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In opposition to the happy music I want some sad music. I'm not talking EMO rock type stuff. Im talking sultry voices singing the blues. Some real my wife left me type stuff.
Specifically the stuff you would hear a lounge singer / jazz club play. Old classics.
Some stuff I already have is Nora jones, various blues artists. Mainly I just typed the above key words into itunes and listened to a bunch and picked what I like. If anyone has better ideas that would be great.
What is the song in cassablanca where he is like play it again? stuff of that nature would be good.
Hmmm... I think I have exactly what you are looking for (of course, I could be totally wrong). Adieu, from the third Cowboy Bebop soundtrack (Blue). I'm not sure if you'll be able to find it on iTunes or anything, but some nice person has uploaded it to YouTube. Adieu
Gary Jules's version of "Mad World" is definitely a good "sad" song.
Also, you could try Frou Frou - The Dumbing Down of Love. Actually, anything from the Details album is either very sad or very happy, so you could kill two birds with one stone from that one.
Isabelle Antena - Say I Believe In It is also really good, and it was featured on the season one finale of The Boondocks.
Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop -- it's a cover of a Massive Attack song which played during the most recent season finale of House. Massive Attack's version is also good -- it's the show's theme song.
Perhaps not quite the genre you're looking for, but not far removed for it, would be Nick Cave. He does mainly rock ballads (although not crappy rock ballads like they're all in three-four and strummy guitars).
In opposition to the happy music I want some sad music. I'm not talking EMO rock type stuff. Im talking sultry voices singing the blues. Some real my wife left me type stuff.
Specifically the stuff you would hear a lounge singer / jazz club play. Old classics.
Some stuff I already have is Nora jones, various blues artists. Mainly I just typed the above key words into itunes and listened to a bunch and picked what I like. If anyone has better ideas that would be great.
What is the song in cassablanca where he is like play it again? stuff of that nature would be good.
see if you can find Rainbow Disconection, it was taken down due to legal reasons, but you can still find it.
Man, that's just annoying, not sad. It takes more than transposing something to minor to make it sad. The original was fine. That guy's voice is just grating. I liked the guitar intro to his Hallelujah, but then he started singing.
Every other song by every black blues musician ever. Start with BB King and go from there. Go to an indie record store, they usually have at least one blues fan on staff.
Robert Johnson is my favorite blues musician, Lead Belly is also really good and from about the same time period. However Adagio For Strings probably gets my vote for the saddest peice of music ever written. This one is from the BBC Orchestra right after the 9/11 attacks. http://youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g
This isn't exactly in the exact musical tone that the OP is looking for, but neither are most of the responses. It's also quite likely that Tube will infract me for this, but I don't care.
Alice
All The World Is Green
Georgia Lee
Take It With Me
I'm Still Here
Green Grass
Anywhere I Lay My Head
On The Nickel
Other songs:
Murder By Death- Spring Break 1899
Johnny Cash- I See A Darkness, Hurt
Against Me!- Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35%, Beginning In An Ending, 8 Full Hours of Sleep, Searching For a Former Clarity, Pints of Guinness Make You Strong
Tiger Army- In The Orchard
Nirvana- Marigold
Bad Religion- Sorrow (try to find Greg's acoustic version)
So many wonderful melancholy songs from Tom Waits, but this one is his very best. See also most of the Blue Valentine album, including a version of Somewhere (There's a Place for Us) from West Side Story that is far superior to the original. If you're interested more in the subject matter and lyrics than the music, Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis and Kentucky Avenue, both off the same album, are great. I also cannot recommend the entire Alice album highly enough. For a mellower version of same, you might try to find the Alice original demos. Similar songs, completely different character in many cases.
Others:
Ryan Adams, In my time of need (written for, but never sung by, Johnny Cash) - Also many others on the same Heartbreaker album
Don Henley, A Month of Sundays
Jackson Browne, Before the Deluge (and really the whole Late for the Sky album - he wrote it after his wife committed suicide). Also Song for Adam off Jackson Browne.
In a weird way, Nick Drake's Pink Moon (the song, but also the whole album). This isn't pathetisad in the country George Jones "She Thinks I Still Care" mode, but it's quite moving
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see if you can find Rainbow Disconection, it was taken down due to legal reasons, but you can still find it.
Adieu
Also, you could try Frou Frou - The Dumbing Down of Love. Actually, anything from the Details album is either very sad or very happy, so you could kill two birds with one stone from that one.
Isabelle Antena - Say I Believe In It is also really good, and it was featured on the season one finale of The Boondocks.
Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop -- it's a cover of a Massive Attack song which played during the most recent season finale of House. Massive Attack's version is also good -- it's the show's theme song.
Umm, let me look up a youtube...
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
"Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve
"Firestarter" by Jimmy Eat World
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=AAPMUSCFVhg
As Time Goes By
Though I wouldn't really call it sad.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNHet308wYA
Pearl Jam - Black
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8Ic86Hx3w
Black is just one of many great, sad Pearl Jam songs.
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Man, that's just annoying, not sad. It takes more than transposing something to minor to make it sad. The original was fine. That guy's voice is just grating. I liked the guitar intro to his Hallelujah, but then he started singing.
But Not For Me by Gershwin is quite the downer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNfjUo3sS6A
Though that may just be the fact that I associate it with a depressing episode of Scrubs. >_>
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g
Blue in Green by Miles Davis is melancholy.
"Fake Plastic Trees", "Bulletproof... I Wish I was", "Videotape".
I think "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton is probably the saddest song ever.
Erin McKeown - A Better Wife, Vera, Beautiful (I Guess), You Were Right About Everything
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
Alanis Morissette - Mary Jane
Ani DiFranco - School Night
Counting Crows - A Long December
Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Kamelot - Don't You Cry
Foo Fighters - Let it Die
Great Canadian Band. Song gets me every time.
Steven Patrick Morrissey.
Do it
oh yes, and 'Real Live Tigers' if you can find him anywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8CzFVm1Yio
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Alice
All The World Is Green
Georgia Lee
Take It With Me
I'm Still Here
Green Grass
Anywhere I Lay My Head
On The Nickel
Other songs:
Murder By Death- Spring Break 1899
Johnny Cash- I See A Darkness, Hurt
Against Me!- Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35%, Beginning In An Ending, 8 Full Hours of Sleep, Searching For a Former Clarity, Pints of Guinness Make You Strong
Tiger Army- In The Orchard
Nirvana- Marigold
Bad Religion- Sorrow (try to find Greg's acoustic version)
Let it be -- The Beetles
Late -- Ben Folds
Evaporated -- Ben Folds Five
Landed -- Ben Folds
Piano Man -- Billy Joel
Blowin' in the Wind -- Bob Dylan
Yesterday -- The Beetles
Not all of these are very sad, but they're all mellow, and good to listen to.
I never finish anyth
Western Eyes
I love this song so much.
when i'm feeling sad and want to listen to something that suits that mood i turn this on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85oWtqBwaYo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=egcpL9St5Dw
GFWL: studaud (for SF4)
So many wonderful melancholy songs from Tom Waits, but this one is his very best. See also most of the Blue Valentine album, including a version of Somewhere (There's a Place for Us) from West Side Story that is far superior to the original. If you're interested more in the subject matter and lyrics than the music, Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis and Kentucky Avenue, both off the same album, are great. I also cannot recommend the entire Alice album highly enough. For a mellower version of same, you might try to find the Alice original demos. Similar songs, completely different character in many cases.
Others: