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Offline jag66

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Saddest song you've ever heard?
« on: October 10, 2011, 03:02:08 PM »
What's the saddest song you've ever listened to?

Not sure anything can beat Johnny Cash's version of Hurt for me, particularly when watching the video  :'(
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2011, 03:04:26 PM »
Heartattack in a Lay By is the only correct answer.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2011, 03:06:19 PM »
Quote from: Sigz on October 10, 2011, 03:04:26 PM
Heartattack in a Lay By is the only correct answer.

Very good answer. I'd have to give it to a song from the same album; Collapse the Light into Earth.


or maybe something from Brand New: Jesus Christ, The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot, or maybe Handcuffs.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2011, 03:08:51 PM »
Quote from: Sigz on October 10, 2011, 03:04:26 PM
Heartattack in a Lay By is the only correct answer.
or Don't Hate Me.

Also...
The Pineapple Thief - Who Will Light Up Your Eyes? and November.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2011, 03:09:14 PM »
Radiohead - Street Spirit is pretty sad too
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2011, 03:11:51 PM »
Gorecki's 3rd Symphony
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2011, 03:12:54 PM »
Also, this thread without Anathema would be just wrong... I'd say Forgotten Hopes, Lost Control and Are You There?
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2011, 03:13:17 PM »
Kaki King - Joi
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2011, 03:24:59 PM »
Quote from: zxlkho on October 10, 2011, 03:06:19 PM
Quote from: Sigz on October 10, 2011, 03:04:26 PM
Heartattack in a Lay By is the only correct answer.

Very good answer. I'd have to give it to a song from the same album; Collapse the Light into Earth.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2011, 03:44:38 PM »
Either Heartattack in a Layby or Don't Hate Me. Layby in a "oh wow that's so sad!" sense and Don't Hate Me in an "oh wow you're so pathetic its sad!" sense. Both incredible songs as well.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2011, 03:48:41 PM »
Brand New - Limousine

The lyrics are heart-rending, based on a true story.

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icyun1RaTmM
So moving.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2011, 03:49:51 PM »
Collapse the Light into Earth, I'd say.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2011, 03:53:24 PM »
First thing I thought of was Heartattack in a Layby..
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2011, 04:05:50 PM »
Where I Thought I Met The Angels by The Tallest Man On Earth.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2011, 04:23:45 PM »
My usual answer to this one is Last Kiss (the Pearl Jam version particularly).
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2011, 04:35:08 PM »
I don't know why, but Watching the Boats with my Dad by Buckethead comes off as really nostalgic with a hint of melancholy. But oh man, it gets me sad n' shit.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2011, 04:40:19 PM »
Heart Attack in a Layby is a great choice.
Here are some others I immediately thought of:
The Cure- The Same Deep Water As You
The Gathering-Waking Hour
Queensryche- Out of Mind
Slowdive- Country Rain
The Smiths- I Know It's Over
Renaissance- Cold Is Being
Travis- Luv
Type O Negative- Red Water (Christmas Mourning)
The Carpenters- Ordinary Fool

Updated to include Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely, My Dying Bride's For My Fallen Angel, and Dream Theater's Goodnight Kiss & Disappear
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2011, 04:48:31 PM »
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
The Cure - Disintegration
Gary Numan - The Seed of a Lie
Anathema - One Last Goodbye
The Smiths - I Know It's Over
The Smashing Pumpkins - Crestfallen
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)
Tori Amos - Winter
Porcupine Tree - Heartattack in a Layby
Bright Eyes - Waste of Paint

Those are just a few. Most of the music I listen to is sad/dark.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2011, 04:57:19 PM »
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2011, 05:07:27 PM »
No votes for Disappear?

Either version of Hurt would be a good contender, as well.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2011, 05:16:31 PM »
Disappear isn't that sad.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #21 on: October 10, 2011, 05:18:21 PM »
You're all wrong.  Song for a Dead Friend by Kevin Gilbert.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #22 on: October 10, 2011, 05:25:56 PM »
Radiohead- How to Disappear Completely. Always brings me to tears.

I also get teary eyed over Rush's Different Strings.

and

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide.   :'(
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #23 on: October 10, 2011, 05:35:01 PM »
Quote from: Gadough on October 10, 2011, 05:16:31 PM
Disappear isn't that sad.
It is. I forgot about it. Also, Vacant.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #24 on: October 10, 2011, 05:35:49 PM »
Heartattack In A Layby
Wish You Were Here
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #25 on: October 10, 2011, 05:43:39 PM »
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #26 on: October 10, 2011, 05:47:32 PM »
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #27 on: October 10, 2011, 05:48:53 PM »
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #28 on: October 10, 2011, 06:06:07 PM »
These are all songs that pull on my heartstrings immensely:

Mumford & Sons - Timshel
Brand New - Jesus Christ
Thrice - Words in the Water
Avenged Sevenfold - Tonight the World Dies
Eels - Little Bird
Eels - Girl from the North Country (cover of Bob Dylan's version, it's incredibly beautiful)
Porcupine Tree - Collapse the Light Into the Earth
Porcupine Tree - Feel So Low
Bruce Hornsby - Hooray for Tom
Shady Bard - These Quiet Times
Coheed and Cambria - Mother Superior
Manchester Orchestra - I Can Feel a Hot One
Alter Bridge - In Loving Memory
The Mayfield Four - Summergirl
Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine
Andy McKee - Rylynn

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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #29 on: October 10, 2011, 06:15:54 PM »
Evergrey - When the Walls Go Down
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #30 on: October 10, 2011, 06:42:45 PM »
Quote from: Nic35 on October 10, 2011, 05:35:49 PM
Wish You Were Here

Forgot about this one.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #31 on: October 10, 2011, 06:56:55 PM »
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Wish You Were Here

Forgot about this one.

Me too.  I really need to dust off that album.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #32 on: October 10, 2011, 07:14:34 PM »
Hmmm.

I Don't Love by Have a Nice Life has to be one of them.  Every time I put it on, everything just feels so... futile.  It is a horrible feeling and I love it to death. 

This is not a definite answer, but for some reason it was the first one that came into my head. 
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #33 on: October 10, 2011, 07:33:03 PM »
Peter Gabriel has a lot of depressing as hell songs.
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Re: Saddest song you've ever heard?
« Reply #34 on: October 11, 2011, 01:47:01 AM »
Anathema - One Last Goodbye

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