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Mephisto

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Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« on: March 06, 2018, 10:12:13 pm »
What's the absolute saddest song you know (links appreciated)? Make this deeply broken individual ugly cry, if you can.
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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2018, 10:43:54 pm »
Well, there are different flavors of sad song. Romantic woes, general sorrow, quiet melancholy, dramatic upswells and such... depends on what you're looking for. One I've been listening to a fair bit recently is Rufus Wainwright's Hallelujah.

Hopefully whatever's making you sad passes soonish, additionally.
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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2018, 11:01:46 pm »
Saddest song I can think of offhand.
Reboot

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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2018, 08:59:45 am »
My saddest songs are Swedish songs.
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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2018, 09:02:49 am »
But Swedish songs are amazing
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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2018, 01:25:32 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPAxJsr9H8
The saddest song I've listened to
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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2018, 02:36:59 pm »
This song always makes me super sad. But I'm not sure why.
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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #9 on: March 07, 2018, 03:25:47 pm »
The Green Fields of France. Perhaps not for everyone but I think it's pretty sad. The video is NSFW but I couldn't find one with better sound quality.
Mary of the Wild Moor. I don't actually care for this version but it was the best I could find. It's a classic country standard so lots and lots of people have recorded it. I have this in my casette tape collection along with some other songs as performed by a local band. YMMV.
Space Doggity. A play on "Space Oddity" by David Bowie. Again perhaps not for everybody but the inversion of meaning of the chorus from wonder to tragedy is pretty well done. Also, dog.

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Will the Circle be Unbroken. Because I just finished replaying this game. The vocal style doesn't do me in so much as the lyrics do. The bittersweet ending of the game helps, but it's plenty sad even if you haven't even heard of Bioshock.

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Re: Make someone sad (sad song thread)
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2018, 03:51:17 pm »
Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel is an obvious one.
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