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The saddest song..
mechorg:
To try and not repeat any previous songs (although i agree with most of the interpol, bjork, the cure, the postal service, sigur ros, radiohead, counting crows... lots of other good ones... eleanor rigby... )
I'd like to add:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow
VNV Nation - Forsaken
Joy Division - The Eternal and Decades and Atmosphere
NIN - Hurt (mostly the Johnny Cash cover... it just has more to it)
Wolfsheim - Once in a Lifetime
Tears for Fears - Mad World (LOVE the version on the Donnie Darko score)
...i'm an 80's sap... so a lot of other Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, and Joh Division songs
Not to mention lots of GY!BE and Silver Mt. Zion stuff.
...i'll have to write a list.
mechorg:
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow
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dur... and The Weeping Song.
I'll be a lamer and quote myself because I don't feel like editing.
KharBevNor:
Hmm, I've never done a list in this thread I don't think...
All My Dying Bride. Every last fucking song. Few bands have really mastered the emotional power of the violin with as much proficiency, and combining this with the heaviness and depressive power of doomdeath was a truly great idea. Earlier albums are generally better, for specific songs: Your Shameful Heaven, The Crown of Sympathy, Grace Unhearing, Sear Me MCMXC III, The Snow in My Hand, and The Return to the Beautiful.
That said, pretty much all doom, doomdeath and depressive black metal is sad by it's very nature. Also, some stuff that just comes under black metal. I'll be suprised if Signum hasn't mentioned Burzum: both the black metal and the ambient stuff too. Han Som Reiste is a wonderfully sad track.Also, Orthaugr's cover of 'Der Weinende Hadnur' = fucking heart-searing.
There's also some really good gothic metal bands that can bring the sorrow. I would single out On Thorns I Lay, old Theatre of Tragedy, and Crown of Autumn.
Hmm *gets bored of post, wanders off*
BrittanyMarie:
Okkervil River-The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion
It's the only song that's ever made me cry without me already being sad.
Rogue42:
Ashes of San Miguel
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers
I spun a bottle on the
map to tell us which
way to go
now we're hell-bound
south into Hermosillo.
Got the ashes of my best
friend in a cremation jar on the
shotgun seat of the car
got the top chopped off
got the windows down
One last tour through our happy
happy hunting grounds.
though we never made a
kill, that was never really what
we came down here for
So give me a sign amigo, can
you tell me
did you go down laughing when
you finally fell
we had tales to tell we had songs
to sing
Did you get your horns or did
they give you wings
either works just as well
Ashes of San Miguel
well its a hundred and one
under this fanatical sun
them black-eyed federales
dripping sweat on their
machine guns
sayin', "...drive on slow,
gringo, you ain't as savage
as you think you are..."
I bought a box of firecrackers
and liquor to go,
vamanos amigo, para Bahia Kino
everything is here I got the pesos and the beer,
still no sign of your ghost.
So give me a sign amigo, can
you tell me
did you go down laughing when
you finally fell
we had tales to tell we had songs
to sing
Did you get your horns or did
they give you wings
either works just as well
Ashes of San Miguel
the desert's lovely, dark and deep.
And I got no more promises left
to keep
But why
tell me why
I got to drain the bottle dry,
Before I can cry
before I can cry over you
there's bones on the beach
and there's ashes in the jar
ghosts in the air laughing at us
fools at the bar
And somewhere inside this river
don't run to the sea no more
Life is cheap here and death is
rich
and he finally got you, lucky son
of a bitch
and if I could do it again
I'd cry aloud at your hospital bed
So give me a sign amigo, can
you tell me
did you go down laughing when
you finally fell
we had tales to tell we had songs
to sing
Did you get your horns or did
they give you wings
either works just as well
Ashes of San Miguel
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