Saddest song you've ever heard

[MadTinus]

As far as stuff that's widely played and recognized is concerned, how about Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia." This song is 15 years old and sometimes I'll still here it over the muzak stations at stores and stuff. Jesus Christ is this song depressing:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9_8vwx2w8

Damn right, absolutely beautiful song!

 

[Soundjunkie]

Of course..this one must be on this thread.

I know Theatre or Tragedy don't have a lot of great sad songs, but this one still is one of my top 10...maybe top 5..maybe top 3..it all depends.

oh my, i haven't heard this song in so long but you are right it is very powerful.

 

[hauntedinflames]

I actually can pick just one, but after the top one, there's definitely plenty.

1. Elend - The Poisonous Eye

Evoken - Quietus
Agalloch - The Melancholy Spirit
Katatonia - Omerta
Elend - Silent Slumber

ahhh another Elend fan! Nice pick though I would have to say The Luciferian Revolution is one of the most beautiful songs ever

 

[Khayman666]

It'd be either Sentenced - Her Last 5 Minutes or Winter's Thrall - November.

 

[isolation_years]

anathema - are you there, angelica
nightingale - alonely (it got even sadder for me when i found out it was about his divorce)
opeth - hours of wealth

i love sad songs

 

[Peachy]

ahhh another Elend fan! Nice pick though I would have to say The Luciferian Revolution is one of the most beautiful songs ever

I've actually not heard that album yet. But yeah, I really love Elend.

 

[hauntedinflames]

sweet, well there's two versions of the song, the more Elend-like one on Les Tenebres du Dehors and then a stripped down, sole female vocal rendition on Weeping Nights

what albums have you heard so far?

 

[Peachy]

I've got Winds Devouring Men, Sunwar the Dead, and Weeping Nights, though I haven't listened to WN much.

 

[TheGreatColdOpeth]

Warning- Watching From A Distance
Warning- Footprints (best song on the Watching From A Distance album and also the saddest)
Warining- Bridges
Warning- Faces
Warning- Echoes
Metallica- Low Man's Lyric
Opeth- To Bid You Farewell
Opeth- Hope Leaves
Moist- Low Low Low
Katatonia- Deadhouse
Katatonia- Help Me Dissappear
Katatonia- Tonight's Music

 

[hauntedinflames]

oh god Bridges is definitely on my list I forgot that one

 

[Kolgrim]

sadest shit around is Warning's Watching From A Distance and Katatonia's Discouraged Ones.

the unrivaled soundtracks for your suicide.

 

[Peachy]

some others...

Dead Can Dance - How Fortunate the Man With None
Dead Can Dance - Severance
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Neurosis - No River to Take Me Home

 

[Sad Madrigal]

How about this?

Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls

 

[Blackfield]

arcade fire-ocean of noise

and my body is a cage

 

[Bleak Eyes]

Two Saturnus tracks come to mind.

All Alone


And shame, I could not find The Fall Of Nakkiel (Nakkiel Has Fallen).

 

[necro_jesus]

I think the most depressing song, to me personally, is Transfixion, by Rapture.
Something about the atmosphere of that lead riff, and the absolute hopelessness of the lyrics just tears me down every fucking time.

 

[Navras]

Evanescence - Hello

This song is really sad and touching imo. The anathema, opeth, agalloch songs listed through this thread are all great songs, but a lot of them I don't find quite as touching... Especially the Agalloch songs, they've never really been an emotion evoking band, I listen to them more for the atmosphere I guess.

 

[Iivil]

Anathema - One last goodbye
My Dying Bride - Sear me III
Rapture - Two dead names

At least these came to mind.

 

[Bleak Eyes]

I think the most depressing song, to me personally, is Transfixion, by Rapture.
Something about the atmosphere of that lead riff, and the absolute hopelessness of the lyrics just tears me down every fucking time.

I know what you mean.

 

[OminousInane]

Show by Beth Gibbons is retardedly bummed out.