I need sad songs... you know the tear jerkers

[OrganizedKhaos]

The ones you listen to when all hope feels lost and the songs are the only balm you have in this world

[Bikerpunk]

Dude, whatever for?

[OrganizedKhaos]

For a playlist

[OrganizedKhaos]

A Satisfied Mind ~ By Jeff Buckley

We All Fall In Love Sometimes by Jeff Buckley

[Cafe_Post_Mortem]

Rainy Days and Mondays ~ The Carpenters

How Will I Laugh Tommorow ~ Suicidal Tendancies

Really almost anything by the Eels but Flower and I'm OK leap to mind.

[a_small_death]

Marilyn Manson - Speed of Pain
Chiasm - Isolated
Darkest Hour - Megadeth

[Pull~My~Hair]

Marilyn Manson - Speed of Pain

Good one!
Autumn to ashes- Autumns monologue (The fiction we live)
Malcom Mclaren-About her (Kill bill2 st)
Blue October w/ Imogen Heap- Congratulations (kinda sad..) (Foiled)
Floater- My burden (Stone by stone)
Colorblind (Live at the Alladin)
Tell the Captain (Live at the Alladin)

[helcyon]

Rainy Days and Mondays ~ The Carpenters

oooo ... almost anything by Karen "she died too young" carpenter and her smarmy bro richard could be used here... with the possible exception of "Beechwood 45789" which not only makes you want to cry but to kill as well.

Now this is a definite for your compilation OK...
Love is blue I don't think that this is good old original Vicky Leandros but it is the great A&M harpsichord mix. This is the version you want. Just let me quickly check my albums... (the black round thingies with a hole in the middle... ask your parents)... ah yes it's Claudine Longet. Oh right it's written on the graphic at the above link.

And because I care I suggest "Black No. 1" by Type O Negative. This mighty song of nearly 12 minutes encompasses goth misery and tears from dying the roots of your hair black to necrophilia and back.

[OrganizedKhaos]

I'm old enough to know what vinyl is ...lol.
Its what DJ's use to scratch....j/k

[OrganizedKhaos]

Jeff Buckley is another great!! that died too young

[Bacchus88]

VNV Nation Forsaken (Spoken)
VNV Nation Second skin (spoken)
VNV Nation Rubicon 2

Hank Williams Sr I am so lonesome I could cry
John Cash Hurt... Or NIN hurt which ever you want to put it...

[OliX]

http://hypem.com/track/515961

[Camby Savelle]

Chrono Cross SDTK - The Girl Who Stole The Stars (this is my all time favorite song and has been for years)

Evanescence - Breathe No More (original piano version)

Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day

The Cure - To Wish Impossible Things

Jack Off Jill - Lovesong (yes I know it's buy the cure but this version fits better)

Tina McBride - Concrete Angel

Avril Lavigne's version of Iris

Funeral For A Friend - Hospitality

[Byronic_Hero]

You might want to try "Holiday" or "Still Lovin You" by the Scorpions...

Or "Dream On" by Aerosmith...

Basically, any song where you hear a "downward" pattern in the melody (or bass)....I've tried all the above mentioned melodies on my teenage guitar students and it NEVER fails to "melt" their souls and cause them to swoon.....

(That "effect" goes back a long time...to about the Renaissance period and its what has made super stars out of countless bands...Those "effects" are ingrained into our Western sub consciousness

[OliX]

beethoven's moonlight sonata

[Byronic_Hero]

beethoven's moonlight sonata

YES! Absolutely!, and since were talking classical, try also Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat Major...Oh, I get sooooo choked up when I hear that one .

[Mr Karl]

run level zero...........entropy
velvet acid christ...............dilaudid

[helcyon]

ingrained into our Western sub consciousness

ah!


Couldn't agree more. It's just a fact. The sort of music we listen to sounds "normal" or "happy" or "melancholy" or woteva because we are simply used to hearing it. We are used to hearing certain intervals between notes, expect certain resolutions in phrases, are used to certain scales etc.

20th century 'classical' (actually the classical period of western music was only roughly 1750-1830 technically) can sound "weird" or "ununderstandable" simply because it is new to our ears and we are not used to it. Keep listening to it and it starts to become more familiar and "pleasing".

I bet if you played a range of contemporary music to some-one from 1750 a lot of it would sound weirder to them than you would expect because they have not grown up getting "used to it". They would relate to mega-arpeggios from a "yngwie malmsteen"(fat boofhead) or a "akira takasaki" (god) because there is a history of that stuff from the earlier Baroque period that they may have heard. They would be lost or frightened listening to the "cookie-monster" vocals of the late Chuck Schuldiner from the band Death for instance probably because the only thing they would've heard that sounds like that is someone about to die from the plague. I am re-assured by the belief that the villagers would gather together with torches and pitchforks to lynch the evil ones (milli-vanilli).

I'm not finished ranting. Contemporary commercial electro (I like it) such as Ministry Of Sounds "Dirty Electro" (2007) has a sort of instant appeal to me. Why? I think it's because they are using the exact same sounds that I grew so used to in the 80s and it makes the sounds immediately familiar and accessible to my ears. I'm talking about Roland (303, 808, 909 etc.), Korg (M1... korg sounds were used on pretty much every Hollywood movie/Century City TV show soundtrack there ever was. That's why I like using korgs... you get that familiar epic movie type sound and people respond to it that way even sub-consciously) Yamaha(DX7) etc. etc.

[helcyon]

Chopin's

I didn't even know Chopin was Polish until my local Polish biker Tattoo artist buddies gave me a bottle of luxury potato Chopin vodka for xmas. Sadly it still tasted like methylated spirits.

[Byronic_Hero]

You are quite correct helcyon...Music is largely an "encultured" phenomenon... The only difference is that today there is no hegemony/aristocracy to determine what is good and what is not....Its all kinda "up in the air"...So, really anything goes, which is why I think that no matter how long people listen to dissonant (or whatever) compositions, there will never be a new "classical" style because its all blown out into the open...And yet even though there is no more hegemony, we will still have teenagers susceptible to those descending patterns that melt their souls...(not to say that aristocracy was a good thing but...) Oddly enough, I find that these same descending patterns have no predjudice in my students' ethnic backgrounds - they ALL melt, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds This result leads me to think that there is something other than "enculturization" at work here Is there some divine connection between music and the human soul? I am of the very few that thinketh so...That there is something mysterious and inexplicable of the connexion between music and the human soul....Mwu Ha, Ha, Haaaaaaa~!

[OrganizedKhaos]

Most of the general population responds to a jungle beat of sorts. What does this say about our culture... I think music reflects the soul as a whole rather than whats ingrained, even though they go hand in hand.

I love this thread.. not that I started it, but rather the input.

Thanks.

[OrganizedKhaos]

Oh, speaking of guitar gods, I must mention Nuno Bettencourt my personal fave.

[helcyon]

Nuno Bettencourt my personal fave.

yes I am aware of your naughty fantasy plans for sexy Suze DiMarchi and her hunky hubby

[OrganizedKhaos]

I just cant help myself. I've had a crush on him since I was like 15

[OrganizedKhaos]

I meant to add, my husband does too, so that just makes the world go 'round doesnt it?