'the saddest music in the world'

[Paper Hearts]

well, what is it? -The most amazing thing ever written...

[TomCat]

a couple good ones come to mind at the moment: "Beloved" by VNV Nation and "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure have an effect on me...love lost....sigh... :tear

[Paper Hearts]

nice. at the moment i've been into 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'~Joy Division.

[TomCat]

Cuts You Up~ by Peter Murphy damn... :erm

[The_Dark]

So Broken - Bjork

[Brenda Starrr]

Don't shoot me: Dido "Here With Me"

[Paper Hearts]

When the routine bites hard

And ambitions are low

And the resentment rides high

But emotions won’t grow

And we’re changing our ways,

Taking different roads

...love, love will tear us apart again

"Why is the bedroom so cold?"

-Turned away on your side

"Is my timing that flawed?"

-Our respect run so dry

Yet there’s still this appeal

that we’ve kept through our lives

Love, love will tear us apart again

you cry out in your sleep:

"All my failings exposed"

Get a taste in my mouth

As desperation takes hold.

Is it something so good?

Just can’t function no more...

But love, love will tear us apart again

[JaneDead]

i have been trying to think of this one for a long time. and came up with nothing.

but then i remembered all the times i listened to the cure and thought it was so sad.

i think the cure is some of the saddest music i have ever listened to.

partly because of the time in my life that i was listening to it most.

and it is the combination of the lyrics and the music and his voice.

[Kiss The Midget]

Boy Sets Fire-my life in the knife trade

how many times have i noticed that are eyes hardly ever meet

from your judgment seat you can feel the anger for my very being

fill me in on when you became such a big part of my life

that i should bother with all your lies designed to bring me down

wrong again don't depend on any reaction again

i remember the icy walls that shot from nowhere

and i can see every lie you ever told yourself

you bleed me dry and i don't ask why but I'm left with the dust

Judas kiss i dismiss thank you all for this i am untouched, i am untouched

wait again I'm not through with the screaming

i contend that you've got nothing better to do

then trade my life for a barrel of gold

find someone else before i get to old

if i live my life for aesthetic gain will you repay me with all your shame

i can see every light inside your brain go on every time that i walk by for nods and whispers

your comfort in my suffering is no longer disturbing

I'm lost beyond your petty stopwatch in life's real time

wait again I'm not through with the screaming

i contend that you've got nothing better to do then

trade my life for a barrel of gold

find someone else before you get to old

if i live my life aesthetic gain will you repay me with all your shame

don't get up i was only leaving the room

and when the door of your judgments swings back around again

maybe i will stop to watch your ass I'll go on my way

I've seen quite enough of too many childish games

I'm ashamed of every moment that i ever gave them the time of day

all the worst of enemies are somehow always good friends that used to be

[Guest MsMaldoror]

The entire "Closer" album by Joy Division is full of haunting, sad music and lyrics.

[Nienna]

Cuts You Up~ by Peter Murphy  damn... :erm

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That song is incredible. Almost anything by Leonard Cohen, especially earlier stuff invokes strong emotion in me too.

[Guest MsMaldoror]

Speaking of folk artists, Nick Drake also wrote some sad melodies.

[Fierce Critter]

Oh, MM - I love you.

I've been all over the Music forum trying to get people to listen to Nick Drake's music. We've got just about everything he ever did in a boxed set.

I find his story sadder than his music, though. But if we were to separate "saddest" from "most beautiful", "Day Is Done" would definitely be in my top 3.

My pick for saddest would be some Polish music I've heard at Sweetest Heart of Mary Church in Detroit (it's the one with double steeples you can see off I-75 between Mack & Warren). I have no idea what they're singing, but it sounds funereal and depressing.

[Brenda Starrr]

I've never heard his music. It sounds really good. =)

[LuluVox]

I have a ton in mind, but this one's definitely up there...

The Smiths: I Know It's Over

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

And as I climb into an empty bed

Oh well. Enough said.

I know it's over - still I cling

I don't know where else I can go

Oh ...

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

See, the sea wants to take me

The knife wants to slit me

Do you think you can help me ?

Sad veiled bride, please be happy

Handsome groom, give her room

Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly

(Though she needs you

More than she loves you)

And I know it's over - still I cling

I don't know where else I can go

Over and over and over and over

Over and over, la ...

I know it's over

And it never really began

But in my heart it was so real

And you even spoke to me, and said :

"If you're so funny

Then why are you on your own tonight ?

And if you're so clever

Then why are you on your own tonight ?

If you're so very entertaining

Then why are you on your own tonight ?

If you're so very good-looking

Why do you sleep alone tonight ?

I know ...

'Cause tonight is just like any other night

That's why you're on your own tonight

With your triumphs and your charms

While they're in each other's arms..."

It's so easy to laugh

It's so easy to hate

It takes strength to be gentle and kind

Over, over, over, over

It's so easy to laugh

It's so easy to hate

It takes guts to be gentle and kind

Over, over

Love is Natural and Real

But not for you, my love

Not tonight, my love

Love is Natural and Real

But not for such as you and I, my love

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

Oh Mother, I can even feel the soil falling over my head

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...

[mallochai]

I have a ton in mind, but this one's definitely up there...

The Smiths: I Know It's Over

YES! That one makes me cry pretty consistently. Or at least sing along on the verge of tears.

"houdini's box" by jilll sobule

"ten million years" by black lab

"you will. you? will. you? will... (etc.)" by bright eyes

the version of "running up that hill" by sweatysuedelips

"waking up beside you" by stabbing westward

"how many cans" by soul coughing

"only dreaming" by k's choice

"silent lucidity" by queensryche

hehe.. okay, so I'm weepy. i'm sure i can come up with more.

thing is... songs that make me feel sad are some of my favorites. i love that they make me feel. so the sadness is kind of a happy sadness

[Msterbeau]

Neko Case - "I wish I was the moon"

[Brenda Starrr]

I can't believe that I forgot "Silent Lucidity"!

Daanng....

[Shade Everdark]

I always bring this song up, I can't help myself.

Loreena McKennitt's "The Highwayman". If you don't want to slit your wrists by the time this song is done, you aren't human.

I also have a soft spot for Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain".

[Guest MsMaldoror]

Yeah, I have the box set too. Great stuff. I read his biography a few years ago, but it seems to be a lot of speculation. There have been rumors for years about a British movie being done about his life. I'm just amused by the fact that he overdosed on antidressants after giving his mom a copy of a book by Camus.

Oh, MM - I love you.

I've been all over the Music forum trying to get people to listen to Nick Drake's music. We've got just about everything he ever did in a boxed set.

I find his story sadder than his music, though. But if we were to separate "saddest" from "most beautiful", "Day Is Done" would definitely be in my top 3.

My pick for saddest would be some Polish music I've heard at Sweetest Heart of Mary Church in Detroit (it's the one with double steeples you can see off I-75 between Mack & Warren). I have no idea what they're singing, but it sounds funereal and depressing.

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[Fierce Critter]

How can I forget - Richard Thompson's "Vincent Black Lightning"

Download it and listen. You'll see what I mean.

[lullaby1031]

Not many people like them, but I do so... Cold's Wasted Years, even though a lot of their songs have repeatative lyrics.

There's a game life plays

makes you think you're everything they ever said you were

Like to take some time

Clear away everything I've planned

Was it life I've betrayed

for the shape that I'm in

It's not hard to fail

it's not easy to win

did I drink too much

could I dissapear

and there's nothing that's left but wasted tears

There's nothing left but wasted years

If I could change my life

Be a simple kind of man try to do the best I can

if I could take the sides

I'd dreail every path I could

I'm about to die

won't you clear away from me give me strength to fly away

There's nothing left but wasted years x3

[LuluVox]

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Forever

Infinity stretches unlimitlessly

Countless days pass by immeasurably

Anniversaries gutter in the maelstrom

Whirling a snowstorm of lustrous millennium

We couldn't stay together

This couldn't last forever

Senses dissolve into soliloquies

Flooding ascent in synchronicity

But we couldn't stay together

I knew this wouldn't last forever

Forever just one more tie then never

This is the last string to sever

On and on yes it goes on and on

I could stay wherever

I would last forever

Forever just one more tie then never

This is the last string to sever

Forever never forever

This is the last string to sever

I have lost you for ever and ever

[LuluVox]

Tom Waits: Alice

It's dreamy weather we're on

You waved your crooked wand

Along an icy pond with a frozen moon

A murder of silhouette crows I saw

And the tears on my face

And the skates on the pond

They spell Alice

I disappear in your name

But you must wait for me

Somewhere across the sea

There's a wreck of a ship

Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide

And the raindrops on my window

And the ice in my drink

Baby all I can think of is Alice

Arithmetic arithmetock

Turn the hands back on the clock

How does the ocean rock the boat?

How did the razor find my throat?

The only strings that hold me here

Are tangled up around the pier

And so a secret kiss

Brings madness with the bliss

And I will think of this

When I'm dead in my grave

Set me adrift and I'm lost over there

And I must be insane

To go skating on your name

And by tracing it twice

I fell through the ice

Of Alice

And so a secret kiss

Brings madness with the bliss

And I will think of this

When I'm dead in my grave

Set me adrift and I'm lost over there

And I must be insane

To go skating on your name

And by tracing it twice

I fell through the ice

Of Alice

There's only Alice

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[Paper Hearts]

Tom Waits: Alice

Tom waits has some real smoothies...'Small Change' album especially. -I have a freind that's really into him.