Thread: the most sad music

What is to you the most sad music or the most sad compositions? What can make you cry?
Give us youtube videos of the most touching music in whatever genre you like (classical or any else)... what is capable to touch you on the deepest level?

I'll start with few of mine choices...

When I'm listening to this I always think of one girl that I fell in love more than I could ever imagine. Unfortunately for me, it seems that's lost case. Composition reminds me of her because it sounds so fragile, so beautiful, so innocent... and so sad.


Of course... this is also one of those... actualy, I could cry on hundreds of Morricone compositions.. lol..
but this is one one those that touches me the most:

If the music sounds good to me I find it impossible to be sad, regardless of the creator's intent.

Originally Posted by Crudblud

If the music sounds good to me I find it impossible to be sad, regardless of the creator's intent.

Ok, this doesn't make much sense to me, but ok... let's hear music pieces from someone who does find some pieces or songs to be sad

Hardly any music can make me shed tear, but in a extent some can make me sorrowful. For example Schumann's Symphony No. 3, 'Rhenish' 4th/5 movement makes me sad.

If the sad piece suits the sad scene from a movie well, it raises the sorrow of that moment twice or more. Like putting Grieg's Death of Ase, on a Holocaust or a horrible war massacre.

"People can laugh at me, call me "ignorant" and whatever. It doesn't matter. Those who defend "avant garde" [or avant guarde] music do it for one simple reason; it makes them feel superior listening to random noises that seem to have been produced by a chimp monkey. Take it or leave it. And if they answer me it is because they can't handle that truth. Truth really hurts. Bye, bye idiots."

Is it about you, or is it Irony or Sarcasm? I don't get it.

Originally Posted by Arsakes

Hardly any music can make me shed tear, but in a extent some can make me sorrowful. For example Schumann's Symphony No. 3, 'Rhenish' 4th/5 movement makes me sad.

If the sad piece suits the sad scene from a movie well, it raises the sorrow of that moment twice or more. Like putting Grieg's Death of Ase, on a Holocaust or a horrible war massacre.

Ok, but it would be nice if you could put links to those pieces next time if they're on youtube.

The music that moves me in a tear-jerking way tends to be music that I cherish for sentimental reasons, or which evokes some poignant scene, but it can have any character. Music that consciously tries to 'sound' sad is something I don't generally enjoy.

I'll continue with some of songs that I consider really sad. Ok, it's not that I'm always crying but sometimes when I'm screwed, it can happen...

Originally Posted by nikola

Ok, this doesn't make much sense to me, but ok... let's hear music pieces from someone who does find some pieces or songs to be sad

I feel that way because I think good music is such a wonderful thing to have that I can't help but be happy when I hear it.

Originally Posted by Arsakes

Is it about you, or is it Irony or Sarcasm? I don't get it.

I was browsing through a few John Cage pieces on YouTube and came across this in one of the comment sections, it made me laugh so I put it in my sig.

Springsteen's Bobbie Jean makes me sad.

Tears is one thing. The opening of Mahler's 9th always gets me close, but I never normally shed tears. Sadness, though...

Originally Posted by Crudblud

If the music sounds good to me I find it impossible to be sad, regardless of the creator's intent.

I actually agree with this on the whole; the closest I get to sadness is parts of Tchaikovsky's 6th:




Also, I find a lot of 'pop' music makes me think in a kind of suicidal way. I don't know if that is normal or not, but it is something I have noticed recently.

i like the relentless trudging sound. its sad, final and calming at the same time.

Some of the most sad classical pieces to me...