For me it’s Of Countless Stars, the final dungeon theme of Endwalker.
You are all wrong, the worlds saddest song is this; https://youtu.be/mGtrNZwqpCY
For me it is:
"I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life
I hope you’ll be a star
In somebody else’s sky
But why
Why
Why can’t it be
Why can’t it be mine"
Man. My friend was a huge Pearl Jam fan back in the day. He would sing this song every time we went out to any place doing karaoke. I got my heart absolutely torn apart once, and he really helped me through it. When I just didn’t want to be alone he was down for me to come by every night and we’d sit in his garage and drink beers and smoke and talk, and he played me this song—now, I grew up on Pearl Jam in the 90s. Loved them. But I hadn’t kept listening to them.
But one night when I was avoiding being alone with my thoughts and he was there for me, he told me I needed to listen to that song again. He played it and Jesus Christ, man. I never felt so personally seen by a song I’d known my whole life.
I would recommend you Chris Cornell’s album “Songbook”.
You probably know all the main Grunge bands but Mother Love Bone is not that well known. I totally would recommend!
Mine was Mazzy Star, look on down from the bridge. It was mine long before Rick and Morty existed.
Look on down from the bridge There’s still fountains down there Look on down from the bridge It’s still raining up here Everybody seems so far away from me Everybody just wants to be free
And when the laaaaast eagle fliiies, over the last crumbling montaaain!
Some Brazilian sadness: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r3PMqvqLyU0
The guitar is beautifully excellent
Sometimes it really does have to get worse before it gets better.
Get Better by Alt-J is one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard, and it hits in just the way you’re talking about. Hurts so good.
Poor old Jim’s white as a ghost
He’s found the answer that we lost
We’re all weeping now, weeping because
There ain’t nothing we can do to protect youthe squealing tires, the busting glass…
the painful screams that I…heard last
Last Kiss. Old school choice there!
This but watching Scrubs for me, some of those episodes just hit you like a ton of bricks. It’s cathartic…
“Where do you think we are right now?”
Wake … from your sleep.
The drying of your teeeeeaaaaars.
Today … we escape.
We escaaaaaape.
Pack… and get dressed
Befooooore your father heeeeaaars us
Before… all hell
Breaks loose
No better band to go to for truly heart wrenching songs.
Although I would have to say a better selection:
Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belongIf you guys haven’t seen the movie I Origins, you should watch it. That song plays as the outro and it’s amazing. Don’t watch any trailers though, it completely ruins the film
nice.
While I don’t think that one is there but they did a psychedelic game experience on Playstation (maybe others) and the way they did some of those songs like pyramid song and how to disappear completely were remarkable.
https://youtu.be/hyaIDqOjkj4?si=44Seconds
44 Second Mark
- Sad music when you’re sad is, ironically, a way to feel better, or at least to feel safer. In those moments, feeling like you’re psychically alone is devastating, and music that reminds you that other people have felt like you do is a tether to connect you to people when you’re at your lowest.
- Loreena McKennitt is superior to Enya.
- Neither of them wrote the world’s saddest song. A redneck from Bandera, Texas wrote the world’s saddest song. Sorry for the Spotify link.
Loreena McKennitt is not in competition with Enya. Them ladies be chill.
Fair. She would never. She’s not that guy.
But I am that guy, and I have a favorite ethereal new-agey soprano. 😂
Weapons grade sad song: Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel.
My favorite go to sad song nuke is, strangely enough, “Alone Again (Naturally)” by Gilbert O’Sullivan
The saddest song is 2 Legit 2 Quit if you think about it because Hammer did quit, and if he wasn’t legit enough what chance do we have
I guess no one’s an Enya fan, eh?
OP, do i have a story for you. I got the original Xbox in 2002. I found that one could copy music from CDs to the hard drive, and so i threw some Enya on there so i could listen to calming music while I studied. Later I put some Linkin Park, Incubus, The Offspring, and some other stuff on, and forgot about the Enya music.
Later I bought the X-Men Official Game, and while playing it, found out one could set the game music to stuff stored on the Xbox. So I’m running around, killing stuff with my big ole wolverine claws, and jamming out to Somewhere I Belong. Imagine my surprise as my killing spree continues and I hear “Who can say where the rain goes…”
NGL, it was pretty funny, but my roommate would not let it slide.
He called me Enya for the rest of the year. Or say “I’m Enya Mom”, or “I’m gonna be Enya sister tonight”.
Good times
