Does any piece of music make you feel really sad?

footman · 17 Jul 2010 at 08:41

My wife plays a piece of music on her iphone to wake her in the mornings. Lately she has been playing "gymnpaedie" a piano piece by Erik Satie.

For some inexplicable reason this makes me feel really really sad, I've asked her to change her wake up tune.

forget the ducks!

Deific · 17 Jul 2010 at 08:43

I love that piece and it's actually very uplifting for me. I find that every piece of music that makes me feel sad, brings about a happiness at the same time. It's a joyous sad.

- Have actually always wanted Gymnopedie to be the song that is played as my 'to be wife' walks down the isle.

King85 · 17 Jul 2010 at 08:58

Maxwell - This woman's work :'(

Gadge · 17 Jul 2010 at 09:04

Redz · 17 Jul 2010 at 09:07

Secretly change her wake up tune to this.

Dave · 17 Jul 2010 at 09:15

Chinese piece of music by Faye Wong that I always feel very sad listening to, touching melody and even just half-understanding the lyrics is very touching too!

reflux · 17 Jul 2010 at 09:21

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber... gotta be the saddest piece of music I've ever heard. I remember hearing it in the game Homeworld, when you realise you're leaving your home planet behind for ever... it made for a very dramatic moment.

Antipasti · 17 Jul 2010 at 09:24

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

The Funktopus · 17 Jul 2010 at 10:11

Lisa Gerrard & Denez Prigent - Gortoz A Ran taken from the Blackhawk Down soundtrack, but apparently written by Prigent in memory of the September 11th 2001 attacks in the US.

No idea what's being sung as Denez Prigent sings in Bretón, a dying French Gaelic dialect, but it's still a mournful and haunting piece in my opinion.

RetiredGreyFox · 17 Jul 2010 at 10:20

I feel like committing suicide when I hear the Pet Shop Boys.
I would gladly wipe their catalogue off the face of the earth.

Energize · 17 Jul 2010 at 10:47

TheCenturion · 17 Jul 2010 at 11:11

all amazing and make me feel sad because I associate them all with different events, oddly none of them being death. The bunnies video for the death cab for cutie song is beautiful

drone · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:35

Tee Hee Johnson · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:59

dmpoole said:
I feel like committing suicide when I hear the Pet Shop Boys.
I would gladly wipe their catalogue off the face of the earth.

Go West!!!!

"andy" · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:12

TheVoice · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:13

I listen to a lot of chillout and ambient, some of which can really get you.

That said, I think (for me at least) it depends on the mood I'm in. I don't really feel sad listening to these now, but in the right mood (or wrong, as the case may be) they can be rather effective.

mk17 · 17 Jul 2010 at 15:13

Percy's Song - Bob Dylan.

Sorry, can't find a decent cover on youtube. There's a decent(ish) Joan Baez with Bob typing in the background, but not really worth linking.

Dylan's version is just so matter of fact in the telling of injustice. Well worth a listen if you can find the original.

^TANK^ · 17 Jul 2010 at 15:42

These always whip up some emotion in me:

Reaches for Prozac.

m2thecuk · 17 Jul 2010 at 16:06

Anything by the scissor sisters usually makes me wanna kill myself !!

randal · 17 Jul 2010 at 16:08

Ben Folds Five - Magic. Reminds me of someone who I don't see anymore, parted company under rather abrupt and regretful circumstances.