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Need help finding sad songs.
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Like, Journey's "Open Arms" is really fucking sad, given the right context.
Barber's Adagio for Strings is epically sad.
Def Leppard's "Love Bites" is romatically (albeit very cheesy) sad.
on repeat...
Elliott Smith - Condor Ave.
Modest Mouse - Dramamine
Explosions in the Sky - A Song For Our Fathers
Of Montreal - The Repudiated Immortals
The Gothic Archies - Dreary, Dreary (though perhaps a bit too ironic if you're genuinely sad)
Sufjan Stevens - Pittsfield and Casimir Pulaski Day both really get to me.
Boston - Augustana
The Forgotten Arm album by Aimee Mann. It tells the story of a couple and every song makes me want to kind of die.
Get Lonely - The Mountain Goats (holy jesus so depressing.)
Forgiven - Deb Talan
Gomez - Notice
Eternity - Robbie Williams
Bridge Over Troubled Water and The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel
Tonight Is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel - Barenaked Ladies
The Luckiest and Fred Jones, Pt 2 - Ben Folds
My Way - Frank Sinatra - I know, odd choice, but if you listen to the lyrics, a lot of it is kinda sad.
Also - Film soundtrack related - especially sad/moving if you've seen the films
Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan
I Could Have Done More from Schindler's List
Comptine D'un Autre Ete - L'après-midi - Amelie (Admittedly, I don't know French, so I don't know if that's the right title, etc)
I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
Don Mclean - Babylon (Watching your home burn to the ground.)
Offspring - Gone Away (Death of a loved one)
Chet Atkins - Still can't say goodbye (Death of a father.)
Tool - Prison Sex (Sexual abuse)
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt (addiction)
Foo Fighters - Everlong (Missing a long lost friend.)
or k.d. lang
"Lonely Lonely" - Feist
Especially sad if you've been in the military.
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I think most of Counting Crows album "August and Everthing After" is sad (minus "Rain King" and "Mr. Jones"), but also very good.
I played "Raining in Baltimore" on repeat for a while. The first line is, "The circus is falling". Then it just gets better/worse.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
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Deftones - Change(in the house of flies)
Moulin Rouge Soundtrack - El Tango de Roxanne
Bush - Letting the Cables Sleep
Radiohead - Karma Police
really anything by Tool or A Perfect Circle
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HctmxY7Sk8s (not the original or the most famous, but a good rendition)
Also, Blues music is good.
http://www.amazon.com/Blues-Eric-Clapton/dp/B00000JNMN
Iced Earth - Question of Heaven
Metallica - Unforgiven, Unforgiven II, Outlaw Torn, Hero of the Day, Bleeding Me, Mama Said, Low Man's Lyric
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace
See, there are so many different forms of sad songs, that being more specific would help a lot.
Smokey Robinson - Cruisin'
Beat me to it. Most of Eric Clapton's music could be what you are looking for.
uhh.. unkle's never, never, land is pretty awesome for mellow stuff
Missed the Boat - Modest Mouse
These just came on, and both seemed to fit the mood. It's probably worth noting that the music of the song sets a mood for me more than the lyrics do. This is pretty subjective as well, cause a lot of songs evict different emotions in different people.
That and 'You Never Know' by Immortal Technique, if hip hop is your thing.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
A Finnish song iirc, it's extremely sad, even if you don't understand a word of it.
Uh, why are you looking for sad songs anyways?
OutKast - Elevators (Me & You)
In the not joking realm, not exactly songs, but... Chopin Prelude in E Minor, Largo, Mozart Concerto no. 23 in A Major, Movement 2 (Andante), and Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no. 2, Movement 2 (Adagio Sostenuto)... are what a piano would sound like if it were suicidal.
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Also, I didn't see anyone mention 'Hello', by Evanescence. This one really kills me.
you'll never find a more sad song because you'll be too sad to look for one.
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