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I'm a big fan of sad/depressing/melancholy music and I'm looking for the saddest song/piece of music that's been made.

Currently I think the winner is 'Exit Music (for a film)' by Radiohead.

Pretty close are Mad World from Donny Darko, Adagio for strings by Samuel Barber (Platoon music) and Leaving Hope by Nine Inch Nails.

What prompted me to post was I recently discovered this artist, http://www.myspace.com/katewalsh which reminded me this 'quest' has led me to some really good music.

Anyone think they've found a song more depressing than Exit Music?

Anything by the likes of Shitney, Take Twat.... always has me wanting to slit my wrists

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i agree with your choices... i can very rarely listen to the whole song though because i get soooooooooooo depressed...

i'd add nirvana - something in the way, to that list too.

Portishead

makes me want to drink 40oz. then off myself. I'd say that is depressing.

jethrodog wrote:Portishead

makes me want to drink 40oz. then off myself. I'd say that is depressing.

ahh yes, roads is another honorable mention.

a good deal of Leonard cohens stuff - aka suicide music seriously if im blue i dont go putting that on could be liable to top myself

But the top pick is "tears in heaven" by clapton - so so beautifull but incrredibly deprssing particually when you take into account what its about

The saddest song i can play is moonlight sonata on guitar - stick on a wack of reverb and play out very very moody.

I think a song is even sadder when you know what its about - take "wish you were here" beautifull song but its about their original singer who lost the plot which makes it ultra depressing.

For pure emotional power it's gotta be the adagio from Concerto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo - Goose bump city.

If you're into Barber's adagio, try finding the Agnus Dei version, it's a choral reworking of the original, light some candles and play it loud.

If you really want dark, Jack and razor blade music, try Tom Waits. In amongst the "psycho, kill yourself with booze" tracks, there are some absolutely beautiful songs.

daniel by elton john! well sad! also dunno if your on about pink floyds wish you were here, but that is one of my favourite ever songs

I think everyone should just cheer up, wear bright clothing, smile a lot, say thank you as often as possible, open doors for little old ladies, laugh at random things, do fun stuff as often as possible, push yourself to try something new even if its a different brand of cornflakes, look on the bright side, say hello and talk to someone new, bounce up and down to happy music.

I must say I admire many of your choices...I'm Impressed with the Depressed! .

Like all music questions...there's no way I could choose one.

Barber's Adagio for strings is just stunning.
Chopin, prelude no.4 in E minor, is a famous one.
John Tavener, Song for Athene is beautiful...check it out Here!...although i'm not sure it's particularly 'sad'.

Aside from classical type choones.
Hurt by either Nine Inch Nails or Johnny Cash...both amazing.
Wild World by cat stevens is quite sad.
Bright eyes by Art Garfunkel...remember watership down?


But For DBBB...everyone listen to 'It Takes Two' by Rob Base and EZ Rock!

isaluteyou wrote:
The saddest song i can play is moonlight sonata on guitar - stick on a wack of reverb and play out very very moody.

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Moonlight sonata sounds more gloomy than sad for me, but then I only heard it on the piano xD

pkbum wrote:

isaluteyou wrote:
The saddest song i can play is moonlight sonata on guitar - stick on a wack of reverb and play out very very moody.

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Moonlight sonata sounds more gloomy than sad for me, but then I only heard it on the piano xD

I play the first couple of movements the same as the piano version but then i sorta do my own rendition of it. I tend to do that with a lot of classical as i get lazy and dont learn it all

I would have to say that the first "song" that comes to mind is the little poem type deal by AFI off of "Sing The Sorrow":

we held hands on the last night on earth.
our mouths filled with dust,
we kissed in the fields and under trees,
screaming like dogs, bleeding dark into the leaves.
it was empty on the edge of town
but we knew everyone floated along the bottom of the river.
so we walked through the waste where the road curved
into the sea and the shattered seasons lay,
and the bitter smell of burning was on you like a disease.
In our cancer of passion you said,
"Death is a midnight runner."
the sky had come crashing down
like the news of an intimate suicide.
we picked up the shards and formed them into
shapes of stars that wore like an antique wedding dress.
the echos of the past broke the hearts of the unborn
as the ferris wheel silently slowed to a stop.
the few insects skittered away in hopes
of a better past time.
I kissed you at the apex of the maelstrom and asked
If you would accompany me in a quick fall,
but you made realize that my ticket wasn't good for two.
I rode alone.
you said "The cinders are falling like snow."
there is Poetry in despair, and we sang with
unrivaled beauty, bitter elegies of savagery and eloquence.
of blue and grey.
strange, we ran down desperate streets and carved
our names in the flesh of the city.
the sun has stagnated somewhere beyond the rim of
the horizon and the darkness is a mystery of
curves and lines.
still, we lay under the emptiness and drifted slowly
outward,
and somewhere in the wilderness we found salvation
scratched into the earth like a message.

Any song by Manic street preachers !

hmmm .. by sad im guessing you dont mean something so crap you wanna hang yourself ..or so depressing ... you wanna hang yourself !!

If you mean straight up tear jerking emotional response then i'd deffo go for " Tear drop " the original version by massive attack ...fleshing nails me everytime ..makes me think of buddies who are no longer here

Am trying to get round to listen to the recommendations.

Sad songs don't really make me depressed or anything. I'm generally a pretty happy person so I guess I like to contrast or something...

By the way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObzQOztMaZ4 often brings a tear to the eye, but in a good way!

Also bit nerdy but I really like this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0820589203

Fix You by Coldplay is pretty sad in the lurve stakes - damn good song though imho

And if anyone has heard Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris's version of Love Hurts - that's a killer.......

I second the Johnny Cash version of Hurt.

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