Saddest song you've ever heard...

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Not technically a "song", but the Crucifixus from the B Minor Mass by J.S. Bach.

Concrete Angel" - Martina McBride
My Immortal-Evanescense
Only The Very Best-Peter Kingsbury
Candle In The Wind-Elton John
Angels Fall First-Nightwish
Here With Me-Dido
Bedshaped-Keane
Papa can you hear me?-Barbra Streisand
East Of The Sun-Aha
You Have Been Loved-George Michael
They Wont Go When I go-George Michael
No Braver-James Blunt
Cry-James Blunt

And also...

Forest Stream - "Whole" and "Winter Solstice"

Side note.. Whole is a song that actually brought me to tears a few times, after getting my heart crushed.. Over all they are both very beautiful songs and almost.. Romantic.

Without lyrics I usually can't tell the difference between a sad song and song that has beauty. Both move me the same way and it's not really sadness I feel. Maybe the correct term should be "emotionally moving" rather than "sad". Almost all ambient or spacey/layered sounding music has that effect on me. There's just too many to list objectively though.

Im pretty much the opposite..I can get very emotional over certain melodies. Depends on the situation as well, such as if my emotions are really strong, then the song will feel stronger as well.. If thats understandable anyway...

Well I agree there are certain melodies that are emotional on their own, like some parts of "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven. It would probably sound emotional no matter what instrument you played it with. But then there's other music that I find emotional because the sounds are eerie or haunting even without much melody. You could create a totally different mood by changing the instrument arrangement while keeping the melody the same. Hopefully I'm making sense.

Im pretty sure you made more sense than I did.. Lol..

Saddest song... I would say the saddest song is:

"I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" by "Aerosmith"

I guess it really depends on your life experiences as to what will really hit you and what won't.

One Last Goodbye by Anathema
actually all of their more recent works are melancholic/atmospheric, i usually listen to them when I'm feeling depressed.

My favorite band, KoRn, has plenty of em. Daddy, Kill You, Dirty, No One's There, Counting On Me, Tearjerker, and thats all I can think of at the moment. The saddest one is probably Daddy, especially if you can relate to it, and all his screaming and crying is just really disturbing. Its like real crying, he runs out of the studio at the end.

The saddest band on earth is without question Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows. Almost every song is about death, decay and depression. The songs all sound like a mysterious yet very sombre medieval march. If you like gothic music, check them out.

Alas, let me tell you about the beauty of the tomb
The stained glass, all viole(n)t, enhancing the gloom
Dark flowers, all withered, fragile and old
Yet their perfume still lingers, like a secret untold
Like a dream, like a memory, that floats in this vault
Waiting for a moment is shall be recalled
By some visitor maybe who is seeking relief
from a strange kind of sadness, some unknown disease
Its symptoms are madness! Caught by the music in his head
Sung by the endless choirs called "the voices of the dead"!



Other very sad (yet beautiful) songs:

Echo & the Bunnymen - All my colours / zimbo
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Silke Bischoff - The churchbells and the razorblades (about suicide)
Bauhaus - All we ever wanted was everything
NIN - Hurt
Joy Division - Disorder (and in fact most of the JD back catalogue)
Evanescence - My immortal
Sisters of Mercy - Alice (has a strong OCD feeling as well)

I'm at sea again
Now my hurricanes, have brought down this ocean rain
to bathe me again
My ship's asail, can you hear its tender frame?
screaming from beneath the waves, screaming from beneath the waves...
All hands on deck at dawn
Sailing to sadder shores
Your port in my heavy storms harbours the blackest thoughts




"Flying and I'm never coming down"
You're trying
but you know you must soon come down
All my colours turn to clouds
All my colours turn to clouds




All we ever wanted was everything
All we ever got was cold
Get up, eat jelly, sandwich bars and barbed wire
Squash every week into a day

Drown In Ashes by Celtic Frost

I drown in ashes you've enshrined.
Of blissful days long gone by.
Concealed behind my dying eyes.
This hell of anger and weary lies.
A frame of mind, a dismal soul.
My final womb, this flesh turned cold.
You held me down and let me bleed.
My love, it died, along with me.

A world of scars and caresses pale.
And thoughts as chaste as pristine dew.
And flowers placed across your face.
I trace the life I've lost with you.
This bleakest pit that you've unveiled.
I hate to love as it is pain.
My hands are cut but still I sail.
An ocean of sadness in the rain.

My flesh, my blood.
My wound, my cry.
My broken back, my all now dies.
My soul, my tomb.
My pain, my joy.
My darkest mind, my love destroyed.
My flesh, my blood.
My wound, my cry.
My broken back, my all now dies.
My soul, my tomb.
My pain, my joy.
My darkest mind, my love destroyed.

Radioheads street spirit... Typing up the lyrics wouldn't even prove anything, but if you listen to it on the other hand...

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