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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #35 on: July 27, 2010, 05:27:23 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #36 on: July 27, 2010, 06:37:19 AM »
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #37 on: July 27, 2010, 06:46:03 AM »
Opeth - The Drapery Falls.

The only song I could think of right now.
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #38 on: July 27, 2010, 11:11:39 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #39 on: July 27, 2010, 11:15:36 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #40 on: July 27, 2010, 11:19:09 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #41 on: July 27, 2010, 11:19:55 AM »
Any and all of the songs on Buckethead's Electric Tears.

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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #42 on: July 27, 2010, 11:23:01 AM »
Any and all of the songs on Buckethead's Electric Tears.
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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"
I felt its length in quite a few places.

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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #43 on: July 27, 2010, 11:33:48 AM »
Forgot one, silly me.

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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #44 on: July 27, 2010, 11:42:33 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #45 on: July 27, 2010, 03:11:44 PM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #46 on: July 27, 2010, 03:37:44 PM »
I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #47 on: July 27, 2010, 04:00:48 PM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #48 on: July 27, 2010, 04:07:07 PM »
I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.
I also mentioned it
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #49 on: July 27, 2010, 04:20:11 PM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #50 on: July 27, 2010, 04:25:23 PM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #51 on: July 27, 2010, 06:34:06 PM »
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
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #52 on: July 27, 2010, 07:03:05 PM »
I can't believe I'm the only one who mentionned Wsh You Were Here.

I have it mentioned as well

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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #53 on: July 27, 2010, 10:09:20 PM »
Pain of Salvation - Undertow

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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #54 on: July 27, 2010, 11:09:48 PM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #55 on: July 28, 2010, 02:58:42 AM »
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

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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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #56 on: July 28, 2010, 03:52:38 AM »
Traditional Irish and Scottish songs can be incredibly melancholic and sad. Kudos for mentioning this song, by the way. :)
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #57 on: July 28, 2010, 03:19:15 PM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #58 on: July 28, 2010, 03:22:19 PM »
porcupine tree's stop swimming i find to be pretty sad

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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #59 on: July 28, 2010, 07:56:19 PM »
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
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #60 on: July 28, 2010, 11:12:23 PM »
Alter Bridge - In Loving Memory

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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #61 on: July 29, 2010, 12:46:34 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #62 on: July 29, 2010, 12:47:23 AM »
Man, I haven't listened to Floyd in ages.
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #63 on: July 29, 2010, 01:28:06 AM »
this song is literally brand new, but it is definitely chilling and sad. for me at least, and given the circumstances


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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #64 on: July 29, 2010, 04:14:18 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #65 on: July 29, 2010, 09:09:40 AM »
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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #66 on: July 29, 2010, 09:17:40 AM »
Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #67 on: July 29, 2010, 09:25:21 AM »
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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #68 on: July 29, 2010, 10:07:09 AM »
Stumbled upon these two songs by Runrig, and I thought that they might fit well in this thread:

Ch́ 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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Re: Your Saddest Song?
« Reply #69 on: July 29, 2010, 12:44:35 PM »
Kaki King - I Never Said I Loved You
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