10 Songs That Make You Sad

[JackO]

Well there were ten that made you happy right?
what about sad?
I hate to be a downer but hey i gotta know
JackO

[Mike]

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Gary Jules - Mad World (such a depressing song :()
Foo Fighters - Generator (I don't know why...)

[Zelkiiro]

Oh...lordy...

1. The End of Evangelion - Komm Susser Todd
2. Bon Jovi - Always
3. Blake Shelton - Baby(?)
4. Cowboy Bebop - The Real Folk Blues

I can't really think of any others...

[Tank]

1. Blue - Cowboy Bebop
2. The Real Folk Blues - Cowboy Bebop
3. Grave of the Fireflies intro
4. Funeral march - some classical dude

cant think of any others. I could list some if I had time, but I have a band concert to go to.

[Zhou Yu 999]

Lets See ...
Good Charlotte - Hold On
3 Doors Down - Here without You
Nickelback - Someday
Cowboy Bebop - Blue
New Found Glory - Forget My Name

That's all I can think of

[nixie1512]

er....
1. macross plus - voices
2. now and then, here and there - ending
3. chobits - ningyo hime
4. haibane renmei - blue flow
5. evanescence - my immortal
6. spice girls - goodbye
7. ayashi no ceres - scarlet
8. enya - may it be
9. diana ross - if we hold on together
10. please save my earth - a song without a song

phew! done! i tot i would nvr get 10 but there they are!

[Madoka]

Originally posted by Mike
Gary Jules - Mad World (such a depressing song :()


That's the one song I would say, too! It really is sad.

[nixie1512]

another one!
running by no doubt!!

[adultswimmer]

bright eyes - waste of paint
the faint - worked up so sexual (not sure why, its just a sad idea i guess)

~AS

[nixie1512]

there's oso coldplay's The Scientist i guess...lol

anyone heard of Gloomy Sunday? the song that's suppose to get hundreds to commit suicide? Well, it's a boring song......

[I_am_I]

hmm... my ten sad (or at least depressing) ones would be...
1. The Scientist - Coldplay
2. My Immortal - Evanescence
3. 23 Stories - Cowboy Bebop
4. Here With Me - Dido
5. Leeca - Gackt
6. Mad World - Gary Jules
7. Damaged - Plummet
8. Last Dance - The Cure
9. I Miss You - Incubus
10. Rough Draft - Yellowcard

[Kausin]

Gary Jules - Mad World
Pete Yorn - Lose You
Jimmy Eat World - My Sundown
Lisa Germano - From A Shell
Johnette Napolitano - Suicide Note
Guided By Voices - Hold On Hope
Barenaked Ladies - Thanks That Was Fun
Barenaked Ladies - What A Good Boy
Cowboy Bebop - Call Me Call Me
U2 - Walk On

Get out the Kleenex... ///_~

**turns out I was way off on the original two Yorn songs I posted, oops**

[Miyuki-chan]

i really can't think of them all...but, im known to here a song and then, automatically, i say "This song is depressing..."

Heres one: "Clocks"

Its new; its not from an anime. My mom has the CD. If no one else knows ill try to see who sings it. I think the reason it makes me sad is because of that darn piano in the background. Pianos are depressing...

[Kausin]

Originally posted by Miyuki-chan
i really can't think of them all...but, im known to here a song and then, automatically, i say "This song is depressing..."

Heres one: "Clocks"

Its new; its not from an anime. My mom has the CD. If no one else knows ill try to see who sings it. I think the reason it makes me sad is because of that darn piano in the background. Pianos are depressing...

Would you be thinking of Coldplay? Their song "Clocks" is famous for its addictive piano melody that keeps playing in the background, and could be considered depressing.

[JackO]

dont speak no doubt
lost gone good by SNS
Only in dreams by weezer hey its emo
gotf opening theme
23 stories cowboy bebop
and i gotta go with tank on this one, anything that lucy hale doesnt sing
JackO

[Faithplusone]

Kenny Rogers Christmas songs really depress me. Come to think of it, a lot of Christmas songs depress me. The worst one is the one about the kid who's mother is dying so he goes to a store to buy her a pair of shoes so she'll look good when she meets Jesus.

[Skuldchan]

hmmmm this is hard, since im a happy person i dont have a lot of songs that make me sad. the introduction song of Grave of the fireflies makes me really sad though. such emotion in that song that makes me cry everytime.

[Miyuki-chan]

ohhh....and "Mononoke-hime" from princess Mononoke...sad, sad song...

[Dragne]

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah
Pearl Jam - Love Boat Captain
Smashing Pumpkins - My Blue Heaven (yes its a cover)
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again Naturally

[Sanzo-sama]

X-Japan - Forever Love (Acoustic Version)

The normal version doesn't really have an affect on me, it's just beautiful music. This one actually sets in and touches my emotions.

[Miyuki-chan]

Like I said, every song makes me sad... I could listen to Ooops! I Did It Again! and i'd probably cry. I dont know why; sometimes I relate my life to the lyrics, which makes me even sadder...

[salamaru]

niji by L' arc en ciel (rurouni kenshin movie; Ishinshishi e no Requiem)
i cried with these one cuz it's awful...

[Tenshi no Rakumei]

Hmm...
1) Love Child - The Supremes
2) 5 Steps - Dru Hill
3) Clocks - Coldplay
4) White Flag - Dido
5)Etude In C Minor (Op. 25 No.12 Chopin) - Vladamir Horowitz
6)Don't Speak - No Doubt
7)Trouble - Coldplay
8)Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Thats all I can think of

[Perfect_Cheezit]

1. Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings
2. Chicane - Lost You Somewhere (Heliotropic mix)
3. Allure - We Ran at Dawn (Magikal Remake)
4. Metallica - Fade to Black
5. Church of Selene - Legend of Endymion, Part II
6. Delerium - Innocente (Tiesto remix)
7. Johnny Cash - Hurt
8. Jin-Roh - Blue Clouds
9. Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen - In Memories Ko-to-wa-ri
10. Metallica - Until It Sleeps

[Charkun]

1Call Me Call Me - CBB Soundtrack
2No Reply - CBB Soundtrack
3David Bustamente y Gisela - Vivo Por Ella (I live for her)
4Eve 6 - Here's to the Night
5Frou Frou - Must Be Dreaming
6Good Charlotte - Seasons
7Guns 'N Roses - November Rain
8Vandread - Ending Theme
9Yellowcard - Rough Draft
10Evanescence - October
LISTEN TO OCTOBER. IF YOU DON'T, I WILL BE UPSET.
I don't know, it's really really good, but it just makes me want to crawl into a corner and cry. n.n;

[XKamui]

Sullen Girl - Fiona Apple
I Don't Know Why I Love You - Stevie Wonder
Save Me - Joan Armatrading
Paper Cup - Heather Nova
Letter To Hermione - David Bowie
Unravel - Bjork
One Day - The Verve
Bells For Her - Tori Amos
The Book - Sheryl Crow
Possibly Maybe - Bjork

[Akito]

Just about anything by Nirvana makes me sad. The lyrics are always so filled with angst (Or maybe it's the singing) that it finally makes me feel sick. Oh, and yes, there's all that emo...

1- Nirvana- Heart-Shaped Box
2- Jimmy Eat World- Lucky Denver Mint
3- Yoko Kanno- No Reply
4- Smashing Pumpkins- Today
5- Nirvana- Lithium
6- Nirvana- Polly
8- BoA- Duvet
9- Splendora- You're Standing On My Neck (Okay, maybe not exactly)
10- Nirvana- All Apologies

Yeah, Nirvana covers half of the list, I really gotta find something else...

[KittyHanyouBrat]

My list...is MY list...

My Immortal-Evanescence
What Its Like-Everlast
Good-Bye Pikachu-Pokemon(Idont like pokemon but the song makes me cwy ;.;)

[Demonshadow9]

I dont know the name of the song but it is the main theme from
trust and betrayl (kenshin) .Its sad as hell.

[Blaize]

Ummm...

1) My Immortal - Evanescance

2) Numb - Linkin Park

3) Crawling - Linkin Park (Theme song to some anime... can't think right now)

4) With You - Linkin Park

5) Wherever You Will Go - The Calling

6) My December - Linkin Park

7) Carousel - Linkin Park

I think you get that Linkin Park are sad. No, it's Chester's (the lead singer) voice. I cry when I hear him speak because its the most beautifully tortured/torturous voice in the whole universe... Oh, and can someone please tell me what Crawling (no. 3) is theme Song to? Thx!

[Le Bread]

These are still fresh in my mind:

1. Kronos Quartet - Summer Overture (Requiem for a Dream theme)
2. The Raveonettes - Love Can Destroy Everything
3. Bjork - Joga
4.Luis Bacalov - Parte Prima
5.Coldplay - A Warning Sign
6.Kenna - War In Me
7.Johnny Cash - Hurt
8. John Romersa - Hometown
9. Silent Hill 2 - Theme of Laura -Reprise-
10.Oblivion Dust - Alien

[Gimpy]

no order:

Johnny Cash - Hurt
U2 - Running to Stand Still
Pearl Jam - Long Road
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Eve 6 - Jesus Nightlight
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
Oasis - Talk Tonight
REM - At My Most Beautiful
The Rolling Stones - Out of Tears
The Beatles - Yesterdays

[Iwakura Lain]

maaya sakamoto - hikari no naka e ( I cried the first time I heard that song )
my immortal - evanescence
hello - evanescence
vision of escaflowne - sora
X OST - Forever Love
Celine Dion - I surrender

God there's so many..

[mamimi_kawaii]

5 sad songs. Okay.

1. Rever's Edge [Shinkichi Mitsumune]
2. Resolution [Motion City Soundtrack]
3. Bran-new Lovesong [The Pillows]
4. Hold Me Down [Motion City Soundtrack
5. Seize the Day [Avenged Sevenfold]

...and so much more.

[jetfire]

5 sad songs. Okay.

Um, it was 10 songs that the thread creator asked for, but whatever.

1. Saliva - Rest in Pieces
2. FF7 - Aeris Theme
3. Team America - America, **** yeah (sad version)
4. Cowboy Bebop - Blue
5. Three Doors Down - Be Like That
6. Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
7. Kenny Chesney - Who You'd Be Today
8. Matthew Good Band - Weapon
9. Five for Fighting - Superman
10. Limp Biskit - Behind Blue Eyes

[silan]

X-Japan - Forever Love (Acoustic Version)

The normal version doesn't really have an affect on me, it's just beautiful music. This one actually sets in and touches my emotions.
Actually, person from three years ago, I'd have to go with the Last Mix of "Forever Love." So beautiful and so sad.

X Japan - Forever Love (Last Mix)
Tom McRae - Mermaid Blues
Dir en grey - ain't afraid to die
Dir en grey - Higeki wa Mabuta wo Oroshita Yasashiku Utsu
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
10,000 Maniacs - Jezebel
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Dave Matthews Band - Grey Street
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Kagrra - Hifumi
Shimokawa Mikuni - Arekara
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana (Intermezzo)
Rachmaninov - Etudes-Tableaux op. 39 no.5 in E-flat minor


Well, there's 16 on that list, but meh. Never claimed to be a mathematician.

All of those songs tug at me lyrically and musically, and I can't help but feel contemplative and/or depressed when listening to them. Most of them will even bring me to tears if they catch me at the right mood.

[mamimi_kawaii]

Well, I couldn't think of anything else.
but now I can.
6. Evanescence- Call Me When You're Sober
7. Evanescence- Tourniquet.
8. FFTL- Mothersound
9. Avenged Sevenfold- MIA
10- FFTl- ...And We All Have a Hell

[Tremolo]

Oh go on then.

01. Johnny Cash - Hurt
02. Manic Street Preachers - 4st 7 Lbs.
03. Ed Harcourt - The Music Box
04. Tom McRae - Vampire Heart
05. U2 - One
06. Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
07. Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
08. Bright Eyes - Easy/Lucky/Free
09. The Cure - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
10. Rufus Wainwright - Dinner at Eight

[Minnie]

Sarah Slean - John 23rd

Actually, a lot of Sarah Slean's stuff makes me very sad due to her heavy, melancholy style of playing the piano. Incredibly pretty, but depressing. She takes a little bit from Tori Amos in that way, yeah.

Er, what else... Matthew Good Band's "Strange Days" is another one. That's all for unmentioned artists in this thread that I can think of.

Panic! At The Disco does make me weep for an entirely different reason though. *is shot*

add: These Days by Nico. Personal significance. Yeah.

[Pachinko]

10. TLC - Waterfalls
9. No Doubt - Don't Speak
8. Bjork - Hyperballad
7. Pink - Lonely Girl
6. Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
5. Madonna - Live To Tell
4. Spice Girls - Mama
3. Pink - Who Knew
2. Garbage - Bleed Like Me
&

1. Madonna - Oh Father
-About this last song: yeah, I know, roll your eyes. "Yet anooother Madonna song, will she give this shit a rest?" Honest to God or whoever is up there, this is the only song - and I mean only song - that gets me to tear up. Maybe it's because it's so close to home with my childhood, I don't know. But it's oozing with sadness. That, and "Promise To Try", which is from the same album.

[Griveton]

Not in any particular order, with the exception of the first one:

"Basta de Llamarme así" by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. Odd that a group famous for it's upbeat, danceable latin tones and occasionally wacky lyrics makes the list, but I'm not kidding. This song hits me pretty hard, and by that I mean it makes my eyes watery just remembering it.

Mad World by Gary Jules.
Hurt by Johhny Cash
Give My Love to Rose by Johnny Cash
Temblando by Hombres G
Don't Cry Daddy by Elvis Presley
Memories by Elvis Presley
Contigo Aprendí by Armando Manzanero (It's not a sad song per se, makes me sad for personal reasons)
Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan
No one but you by Queen

[Sae]

Hmmmm that's a tough one....well here are mine THEY ARE NOT IN ORDER FROM SADDEST TO LEAST OR ANYTHING!

1. No Doubt - Don't Speak - Okay the first time I had heard this was breifly on the radio and that was all. But then I saw an amazing AMV (anime music video) all about Ryoko from the Tenchi sagas (Universe, Muyo, ect.) and I was deeply touched! I was so moved when Ryoko saw Tenchi kissing that WENCH from Tokyo! I cried! >///> Yes, Sae-chan is a crybaby.

2. P!nk - Who Knew The story of my boyfriend and I, goddamn it. That bastard.

3. Avril Lavigne - Too Much To Ask Gravitation AMV. Period.

4. P!nk - Family Portrait It's so true.

5. Simple Plan - Perfect This is between me and my father.

6. Evanescence - Your Secret Admirer The name explains........she got hurt......

7. Evanescence - You All about how I love you......

8. Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober It explains what a lot of what I'm going through right now with the guy I like......

9. Wicked - The Musical - I'm Not That Girl A lot of my friends said they loved the songs from this particular musical and then I saw that Ash-chan listed it so I looked it up and it is so heart-wrenching. Reminds me of days now past.....

[ash_chan]

10 - Don't Speak - No Doubt
9 - Mou Sukoshi - Ending Theme to Midori Days
8 - Teen Angel - Mark Dinning
7 - Dreaming of you - Selena
6 - Candle in the Wind - Elton John
5 - Mad World - Any version
4 - Don't wanna miss a thing - Aerosmith
3 - Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
2 - I'm not that girl - Wicked the musical
1 - Family Portrait - Pink

Those are in order, and number one actually makes me tear up a bit because of some personal family issues.

[NausicaaBoy]

The letter that never came - thomas newman

If your not the one - Daniel Bedingfield

Weeping Willow - Hush Sound

Moving On - Toya

Tears - Dj Tiesto

[Cupid]

well can't think of ten but... You are my love from tsubasa chronicles (english and sakura version)

[(V)]

almost any song from armor for sleep(makes me think of the ones if lost...)

[Kei]

10) Across the Universe - The Beatles, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple, anyone
9) Wicked Little Town (Tommy Gnosis version) - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
8) Life on Mars - David Bowie
7) Veronica - Elvis Costello
6) Street Spirit - Radiohead
5) Missing the War - Ben Folds Five
4) Continental Drift - Ozma
3) In My Life - The Beatles
2) Across the Sea - Weezer
1) Asleep - The Smiths

[LadyYuina]

there's oso coldplay's The Scientist i guess...lol

anyone heard of Gloomy Sunday? the song that's suppose to get hundreds to commit suicide? Well, it's a boring song......

Okay... that song you just described about people commiting suicide? That sounds super creepy and uber scary.

[LakiDash]

Three of mine are on Kei's list. So sue me. Or better yet, don't.

In no particular order, and unlike my usual music forum posts, i won't post long drawn-out explanations because, well, what's more to explain than these songs make me sad sometimes/always/ocassionally?

But really, I like to listen to these songs when I'm sad/down or just in a mood for usually quiter tunes. So they don't make me sad, but they often emphasize my mood.

1. Blur - Battery in Your Leg
2. Beatles - Yesterday
3. Beatles - Across the Universe
4. Weezer - Butterfly
5. Weezer - Across the Sea
6. Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
7. Radiohead - Sail to the Moon
8. Blur - No Distance Left to Run
9. David Bowie - Life On Mars
10. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Though The Cure's album Pornogrpahy should get note for being possibly the most depressing album altogether.

[PassiveObserver]

There are quite a few songs that make me sad
brand new love song- the pillows
Hurt- johnny cash
god only knows- the beach boys
Hey ya - The Mat Weddle cover version
Yesterday - the beatles
black bird- the beatles
Hallelujah- jeff buckley
Golden slumbers- the beatles
Lullaby- billy joel
lazy head and sleepy bones- they might be giants

[L-sama]

(In no particuar order)

1. Quiet Life - Taku Iwasaki (From the Tsuiokuhen OST)
2. Hello - Evanescense
3. Dusk - Steven Bryant
4. Like the Morning Dew - Osamu Tezuka (From Slayers TRY BGM Treasury #2)
5. Hikari no Naka E (Into the Light) - Maaya Sakamoto
6. Don't Speak - No Doubt
7. What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flats
8. Whisky Lullaby - Brad Paisley (Featuring Alison Krauss)
9. Dearest - Ayumi Hamasaki
10. I Will Always be With You - Sheena Easton

[7Raven7]

Pretty much any song by Staind or Evanescence. Pass around the razor blades...

[Sae]

Pretty much any song by Staind or Evanescence. Pass around the razor blades...

Then stash 'em in my purse......

Sae-chan

[lyleanna]

:(
the song that make me cry.. is bratja from full metal alchemist
it was played when theyre mother died and also when they lost everything they had

im sorry... if I only write one.. i don't have any ideas write now...

[animanic_critic]

Just for the fun of it, I'll list my top 10 sad songs Billboard chart style as of the present moment. I'll take it that anime songs can be considered:

10.) Blue Eyes Blue by Eric Clapton feat. Babyface - One of my favorite songs by the man himself. Not to mention it fit the movie "Runaway Bride" as an official soundtrack like a glove.

09.) Moon On The Water by Sowelu - Sowelu's best song in my books, apart from "I Will" from FMA's soundtrack. I believe it's her first anime song done in English, and I see good prospects of her making something as wonderful as the above. Highly emotional that embodies the highs and lows of teenage life in BECK: MCS.

08.) Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit - Generally a song that I'll turn up the stereo when I'm having the blues. Sounds a little emo to me, but nevertheless Fred Durst nailed this one for sure.

07.) Street Spirit by Radiohead - There's something creepy about the song... and it's this creep that I'm very much enticed about to this song. Naturally my favorite Radiohead song, and something to listen to when I'm feeling moody.

06.) Sinking Into A Deeper Water in Ayashi No Ceres - A very melancholic non-lyrical song in the mentioned series. The song really personifies the dramatic (sometimes overly dramatic) aspect of the anime.

05.) Don't Go Away by Oasis - Not Oasis' best song but nevertheless highly noteworthy. The guitar riffs and overall rhythm to the song truely makes this song tear-inducing. I particularly love the guitar solo towards the very end of the song - wonderful.

04.) Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton - A song written by Eric for his late son, and that speaks for itself. Even reading the lyrics itself made my tears roll down my face without hesitation. I feel you, Eric. God bless you.

03.) Dearest in Inuyasha - Yep, one of the songs that chartered Ayumi Hamasaki as the Queen of J-POP (well, not anymore though). I generally hated the series for several reasons, but I can sincerely say that this is the best closing song to the series. It's the first piano notes that got me hooked to the song in the first place.

02.) Painful Memories ~ A Boy Meets The Man in Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen - This is a very difficult choice for me, mainly because the OVA has tonnes of sad songs, namely Sound of Snow Falling and Alone Again. The reason why I chose this eventually is because it embodies the life of Kenshin from start to end - from the innocent child he was to the sword-wielding iceman to eventually the lone wanderer. Taku Iwasaki, I bow before you for your magnificent work!

Drum rolls please...

01.) Lullaby in Now and Then, Here and There - The one song that symbolizes the innocence of childhood. Seriously, I cried when I listened to it for the first time while watching the series (it was one of the saddest, just to add). The song is just over 2 minutes, but it packs more emotional impact than almost any other anime songs more than twice the duration.

There are alot of other sad songs (including Fixing A Broken Heart by Indecent Obsession and Here Without You by 3 Doors Down), but I don't want to make my post too lengthy, so I'll leave it as it is :hugyou:.

[Niner]

Eh, why not. Go go +1.

10. Sarah McLachlan - World on Fire
9. Kansas - Dust in the Wind
8. The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen
7. Matthew Good - Avalanche
6. Counting Crows - A Long December
5. John Williams, Itzhak Perlman - Theme from Schindler's List
4. Sarah Slean - I Will Love You
3. Maaya Sakamoto - Vector
2. Queen - Somebody to Love
1. Michelle Branch - Goodbye to You