The Sad Songs

Twilightning

We all have a few sad songs we like to listen to when we're feeling down in ourselves at one stage or another. What are yours and why?

A few of mine would be..


The Misery by Sonata Arctica

Safe Home by Anthrax

Prisoner of Your Eyes by Judas Priest

Still Loving You by Scorpions


How about you lot?

Otis Driftwood

Suicide Note Part 1 - Pantera

The Maker Makes - Rufus Wainwright

Gerard.C

Man of golden words by Mother Love Bone

Wasted Time by The Eagles

Call me a dog by Temple of the Dog

bluesguitar

man of the world by peter green

Wide eyed and lying by mic christopher

Still in love with you by thin lizzy

Million miles away by rory gallagher


There's many more I'm sure!

Brian_Uckfast

ZZyzx Rd - Stone Sour

Fade to Black - Metallica (obv one!)

Vermillion pt 2 - Slipknot

In this River - Black Label Society

Black NG-60-90

The Same Deep Water As You - The Cure
The Eternal - Joy Division
Down In A Hole - Alice In Chains
Lover, You Should Have Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Pause It And Turn It Up - Biffy Clyro
Black - Pearl Jam

Pugsley

If you want sad songs look no further than Doom metal, a genre dedicated to them

Warning - Watching from a Distance (The song, and pretty much the whole album too)
Tristitia - When Tears Cry
Avernus - An Endless Sea of Evening
Evergrey - When the Walls Go Down (Not a doom band, but a very moving song)
Fear of Eternity - Staring at the Dark (Although the whole 'Spirit of Sorrow' album would be very depressing [and excellent])
Mourning Beloveth - It Almost Looked Human (Irish Doom, excellent)

starflake

The Needle and the Damage done - Neil Young
Fade to Black - Metallica....

Also most of muse's stuff... they constantly sound like they're on the back of a trailer full of sausages playing with a pack of hungry wolves/rotweillers chasing after them... with a few million tonnes of hot lava spilling after them... with a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb on the horizon.... and all that and they've just realised they're about to be driven overthe edge of a cliff....

Yep Muse are pretty sad

GLaDOS

Undertow - Pain of Salvation
Talullah - Sonata Arctica
Map of the Problamatique - Muse
Fade to Black - Metallica
Day 3: Pain - Ayreon

DazMarz

''She's Gone'' -Steelheart
''18 And Life'' -Skid Row
''Now You're Gone'' -Whitesnake
''Every Rose Has Its Thorn'' -Poison
''Still In Love With You'' -Thin Lizzy
''Don't Know What You Got (Til It's Gone)'' -Cinderella
''Broken Heart'' -White Lion
''Tomorrow'' -Europe
''Who Wants To Live Forever'' -Queen

GhostInTheRuins

Pugsley wrote: »

Evergrey - When the Walls Go Down (Not a doom band, but a very moving song)

Great choice! That's a really emotional song. Evergrey are a band I always forget about but they've got some very good albums.

DeadSkin

Something I can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails.

Dante

Fade To Black - Metallica
Falling To Grey - Trivium
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows - Brand New
Numbered Days - Killswitch Engage
This War Is Ours - Escape The Fate
Cute Without The 'E' - Taking Back Sunday

Otis Driftwood

My Dying Bride's back catalogue.

rainbow kirby

Twilightning wrote: »

Still Loving You by Scorpions

Fade To Black - Metallica

Vermillion pt 2 - Slipknot

Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton

+1 to all of these, and also:

Sonata Arctica - Shamandalie
Apocalyptica - Farewell
Epica - Facade of Reality
Kamelot - Abandoned
Leaves' Eyes - Mourning Tree
Metallica - Hero Of The Day
Nightwish - The Islander
Rammstein - Stirb Nicht Vor Mir
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
System of a Down - Roulette
Within Temptation - Forgiven

Nea

The Ballad of Jayne - LA Guns
Wasted Time - Skid Row
Without You - Motley Crue
Bringing on The Heartbreak - Def Leppard
The Legacy - Testament
In My Time of Need - Opeth
When Im Down - Chris Cornell
Pink Cigarette - Mr Bungle
Without You Im Nothing - Placebo

To name but a few, 80's ballads were the best imo

tony1kenobi

Have You Forgotten-Red House Painters

Off He Goes-Pearl Jam

Seasons-Chris Cornell

The whole Temple Of The Dog record.......

tangerinepuppet

Sonic Youth's cover of The Carpenters' 'Superstar'.

Hole's 'Northern Star'.

Agree with DazMarz about 'Who Wants To Love Forever', 'Still in Love With You' and 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'.

Also +1 to Black NG-60-90 on 'Down in a Hole' and 'Lover, You Should Have Come Over'.

Starflake's choice 'The Needle and the Damage Done' would be my ultimate sad song.

brendansmith

AIC -Rooster Crash test dummies - God shuffled album Chicago - If you leave me now

brillianthenry

+1 on
chris cornell-when i'm down
motley crue- without you

also
opeth-burden
temple of the dog-say hello to heaven
pantera-hollow or cemetary gates

Insect Overlord

The Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"

Anyone?

Pyr0

Chris Cornell - Sun Shower.

Damn that's a REALLY sad song, couldn't listen to it for ages at one point.

Catari Jaguar

Awh, some depressing ones here alright...

I think mine would be:

* Led Zeppelin - Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
* Pearl Jam - Indifference/ Black
* Korn - Tearjerker
* Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
* Pantera - Hollow
* Slipknot - Snuff/ Vermillion pt. 2
* NIN/ Johnny Cash - Hurt
* Foo Fighters - Best of You
* Hole - Doll Parts
* Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box/ Polly/ Pennyroyal Tea
* Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
* Radiohead - Street Spirit
* RHCP - I Could have Lied

My girlie choices are:

* Evanescence - My Immortal (their piano version)
* Flyleaf - There For You

Sephiroth_dude

thin lizzy -still in love with you

cumhachtnamara

Pyr0 wrote: »

Chris Cornell - Sun Shower.

Damn that's a REALLY sad song, couldn't listen to it for ages at one point.

i know the feeling, still find it so hard to listen to that.

Neil Young Old Man

Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet

Jose Gonzalez Hand on your heart

Rory Gallagher Out on the western plains

and many many more!!

Nephilim Wolf

Some class sad songs I love:

Fields of The Nephilim - And There Will Your Heart Be Also
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Thin Lizzy - Still Loving You (live version)
Scorpions - Holiday
The Mission UK - Butterfly on a Wheel
U2 - With or Without You
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
King Crimson - Epitaph
Anathema - Veil of Suicide
In The Woods... - Weeping Willow
All About Eve - December
The Cult - Black Angel
Tiamat - Gaia & Do You Dream of Me?
Within Temptation - The Promise
Gary Moore - Empty Rooms

Zumpel

Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne - Close my eyes for ever
The Cure - Hanging garden
This Mortal Coil - I Come & Stand at Every Door
Evanescence - Hello

Sephiroth_dude

led zepplin-babe Im gonna leave you

Sephiroth_dude

pantera-cementary gates

nacho libre

Rapture - Someone I Don't Know
My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel
My Dying Bride - The Cry of Mankind
Megadeth - The Family Tree
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Metallica - The God that Failed
Paradise Lost - Shadowkings
Paradise Lost - Embers of Fire
Opeth - To Bid You Farewell
Anathema - One Last Goodbye
Amorphis - Elegy
Tiamat - Gaia
Testament - Return to Serenity
Primordial - The Coffin Ships
In The Woods - "299 796 km/s"

Mushy

Have to go with this one!