[LittleSwallow]

Any more sad, beautiful, instrumental songs you guys can recommend (I don't mind soft background vocals)? I'm always on the search for music that I can just lay back, close my eyes, and be able to feel it (Nessun Dorma comes to mind).

 

[unfortunateson]

with lyrics, i find Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees depressing.

for an instrumental, one good one could be Pink Floyd - Is Anybody Out There?

 

[dirtcheapii]

I'am going for Glooming sunday-Caral Kidd

 

[papy]

I'd say Tonight's the Night by Neil Young....the album as a whole is particularly bleak....

 

[Kikkoman]

Syd Barrett - Dark Globe
Pink Floyd - When The Tigers Broke Free

 

[LFF]

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
and a song called "The Butcher of Mankind" - I don't know who sings it. Saw it in the 7th grade with a very graphic video which showed actual abortions. Now - talk about depressing - most girls and some guys cried. Bunch of losers! Nevertheless, very sad song.

 

[SaturnNyne]

Cat Power - Names

 

[Stephonovich]

Lyrical, a few would be Alice in Chains - Confusion, Pink Floyd - The Wall (clichèd, I know, but it still gets me), Daughter Darling - Broken Bridge, and Dream Theater - Disappear.

Instrumental, Apocalyptica comes to mind. The Unforgiven, in particular, is very, very haunting.

 

[dabblerblue]

w/ lyrics:

The Cure -- Faith, Siamese Twins, Untitled, Cut Here

Radiohead -- How To Disappear Completely

Coil -- Who'll Fall?

 

[catachresis]

Has anybody mentioned "MacArthur Park" yet?

That line about

"Someone left the cake out in the rain --
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again!"

just envelopes me in a wave of Weltschmertz every time.

 

[plus_c]

My pick would be David Tao's "Melody"...but you have to understand the Chinese lyrics to really feel the song.

In English...I would go with Diana Krall's "A Case Of You" - yes I know it's a cover, but it's just so haunting when she does it...

 

[Masonjar]

Remember the song "Revelation (Mother Earth)" from Ozzy's first album?

When I was a lad, that song used to seriously get to me, so much that I avoided listening to it..

Here you had a song about how mankind is going to destroy itself and Mother Earth with all it's hate and war.. and how history just seems to repeat itself.. and visions of the world burning.. Remember in the early 80's, we were all still pretty scared of the Russians and nukes and stuff.. pretty heavy.

Then you have this amazing guitar solo at the end by this guy that just died, and will never make music like this ever again, because he's dead.

Talk about sad.

As I said, used to avoid this song, probably because I knew the impact was so great, I didn't want to wear it out. Sometimes even teenage dork metalhead boys need a good cry..

-jar

 

[10068]

Opeth - Damnation (whole album)

Dream Theater - "Space Dye Vest", & "Vacant"

some other ones i cant remember because i dont have access to my mp3s right now

 

[Aman]

The Doors - The End

The absolute most chilling song I've ever heard.

 

[pennylane]

I always thought "How To Disappear Completely" was Radiohead's saddest song.