The Saddest Song Ever

[Arteriorrhexis]

Opeth - Isolation Years (this one is incredibly bleak sounding)

Definitely the one that did it for me back when it came out.

But this one mainly


Or this


OH... And this one

 

[sol niger 333]

IMO, he *really* excelled on songs like "High and Dry," "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" and "Fake Plastic Trees." Anything after those songs tends to annoy me, but I can still enjoy those immensely.

I agree with you on Fade Out especially. Tastes are different I guess. Kid A and Eraser are my two favourite things whereas most radiohead fans didn't like Kid A at all

 

[MLI]

How about saddest piece?

 

[Scar Symmetry]

Sia - Breathe Me



Regina Spektor - Samson (slower version)



Linkin Park - What I've Done



Oceansize - Savant



Oceansize - Music For A Nurse



Ludovico Einaudi - Monday



Ludovico Einaudi - Exit



Sigur Ros - Njosnavelin



Radiohead - All I Need

 

[lucasreis]

The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles makes me want to commit suicide when I hear it. I love these guys work but this song is really fucking depressing.

I agree with you on Fade Out especially. Tastes are different I guess. Kid A and Eraser are my two favourite things whereas most radiohead fans didn't like Kid A at all

My fave Radiohead song is actually Idioteque. It´s pure fucking genius!

 

[B36arin]

Nevermore - Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday used to be one of those songs, but I got over it some time ago

 

[Pseudonymity]

'Don't Mourn' of the band Pantheist is pretty damn depressing, but then again, it is Funeral Doom.

 

[Triple-J]

The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles makes me want to commit suicide when I hear it. I love these guys work but this song is really fucking depressing.

I actually dig it cause it's one of the few McCartney songs where you get a real emotion from him which for me makes it stand out as most of his songs are just silly nursery rhyme type lyrics wrapped around good melodies and aren't really about anything.

 

[s_k_mullins]

Alice in Chains- Nutshell
Staind- Excess Baggage
And a few from the Deftones are very moody and somber, and seem kinda sad to me, like "Digital Bath", "Minerva", and "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event"

 

[caughtinamosh]

I forgot about this song. I find it to be incredibly sad.



And this one.

 

[vontetzianos]

 

[liamh]

Pain of salvation - Vocari Dei is the saddest song I've ever heard by far, when the classical guitar comes in, it gets me every time:

Opeth-face of melinda

Devin townsend-the greys

 

[daveycrockett]

4 me "a warm place" by NIN

 

[s_k_mullins]

Alice in Chains- Nutshell
Staind- Excess Baggage
And a few from the Deftones are very moody and somber, and seem kinda sad to me, like "Digital Bath", "Minerva", and "Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event"

Besides these, i also wanna add "Hurt" to my list..
the NIN or the Johnny Cash version, both are depressing

 

[lucasreis]

I actually dig it cause it's one of the few McCartney songs where you get a real emotion from him which for me makes it stand out as most of his songs are just silly nursery rhyme type lyrics wrapped around good melodies and aren't really about anything.

I do agree. I think it´s a beautiful song with a lot of soul. It´s just so powerful that it makes me sad, but it´s truly one of McCartney´s most beautiful pieces, for sure!

 

[synrgy]

4 me "a warm place" by NIN

mmm.. I always found that one soothing. "The Great Beyond" fucks me up, though. (In a good way -- I love it, but still really sad.)

Not so much in a personal sense, but in a broad sense, I think Billie Holliday's "Gloomy Sunday" (her version of the Hungarian Suicide Song) both musically and lyrically is one of the saddest songs ever written/performed.

On a more personal tip, for some stupid reason that I can't really justify, Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" usually chokes me up a little. It's not the lyrics at all, really. I think it's just a nostalgic thing, reminding me of what was happening in my life when I used to listen to that album, but because of the sad tone of the music the memories it conjures tend to be the sad ones.

 

[setsuna7]

For me,it's The Day You Died by Arch Enemy,cause my dad passed away on 11th March.I've been listening to it whenever I misses him.

 

[Valserp]

Evergrey - Closure

 

[Adam Of Angels]

"For My Fallen Angel" by My Dying Bride... I dunno if its the saddest song I ever heard, but god damnit that shit is depressing.

 

[evans86]

Anathema - One Last Goodbye