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2006-01-27, 21:43

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Hurt - Nine Inch Nails I'm suprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet (unless I missed it)
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A recent funk brings this thread back to mind. My contributions:
  • Precious- Depeche Mode
  • Nice To Feel The Sun- Earshot
  • Telescope Eyes- Eisley
  • Hello- Evanescence
  • One More Time- Flaw
  • Hurt- Both the Johnny Cash and NIN versions
  • Fade to Black- Metallica
  • Street of Dreams- Rainbow
  • Better Version- Shinedown
  • Sleep- Stabbing Westward
  • Shame- Stabbing Westward
  • Roulette- System of a Down
  • Spiders-System of a Down
Yep, you missed it...
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2006-01-28, 08:41

Damn it! Gotta pay more attention
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2006-01-28, 12:11

In no particular order

Mein Herz Brennt-Rammstein
Heading to Acadia-Runrig
It's No Good-Depeche Mode
With Or Without You-U2
Achilles Last Stand-Led Zeppelin
The entire Benefit album-Jethro Tull
Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd
This Darkest Winter-Runrig

Authentic Nova Scotia bagpipe innards
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2006-01-28, 12:33

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Grey - Ani DiFranco
Indedependance Day - Ani DiFranco
This One's Gonna Bruise - Beth Orton
Ghost of Yesterday - Billie Holiday
The Scientist - Coldplay
No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
Hope - Dirty Three
Rebecca DeVille - Mason Jennings
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails I'm suprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet (unless I missed it)
China - Tori Amos

Oh, and if I was going to commit suicide, I'd totally go with No Suprises - Radiohead
Nice selections. Although several of those songs (in particular "No Surprises") are among my favorites.
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2006-01-28, 14:29

'Miss Beverley' by the roots reggae singer Ijahman Levi, with the classic lyric 'It's not who you love/ But it's who loves you' is a powerful contender.

It's the close-to-tears gasp of refined heartbreak he sings it in, like someone just punched him the stomach, that tells you that someone just had a moment of clarity. And it told him to fire captive bolts into the twitching carcass of his romance.

Ai me. I listen to it and go 'poor bastard.'

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2006-01-28, 17:32

Anything by Rammstein or the Mission Impossible II soundtrack (the score, not the song).
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2006-01-28, 18:08

Like some of you, I try to avoid sad songs when I'm feeling low, but here are some on my list:

1,000 Oceans (Tori Amos)
Streets of Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)
Colorblind (Counting Crows)
When I'm Gone (3 Doors Down)
No one's Home (Avril Lavigne)
I Grieve (Peter Gabriel)
Remember When It Rained (Josh Groban)
Con Te Partiro (Andrea Bocelli)
Whiskey Lullaby (Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss)
Silence (Delerium & Sarah McLachlan)
Damaged (Plumb)
Teardrop/Inertia Creeps (Massive Attack)
Deliver Me (Sarah Brightman)
Afterglow Album (Sarah McLachlan)
Innocent/Superman's Dead (Our Lady Peace)
Concrete Angel (Martina McBride)
Breakaway Album (Kelly Clarkson)

Most of these songs seriously carry me (emotionally/mentally) back to specific bad/hard times in my life (just as some happy songs take me to certain happy moments). Anyone else experience that (a lot? intensely?)? It's good to reflect on, digest, and transition from those moments, but sometimes I'd rather not go there and the darn song comes on, you know?

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2006-01-28, 19:46

I will do my best to narrow my "sad" songs to a top ten list.

She Ionized and Atomizes - Modest Mouse
Crack Pipes - Sage Francis
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana
Oh comely - Neural Milk Hotel
Write a Letter Home - Jackie Greene
Never is a Promise - Fiona Apple
Sorry but its Over - Dredg
Misery is the River of the World - Tom Waits
Life in a Glass House - Radiohead

That was more difficult than i thought, i have way to many sad songs. Those ones seem to get the most play though. The Sage Francis, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Nirvana albums from which the above songs are on end up in my cd player quite a bit when i am feeling down.
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2006-01-29, 07:01

Oh yeah, I think I forgot Streets Of Phildelphia and All That Could've Been and Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
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2006-01-29, 11:17

Everyones picked some interesting choices. Heres the saddest songs that come to mind in no particular order:

Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor('Moonlight') 1st Movement - Beethoven
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins (now tell me you don't get goosebumps!)
Emotion Sickness - Silverchair
Teardrop - Massive Attack
Silence - Delerium
Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse (I find this really emotional in good surround sound setup)
Painted On My Heart - The Cult
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls (Very sad, remember City of Angels?)


Not quite so sad, depends on your mood but nevertheless good songs:

Always Worth It, Don't You Ever, etc. - Sarah Blasko. The whole album is good in this topic, "The Overture And The Underscore"
Twenty Years - Placebo
Oceania - Björk
Liar, Zombie, etc. - The Cranberries
Crazy Life - Toad The Wet Sprocket
To You I Bestow - Mundy
How To Be Dead - Snow Patrol
Overkill - Colin Hay
Hold On Hope - Guided By Voices
Heartbeats - José Gonzales

Enjoy, theres some real keepers there.
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2008-05-24, 01:03

i know its more modern day but any1 listened to three doors down- here without you...this has to be my favourite song at the moment..its really sad and makes me think of my girlfriend all the time..let me know what ppl think it???
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2008-05-24, 12:32

i'm a sap....

hello its me by todd rundgren
romeo and juliet by dire straits
alison by elvis costello
and for some reason i'll listen to the beatles and the jam when sad

now to break out of the sadness i tend to go punk with the clash and the buzzcocks and the ramones...throw in some talking heads and costello too

and bowie and prince...who can be sad listening to early bowie or early prince?


costello seems to cross over...the jam too...early jam gets me upbeat, later jam tends to make me reflective and saddish (like a raddish...actaully nothing like a raddish, but it rhythms with saddish)

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2008-05-25, 22:56

Listening to sad songs when you're sad? Perfect time for this thread to re-emerge. I fear I'm an expert on the topic

10. To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens
9. Vienna - The Fray
8. Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
7. It's All Understood - Jack Johnson
6. Wonderwall - Oasis
5. Twilight - Elliott Smith
4. The Scientist - Coldplay
3. Metamorphosis Five - Phillip Glass
2. Look After You, Acoustic - The Fray

And the best song to listen to when you're sad?

1. Look After You - The Fray

iTunes linked for your enjoyment

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2008-05-26, 21:29

Jesus Christ... reading this thread again, I was really lame at 15.

I've recently fallen in love with Soundtrack To a Vacant Life, a new album by The Flashbulb (pseudonym of musician Benn Jordan); I was originally drawn to it by the neat-sounding genre name (Intelligent Dance Music).

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2008-05-28, 09:53

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Jesus Christ... reading this thread again, I was really lame at 15.
Most of us were. I know I was.
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2008-05-28, 10:53

Severed - Mudvayne

Just about anything by Neil Young before (and including since it is a greatest hits compilation) Decade.
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2009-05-06, 15:36

here comes goodbye - rascal flatts

my dad just passed away last week and i think i've listened to this song on repeat over a hundred times
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2009-05-06, 15:39

Sorry to hear about your loss.

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2009-05-07, 10:02

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here comes goodbye - rascal flatts

my dad just passed away last week and i think i've listened to this song on repeat over a hundred times
I'm sorry to hear that, too.

We have sad songs for a reason. Don't overdo it though. Just as many as you need to remember properly, I guess. If that's what sad songs are for.

What are sad songs for, actually?

Thanks for bumping this thread, and welcome.

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2009-05-07, 10:10

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What are sad songs for, actually?
I don't know. Probably for the same reason(s) there are sad books, movies, plays, etc.? It's just part of it all. The happy and the sad, the good and the bad, the ups and the downs, etc. One makes you appreciate - or notice - the other.

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2009-05-07, 10:21

Yes. But it’s funny that we turn to sad things when we feel sad.

I’m not thinking of Robert Johnston, say, whose life was a catastrophe but whose blues make you feel better (probably because you’re reminded that you’re not him when you hear them and this can only be a positive thing, no matter what kind of a state you’re in.)

I just saw Synechoche New York last week, and it’s the best advertisment for suicide I’ve ever seen. I liked it. I hate the music of Joy Division, on the other hand, because it’s kinda inhuman (to my ears, anyway.)

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2009-05-07, 10:42

I'm not really a fan of sad songs either. I'd rather go through life smelling roses. I'll hit thorns along the way, I don't need a song to do it for me.

There was a song my Alabama though I used to listen to before I got custody of my daughter. "In Pictures" or something like that. I hated it but it seemed to ring true so much since she lived 2000 miles away.

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2009-05-07, 11:08

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I just saw Synechoche New York last week, and it’s the best advertisment for suicide I’ve ever seen. I liked it.
A friend of mine raved about this film. I rented it. Couldn't make it through the first 15 minutes. Though I have seen all of of Kaufman's stuff, this started out with a lot of what I don't want to watch in a film. Sickness, slow death, doctors, green shit, bloody piss and dentists. Also seeing Catherine Keener looking/getting old depresses me even more...why I can sit through OldBoy though is a whole other story...

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I hate the music of Joy Division, on the other hand, because it’s kinda inhuman (to my ears, anyway.)
There was a period right after leaving college, losing a girlfriend and going though other issues in '84 that Joy Division (Bauhaus and Echo & the Bunnymen too) was all I listened to. Thankfully got over that. But after seeing the bio pic Control did I really understand what Ian Curtis was all about. A sad, tragic figure himself. I respect their music, though I don't listen to much.

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2009-05-07, 11:11

Synechoche NY becomes pretty amazing after the first fifteen minutes... really changes.

I like Bauhaus. Still like Bauhaus. And I respect Joy Division, too... I just hate their music. And I've owned all their albums at one time or another. I sort of hated their music even when I listened to it a lot.

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2009-05-07, 11:21

Like A Stone- Audioslave. The song is rockin' but Chris Cornell's lyrics are a little haunting.

With or Without You - U2. This song really hit me when it was played in an Australian movie whose name I have forgotten. It was right after the main character finds out her boyfriend committed suicide. Wife and I were weeping.

Losing My Religion-REM

Not For You- Pearl Jam

November Rain & Don't Cry -G'n'R

Change The World - Eric Clapton & Babyface

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2009-05-07, 11:24

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I sort of hated their music even when I listened to it a lot.
I wonder if it is a prerequisite.

Still trying to pin down my sad song...I made a tape back then in '84 with a variety of artist's sad songs...I might even still have the tape back home. Though I doubt it. If any come to mind I'll check YouTube and link them here.

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2009-05-07, 11:32

The Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children

Gary Numan - Down in the Park


Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted

Three I remember...
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2009-05-07, 12:06

Bauhaus it ain't.

Sad it is.

Maxwell: This Woman's Work.

Go on. Give it a try. What's the worst that can happen?
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2009-05-07, 12:21

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Bauhaus it ain't. Sad it is.
That's Peter Murphy, who is an amazing solo act. I thought this was a nice take of the song.

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Maxwell: This Woman's Work.

Go on. Give it a try. What's the worst that can happen?
The best that could happen would be Old School Al Green. Thing about soul music is that it can direct the listener emotionally in so many different ways. Maxwell was damn close...no cigar IMO.

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2009-05-07, 13:21

Øh i agree, absolutely. Hey my iphone is in scandinavian.

Maxwell ... Dont get the cigar. I listen to a lot of 'proper' old soul and i was never quiiite convinced my Maxwell. This song is sad, though.

Did you see the bauhaus reunion gigs? They kicked the ASS. See on youtube. Kick the arse. I am in a café in copenhagen. Iphone good.

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