Saddest song you've ever heard

[griev0r]

I think this would be a good place to start this thread.. I listen to a lot of depressing music, trying to pick the saddest song would be hard for me.

Right now I'm thinking For My Fallen Angel by My Dying Bride is one of the most heart wrenching songs I've ever heard...

 

[Noituudenaika]

Gloomy Sunday played by the Kronos Quartet

 

[Hobo]

anything from Green Carnation´s the accoustic verses

 

[BlackLodge]

Quiet World is up there with the saddest for me. My Wine in Silence by My Dying Bride is very sad..
The saddest song right now however must be Burden by Opeth.

Also, check out "Stairs of Fire" from the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack.

 

[MadTinus]

Katatonia - Gone
My Dying Bride - The Cry of Mankind

There are more that I can't think of right now.

 

[Blackfield]

katatonia-day
opeth-a fair judjement
my dying bride-black god
blackfield-end of the world
muse-unitented
portishead-hunter
bright eyes-a poetic retelling of an unfortunate seduction

there are still too many songs..

 

[Vincent J.]

that would probably be Medicine Bottle by Red House Painters

 

[Kitiini]

Blackfield - Lullaby
Katatonia - Gone & Quiet World & Gates of Bereavement
Opeth - Hope Leaves & A Fair Judgement & Face of Melinda
Johnny Cash - Hurt

and many many others, those just jumped to my mind right now. If I would have to choose one from those it would probably me Gone by Katatonia.

 

[Richard Mongler]

The Cure and the album Disintegration is pretty damn depressing. Also, Pornography is pretty dark and bleak. Ah, I love them both.

 

[stefan86]

Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest
Green Carnation - The Burden Is Mine.. Alone
Katatonia - Nowhere
Katatonia - Quiet World
Mourning Beloveth - Narcissistic Funeral
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Paradise Lost - Forever Failure
Rapture - This Is Where I Am
Rapture - To Forget

Edit:
oh shit I forgot Anathema

Deep
Lost Control
One Last Goodbye

 

[Clayman77]

Johnny Cash - Hurt

There's lots of songs from Katatonia, Anathema and so on that's full of melancholy but Johnny Cash's Hurt is the saddest. There's just something so touching in old man singing such a sad song full of memories close to end of his days.

 

[Abscurat]

A Natural Disaster by Anathema, definitely.

 

[Richard Mongler]

I think Trent Reznor's version of Hurt was better.

 

[FUBAR]

I think Trent Reznor's version of Hurt was better.

nah

this is one of the few times when i feel that a cover is better than its original, each to their own tho.

 

[BlueSky]

I think Trent Reznor's version of Hurt was better.

Definitely.

By like a gazillion.

 

[BlackLodge]

I forgot..

Anathema - Parisienne Moonlight

 

[Hedon-]

the song mentioned by op is actually (imo) so depressing i cant understand why anyone would ever willingly listen to it

 

[Kitiini]

I think Trent Reznor's version of Hurt was better.

They are both very great versions, I would say that I like a bit more the Johnny Cash's version because its simplicity. But It wont top the live version on Hurt by NiN.

 

[Phoenix5]

Ummmm

easy


Anathema - One Last Goodbye

edit: oh and Green Carnation - The Boy in the Attic

 

[LORD DARKSOUL]

October Tide- Losing Tommorow
Katatonia- Quiet World, Deadhouse, Gone, Sulfur... so many songs from BMD-LFDGD era.
Anathema- TEMPORARY PEACE... holy shit. Probably gets my vote for most beautiful song ever. Also: Inner Silence, Fragile Dreams, Radiance,
Slowdive- Catch the Breeze, Country Rain, She Calls, Melon Yellow.
Porcupine Tree- Trains, A Smart Kid, Stop Swimming, Fadeaway.

So many more...