Sad songs

[Rantz]

Our dear Noctiluca is growing sick of being depressed most of the time, now he wants to be depressed all of the time. This means that every time he starts getting all warm inside or when he gets his paycheck, he needs a sad song to bring him back down to a safe level. He needs your help, ladies and gentlefellows!

What are some of your favourite sad songs, or just songs that make you the most sad?

:sad:

[LunarWeaver]

What the smurf! :bou:

I do like sad songs though.

Such as Paper Bag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB4Al0l6Cuo)

[Flying Mullet]

Poor Noctiluca. :cry:

RHCP's Under the Bridge is always a good, mellow song.

[charliepanayi]

Untitled 1/Vaka - Sigur Ros
Nightswimming - R.E.M.
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy
Hope There's Someone - Antony and the Johnsons
Highway Patrolman - Bruce Springsteen

[Breine]

Most of the songs from Antony and the Johnsons' first two albums are sad songs, and they're all very beautiful.

Try giving a listen to "Cripple and the Starfish" and "Man is the Baby", just for examples.

[scrumpleberry]

Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYRvIOZfZ8) is kind of HARTWRENCHING ;; for me

Also Teardrop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftOy8kz7aE&feature=related) and Live with Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LgrGHWSy6k) but really as much.

Oh also Portishead Roads (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8us3432lh4M)

[rubah]

slower songs:
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
Radiohead - Street Spirit (fade out)
Brand New - Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't
AFI - The Leaving Song (pt 1)
Beatles - A Day in the Life
Decembrists - Eli the Barrowboy
Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)
Billy Talent - Nothing to Lose
Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (pretty much the whole album ;oooo)
faster songs:
Above and Beyond - Alone Tonight
Billy Talent - Living in the Shadows
Jimmy Eat World - Get it Faster
The Trews - Ishmael & Maggie
AFI - But Home is Nowhere. . . (more so the hidden tracks)
System of a Down - Metro
The Calling - Things Don't Always Turn Out That Way
Default - All She Wrote
HIM - Resurrection
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
AFI - Silver and Cold
Elliott Smith - Bottle up and Explode!
Hale - Broken Sonnet

(I have some of them tagged by intensity vs. sadness so this was an easy maneuver)

[~*~Celes~*~]

Moon by Yoko Kanno.

It's beautiful. Sung in a language the composer (Yoko Kanno) made up herself. It's...beautiful.

[Caraliz]

Cliff Martinez - Will She Come Back?
Mogwai - I know you are, but what am I?
Clint Mansell - The Last Man
Alexandre Desplat - The End of Love
Erik Satie - Grosienne no 1

[Yar]

Is there any depressing lolicore?

[Darkswordofchaos]

Poor Noctiluca. :cry:

RHCP's Under the Bridge is always a good, mellow song.


i love that song its a good mellow one. Also youth of a nation kinda seems sad to me but it more makes you feel bad for kids that get bullyed and such in school. and shooting star is a good one

[rubah]

oh yeah:
Maroon 5 - Will She Be Loved

or maybe it only makes me sad

[Shadowdust]

A good many songs on the Wish album by The Cure manage to be pretty sad/depressing. To name a few: Apart, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Trust, A Letter to Elise, and To Wish Impossible Things.

[Wolf Kanno]

Praying for Time by George Michael
Heaven is Not Enough by Yoko Kanno
Blue by Yoko Kanno
Hurenzu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YIW_KY8dy8&feature=related) by Yoko Kanno

I had more and some links but when I tried to reply the site decided I needed to sign in again and I lost my post.:mad:

[JKTrix]

Friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YIW_KY8dy8&feature=related) by Yoko Kanno

Fixed. That person also has 'Escape' as 'Esukeipu'. Gah.


Moon by Yoko Kanno.

It's beautiful. Sung in a language the composer (Gabriela Robin) made up herself. It's...beautiful.

She knows what's up! Fixed, though (lol in-jokes). There are like 6 versions of the song, vocalized or otherwise. They are all fantastic. Origa performed it during the live concert. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUitrD9CYg) I'm willing to bet that you haven't even seen Turn A Gundam, but that just shows how good the music is.

I could poke through my collection another time, *maybe*, but off the top of my head 'Arcadia' from Escaflowne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXB90w2ZVVg) (also by Yoko Kanno) is another relative downer of a song.

Something else that comes to mind is 'Elegy' from Dragon Quest IV by Koichi Sugiyama (first part of this performance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIy9RAoToI), before it switches to the other song @ 2:50) (8 bit version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FLD_y4svy8))

If you are interested, do try to find 'better than YouTube quality' versions of these songs. It kind of breaks my heart to share these in this manner, but it is the easiest way to do it.

[Yar]

oh yeah:
Maroon 5 - Will She Be Loved

or maybe it only makes me sad
The video for that song is sad, yet creepy.

[Gullick]

Anything by Evans Blue, hes got a very cool voice, but the songs are really sad.

[rubah]

U.N.K.L.E. - Lonely Soul

[qwertysaur]

The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
This comes up first in my mind.

[Araciel]

Romeo & Juliet by Mark Knopfler. It's so sad.

[MedctnStn]

always liked playing the Untitled song (how could this happen to me?) by Simple Plan when I'm depressed

[Polaris]

Keane - Love is the end - Really depressing but so beautiful or "Black burning heart" :)

Anything by Keane is brilliant when you're downXD

[Quindiana Jones]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hallelujah by...that bloke who drowned when he was 31.

[Wolf Kanno]

Sorry JKTrix, all I could find was the Youtube, and I agree about the quality of some of them. Also, thank you for finally giving me a title for that track. I've been wondering for years and was too lazy to look it up.

As for the topic:
Adam's Song by Blink 182
Daniel by Elton John
El Paso by Marty Robbins
The Leaves are Turning Green by Simon and Garfunkle
Porcelain by Moby
Don't They Know Its the End of the World by Skeeter Davis
Tears and Rain from Green legend Ran
Voices (English lyrics) from Macross Plus (the english lyrics are pretty sad)

[IronOcean]

TearenceJay One blood try and not have feelings after this song.....try me :mad2:

[Necronopticous]

<b>Antony & the Johnsons</b> - <i>River of Sorrow</i>

[I Don't Need A Name]

Dosed - Red Hot Chili Peppers
No It Isn't - +44 (the demo version is better)
So I Thought - Flyleaf
Life On Mars - David Bowie

[Rye]

Radiohead - Street Spirit
Summer Skin - Death Cab For Cutie
Corner of your Heart - Ingrid Michaelson
23 - Jimmy Eat World

[Necronopticous]

Radiohead - Street Spirit
Summer Skin - Death Cab For CutieJessica, it is too early in the morning for you to be confusing me like this.

[Tama2]

When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd

Everything about that song is great and sorrowful. I think it makes me even sadder that it was actually written by Waters portraying his father's death in the war.

[I Don't Need A Name]

When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd

Everything about that song is great and sorrowful. I think it makes me even sadder that it was actually written by Waters portraying his father's death in the war.

yes!
The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
The Little Things Give You Away - Linkin Park

[Iceglow]

Ok heres a few songs I love to listen to when I'm down or if I'm in the mood for some depressing music:

Goodnight ~ Dry Kill Logic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFNRWr_g6bI) This used to be a song I'd sing when getting my nephew to go sleep he loved me singing the vocals on this song so much so that he'd fall asleep in a few mins of me doing so.

You look so fine ~ Garbage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaK4xo8GKvw&feature=related) The acoustic is much more sad but the original is pretty sad too.

Somewhere ~ Within Temptation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6QE4EJrIFc&feature=related) I have to admit that this isn't my favourite video for it but I love the song it's got "that" quality to it that makes you choke up.

I got like a million sad songs, I pretty much listen to sad songs all the time. I tend to find when I'm down I listen to sad music to cheer myself up.

[Imperfectionist]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hallelujah by...that bloke who drowned when he was 31.

Yeah Jeff Buckley! I this his version is a cover...
Either way that is a pretty depressing song, love it though :p

[Iceglow]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hallelujah by...that bloke who drowned when he was 31.

Yeah Jeff Buckley! I this his version is a cover...
Either way that is a pretty depressing song, love it though :p

That song is dead to me, mostly because the X-factor winner covered it it now deserves to DIAF

[Rye]

Radiohead - Street Spirit
Summer Skin - Death Cab For CutieJessica, it is too early in the morning for you to be confusing me like this.

Sorry, Jeremy Fisher! <3

[Imperfectionist]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hallelujah by...that bloke who drowned when he was 31.

Yeah Jeff Buckley! I this his version is a cover...
Either way that is a pretty depressing song, love it though :p

That song is dead to me, mostly because the X-factor winner covered it it now deserves to DIAF

Same, I really hate her version of the song. They made it sound too uplifting and epic when that's really not what the song is about.

[Balzac]

Michale Graves- Return to Earth
and
Michale Graves - When We Were Angels

Both great songs.

[Badge]

Hurt - Nine inch Nails

[Rianoa]

Saff's depressed classics (Y)

Evanescence-I must be dreaming
Linkin park-Leave out all the rest
Rascall flats-What hurts the most
James blunt-Same mistake
Pussycat dolls-Hate this part
Katy perry-Thinking of you
Eminem-Cleaning out my closet
My chemical romance-I dont love you
Pink-Sober
James morrison-Broken strings
Avril lavigne-When your gone
Evanescence-Lithium
Pink-Who knew
Skillet-The last night
Taylor swift-White horse
Hinder-Better than me
Three days grace-I hate everything about you

You have to relate to them to find them depressing i thinks

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hallelujah by...that bloke who drowned when he was 31.

Yeah Jeff Buckley! I this his version is a cover...
Either way that is a pretty depressing song, love it though :p

Leonard Cohen did the original. I don't care for the original so much as Jeff Buckley's or Rufus Wainright's cover of it.

Also:

Land Lock Blues - Bright Eyes
Weak in the Knees - Serena Ryder
My Heart Cries for You - Serena Ryder
Album of the Year - The Good Life
Your Love Song - Angela Aki
モラルの葬式 (Moral's Funeral) - Angela Aki
My Immortal - Evanescence

[McLovin']

Shy - Sonata Artica

YouTube - Sonata Arctica - Shy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxZcFArCeKs)

[Rain The Unknown]

Bruised-Jack's Mannequin(Punk Goes Acoustic 2)
Miserable At Best-Mayday Parade(A Lesson in Romantics)

those are some of my fav sad songs

[Momiji]

Land Lock Blues - Bright Eyes


Pretty much everything by Bright Eyes is depressing. Still love them either way.