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The best songs to get sad to
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I'm making a mix tape for a group of people. I have some early favorites, but lets really get into it.
For instance, an unconventional choice: Light of a Fading Star by Flogging Molly. Listen to it around 2 minutes in. That's what I'm going for. I could fill up a CD with songs like Blower's Daughter / Falling Slowly (both good songs that will probably go on there) but I need more!
My super exciting montage CDs are well received, but I'm struggling with this. My heroes need to remember what crushing failure feels like after so many triumphs.
For instance, an unconventional choice: Light of a Fading Star by Flogging Molly. Listen to it around 2 minutes in. That's what I'm going for. I could fill up a CD with songs like Blower's Daughter / Falling Slowly (both good songs that will probably go on there) but I need more!
My super exciting montage CDs are well received, but I'm struggling with this. My heroes need to remember what crushing failure feels like after so many triumphs.
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Wake Up : Animal Collective
The Body of an American, or A Pair of Brown Eyes : the Pogues
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"Brick" by Ben Folds Five.
"Denial, Revisited" by The Offspring.
"Halo" by Oleander.
"John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens.
"Letters to God" by Boxcar Racer.
"Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith.
"Ordinary World" by Duran Duran.
"The Sounds of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel.
"Untitled" by Silverchair.
"Unsatisfied" by The Replacements.
"Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" isn't that sad, and "How Soon Is Now" is so miserably overplayed. I'd go "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" for the ultimate sad song from their catalog.
El Perro Del Mar - Party
It does not get much sadder than this band.
This always tends to grab at me.
I'm One - The Who
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Everyone knows that "Asleep" is the saddest Smiths song... :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CGIii_eTOk
This is also a classic song for getting sad to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-2i2SR_OsU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9USJgkruTw&feature=related
Iron and Wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kXjd6tqUJ4&feature=related
his cover of Such Great Heights is pretty great too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKGHkBComjM&a=n7eNWXyvHKA&playnext_from=ML
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuzwa018vcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l3ROoEtvzg
His lyrics are not out right sad, but ever so slightly haunting and just on the edge of depression which makes them all that more saddening in my opinion.
Touché.
dude knows how to write a crushingly sad tune
joy division - atmosphere, disorder, isolation
elliot smith -needle in the hay, miss misery
guided by voices - drinker's peace, awful bliss, ester's day,
xiu xiu - gray death, dear god I hate myself
magnetic fields - I don't believe in the sun, mr. misletoe, old fools, painted flower
cursive - sierra
fair warning: after listening to all of these songs you may find yourself standing on the edge of the nearest bridge ruminating about the futility of life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1yKeF1qJwc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf-Zbmri1yc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcjt0EKCxpI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuaHvkAA5ng
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And Kenna's Hell Bent is probably the most depressing song I've ever loved:
hellbent
I like this version of it more than the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ofTgif-EMU&feature=fvst
Yeah that's a really awesome cover.
"turn the ugly light off god, i wanna feel the night..."
I'm not sure if these are what you're looking for exactly, but...
Stabbing Westward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70l6Zhsy23Q
Drowning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1-Os3vwy7A
Darkest Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aIkXR479eQ
Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOG2jmfC8_g
Why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP79STpFHsU&feature=channel
Sleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBMNG8UxQdQ
There's more, but you get the picture. The two albums you'll want to focus on are Darkest Days and Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel.
Poison the Well
Soma (Smashing Pumpkins cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9I6a8hj4nQ
There might be others, but Youtube isn't helping me out here.
And of course, some more radio-friendly classics:
Chevelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o18IQ2zUJ44
Panic Prone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNd2tcb0ZEE
Bend the Bracket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQQnITnP9o
Bush
Letting the Cables Sleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT4xchzaxWc
Muse
Unintended
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJDAmXHHfuM
Recess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTa0W6eKbK4
Patsy Cline
I Fall to Pieces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs
Sweet Dreams (of You)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZKiZG0u7oc
Ink Spots
We Three
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU6EzBiqCFA
Bless You (Not really a sad song, but... just the way this dude sings everything makes it sound so.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIOEqYckMbE
....That's all for now I'm afraid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YESdx5AHyJc
The album is about a guy who has an emotionally abusive girlfirend who's dying of cancer. So while she abuses him and tells him he's worthless, he feels he has no choice but to stand by her side
you will all be in tears before the album is done
Literally the most depressing song ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
And another Godspeed you recommendation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLjup934Rk
Little Motel off We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
and
Bankrupt on Selling off The Lonesome Crowded West
Another Ben Folds - Fred Jones Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hZI6qJBvDE
But in the vein of your Flogging Molly, I'll say Lady Luck by the Proclaimers (it's a bit obscure; youtube doesn't have any videos of it, so you'd need to test it out with a 30-second sample).
Otherwise...
All for the sake of Love by Die Toten Hosen is somewhat similar (the original German version is around too), but this tends more towards the 'generic sad song' territory.
O Girlfriend by Weezer might be a bit transparent with its lyrics, but it might work as well.
Someone mentioned Hallelujah and its the only song from this thread whose title I recognize.
This version (in this case by Rufus Wainwright) from Shrek is probably the most accessible version.
[edit]Also, that Mad World song has bee ruined by Gears of War[/edit]
It was always Buckley for me. Even after loving the Cohen version for so long, the sigh Buckley makes at the start just sells me every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIF4_Sm-rgQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGtzWA_tLI
For Crying out Loud - Meatloaf (I think it's one of his best songs, but it's not a happy one!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVXrLxOTJk4
The living years - Mike & the Mechanices (This song always brings memories of when my grandfather passed away)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k
Big League - Tom Cochrane ("Cochrane wrote the hit song "Big League" about a young hockey player who was killed in a car accident.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDDnOUKDQI
I know there are more, but I do not actually want to be thinking of sad songs :P
For sure.
And if you're going to go with a Sufjan Stevens song then it's got to be Casimir Pulaski Day.
Kathleen Edwards had some sad songs on her last album, but this one was best. Couldn't find a studio version on youtube.
My mom has always found this song to be very sad.
And there's always this:
More bipolar than sad, but this song can be very effective if you're in the right mood.
I also prefer the Amy Millan cover of I Will Follow You Into The Dark, but that's just me.
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