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gong 
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 Topic: Saddest Song Ever
Posted: November 07 2006 at 02:28 |
Joni Mitchell - "Amelia"; thats
awesome song from Hejira album (btw, masterpiece of art-rock genre,IMO), sad but not pathetic; great lyrics.
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Arrrghus
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 21:11 |
 The Lost Chord wrote:
I love Turn of the Centruy but the whole "Like leaves we touch.." part is just for some reason so close in melody to some awful 80's song and it always ruins the song, but i have been learning to forget about it. |
I think it's a great metaphor!
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 17:31 |
Biko by Peter Gabriel, it points at many years of treating people so cruel and without any justice (Dutch invention 'Apartheid', a black page in humanity). Peter Gabriel succeeded to blend that sadness with hope in his composition Biko but still I feel very sad when I hear that song because it reminds me of the awful and fatal way the South-African police treated Biko   ...
Edited by erik neuteboom - November 06 2006 at 17:32
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Pnoom!
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 17:05 |
Pink Floyd- The Gunner's Dream
The most moving song I've ever heard.
Of course the whole album nearly drove me to tears because of its emotional strength.
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tardis
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 16:40 |
John Williams - Yoda's Theme  Yoda, don't die!!!
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Moekk
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 16:31 |
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King Crimsons - Epitpah
Dream Theaters - Space Dye Vest
Pain of Salvation - Undertow
Dornenreich- nach Leben lechzende Herzgeflüster
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Stefanovic
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 15:38 |
Strange Fruit
either in the original (Holiday) version or the Wyatt cover
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micky
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 15:28 |
Jason_Clement wrote:
Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest |
Dream Theater leaves me teary eyed as well...
for me nostalia still brings out sadness in me
Gentle Giant - Schoolday
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Jason_Clement
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 15:18 |
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Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest
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Raff
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Posted: November 06 2006 at 15:16 |
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My current candidate for saddest song is KC's immortal "Starless"... not so much for the song itself (which is certainly not the most cheerful I've heard), but for the circumstances in which I last listened to it... on Saturday evening, at the twilight hour, while approaching an airport I won't mention for the time being.... Perhaps not really sad as in anything regarding the death of a loved one, but surely melancholy and poignant as that moment was for me.
Edited by Ghost Rider - November 06 2006 at 16:36
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the icon of sin
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 17:33 |
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X Japan were the masters of slightly depressing and very emotional ballads. They're all titled like classic love songs too. There's "Tears", "Forever Love", "Endless Rain", "Crucified By Love", and so on...see them on the album "The Last Live" for a thoroughly downlifting experience.
Edited by the icon of sin - October 30 2006 at 17:35
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xtopher
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 17:05 |
Like every other song on Anathema's "A Fine Day to Exit". Sheesh. Excuse me whilst I go weep. ( )
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Filmdirector2
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 16:49 |
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Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
Pink Floyd - Goodbye Cruel World
Pink Floyd - Vera
Pink Floyd - Hey You
King Crimson - Epitaph
Queen - The Show Must Go On
Edited by Filmdirector2 - October 30 2006 at 16:51
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DM_Dan
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 16:38 |
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Worship - Solicide and the Dawning of the Moonkult
Mournful Congregation - The Monad of Creation
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Badabec
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 16:02 |
Winter Wine wrote:
Cygnus X-1 wrote:
Time Table by Genesis |
I just can't see how this song is depressing |
I can understand Cygnus completely! "Time Table" is such a saaad song,
also very sad Genesis-songs are the very, very short "Broadway Melody
Of 1974" (I would never have imagined that such a short piece could
move me that much) and "The Cinema Show".
But the saddest song ever is "Memories Of Old Days" by Gentle Giant.  
Other great sad songs are:
King Crimson - Fallen Angel
Gentle Giant - Funny Ways
By the way, I don't think that Epitah is such a sad song... 
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Mesmo a tristeza da gente era mais bela
E além disso se via da janela
Um cantinho de céu e o Redentor
- Antônio Carlos Jobim, Toquinho & Vinícius de Moraes - Carta ao Tom 74
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andu
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 15:46 |
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The Lost Chord
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 15:32 |
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I love Turn of the Centruy but the whole "Like leaves we touch.." part is just for some reason so close in melody to some awful 80's song and it always ruins the song, but i have been learning to forget about it.
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Asyte2c00
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 15:30 |
Progmanus wrote:
Turn of the Century-Yes
What could be sadder than losing a loved one.
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Its one of my favorite songs of alltime, very melancholy, very beautiful. I chose "Ceremony (live)" New Order
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Progmanus
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 15:21 |
Turn of the Century-Yes
What could be sadder than losing a loved one.
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Master of Images, Songs Cast the Light on You...
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Pseudonym
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Posted: October 30 2006 at 12:40 |
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Dream Theater's space-dye vest, I sometimes skip it when listening to awake.
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