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[Go_Ly_Dow]

Nujabes - Spiritual State

First track of the album of his last album.

The album was incomplete upon Nujabes' death in February 2010, inspiring those close to him to see it finished.

He lives on through his beautiful music.

 

[CitizenCope]

Band of Horses - The Funeral

Thumbs up.

 

[i-Lo]

Journey: I Was Born For This

 

[Blades64]

This song has never struck me as a sad one-can you explain?

Well for me personally, I was watching a certain show on TV (can't remember which one, just random TV watching), and in the show someone had died. I didn't have any emotional investment in the show, but when the funeral scene came on the song started to play. I think what got me was that around that time, a close family friend of ours had died as well, and I just couldn't hold back the tears. I remember thinking that I just had to have the song, and now every time I listen to it, I get emotional and on the brink of tears...

 

[Joe Lee]

Johnny Cash - Hurt. I honestly prefer this version of the song over the original NIN version.
Flogging Molly - The Cradle of Humankind
NOFX - My Orphan Year
Childish Gambino - Be Alone
Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman
The Prize Fighter Inferno - Half Measures. If you know the story about Mic Todd, the former bassist for Coheed, you can tell that this song is about him.

 

[Switch Back 9]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVpEu4fOMB4

(I don't know how to re-name the link)

Sinead O'Connor - Moorlough Shore

Her voice PLUS it being a super sad song, just makes me all misty eyed.

[
NOFX - My Orphan Year

:'(

 

[Goron2000]

Placebo - Song To Say Goodbye

 

[Venturin]

Concrete Blond - Joey

http://youtu.be/nmQYTrNoOxE

First time I heard it, tears...

 

[Peco]

Tool - 10.000 Days (Wings Part 2)

I don't actually cry but I get really sad.

 

[fastmower]

Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers

edit: The Pearl Jam version also does the trick

 

[Eidan]

Not the song, but the performance. It's a tad long and you have to stick with it and pay attention. It never fails to move me.


Fiona Apple covering Elvis Costello:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiOmhOumh-w

This was incredible. Thanks.

 

[CHusson91]

http://youtu.be/_6Y6CsnFw44

Final Distance-Utada

The song is beautiful, but I detest it for a few reasons.

 

[Curtisaur]

Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_nmxAGk

 

[BLAZER]

It has to be this and only this.

Titanic Theme On Piano - My Heart Will Go On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQiTZ1J3rEE&feature=related

Probably the greatest song humanity has ever produced.

 

[basis]

Sandra - Johnny Wanna Live
Sandra - Hiroshima

edit: Tina Cousins - Just Around The Hill

 

[Pkaz01]

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

There's been some good ones posted in this thread. A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke I would say the best so far, that song is just unreal.

People always thought it weird that my iPod has always had a playlist called "Play These At My Funeral", so here's some of the toughest for me.

Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods

When the Night Comes - Dan Auerbach

I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Fleet Foxes

This Is It - Michael Jackson

Don't Let Us Get Sick - Pat Guadagno

Then there's probably pretty familiar ones like Rocket Man by Elton John, Show my the Way by Peter Frampton, The Wrestler by Bruce, Going to California by Zepplin.

 

[arts&crafts]

Jesus christ I just put on that oden video (dog getting put down) I am bawling and i had to shut it off halfway through.

 

[arts&crafts]

Black Water - Apparat

woops meant to edit my post above.

 

[Halcyon]

A lot of people hate John Mayer. He's one of my favorite musicians. This is why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32GZ3suxRn4&feature=youtube_gdata_player


This song makes me cry because my ex wife took me to see him live. I could see our problems even then.

We're going down and you can see it too.

My dear we're slow dancing in a burning room..

/sad

 

[squidyj]

Well somebody already covered fake plastic trees so lets see...

Sunset Rubdown - Us Ones In Between

Bob Dylan - Hey Mr Tambourine Man

Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free

The Smiths - Suffer Little Children

Matthew Good - A Boy and His Machine Gun

Bright Moments - Milwaukee Protocol

Okkervil River - So Come Back, I am Waiting

 

[Vaco6121]

Welcome Home by Rehab

I have lost both my dad and step-dad to cancer, and I miss the good old days when they were both still alive. This song has come to symbolize those times for me.

 

[Reneledarker]

The Ascent of Everest - A Threnody (For the Victims of November Second)

 

[davidnic]

My Immortal - By Evanescence
Ever since by Granddad died 2 years ago..

 

[Halcyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvK0zJ2etow&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[TOP SHOTTA]

A lot of songs make me sad. These make me cry.

Sarah Mchlaclan - I Love You

But there is a Sesame Street rendition of Ernie & Aaron Neville singing I Don't Want To Live On The Moon that has really deep meaning for me, my daughter, before my marriage failed. It makes me... absolutely... fucking... heave...

I am at work holding back puddles of feels in my eyes. If I were at my place I would indulge in this thing and just let it go.

 

[SolsticeZero]

Stabbing Westward - Waking Up Beside You

Granted, I was going through a bad breakup and this was pretty much the thing that just pushed me over the edge.

 

[Curtisaur]

Snow Patrol - Run

This part man, this part:

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do

Sorry I keep bumping with one or two songs; I just like the thread and want more input.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Harry Nilsson/Randy Newman - Living Without You

 

[Randdalf]

flaming lips - do you realize

Came to post this. Doesn't make me cry so much as make me very sad.

 

[Ricker]

It came at a special time for me and it is so beautiful...

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

 

[squidyj]

Oh shit, I completely forgot about damn near the entire Wrens catalogue

Jane Fakes a Hug

 

[Strange in Stereo]

Anathema is "the band that makes you cry".

One Last Goodbye

Pretty much. Are You There? always gets to me.

Also, Red House Painters - Katy Song

 

[Escape Goat]

Natalie Merchant's "My Skin" is pretty sad. Its about a woman dealing with cancer and how people around her treat her like shes a fragile flower and recoil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noe7f0MeKyI

 

[BrightEyedPanic]

IAMX- I Am Terrified (if i've been drinking)
Travis - Sing
Rise Against - Like the Angel

I am super emu though.

 

[lush]

Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

Most recently, Four Tet did a mix for Rinse.fm back in January and it started off with an acapella version of Brandy's "Almost Doesn't Count". The original's a good song but, damn that acapella floored me.

You can hear the acapella here: http://www.mixcloud.com/corenewsuploads/four-tet-on-rinse-fm-2013-01-08/

 

[Koeta]

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never have

 

[Dead Man]

And the band played waltzing matilda

Pogues version of this breaks me every damn time.

 

[deadmeadow88]

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Yiruma - River Flows In You
Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Songs I will listen to on repeat often for 8 hours or more:
Incubus - Here In My Room