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Jon89

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Topic: Top Saddest Songs To Listen To
Posted: May 14 2007 at 04:04

I Can Only Imagine

Hollow Years

Trial Of Tears

Goodnight Kiss

Solitary Shell

Dissapear

Beyond This Life

jon 89

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Posted: May 14 2007 at 03:25

Too many:

Look Into the Sun - Stand Up

Cheap Day Return - Aqualung

Nursie - Living in the Past

Thick as a Brick part 1 - Thick as a Brick

Skating Away on some Thin Ice of that New Day - Warchild

One White Dog - Minstrel in the Gallery

Deadbeat to Old Greaser - Too Old to Rock 'n Roll

Fire at Midnight - Songs from some Wood

Moths - Heavy Horses

Home/Dun Ringill/Elegy medley - Stromwatch

Slow Marching Band - Broadsword vs. the Beast

Under Wraps #2 - Under Wraps

Rocks on the Road - Cartfish Rising

And, of course, Under Wraps as a whole is pretty sad.

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Posted: May 14 2007 at 03:12

Fading Lights from Genesis

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Posted: May 13 2007 at 17:35

"Atmosphere" Joy Division

"Pictures of You" The Cure

"Wolf in the Breast" Cocteau Twins

"Get Where I Belong (Live)" Free

"Thirty-Three" Smashing Pumpkins

"House with No Door" VDGG

"Il Giardino del Mago" Banco

"Epitaph" King Crimson

"See Me See You" Barclay James Harvest

"You Learn About It" The Gathering

there too many to list, buts thats a selection of a larger group

Edited by Asyte2c00 - May 13 2007 at 17:36

Philéas

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Posted: May 12 2007 at 16:23

House With No Door by VdGG is fairly sad. A large portion of their material is.

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Posted: May 12 2007 at 16:13

Heartattack in a Layby by Porcupine Tree, without a doubt. It's a sad yet beautiful song.

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Posted: May 12 2007 at 16:09

You cant get any more emotional and depressing than 'Hours of Wealth' or 'Isolation Years' by Opeth, they give me a lump in my throat everytime.

My Dying Bride and a lot of doom and black metal do really.

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Posted: May 11 2007 at 07:50

SAD SONG BY LOU REED

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:05

Simon and Garfunkel are quite melancholy in general . Karen Carpenter had a sad haunting voice even before her early demise , a really sad artist maybe the saddest artist the modern music industry has ever produced.

Eleanor Rigby is really sad.

I don't agree with nominations from The Wall and the Final Cut since I to me those albums were just Roger Waters feeling sorry for himself

Edited by Losendos - May 10 2007 at 22:13

How wonderful to be so profound

Losendos

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 22:00

I find Harold the Barrel quite sad although most people think it is comical probably because I have seen a few nice people deteriorate with mental illness

How wonderful to be so profound

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 07:48

Rando wrote:

Well, staying within Prog or Proto Prog, I'll pick these sad ones.

EL&P - C'est La Vie - Nice Greg lake song. Melancholic and lovelorn. (From Works Vol. 1)

Genesis - Fading Lights - Nostalgic & reflective song by Tony banks. ( We Can't Dance)

Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up

Anthony Phillips - Which Way The Wind Blows

Agree with the ones above edited from your longer list. Your signature gave me another memory - 'Ripples' from Genesis, TOTT. Something eerily melancholic about that song...

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 07:26

The Kick Inside - Kate Bush

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Posted: May 10 2007 at 02:57

Non-prog:

Over & Over – Black Sabbath
Born Again – Black Sabbath

Friends – Kingdom Come
Can't Let Go – Kingdom Come

The Rat Who Would Be King – Matthew Good Band
Weapon – Matthew Good (&basically all tracks on the "Avalanche" album, absolutely breathtaking)

Correspondences – The Tea Party
Drawing Down the Moon – The Tea Party
Psychopomp – The Tea Party

King of the Fools – Twisted Sister

Mistreated – Accept

In a World of My Own Making Fight – Fight (Rob Halford's Band after Judas Priest)

Prog (in addition to all the songs mentioned before):

Wishbone Ash – Persephone

Roads to Madness – Queensryche
Killing Words – Queensryche
Someone Else – Queensryche

Amity (Acoustic) – The Gathering

Reconciliation – Pain of Salvation
Ashes – Pain of Salvation

If I Go Away – Savatage
Tonight He Grins Again – Savatage
When the Crowds are Gone (Live) – Savatage

All of Anathema's Catalogue

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Of a red demon’s foxtrot in brews
Guns & flowers crown morning news
Panic-stricken guilt now ensues}

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Posted: October 07 2006 at 20:14

Let's define what a SAD SONG is shall we?

Sad Song: A Musical peice that instills a feeling of sorrow or indirect guilt for the character(s) participating in the given scenario, often resulting in tears.
atleast thats what my definition would be.

Space=dye Vest by Dream Theater. the part of the song that really gets me is "... he doesn't love you, but... I love you" as soon as he says "it's our last chance" and then the vocals come in, it becomes very moody, it always gives me a sense that the two characters at the given point in time, didn't get their chance. Always gets me... every time.

Stop Swimming by Porcupine Tree, this song represents sadness itself... I was actually listening to this song right before my first suicide attempt... :( sad music is not good when your in a sad mood. warning DO NOT LISTEN TO WHEN YOU ARE SEVEARLY DEPRESSED.

Heartattack In A Layby by Porcupine tree, you know PT always have plenty of genuinly sad songs. I can say I listened to a lot of PT when I broke up with my girlfriend of 4 years. Lots of tears and songs. GOOD TIMES :D

Dust in the Kitchen

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Posted: October 07 2006 at 19:58

For a sad, beautiful song, I always listen to 'Turn Of The Century' by Yes. Brilliant melody, superb yet restrained musicianship and (for once) comprehensible lyrics from Anderson. Lovely

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Posted: October 07 2006 at 17:19

Focus - Janis (The flutes, but at the same time very beautiful)
Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues (Especially the ending!!)
Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun
ELP - Take A Pebble
King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind (Sad but Beatuifully Done)
Kraftwerk - Heimatklange
Nirvana(UK) - Tiny Goddess
Syd Barrett - Dark Globe (The Ending part especially "Wouldn't You Miss Me?, Wouldn't You Miss Me at All?" - there is emotion in his voice)
Jeff Beck - Where Were You?
Uriah Heep - Wake Up, Set Your Sights
Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Tama

Edited by PROGMAN - October 07 2006 at 17:37

CYMRU AM BYTH

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Posted: October 07 2006 at 16:30

Tholomyes wrote:

A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras (a really sad love song)

Not sure if this is a love song. I somehow recall an explanation considering this more of an "anti-Good Will Hunting theme", and it makes sense (not unlike various other subjects, probably), but, then, maybe it's just me.

This is why you should let Robin save the day...

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 17:37

Deep Purple - When A Blind Man Cries*

Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings

FZ - Watermelon In Easterhay (The ultimate tear-jerker; will be played at my funeral - if only I could see 'em weep!)

*Ian Gillan has a version of this on his latest solo album, with guitar by JEFF HEALEY!!! Not so much sad, as just bloody crass!

Mlaen

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 16:20

Who could count them all?...

Asphalt

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Posted: October 06 2006 at 16:00

pretty much everything covered; but I don't think I've seen Thin Lizzy - Still in love with you [the live version] which has got to be one sad down-n-out depressing tune