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Not sad as in "boo hoo my girlfriend left me and my guitar string snapped", but as in "wow, thats beautiful, but i think i'm gonna cry at it's awesomeness".
For me, at the moment, Fix You by Coldplay is the most beautiful and sad song, puts a bloody great lump in my throat everytime I hear it. I may be biased as it was in a particularly poigniant death scene on tv the other day, but it really is a tear-jerker.
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I may be biased as I am currently listening to it, but:
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Hades Pluton
I dreamt that I was lying on the bottom
of the dark and never-ending sea,
on a bed that my dead lover was preparing
with his own skeleton for me ...
("...bring us a goat and we'll show you the way
straight through the realm of the fallen and slain ...")
I sensed the wretched spectres of the drowned
staring across from some distant shore,
and in my sadness I drew closer,
to console and somewhat to implore ...
I am like the doubtful kiss of a corpse
or maybe the kiss of an ancient stone.
Yes, it's like kissing some marble statue
that has neither warmth nor life of its own....
("...down, further down, where the gloom becomes sound, on the cell where your love might be found ...")
COVER THE MIRRORS, FRAGILE HAS DIED,
LEAVING BUT A STARLESS RUIN BEHIND!
SHATTER THE MIRRORS, SO THAT HE CAN NEVER BE CALLED
BACK FROM THE BLESSED SILENCE OF HIS SCARED VAULT ...
No, no, no...- put an end to the show!
I'm going back to the land where the bone-flowers grow,
to "the wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime,
out of Space and out of Time" ...
See the shape, but can't see through,
no-one can ever hate me as well as I do.
Know when to throw a laugh, know how to force a smile,
whatever the intention ...- I'm such a "friendly" lie!
("...bring us only this goat and we'll lead you to him, it shall open the gates, so we can sneak you in...")
"Bring us a goat and we'll show you the way straight through the realm of the fallen and slain. Down, further down, where the gloom becomes sound, on to the cell, where your love might be found ... Bring us only this goat and we'll lead you to him, it will open the gates, so we can sneak you in. Oh, it's cold and so dark here, and you must keep in mind, no-one can get you out, if you overstep time...!"
Bloody beautiful.
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nothing to lose by Billy Talent
very sad, but a little cliche
Need more friends with wings
All the angels I know
Put concrete in my veins
I’d always walk home alone
So I became lifeless
Just like my telephone
There’s nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There’s nothing to gain
But the days don’t seem to change
Never played truth or dare
I’d have to check my mirror
To see if I’m still here
My parents had no clue
That I ate all my lunches
Alone in the bathroom
There’s nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There’s nothing to gain
But the days don’t seem to change
There’s nothing to lose
My notebook will explain
There’s nothing to gain
And I can’t fight the pain
Teachers said "it's just a phase"
When I grow up my children
Will probably do the same
Kids just love to tease
Who'd know it put me underground at seventeen
There’s nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There’s nothing to gain
But the days don’t seem to change
There’s nothing to lose
My notebook will explain
There’s nothing to gain
And I can’t fight the pain
There’s nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There’s nothing to gain
But the days don’t seem to change
My notebook will explain
There’s nothing to lose
When no one knows your name
There’s nothing to gain
And I just died today
after reading through the lyrics, it seems like the dude's voice probably has a lot to do with it
EDIT: it the lunches alone in the bathroom line that gets me, i can picture how aweful that would feel...think about it, you'll get it
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Elliott Smith - Twilight
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People have told me Pearl Jam's Jeremy is really sad. These people tend to be wrong.
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This one Dimmu Borgir song is absolutely awesome. Usually I hate black metal, but it was great. One part of it almost made me cry. :(
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Anything off of Xasthur's "Nocturnal Poisoning" album.
Very sad bands (and specific albums by them):
Abyssic Hate (Suicidal Emotions)
Beatrik (The Requiem of December)
Shape of Despair
Nortt
Krohm
Ningizzia
Forest of Shadows
Mournful Congregation
Abysmal Grief
Deinonychus
Wyrd (Songs of the Northern Gale)
Wigrid
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Low springs to mind here, In Metal and others and no matter how cliched it sounds, I think Mad World is a really sad song in its newest permutation anyway... The The - TheWhisperers is fairly sad..
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Joy Division's New Dawn Fades is really beautiful in a 'makes you want to die' kind of way.
People have told me Pearl Jam's Jeremy is really sad. These people tend to be wrong.
Ya, I'd say Black or Indifference are far more harrowingly depressing PJ songs...
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I've noticed recently that the phrase "the saddest song" crops up a lot, it seems as though a lot of bands/musicians are on some sort of quest to find 'the saddest song', in a similar way to 'the lost chord' or whatever. It's strange.
I actually made a playlist of sad/melancholy/depressing songs, it's quite cool. Included on there are such songs as:
Blur - No Distance Left To Run
Leonard Cohen - The Partisan
R.E.M. - Diminished
Billy Bragg - My Youngest Son Came Home Today
Streetlight Manifesto - A Moment of Silence
Manic Street Preachers - Small Black Flowers That Grown In The Sky
and a lot of Eels...
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Illogic - Hate in a Puddle
Its a bit wordy, but I love it. Illogic sounds so hopeless and lost when he sings it too.
I hate when it rains, cause in puddles I encounter this guy
Unable to give a rebuttal but swift as the pain flood his eyes
wonderin why he's a gift with no purpose
A priceless one-of-a-kind piece that's worthless
Grounded with no surface
And when he shows one, it's of sod
Cause inside he fights feelings that he was mistake by God
I see his confusion and self-deception
Questions of relevance and intelligence
He holds an illusion of self-acceptance
that he shows to those outside lookin in
He's outside lookin in to his own life; lookin for strength
to carry on as a pawn in this chess game of existance
In his mind he wants to go on to the dawn
and leave the stress that came with existance
Hopin in death he'll find life
Cause as he lives, he roams the dark, tryin to find light
He's made his heart so hard, he doesn't even cry anymore
Cause he's confronted sorrow frequently
His heart's been broken frequently
It's like he's lost some part of him and just haven't found it
yet
So in his search, he's left with nothin but questions and regret
All he wants to know is how one day, he's content
and the next day he's cryin
cause his life isn't what he thought life meant
He just wants to be happy, with his love and all
But too often I get messages through telepathic calls
He's askin me through a puddle what more must he endure to
continue
But for some reason he knows he most endure to continue
When I walk past puddles, my reflection calls beggin me
to answer his questions about life and his perceptions
and tell him why I hate him so much
And you wonder why I hate him so much?
Now when I walk past puddles, my reflection calls beggin me
to answer his questions about life, and his perceptions
and tell him why I hate him so much
Damn, I wonder why I hate him so much
Why did I hate him so much? I wondered, pondered on the
question
What in my mind caused me to despise my reflection?
I didn't know I just knew when I saw him, how I felt
and hated the fact that he had to play with the cards that he
was dealt
He's come in contact with some ill things that can't be
explained
Life's extracted his energy to where the pain can't be contained
So to me he comes, sheddin tears like skin
Intimate with some, only the ones he calls friends
If he even exists, he only exists in pain
It's like his life is a myth
and he's been blessed with the gift of shame, I mean
From birth to love he's been betrayed
He's an unknown in how to cope with that pain and dissapointment
he's come to know as he's grown
He feels he stands alone in this world of puddle images
And he awaits the time for when, time finishes
He tries to elevate thought, but he's still chillin in the
basement
Awaitin a rebirth of his soul as it fears it's spiritual
placement
God I pray you can give me a purpose or help me find it
Cause on this narrow path of self-damnation, I can't find it
Is it somethin I need to know, some way I need to grow
to get out of this rut, God give me some self-trust
Love is somethin I'm lookin for but I've found it, or have I?
I wanna live but can I, or do I have to die to?
I try to, have life but my life seems kinda worthless
as I'm starin at this puddle
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Anything by Atom and His Package.
On a more serious note,
Mogwai - I Know You Are, But What Am I?
A Silver Mt. Zion - Sow Some Lonesome Corners, So Many Flowers Bloom.
Deerhooh - Heart Failure
Tom Waits - Alice
That is all.
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This one Dimmu Borgir song is absolutely awesome. Usually I hate black metal, but it was great. One part of it almost made me cry. :(
Which one?
(Dimmu Borgir is not black metal. . post-Stormblast Dimmu, anyway)
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I've always found Patty Griffin's Stolen Car makes me shiver with anguish. As does Nick Drake's A Place to Be, Spiritualized's Feel So Sad (7" version) and broken heart and Lou reed's solo version of Berlin.
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gloomy sunday by billie holiday. it actually ruins my mood when i listen to it.
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Which one?
(Dimmu Borgir is not black metal. . post-Stormblast Dimmu, anyway)
Well, I know it's on Stormblast. :p
I'll check.
EDIT: It's Alt Lys Er Svunnet Hen. The whole song is like that, but around 1:35 it really gets going, and there it's absolutely great.
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I agree about that!
Alt Lys is a great song.
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Ah, Dimmu Borgir (http://www.ffgurus.net/shad4k/).
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Ah, Dimmu Borgir (http://www.ffgurus.net/shad4k/).
Haha, too fucking grim \m/
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Lief Erikson (Interpol)
It's beauty made me tear at first listen and still chokes me up on later listens.
The City (The Dismemberment Plan)
Travis' singing, the chimey guitars, the quick, polyrythmic drumming, and that humming keyboard make a combination that sends chills down my spine. It peaks with "All...I...ever...say...now...is...good...BYYYYE!"
I know there are more...
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The Saddest Song
by Streetlight Manifesto
well, It doesn't really matter if you lead or follow
Everybody's laughing like there's no tomorrow and even if there was,
Would you still go following your friends?
I don't know where we went wrong, we're still singing those same sad songs
"It's my life, not your life, I'll end it when I want"
And now I'm off to save the world once again
But I don't know how I'll pull it off this time
I think I'm going to drown
Now he's off to save the world once again
But he don't know how he'll pull it off this time
I just know I'm going to drown
And it's the saddest song you'll ever hear
The most pain you will ever feel
But you grit your teeth because it don't get better that this (know this)
And you'll try to explain as the blood leave all your veins
And you can't think of anything that you would change
Stop!
"Look and you will see" is what I think she said to me
I'm not too sure because it could have easily been a million things
But I don't know what she said
I still don't know what she said
Years passed since I've seen her face, 14 years were just erased
If my life was your life, would you ever take it back?
And now I'm off to save the world once again
But I don't know how I'll pull it off this time
I think I'm going to drown
Now he's off to save the world once again
But he don't know how he'll pull it off this time
I just know I'm going to drown
Yeah you will try to explain as the blood leaves all your viens
And you can't think of anything that you would change
And it's the saddest song you'll ever hear
The most pain you will ever feel
But you grit your teeth because it don't get better that this (know this)
And you'll try to explain as the blood leave all your veins
And you can't think of anything that you would change
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Hollies - He Aint Heavy
Only song to make me sniffle.
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The Saddest Song
by Streetlight Manifesto
well, It doesn't really matter if you lead or follow
Everybody's laughing like there's no tomorrow and even if there was,
Would you still go following your friends?
I don't know where we went wrong, we're still singing those same sad songs
"It's my life, not your life, I'll end it when I want"
And now I'm off to save the world once again
But I don't know how I'll pull it off this time
I think I'm going to drown
Now he's off to save the world once again
But he don't know how he'll pull it off this time
I just know I'm going to drown
And it's the saddest song you'll ever hear
The most pain you will ever feel
But you grit your teeth because it don't get better that this (know this)
And you'll try to explain as the blood leave all your veins
And you can't think of anything that you would change
Stop!
"Look and you will see" is what I think she said to me
I'm not too sure because it could have easily been a million things
But I don't know what she said
I still don't know what she said
Years passed since I've seen her face, 14 years were just erased
If my life was your life, would you ever take it back?
And now I'm off to save the world once again
But I don't know how I'll pull it off this time
I think I'm going to drown
Now he's off to save the world once again
But he don't know how he'll pull it off this time
I just know I'm going to drown
Yeah you will try to explain as the blood leaves all your viens
And you can't think of anything that you would change
And it's the saddest song you'll ever hear
The most pain you will ever feel
But you grit your teeth because it don't get better that this (know this)
And you'll try to explain as the blood leave all your veins
And you can't think of anything that you would change
Thats what I was thinking at first too, but the song can't really reach its sadness potential because its upbeat and sounds happy until you get to the lyrics.
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-Old school jazz can be tearjerking.
-"Leif Erikson" is sad. Hell, that whole album is melancholy.
-"Calculation Theme" by Metric. Don't know why, but it chokes me up.
-"All Is Full Of Love" by Bjork.
That's all I can think of now, but I listen to a lot of post-punk so a lot of my stuff is unnecessarily sad.
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radiohead's hunting bears.
yeah it's only 2 minutes long and it's instrumental, but still...
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"The Mountain" by Steve Earle:
I was born on this mountain a long time ago
Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal
When you rose in the morning before it was light
To go down in that dark hole and come back up at night.
I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home
She holds me and keeps me from worry and woe
Well, they took everything that she gave, now they're gone
But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home.
I was young on this mountain but now I am old
And I knew every holler, every cool swimming hole
'Til one night I lay down and woke up to find
That my childhood was over and I went down in the mine
There's a hole in this mountain, it's dark and it's deep
And God only knows all the secrets it keeps
There's a chill in the air only miners can feel
There's ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed.
Of course, the lyrics only tell half the story.
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and a lot of Eels...
Yes... The first time I heard "If You See Nathalie", I just fuckin' broke down (didn't cry, wish I had) and was awed by the beauty.
Alice is a generally depressing album. "I'm Still Here" is a great sad song off it. Waits is an extremely emotional songwriter, which is funny, because he also did "The Black Rider".
The saddest song I have ever heard is an instrumental called "Will" by The Sugarplastic. It is the theme song for a rainy funeral. It is beautiful and lonely and awesome and I love it.
For saddest song with lyrics, I'd have to say either "Electro-shock Blues" or "Elizabeth On The Bathroom Floor" both by Eels, or "Black Flowers" by Fishbone (which is very odd, because they are usually either free-form hard rock or a.d.d. ska).
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Khar, you actually know about sopor aeturnus?
Wow...
I love Velveteen Knight.
Man, those guys are awesome. I haven't listened to them in a while.
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condition_oakland,
A I always love me a jawbreaker reference.
B Yeah you have to love ska's ability to be totally fucking depressing yet still leave you with a smile on your face.
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Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (acoustic)
I got the Clueless soundtrack out from the library when I was twelve, and I remember as the first "good" song I'd heard, and for good reason. No idea what half the lyrics mean, but that's par for the course with me.
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Pushit (live version) by Tool (you can literally hear the anguish in the singer's voice)
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3 Libra's by A perfect Circle .... that song can make me cry especially one line which my friend says reminds him of me and its sung so beautifully 'eyes of a fallen angel; eyes of a tradgedy'
yeah cbf posting all the lyrics up to both songs
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Pushit (live version) by Tool (you can literally hear the anguish in the singer's voice)
Problem is, the instant I read that the Salt 'n' Pepa song popped into my head, and . . . it's many things, but sad it is not.
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damn now my fave song is tainted.... damn you inlander *shakes fist*
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I'm all with heretic about the Billy Talent... but also, Jezebel, by Iron and Wine... it's not even fully the lyrics, but the tone of the song in its entirety
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Bjork - New World, but only because it invokes memory of the saddest film I've ever seen.
The Album Leaf - Moss Mountain Town
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (Beehives Version)
The Delgados - The Light Before We Land
The One A.M. Radio - Away, Into The Light
I generally prefer my sadness with a dash of melancholy, but if you want the saddest music in the world (still need to see that film...love Guy Maddin), You need turn no further than the vocal prowess of Ms. Tracy Thorn:
Massive Attack - Protection
Everything But The Girl - Single
Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
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neutral milk hotel - two headed boy pt. 2
Daddy please hear this song that I sing
In your heart there's a spark that just screams
For a lover to bring a child to your chest that could lay as you sleep
And love all you have left like your boy used to be
Long ago wrapped in sheets warm and wet
Blister please with those wings in your spine
Love to be with a brother of mine
How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth
In a struggle to find secret songs that you keep wrapped in boxes so tight
Sounding only at night as you sleep
And in my dreams you're alive
And you're crying
As your mouth moves in mine
Soft and sweet
Rings of flowers round you eyes
And I love you for the rest of your life
Brother see we are one in the same
And you left with your head filled with flames
And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth
Push the pieces in place
Make your smile sweet to see
Don't you take this away
I'm still wanting my face on your cheek
And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place where some holy spectacle lies
When we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life
Two headed boy she is all you could need
She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
And retire to sheets safe and clean
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave
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Khar, you actually know about sopor aeturnus?
Wow...
I fucking love Sopor Aeternus.
This is just a general point, but do people really believe that just lyrics can make a song sad? In my opinion it has to be a combination of lyrics and music. For example, that SA song has an incredibly melancholic violin arrangement, and many bands have created incredibly sad arrangements with no vocals. I for one, always find violins and bagpipes, or snyth approximations thereof, to be the saddest instruments.
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Chimera "Peter" is probably one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. I tried to translate the lyrics so that I could post them here, but they don't come out very well (or I probably just suck at translating things). Besides, the delivery is really what makes it hurt extra good. And the fact that the guy who wrote/sang it killed himself about 5 years after it was recorded. Russians don't fuck around, I guess.
Петр живет в тайге
Вот уже третий год
Петр ушел от людей,
Он ушел от мирских хлопот,
Он просто устал от жизни
И не держит зла на людей
Но было время
Он был носителем великих идей
Теперь лес стал его домом
Он здесь может спокойно спать
Он пьет тишину,
И тишину у него не отнять
А по ночам он приходит ко мне
Он зовет меня с собой
Он идет к луне
Он видит ночь, как никто другой
К нему в гости никто не приходит,
Кроме птиц и зверей,
Он поет им свои песни –
Его голос стал чист, как ручей
А на смену зиме приходит весна,
Лес меняет свои одежды,
Петр умывается росой
Весна вселяет надежду
Для людей он был никто
Для зверей он как Дед Мазай
Может, он вернется к людям,
Когда на землю придет рай
(Basically, this guy is sick of life, moves into the forest and sings songs to animals and shit. I know, I know...what a hippie. Well, it's still sad!)
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Tangerine - Led Zeppelin
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
The Fairest of The Seasons - Nico
Staralfur - Sigur Ros
That's all for now...I know theres more...I'm just to tired to find them
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It's not just the lyrics that do it. The way the singer sings (ie. how close they get to crying) and the music surrounding it are close to more important. The presence of violins helps a lot.
I'm not sure if it was because I was in a bit of a state the first time I heard it, but Bright Eyes' Digital Ash in a Digital Urn album could be the saddest album I've got (only 'could be' because of the stack of Eels I've got sitting to my right). Every song struck a chord with me. Not just sad though, I remember it frightening the hell out of me at the time.
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dnd by semisonic, despite basically being about having sex in a hotel room, is one of the saddest songs i've ever heard. i'm sick of saying thaw by converge everytime a topic like this crops up, but that really is a terribly sad song. also, in flames make me sad, but for entirely different reasons.
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Powderfinger - Since You've Been Gone
It's about the death of the singer's brother a couple years beforehand.
The only song known to man that can make me cry.
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How about The Ballad by Millencolin..?
Haha, or pretty much anything by the Smiths.
And I'd also have to say that 'Enslavement Blues' By T(I)NC is pretty sad.
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I've always found Patty Griffin's Stolen Car makes me shiver with anguish.
Patty will always be at the top of my sad songs list. She's so good.
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Any song off of electro shock blues by the eels has the capacity to make grown men weep like little children. Especially dead of winter.
Standing in the dark outside the house
Breathing the cold and sterile air
Well I was thinking how it must feel
To see that little light
And watch it as it disappears
And fades into
And fades into the night
So I know you’re going pretty soon
Radiation sore throat got your tongue
Magic markers tattoo you
And show it whare to aim
And strangers break their promises
You won’t feel any
You won’t feel any pain
And the streets are jammed with cars
Rockin’ their horns
To race to the wire
Of the unfinished line
Thought that I’d forget all about the past
But it doesn’t let me run too fast
And I just wanna stand outside
And know that this is right
And this is true
And I will not
Fade into
Fade into the night
Standing here in the dark
Also, I am trying to break your heart by wilco made me cry when I heard them play it live, and continues to do so now everytime I hear it
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Hallelujah, by Jeff Buckley (Rufus Wainwright's version is okay, too)
Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead always seems really sad to me...
The Cure - Lovesong
Rolling Stones - Angie
Simon And Garfunkle - Bridge Over Troubled Water, and Sounds of Silence
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
along with the songs I'd mentioned before
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ARGH! That's what I was trying to remember!
Tears in Heaven = Kleenex moment
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Fugazi - Long Division. For some reason a song about the dissolution of friendship is much sadder than romantic failure.
Bert Jansch - Needle of Death. The Yo La Tengo version is nearly as devestating.
Joy Division - Insight.
My Bloody Valentine - No More Sorry.
Nick Drake - Pretty much the entire Pink Moon album.
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Fugazi - Long Division. For some reason a song about the dissolution of friendship is much sadder than romantic failure.
Bert Jansch - Needle of Death. The Yo La Tengo version is nearly as devestating.
Joy Division - Insight.
My Bloody Valentine - No More Sorry.
Nick Drake - Pretty much the entire Pink Moon album.
Interesting user name. . are you an HP Lovecraft fan?
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Bjork - New World, but only because it invokes memory of the saddest film I've ever seen.
If the film you're referencing isn't Dancer In The Dark then I'll be surprised.
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Interesting user name. . are you an HP Lovecraft fan?
Indeed. I am one who knows the true futile nature of the cosmos.
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Bjork - New World, but only because it invokes memory of the saddest film I've ever seen.
If the film you're referencing isn't Dancer In The Dark then I'll be surprised.
It's off of "Selmasongs," the 7 song soundtrack ep she released in conjunction with the film. Also on that is an excellent duet with Thom Yorke on "I've Seen It All."
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Interesting user name. . are you an HP Lovecraft fan?
Indeed. I am one who knows the true futile nature of the cosmos.
Blind idiot nuclear god of chaos! ahhhh my sanity is slipping!
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Bob Dylan - Sara. Story goes that Bob wrote this while he and his wife were finalising their divorce proceedings on different sides of the country, and she flew to LA to get him to sign the papers. She came into the studio, and he sung this to her through the glass - and this version is what went on the record. They got back together after that, for a while at least.
Also
The Cure - Jupiter Crash
Counting Crows - Round Here
Counting Crows - 4 White Stallions
Epicure - Firing Squad
Chicane - Autumn Tactics
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JLM: totally agree about BBS' Lover's Spit on Beehives.
Brand New - "Play Crack The Sky"
The Honorary Title - "Cat In Heat"
Lucinda Williams - "I Envy The Wind"
Interpol - "Song Seven"
Fiona Apple - "Sullen Girl"
Bright Eyes - "Poison Oak", "No Lies, Just Love"
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Sigur ros - Untitled #1
*weeps*
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This is just a general point, but do people really believe that just lyrics can make a song sad?
Many of They Might Be Giants' songs prove that this is not so, although "The End Of The Tour" really is pretty sad overall.
Also - it's cliche, but I think The Cure's "Pictures of You" is really sad. So is Bjork's "Sonnets/Unrealities XI," although I'm not sure if that counts since the lyrics are just an e.e. cummings poem. Also "When I Was A Boy," by Dar Williams, and "Each Coming Night," by Iron and Wine.
All those songs are kind of happy and sad at the same time, which appeals to me for some reason.
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As far as so beautiful it makes you want to cry, Given to Fly by Pearl Jam and Closer by Better than Ezra.
The first time I ever heard One Tin Soldier I cried.
"Listen, children, to a story
That was written long ago,
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley-folk below.
On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath the stone,
And the valley-people swore
They'd have it for their very own.
Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.
So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which they'd kill.
Came an answer from the kingdom,
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there."
Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.
Now the valley cried with anger,
"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain-people,
So they won their just reward.
Now they stood beside the treasure,
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
"Peace on Earth" was all it said.
Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away."
Also, Lifetime by BTE is a gusher.
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I'm gonna have to vote for Elanor Rigby here. It's more the "wasteful, depressing" sort of sad, not the "emo-tearjerker" sort of sad, but it has the former in spades.
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*agrees with Eleanor Rigby."
Eight hours of Silence by Against Me! Is pretty sorrowful.
Cocoon by the Decemberists.
Jack of All Trades, or Wayfarer by Hot Water Music
Lorrydrivers Son by Leatherface
and whats it called?
Lightening Crashes by Live.
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national anthem by less than jake
It sounds poppy, but listen to it a couple times, and the faux-shine comes through and you're left with a sick sugary song with the final, killer line
'my american dream is to have it a little bit better than my parents ever had it"
soco amaretto line by brand new
"we're gonna stay 18 forever...."
bleeder by alkaline trio
Do I really have to explain why this one is on here?
seein' diamonds by hot water music
"I remember seeing diamonds, but whatever happened when/you smashed em all when you flew away...'
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I'm unsure if this is the best song to listen to when your sad or a song taht makes you sad
so I'll do both
1. Songs I listen to when sad or not happy.
Peter Yorn - Strange Condition
Paul Ellis - The World aint Slowin down
Something Corporate - Me and the Moon
2. Songs I think are sad
Postal Service - Clark Gable
that song ^^^ right there is like...sad. The song itself isn't really so much, tune and all, its the premise behind it.
The guy is waiting for a train when he decides to rent a video camera and have his ex g/f pretend to his g/f again so he can have their happy memmories recorded.
"I want so badly to believe that there is truth that love is real"
PS 4 teh win
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Drive (its quite sad) ~ Funeral for a friend
My Immortal ~ Evanescence
Its for the best ~ Straylight Run
(and more)
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'My Mummy's Dead'- John Lennon
'Mission In the Rain'- Jerry Garcia
'Dead Flowers' or 'Sister Morphine'- Rolling Stones
'Some Mother's Son'- Kinks
This is really hard to decide on. This the basics though.
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Mare - "Sun For Miles"
Look down
Tens upon tens won't forget your name for awhile
Tens upon tens will cry themselves to sleep for awhile
Be quiet for a second
I hope to see you again
I hope
that's all there is, but the song itself is beautiful and crushing and has caused me to shed a tear or two on more than one occasion.
[EDIT:] actually, technically there's more, but that's what's listed in the lyrics in the booklet (from what i understand, as i don't have the actual ep) and also in www.metal-archives.com.. here's all that i actually hear in the song.
We are swimming on our backs
Too tired to explain ourselves
Crying arched spines
Arms reaching for home
She won't drop us
Look down
Tens upon tens won't forget your name for awhile
Tens upon tens will cry themselves to sleep for awhile
Be quiet for a second
I hope to see you again
I hope
that little addendum used to be in the same song as the stuff above it, which isn't that far-fetched, as this song, "Sun for Miles" and the track before it, "Palaces", used to be one long song, "Palaces". it was broken up into two parts, two songs for the demo and EP.
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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.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Where the Wild Roses Grow
dur... and The Weeping Song.
I'll be a lamer and quote myself because I don't feel like editing.
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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*
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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.
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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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The saddest song I've ever heard is Gone Away by The Offspring. It's written about lead singer, Dexter Holland's first wife (or fiancee, I'm not sure which) who died in a car crash. It is an amazing song full of emotion.
Gone Away
Maybe in another life
I could find you there
Pulled away before your time
I can‘t deal it‘s so unfair
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven‘s so far away
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
The world has grown cold
Now that you‘ve gone away
Leaving flowers on your grave
Show that I still care
But black roses and Hail Mary‘s
Can‘t bring back what‘s taken from me
I reach to the sky
And call out your name
And if I could trade
I would
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven‘s so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold
Now that you‘ve gone away
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maybe the lyrics are sad, but the song is not
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How can you say that?
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uhh.. it's my opinion. i formed it by listening to the song and responded to your post with it in mind... enough explanation?
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I wasn't being hostile I just can't see how you don't see the song as sad. Ah well everyone entitled to their opinions....even if they're wrong :D
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it's too thrash to be sad... it's more angsty and angry
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I was only joking about the wrong opinions thing, hence the :D
Though a song doesn't have to be slow and quiet to be sad, it's hardly super thrashy anyway, is it.
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that song doesn't really have a sad feel, a song doesn't have to be slow, true, but i think it should be more reflective
also, look at what that emote looks like, it's not like the : D
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elliot smith-between the bars is a pretty depressing song, but i dunno what you guys think
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Radiheads Exit Music is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. It's awesome.
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songs that manage to destroy every ounce of happiness in a room:
dead flag blues - gy!be (soul-crushing.)
support our troops (black angels oh!) - xiu xiu (instills a sense of bitter sadness/anger so well you will poo on yourself)
ancient delay/black vomit - wolf eyes (wolf eyes do things to people. strange and terrible things)
songs for when you are sad
asleep - the smiths (mmm...to be fifteen and brokenhearted. or seventeen. woo.)
to forgive - the smashing pumpkins
boards of canada - an eagle in your mind (psuedo-ambient techno to brood to)
a billion others. lots of elliott smith. good times.
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Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
My favorite Radiohead song. It's one of the greatest musical displays of hopelessness ever written.
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Street Spirit (Fade Out) and Exit Music would have to be my two choices for the saddest sounding Radiohead songs.
I listened to those many times in my depressed youth.
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Man, all this talk of Radiohead and nobody's mentioned "Creep" yet? The song that bummed out a generation!
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Thats because the generation never bought the album and just listened to the radio.
It is a good and sad song, but I'd rate it with High n Dry and Karma Police. All very good sad and depressing songs.
Radiohead made a market on the sad and depressing songs.
...and so did many other bands.
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I'm going to have to offer some dissent on the Street Spirit (Fade Out) matter. This line just kills it for me:
Cracked eggs, dead birds / Scream as they fight for life / I can feel death / Can see its beady eyes
Usually I like Mr. Yorke's lyrics, but these are just so melodramatic and high school poetry-ish. It's a good song, but IMO this line makes it hard to take completely seriously.
Exit Music's a good one.
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The only type of sadness Radiohead instill in me is a sadness that I am not listening to some better music.
A few more:
Of The Wand And The Moon - In a Robe of Fire
Agalloch - ...And the Great Cold Death of the Earth
Ulver - Hymn VIII: Of Wolf and the Night
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The only type of sadness Radiohead instill in me is a sadness that I am not listening to some better music.
We know you don't like Radiohead. We know there are other who don't like Radiohead. Does somebody really have to make a comment like that every time the band is brought up?
I don't dis metal in every thread you post in.
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I'm sayin' bro!
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Kilkelly is one of the saddest songs ever. It's hard to find a good recording, though. It's a folk song about the potato famine, originally written from old letters found in someone's attic. Atwater-Donnelly, a husband-wife folk duo out of Foster, RI do a phenomenal version with a dulcimer and flute. Blackthorne also does a version.
Also, "Most of the Time" by Bob Dylan is really sad. It's brilliant songwriting.
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neutral milk hotel - two headed boy pt. 2
I second this, definitely. It and Part One together are overwhelming. I also second "Between the Bars" by Elliott Smith and "Hallelujah" covered by Jeff Buckley. Some others:
Built to Spill- Cleo
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Sufjan Stevens - Kill
Ani DiFranco - Napoleon
Beck - Side of the Road
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness
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Cracked eggs, dead birds / Scream as they fight for life / I can feel death / Can see its beady eyes
Could a Radiohead fan please explain his irritating dead-chicken fetish? I mean, he puts out some pretty good tunes and all but damn, those sorts of lyrics ruin lesser bands.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1512708,00.html
Radiohead lyrics rates a mention in this article.
Also, Andy Partridge is my god for this month. Even more so than usual.
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We know you don't like Radiohead. We know there are other who don't like Radiohead. Does somebody really have to make a comment like that every time the band is brought up?
Yes. Every ineffectual, annoying blow I strike against Radiohead is a blow for great justice.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1512708,00.html
Radiohead lyrics rates a mention in this article.
I'm not surprised. 'Morning Bell' confuses the hell out of me. I can never tell if he's talking about a garage sale or a mass murder.
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"Mountain Jam"--- Allman Brothers
"Jane Says" --- Jane's Addiction
"Heroin" --- Velvet Underground.
"Wooden Ships" --- Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
There are more.
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Do you remember - Jack Johnson
Damn. Thats a good one.
EDIT: MORE!!!
Imagine- A Perfect Circle
Beautiful World- RATM (they really mellowed out on that one)
Fred Jones, Part 2 / The Ascent of Stan / The Luckiest - Ben Folds
No Woman, No Cry- Bob Marley
Sway - Lostprophets
Let Go- Frou Frou
Elanor Rigby- The Beatles
This Will Be Laughing Week- The Ultimate Fakebook
Stumbeline - Smashing Pumpkins
Rob Dougan- Clubbed to Death
Damien Rice- Cannonball
Bend the Bracket- Chevelle
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Speaking of the Allman Brothers; Blue Sky strikes me as particularly sad. Not sure why.
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Bright Eyes "We Are Nowhere And It's Now"
Emmylou Harris has a voice that could make anyone cry. What a singer! As a backing vocalist she is absolutely unsurpassed.
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For some reason, Arcade Fire - In The Back Seat strikes me as sad... probably just all the lamenting wailing going on
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Tom Waits, as sung my Megan Mullally- Take it With me
In a land there's a town
And in that town, there's a house
And in that house there's a woman
And in that woman there's a heart I love
I'm gonna take it with me when I go
Then, the biggest loser is me....
Bette Midler- From a Distance[/quote]
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Someone already mentioned Elliott Smith's "Between the Bars." Which I always thought was about alcoholism, and always made me want to develop a drinking problem just a little bit. I want to add "Needle in the Hay" but that may only affect me because I love The Royal Tenenbaums so much.
The Radiohead song that I'm surprised no one has mentioned is "Pyramid Song." And the Nine Inch Nails song I'm less surprised no one has mentioned is "The Downward Spiral".
And now I get my indie moment, because no one has mentioned the Microphones' song "The Moon," which is absolutely wonderful and devastating at the same time.
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Definitely add "Needle in the Hay". Elliott Smith's whole self-titled album is just flat-out depressing.
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it's too thrash to be sad... it's more angsty and angry
Ever get depressed and break something? Sometimes the raw anger is pretty sad, anyway. It's all a matter of perspective on life.
Oh, any opinions can't be wrong but they sure can be misguided (to whomever said that).
Sad songs:
Arrogant Sons of Bitches - Last on my List
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution - It's a Wonderful Life
Bomb the Music Industry - Big Plans of Sleeping In
Catch 22 - As the Footsteps Die Out Forever
Edna's Goldfish - Sunrise to Sunset
Gimp - Supernothing
One Cool Guy - Best Intentions
Razbari Sumthing - I Feel Fine
Stray Bullets - Thrift Store
Subb - Me and My Maxwell House
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I'm gonna go for Okkervil River here.
They're an awesome band - mostly acoustic, kind of folky stuff. Some of the saddest songs I've ever heard. Try "Red", "Kansas City", "For Real" or "It Ends With a Fall". "For Real" is more sad just due to the delivery - Will Sheff really sounds like he's putting everything in to it. Actually, the whole album "Down The River of Golden Dreams" fits the description. "For The Enemy" gets me every time.
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I'd have to agree with other posts and say one of the most sad songs I know is Mad World, this girl I know says it makes her want to lynch herself.
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There's this girl - Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Her entire cd, "Stand with the stillness of this day", is so incredibly sad and gorgeous. It's that kind of "I got chills" music, and it's so utterly depressing.
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One Last Goodbye by Anathema had me bawling when I first heard it.
How I needed you
How I grieve now you're gone
In my dreams I see you
I awake so alone
I know you didn't want to leave
Your heart yearned to stay
But the strength I always loved in you
Finally gave way
Somehow I knew you would leave me this way
Somehow I knew you could never.. never stay
And in the early morning light
After a silent peaceful night
You took my heart away
And I grieve
In my dreams I can see you
I can tell you how I feel
In my dreams I can hold you
And it feels so real
I still feel the pain
I still feel your love
I still feel the pain
I still feel your love
And somehow I knew you could never, never stay
And somehow I knew you would leave me
And in the early morning light
After a Silent peaceful night
You took my heart away
I wished, I wished you could have stayed
[Lyrics & Music: D.Cavanagh]
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Albums:
Nortt - Gudsforladt
My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun
Songs:
Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" (originally done by NIN)
Of The Wand & The Moon - Megin Runar
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The Pogues- And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Flogging Molly- Far Away Boys
Murs- Walk Line A Man
Johnny Cash- a whole fuckload of songs, one of my favorites though is "Give My Love To Rose"
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
The Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
Low - Sunflower
TV on the Radio - Dreams
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy
That's all I can think of right now... Hmm....
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Porcupine Tree - Feel So Low, the lyrics may be kind of cliched, but it's still a beautiful song
"Softest Voice", "Winter's Love" and "Visiting Friends" by Animal Collective. They just took on a whole new meaning even since I went on vacation last week and just listened through the entire album watching a campfire at night. For some reason that really brought out Animal Collective's brilliance to me, and I can't wait to get the opportunity to do it again.
Jaga Jazzist - Swedenborgske Rom, just for that one part with the vocal harmonies.
The Mars Volta - Miranda, That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore. I know TMV have been getting a lot of crap lately for no real reason, but the "overindulgent ambience" is what makes this song so great. After the 4-minute intro, when that trumpet finally comes in it just brings you to your knees, it's bloody amazing.
And just about any song by Sigur Ros, but that goes without saying. But I said it anyway...so uh, yeah.
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Radiohead- How to Disappear Completely
That there
That’s not me
I go
Where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the liffey
I’m not here
This isn’t happening
I’m not here
I’m not here
In a little while
I’ll be gone
The moment’s already passed
Yeah it’s gone
And I’m not here
This isn’t happening
I’m not here
I’m not here
Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes
I’m not here
This isn’t happening
I’m not here
I’m not here
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Somthing in the Way - Nirvana
The Scientest - Coldplay
If I am completely lame for both of these choices, I am sorry, but they make me all teary eyed.
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I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Sinead O'Connor's 'Nothing compares 2 U' rates up there in my book.
And just about anything by Nina Simone.
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Albums:
Nortt - Gudsforladt
My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun
Songs:
Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" (originally done by NIN)
Of The Wand & The Moon - Megin Runar
<3
Of The Wand And The Moon is excellent.
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They played "Hurt" (Johnny Cash cover) on the day he died, and it made me tear up. Such a sad song. ;(
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They played "Hurt" (Johnny Cash cover) on the day he died, and it made me tear up. Such a sad song. ;(
ARGHBUSIFONETONMPWNERG DAMMIT!
Why is that the only Johnny Cash song anyone ever talks about? He has songs that would BREAK your heart years before he died.
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Radiohead- How to Disappear Completely
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day (Seriously, it's about a girl who dies of bone cancer)
Sufjan Stevens - Romulus
Sufjan Stevens - The Upper Peninsula
Elliott Smith - Waltz #2
Wilco - Ashes of American Flags (When he belts out "ooooh my lies are always wishes" it gets me every time.)
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Hurt is one of Cash's saddest tbh. It lacks the insubstantially light-hearted streak that runs through a lot of the rest of his work, especially after his conversion to christianity.
I'm listening to Skyclad - Single Phial, and it's pretty sad. Not really on a par with what I've already said though. Skyclad too have a wry streak, although this song, as well as Cardboard City, Land of the Rising Slum (acoustic), The One Piece Puzzle, A Clown of Thorns, Womb of the Worm, Schadenfreude, You Lost my Memory and A Bellyful of Emptiness are all pretty sad in their own way, often with an edge of despair, anger or resigned resignation, always slightly softened by Walkyiers penchant for wordplay. Still, there's some wonderful moments. Like in 'A Bellyful of Emptiness':
"I've had a bellyful of emptiness,
I've got a pocketful of nothing at all!
In real-life fairy tales the frog stays a frog,
And the serving girl can't be the belle of the ball.
You're not the belle of the ball...
Get back in your cinders and CRAAAAAAWL!"
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Hurt is one of Cash's saddest tbh. It lacks the insubstantially light-hearted streak that runs through a lot of the rest of his work, especially after his conversion to christianity.
Especially with the heartbreaking Romanek video, the only failing of which was over-reliance on "Cash=Jesus" imagery.
Oh, and randomly, one more song: the Joe Strummer cover of "Redemption Song."
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Why is that the only Johnny Cash song anyone ever talks about? He has songs that would BREAK your heart years before he died.
But I didn't listen to Johnny Cash years before he died. I only started listening to his stuff after the tremendous NIN cover. I grew up with nails, so Hurt already had an impact on me. I started listening to more of Cash's stuff after I was blown away by the cover.
Yes, he does have many, many great and sad songs out there and truly lived a tragic life. Its just that Hurt was my first realization (and introduction) of how amazing of a person and musician he was, so you should be happy about that and now annoyed. He spread to a whole new generation with that song.
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The Pogues- And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
good choice!
also, one probably little known in forums such as this:
Three Fishers - Stan Rogers
(a canadian folk singer, wrote and sung truly heart wrenching songs, many about the sea)