What is the saddest/most beautiful song you've heard?

[mocho loco]

wats the saddest song uve ever heard and/or the most beautiful song

[Yorick]

Saddest are definitely:
Sigur Ros - Untitled #4
Athlete - Wires

[Van_Halen]

Nutshell - Alice in chains [Unplugged version]

The first time I heard that acoustic riff I got a little teary myself...

[Kula Meenur]

Koop - Koop Island Blues


The singer reminds me of mum

[Sedako]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

Regina Spektor- Samson

Regina Spektor- us

Tori Amos- winter

The decemberists- Eli the Barrow boy

Sia- Breath me

Deathcab for cutie- brothers on a hotel bed

Jeff buckley- Halelujah

Jeff buckley- Lover you should have come over

Tracy chapman- Bridges

Tracy chapman- fast car

Tracy Chapman- sorry

Tracy chapman- broken

Tracy chapman- bang bang bang

Nelly Furtado- In god's hands

Xantom- from beyond

Kent- before it all ends

REM- nightswimming

REM- everybody hurts

REM- daysleeper

Smashing Pupkins- soothe

Smashing Pupkins- whir

Smashing Pupkins- landslide

Smashing Pupkins- tonight, tonight

Smashing Pupkins- thirty-three

Smashing Pupkins- 1979

Smashing Pupkins- stumblein

Smashing Pupkins- lily

Sigur r?s- seaglopur

[TheAntipop]

I feel I'm repeating myself when I usually reply to these threads with ''99% of Modest Mouse songs''

The one song that really means something to me, and usually always manages to make me well up, is Moonpies for Misfits by Hot Water Music. It reminds me of one of my closest friends who was one of the main reasons I got through High School.

[staticprimer]

Sigur Ros - Fljotavik

It has brought tears to my eyes more times than every other song I've ever heard combined, including other Sigur Ros songs. I'm talking practically 100% of the time. It is really unbelievably beautiful.

[Kula Meenur]

Tracy chapman- fast car


This.

[zombieturtle01]

Definately Freek-A-Leek by Petey Pablo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVo61XttN3Y

[Dog--]

2112.

[Adabiviak]

Mothers of the Disappeared by U2. If you know what they're singing about, it's f*cking agonizing to listen to. I won't even listen anymore.

Most beautiful? The opening flute solo from Maurice Ravel's Bol?ro, but it has to be from the 1962 recital by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. All the Youtube videos of this piece I've watched don't seem to take this seriously... they're just playing classical flute. (Maybe it's the conductor's take?) The flute from the piece I'm referring to is like that dance scene from the Fisher King... it's the sort of thing that plays in your head when you come upon a beautiful woman.

[mocho loco]

ill put my sadest Christina Aguilera-Beautiful

[mikeecm]

Either the closing credits song to half-life by kelly bailey or the closing credits song to LOZ OoT by Koji Kondo... always leaves me thinking: fantastic. what the hell do i do now? go outside?

[Kula Meenur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0

Wow that was beautiful. And i live down the road from Freo!!! :D

[ĐynastҰ]

Lifehouse - You And Me

Probably have my first dance to this when Im married or something.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zPsQWT7d0iM

[Dalamari]

Shitdick by People Haters

[Bad^Hat]

Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky.

[zombieturtle01]

I cannot say this is the saddest most beautiful song, but it's definitely a sad and beautiful song.

Most of Death Cab's stuff is.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aa8jhATBYNs

[The Monkey]

Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

[Iron Kat]

I posted all these song title in another thread about sad songs:

How To save A life - The Fray
Winter - Joshua Radin
Wires - Athlete
Set Fire To the Third Bar - Snow Patrol
Bedshaped - Keane
Cancer - My Chemical Romance
My Immortal - Evanescence
Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse

There's a whole load more that i could mention. I'm actually putting a compilation album of all the sad, emotional songs i like: I call it Kat's Sad Songs Volume 2 (I made another one but now I'm remaking it because I've got a lot more songs to add now).
These aren't really songs but there are a few tracks on the Doctor Who soundtrack albums that make me a bit teary: Father's Day, The Lone Dalek and Doomsday from the series one and two album, and Boe from the series three album.
Another couple i forgot to add are Fix You and The Scientist, both by Coldplay.
Oh, and another Joshua Radin one: Closer.
Remembered another: A Bad Dream by Keane.

I've written up a track listing for my sad songs album and I've included certain tracks like Biffy Clyro Christopher's River, Death Cab for Cutie Transatalanticism, Lostprophets 4am Forever and Limp Bizkit Lonely Word and Behind Blue Eyes. I've got 46 tracks listed, and I intend to add some Genesis, so there I too many tracks for me to post the whole track-list!!!
If I could add Sigur Ros Untitled #1 to the track-list then I certainly would because that one is so sad!! :(

[staticprimer]

Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky.

There's a really good fan made video for this song that really amplifies the emotion of it.

36U4ez7AzKA

[Van_Halen]

Alice in Chains - Nutshell

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

Thats why it's so sad. RIP Layne Staley.

[Cavalry]

Sadest -
Taproot - Calling
Taproot - She
Sido - A Part Of Me
Sido - Mein Testament
Sido - Bergab
Seryoga - Gangsta No More
Taproot - When

Beautiful -
Seryoga - Gangsta No More
Sido - Mein Testament
Sido - Augen Auf
Sido - A Part Of Me
B-Tight - Ghetto Romantik
Tiesto - Ayla
ATB - Ayla Part II
The Quest - C Sharp
Seryoga - Deti Moskvi
Paul Van Dyk - Let Go
Karen Overton - Your Loving Arms
The Thrillseekers & Fisher - The Last Time

[dfc05]

A Silver Mt Zion - 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQZfGa5t4e8

[Unfocused]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0

That was awesome. Damn.

[Adabiviak]

No joke - I thought the guitar was gonna burst.

[Iron Kat]

Biffy Clyro - Christopher's River (as I mentioned before). Here's a live performance of it:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2649807389083823657&q=Biffy+Clyro+Christopher%27s+River&ei=nZCHSJ6AHom-igKmp5DUCA&hl=en

[Van_Halen]

Another AiC song, this one will make you feel like crying. It did me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b13WeEoZxM

Oce again, RIP Layne. Sad that nobody could help you.

[Yorick]

Explosions in the Sky - Memorial
Explosions in the Sky - First Breath After Coma
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
+44 - Make You Smile
Copeland - Safer on an Airplane
Joseph Arthur - In The Sun

[soulslicer]

Mind the Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmKHu8WJj4&feature=related

[Geogaddi]

vietmx21 by Autechre

[Viperidae]

VLetrmx21*

Ugh this is impossible. I'll have to cop out and just say Untilted #4 (njosnavelin) from ().

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0DQZUNYg5U





























Oh heck, this gives me goosebumps every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwJZgcrzD8A

Hmm, should also include DCFC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqQC7R_Me4

OK no more I promise.

(Goz Quarter?)

[Van_Halen]

This one too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOK0SSr5M-4

Oh ****, who forgot Beethoven?

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

Moonlight Sonata. Beautiful.

[Iron Kat]

Hmm, should also includeDCFC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqQC7R_Me4

I was gonna post this!!! I LOVE this song!!! It's so beautiful and sad ant the same time. I seem to have a bit of a ritual at the moment where I listen to the song on my phone in bed every night before I go to sleep.
Also i'm glad people are mentioning LOTR music. It is some of my all time favourite film music. SO beautiful. One of my favourite songs, though, from LOTR is not strictly speaking a piece of music from the film, but a song written for it: Into the West sung by Annie Lennox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I41fVvJZ71s

[Dr No Brains]

Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
#34 - Dave Matthews Band

[Apiary]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vakohxisi0

:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o

[Iron Kat]

I also think that Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes is pretty sad.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pp38SR1lMU

[Sedako]

Here's a relink of the one I posted before, seems to be down now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0

[Kadayi]

Beautiful/sad pretty much anything by Susumu Yokata:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRzaDlJHa3w&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcL-cp1mjCM

Or by Boards of Canada:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrnYccMJmF8&feature=related

I do love Explosions in the Sky as others have mentioned as well, though I prefer the earlier albums vs the more recent.

Also Mogwai...happy songs for happy people is a must have album.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLFd6k1BHDk&feature=related

[Gray Fox]

Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGEMx3TKxNc)

[mastag]

Nutshell - Alice in chains [Unplugged version]

The first time I heard that acoustic riff I got a little teary myself...

****ing aye. The unplugged version of that song is beautiful.

[Iron Kat]

Does this really need posting???
Aw, hell, sod it. I'll post it!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AZIFmkogY

You know what it is: Untitled #1 by Sigur Ros. It was only a matter of time before someone posted this!!!!

[Anneliese]

Well, I don't listen to many 'sogs.' Alright, I'm done. Here are the three I can think of.

Luke by Suzanne Vega

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFutx9z274

Deathbed by Relient K

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=535KzUZsefA

Exit Music by Radiohead

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

I can listen to Radiohead all day and never get bored. And I'm usually listening to music of some sort to drown out the ABBA that my mom plays in the other room.

[Iron Kat]

The Calling - Wherever You Will Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qAqABdMA-M

H.I.M - Close To The Flame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg2OrnyRfHI

Bloc Party - I Still Remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH2Bbb5ZUug

[StardogChampion]

More Layne Staley stuff here, singing for Mad Season this time:
YPAmydQsozU

And Tindersticks - Tiny Tears:
QZE9yGJSb1Q

[dfc05]

Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ucN4DActxA

Explosions in the Sky - Glittering Blackness

*not allowing embedding. just click the link.*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6az2TLK4YA

Max Richter - From the Rue Vilin

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

Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues *especially the part from 10:10 - 14:27

[Pulse]

My list:

All I Need - Air
Pachuca Sunrise - Minus The Bear
The Nurse Who Loved Me - A Perfect Circle
Mellotron Scratch - Porcupine Tree
Hurt - NIN
Horizons - Steve Hackett
Patterns In The Ivy Part II - Opeth
Atonement - Opeth

[TollBooth Willie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH7J3G7Qtt0

[Dalamari]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm2aGlT5vCg

[Van_Halen]

I guess Layne was just a sad guy.

Here's Love Hate Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_zj3Yfbk6o

Beast breakup song ever?

Alright, I'm giving an overdose of AIC... how bout some Pearl Jam? I bet you haven't heard these, or at least these versions.

Release

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mcMMkICxK4&feature=related

Black (Unplugged)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoG897LvAAI&feature=related

Oceans (Unplugged)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pch6K7KQoso&feature=related

Enjoy. :P

[Viperidae]

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

ITT: Viper plugs ae.

[Van_Halen]

Sorry... Can't really get into that one, viper... Or maybe it's just that i don't like techno...

****! Forgot this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-pSVGWJLI&feature=related

[highlander]

What song is that? ^^

[KineticAesthetic]

techno

:frown:

[soulslicer]

My list:

All I Need - Air
Pachuca Sunrise - Minus The Bear
The Nurse Who Loved Me - A Perfect Circle
Mellotron Scratch - Porcupine Tree
Hurt - NIN
Horizons - Steve Hackett
Patterns In The Ivy Part II - Opeth
Atonement - Opeth

that's a good list. I love all those songs, cept the NIN one. I didn't think it was that great (runs from willeh...)

[jet_porkins]

Hope by Branford Marsalis Quartet.

[Van_Halen]

What song is that? ^^

Creed - Who's Got My Back?

[Kamikazie]

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

[Sledgehammer]

Most beautiful: Marble Halls by Enya or Father, Son by Peter Gabriel
Saddest: I Grieve by Peter Gabriel

...

You know, I was going to put Owner of a Lonely Heart here, but figured noone would take me serious.

And by the way, Nightswimming is a funny song, how do you find that to be sad/beautiful?

[Van_Halen]

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

Kid Rock - Amen

Love this song, thought I don't especially like Kid Rock. He has an awesome message in this song, and i agree with him.

[Acepilotf14]

Cohen's Masterpiece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjMh0IXIGY

[Kula Meenur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_sEtNrYlC4&feature=related


Shook me up a bit when i thought of family

[Pi Mu Rho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siBoLc9vxac

Can't even listen to it any more.

[Viperidae]

I still can't get over Axl's Godawful mustache there.

[Van_Halen]

I am whoring this thread...

both creed songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91bZDeqsOo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItaOrt7aT4Y

[Vegeta897]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Zhx_xFMVM

Definitely up there...

[TollBooth Willie]

Love the lyrics man. Indie band called Faunts.

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

[dfc05]

Sad:

Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
wonderful ambient music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBxva-NyiI

Set Fire to Flames - I Will Be True
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_wq3ePTmU

Beautiful:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (first part of Storm)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uAi62ldXg

[bam23]

not the saddest/beautiful song i've ever heard, but i just rediscovered it today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1vafTxHjw&feature=related

[The Monkey]

Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

It's just a beautiful song at the surface, but if you listen to the lyrics it's really sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cWzxJvgWc8

[xombine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Zhx_xFMVM

Definitely up there...
This wins hands down, no contest. I was just about to post it when I saw Veggie already did. ;)

[Vegeta897]

Aw nice :cheers:

[TheAntipop]

Sad:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (first part of Storm)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_uAi62ldXg

This. Most certainly this. The song itself is really moving but the imagery in that video, combined with my love for Paris and London, aswell as some very good memories with people in those places, is incredibly captivating.

[PvtRyan]

Porcupine Tree - Lazarus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmFPqp2F90

Porcupine Tree - Trains

(shitty video, sorry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgJDC2Jw8w

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

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

And finally.. some more Porcupine Tree: Heartattack in a Layby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWnUEPfuX2c

[thefiznut]

william basinski - melancholia

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

stars of the lid - arch song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_lgm1x7_cI

[TheAntipop]

Stars of the Lid <3

It's all about Articulate Silences and Broken Harbours.

[Iron Kat]

I've finally found the Doctor Who music on YouTube so I can post it now!!!

The Lone Dalek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpPEXmF7Azo

Doomsday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWtnYgwndR0&feature=related

Boe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR9oO8VleI

Father's Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj0HXVUxMqk

Hologram:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg7wHv-9yVM&feature=related

[thefiznut]

Stars of the Lid <3

It's all about Articulate Silences and Broken Harbours.


yeah, definitely some incredible music. i'm a fan of music for nitrous oxide, though it's hard to pick favorites when every piece is so good. that dead texan release i played for ages, and still haven't tired of it.

i do love the apestaartje label for ambient music, and mountains have certainly moved me every bit as much as SOTL with their self-titled.

[TheAntipop]

I don't listen to much ambient stuff anymore. In a way, it became a little like post-rock to me - in desperate need of something unique to come along and give it a swift kick up the arse, but not so much as ambient is a whole different kettle of fish and I can listen to it far more freely than generic instrumental post-something band 00193.

Another really sad song that I just this second thought up is Oxbow - A Winner Every Time. Eugene has one hell of a mournfully distraught voice. I'd hate to see the look of that guys vocal cords because they must be shot to shit.

[thefiznut]

i agree, there's loads of crap ambient out there. i figure the problem is ambient is a tough thing to make, perhaps only because it's too easy to make poorly. anyone can throw some pad drones together, toss in some spacey shit, etc. perhaps that's what i find so addicting about it though, when an artist does ambient right, it can move you in a way most music can not.

there's always the risk of crossing into new-age territory too.

to relate ambient back to the topic, some of the most saddening pieces of music i've known were beatless and wordless.

[Iron Kat]

Got some Torchwood music for you now.

To start off with there's this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd-j_S1Rd6I&feature=related
This track is called The Death of Dr. Owen Harper. (The title's in spoiler tags because any Torchwood fan on here who has not seen Reset will get the ending spoiled for them).

I Believe In Him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYxobYB2HY&feature=related
I don't know which episode this is from but it's a nice piece of music.

Goodbyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMWxXQxjo1k&feature=related
Played near the end of Exit Wounds, definitely the saddest Torchwood episode.

(Track name's in spoiler tags) Death of Toshiko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQegY85hzk8&feature=related
Another track taken from Exit Wounds. The track title would ruin the ending for people who haven't seen Exit Wounds.

The End Is Where We Start From:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8eVum8GwJ4&feature=related
Played right at the end of Exit Wounds. IMO a beautiful piece to round off the series.

[elkaebee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7TIEmEbbWw

[Shakermaker]

History by The Verve always rips through my soul basically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-X_rMJzlro

[Krynn72]

This one always gets to me. Its got some personal significance to me too, because Ive lived away from my family for awhile now, and I cant imagine what it would be like to never be able to go back, and to only ever hear from them by letters once every few months.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsOA-5H_L2g



Easily the saddest song out of the whole thread. Thats why it was posted in the "Sad thread" in the video forum.

[Iron Kat]

Ah yes, I remember that. I thought was really sad too. Certainly got the tears welling up.

[Absinthe]

VLetrmx21*

(Goz Quarter?)

<3

Goz Quarter really tugs at me in a way I can't quite understand. The beat is pretty standard Autechre circa 1997, and the melody isn't particularly extravagant. But it's still so... sad. The synths at the end sound like they're wailing.

[Dalamari]

Lou Reed - Perfect Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

[Kula Meenur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGqwgIX1pPs





Ratty - Sunrise (Here I Am)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC5-T3Igug0


D.C & C.S. pres. Miss Jane - It's A Fine Day (ATB Edit)

[JBails]

November Rain

[Mellish]

Keane - Bedshaped

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnb27C62nU

[Van_Halen]

Pearl Jam - Tribute to Layne Staley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB_9GB3G86A&feature=related

[Iron Kat]

Keane - Bedshaped

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnb27C62nU

I was waiting for someone to post that! I heard that song being played on one of those Children In Need or Comic Relief videos, you know, where they show you what your money does to help, and the video was so emotional I was holding back tears. Ever since then whenever I hear that song my eyes well up.

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

watched the movie into the wild a while ago and it has some pretty good Eddie vedder songs in it:

Long nights

Society

the wolf

you should check them out.

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

also the eels thread reminded me: eels- need some sleep.

[staticprimer]

Silver Mt. Zion - Could've Moved Mountains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqvGupwS2c&feature=related

[Iron Kat]

I can't believe no one's posted this video yet!

Joseph Arthur - In The Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1Aa0K0Tp0

I think this is one of the best songs ever written and I MUST GET IT!!! I wish I could download it but I can't find anywhere to get it from. Play.com doesn't do it.

[Kula Meenur]

The Panics - Don't Fight It

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=t_cK_cIydHY

[kazsymonds]

Athlete - Wires

Not for me, wires is about the birth of his daughter - new life, the fathers paternal instinct etc.

Saddest for me -

Johnny cash - Hurt

[StardogChampion]

Dying Slowly:

icC4O5mq_-4

[Adrik_Senturu]

The entirety of "Enjoy Eternal Bliss" from Yndi Halda.

The entire album is pretty damn moving.

(The album is along the lines of Godspeed/A Silver Mt. Zion)

[zombieturtle01]

Rock N Roll Santa by Jan Terri.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcAVheZAxDU&feature=related

[Van_Halen]

Metallica - Damage, Inc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjUS4m_mF3s&feature=related

Hell yeah, ****ing beautiful song. ;)

[Kamikazie]

Hate Me by Blue October has been growing on me the past few days. I don't know which category it would fall under, but it's in one of them for me.

[zombieturtle01]

I know it's 80's cheese, but the song is passionate and reminds me of someone very close to me.

The Promise- When in Rome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOyyrB1wj04

[MattyDienhoff]

It's hard to say, but 'High Hopes' by Pink Floyd is a definite candidate - it's one of the most beautiful songs I've heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ioavsW0tgl

[Parky]

The Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed you Black Emperor

[ĐynastҰ]

Dire Straits - Local Hero

This solo just makes me actually want to cry.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K9iicVzR-y8

[MattyDienhoff]

The Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed you Black Emperor
Scores well on sad, but I think Moya and Sleep are more beautiful.

[TheAntipop]

I think overall I find A Silver Mt. Zion the sadder band, but not by much.

[Iron Kat]

Anthony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_Nq9fUX2WE

Heard this in the Torchwood episode Random Shoes after Eugene's death. (No need for spiler tags there because the whole story is about him being dead.)

[mortiz-Redux]

Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VGHbzP96WWA

[Vigilante]

The Drapery Falls by Opeth. Seriously, it's pretty sad sounding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvLn8j4c5l4

[99.vikram]

Radiohead - Creep

Because I can relate to it.. Also:

Radiohead - How to disappear completely

[dfc05]

Sigur Ros - Gitarjamm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaA6OS1bN0

I've had the DVD since March but just today realized that I watched the performances on Disc Two without ever watching the documentary on Disc One. Turns out the performances are a lot less random in the context of the documentary.....

[Vegeta897]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Jw8lXdtg8

[KineticAesthetic]

isto esta ele aqui.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-oDrrtsJgs

[Iron Kat]

Radiohead - Videotape. I thought that was pretty sad.

[Xoldier]

This song always gets me. Compass by Okay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk5Uh6t73tA

[Iron Kat]

Sigur Ros - Gitarjamm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaA6OS1bN0

I've had the DVD since March but just today realized that I watched the performances on Disc Two without ever watching the documentary on Disc One. Turns out the performances are a lot less random in the context of the documentary.....

Which album is that from?

[dfc05]

Which album is that from?

It's not on an album... was from their DVD.

There's some pretty good live recordings of it though: ftp://freebox.mistur.org/

Go to Concerts -> 2003 -> Hammersmith Apollo -> sigurros2003-02-12d2t05.shn

Might need a plugin to play Shorten (shn) files.

Or there's an mp3 of a slightly different version of the song from the 9:30 Club show (03.19.03) (ftp://freebox.mistur.org/Concerts/2003/9%2030%20Club%20-%20Washington%20DC%20USA%20-%2003.19.03%20%5BRating%206%5D/11-%20gitardjamm%203.19.03.mp3).

There's also a full version of the Odin's Raven Magic concert (ftp://freebox.mistur.org/Concerts/2002/Barbican%20Hall%20-%20London%20-%2021.04.02%20-%20Odin%27s%20Raven%20Magic%20%5BRating%209%5D) if you're interested in that.

[lame-o]

Seasons In the Sun by Terry Jacks
it's about him dying from cancer and saying goodbye to the world. He died like half a year after he recorded the song...

My favorite version is by Nirvana though.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4BF67pvsc


EDIT: My god what a beautiful song, thx for posting it... I'll just go ahead and post it again but with a different video :>

Brian Eno "An Ending (Ascent)"

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

[Sulkdodds]

I'm sure there's others. But the song that springs into my head right now is Thom Yorke's Harrodown Hill.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AS37ZSYOwTA

[i am HOLLYWOOD]

Mad World by Gary Jules (when i saw this in donnie darko i got chills)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

Hey I'm A Ghost by Sullivan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqhSPgJNMbs

[elkaebee]

Watermelon In Easter Hay- Frank Zappa

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtambIZm6Qk

[ĐynastҰ]

3 Doors Down - Let Me Be Myself

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AUDK4lRhafk&feature=related

Damn it these guys can actually play live, and his voice is pretty much the same live as it is on the CD.

[brad92]

I tend to think Trance is the most emotional form of music, at least for me.

[Kamikazie]

Not Blues or Norah Jones type stuff? Trance?

[brad92]

Oh no, I'm saying generally speaking. There's heaps of Rock/Blues music that make me emotional. Pink Floyd, Power Ballads. All great!!

[Iron Kat]

3 Doors Down - Let Me Be Myself

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AUDK4lRhafk&feature=related

Damn it these guys can actually play live, and his voice is pretty much the same live as it is on the CD.

I love 3 Doors Down although I've not heard this one. I really like Here Without You. I downloaded that one and I've go it on my phone.

[Sedako]

Many of Tommy Emmanuel's acoustic pieces are incredibly beautiful. Here are a couple of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhR04kmcSXU

This was written by Julian Lennon, and arranged by Tommy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1SMKKq3Q9k

[TollBooth Willie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRmPH0D5xtw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9j27OzAVsA

[Captain M4d]

The saddest song for me is Silvia by Marissa Nadler. Everytime I listen to it, it breaks my heart.
http://www.last.fm/music/Marissa+Nadler/_/Silvia
It will break yours to.

[Kula Meenur]

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NS8i6nZzN2c

This kills me to listen to. Sounds like my mom singing.

[Van_Halen]

Well, not the saddest, but definitely one of the darkest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAZcFVuSo0M&feature=related

"I want you to kill me, and dig me under. I want to live no more.

I want to taste dirty, stinging pistol
In my mouth, on my tongue
I want you to scrape me from the walls
And go crazy like you've made me"

[Kula Meenur]

I don't know if anyone else has added this. But it must be placed.



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gm-KFVp4NmQ&feature=related

[half-ben]

Avril Lavigne - Slipped Away

[G(ordon)-man]

Nirvana - Dumb

Because this song reminds me Kurt.

[Kula Meenur]

And the title says largely what he is for trying to suckle on a gun.

[Iron Kat]

I don't know if anyone else has added this. But it must be placed.



http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gm-KFVp4NmQ&feature=related

Yeah, this song always reminds me of this moment in Scrubs:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o4LSzhIgDfI

This song now gets my eyes welling up every time. the line in that Scrubs video the most is where Carla says "I don't know what else to say except I'm really, really going to miss you". So sad!!! ;(

Also another track to mention: Time After Time sung by John Barrowman. I heard it last night and it's so gorgeous!

[losttheskyagain]

Most beautiful: "Water" - Oingo Boingo.

Particularly the lyric "You left behind all your rage and fear / and it made you feel like water."

[Kula Meenur]

Yeah, this song always reminds me of this moment in Scrubs:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o4LSzhIgDfI

This song now gets my eyes welling up every time. the line in that Scrubs video the most is where Carla says "I don't know what else to say except I'm really, really going to miss you". So sad!!! ;(


I hear ya, girl :p

[Iron Kat]

Kutless - All of the Worlds
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P15felTDiBU

[Nitre]

Probably something by Buckethead on either the Electric Tears or Colma albums.

[AtomicSpark]

I always get teary-eyed to these two. I'm sure there are others.

Caroline Spine - Sullivan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8wMWInVFs

Radiohead - Creep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpblnsJEWM

[G(ordon)-man]

Foo Fighters - How I Miss You

This song reminds me Kurt too ;(

[ĐynastҰ]

Could listen to Mirror's Edge's OST, or atleast the main menu track, till I die, its just so awesomely chilled. Beautiful.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=94OsFfpqD58&feature=related

[nipples]

Yeah, this song always reminds me of this moment in Scrubs:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=o4LSzhIgDfI

This song now gets my eyes welling up every time. the line in that Scrubs video the most is where Carla says "I don't know what else to say except I'm really, really going to miss you". So sad!!! ;(

Also another track to mention: Time After Time sung by John Barrowman. I heard it last night and it's so gorgeous!

That is one of the saddest episodes of Scrubs I have ever seen...

[Stigmata]

Right now, Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens.

Oh the Glory, when He took our place
But He took my shoulders and He shook my face
And He takes and He takes and He takes

[Corp. Sheepo]

Radiohead - The Drugs Don't Work

It's about emotionality!

[danitiwa]

Dead Boy's Poem-Nightwish
Forgiven-Within temptation

And for beautiful, anything by Within Temptation. XD

[Dinkleberry]

Watermelon In Easter Hay- Frank Zappa
Glad to see that's been posted!

Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold by Melt Banana:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L5M5EJbGMfg&feature=related

[Iron Kat]

That is one of the saddest episodes of Scrubs I have ever seen...

Agreed. It's absolutely impossible for me to watch that with dry eyes. Also, an interesting thing to note is at the end when they're sat in the bar you can tell that when Carla is crying they are genuine, real life tears. It's more like Judy (the actress) is crying rather than Carla. I thought that was rather interesting.

[swan_song1973]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSXc3wG1MX0

gets me every time

[Krynn72]

Surprisingly, Tim Minchin has a pretty sad song, especially for a comedian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDGuPp1np4o

[[RE]Leon]

Radiohead- Everything In It's Right Place

or even possible

Weezer- Only In Dreams

[Officer Combine]

Train - Drops of Jupiter.

[Warped]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIUxwEJ-GXI

homeworld soundtrack
adagio for strings

[tesher06]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIUxwEJ-GXI

homeworld soundtrack
adagio for strings


....Your kidding me right? Adagio for Strings was the main theme for the movie Platoon (was an epic movie). It was composed by Samuel Barber.

[Iron Kat]

Radiohead - The Drugs Don't Work

It's about emotionality!

Are you sure you didn't mean The Verve? I've got all the Radiohead tracks on my computer and there isn't one with that name, but I have got the Verve's one.

[Escape]

Godspeed -- Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. A very moving song about war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa8-h7GmtWk


Its January 1970, do you remember me
You put me on a boat across the sea, in the name of victory
But much to my surprised when I arrived
There was no welcoming committee
Instead there was a man for me to kill, and now I see all this too real


Then I saw him standing with a bayonet
And as I ran towards him he hardly broke a sweat
When I took his life he fell to his knees
And as his eyes began to fade he whispered softly


Godspeed this letter, away from here
I've sealed it with my tears, and stomped it with my fists
And godspeed this letter, away from you
My work down here is through
I'm on my way to better days and so are you


I'm in his pocket that I saw the picture of his children and his family
And I began to realize this person I despised, in actuality
Was not much different from myself
we probably could have taught each other many things
And now I know its much too late although I couldn't hesitate
I checked his gun, and his chamber was empty

Then I saw him standing with a bayonet
and as I ran towards him he hardly broke a sweat
When I took his life he fell to his knees
And as his eyes began to fade he whispered softly

Godspeed this letter, away from here
I've sealed it with my tears, and stomped it with my fists
And godspeed this letter, away from you
My work down here is through
I'm on my way to better days and so are you

o-ho
We know not what we've done
And o-ho
We know not what we've done

Godspeed this letter, away from here
I've sealed it with my tears, and stomped it with my fists
And godspeed this letter, away from you
My work down here is through
I'm on my way to better days
And so are you

[Viperidae]

....Your kidding me right? Adagio for Strings was the main theme for the movie Platoon (was an epic movie). It was composed by Samuel Barber.
This is the vocal version.

Why would one work using it 'claim' it over another work? Ride of the Valkyries has been sampled numerous times, yet it doesn't 'belong' to Apocalypse Now.

[jet_porkins]

....Your kidding me right? Adagio for Strings was the main theme for the movie Platoon (was an epic movie). It was composed by Samuel Barber.

It's in every movie.

[elkaebee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqQTODR3kR8

[Viperidae]

Thread revival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7lKHVRaFg&fmt=18

As usual, ignore the visuals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs1DX32t38c

Don't ignore the visuals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkpaJ6FAfZI

Seriously, Hail to the Thief is soooooo good. Better than Kid A.

inb4 hate.

[KineticAesthetic]

ITT: Viper plugs ae.

I would like to add

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBDsNiCCNM&fmt=18

Seriously, Hail to the Thief is soooooo good. Better than Kid A.




Agreed.

[99.vikram]

Radiohead - Nude

[dfc05]

Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last a Long Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN1Bw8cin7A

or

Daniel Johnston - Story of an Artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_RbSAwMa3U

[Dodo]

Definitely my favorite... theme tune's are allowed right?

-dodo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDXjnW3nIWg

[swan_song1973]

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

across the universe by the beatles