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I admit it--I love sad music. Most particularly, really great classical (Barber's Adagio for Strings) and some of the brilliant Asian string pieces that I hear pretty much only in movies (nice piece in Audition, when his wife dies, a few great pieces in Crouching Tiger, particularly at the end). You probably get the idea.

Help me. I really want to have a big collection of this stuff to go with my Friends of Dean Martinez, Pogues, Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, and Lisa Gerrard stuff. But, alas, I am ignorant.

So hook me up. Make me cry.

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Elliot Smith is the standard answer here, I think.

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Adagio Rule - Nothing good in a film is ever going happen once you hear Barber's Adagio for Strings. See Gallipoli.

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not sure if you're into country, but check out the album "Long Stretch of Lonesome" by Patty Loveless.

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Lisa Germano - specifically "Cry Wolf" and "It's a Rainbow".

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I always thought Tom Waits could drive a person to suicide.

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For normal music:
Beck - Sea Change

For classical:
Bach - The Cello Suites

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<---Mogwai

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i don't speak hopelandic/icelandic so i don't know what the [censored] they are talking about but sigur ros sure sounds sad as hell.

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Elliot Smith is the standard answer here, I think.

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Drive - Portishead

Into the Deep - Bird York

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Drive - Portishead

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Never heard of it, and neither has Google.

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Normally I hate everything they do, but "I Miss You" by blink182

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E.S. Posthumus - Cuzco

Not really a sad song persay, but one of those really inspirational songs you put at the end of a movie as everyones walking away into the sunset.

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Drive - Portishead

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Never heard of it, and neither has Google.

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Portishead is the band name, if that helps you.

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Atmosphere - Joy Division

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Atmosphere - Joy Division

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Well...yeah.

And the entire Cure album Pornography, right?

Damn. Now I gotta go pull out my Joy Division stuff. You got me.

Now recommend something I never heard, damnit.

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Paris Match - Style council
It's a very deep sea - Style Council

you ain't ever heard them ones, I bet

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Don't Give Up, by Peter Gabriel

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It is my mission to mention Nick Drake in every sad music thread, which have now begun to number in the hundreds I think.

Aimee Mann has some sad music too.

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Portishead is the band name, if that helps you.

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I thought I had everything they'd done. Never heard of "Drive."

The only truly "sad" Portishead song I can think of is "Undenied."

Anyway...."Drive?" Huh?

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Well Leonard Cohen if you can stand his ridiculousness has some great sad songs. "The dealer," for example.
I'm sure you know Billie Holliday & Edith Piaf. If you have any French I'd recommend George Brassens. If you have any Russian & actually even if you don't, I'd really recommmend Vladimir Vysotsky (http://www.kulichki.com/vv/eng/), Bulat Oku(d)jawa, Novella Matveeva, & Galich.
Also early blues & jazz...Robert Johnson, Skip James, Armstrong's Hot Fives recordings.
Early Jay-Z.
Wilco, Flaming Lips, Violent Femmes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Moldy Peaches, decemberists...... wow I love sad music.

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The River - Springsteen

but you're bound to know that one...

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Paris Match - Style council
It's a very deep sea - Style Council

you ain't ever heard them ones, I bet

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This is true.

And while I am skeptical, I am resolved to try any and all reasonable recommendations made here (read: no, I will not "just give Journey a fair listen"), so I will try it.

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hell yeah. Portishead is awesome mopey music.

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My Immortal - Evanessence (badly misspelled I believe)

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(read: no, I will not "just give Journey a fair listen")

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good man.

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Albinono's Adagio for strings.

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Lotta good suggestions here. I'd like to put in a bonus good word for the Decembrists, particularly "Picaresque."

Now. This is gonna sound weird, but - a good bit of the soundtrack to Ken Burns' The Civil War absolutely brings me to my knees. And I'm not a weepy guy.

Haven't seen a mention of Patty Griffin yet. Her cover of Springsteen's "Stolen Car" is one of the most haunting things I've ever heard.

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Kate Rusby - she has the most beautiful and melochany songs in the world -

Try the album 10 and then The Girl Who Couldn't Fly - there are a few happy tracks but a lot of them have this sad loneliness to them - esp. sleepless sailor.

RB

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Now. This is gonna sound weird, but - a good bit of the soundtrack to Ken Burns' The Civil War absolutely brings me to my knees. And I'm not a weepy guy.


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Hey, this is a great suggestion, and doesn't sound weird at all.

Perfect. Thanks. That's what I was looking for.

Keep 'em coming.

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Now. This is gonna sound weird, but - a good bit of the soundtrack to Ken Burns' The Civil War absolutely brings me to my knees. And I'm not a weepy guy.

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Speaking of soundtracks the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack is pretty [censored]' sad.

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Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts

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Love, Reign over me - The Who
Behind Blue eyes - The Who

So far, so good...
 

...but can anyone tell me anything at all about any Asian string/piano stuff? I have heard some really great stuff, but just don't know enough about it to know what to buy, etc.

Think: brooding, melancholic, tragic, miserable and/or redemptive.

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Maybe alice in chains, but thats more angry-sad

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Hank Sr.
Delta Blues

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Steve Earle--My Old Friend the Blues

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The Smiths/Morrissey

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By the way, if you have not checked out everything in my OP, you really should.