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Sad Songs/Pieces of Music

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    #32
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead




    Pigheads no girl but truth be told, first time this was heard there was almost a couple of glassy eyes in the house. Sad lyrics, sad voice and even the instruments sound like they're heartbroken (check out the weeping violins circa the four minute mark.

    Though I have a broken heart
    Im too busy to be heartbroken
    Theres a lot of things that need to be done
    Lord I have a broken heart

    Though I have a broken dream
    Im too busy to be dreaming of you
    Theres a lot of things that I gotta do
    Lord I have a broken dream

    And Im wasted all the time
    Ive gotta drink you right off of my mind
    Ive been told that this will heal given time
    Lord I have a broken heart

    And Im crying all the time
    I have to keep it covered up with a smile
    And Ill keep on moving on for a while
    Lord I have a broken heart


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    #33
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Bloody hell. Never heard Spiritualized before. So that's what all the fuss is about.


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    #34
    Zangetsu
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    Acoustic version of guitar gently weeps with the violins, dammit george you cut me deep :'(


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    #35
    MoominPapa
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    Always get me:
    Song to the Siren - Tim Buckley
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89AKTkGyeM


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    #36
    tech77
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    Nick Cave- People just ain't no good or
    Into My Arms.


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    #37
    Nightwish
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    Dead can Dance - Summoning of the Muse

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbkhe8-cvYI


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    #38
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Elliott Smith was a genius with this soft sad melodic stuff:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHDbCC0Ongs

    An obvious choice by Mogwai:


    Edit to add these two...

    Nine Inch Nails, Ghosts, Track 28:


    Biffy:


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    #39
    Roxanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭Roxanne


    Some beautiful pieces of music posted here, some I have never heard before so thanks all for sharing. In particular to the OP for the particular link to Samuel Barber - the poem accompanying the music is just beautiful and so meaningful.

    And now for my own contributions:):

    Hard to beat this one imo!

    http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=aQVz6vuNq7s

    This is a beautiful song, brings a tear to my eye every time
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXtiqJCzgHs


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    #40
    shane86
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    Brilliant use of Cats in the Cradle in line with the plot of this ad from the Troubles.

    Of course, being 7 or 8 at the time I thought the ad was the height of coolness mainly because it shows people getting shot :rolleyes:

    Town I Loved so Well is another one.


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    #41
    DenMan
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    Claudia's Allegro Agitato - Interview With The Vampire Soundtrack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RrBCABllRo


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    #42
    Stench Blossoms
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    Sia - Breathe Me

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc



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    #43
    joulter
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    new order/joy division 'ceremony'



    album version is better...something about the chords and i suppose the history of the song aswell...


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    #44
    tech77
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    The Smiths- Asleep.
    Beautiful but bleak tune.


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    #45
    gustavo
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    tech77 wrote: »
    Nick Cave-
    Into My Arms.

    I don't find that sad at all , just incredibly joyous :D


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    #46
    MoominPapa
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    Should have thought of this one before
    Anthony & the Johnsons Hope there's someone
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kMIFDm7rS8

    Beautiful and terrifying


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    #47
    biko
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    Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

    Ballad - New Model Army
    When they look back at us and they write down their history
    What will they say about our generation?
    We're the ones who knew everything still we did nothing
    Harvested everything, planted nothing
    ........
    Well I stand on these hills and I watch Her at night
    A thousand square miles, a million orange lights
    Wounded and scared, She lies silent in pain
    Raped and betrayed in the cold acid rain
    And I wish and I wish
    We could start over again
    Yes I wish and I wish
    We could win back Her love once again...


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    #48
    Whipping Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭Whipping Boy


    It was already mentioned but 'Moonlight Sonata' gets me everytime!

    Elliott Smith has a fair few sad songs but this is my favourite: Twilight



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    #49
    Resi12
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    Christina Aguleria - Hurt.. :(


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    #50
    jill_valentine
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    MoominPapa wrote: »
    Should have thought of this one before
    Anthony & the Johnsons Hope there's someone
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kMIFDm7rS8

    Beautiful and terrifying

    Holy Moses, I'd completely forgotten about this song. Everybody go and listen to this album again, urgently.


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    #51
    Mark2229
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭Mark2229


    This song may not be sad but trust me listen to it after you get dumped...i miss you by blink 182... Another 1 is im lost without you by blink 182.


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    #52
    MoominPapa
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    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Holy Moses, I'd completely forgotten about this song. Everybody go and listen to this album again, urgently.

    You heard the woman, people! Get to it:pac:


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    #53
    Censorsh!t
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    Colourblind by Counting Crows. It always brings a tear to my eye.
    Accidental babies by Damien Rice
    The No Seatbelt Song by Brand New. I dunno if you'd call it "sad" as such though.
    Sometimes I wake up crying by the Dixie Chicks:o
    Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap.
    Stay Together For the Kids by Blink-182


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    #54
    'Ol Jack Chance
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭'Ol Jack Chance


    christmas cards from a hooker in Minneapolis...just such a heartbreaking song!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktCocv-bBDg


    I'll be all smiles tonight - The Carter Family, cant find it on youtube but if anyone likes blues/folk its just a powerful and sad song.

    this one too partly cos of the fact its in Heat.

    ***This clip will ruin the ending if you havent seen this film before***

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doyix3dRGb8


    this rare bob dylan one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrdYrw1QO2Q


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    #55
    rainbow kirby
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    Within Temptation - Forgiven

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EloEMyAWXA


    Kamelot - Abandoned

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9tCdQVwE


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    #56
    sparkzter
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭sparkzter


    Just try and not connect with this song- it is so emotional and touching- a great song! I hope you like it!



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    #57
    stovelid
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    Balanescu Quartet - Model

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCKiYxzN8-g


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    #58
    cornbb
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    The opening bars of Mozart's Requiem:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqkMbk8eX6Y


    This number by the Smashing Pumpkins:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URifHF7_fs


    Neil Young:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNHet308wYA


    Phillip Glass - Metamorphosis:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4VDf-ugPI


    Aphex Twin - Hexagon. Like everything else on this album, this tune is happy, sad, comforting and unsettling all at once.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Aabd55G92M


    All very sad and very beautiful :) I think its somehow easier to make a sad piece of music than a happy one.

    On the flipside, the happiest, most optimistic music I've ever heard must be the "Ode to Joy" passage from Beethoven's 9th:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwaAtVgsl4E


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    #59
    sparkzter
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    This song is universally sad and I wonder is it because of the sad circumstances that are related to the origins of the song. Would it be just as sad if we weren't aware of the tragedy of his childs accident:(



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    #60
    sparkzter
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭sparkzter


    Nailz wrote: »
    "Atmosphere" by Joy Division, sad circumstancually anyway.

    Lip wobbling moment when this song is played in 'Control' (Ian Curtis story by Anton Corbijn). Totally agree with this one Nailz.


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    #61
    Nailz
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    Aw yeah I seen that, it was hard to be a man, but I did it!! There was a nice little memorial scene for Ian Curtis in which they used the song and the video in 24 Hour Party People.


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