Dust in the Wind and Yesterday are pretty classic. My Immortal is a really sad song too if someone tells you that when they listen to it it makes them think of you.
Here I found a link to the nothing song (aka untitled #4 aka njósnavélin) on the sigur ros website. I personally think this is the saddest song in the world, even though the lyrics are in a made up language. If you want to cry, this is an excellent song to do it to :P
Man, I never listen to country music, except for Johnny Cash and some older artists, like Marty Robbins, but this is actually one hell of a good song. Alison Krauss is a pretty talented artist; I listen to her bluegrass stuff on occasion. Anyhow, this song was on my breakup playlist, following the last bad one.
Great thing about living in an apartment complex full of college-kids; I nearly never have to turn on my heat. These kids don't think about power bills and every unit around mine runs their heat constantly in the winter.
Let Down - Radiohead
No Surprises - Radiohead (tune upbeat, but the lyrics are depressing)
I am a Rock - Simon and Garfunkel
A Most Peculiar Man- Simon and Garfunkel
Bookends Theme - Simon and Garfunkel (Good endpiece for a sad mix)
Matchbox 20's : You Can't Be Mine and Rest Stop off the Mad Season albums
The Honorary Title : Everything I Once Had
Hundred Reasons : The Mess
Joseph Arthur : In The Sun
K's Choice: My Heart
Matthew Good: Weapon
Norah Jones: Humble Me
That's for now...there's a lot of Bob Schneider songs that are pretty sad too....but i'm at work and I can't go through my entire iPod.
Ooh, ooh, The Show Must Go On by Queen. And I can't believe nobody has mentioned, in all the Radiohead, Exit Music from OK Computer. More music to kill yourself by.
... Eleanor rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?
Father mckenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working. darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Eleanor rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father mckenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
...
And, my personal pick for saddest song/rendition of all time
Aimee Mann - One
... One is the loneliest number
That you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one
No is the saddest experience
You'll ever know
Yes, it's the saddest experience
You'll ever know
Because one is the loneliest number
That'll you'll ever do
One is the loneliest number
That you'll ever know
...
Most of the songs on Johhny Cash's American IV - he wasn't very well at this point, and it shows. Particularly "The Man Comes Around", "Hurt", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and "We'll Meet Again."
the eels - Flower ("turn the ugly light off god, i wanna feel the night") (or the electro shock blues album listened to in it's entirity)
Sarah Mclachlan - pretty much anything she's done... she always kills me... but specifically i would say... "I love you", "Angel" or "Adia" off the Surfacing album.
also...just flicking through what i have here (all mainstream junk because it's my net machine but eh)
Stone sour - Bother
Tabitha's Secret - Dear Joan
Boysetsfire - Swingset
Fibretip on
I believe in angels, not the kind with wings, no...not the kind with halos, the kind who bring you home
Tool - Pushit
Nine Inch Niles - Fragile
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Frou Frou - Dumbing Down of Love
Telepopmusik - Yesterday Was a Lie
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
Alkaline Trio - Blue in the Face
The Ataris - Looking Back on Today
Something Corporate - Konstantine
Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
Randy Newman - I Think It's Going to Rain Today
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Train - Mississippi
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches (either take)
Kronos Quartet - Overture from Requiem for a Dream
Nick Cave. His music could make a pep squad cry. "People Ain't No Good" off of "The Boatman's Call" is a good generic "sad song", especially becaues of the tone of complete and total resignation in it. "Death Is Not The End" is, like the rest of the album "Murder Ballads", more creepy than sad, but it's still good. Also of note from MB is "The Wild Rose", which is tragic. "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" by Kenny Rogers and "Waltzing Matilda" are both sad the same way "Taps" is. Somebody mentioned Billy Joel; I'd like to cast my vote "Captain Jack". Lastly, "53rd & 3rd" by The Ramones is really depressing, once you realize it's about engaging in gay prostitution for drug money.
It's weird, I think this song is kind of happy and accomplished. I love it.
Well, I guess thats kind of why their lyrics are in a made up language. So you can interpret it for yourself. To me it's very sad, but maybe a bit happy in a rebirth sort of way.
Firewater - Blackbox Recording, Is That All There Is?
Jolie Holland - I Wanna Die
Cat Power - Names
Lifter Puller - Katrina and the K-Hole
Kow Otani - Silent Wonderland
The Seatbelts - Blue
The Smashing Pumpkins - Ugly, anything off of Adore
The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Tom Waits - Two Sisters
The Hold Steady - Crucifixion Cruise
The Owls - Baby Boy
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (The Nirvana cover would work as well), Space Oddity
Nico - These Days (There's a St Vincent cover of this that is good as well)
Radiohead - Let Down and Fake Plastic Trees
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (This is the best version IMO)
Iron and Wine - Jezebel
Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
Immortal Technique - You Never Know (Saddest rap song I have ever heard)
Antony and the Johnsons - Any song, esp. Bird Gerhl and Hope There's Someone
Belle and Sebastien - I Fought in a War, among others
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit
Elton John - Lots of his stuff, esp. Someone Saved My Life Tonight and Candle in the Wind
Built to Spill - You Were Right
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Little Feat - Be One Now
Lowell George - What do you Want that Girl to do
Marvin Gaye - Lots of his stuff
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Part 2 (Amazing) among others
Pavement - Here
Pink Floyd - Echoes, and others
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come (Gives me chills)
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Ooo Baby Baby
Snow Patrol - Run
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You and My Cherie Amor
The Wrens - She Sends Kisses (Brilliant music and lyrics)
Matthew Good Band - Apparitions
Armin ft. Ray Wilson - Yet Another Day
Lamb - Gorecki (feels sad to me)
Four Tet - Unspoken
Moby - Into The Blue
Moby - God Moving Over The Face of the Waters
practically anything Depeche Mode
practically anything Coldplay
A few tracks by Boards of Canada (Hi Scores, in particular)
Duncan Sheik - She Runs Away
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
need I include: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Treble Charger - Red
Ben Folds Five - Brick
thats just what I came up with while going thru the tracks on the iPod. I'm sure i'll come up with more...
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"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants." -- A. Whitney Brown
I know I posted earlier, but this just came to me: Lady Stardust by David Bowie. Actually, if you have the time, sitting down and listening to the whole album ("Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars") is a very melancholy experience. Never has the tale of an androgynous Martian rock star touched the hearts of so many...
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on.
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes.
Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it's time to sing along.
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on.
Everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand. Oh, no. Don't throw your hand.
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on.
Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes.
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. (repeat & fade)
(Everybody hurts. You are not alone.)
The road is long, with many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where, who knows where
But I'm strong, strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy - he's my brother
So on we go, his welfare is my concern
No burden is he to bare, we'll get there
For I know he would not encumber me
He ain't heavy - he's my brother
If I'm laden at all, I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart isn't filled with gladness of love for one another
It's a long long road from which there is no return
While we're on our way to there, why not share
And the load, it doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy - he's my brother
He ain't heavy - he's my brother, he's my brother, he's my brother
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Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Alice in Chains: Rotten Apple
SRV: Life by the Drop
BB King: The Thrill is Gone
Radiohead: Where You End and I Begin
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Oh hells yes. This was on my breakup mix too.
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Stretching the definition of music though.
No Surprises - Radiohead (tune upbeat, but the lyrics are depressing)
I am a Rock - Simon and Garfunkel
A Most Peculiar Man- Simon and Garfunkel
Bookends Theme - Simon and Garfunkel (Good endpiece for a sad mix)
What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie
Goodbye Waves and Driveways - The Rocket Summer
Blame it on my Youth - Jamie Cullum
Mmm.. yep.
Matchbox 20's : You Can't Be Mine and Rest Stop off the Mad Season albums
The Honorary Title : Everything I Once Had
Hundred Reasons : The Mess
Joseph Arthur : In The Sun
K's Choice: My Heart
Matthew Good: Weapon
Norah Jones: Humble Me
That's for now...there's a lot of Bob Schneider songs that are pretty sad too....but i'm at work and I can't go through my entire iPod.
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
And, my personal pick for saddest song/rendition of all time
Aimee Mann - One
I get sober as hell every time I hear it.:|
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From the movie Longtime Companion, if you've seen the movie it's even sadder. (about AIDS)
The Old Main Drag - The Pogues
Played in My Own Private Idaho, at the end. Basically the dying words of a used up rent boy.
You can hear them both on this fantastic album.
Also, anything by Tom Waits. He could make any song depressing.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Sarah Mclachlan - pretty much anything she's done... she always kills me... but specifically i would say... "I love you", "Angel" or "Adia" off the Surfacing album.
also...just flicking through what i have here (all mainstream junk because it's my net machine but eh)
Stone sour - Bother
Tabitha's Secret - Dear Joan
Boysetsfire - Swingset
Nine Inch Niles - Fragile
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Frou Frou - Dumbing Down of Love
Telepopmusik - Yesterday Was a Lie
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
Alkaline Trio - Blue in the Face
The Ataris - Looking Back on Today
Something Corporate - Konstantine
Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
Randy Newman - I Think It's Going to Rain Today
Ryan Adams - Wonderwall
Train - Mississippi
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches (either take)
Kronos Quartet - Overture from Requiem for a Dream
Man when I was really depressed I listened to that album a lot.... it made me a lot more depressed :P
Same here mate!
Disintegration has probably indirectly offed more people than Kavorkian could ever dream of.
Sad songs make me feel...happy.
It's weird, I think this song is kind of happy and accomplished. I love it.
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Pearl Jam - Smile
Fuel - Shimmer and Sunburn
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
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Well, I guess thats kind of why their lyrics are in a made up language. So you can interpret it for yourself. To me it's very sad, but maybe a bit happy in a rebirth sort of way.
counting crows - raining in baltimore
mercury rev - holes
and most things by dashboard confessional
Jolie Holland - I Wanna Die
Cat Power - Names
Lifter Puller - Katrina and the K-Hole
Kow Otani - Silent Wonderland
The Seatbelts - Blue
The Smashing Pumpkins - Ugly, anything off of Adore
The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Tom Waits - Two Sisters
The Hold Steady - Crucifixion Cruise
The Owls - Baby Boy
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World (The Nirvana cover would work as well), Space Oddity
Nico - These Days (There's a St Vincent cover of this that is good as well)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (This is the best version IMO)
Iron and Wine - Jezebel
Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
Immortal Technique - You Never Know (Saddest rap song I have ever heard)
Antony and the Johnsons - Any song, esp. Bird Gerhl and Hope There's Someone
Belle and Sebastien - I Fought in a War, among others
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit
Elton John - Lots of his stuff, esp. Someone Saved My Life Tonight and Candle in the Wind
Built to Spill - You Were Right
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Little Feat - Be One Now
Lowell George - What do you Want that Girl to do
Marvin Gaye - Lots of his stuff
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Part 2 (Amazing) among others
Pavement - Here
Pink Floyd - Echoes, and others
Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come (Gives me chills)
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Ooo Baby Baby
Snow Patrol - Run
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You and My Cherie Amor
The Wrens - She Sends Kisses (Brilliant music and lyrics)
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Armin ft. Ray Wilson - Yet Another Day
Lamb - Gorecki (feels sad to me)
Four Tet - Unspoken
Moby - Into The Blue
Moby - God Moving Over The Face of the Waters
practically anything Depeche Mode
practically anything Coldplay
A few tracks by Boards of Canada (Hi Scores, in particular)
Duncan Sheik - She Runs Away
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
need I include: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Treble Charger - Red
Ben Folds Five - Brick
thats just what I came up with while going thru the tracks on the iPod. I'm sure i'll come up with more...
Jimmy Eat World - 23
Joshua Radin - Closer/Winter
My Chemical Romance (ugh) - Cancer
Death Cab for Cutie - Title and Registration
See how many books I've read so far in 2010
I can't believe nobody mentioned that.
I'd also like to chime in with Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven, even though it was already mentioned.
Edit:
And The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother