What's Your Favorite Sad Song [Archive]

Rudy

02-19-2009, 07:09 PM

The Leader of the Band always makes me cry, but that may be because I lost my own father.

Traveling Soldier likewise makes me cry, but it's a country song.

I'll see if I can think of anything else...

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I can list tons of country, because that's what I listen to when I'm trying to cry, but I don't know if you despise country or not (so many people do.) Le me know.

Moriarty

02-19-2009, 08:06 PM

Grace is Gone (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Naked As We Came (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

BostonIan

02-19-2009, 08:33 PM

Ooh, I'll take it as a challenge. It'd help to know where your weak spot is, but, off the top of my head:

Abortion: "Brick" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Ben Folds Five
Abuse, sexual: "Sullen Girl" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Fiona Apple
Breakup, dumped: "Nothing Compares to You" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Sinead O'Conner
Deceased, child: "Tears In Heaven" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Eric Clapton
Deceased, loved ones: "Go Rest High On That Mountain" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Vince Gill
Depression, existential: "Things Behind the Sun" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Nick Drake
Dreams, broken: "The End of the Innocence" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Eagles/Henley?
Infidelity, his: "I Know" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Fiona Apple
One, the (that got away): "What Might Have Been" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Youtubeguy
Rejection, not pretty enough: "At Seventeen" (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Janis Ian

metamagnet

02-19-2009, 09:33 PM

Dance with the Devil - Immortal Technique (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

HeartBreaker - MSTRKRFT (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Cocoa

02-19-2009, 10:08 PM

King of Sorrow by Sade
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ToC

02-19-2009, 10:11 PM

Listen to Shakira live if you want to cry; it's that bad.

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or spend an evening at a karaoke club

Tragic Hero

02-19-2009, 10:33 PM

Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre

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Santana28

02-19-2009, 11:39 PM

oh gosh, too many to mention...

Blueberry Hill, an oldie but a goodie... i always loved that one.

(albums) Adore by Smashing Pumpkins, Bloodflowers by the Cure, and Holywood by Marilyn Manson have a few that absolutely wretch my heart out.

Homini Lupus

02-20-2009, 02:47 AM

PANTERA - Cemetary gates
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Hollow
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About movies, that's one of the saddest clips I can think of. After all, how many movies feature the main character being hacked with an axe while crying "please, no!"

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That's another classic of sad scenes

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SimplyOtter

02-20-2009, 04:40 AM

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

pocohauntus

02-20-2009, 05:01 AM

The Leader of the Band always makes me cry, but that may be because I lost my own father.
Really? I'm very sorry to hear that. I'm being sincere.

qwerty123

02-20-2009, 08:51 AM

RudyHenkel,

Traveling Soldier is amazing. Thank you.

I always liked Three Wooden Crosses by Randy Travis (also country and maybe not the saddest)

Allie

02-20-2009, 09:01 AM

Evanescence - My Immortal (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Evanescence - Bring Me to Life (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Evanescence songs remind me of you. :) Woeful and complicated, yet striking at the same time.

Harmony

02-20-2009, 09:54 AM

Reba McEntire - She Thinks His Name Was John (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Carrie Underwood - Just a Dream (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Rudy

02-20-2009, 10:41 AM

Traveling Soldier is amazing. Thank you.

I always liked Three Wooden Crosses by Randy Travis (also country and maybe not the saddest)
You're most welcome. I'm not a big fan of Three Wooden Crosses, but that's because it's a proselytizing song.

Frodis

02-20-2009, 11:37 AM

Old timey country storytelling...like anything by Red Sovine... Daddy's girl (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) (this one's special to me; I was 'daddy's girl'), Roses for Mama (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Teddy Bear (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), The Last Goodbye (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

Red predates music video, so the YouTube videos are mainly personal ones created by fans. These were some of my granny's favorites...when I listen to these songs, I can see her sitting at the kitchen table, listening to her records, dabbing her eyes with her handkerchief. She and my dad are both gone now...amplifies the sadness. It's not everyone's cup of tea though.

tp6626

02-20-2009, 12:00 PM

In the same vain as Moriarty's Naked As We Came (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

This lecture / story 'Once Upon a School' (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. chool.html) is far from sad, but I would put money down that it will make you cry.

(Glad to be of service! :) ).

Frodis

02-20-2009, 12:10 PM

As for sad scenes, the ending of American Beauty (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

And the final scene from the series Six Feet Under (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) (if you didn't follow the show, it might not have the same effect) Great series - and the final scene has a great song too! I cried for hours when I watched this the first time.

tp6626

02-20-2009, 12:37 PM

As for sad scenes, the ending of American Beauty (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
I didn't get that feeling from that ending. It felt to me like quite a happy, content scene. Again, in the same vain as Naked as we came. It's about death, but accepting of it, rather than fearful or sad about it.

Frodis

02-20-2009, 01:15 PM

I didn't get that feeling from that ending. It felt to me like quite a happy, content scene. Again, in the same vain as Naked as we came. It's about death, but accepting of it, rather than fearful or sad about it.

Yeah, I can see that too. But specifically, I was thinking of the scene where Annette Bening opens the closet, grabs his clothes and wails. I've felt that kind of grief before, so that part in particular gets me.

Hasway

02-20-2009, 01:42 PM

I would have a million songs to give you but someone ahem*dad*ahem took my ipod and let my ahem*mom*ahem use it who lent it to my cough*brother*cough who can't find it.

Cthulhu

02-20-2009, 01:53 PM

These work for me, but I think I'm a couple of standard deviations to the right of the forum's mean age.

Fire and Rain by James Taylor
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La Boheme by Puccini - if you want both the music and the visual and you have 3 hours to spend.

theunstrungharp

02-20-2009, 01:55 PM

Elliott Smith brings us a marginally traditional ode to suicide wishes and heroin addiction...

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curiousjane

02-20-2009, 02:45 PM

Nicole Atkins - The Way It Is (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

boldbidder

02-20-2009, 03:35 PM

You Must Love Me - Jay Z

INTJoe

02-20-2009, 05:41 PM

Toto's "Africa" and Tracey Chapman's "Fast Car" are pretty good.

Cyndi Lauper's "Time after Time" too.

Maayan

02-21-2009, 10:09 PM

Regina Spektor's Samson doesn't make me cry, but it does break my heart: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth...

Cyr

02-21-2009, 10:53 PM

Elliott Smith - Going Nowhere (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Samoan Corleone

02-21-2009, 11:07 PM

As for sad scenes, the ending of American Beauty (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

For me it's the last scene of Raging Bull, but I'm a Scorsesephile (and a DeNirophile, and an in-movie-homage-to-anything-staring-Marlon-Brando-phile).

As for songs,

Regrets by Jay-Z
Freshman by Verve Pipe
The Message by Nas
Time Waits For No One by The Jackson 5
Don't Speak by No Doubt
I Hope I Never by Split Enz
Maybe by N.E.R.D.
Sukiyaki by 4PM

thiagofralves

02-22-2009, 07:12 AM

Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs
This song deeply affects me every time I listen to it.

Rudy

02-22-2009, 07:48 AM

Regina Spektor's Samson doesn't make me cry, but it does break my heart

I prefer "Oedipus" myself. Long live the king...

Zombicide

02-22-2009, 07:55 AM

Kelly Rowland - Stole (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

freerangequark

02-22-2009, 09:55 AM

I Cried For You - Katie Melua

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Such a beautiful song.

HeyZeus

02-22-2009, 10:12 AM

Sinead:
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance

Zero 7:
Distractions

These would both be break-up songs

Shaldan

02-22-2009, 04:05 PM

Gorillaz - El Mañana (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

paradoxes

02-22-2009, 10:57 PM

The Cure - Untitled

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prefect

02-22-2009, 11:46 PM

John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens. I have a playlist called "misery guts and gloom" that I like to sulk to...

Ntwadumela

02-23-2009, 12:46 AM

"Waste of Paint" - Bright Eyes
"The Biggest Lie" - Elliott Smith
"I Will Follow You Into the Dark" - Death Cab for Cutie
"True Love Waits" - Thom Yorke, Radiohead

Edit:

"Two Headed Boy Part 2" - Neutral Milk Hotel
"Oh Comely" - Neutral Milk Hotel
"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd

John Wayne Gacy, Jr is a good nomination; I concur.

amyleanne

02-23-2009, 01:47 AM

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This man's guitar playing conveys a lot of sadness and may be enough to make you cry.

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Just listen, don't watch. If you watch he might make you laugh.

Reptilian

02-23-2009, 03:40 PM

Not sure if this qualifies as sad but off the top of my head The Great Below Nine Inch Nails

Shinqui

02-23-2009, 03:59 PM

God Damn The Sun - Swans

When, When We Were Young
We Had No History
So Nothing To Lose
Meant We Could Choose
Choose What We Wanted Then
Without Any Fear
Or Thought Of Revenge
But Then You Grew Old
And I Lost My Ambition
So I Gained An Addiction
To Drink And Depression
(They Are Mine
My Only True Friends
And I'll Keep Them With Me
Until The Very End)
I'd Choose Not To Remember
But I Miss Your Arrogance
And I Need Your Intelligence
And Your Hate For Authority
But Now You're Gone
I Read It Today
They Found You In Spain
Face Down In The Street
With A Bottle In Your Hand
And A Wild Smile On Your Face
And A Knife In Your Back
You Died In A Foreign Land
And They Found My Letter
Rolled Up In Your Pocket
Where I Said I'd Kill Myself
If She Left Me Again
So Now She's Gone
And You're Both In My Mind
I've Got One Thing To Say
Before I Am Drunk Again:
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn Anyone
That Says A Kind Word
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Sun
God Damn The Light It Shines
And This World It Shows
God Damn The Sun

I win.

LaoTzu

02-23-2009, 04:02 PM

True Love Waits (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) ......nm I see it's been mentioned.

This one gets me...
The Tragically Hip - Toronto (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Sarah Harmer - Coffee Stain (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Modest Mouse- Custom Concern (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

I think I could fill this thing up... but I will refrain.

qwerty123

02-23-2009, 04:23 PM

"Waste of Paint" - Bright Eyes
"I Will Follow You Into the Dark" - Death Cab for Cutie

Ntwadumela,

Those are two of my favorites as well.

You're most welcome. I'm not a big fan of Three Wooden Crosses, but that's because it's a proselytizing song.

Fair enough. I have never looked at as critically as you.

Allie

02-23-2009, 04:57 PM

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Roxette - It Must Have Been Love (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

AliTree

02-23-2009, 05:05 PM

Mad World- Gary Jules

Ntwadumela

02-23-2009, 05:41 PM

Mad World- Gary Jules

Ahh, that is a good one. Well done.

Alienhated

02-23-2009, 07:54 PM

Marilyn Manson - Suicide is Painless

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Ahh, that is a good one. Well done.

it is ;)

Beethoven - For Alise

Buckethead - Soothsayer

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The Kronos Quartet - Requiem For A Dream

PortInStorm

02-26-2009, 04:31 AM

Cry Freedom (Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Missed the Boat (Modest Mouse) To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Tough Love

02-26-2009, 04:56 AM

portishead: glory box - (my personal interpretation is sad)
pink floyd - comfortably numb ( '' '')
tupac shakur - life goes on ('' '')

Although i can put a 'sad' swing on anything :P

Trenchant1

02-26-2009, 05:23 AM

Several songs by Eric Bogle.
No Man's Land
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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
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Now I'm Easy
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Cool, Cool River by Paul Simon always gets me.

Craigie Hill by Dick Gaughan. If this doesn't make you cry, your lachrymal glands need looking at. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

The Father's Song. A Ewan MacColl song performed by Dick Gaughan.
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Knife and Sheath by Ewan MacColl. A story of incest and murder. Good, traditional folk song.

Desperadoes Waiting For A Train by Guy Clark. I prefer the version by Martin Simpson. If you get the chance to hear that, do. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

After all that, you'll be all cried out. If not, I'll recommend some more.

thederelict

03-02-2009, 09:31 PM

Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down - Interpol (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect - The Decembrists (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

ProgFusionRoman

03-02-2009, 09:35 PM

Buckethead - I love my parents

Deadgod

03-02-2009, 10:46 PM

Instead of sad songs or scenes, what about sad music?:

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Tchaikovsky's Adagio Lamentoso from the Pathetique Symphony (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Any Funeral Doom metal will also do. No joke.

I sincerely believe that notes, melodies, harmonies, and timbre as well as historical context speak far more than words sprung together according to some generic melody in a generic verse-chorus-bridge format.

Sad scenes? I can put some scenes(or pictures) that would make people sad, as in the depression of flowers to the brutal execution of some innocent protagonist. Funny thing is, sad scenes seem to imply death or the loss of something. Sad scenes also seem to almost always be slowed in frames per second. Sadness is a slow emotion. Anything associated with sadness is bound to be slow, or depressed.

Maayan, I think Sadness is a necessary emotion. It is one that can create order out of the flux of chaos that life can be at times.

Samoan Corleone

03-03-2009, 04:49 AM

The Great Pretender, whether by The Platters or Queen, is great.

Anumidium

03-03-2009, 04:12 PM

David Byrne - The Great Western Road (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts./863192.mp3)
This one for the sound. Listen with headphones with the lights off..

tp6626

03-03-2009, 05:33 PM

Maayan

03-03-2009, 07:23 PM

thederelict

03-03-2009, 07:35 PM

Horchat Ha Eucalyptus (The Eucalyptus Grove). (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

It's wistful song about time passing. Here's a translation. (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Ivrit?

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Ooh I love these songs. Suppose they are sad songs, but they're pretty uplifting to listen to.

I suppose they are more reflective/melancholy than purely "sad," which is why I like them as well.

Maayan

03-03-2009, 07:37 PM

Ivrit?

Biidyook!

secretagentm

03-03-2009, 07:41 PM

Intuition - Feist

flower

03-04-2009, 12:40 PM

Nihilum

03-04-2009, 09:43 PM

Radiant Eclipse - Avenged Sevenfold
It's about betrayal, so it could be considered sad, but mostly just sounds angry.

"Two nights ago I was shot
A bullet sunk straight through the skull
A friend pulled the trigger that silenced me
No pain as I awoke, but dead
Seeing the face of the man
The time as he lays down his gun
I knew this was going to take place
White silence, so peaceful, so numb

No one knows the time they're changing
No one will see through

You're all gone to me, (gone to me)
I've been pulled out to watch from my eternal sleep
Intuition and a warning to believe (I will believe)
Something was wrong and though I felt I had to stay
Moving on seemed to be somber bliss
Without one goodbye
I watch my Mother shed tears

No!
This gun has stopped time in its tracks
Has altered the course of my fate
Destiny is shattered and timeless
Closed eyes feel the cold winds embrace

I'll watch you call, calling for me,
you can't bring back time...
Close your eyes or look away,
fate exposed, won't let me stay
Hope will fall tonight with broken wings,
descending entity in me

My voice has been taken from me.
The more I listen, the more I have to say

You're all gone to me, (gone to me)
I've been pulled out to watch from my eternal sleep
Intuition and a warning to believe (I will believe)
Something was wrong and though I felt I had to stay
Moving on seemed to be somber bliss
Without one goodbye
I watch my Mother shed tears
(and taste the blood that she cries,
and taste the blood that she cries)

I'll watch you call, calling for me,
you can't bring back time...
Close your eyes or look away,
fate exposed, won't let me stay
Hope will fall tonight with broken wings,
descending entity in me."

In this case it's mostly the chorus.

gestalt

03-04-2009, 10:02 PM

I found this artist named Gonzales off Feist's Myspace friends a few years ago. He performs a song called Overnight (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) that I whole-heartedly enjoy.

Shorgenfunkel

03-05-2009, 11:19 AM

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Made my eyes water the first time I heard it. That's right, an INTJ's eyes watering at a song. Whaddaya know.

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Simple, depressing, fucking awesome.

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Awesome ode to futility. This is the best freestanding song off the album, however you need to listen to the entire thing with better sound quality and let yourself get completely engulfed in the oozing negativity to get the full effect.

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I tried to introduce one of my friends to doom metal with this track; he's a singer and would appreciate the singer's range and clarity. However, he stopped listening due to the fact that it was "too depressing."

Ermisenda

03-06-2009, 11:29 PM

Iris - Goo Goo dolls (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
as an INTJ and I don't want the world to see me cause I don't think that they'd understand.

I agree. Great song.

I love these sad songs:
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down.
My Immortal - Evanescence
Better Than Me - Hinder

DurrRuhRurr

03-10-2009, 01:36 AM

Both Sides Now - Judy Collins (I also like Joni Mitchell's version.)
I Talk To The Wind - King Crimson
Epitaph - King Crimson
Berlin - Lou Reed (the whole album)
Fly - Nick Drake
Fruit Tree - Nick Drake
These Days - Nico
Sky Pilot - The Animals

azelismia

03-10-2009, 02:13 AM

THanks for the memories

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BlackOp

03-10-2009, 02:33 AM

Waltzing Matilda...Tom Waits. Doesnt get much more real than this. My only living hero....

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Tough Love

03-11-2009, 09:04 AM

when everything's made to be broken... great tune

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Try Howl by Allen Ginsburg... always makes me cry

Storm

03-11-2009, 09:30 AM

Same song as my favorite Long Song. Bittersweet sad:

Dance Me to the End of Love (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Someday I'll find someone to dance with.

reb

03-11-2009, 11:33 AM

'Prop me up beside the jukebox when I die.'
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Trenchant1

03-11-2009, 12:23 PM

One of my favourites is It's Over by Roy Orbison. His high notes make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Heck, even my nose hairs go rigid. This song and Orbison's performance are magnificent.
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INTJoe

03-11-2009, 04:55 PM

Here Without You - 3 Doors Down.

That is a good song. I love it. I think it's highly underrated because 3 Doors Down sings it and they aren't considered very good. But that song is really great.

I'm not a drug-user but another good one is this late-'90s song:

The Verve "The Drugs Don't Work"
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ElChe

03-11-2009, 08:21 PM

One I had a special folder for sad songs.

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Deine Lakaien - Love Me To The End (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Serge Gainsbourg (or Carla Bruni if you like) - La noyée (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Des'ree - Kissing You (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
and all soundtrack of this (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Angelo Badalamenti.

Merle

03-12-2009, 07:06 PM

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That's all I can think of right now... I'm not really a sad song kind of a person.

Silence

03-12-2009, 10:10 PM

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"Holy Tears" by Sara MacLean.

"Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

"Sergeant MacKenzie" To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

Stratego

03-12-2009, 10:35 PM

Mine's a little on the old side ('76), but I think it's a great one. It's Like a Sad Song by John Denver.

Here's the link for the youtube video:
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And the words are almost perfect, except the line when he sings, "like I'm all alone, without you," which I think would be better as "when I'm all alone without you."

btw, there's more than one song in that vid, just so you know--it's the first, of course.

The Calamity

03-15-2009, 12:04 AM

Mad World by Michael Andrews (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

OnionKnight

03-15-2009, 12:59 AM

Guwange - Bloom of the Underworld (Stage 3) (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Doki

03-15-2009, 03:37 AM

MUCC - Isho (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

English lyrics:
No one understands the meaning of the sadness that I continue to live with right now

I don't want anything anymore, the days of brewing "life"
I look down on days where everyone seems to be dead
This gloomy room and the warm loneliness are my ideal friends
This is a place where my heart can find peace

Mother, father, I'm sorry
It seems as though I'm flowing along in a flood of endless "pain"
But my "hopes" as they are now stop the clock
I just close my eyes, and then "eternity"...

Everyone, thank you for being "positive" on the outside
I hate you guys who are laughing and easily pretending to be sad, so much, that I hope you die
I'm "alive", that means that you guys are "dead"
The spirit of these feelings crushes me today as well

The mass media easily changes our sadness into "news"
Uncouth people of faith who feign sadness without hesitation
We feel this "life" and "red blood"
So can we only convey "death"?
Even if I fall asleep, please don't put a flower on my desk at school
Because I don't need any sad productions

This world created us
And we were killed in this world

Log100

03-15-2009, 04:16 AM

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Wicked Game by Three Days Grace

Mette

03-15-2009, 04:36 AM

The Whitlams, No Aphrodisiac
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Sarah McLachlin, Building a Mystery
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Nemesis

03-15-2009, 09:48 PM

Kings of Leon- Closer
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Scarling- Band-aid covers the bullet hole
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Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tracks Of My Tears
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The Streets - Dry your eyes <-------------------- Amazing song.
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Michael Jackson - Ain't no sunshine (Haunting rendition)
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The Temptations - I wish it would rain.
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Ozzy Osbourne - Road To Nowhere
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Blue Rodeo w/ Sarah McLachlan - Dark Angel <-------------- Best sad song in history
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In This Moment - Into the Light.
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Nemesis added to this post, 2 minutes and 46 seconds later...

The Whitlams, No Aphrodisiac
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Sarah McLachlin, Building a Mystery
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Good picks btw :)