Your saddest songs

bigDean636

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We all have songs that we listen to when we're feeling down. Here are my top 3 Sad songs:

1. Nutshell by Alice In Chains
2. Journeyman by Iron Maiden
3. Deep Water by Charon

How about you guys?
 

Cool_Un_Cool

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Bother-Stone Sour
Tearjerker-KoRn
B.B.K.-KoRn
In The End-Linkin Park



There's one line that resonates with me from bother; "I wish I had a reason, my flaws are open season, for this I gave up trying, one good turn deserves my dying"
 

Sacrament

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I don't think listening to sad songs when you're feeling down is going to help at all. When I'm feeling 'depressed', I listen to dance music: electro, house, techno, trance. It's upbeat, it has no lyrics (no anger, no blues and so forth) and it makes you want to move.
 

recluse

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Nutshell
Black by Pearl Jam
Everybody hurts by REM
November rain, Baby don't cry, and estranged by Guns n Roses
Under the Bridge by The red hot chilli peppers
Something in the way by Nirvana
Fell on black days by Soundgarden
Ohne Dich by Rammstein
 

creep_x

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I have stopped listening to them but here are what I think some of the best songs ever-

Creep- Radiohead
Fundamentally loathsome- Manson
I'd do anything for love - Meatloaf... I think of it as a sad song more than a romantic song
Bent- Matchbox 20
Hurt- NIN
New born- Muse
Space dementia- Muse
Apocalypse please- Muse
..& most Muse songs
 
I don't really know of that many sad songs, but a song I really like is "Yes, the River Knows" - by the Doors. I'm pretty sure it's about suicide, well it is atleast partially, but it's actually a really pretty song. The part that is saying "I'm going but I need a little time".... I can just understand that so unusually well.
 

Quetzalcoatl

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Psychedelicious said:
I don't really know of that many sad songs, but a song I really like is "Yes, the River Knows" - by the Doors. I'm pretty sure it's about suicide, well it is atleast partially, but it's actually a really pretty song. The part that is saying "I'm going but I need a little time".... I can just understand that so unusually well.
Oh my god that song is so beautiful... I haven't listened to the doors in a while, I was going through really tough times while I was obsessed with them, and now I have bad memories. But Waiting for the Sun is still one of my favourite albums ever, and that song moved me miles.

One of my favourite sad songs is something that I recorded one night when I was really down. Its on my myspace, and its the last song on the list ( I have a band page for my music but I use it personally)called "Searching for Yesterday" Cliche title I know but its an old one and I was younger when I recorded it... I still love it.

www.myspace.com/davidcarlino

Other sad songs are all... either metal or classical or just plain random

"Altitudes" and "Air" by Jacon Becker

Opeth - "Isolation Years" and "To Bid you Farewell" and "Hope Leaves" and "Hours of Wealth"

"Sadness and Hate" and "Sleeping Stars" by Wintersun

"Non - Zero Possibility" by At the Drive - in

"Adagio in G" by Tomaso Albinoni

"Air on a G String" By J.S. Bach
 

sketchy24

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Mad World was a pretty nice song but I kinda got sick of it I listened to it so much.

Dust in the Wind is a favorite. The English Ladye and the Knight by Loreena Mckennit is a beautiful but sad song. Not sad as in depressing, just sad story. Forever Yours by Nightwish. Exile by Enya... amazingly beautiful song. The Fiddler on the Green by Demons and Wizards. Further by VNV Nation... awesome song... Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen. I could go on and on.
 

Ukazuto

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don't know why- saves the day
under the boards- saves the day

Those are the major things that jump out at me...
 

Chiaroscuro

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I feel like an expert in this area. But it's wierd cause I enjoy listening to this kind of music even when I'm happy. I doesn't make me feel down. It's like a beautiful sadness. Emotional intensity can be like a drug.

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Radiohead - 'creep' and 'exit music for a film'

Eva Cassidy - I know you by heart, over the rainbow (uplifting too) and many others

Joni Mitchell - the whole album 'blue'. 'A case of you' in particular

Schindler's list theme tune

Billy Joel - honesty

Nora Jones - I don't miss you at all

Chopin - Prelude in C minor

Barber - Adagio for Strings

Beethoven - moonlight sonata (though I know it's played to death)

Max Bruch - Kol Nidrei (OP 47)

SAD / UPLIFTING -

THE LARK ASCENDING BY VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
BACH - LUTE SUITES/ & SONATAS AND PARTITAS
 

2Crowded

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Ok...here it go's....I play the sad stuff alot..even when I exercise:

Cinderella - "Don't know what you got til it's gone". - It's my favorite song ever.

"Heartbreak station" - Cinderella

"Bird on a wire" - by The Neville Brothers...may not really be a sad one to most...but it makes me choke up whenever I play it.

"Drive" - by The Cars

"When you're alone" - Bruce Springsteen

"Tougher Than the Rest" - Bruce Springsteen

"Remember when" - Alan Jackson

"Purple rain" - by Prince

"Rough boy" - ZZTop

"Epilogue for Lisa" - Shawn Lane

"The ballad of Jayne" - L.A. Guns

"I want to know what love is" - Foreinger

"All by myself" - Eric Carmen

"100 years" - Five for Fighting

"All this time" - Tiffany
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Those are just a few that are a good recipe for leaky eyes for me...but when I am working out...nobody could tell the difference between my sweat or my tears anyway....I probably here most of those a couple times everyday when working out... ipods are great!
 

megalon

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Seether- "the gift"
Seether- "never leave"
Breaking Benjamin- "rain"
Evanescence- "missing"
Staind- "epiphany"
Trapt- "bleed like me"
Flogging Molly- "whistles the wind"
Red- "pieces"
Linkin Park- "leave out all the rest"

As depressed as these songs make me feel, I still love to listen to them.
 

Yer_Blues

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I can't believe no-one has mentioned 'Suicide is Painless', the most depressing song ever. Others I like are:

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Dead Souls - Joy Division
Atmosphere - Joy Division
 
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