Your Favorite Sad Song

[Thaius]

Both from various soundtracks, so they're sad more in theme than in direct lyrical sadness. But if you know their context, you know just how sad they are... Dang, I love the source material for these...

Spoiler: From Clannad: Nagisa's Theme

Spoiler: From Final Fantasy VII - Aerith's Theme

As runner-ups, pretty much every slow piano song from Clannad. Once you're through with that, any remotely beautiful song from it brings back memories.

 

[CincoDeMayo]

Nutshell [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scCxx4fgJwA], by Alice in Chains.

Can't be beaten.

 

[Vortex Traveller]

When Somebody Loved Me: Toy Story 2: Sarah Mclachlan
http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=RH7E2-dJkO4&v=px0j1EHF8Y0
I love the song but can barely listen to two lines without tearing up.

 

[Dragoonit]

Blink 182 - What Went Wrong?

 

[johnman]

Some good old Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, just a perfect sound , shame barely anybody knows about them.

 

[shinigamisparda]

I don't know if anyone else will agree with me on this but mine would be Terra's Theme from Final Fantasy VI. Believe it or not I can't listen to that song without crying a bit or, at the very least, being on the verge of tears. It has this sort of tragically-heroic feel to it, but more heavy on the tragic part.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

30 Seconds to Mars - From Yesterday.
One of my favourite bands, their new album is breathtaking for me. The fact that it debuted on Dragon Age was pretty awesome, because I love that game too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxNAVq2qYmU

 

[Sieg Firebrand]

Strangled by the thought by the New Amsterdams. Really, you could choose any of their songs but this one just tops them

 

[The DSM]

Dead sound of Misery - Blind guardian.

Awesome song.

 

[blindthrall]

Alive by Pearl Jam. Not so much sad as it is melancholy sounding. It makes me feel real down, right until the awesome free-style guitar solo, which kicks ass. MAJOR ASSAGE!

Really? I think Black is a much more depressing song. There's alot of depressing Pearl Jam songs, something they have in common with...

Nutshell by Alice in Chains. The MTV Unplugged version has my eyes blurring up by the breakdown. :')

...except with Alice in Chains, it's tempered by the nihilism. Is it really sad if the subject just doesn't care anymore?

Comfortably Numb always gets me, especially the lines:

"When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
The child has grown the dream is gone"

In a classical vein, Marche Slav by Tchaikovsky. He condensed a whole lot of Russian suffering into that piece, and that's before Communism.

Something I Can Never Have by NIN is good, because it sounds so empty and lonely. It's the best song about a person you loved and lost.

But I think Mad World tops them all. It's just so hauntingly beautiful.

 

[mooncalf]

Bob Dylan singing Blind Willie McTell, the piano-accompanied and un-funked-up version I couldn't find on Youtube, you'd have to look to find it, but you wouldn't regret it... Or maybe you would, powerful stuff.

 

[GameOverGoblin]

"Ain't no Sunshine" by Bill Withers.

 

[MetaKnight19]

My vote goes to this


I love this song, I think it is fantastic

 

[primitivescrewhead]

Porcupine Tree - Stop Swimming

 

[lack of self CTRL]

i have a powerfull urge to listen to all of these songs but i have to make a special thankyou to mojopin87 for posting Into the West:

Into the West - Annie Lennox (LOTR soundtrack)


At first it didn't make me too sad but then I watched the special features on the extended edition and found out that the real life inspiration for the song was a young New Zealand film maker who died of cancer and it just makes me think of him and how depressing it is that someone so young and full of potential had their life cut short. But the song itself is extremely beautiful and my love of the books makes me love the song too.

It's haunting in a way that competely undercutts my colder exterior, a true tearjerker. I physically can't listen to it all the way without crying a little.

Also if you read the english translations of Rammstein songs, some of those are quite sad but the majority are borderline demented.

P.S. Rammstein is Awesome.

 

[Nothing Tra La La]

Whenever I listen to Ludo's 'Broken Bride' EP in full, I get shivers and tear up a little bit. It's some seriously powerful stuff, go listen to it.
Also, Delilah by the Dresden Dolls

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Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor by Eels

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And In Dreams by Roy Orbison makes me blubber a bit. It just sounds so creepy and pained. That could just be me, though.

 

[Voluran]

I would have to go with Vincent by Don McLean.

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