The Saddest Song Ever

[asphyx123]

For me there is no such thing like a saddest song. Of course there is a certain aspect to it because it has a sad melody or sad lyrics. But what it makes it ultimately sad to me is because it brings back memories to my mind of people and good times that have passed or that I miss.

For me 2 of those songs are:

Insomnium - Lay of autumn

Within Temptation - Memories

 

[ItWillDo]

These are the two songs that always get me. Always. Pretty shocked that noone seems to know them:


This one is a bit like "The Year Summer Ended In June" by Misery Signals; both in sounds and context:


And this one is just a classic:

 

[simulclass83]

 

[Guitarman700]

 

[fps]

First two that came to mind were
Tear In Heaven
Nutshell

One is desperately moving because it has a father trying to reassure himself that even though he worries his son wouldn't recognise him if they met in the afterlife, crushing in itself, there would be a kind of peace in their reconciliation, possibly no regret, or remorse, precisely because they wouldn't recognise each other and there could be no recrimination, just peace.

The other is the sound of hopelessness, despair, and it's a track with a single rotating chord cycle, not especially composed, no time wondering what note goes where to what effect, except in that gorgeous restrainted/ emotionally screaming cantrell solo, just a progression and a singer in the utter depths of a quandry, I never felt like there was any solution to the kind of pain that was coming off him in that song, if it wasn't about his private life or misdirection in life, it could just as easily be about something else, he sounds totally lost.

 

[BucketheadRules]

 

[ahull123]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcv02jwYzaU Steve Morse..... 4 minutes to live

 

[Jakke]

Tears In Heaven is very sad, also Johnny Boy by Gary More, gets me every time

 

[Zenerith]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcv02jwYzaU Steve Morse..... 4 minutes to live

I hadn's heard of this song before, it's awesome! Wish youtube had an auto-replay button

 

[ahull123]

YouTube - joe satriani the forgotten pt-2 Joe satriani.... The forgotten pt2

 

[klami]

Small bump for a good thread

 

[BucketheadRules]

Oh, this as well:

 

[ddtonfire]

I've mentioned this before, but the Adagio of Bruckner's 7th:

 

[Sikthness]

TMV - Televators (has a huge sentimental factor for me)
Down - Lies
Marilyn Manson - Dissassociative

 

[MatthewK]

 

[Daemoniac]

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[Demonbrn]

Ohne Dich - Rammstein (reminds me of my grandfather) Even though it's a about a love hate relationship, the song just sounds sad and hits a nerve with me.

Also Wings for Marie & 10,000 days by Tool, those lyricaly hit close to home with me.



Wings for Marie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHIiQbTizPg
10,000 days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-HRa06KVA4

 

[Dvaienat]

 

[mithologian]

The first time I heard the part at 4:40, I dont know what took over. To this day It still makes me feel an ovewhelming sadness.

 

[SenorDingDong]

Especially in Donnie Darko, the way they did it, the way they showed his death and its effect, I will admit I shed more than a few tears, that movie really touched me, and so does this song.