Topic: What is the saddest song ever?
started by: ic0n0
Posted by ic0n0 on Jan. 30 2002,08:03
I want to find it, I think that music can express my feelings pretty well and I try to find music that matches my mood but none of sad music is quite sad enough, so what is the saddest song you have ever heard? Right now i think the sadest song i have is Stealing Babies by our lady peace.
Posted by CatKnight on Jan. 30 2002,08:27
Bill Chase - Invitation to a RiverI'll send it to you.
Posted by Vigilante on Jan. 30 2002,08:29
Ahh, a topic near and dear to my heart...Depeche Mode - Home
Coldplay - Trouble
Billy Joel - And So It Goes, Alexa
Genesis - No Son of Mine
K's Choice - Elegia
New Order - Elegia (different song; instrumental)
Moby - Porcelain
Nick Cave - Darker With the Day, We Came Along This Road, As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
U2 - Exit, With or Without You, October (basically instrumental), So Cruel, Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers cover)
Apocalyptica version of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters (instrumental)
VAST - Flames, Blue, Lady of Dreams (instrumental)
Ayreon - Listen to the Wind
Morphine - In Spite of Me
Dream Theater - Wait for Sleep, Space Dye Vest (hardest music of the bunch)
Chose those based on melodic and lyrical content. There are others that have a similar or greater effect on me, but for assorted reasons not necessarily related to those.
Posted by 1LT on Jan. 30 2002,14:26
Alice in Chains- Down in a HoleNIN- Hurt
"Lucky Man" I think by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Posted by Uberkommando on Jan. 30 2002,14:31
Counting Crows.
Posted by Jimi on Jan. 30 2002,15:44
I agree with Uber, Counting Crows have a song called colourblind. You may know it from the film Cruel Intentions, but it does genuinely bring a tear to my eye everytime I listen to it.
If you can't get it elsewhere let me know and I'll host it temporarily so you can download it.
By the way does anybody thing these new smileys will get madly over used?
Just wondering?
Posted by ic0n0 on Jan. 30 2002,19:04
ive got every counting crows album including some bootlegs, so yeah i know colorblind it is a sad song.
Posted by Non on Jan. 30 2002,19:35
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven...
Posted by Nikita on Jan. 30 2002,19:42
Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest Peter Gabriel - I Grieve
Lara Fabian - Broken Vow
other good ones that I like ...
Joy Enriquez - How can I not love you (Anna and the King soundtrack)
Sting - Moon over bourbon street
Sting - Fragile/Fragilidad (probably overplayed by now)
Posted by Delpino on Jan. 30 2002,19:51
Christ, the two saddest are still missing.Tim McGraw - Don't Take the Girl
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss (I know it's a remake)
Posted by Vlamor on Jan. 30 2002,20:07
- The whole Cold Play album- REM - Losing my religion
- Radiohead (most of the songs)
And Leonard Cohen makes me smile...
Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Jan. 30 2002,20:49
Man, all y'all are missing the obvious:Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
So.
So you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue sky from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail
A smile from a veil
Do you think you can tell
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in the cage
How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls living in a fish bowl
Year after year
Going over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here.
Posted by TheTaxMan on Jan. 30 2002,22:03
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings (both the choral and string versions)Sergei Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You
Amazing Grace, especially on the bagpipes
Nickel Creek - The Lighthouse Tale
Posted by Pickle Therapy Lady on Jan. 30 2002,22:05
POE - HauntedMainly because that's the only song I could find that gave me some relief after a friend killed himself.
I hate when I don't wait till I've read a whole thread before replying.
Non, Vlamor, TheTaxMan, I'll have to agree w/some of your choices too. Respectively, Tears in Heaven (played at my father-in-law's funeral), Losing My Religion (Tori Amos' version though), Amazing Grace on pipes ( also played at my father-in-law's funeral).
Posted by Anztac on Jan. 30 2002,22:29
TheTaxMan hit it. Addagio for strings is just beautiful
Posted by LiNeY on Jan. 30 2002,23:05
Sarah McLachlan - Angel (City of Angels soundtrack)I agree about Peter Gabriel "I Grieve", and Eric Clapton "Tears in Heaven"...
Posted by peregrin on Jan. 30 2002,23:42
Liney, you are just so close to my vote on the sarah mclachlin front, although i would have to go for the instrumental last dance. also there is quite a bit of ben harper that is wonderfully depressing, specifically "i shall not walk alone". "two points for honesty" by guster is quite good, but it depends on the reason for sadness. aimee mann did a decent job with the song "one". fuel has a semi-sad song called "bad day". the calling "wherever you will go". there is a little known man named jude who did a song called "goodbye, i'm an asshole", although many of his other works are also incredibly sad. the rightrous brothers with "that lovin' feeling". and again depending on how sad you need it, jars of clay, poor old lu, and church of rythm are quite good. ugh. too much sad music.
Posted by ic0n0 on Jan. 31 2002,01:48
Right now I think I am going to have to go with P.O.D Youth of the nation. I can relate to that song to well.
Posted by kai on Jan. 31 2002,04:48
hmm, off the top of my head.bush - Glycerine
perhaps i'll think of more later
Posted by Vlamor on Jan. 31 2002,04:56
Mysterons - PortisheadHer voice is so fucking sexy...
Posted by Cyrino on Jan. 31 2002,05:42
Seven Mary Three - LuckyDashboard Confessional - For You To Notice
Elton John - Candle in the Wind
Lynard Skynard - Tuesday's Gone
Posted by smartsnake on Jan. 31 2002,16:18
The Offspring-Gone Away
Posted by Jimi on Jan. 31 2002,16:59
I don't know if this is appropriate but if I was feeling sadness due to a loss i'd really like to hear this song.OPM - Brighter Side
It's not particularly deep and meaningful and full of metaphores which seems to be the usual hits with you guys, but they say what they want to say and they say it well. It's well worth the listen.
Posted by PersonGuy on Jan. 31 2002,18:21
Usher - You Got it Bad
BT - Remember
Underworld - Dirty Epic
Elton John - Candle In the Wind
Robert Miles - Princess of Light
Pure Solace (my friend here at DigiPen... I'll see if I can get an MP3 of it) - Remember Me
John Lennon - Imagine
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Tori Amos - Some of Em
Counting Crows - Anything
Fiona Apple - Anything
Radiohead - Anything
Dave Mathews Band - their unreleased CD (whatever it's called)
Posted by Hellraiser on Jan. 31 2002,18:28
Offspring - Gone Away gets a vote from me too.My favorite melancholy songs are:
U2 - All I want is You, With or Without You, Mothers of the Disappeared, Running to Stand Still.
Aerosmith - Fallen Angels
RHCP - Scar Tissue, Otherside
Dido - All You Want
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
This one's more bitter than melancholy:
Extreme - Tell me something I don't already know
Posted by PersonGuy on Jan. 31 2002,18:30
Sorry man... I feel for ya. Been there... done that...Trying to keep the comedy separate from the real stuff:
also check out:
Kids Of Widney High - Let's Get Busy
Kids Of Widney High - Special Music From Special Kids
Wesley Willis - I'm Sorry I Got Fat
Here's a song that my little bro wrote when he was 4:
My mom...
Gets mad...
I'm BUPPY!
I'm BUPPY!
I'm BUPPY!
I'm BUPPY!
while (true)
{
I'm BUPPY!
I'm BUPPY!
I'm FLIPPY!
I'm JUMPY!
I'm BUPPY!
I'm BUPPY!
I'm POOPY!
I'm HAPPY!
}
Posted by Jimi on Jan. 31 2002,20:28
Next time you see your little bro, do us a favour and pad him down for drugs. I'm refering to PRo Plus, Lucozade, Red bull etc.It's better for him in the long term
Posted by TheTaxMan on Jan. 31 2002,21:52
| Quote (PersonGuy @ 31 Jan. 2002,10:21) |
| Dave Mathews Band - their unreleased CD (whatever it's called) |
Lilywhite Sessions
Posted by ic0n0 on Feb. 01 2002,00:15
Lilywhite Sessions is great!
Posted by just_dave on Feb. 02 2002,00:03
where can I get that at by chance??
Posted by TheTaxMan on Feb. 02 2002,00:12
DMB is extremely cool about online music, check Audio Galaxy, Bear Share, or whatever you use. Other than that, it helps to have good friends with hook-ups
Posted by veistran on Feb. 05 2002,04:13
Gravity KillsAlways
Given up to me
You're living - rotting in my dream
Morning lights to red
I think I've had too much already
So violently to touch, it's tearing me up
So beautifully to clutch, I'm feeling so weak
So violently to touch, you're everything
So violently to touch
Because you're always slipping away
Because you're always slipping away from me
Always slipping away
Because you're always slipping away from me
Aimless misery
Things aren't always what they seem
Anger lain to rest
I've never been the one to follow
So violently to touch, it's tearing me down
So beautifully to clutch is what you believe
So violently to touch, I'm anything
So violently to touch
Because you're always slipping away
Because you're always slipping away from me
Always slipping away
Because you're always slipping away from me
Not a memory
Your cup of life is overflowing
There to catch the fall
Bending down to kiss the sorrow
So silently to touch, it's tearing me down
Innocently to clutch, I'm feeling so weak
So violently to touch, I'm anything
So violently to touch
Because you're always slipping away
Because you're always slppping away from me
Always slipping away
Because you're always slipping away from me
-or-
Drown