Sad songs

[garycat]

A couple of Porcupine Tree ones

Stop Swimming (about choosing euthanasia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUb7Y1uxyZ8

feel so low (about an ex-girlfriend, I love the sarcastic "Thanks" at the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tBtPB1Wf9E

[thenortherner]

Everything But The Girl - Missing.

[6th Gear]

kiteless said:

6th Gear said:

Rachmaninov - piano concerto No.2 (Adagio sostenuto)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAK2J05Vmhc

See, I've always found that romantic rather than sad (still a wonderful piece, though)

Actually, now you've said that...

Either way, it's a beautiful piece of music.

[6th Gear]

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk

Johnny Cash - Hurt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

They Dance Alone - Sting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmqe9yGEQpA

The End Of The Innocence - Don Henley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLONgF8a_Ig

Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6gZefW4yEA

[Alfanatic]

Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel, the Shaking the Tree version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0CJE9zGEJc

Howling Book - Eleven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrLhhPx_NeQ

[Hoygo]

X Japan-Endless Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXhQ3t-qsoM

Slipknot-Snuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXEerT4TCk

[Adam B]

Another vote for Johnny Cash - Hurt but only at the end of his documentary when you realise the lyrics fit his life regrets so well

[Hub]

John Mayer - Split Screen Sadness

A very sad break up song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPvYTx_3cOE

[CrabDan]

garycat said:

A couple of Porcupine Tree ones

Stop Swimming (about choosing euthanasia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUb7Y1uxyZ8

feel so low (about an ex-girlfriend, I love the sarcastic "Thanks" at the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tBtPB1Wf9E

Steve Wilson is such a whinging git. I do like a bit of PT though.

Time Flies always makes me feel a bit erm... Downbeat.

[mattley]

Sad nay harrowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm8R3VyU0_Y

Don't think she'll be doing this one on XFactor.

[Bisonhead]

Good shout with Alterbridge - In Loving Memory. We had to cancel a trip to the cinema when I let my wife hear it for the first time...she couldnt stop sobbing

One that I am surprised hasnt been mentioned is Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber.

The last night of the proms in 2001 closed with this piece, especially touching as the conductor is a native New Yorker.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvVqtffz7I

[The_Doc]

turbolucie said:

Ellie Goulding's current cover of Your Song. Brings me to tears

every, every time I hear it.

On a train. Driving.

I have lost count of the times I have heard it and had to wipe away a tear.

I think the combination of her voice and his songwriting is killer.

Not that great a fan of hers usually, apart from this, which is a remix really: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelAKlKayG4

Edited by The_Doc on Monday 22 October 13:51

[sparkyhx]

Love you more than I hate Myself
Danni Wilde - reminds me a bit of Joplin singing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNvGHgS94e8

[Trefy5]

Most of mine are classical
Agree re Gorecki - so darn moving
as is The Living Years (Mike & The Mechanics)

to add
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9DOtuPLqNI
Concierto de Aranjuez - Rodrigo (written following the miscarriage of their first child)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBOZa87xIY
Adagio in G minor - Albinoni

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPTh_q7GYs&fea...
Song To The Moon from Rusalka - Dvorak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxjw6ZsHjNU&fea...
Aase's Death from Peer Gynt - Grieg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDoOTC1C0Xs
Imagine - John Lennon (esp when used for The Killing Fields)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjc7knD2Tk
Wandering Star - Lee Marvin
(My dad's still around but this will be the one that will always remind me of him during odd but happy times in west Africa)

[Dracoro]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NQuVudn1-RE

Evokes the sadness of being in hospital visiting a friend/relative dying.

[DoctorX]

Not sure if this counts as sad or not, but I rather like it.

Kate Walsh: On and On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsTiKOZcfek&fea...

[marcosgt]

Lonely Scapa Flow... A surprisingly touching ditty to the emptiness of scapa flow after the fleet abandoned it..

Introduced to me by the nearly incomprehensible bus driver on a tour of Orkney!

M

[anonymous-user]

Madame Butterfly by Malcolm McLaren but I guess it's because of the story behind it.

We Had Today by Rachel Portman, from the film One Day.

Where Dreams Are Born, John Williams.

[chrisp84]

I don't know if this has been mentioned but Therapy? - Dianne

[nick heppinstall]

Bobby Goldsboro - Honey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BZxgohr9g