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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: ACID_FOX on July 26, 2010, 06:18:52 PM
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So after listening to "Heart Attack in a Layby" for the first time, I've come to realise how much I love sad, hard hitting songs, and I'm looking for some more. :laugh:
Any suggestions?
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Godspeed You Black Emperor - Sleep
There's just something about it, the monologue at the beginning to set the mood, the rest of the song just crashing down, it's something special.
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inb4 this thread is overwhelmed with Steven Wilson.
But seriously, here are a few of my favorites:
PT - Feel so Low
PT - A Smart Kid
Fleetwood Mac - Storms
Elton John - Tonight
Elton John - One More Arrow
All of those have made me tear up or more.
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inb4 this thread is overwhelmed with Steven Wilson.
But seriously, here are a few of my favorites:
PT - Feel so Low
PT - A Smart Kid
Fleetwood Mac - Storms
Elton John - Tonight
Elton John - One More Arrow
All of those have made me tear up or more.
I've listened to all the PT albums now apart from "Up The Downstar" and "On The Sunday Of Life", and while alot of it is definetley sad, HHIAL is the only song to really "hit" me so to speak.
But I'm definetley getting into PT now :laugh: :metal
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Dream Theater- Disappear
Gary Moore- Empty Rooms
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Space-Dye Vest
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Emperor - I Am The Black Wizards
LOL GUYS I POSTED A SONG THATS NOT SAD IN FACT ITS BLACK METAL ARENT I SO WITTY AND CLEVER HAHAHA OH GOD IM SO LONELY
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Emperor - I Am The Black Wizards
LOL GUYS I POSTED A SONG THATS NOT SAD IN FACT ITS BLACK METAL ARENT I SO WITTY AND CLEVER HAHAHA OH GOD IM SO LONELY
WOW YOU'RE BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS YOU MUST NOT EVEN HAVE EMOTIONS
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I don't really have many songs that make me cry because of sadness, but these all can make me cry from happiness:
Brian Eno- Silver Morning, Deep Blue Day
Aphex Twin- Xtal, Rhubarb
Incubus- Echo
Sigur Ros- Hoppipolla
Actually nevermind, the one that can really tear me up with sadness
Nick Drake- Which Will
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Army Of Anyone - This Wasn't Supposed To Happen
Dave Matthews Band - Grace Is Gone
Dredg - Planting Seeds
Dredg - The Canyon Behind Her (doesn't sound too sad but the last verse with the musical climax really makes me feel the loneliness)
Elton John - Your Song (Not really sad, but it's tied to me with a sad memory)
Kaki King - Joi (truly the saddest song in my entire collection)
Mogwai - Cody
Mogwai - Tracy
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree - Fadeaway
A lot more but I got too lazy to post, if checking out any song then check out Joi by Kaki King. I couldn't believe an acoustic instrumental track could make me feel so sad.
I could also fill this list with a bunch of Steve Wilson work, but a lot of it comes off cheesy.
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Nick Drake - From the Morning
Blackfield's second album. The whole thing.
Anathema - One Last Goodbye <----------- My personal favorite
Devin Townsend - Terminal, Lady Helen
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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
I honestly can't think of a better sad song.
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Last Kiss-Pearl Jam
Cat's in the Cradle-Harry Chapin
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Sawdust and Diamonds - Joanna Newsom
Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley
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"Feel So Low" is probably the saddest song I have. Chroma Key can be pretty sad too, so are these songs...
"Somewhere Else"-Marillion
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)"-Radiohead
"Disappear"-Dream Theater
"Atlantic City"-Bruce Springsteen
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Speaking of Springsteen, The River is quite a sad song.
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"I Drive The Hearse" - PT
"Disappear" - DT
"The Scientist" - Coldplay
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PT - Feel so Low
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Sorry, everyone! The correct answer was:
Swans - God Damn the Sun
/thread
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Marillion- Sugarmice
Led Zeppelin- Going to California
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'Long Long Time' - Linda Ronstadt; unrequited love has never been so touching.
'Don't Follow' - Alice in Chains; I found this song right as I was leaving my hometown to start a new chapter in my life. It was a very difficult transitional time for me.
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Marillion- Sugarmice
I knew I was forgetting something. "Torch Song" would make it on there too.
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Thrice - The Great Exchange
Thrice - Wood & Wire
Thrice - The Whaler
Thrice - Lost Continent
Thrice - Circles
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I could name many, many songs. Space-Dye Vest would be one, Illgresi by Sigur Ros would be another and so on.
But the one song that always puts me under a cloud is Landlocked Blues by Bright Eyes.
Dear god.
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How could this happen to me?
I made my mistakes.
Got nowhere to run.
Life goes on, as I'm fading away.
I'm sick of this life.
I just wanna screeeeeaaaaaaam.
How could this happen to me?
:neverusethis:
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So after listening to "Heart Attack in a Layby" for the first time, I've come to realise how much I love sad, hard hitting songs, and I'm looking for some more. :laugh:
Any suggestions?
You've already found the saddest song ever, give up now.
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DT - Disappear
Radiohead - Creep
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this song is literally brand new, but it is definitely chilling and sad. for me at least, and given the circumstances
Avenged Sevenfold - Fiction
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Some that haven't been named before...
Ulver - Eos
Ulver - What Happened?
Marillion - Living With The Big Lie
Marillion - Brave
Marillion - The Great Escape
Runrig - The Old Boys
Opeth - In My Time Of Need
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Johnny Cash - Hurt :sad: :sad:
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this song is literally brand new, but it is definitely chilling and sad. for me at least, and given the circumstances
Avenged Sevenfold - Fiction
Second.
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Coheed and Cambria - Wake Up
Mad World (the version from Donnie Darko)
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Ark - Missing You
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this song is literally brand new, but it is definitely chilling and sad. for me at least, and given the circumstances
Avenged Sevenfold - Fiction
Second.
Third
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PT - Lazarus
Pearl Jam - Wish List
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad
Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Bob Seger - Turn The Page
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Some of my favorites:
Anathema - One Last Goodbye
Blackfield - Hello (the lyrics and the way they're delivered = sad and beautiful)
Dream Theater - Disappear
Dredg - Sang Real (maybe the lyrics aren't that sad, but it always moves me.. its sad in a beautiful way imo)
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
Opeth - Isolation Years (i think it's pretty sad at least, still one of the best on the album)
Porcupine Tree - I Drive the Hearse
There are so many more, but these are the ones i could think of right now. :P
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Last Hour--Extreme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IZgDZZVTpY
Last Goodbye--Jeff Buckley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS0rwQK_pI
Shoot Forst--Pinapple Thief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_f-ejifd8
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Opeth - The Drapery Falls.
The only song I could think of right now.
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Last Goodbye--Jeff Buckley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS0rwQK_pI
Also Lover, You Should've Come Over and Forget Her.
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Last Goodbye--Jeff Buckley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS0rwQK_pI
Also Lover, You Should've Come Over and Forget Her.
Amen.
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Two songs immediately came to my mind:
"Sugarmice" by Marillion (as suggested by lonestar)
is pretty, but "What to Say" by Enchant is just heart-wrenching. It's about a father trying to explain to his child that he is terminally ill...and Ted Leonard makes you feel the fathers pain.
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Any and all of the songs on Buckethead's Electric Tears.
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Any and all of the songs on Buckethead's Electric Tears.
:tup
Also plenty of Novembre songs are lyrically very sad and dark. Practically their entire album "Materia" is filled with sad, beautiful songs.
Also, Opeth's The Night and the Silent Water is rather sad as well. "You sleep in the light yet the night and the silent water still so cold"
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Forgot one, silly me.
Watermelon In Easter Hay - Frank Zappa
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Not a song as such, but I always find the 2nd movement of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto no. 2 very sad and moving!
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Dream Theater- Disappear
There are plenty more songs, but this one should do it so far. TMOLS is really sad as well...
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I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.
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I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.
Great song, but it never moved me at all emotionally, much less struck me as sad.
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I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.
I also mentioned it
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One that always gets to me is "Sistinas" by Danzig.
"Don't You Cry" from Kamelot is another good one I think.
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but "What to Say" by Enchant is just heart-wrenching. It's about a father trying to explain to his child that he is terminally ill...and Ted Leonard makes you feel the fathers pain.
Wow..just checked that out. That's brutal.
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Last Goodbye--Jeff Buckley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS0rwQK_pI
Also Lover, You Should've Come Over and Forget Her.
Amen.
Hell yeah, the sad trinity of the album. Forget Her is as good as any song on that album. Too bad it wasn't included when it came out.
Stephen Simmonds - Tears Never Dry
Radiohead - All I Need
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
<Insert any sad PT song except for Feel So Low, never got that one>
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I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.
I have it mentioned as well
EDIT: before you ;) :p
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Pain of Salvation - Undertow
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Many, many songs already named. I'll add
Memory - The Seatbelts (Cowboy Bebop tune)
Red House Painters - Have You Forgotten
Nancy Wilson - Elevator Beat
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
RHP makes me tear up every single time without fail, and half of those times I'll just break down and sob. Listened to the already very sorrowful song in a hard time during my life so the memories combined with the tune itself is a fucking tidal wave of emotions.
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Something fairly different - Siuil a Ruin by Connie Dover (though it's a cover of a traditional Irish song).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV4Serbwg0k
:metal
It's about an Irish woman whose lover has gone to fight for France, apparently there was an Irish regiment fighting for the French in the 1800s who were trying to secure French help in kicking the Brits out of Ireland.
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Traditional Irish and Scottish songs can be incredibly melancholic and sad. Kudos for mentioning this song, by the way. :)
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Memory - The Seatbelts (Cowboy Bebop tune)
Not this song exactly, but the tune that the music box in 'Waltz for Venus' plays always stuck with me. It was the music for the adult swim promo that introduced me to the series, and is absolutely wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2foGH1v53nY&videos=D5BNii9f7So
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porcupine tree's stop swimming i find to be pretty sad
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PT - Lazarus
DT - Space Dye Vest (though this is more pissed off than sad IMO - I listened to this a lot when I broke up with my now wife before we got back together)
Tori Amos - Winter
There are more but I can't think of any.
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Alter Bridge - In Loving Memory
Listen, and weep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcQ3iegpZTc
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I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.
I do find it to be quite sad and nostalgic. It really hit me when I saw the Australian Pink Floyd show play it. They had a slideshow with pics of the band with Syd.
:(
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Man, I haven't listened to Floyd in ages.
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this song is literally brand new, but it is definitely chilling and sad. for me at least, and given the circumstances
Avenged Sevenfold - Fiction
Second.
Third
Fourth.
Or I Won't See You Tonight Pt 1.
And a lot of PT.
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Two songs immediately came to my mind:
"Sugarmice" by Marillion (as suggested by lonestar)
is pretty, but "What to Say" by Enchant is just heart-wrenching. It's about a father trying to explain to his child that he is terminally ill...and Ted Leonard makes you feel the fathers pain.
I suggested both songs because they are very personal to me. Sugarmice is a sad song to begin with, a dad checking out on his kid and reflecting on it, but to have lived through it, it makes it that much sadder. Even in my seventh year of recovery, I still feel the pangs of what that song says, and the gaps that those moments left in both of our lives, gaps that will never be filled. I may be able to fight my way back into her heart, but I will never, ever, have it like I did when she was three. That is why that song is so sad for me. Daddy took a raincheck. I make no excuses, and take all responsibility, just a little to late.
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A lot of Tori Amos songs move me to tears but there is one in particular that is impossible for me to listen to without crying: Gold Dust.
Some others:
Tori Amos - Toast
Tori Amos - I Can't See New York
Stevie Wonder - The Secret Life of Plants
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Metallica - Fade to Black
Loreena McKennitt - Bonny Portmore
Gino Vannelli - Parole Per Mio Padre
There are tons more, just can't think of them right now.
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Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
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Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
Oh yeah, that one definitely.
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Stumbled upon these two songs by Runrig, and I thought that they might fit well in this thread:
Chì Mi'n Geamhradh (a song about a love having ended at the end of a summer); it works even better live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv7M47GLzgs
Na H-Uain A's T-Earrach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HxGLaiAZI
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Kaki King - I Never Said I Loved You
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Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
Surprised no one has ever said this one yet. I think its fairly sad and haunting at the same time, being that its about death and that nothing can be done to stop it.
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I don't know about sad, I mean he is a condemned murderer. Maybe regretful is a better term to describe it. (either way, epic fucking song!!!)
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Seventh Son-
Go listen to Cat's in the Cradle. That is a sad song.
HBTN IS EPIC THOUGH!!!!!!
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A lot of Tori Amos songs move me to tears but there is one in particular that is impossible for me to listen to without crying: Gold Dust.
Some others:
Tori Amos - Toast
Tori Amos - I Can't See New York
Stevie Wonder - The Secret Life of Plants
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Metallica - Fade to Black
Loreena McKennitt - Bonny Portmore
Gino Vannelli - Parole Per Mio Padre
There are tons more, just can't think of them right now.
YES!!
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How could I forget this one...
Rush - Losing It
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I don't know about sad, I mean he is a condemned murderer. Maybe regretful is a better term to describe it. (either way, epic fucking song!!!)
His crime was never said in the song.
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I don't know about sad, I mean he is a condemned murderer. Maybe regretful is a better term to describe it. (either way, epic fucking song!!!)
His crime was never said in the song.
True, but I'm sure he's not condemned for public masturbation.
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Nicholas Hooper's "Farewell Aragog"
:'( Poor poor Aragog :'( I break down ever time I hear it :'( :'( :'( :'( He will forever be king of the arachnids.
not kidding
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That Loreena McKennitt song I listed, Bonny Portmore, is reeeally sad. It's about an ancient oak forest in Ireland that was completely leveled to use the wood to build war ships. There was one tree that was sacred and it was chopped down too.
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Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Am I Inside
Vangelis - Psalmus Ode
Vangelis - Theme from Bitter Moon (This one kills me, mainly becuase it starts dreamy and happy and then turns out to be dark and depressing)
Vangelis - Prelude (The saddest of them all. I only hear this in moments of extreme depression)
The Mayfield Four - 12/31
The Mayfield Four - Don't Walk Away (Album Version)
Dream Theater - Space-Dye Vest
Dream Theater - Dissappear
Opeth - Hours of Wealth
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Memory - The Seatbelts (Cowboy Bebop tune)
Not this song exactly, but the tune that the music box in 'Waltz for Venus' plays always stuck with me. It was the music for the adult swim promo that introduced me to the series, and is absolutely wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2foGH1v53nY&videos=D5BNii9f7So
Oh, wow! Thanks, I don't know how I forgot this one. It's called 'Stella By Moor'; my second favorite tune off of the soundtrack aside from Memory. It's a shame my favorite songs are so short, but I think that's another part of the beauty. I've got a soft spot for those music box tunes and these two take me into a free fall. Those sink holes have nothing on these tunes.
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Ben Folds - Fred Jones Part 2
Bright Eyes - Land Locked Blues; Poison Oak
Ben Kweller - Ballad of Wendy Baker
John Mayer - Dreaming With a Broken Heart
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How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
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Tori Amos - Bells for Her
That song is not only sad, it's very eerie because she plays a toy piano that is all out of tune and it sounds so creepy. The song itslef is about two best friends who grew up together but then drifted and grew apart. Very sad. Another cool thing about this song is that it was written on the spot while Tori was toying around in her boyfriend's (at the time) studio. She didn't know that he hit the "record" button so what you hear on the album is basically the raw material that was recorded, with an overdub or two to add layers.
Is there a Tori Amos appreciation thread on here? If not I should start one.
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Tori Amos - Bells for Her
That song is not only sad, it's very eerie because she plays a toy piano that is all out of tune and it sounds so creepy. The song itslef is about two best friends who grew up together but then drifted and grew apart. Very sad. Another cool thing about this song is that it was written on the spot while Tori was toying around in her boyfriend's (at the time) studio. She didn't know that he hit the "record" button so what you hear on the album is basically the raw material that was recorded, with an overdub or two to add layers.
Is there a Tori Amos appreciation thread on here? If not I should start one.
I don't think there is, but if you start one, post A LOT of pictures of her. :eyebrows:
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I don't think there is, but if you start one, post A LOT of pictures of her.
She is definitely beautiful and sexy. But I hope the main focus of the thread will be about her awesome talent. :)
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I don't think there is, but if you start one, post A LOT of pictures of her.
She is definitely beautiful and sexy. But I hope the main focus of the thread will be about her awesome talent. :)
Um, yeah, sure it will.
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Rush - Tears
Mudvayne - Goodbye
Tool - Intension, Disposition
Lindsey Buckingham - Go Insane live acoustic
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One more to add...
Eric Clapton- Tears in Heaven
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Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley's version)
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Seeing as the thread title is song in singular, I'll list but one.
John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room (Live in LA)
If that bend in the ending solo doesn't get you, you are an awesome robot.
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Dream Theater - Disappear
Lou Reed - Perfect day
Bjork - I've seen it all
Elliot Smith - Between the bars
Garbage - Cup of coffee
Led Zeppelin - All of my love
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Cèst la vie
Morphine - The saddest song
The Beatles - She's leaving home
Marty Friedman - Farewell
Queen - Jealousy
Garbage - Drive you home
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George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
Train - Drops Of Jupiter
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Not re-reading the thread from 11 years ago, but
Pain of Salvation - Oblivion Ocean.
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Probably Heartattack In A Layby by Porcupine Tree.
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Joy Division - The Eternal
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Not re-reading the thread from 11 years ago
Seriously. :lol These are some of the biggest forum bumps I've ever seen.
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Happy by Pharell Williams
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Elliott Smith - Between the bars
A very good candidate. I'd also add his songs King's Crossing (effectively his suicide note set to music), See You Later and Waltz #1.
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Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word. Elton John.
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed. Allman Brothers.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Floyd.
Untouchable Part II. Anathema.
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Elephant by Jason Isbell
I buried her a thousand times, given up my place in line
But I don't give a damn about that now
There's one thing that's real clear to me
No one dies with dignity
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
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Hmm... my songs are the same as they were when I posted them in 2010.
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Ronan by Taylor Swift (yep, keeping the Taylor love going :P)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwYVYodNjs4
She wrote this song about a fan's son who died of cancer at the age of 4 (and graciously gave the mom a co-writing credit since she used some of the phrases in her song from the mom's blog about her son). An absolutely crushing song.
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Coil - Going Up
Fantastic song.
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Holy fucking necrothread.
Two songs immediately came to my mind:
"Sugarmice" by Marillion (as suggested by lonestar)
is pretty, but "What to Say" by Enchant is just heart-wrenching. It's about a father trying to explain to his child that he is terminally ill...and Ted Leonard makes you feel the fathers pain.
I suggested both songs because they are very personal to me. Sugarmice is a sad song to begin with, a dad checking out on his kid and reflecting on it, but to have lived through it, it makes it that much sadder. Even in my seventh year of recovery, I still feel the pangs of what that song says, and the gaps that those moments left in both of our lives, gaps that will never be filled. I may be able to fight my way back into her heart, but I will never, ever, have it like I did when she was three. That is why that song is so sad for me. Daddy took a raincheck. I make no excuses, and take all responsibility, just a little to late.
Ok, this is just a fucking trip, and kind of scary. So this post was a good 10 months before I quit drinking, and embraced complete sobriety. The 'seventh year of recovery' I'm referring to here was sobriety from meth, a bit deal, but meaningless since I was at this time putting down a 12 pack and a bottle of Jager a night. The 'sobriety' lie I told myself here basically, in my fucked up mind, said drinking didn't count. I was still neglecting my responsibilities, and was still flushing my life.
Damn man...solid reminder for sure.
And Sugarmice is even more heartbreaking now than it was then.... if you want my address, it's number one at the end of the bar...
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Damn, bro.
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Damn, bro.
Right? Talk about being lost in the lie.
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Damn, bro.
Right? Talk about being lost in the lie.
Dude, in all seriousness..
..change that avatar! :lol
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:lol
Never.
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That's intense Lonestar, but hey, sometimes you have to look back to remind yourself of where you are coming from :metal
Regarding saddest song, there are a lot that have been mentioned already, and a good chuck I never heard of, but off the top of my head:
Steven Wilson - Drive Home
Avenged Sevenfold - So Far Away
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Katatonia's "Gone"
The way it starts with the sustained guitar tone that sounds like a heart-rate flatlining, and then the vocals and instrumentation are about as bleak as it gets. Their music is quite often dark, but this one is especially gloomy.
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Now it'd be...
Faunts - So Far Away
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Katatonia's "Gone"
The way it starts with the sustained guitar tone that sounds like a heart-rate flatlining, and then the vocals and instrumentation are about as bleak as it gets. Their music is quite often dark, but this one is especially gloomy.
Gloomy Sunday.
The suicide song. Can't get any sadder.
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That's intense Lonestar, but hey, sometimes you have to look back to remind yourself of where you are coming from :metal
It's little reminders like this that keep me focused on one day at a time, do what I need to do today for my recovery. :metal
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That's intense Lonestar, but hey, sometimes you have to look back to remind yourself of where you are coming from :metal
It's little reminders like this that keep me focused on one day at a time, do what I need to do today for my recovery. :metal
Don't give up mate. Every day is a new victory.
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Damn, bro.
Right? Talk about being lost in the lie.
Thanks for the honesty now. It's inspiring. (I'm being 100% sincere here.)
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No one's mentioned the saddest song ever performed.
She's Out of My Life - Michael Jackson
I can't make it through that song without literally sobbing.
Other ones that choke me up (some have been mentioned):
Avenged Sevenfold - So Far Away, Fiction
Anathema - Untouchable, Part 1&2
Christina Perri - Jar of Hearts
Dashboard Confessional - Burning Heart
Evanescence - Hello
Eve 6 - Girlfriend
Fiction Family - Not Sure
Hootie and the Blowfish - Goodbye
Matchbox 20 - Rest Stop, Leave
Neal Morse - Emma
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Savage Garden - I Don't Know You Anymore
Styx - Goodbye Roseland
Sum 41 - Crash
(I have an obsession for the sad piano ballad)
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The Blue Nile - From a Late Night Train
Kevin Gilbert - Song for a Dead Friend
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Ben Folds - Still Fighting It
Big Big Train - British Racing Green
King Crimson - Starless
Kip Winger - If Only One Word
Phil Collins - You Know What I Mean
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Tears for Fears - Famous Last Words
Ty Tabor - I Don't Mind
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Two others:
Chloe/Crown Of Thorns - Mother Love Bone (basically Andrew Wood foreshadows his own death not months later)
Please Don't Ask - Phil Collins (but you need the solo piano version from the "Classic Albums" DVD; at the end Phil takes a second himself, he's clearly emotional about those events to this day, or whenever the video was shot at least).
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Queen - Mother Love
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EMPTY - Eric Gillette.
From his solo album "The Great Unknown".
Amazing song !
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Sad yet beautiful
Alice in chains - Nutshell
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I'll go a different direction here:
Coheed and Cambria - Pearl of the Stars
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I don't know if it's my saddest song but Ray LaMontagne's 'Highway To The Sun" is pretty damn sad.
"Washing Of The Water" by Peter Gabriel is also on the list
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Please Don't Ask - Phil Collins (but you need the solo piano version from the "Classic Albums" DVD; at the end Phil takes a second himself, he's clearly emotional about those events to this day, or whenever the video was shot at least).
What is it about?
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Please Don't Ask - Phil Collins (but you need the solo piano version from the "Classic Albums" DVD; at the end Phil takes a second himself, he's clearly emotional about those events to this day, or whenever the video was shot at least).
What is it about?
Probably shouldn't ask.
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Does it have to be a song ?
Most of Hans Zimmer's Interstellar score is heartbreakingly epic.
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For me its Angel by Sarah McLaughlin. Hits me in the feels every time. I lost a dear friend who was to early in his life and I remember listening to this song to help me through it all. It came on the other day at work I literally just had to stop what I was doing to take a moment. Few songs have that power.
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For me its Angel by Sarah McLaughlin. Hits me in the feels every time. I lost a dear friend who was to early in his life and I remember listening to this song to help me through it all. It came on the other day at work I literally just had to stop what I was doing to take a moment. Few songs have that power.
I think it's lost a lot of power for people and become a bit of a meme due to her videos for animal shelters and such, but I still find it quite powerful as well. "Adia" and "Don't Give Up On Us" have similar effects on me. I pretty much never hear people talking about the latter especially, but it's beautiful.
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Pearl Jam - The End (but Come Back is a close call)
Anathema - The Last Goodbye
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Please Don't Ask - Phil Collins (but you need the solo piano version from the "Classic Albums" DVD; at the end Phil takes a second himself, he's clearly emotional about those events to this day, or whenever the video was shot at least).
What is it about?
Probably shouldn't ask.
That took me a couple reads... :)
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Not sure if it's the saddest but "Killers" by Kings Of Convenience is a pretty damn sad song, my favorite song off their new album.
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These songs gut me every time, and I love them for it:
4th of July - Sufjan Stevens
Elephant - Jason Isbell
Elephants - Rachael Yamagata
The fact that two of them are titled Elephant(s) is a weird coincidence. Those songs are nothing alike, besides both being devastating.
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4th of July - Sufjan Stevens
Definitely up there.
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Not sure if it's the saddest but "Killers" by Kings Of Convenience is a pretty damn sad song, my favorite song off their new album.
Love that album and song, one of my favorites of the year for sure. I'm not sure if any of their songs are overtly sad to me in the way some others are, but the two most melancholic songs of theirs to me are "The Build Up" and "Gold in the Air of Summer". "Freedom and its Owner" too for the chord progression and chorus vocal harmonies, though the tempo is a bit too *lively to fit quite as well.
*"lively" in comparison to their other songs, since even at their "loudest" they still make Simon & Garfunkel sound like Manowar.
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Don't know about sad but Evergrey's When the walls go down, that's a heavy heavy song to listen too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g0rAjhHYqM&ab_channel=MarilenaAnimado