[QUOTE=Wanker]For a song to be truely sad, the lyrics [i]and[/i] music have to be depressing.

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For me, the Ataris' "Between You and Me" is one of the sadder songs I've ever heard (I even mentioned it a while back). Perhaps because I could truely relate to it. The music alone is not depressing, but the words are.

Anything by Xiu Xiu.

Avenged sevenfold - warmness on the soul, I won't see you tonight part one, seize the day, shattered by broken dreams
poison the well - horns and tails
NIN - hurt
smashing pumpkins - galapogos
lovedrug- down towards the healing
ozzy - goodbye to ramance
opeth - to bid you farewell
saliva - rest
blink 182 - adam's song
metallica - fade to black

i dont know if these have been named already but "What Sarah Said" by death cab...And "Hurt" by Johnny Cash...ooo...that one makes me cry...AND "Desperado" by The Eagles...

...im not even going to mention radiohead...

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Jewel - Adrian.

this little frenchman smily is running amuck in this forum

jewel :(

i think anysong w/ acoustic guitar ( even if the lyrics are happy) sounds at leat a little melancholy.

tears in heaven by eric clapton

The Trapeze Swinger by Iron and Wine
Between The Bars by Elliott Smith
It Can't Rain All The Time by Jane Siberry

Those come to mind right away.

[i]Three Peaches[/i] - Neutral Milk Hotel

Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog

pearl jam - last kiss

Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips
Here Comes the Sun Again - M. Ward
No Lies, Just Love - Bright Eyes

apart from the billions of other sad songs already mentioned, I think [i]Happy[/i] by the Wrens is really, really sad. It's so simple but the way the tension build up and up and up, and then the (again, really simple) lyrics...the song just gets to me. It sums up having your heart broken for me. The way he sounds so [i]sad[/i] and bitter and like he is forcing himself to hate the person he is writing about. :(

[QUOTE=myiaa]apart from the billions of other sad songs already mentioned, I think [i]Happy[/i] by the Wrens is really, really sad. It's so simple but the way the tension build up and up and up, and then the (again, really simple) lyrics...the song just gets to me. It sums up having your heart broken for me.[/QUOTE]
that song is perfect, the bass in te beginning is so perfect.

i agree 100% with this sad song

I don't even really like other Wrens song, but yea, it is just perfect. Now I have to listen to it all night :):(

yeah i agree the other songs are nothing compared to that one, but they're all pretty catchy and good to listen to

you made me put it on haha

[QUOTE=Wanker]For a song to be truely sad, the lyrics [i]and[/i] music have to be depressing.

[i]Electioneering[/i], [i]Go To Sleep[/i] and [i]Optimistic[/i]... I mean, come on.[/QUOTE]
Old, old thread. I do not know who bumped it, but I missed out. Select the appropriate reason, find a razorblade and a stereo, and begin cutting. Do NOT get a trendy emo haircut.

I am flawed, seriously:
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees, Bulletproof... I Wish I Was
Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Xiu Xiu - Little Panda McElroy

Existence is bleak:
Pedro the Lion - Priests and Paramedics, Rejoice
Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling
Joy Division - Novelty

I am all alone:
Dismemberment Plan - The City
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Beatles - For No One

I have been raped:
My Bloody Valentine - No More Sorry

The World is going to end:
Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
Wolf Parade - Dinner Bells
Flaming Lips - All We Have is Now

[QUOTE=looozer]Old, old thread. I do not know who bumped it, but I missed out. Select the appropriate reason, find a razorblade and a stereo, and begin cutting. Do NOT get a trendy emo haircut.

I am flawed, seriously:
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees, Bulletproof... I Wish I Was
Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Xiu Xiu - Little Panda McElroy

Existence is bleak:
Pedro the Lion - Priests and Paramedics, Rejoice
Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling
Joy Division - Novelty

I am all alone:
Dismemberment Plan - The City
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Beatles - For No One

I have been raped:
My Bloody Valentine - No More Sorry

The World is going to end:
Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
Wolf Parade - Dinner Bells
Flaming Lips - All We Have is Now[/QUOTE]

:thumb: /bravo.

(Minus the DK's cause they suck.)

Dream Theater - Wait for sleep
Dream theater - Vacant
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats

Now thats sad!

it makes no difference-the band

Pearl Jam - I Am Mine

Ugh... Dream Theater...

Leonard Cohen - "Famous Blue Raincoat"

The National - Baby We'll Be Fine
Tindersticks - My Sister
Nick Drake - Parasite

Bob Dylan - Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea
Doug Martsch - Heart

Pearl Jam - Black.

Band Of Horses - St. Augustine
Hayden - Trees Lounge
Neil Young - Philidelphia (sp?)
Wilco - Hell Is Chrome

Therapy? - A moment of Clarity (sorry, fanboy, but it's true)
Elvis Costello - I want You
Tiger Army - True Romance
Radiohead - Exit music (for a film)

:upset:

Hide and Seek-Imogen Heap(something about just seems sad)
Bankrupt on Selling-Modest Mouse
Hold Me Down-Motion City Soundtrack
Adams Song-Blink182(had to say it)
a lot of Okkervil River stuff