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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?
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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.
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Anal Cunt - Recycling is Gay.
I tear up every time.
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Autechre - Teartear
Amber as an album moves me to tears.
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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.
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Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon
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Just shut up...
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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.
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Dream Theater - space dye vest
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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.
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Joy Division - Decades.
Atmosphere maybe...I dunno. One of those two.
Johnny Cash - Hurt
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EElS - Electro-shock Blues (the song, not the album)
It just sounds so goddamn DESOLATE.
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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"
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Elliott Smith - Twilight
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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*"
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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.)
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I can't choose between Cat Power's Good Woman and Knife in the Water's Norma.
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Cursive - Driftwood: A Fairy Tale
I dunno why, it's just sad.
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fred jones part 2 - ben folds
it's just so ...real....
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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.
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Bert Jansch - Needle of Death
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sufjan - john wayne gacy jr.
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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.
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poor woman barely makes it through the second verse, and then she gets hung.
Hanged.
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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
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Marillion - The demo version of 'alone again in the lap of luxury'. And ... well, basically, the whole of 'Misplaced Childhood'. Minus 'White Feather'.
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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.
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For some reason I can't listen to Yellowcard songs without tearing up o.0
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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.
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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.
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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
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Peter, Paul, and Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon
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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.
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.
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Death Cab's A Lack of Color. A beautiful song that never ceases to bring a tear to my eye.
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Tiger Army- "Remember Forever"
Pearl Jam- "Save You"
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"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?
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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.
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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.
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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)
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.
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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
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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...)
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The entirety of the Tori Amos Crucify ep.
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Eels' Electro Shock Blues is generally a downer (Up until P.S. You Rock My World).
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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.
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Bright Eyes - padrick my prince
and at least 4 elliot smith songs.
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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
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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.
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
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Falconer - Portals of Light
this song is too beautiful for words.
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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.
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.
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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...
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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
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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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Point taken, but it generally doesn't put me in the most happy of moods still. It's not "I'm going to shoot myself in the face" depressing, just... yeah.
EDIT: DAMMIT, I hate starting new pages.
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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
That's a pretty good start to my list. I love depressive / -ing music.
I definitely agree with "Exit Music (For a Film)", because that song can make me cry on occasion...
But as far as Radiohead goes, "How to Disappear Completely" is really sad too.
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Point taken, but it generally doesn't put me in the most happy of moods still. It's not "I'm going to shoot myself in the face" depressing, just... yeah.
Well, the same goes for me if I don't listen out the entire album, but taken as a whole, for some reason, it actually manages to cheer me up if I'm depressed. It makes me feel like everything's going to be alright in the end.
The Foo Fighters - Razor also makes me feel like utter shite.
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bullshit. It's a wretched sack of cliches. Blink 182 couldn't write their names in the snow, let alone a meaningful lyric.
Sarcasm, c'mon.
Adams song is insulting to people who have experienced the suicide of a loved one. OMG he killed himself, how sad. Weres the anger and the hurt?
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No such thing as emo-type bands with rich mohawk-toting drummers.
Not Travis Barker, the thin tall bass playing one.
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Radiohead's Karma Police makes me tear up.
Also, Almost every song on Smashing Pumpkins' Melon Colly & The Infinite Sadness can seriously make me an emo boy. I used to listen to that album all the time in 7th, 8th anf 9th grades. And it just brings up shitloads of nostalgia.
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Nightswimming by REM gets me every time. right here...
Aw, ya beat me to it. Yeah, that one chokes me up.
And "Gone Away" by The Offspring doesn't have the same effect, but damn if it ain't raw to listen to. It sounds like pain.
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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.
Well that's just untrue, Adam's Song's a bad example.
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David Bowie - Space Oddity
"Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?"
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*sniff*
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Nightswimming by REM gets me every time. right here...
A thousand times yes.
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As Randy Milholland pointed out a while back A Boy and His Frog by Tom Smith, is an incredibly sad song for someone who grew up with the Muppets.
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No such thing as emo-type bands with rich mohawk-toting drummers.
Not Travis Barker, the thin tall bass playing one.
No such thing as emo-type bands with thin, tall bass-players associated with rich mohawk-toting drummers.
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The only good Blink-182 song was "Dammit", and that's using the broadest possible definition of "good".
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There is a cover out there of Dire Straight’s “Romeo and Juliet” done by The Indigo Girls and it’s absolutely heart wrenching.
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Let's ignore the random music taste.
Vanessa Paradis - When I Say
Seal - Kiss From A Rose
U2 - Electrical Storm
U2 - The Hands That Built America
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
Ash - Goldfinger
BSB - Incomplete
Bon Jovi - Always
Bright Eyes - The Movement of a Hand
Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Bryan Adams - I'm Ready
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Coldplay - Amsterdam
Dido - My Lover's Gone
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street (It's not sad, but wow.)
Massive Attack - Teardrop (again, WOW)
Nikka Costa - Push & Pull
Alison Krauss - You Will Be My Ain True Love
REM - Losing My Religion
Radiohead - High & Dry
Shadows - Apache (not a song exactly, but a very moving piece of music. I'm not emo.)
Sheryl Crow - Light In Your Eyes
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Staind - It's Been A While
Starsailor - Tie Up My Hands
Take That - Pray
This is a frickin' long list.
Travis - Pipe Dreams
Travis - Driftwood
Travis - Writing to Reach You
Travis - Love Will Come Through
Keane - Bed Shaped
Depending on what mood I'm in, some Queen songs.
And to reiterate. I have a wide taste in music, and I'm not emo.
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more sad songs:
"In My Life" by Johnny Cash
"Hurt" by Johnny Cash
"Chelsea Hotel no. 2" by Leonard Cohen
"Angel's Son" by Sevendust
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more sad songs:
"In My Life" by Johnny Cash
"Hurt" by Johnny Cash
Wait a sec...Something's fishy here.
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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).
I concurr with Skibas. I bought that record a couple of months after a horrible breakup. Listening to Rocket Boy in the car with my family it was pretty freaking hard to keep from crying. Any Jets to Brazil can pretty much make me super depressed, but happy at the same time.
Poison Oak by Bright Eyes (Especially the lines: "I don't think that I ever loved you more/then when you turned away/when slammed the door/ when you stole a car/ and drove towards Mexico" Damn memories)
That entire album is great for depressing-ness, but that song especially.
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Wait a sec...Something's fishy here.
What, have they both been said already?
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sufjan - john wayne gacy jr.
I totally agree
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The only good Blink-182 song was "Dammit", and that's using the broadest possible definition of "good".
Funny that you choose their best popular song. Based on that I have a hard time believing you've listened to Buddha or Cheshire Cat. If you haven't, you shouldn't say anything about their "only" good song.
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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...
And you wouldn't know good music if it bit you in the ass. Nightswimming is horrible and I love REM.
Edit: My answer is Sufjan Stephens - Casmir Pulaski Day because I had a friend who died of bone cancer. It's a fucking rough song. I think I cry every time it comes on.
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Eels - Dirty Girl
Eels - Electro-shock Blues
Eels - Railroad Man*
Eels - Flower
Eels - Things the Grandchildren Should Know*
*I think there's a chance one of these might be a cover, I'm not sure though. I would check the liner notes but my headphone cable won't reach my room.
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Cat Power- Fool
Interpol- Untitled
Radiohead- How to Disappear Completely
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Motorcycle Drive By - Third Eye Blind
Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Oasis
Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee
Walk On - U2
Not exactly tear-jerkers in their own right, but they have their own significance to me, so they always make me a lil' bit angsty.
Anything by 5ive makes me kinda emo, though. In that afterward, I'm massively depressed, I think God must hate me, and I want to kill myself.
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David Bowie - Space Oddity
"Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?"
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*sniff*
Totally agree. It's really well-done.
The two I can think of recently are:
Megadeth - Promises
and
Dream Theater - Lifting Shadows off a Dream
A lot of really happy songs make me really depressed, because they're all like, "Look how great my life is," and I'm all like, "My life isn't that good...*sad*"
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Oh yeah, She's Leaving Home by the Beatles.
Sing it, brother. (On second thoughts, don't sing it - I don't want to wibble.)
Janis Ian's chucked out a few classics in the vein down the years, but the top three for "tear them till they glow" have to be Tea and Sympathy, Stars and Jesse. I was at her gig in Edinburgh on Thursday - fantastic gig, BTW - and to my great surprise she opened the second set with Tea and Sympathy. I found myself thinking that if she followed up with the other two songs I named, the gallery would probably empty ... into the main auditorium ... without using the stairs.
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Oh, I forgot to mention, there's three songs on The Residents' Animal Lover that never cease to depress me, and they're all in a row (For the record, if you're paying attention and you read the book that comes along with that record, it's one of the most depressing albums ever). But the songs that kill me are Inner Space, Dead Men, and My Window. WOO
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Pink Floyd- Comfortably Dumb
The Decemberists- The Bus Mall
Sigur Ros- Saglpur
That last one was probabaly a ridiculous mispelling. And I don't know if it's sad, but it makes me sad.
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Here's some.
The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sides
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Deftones - Digital Bath
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
Mogwai - Tracy
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - According to Plan
ILYBICD - Lights
Halou - Milkdrunk
Halou - Wiser
Dntel - Why I'm So Unhappy
A.F.I - Days of the Phoenix
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Mogwai - Tracy
Yes! That and Stop Coming to My House are some of the saddest songs I know.
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Cure by Tristania is a pretty sad, and moving song. It's beautiful.
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I have had a few very powerful emotional reactions in my life time, but I cannot remember the situations regarding them, the name of the song, or even the name of the band.
I do vagely recall crying while hearing A Poor Wayfaring Man Of Grief while I was at the jailhouse where Joseph Smith was murdered. I was pretty overcome with emotion. I think even if you are someone that disagrees with my religion on every level, it's hard to argue that he wasn't a good man, and he didn't deserve to die the way he did.
But I have a feeling this thread is more about contemporary music, or rather, non-gospel songs. And like I said, I can't really recall any... I want to say Stone Temple Pilots had a hand in making me tear up (or as close to it as I get... I sort of just get really melancholy and kind of absorb into myself) at one point, though.
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Pink Floyd- Comfortably Dumb
The Decemberists- The Bus Mall
Sigur Ros- Saglpur
That last one was probabaly a ridiculous mispelling.
The first one was a ridiculous misspelling. Not sure why you'd find it sad, either.
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Oh god, there are so many!
On one hand, we have innocent-sounding pop songs with heartbreaking lyrics:
The Boy Least Likely To -- "My Tiger My Heart"
The Magnetic Fields -- "100,000 Fireflies"
The Beach Boys -- "Sloop John B." (if you don't think this is sad, wait 'till you're deadly homesick and you will be sobbing along, srsly)
On the other, we have all-around tragic songs:
Broken Social Scene -- "Anthems For A 17 Year Old Girl"
Stars -- "Your Ex Lover Is Dead"
The Weakerthans -- "Left and Leaving" (seconding whomever said this earlier)
Sigur Ros -- "Untitled 3" from the album ()
The Magic Numbers -- "This Love"
For a calm sad, you might want to put on a Regina Spektor cd, her voice is good for those kinds of moods. If you're angry sad, put on some Matson Jones, it's AMAZING.
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i'm on the Jets to Brazil boat, too. after a particularly rough break-up, i must have listened to "In the Summer's When You Really Know" and "Perfecting Loneliness" about a thousand times each.
The Weakerthans- "Left and Leaving" (again)
The Weakerthans- "Exiles Among You"
Sage Francis- "Runaways"
A Radio With Guts- "Math and the Mocking Moon" (another song i listened to a lot after that break-up)
Weezer- "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" (not actually as emotionally affecting as some of these other songs, but the songwriting is just dead-on)
Chris Murray- "Home"
Jawbreaker- "Ashtray Monument"
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Eels - Dirty Girl
Eels - Electro-shock Blues
Eels - Railroad Man*
Eels - Flower
Eels - Things the Grandchildren Should Know*
*I think there's a chance one of these might be a cover, I'm not sure though. I would check the liner notes but my headphone cable won't reach my room.
Nope. These are all original EElS songs.
Also, Dirty Girl? Huh?
EElS - Manchild is also sad.
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Pink Floyd- Comfortably Dumb
The Decemberists- The Bus Mall
Sigur Ros- Saglpur
That last one was probabaly a ridiculous mispelling.
The first one was a ridiculous misspelling. Not sure why you'd find it sad, either.
It's not sad, but the music in it is so, so powerful.
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"Bloodstain" - U.N.K.L.E.
"Madeleine Mary" - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
"Try Not to Breathe" - REM
"I will try not to burden you
I can hold these inside
I will hold my breathe until all these shivers subside"
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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"
Broken Heart > Stop Your Crying.
And as for saddest good songs;
The Weatherthans - Everything but Aside off of Left and Leaving
Deathcab for Cutie - Styrofoam Plates
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
Our Lady Peace - 4am
Yoko Kano - Space Lion(off of Cowboy Bebop soundtracks), and pretty much every flashback/Julia music from the series.
Blink 182 - Adams Song, I regret nothing!
Bright Eyes and Badly Drawn Boy - Cant name an specific songs but im sure theres a few sad songs, but all the songs are great.
Hayden - Most of his shit is really heartfelt and awesome
Hollies - He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother, makes me cry everytime, if only on the inside. If your Canadian and had the pleasure of the anti-drug commercial scored by it, then you would understand.
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
I am sure theres like tonnes more in my playlist but I'll leave those for you atm.
*edit*
I didnt read any previous posts until after my post. Anyway, I stand by Adam's Song. And Skibas Clavicle rose like 30 points in the hot awesome meter for listing Hayden.
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EVERY OKKERVIL RIVER SONG EVER. Will Sheff steals my emotions and turns them into song, I'm positive of it. Both the Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion and The War Criminal Rises and Speaks reduce me to tears OFTEN.
Also: Mayonaise by the Smashing Pumpkins.
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Bulletproof...I wish I was - Radiohead
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Every day every hour
I wish that I was bullet proof
Wax me
Mould me
Heat the pins and stab them in
You have turned me into this
Just wish that it was bullet proof
So pay the money and take a shot
Leadfill the hole in me
I could burst a million bubbles
All surrogate and bullet proof
And bullet proof
ALWAYS makes me sad...
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As long as we're talking about music that is very emotionally evocative, and not just sad:
DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem.
Ever listen to one of those songs that just sort of envelops you entirely and whisks you away to another world, whether it be strange and beautiful or eerily disturbing? Yeah. That's what this song is like for me.
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granted, this is unfair because i am an elliott smith JUNKIE but he's really good for sad-but-not-emo. he's one of the saddest artists i've ever heard but most people well versed in his work would never call him emo. spec:
everything reminds me of her
i better be quiet now
between the bars
other bands:
dignity in death- mark schwaber
priest alleyway- red house painters
and the rain song by led zeppelin always got me, ten years gone is good too.
dang i love sad music
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Sigur Ros- Saglpur
I am fairly sure you mean "Staralfur," which makes me sob.
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I will probably be reamed for this, but:
Disturbed's Darkness
(song was written after his grandfather's death)
and someone mentioned Angel's Son by Sevendust.
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Also, Dirty Girl? Huh?
The whole song seems like a lie. He's telling himself that it's all cool that it's over but I get the feeling that really, he's not over her. Get's me anyway.
Stifled: He might mean Saeglopur from Takk..., but it doesn't really seem sad to me. The piano just before it gets loud bites into you a bit though.
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Oh yeah, another one: "Jolene" by the White Stripes. Not written by them, but the amount of emotion Jack puts into it when they play it live is so great.
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Okay, I totally forgot that the universe's saddest song is Neko Case's "The Tigers Have Spoken."
N(d) + S = T
where
N = Neko Case's voice
d = A nostalgaic tiger who is dead
S = The Sadies
T = TEARS
Science has proven it, people.
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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
Until I clicked the link and saw the silly comic it was from, this caused my throat and nose to ache - You know that feeling?
Songs that make me cry:
Certain pieces from the films American Beauty and Finding Nemo,
Circle of Life, Can You Feel The Love Tonight from the Lion King
Last Wrongs - Oceansize
When The Faction's Fractioned - Biffy Clyro
Olsen - BoC
Long Forgotten - Oceansize
Tommib Help Buss - Squarepusher
All of those songs only make me cry because of the way they sound - I couldn't recite most of the lyrics there even if I wanted to.
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Sigur Ros- Saglpur
I am fairly sure you mean "Staralfur," which makes me sob.
Actually they mean Saegloipur, from Takk.