Saddest Song Ever

for me it would be pink floyd - nobody home...it makes me really sad    especially while watching the wall film...and non prog... blind guardian - the eldar

Lets start by filling quite a bit of Marillion tunes that have somehow been overlooked...

Script for A Jester's Tear

Jigsaw

Bitter Suite/Hearts of Lothian

Warm Wet Circles

Cinderella Search

and another one that I have recently realized is quite depresing is Syd Barrett's Dominoes

why not wrote: for me it would be pink floyd - nobody home...it makes me really sad

How about the end of "One Of My Turns'? Good one by the way.

Pink Floyd - Dogs

Frank Sinatra - My Way

anything by katatonia, some opeth

Oh yes, "A Louse Is Not A Home" is my favourite pH composition.  Not as sad as "Lost" or "House With No Door" though.

There are instrumental passages that almost upset me too:

The flute solo by Jaxon in "My Room (Waiting for Wonderland)", the sax solo, also by Jaxon in "Man-erg" and Dicky Betts' guitar solo in the Allman Brothers Band's live version from The Fillmore East, of "Whipping Post".  But of course, Duane Allman is amazing too on that live performance.

Saddest prog song, for me, would be Goodbye Blue Sky, Welcome to the Machine or a lot of stuff from the Wall, or from Pink Floyd in general, because they're one of the most depressing bands ever.

Saddest non-prog song- either Lightning Crashes by Live, or a lot of stuff by Nirvana, like Come As You Are, because a lot of their lyrics are basically just saying "I give up on life"

Also, No Rain by Blind Melon, because it's like wanting to be depressed and dark, but not knowing why.

 

 

"Ceremony" Joy Division/New Order

The Joy Division performance of "Ceremony" at Birmingham University the night before Ian Curtis Hanged himself is emotionally charged.  The lyrics are heartfelt. and a tear came from my upon hearing it the first time, its unbelievably depressing.  However, you must know Joy Division and have thoroughly listenedto all theiralbums to truly appreciate the virtues of this despairing song. 

 

Moreover, remaining memebers of Joy Division formed an inoffensive synth pop band known as New Order; New Order used this unfinished masterpiece as their first single under a new band name.  The lead singer, Bernard Sumner,was disconcerted at the fact he was to be lead vocalist of the band.

 

This wekness of his vocals in NO's studio version"Ceremony" engender an array of emotions,pity and despair being the most prominent among them. 

 

Other Sad Songs:

"Time Table"  Genesis.  The Chime work at the nd of this song is lugubrious. 

"Summer 68" Pink Floyd

"Ride" Caravan.  The guita creates a sense of hoplessness and unending confusuion.  You become humbled after hearing this song

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Non-prog: 'I come and stand at every door' - The Byrds

Prog: 'Time (flowing like a river)' - Alan Parsons Project and 'Epitaph' - King Crimson

General: 'Isolde's Liebestod' from "Tristan und Isolde" - Richard Wagner 

Epitaph is sad and great song, and The Wall  have a lot of saddest songs and some few in Scenes From A Memory.

O yeah, and South Side of the Sky by Yes.

Also the guitar solo of Steve Hackett in Firth Of Fifth sounds saddest for me.