Recommend Unbelievably Sad Music

[phixxx]

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.

[diebitter]

Atmosphere - Joy Division

[Rushmore]

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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.

[diebitter]

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

you ain't ever heard them ones, I bet

[Rushmore]

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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.

[ilya]

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

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good man.

My Immortal - Evanessence (badly misspelled I believe)

[Blarg]

Don't Give Up, by Peter Gabriel

[Los Feliz Slim]

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.

[ilya]

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.