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Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:20 pm
by fragility
What are yours?

Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 1:19 pm
by Faffy
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Not sure why. These were just the ones that came to mind. Again, excluding Dev songs.

Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 2:42 pm
by JuZ
Both recorded not long before their deaths, which no doubt adds to their sadness:

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Radiohead, of course:

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Gotta throw a Depeche Mode song in there:

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More melancholy than sad, but fuck me what a classic song:

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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 2:56 pm
by aleksi
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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 4:53 pm
by Meh
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And as I can't seem to add Nick Cave's The Ship Song...

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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:43 am
by Bookwyrm83
So many choices, but I'll just go with the five that generally stick in my head most:

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Dev-related would be The Death of Music, Planet Rain and Suicide.

Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:50 am
by Billy Rhomboid
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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:14 am
by swervedriver
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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:08 am
by Maiko.
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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:52 am
by Lemurfist
[Youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYaZmc388bo[/Youtube]

People sometimes tell me this one is cheesy. I say fuck you. It's been immensely helpful in my struggle to deal with my mother's death.

Then there's a wad of songs from Woods of Ypres. Only met David Gold once or twice but his death was a fucking kick to my emotional equivalent of a scrotum.

Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:18 pm
by hog
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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 7:47 pm
by Luk
Gary Jules/Michael Andrews - Mad World
So far it's making me sad always.

Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:41 am
by djskrimp
Still my favorite sad song...

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King's X "Cigarettes"

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Nevermore "Cenotaph"

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I dunno why, but this also strikes a chord...Frank Hart "St Francis"

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Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 2:17 pm
by Falk
QotSA's Long Slow Goodbye.

And in a totally different, stupid way : Electric Six's Transatlantic Flight. The "In the event of a water landing, you can use my body as a flotation device" line is sooo heart-wrenching :lol:

I have to say, I hate sad songs. I don't see the point, cuz' if I'm happy, I don't want to hear a sad song, and if I'm sad, I certainly don't want to hear a sad song. E6 was pretty much the only thing I listened to last year when I was pretty down, behind a curtain of stupid lyrics I find this band bona fide with energy and enthusiasm.
I don't know, maybe there's something missing in my personal development, or maybe it's just the way I am.

Re: Saddest songs ever

PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:03 am
by ChaosD.
This song always resonated with me for some reason. It's essentially an excerpt from one of Shakespeare's sonnets but the way its sung always makes me think about what I would feel like if my fiance died. The second one is by Triptykon which I was a little surprised at initially, but its a similar sort of vibe etc.

[Youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLmspcgrYrY[/Youtube]

[Youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt1HU14vdlk[/Youtube]