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The saddest song you've ever heard?

Obsidius

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I'm personally obsessed with sad music, for whatever reason. Not because I want to be edgy, or because I'm depressed, I just find it to be particularly moving; impactful in a way that touches the very core of the human spirit.

My example is from the recent Mount Eerie album: A Crow Looked at Me.

Phil Elverum's (Mount Eerie) wife, Genevieve, died from pancriatic cancer leaving behind Phil and their daughter, this album is essentially his reflection of what that means for the family she left behind, this song in particular deals with immediately after.

This song:

Hits me like nothing I've experienced before. It's such an earnest and raw depiction of what one feels after something like this, a masterpiece.

Anyway, link your songs below.
 
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I'm fine with that, a personal song can be a window into your soul. In saying that, it remains to be chosen based upon whether or not you're comfortable with posting it.
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I wouldn't say it's the saddest, but one of my favorites

 

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Always has and still makes me cry...different reasons...
 

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That one Sarah McLaughlin jam with the dying doggos
 

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It is not exactly meant to be a sad song, but the message behind it is meant to be an eye-opener of sorts and can spark emotions. I got chills and wanted to cry when I first saw the video.
 

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"Bulletproof...I Wish I Was" by Radiohead
 

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This was kind of sad but also good in a way


Then there is this one

 

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"Bulletproof...I Wish I Was" by Radiohead

R A D I O HEAD

Seriously, I can't think of any band that just hits so close to that 'hello existential despair my old friend' feel, and on top of that i've got a comedy clip to illustrate how:

 

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That’s why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That’s what’s meant by ‘all these things you’ll one day swallow whole’. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn’t have it in me to articulate the emotion. I’d crack…​

Nobody does atmospheric depression like Radiohead :D
 

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The torturous 3rd movement of Shostakovich's 5th symphony is probably #1 for me.


There are so many different kinds of sadness, and each of these pieces/songs evokes a very different flavour.

Dismal - Wagner's Tristan und Isolde Prelude to Act 3

Funebral - Faure's Requiem, Introit et Kyrie

Melancholic - How it ends by Devotchka

Wistful resignation - Mahler's Symphony 9, 4th movement

Forlorn - Tchaikovsky Pathetique Symphony, 4th movement

Lonely - Tchaikovsky's "None but the Lonely Hearts"
 
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