? Crapilicious

Trollstormur · « **Reply #45 on:** 22 Apr 2006, 00:24 »

Falconer - Portals of Light

this song is too beautiful for words.

Melodic · « **Reply #46 on:** 22 Apr 2006, 00:49 »

Quote from: soak

Adams Song by Blink-182 is the most heartfelt song about Suicide in like ever. If it doesn't make you cry your an evil hearted bastard.

Quote from: Blink-182
I never thought I'd die alone
another six months I'll be unknown
give all my things to all my friends
you'll never step foot in my room again
you'll close it off, board it up
remember the time that I spilled the cup
of apple juice in the hall
please tell mom this is not her fault

P.S. Have you seen the new emo-type band featuring one of the ex-Blink guys WTF? Crapilicious

No such thing as emo-type bands with rich mohawk-toting drummers.

Omnicide · « **Reply #47 on:** 22 Apr 2006, 02:21 »

Quote from: soak

Adams Song by Blink-182 is the most heartfelt song about Suicide in like ever. If it doesn't make you cry your an evil hearted bastard.

bullshit. It's a wretched sack of cliches. Blink 182 couldn't write their names in the snow, let alone a meaningful lyric.

Nightswimming by REM gets me every time. right here...

elcapitan · « **Reply #48 on:** 22 Apr 2006, 04:32 »

Seconded on (the absolute awfulness of) Adam's Song. I shudder to admit that I actually have that album somewhere...

Anyway, some good quality depressing music: (YMMV)

The Cure - Jupiter Crash
Something For Kate - Monsters
Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me
Nick Cave - 15 Feet Of Pure White Snow
VAST - I'm Dying
Eric Bogle - No Man's Land
Sarah McLachlan - Hold On
Epicure - Firing Squad

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #49 on:** 22 Apr 2006, 04:48 »

Quote from: Kai

Eels' Electro Shock Blues is generally a downer (Up until P.S. You Rock My World).

I don't know. A lot of the songs on Electro Shock Blues are depressing, but they also have this kind of 'man, don't sweat it, you'll get over it' feel to it. Also, Last Stop: This Town.

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Author Topic: Saddest Good Song? (Read 30539 times)

Spartan Pho3nix

blanko blanco

Bunnyman

The Hammered

Praeserpium Machinarum

Filk

Garcin

TrueNeutral

Mikendher

pip_helix

Evan

TrueNeutral

Azathoth

rive gauche

Ravenbomb

Panbombadil

killerstarfish

Not An Addict

soak

Omnicide

TrueNeutral