Top Saddest Songs To Listen To
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Topic: Top Saddest Songs To Listen To
Posted By: GPFR
Subject: Top Saddest Songs To Listen To
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 10:17
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Ever get those moments when you really want too get sad by listening to a beautiful sad song? I do every once and a while. And one time I got really bored and wrote a playlist on ITunes of nine tracks by different artist that were sad and creepy. The last four tracks, by the time your done with them, you just are depressed. They are:
------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: proger
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 10:32
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Rbert wyatt songs make me sad...
In the album "Broken China" by Rick Wright there couple of songs that can make think that the world is all bad, buy is not... ------------- ...live for tomorrow... |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 10:45
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Porcupine Tree - A smart Kid. I was shocked the first time I heard it. One of the best songsa from PT Pain of salvation - Second Love. Another heart breaking song that MR. Gildenlow pours out his emotions. King Crimson - Island. A very sad song that when you finish hearing the album your left with a sense of ...well... sadness. Epitaph. one of the best saddest song that KC has ever done. Sigur Ros - Heysatan. A song that tells the story of an old man who's pasing away looking at the sea so you can imagine how sad it is Riverside - I believe. there are alot of sad/mellow songs from this band but this one stands out in the first album. There you go. From the top of my head  ... oops, I mean  ------------- 
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Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 10:45
| Galadriel by BJH always brings tears to my eyes. beautiful song. |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:00
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"Please don't ask" from Duke -
"Oh, but I miss my boy
I hope he's good as gold..."
Gets me every time. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:03
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Pain Of Salvation - Second Love
I never will get tired of saying that this is the most beautifull sad song in music. ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: Tirpmo
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:05
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For me, nothing even comes close to the emotion stirred from "Heart Attack in a Layby".
...but... in an effort to add something to the thread, I'll say "Visions of Angels" - Genesis.
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Posted By: The Crow
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:30
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Without a dobut:
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness. One of the most saddest albums I've heard... And really prog too. Only one song longer than 60 minutes. |
Posted By: Tholomyes
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:32
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Mogwai - Take me somewhere nice (and almost all their songs)
Sigur Rós - same here
King Crimson - Island, Epitaph, Trio
Pink Floyd - Green is the Colour
Anekdoten - For Someone
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras (a really sad love song)
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Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:33
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Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You Black Emperor! You'll fee like crap after you listen to this whole album. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:44
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KC - Epitaph
Pink Floyd - When the Tigers Broke Free, Hey You
Rush - Losing It
Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune
Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street, Don't Give Up
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:48
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"Through Her Eyes" by Dream Theater (I can't make it through it without developing a lump in my throat)
"Afraid Of Sunlight" by Marillion (The song just aches, but it's so beautiful) E ------------- 
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Posted By: Gog/Magog
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:56
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This Side of the Looking Glass by Peter Hammill has my bottom lip quivering, as does most of the album "Over". |
Posted By: Ghandi 2
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 12:01
That's the only Pink Floyd song that still depresses me. Maybe it's becuse I love wordless choirs. Honestly, most songs don't depress me anymore, as I've listened to them many times. ------------- "Never forget that the human race with technology is like an alcoholic with a barrel of wine." Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Because in their hearts, everyone secretly loves the Unabomber. |
Ghost Rider wrote:Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 12:14
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She's Leaving Home (The Beatles)
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 13:32
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VDGG- Lost
A House With No Door My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 14:17
| The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road & Asia 'Ready to go Home. Two lovely songs with perfect arrangements. |
Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 14:41
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I SAW YOU TODAY Anthony Phillps
MOONSHOOTER Anthony Phillips
THE MEETING ABWH
I FEEL SO LOW Porcupine Tree
IF Pink Floyd
THE CALL Michael Brook
SHOOT HIGH AIM LOW Yes
SHE CHAMALEON Marillion
ONE TIME King Crimson
MERCY STREET Peter Gabriel
DON'T HATE ME Porcupine Tree
BOUNDLESS Asia Minor
CIELO DI CARTA Montefeltro
L'EXIL Harmonium
ALL THE KING'S HORSES Mastermind
A GENTLEMAN'S EXCUSE ME Fish
WAITING TO HAPPEN Marillion
FITA NOUS MEUS OLHOS Heiner Goebbels
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There's so many sad (but beautiful) songs that is almost impossible to rank or even mention... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 14:44
mmm...
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 14:56
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Starless by King Crimson. Bleak yet beautiful lyrics and the instrumental part is like a trip to hell and back. But don't listen to it if you're suicidal. ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 15:47
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Easter
Most of Misplaced Childhood
Neverland
The entire album Brave
Jigsaw Yeah...Marillion isn't the most upbeat of bands ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: jeremybender34
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 15:49
| Starless is one of the few songs that really sends shivers down my spine. Absolutely beautiful. Just the way that it meanders through this jazzy stagnant plinking wasteland of sound only to wrench your heart out by returning to the fantastically sad minor melodies with full force. GAH! Now I've gotta go listen again . . . |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 15:51
| The Visitation by White Noise |
Posted By: retuow
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 16:00
I agree. Very depressing song... On the non-prog territory, I'd go for My Dying Bride.
------------- Human beings were created by water to carry it uphill. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 16:11
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Live In Peace - The Firm
Letter To Elise - The Cure -> well really most of all The Cure's tunes.
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Posted By: spiritual_pants
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 16:15
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the only moment we were alone - explosions in the sky (all of their songs that I know
epitaph - king crimson
she's leaving home - the beatles
don't leave me now - pink floyd
one of my turns - pink floyd
the carpet crawlers - genesis
all the music of godspeed you! black emperor and the album l'heptade by harmonium ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Danelidou/?chartstyle=basic10"> 
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Posted By: _sam_
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 16:38
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"Soon" - Yes
"Losing It" - Rush
"Moonchild" - King Crimson
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 16:53
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King Crimson - Epitaph
Van Der Graaf Generator - House With No Door
Jean-Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous 6
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Spiritus
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 16:54
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Mogwai - Hunted by a freak Sigur rós - Viğrar vel til loftárása A silver mt zion - 13 Angles Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 17:13
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Some that haven't yet been mentioned:
- Ayreon - Valley of the Queens
- Kevin Gilbert - A Long Day's Life (Especially listening to the line "life is what happens while you're making plans and then thinking about what happened to him)
- Blind Guardian - The Eldar
- Enchant - Acquaintance
- Epica - Trois Vierges
- Evergrey - When the Walls Go Down
- Neal Morse - It's All I Can Do (especially the guitar solo, and most-especially
 on the DVD)- Nevermore - No More Will
- Pain of Salvation - Oblivion Ocean
- Radiohead - Knifes Out and We Suck Young Blood
- Threshold - Flags & Footprints
- Tom Waits - I'll Shoot the Moon ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: Squonk1965
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 17:15
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Can anyone remember Brian & Michael's:
MATCHSTALK MEN AND MATCHSTALK CATS AND DOGS
It was no1 for 3 weeks in 1978 and I was 12. I distinctly remembered getting weepy when the following verse was reached:
This tired old man with hair like snow
Told northern folk its time to go The fever came and the good lord mopped his brow. I must have been a very peculiar boy.
More recently, the last line of disc 1, The Lamb Lies Down:
I'd give you all of my dreams , if you'd help me,
Find a door
That doesn't lead me back again
- take me away.
------------- Love IQ! |
Posted By: Squonk1965
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 17:20
Great choice. I think that is easily the best song Phil Collins ever wrote in Genesis and on a hugely underrated album! Out of interest, does anyone remember the interview the band gave at the time the album came out in 1979? Phil said that they tried to get EWF Horns on the album but couldn't arrange it in time. Phew - how lucky was that!? ------------- Love IQ! |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 17:22
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Pain of Salvation: career
------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 17:43
Any of Barrett's solo songs.  -------------  
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Posted By: Tony Fisher
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 20:09
Absolutely. Written by Ian Jennings after his mother lost a long battle against illness. Heroes Never Die too; this was Bryan Josh's tribute to his late father. Both beautiful sad songs. |
Posted By: sinkadus
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 20:18
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Losing It/ Diffferent Strings-Rush
Try smiling to that 2 for!
------------- I talk to the wind... my words are all carried away... Take Care, Roy |
Posted By: ____VdGG____
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 20:38
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Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls - GY!BE A Pillow Of Winds - PF How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead (I walk through walls, I float down the Liffey--- I'm not here, this isn't happening...) Leaving Hope - Nine Inch Nails (a piano instrumental, just so you know) A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers - VdGG (only parts of it.. most certainly not 'The Clot Thickens'  )
Trio - KC (Sometimes makes me sad, sometimes makes me smile, sometimes makes me cry.) ------------- Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams; Mind and machinery box-press our dreams |
Posted By: nowayman121
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 20:45
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Something I can never have - NIN, so simple yet so powerful Hurt - NIN (live just piano version) Collapse Light Onto Earth - Porcupine Tree Nobody Home - Pink Floyd, its like its trying to be uplifting but he's being torn apart inside and can't help it from coming through the music Vacant - Dream Theater ------------- Progressive: Intelligent music for intelligent people. |
Posted By: Nanook
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 20:46
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I have to go with Ready to go home by Asia on the Aura album.
I also agree with Don't Give up, and Epitaph. Very moving songs. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 21:22
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Space-Dye Vest - Dream Theater *Kevin Moore's Masterpiece, esp not good to listen to when someone's telling you through the internet they never really liked you.....learned from experience* Hey You- Pink Floyd *reeeeally depressing* Televators- The Mars Volta- Many may argue its not a sad song, but get with it folks, its about a guy jumping off a bridge. Read into it. Time- Pink Floyd *come to think of it....all of their stuffs kinda depressing* Start of Something Beautiful- Porcupine Tree *again somewhat arguable but experience comes into this yet again* ------------- 
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Posted By: arnold stirrup
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 21:54
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Stars Die - Porcupine Tree For Absent Friends - Genesis The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive) - Jethro Tull Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel (RF's Exposure version) ------------- So much music. So little time. |
Posted By: Rando
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 22:56
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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)
The Moody Blues - Candle Of Life (To Our Children's Children...)
The Beatles - Eleanor rigby
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
Anthony Phillips - Which Way The Wind Blows
Mansun - The Chad Who Loved Me
------------- - Music is Life, that's why our hearts have beats - |
Posted By: leirbagaze
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 23:05
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ALIFIB Robert Wyatt
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Posted By: Soul Dreamer
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 23:18
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I Turned You Down - Riverside
"I turned you down so hastily
And it's tearing me apart
In my heart of hearts I'm screaming
In my heart of hearts I cry
And it's cold
So cold"
Just one of the many saaaaad Riverside songs
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Posted By: Losendos
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 07:35
Agreed Please don't ask is an amazing song. At this stage Phil Collins was not the despised figure he was later to become in some sections of the prog community. I think Duke is canned because of MIsunderstanding bur actually a good prog album more proggier than ATTW3.I thought when it came out that Genesis were heading back to their earlier efforts. However hope was blown with Abacab ------------- How wonderful to be so profound |
Posted By: BestFreak
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 09:20
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To me... the saddest of them all : "Jigsaw" from Marillion's album "Fugazi". ------------- All the best freaks are here! |
Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 09:48
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So sad ------------- "All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT |
Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 10:00
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Now seriously:
Porcupine Tree: Heartattack In A Lay By, Collapse Light Into Earth, Feel So Low, Stop Swimming, Lazarus
Riverside: Conciving You, I Believe, I Turned You Down
Van Der Graaf Generator: House With No Door, Refugees, Lost, Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
Pink Floyd: The Gunner's Dream, The Final Cut, Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here
Barclay James Harvest: Poor Man's Moody Blues, Suicide?, Nova Lepidoptera, Berlin
Marillion: The Great Escape, Script For A Jester's Tear
Dream Theater: Disappear, Space-Dye Vest, Through Her Eyes
Manic Street Preachers: Born A Girl, My Little Empire, Nobody Loved You
Only to mention some sad ones
------------- "All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT |
Posted By: oscar
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 10:21
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get`m out by friday makes me sad....cause of the truth about how litle man can be made by multicapitalism.... lead by USA
------------- Life is PROGRESSIVE |
Posted By: oscar
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 10:28
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Robert Wyatt LITTLE CHILD makes me happysad... a lovely litle song!
------------- Life is PROGRESSIVE |
Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 11:40
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Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt"....the only
song I've ever heard on the radio that has ever made me tear up. Also,
"In Loving Memory" by Alter Bridge (about the death of the guitarist's
mother) and "Sequent 'C" by Tangerine Dream (it may be just a
two-minute flute instrumental but it's one of the saddest things I've
ever heard).
------------- OBQM: www.soundcloud.com/onebigquestionmark (solo project) nQuixote: www.soundcloud.com/n-quixote (ambient + various musical ideas) |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 12:01
Hahahah you convinced me to look up the lyrics and in all honesty something that stupid would cheer me up in three seconds!  And how'd you get the hammer emoticon anyways? I can think of so many instances to use that in!-------------
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Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 12:27
hahaha their entire discography is pretty sad actually, hahah. javascript:parent.window.opener.insertImageLinkFromPopup%28%27https://img.web.de/v/mail/html_mail/smileys/smileys/smileys26.gif%27%29; top.window.close%28%29;"> javascript:parent.window.opener.insertImageLinkFromPopup%28%27https://img.web.de/v/mail/html_mail/smileys/smileys/smileys26.gif%27%29; top.window.close%28%29;"> javascript:parent.window.opener.insertImageLinkFromPopup%28%27https://img.web.de/v/mail/html_mail/smileys/smileys/smileys26.gif%27%29; top.window.close%28%29;"> ------------- OBQM: www.soundcloud.com/onebigquestionmark (solo project) nQuixote: www.soundcloud.com/n-quixote (ambient + various musical ideas) |
Posted By: Antennas
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 15:01
Saddest song EVAH: Anathema's One Last Goodbye
Also their best, IMHO.  ------------- 
Jesus never managed to figure out the theremin either |
Posted By: Camel_APPeal
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 15:59
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Right now I can't think of a sadder song than ELP's "Daddy":
'It was a cold night in december
The snow lay on the ground She was coming home from school one night From the other side of town It was getting late, there was something wrong Then I heard the news A tv flash and by 9 o’clock They’d found her socks and shoes...' You can give yourself an idea where this is going...
An old man dying is sad, but a little inocent creature's life being taken away by a mentally challenged b*****d is not only sad, but frustrating and indignating... |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 17:48
 i know it gets me every timei just wish i knew what he was saying! ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 18:05
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I love these songs but man are they sad.
Porcupine Tree - Heart Attack In A Layby, Feel So Low, Collapse the Light Into Earth, Lazarus. Feel So Low in particular gets me every time, the lyrics just hit me really deep. If you've ever been in a relationship that didn't end the way you wanted it to this song really hits home.
Godspeed - a lot could fit here. Storm in particular gets me every time. So does Sleep.
A Silver Mt. Zion - God Bless our Dead Marines. especially when he gets to the "lost a friend to..." part.
David Bowie - Space Oddity. "Ground control to Major Tom your circuit's dead there's something wrong. can you hear me major tom?"
The Who - Baba O' Riley and Behind Blue Eyes. Sea and Sand is pretty sad too.
Johnny Cash - Hurt. so so sad. i tear up every time i hear it.
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven.
Annie Lennox - Into the West. This is the one from the Lord of the Rings movies.
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car.
Susanne Vega - Luka. the saddest child abuse song ive ever heard. its a great song, but to get the sadness you have to pay close attention to the lyrics.
Candlemass - Solitude. The most depressing song I have ever heard in my entire life. I have no idea how people enjoy this music
My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel. Again way too dark for me but i still think its a beautiful song. ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 18:21
Interesting, I always took that song to be about raceism.
Sadist songs that I can think of are:
Through Her Eyes- Dream Theater
Dissappear- DT
Nobody Home- Floyd (most of The Wall even)
Wish You Were Here- Floyd
Seasons End- Marillion
Chealse Monday- Marillion
Jigsaw- Marillion
The Invisable Man- Marillion (Stonies right, there not very cheery at times)
Red Dust Shadow- IQ
All of The Perfect Element Part 1- Pain Of Salvation
Iter Impius- PoS
Lamentia- Shadow Gallery
Candlelight Fantasia- Symphony X
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 19:44
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One that always makes me tear up would be "After Image" from Rush, I'm sure just about everybody can relate to it...
"Suddenly you gone, from all the lives you left your mark upon". ------------- DEATH TO FALSE PROG! |
Posted By: Tenth Chaffinch
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 19:50
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Sad Songs in Prog. Some of the greatest Progressive songs I've ever heard are sad and emotional (sometimes even dour). King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black, Epitaph, In The Wake Of Poseidon, Islands. Camel - Ice, Unevensong, Under The Moon, Whispers In The Rain, Never Let Go. Jethro Tull - Aqualung. Henry Cow - Ruins, Solemn Music. Theres a ton of them and they're all great. I highly recommend Camel's "Unevensong", the song is brilliant.------------- www.myspace.com/fatherunderground |
Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: April 22 2006 at 20:21
That's actually one of the most under-appreciated songs by Rush and one of my favourites!  ------------- "All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT |
Posted By: Maverick
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:22
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Satellite - Love Is Around You (by the way, they have many sad songs, but this one I suppose the saddest)
Riverside - In Two Minds King Crimson - Starless Enchant - Comatose Sylvan - Deep Inside (this one is so breathtaking, catchy). ------------- In PROG We Trust |
Posted By: HeirToRuin
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 08:41
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The only song that has ever really made me weak was Pain of Salvation's "A Trace of Blood."
------------- ARTEMIA - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic" rel="nofollow - http://www.reverbnation.com/artemiamusic L.i.E. - http://www.reverbnati |
Posted By: oracus
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:22
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Darkness by Lacrimosa. Is definately the saddest song ever.. Opeth's Silhouette is a piano piece thats make me cry everytime ------------- 
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Posted By: Marc Baum
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 10:43
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Any one knows about Solitude Aeturnus' Shattered My Spirit? ------------- "All you need to do is sit back, and acquire the taste." - GENTLE GIANT |
Posted By: fiori
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:32
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Listen to this song... It isn't prog but it's one of the sadest song ever:
NiN's hurt played by Johnny Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln5C8kholg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln5C8kholg ------------- "-Mr Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there... In one word, how'd you describe it? -Progressive... yeah... that's it" |
Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 11:34
I was just thinking about "For Absent Friends", Another sad but beautiful favourite of mine.. ------------- DEATH TO FALSE PROG! |
Posted By: rupert
Date Posted: April 23 2006 at 12:09
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My top saddest songs... are, as often, not necussarily "prog"... and there are far too many to mention, but let me name at least those: Was ( not was ) / Zaz turned blue ( Album: Born to laugh at tornadoes ) Dan Fogelberg / Tucson Arizona ( Gazette ) Sting / The Pirate's Bride ( Non-Album Track from Maxi "I was brought to my senses" ) World Party / Rolling off a Log ( Album: Egyptology ) Bob Seger / Love's the last to know ( Album: The Distance )Elton John / Cry to Heaven ( Album: Ice on Fire )
Christopher Cross / Uncharted Hearts ( Album: Window )
Saga / I'll never be like you ( once again ) ( Album: Generation 13 )
Barclay James Harvest / In Search of England ( Album: XII )
Jennifer Warnes / Famous blue Raincoat ( by Leonard Cohen )
So... here we have at least ten from a list of hundreds... not to forget my own !
Love
------------- ...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock ! |
Posted By: mgallard
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 01:45
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I'd say: Genesis: Please don't ask - Heathaze Steve Hackett: Hammer in the sand - Hands of the Priestess Part I (both are instrumentals, both soooo beautiful) Mike Rutherford: Time and time again (an underappreciated M.R. debut) Mike and the Mechanics: In the Living Years Marillion: Jigsaw Peter Gabriel: Biko Riverside: Conceiving you Tracy Chapman: Fast Car The Cars: Drive The Triffids: Jerdacuttup man Kenny Loggins: My father's house (most people only know him for his film songs, which are his worst material) Crowded house: Hole in the river Jim Diamond: I should have known better Harry Nilsson: Without you and so on and on... Mogens |
Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 03:07
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it depends, do u want to be more sad or do u want to be happy?? lol the real sad song for me is Through Her Eyes and/or The Spirit Carries On ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg"> 
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 03:29
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There's only one song that can literally make me cry every time I hear it. Nur zu Besuch - Die Toten Hosen and the baldies will undoubtedly be shocked..... ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 04:03
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"The Park" - Uriah Heep
"Voice in the wind" - Jane
"Les fantomes revent aussi" - Ashra Tempel
"Blind Children" - Paternoster
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Posted By: lovecraft
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 06:01
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What about the trio of sad tunes from JT's Stand Up
Look into the Sun
Reason for Waiting
We Used to Know
All total killers....sob sob
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 08:09
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Dream Theater - Take Away My Pain
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 08:25
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taking away the post rock genre (disqualified because there is a physical impossibility to have joyous post rock):
Excellent selection Rafaella!
I will add to this:
Hammill's This side Of the Looking glass
Klaatu - Loneliest of creature and Hope
Wyatt's whole Rock Bottom album, with alifib as the outstanding and indisputable saddest track. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 14:18
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Song for a Dead Friend by Kevin Gilbert from the album Thud.
All the more tragic considering how sad and pointless was the loss of Gilbert himself. He looked at one point as though he was going to be Collins' replacement in Genesis. Very moving song - if you have a heart it'll soon have you moved to tears. The Progtologist introduced me to this talented person - one of the important things that have happened to me on the PA. ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 14:40
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Genesis: Ripples, Afterglow, Guide Vocal, Undertow, Snowbound Marillion: That Time of the Night, Sugar Mice, Waiting to Happen, Hollow Men, Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury, The Great Escape, Beautiful (!), Afraid of Sunlight
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb
Dozens and dozens of others by dozens of bands...
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Posted By: jj1414
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 14:43
| Hey you by Pink Floyd. |
Posted By: billbuckner
Date Posted: June 16 2006 at 14:48
I always thought Spirit Carries On was a happy song. Pink Floyd - Hey You Pink Floyd - Nobody Home Pink Floyd - Seamus  VdGG - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers |
Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 21:18
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Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" may be the saddest and most devastating song
ever written. But Johnny Cash's cover of it, released a year before his
death, is the only song that's moved me to tears upon hearing it on the
radio. Unbelievabl.e
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Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 21:24
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"The Luckiest" by Ben Folds Plenty of classic Prog moves me to tears, but not because it's sad per se. -------------  
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Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 21:25
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Soon - Yes
Starless - King Crimson ------------- 
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Posted By: Time-Machinist
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 21:55
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Lots of Marillion songs...
Kamelot - A Sailorman's Hymn
POS - Second Love, Iter Impius, Olivion Ocean
Symphony X - Whispers, Candlelight Fantasia, A Winter's Dream pt.1
Bruce Dickinson - Man Of Sorrows, Tears Of The Dragon, Arc Of Space
Amorphis - My Kantele
Collage - Heroes Cry
Kansas - Dust In The Wind
Wasp - The Idol
Royal Hunt - Fear
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 22:23
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"Torch Song" by Marillion always gets me, as it reminds me of my past. It's not prog but, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division is especially sad. In essence, it became Ian Curtis' suicide note. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: June 23 2006 at 23:31
yup ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Pneubauer
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 01:39
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This bass solo performed by Stu Hamm http://youtube.com/watch?v=H8Q_J2fIKPI - http://youtube.com/watch?v=H8Q_J2fIKPI There are several parts to it including Moonlight Sonata... and some country thing at the end... its a cool solo, but the beginning is the sad part... One commenter said it was from the Satriani song 'Love Thing'... Ah... I cant even listen to it anymore... its not really depressing ... I guess... just really emotional... Want to listen but... must... hold back... tears... *sniff* *Note* Again, its only the first part that I find sad... by the end of the solo any sadness should be completely gone as the country music part is pretty upbeat and funny. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 02:02
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for me, any love song is sad....but then again I'm really f***ed up
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Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 02:27
haha... you are not to only one who finds them sad, they have the same effect on me. For me: Philip Glass - Metamorphosis (1 - 5) |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 02:46
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I also find love songs sad, as I think the best love songs are usually sad. Happy love songs can be very cheesy IMHO. A very beautiful, extremely sad love song is "Empty Rooms" by Gary Moore, which I suppose many of you know. In fact, Moore has written quite a few beautiful and sad love songs, enhanced by his superb guitar playing. |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 03:21
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Blind Guardian - Harvest of Sorrow Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 06:06
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As well as Kevin Gilberts 'Song for a Dead Friend' Peter Gabriels 'Here Comes the Flood' (piano version) gets me every time. ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 06:54
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Man-Erg PFM - Impressioni Di Settembre King Crimson - Trio, Book Of Saturdays, Lizard (the flute/oboe part) Focus - Hamburger Concerto, not really sad but the ending's very emotional The Beatles - A Day In The Life, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Pink Floyd - The Fletcher Memorial Home, Arnold Layne Hatfield and the North - Fitter Stoke Has A Bath (not quite sad, but... not really happy either) Claude Francois - Comme d'Habitude (no, not really) Dire Straits - On Every Street ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Myxamatosis
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 09:08
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Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:48
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YES - TURN OF THE CENTURY (a beautiful, haunting piece, one of my fave Yes tracks) MARILLION - SUGAR MICE (again, a track to bring a lump to the throat, when an alcoholic realises what he is at last)
These two tracks always stand out for me.
There are probably more, will let you know when I think of them! :)
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Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:58
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Seeing Gary Moore mentioned, reminds me that he has written quite a few very sad, and very good tunes. However, my favourite all time track by him would be the beautiful, and very sad instrumental - THE LONER, from the WILD FRONTIER album.It is a brilliant example of virtuosity, reigned in just enough to produce the desired melodic effect. One of my all time greats, he has a brilliant, self-taught touch on his instrument. Also, thinking of instrumentals, STEVE HACKETT - SIERRA QUEMADA, off GUITAR NOIR, another absolutely superb piece of atmospheric music. Lovely. Also beautiful, though not particuarly sad, are RUSH - DIFFERENT STRINGS, from PERMANENT WAVES, and, again, RUSH - MADRIGAL from A FAREWELL TO KINGS. Both tracks are short and sweet, and delightful to the ears. (Permanent Waves is one of my least favourite Rush albums, I hate The Spirit Of Radio, Natural Science and Entre Nous. But the rest is very good indeed!) :) |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 14:06
At last someone with good taste! I've loved Gary Moore for years, as I see him as the perfect blend of power, technical skill and emotion (together with Ritchie Blackmore). "The Loner" is great, and I have another version of it, performed by Dave "Clem" Clempson on guitar, on Cozy Powell's first solo album, "Over the Top" (I've been trying to get CP in PA for months...). However, Powell's second solo album contains one of the best-ever performances of Gary Moore, the utterly beautiful (and sad) "Sunset", which Moore has often dedicated to Randy Rhoads when playing it live. Highly recommended. |
Posted By: Fight Club
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 19:32
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how bout Arriving Somewhere But Not Here. pretty damn emotional song if you ask me. ------------- 
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Posted By: spacecraft
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 19:47
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Encore (monolight) the single version, always sends a shiver down my spine, an amazing peice of music from the worlds top electronic band. ------------- To Him as the Supreme King and Judge we commit our cause, casting our cares upon Him and firmly trusting that He will inspire us with courage and bring our enemies to nought. |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 21:06
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Yesssssssss - The Turn Of The Century...............mortality a gift or a liability?
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - Nostalgia........a gift or a social peer embarassment?
Genesis - Ripples................The Journey is a one way ticket
Strawbs - Simple Visions.....a Glimpse of Heaven?
Renaissance - Kiev ..........respect?
Coldplay .......Spies................just pure paranoia!!!!! Hey aren't we all paranoid?....oops sorry not prog related. ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 22:28
Im listening to The last bright light for the first time...and all I can say so far is that this band trully creates beautyfull music full of nostalgia  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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