Pope Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 and with that I mean songs in the likes of these: The Knife - Behind The Bushes Lux Aeterna (Requiem For A Dream soundtrack) simply put: anything that just sounds flat-out depressing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weiser_Cain Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Hendrix 'Little Wing' 'The Wind Cries Mary' Yaw devs, Yaw!!! ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 EElS - Elizabeth On The Bathroom Floor Gary Jules - Mad World Dashboard Confessional - This Old Wound The Foo Fighters - Razor Also, KoRn - Daddy, but for entirely different reasons than the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weiser_Cain Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Anything not manic by The Cure Yaw devs, Yaw!!! ( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 I was thinking mainly instrumental tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick_i_am Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Adagio For Strings (Approved by Fio, so feel free to use it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowstrider Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 What do you mean by sad? See, there are many types of "sad." For example the second theme from Easthaven, in IWD, is very depressing (the music for the return to Easthaven, when Belhifet has erected Crenshinnibon). However, if you didn't play IWD1, and hear the original version, it loses a cord. You don't exactly know WHY its sad, it just is. On the other hand, you could go with something from a movie, like the theme from when Gandolf falls in FotR, and the fellowship runs out of Moria, there is some fairly sad music. It is hard to say, really, one man's "depressing" music could be completely boring or without purpose on another person. If you put it in context for what kind of sad you're looking for it will be easier. Is it sadness caused by the loss of something? Is it a general depression because nothing ever goes right? Sad because something bad is about to happen, and you want to build up to it? There are a lot of types of moods, "sad" is too general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dufflover Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 I also sometimes when looking for "sad" music end up being satisfied/getting the same effect from music which may be more..."reflective" music instead. For instance Era: Ameno (Remix), is not typical sad music but for some reason gets me thinking and a couple of tracks from the Sims 2, quite strangely even one of the "Pop" style ones makes me think/acknowledge how screwed my future is. Pure Pazaak - The Stand-alone Multiplayer Pazaak Game (link to Obsidian board thread) Pure Pazaak website (big thank you to fingolfin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantousent Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Nice mental exercises, but some music strikes most listeners as sad, even without any context other than their ears. A good example would be Nick's Adagio for Strings. It has a certain melancholy quality for most listeners, regardless of context. I'm not saying that context is irrelevant. I'm saying it is not necessary. Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vashanti Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 Beethoven -- "Mondscheinsonate" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshugger Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Not instrumental, but sad lyrically and musically: Nine Inch Nails - Hurt. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepixiesrock Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 A slow minor one-four-five? Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdangerOne billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabrielle Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Gollum's Song on LotR's The Twin Towers soundtrack is sad and depressing. A lot of death/goth/gloom metal is sad and depressing. Not just singing/lyric wise but the music itself is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf16 Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 The song "Heavy Price Paid" from the Halo 2 soundtrack is instrumental...and kinda sad sounding. I generally don't listen to depressing music, since all it does is just depress me. Why would I want that? I had thought that some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, for they imitated humanity so abominably. - Book of Counted Sorrows 'Cause I won't know the man that kills me and I don't know these men I kill but we all wind up on the same side 'cause ain't none of us doin' god's will. - Everlast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabrielle Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Speaking for myself, I find comfort in sad music. It relaxes me and makes me feel at ease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaPhApAbLaP Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 'Closure' and 'My Cold Sea' by Arcana are kinda sad for me. That second song I mentioned is a little more hopeful toward the end, but they are somber tunes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dufflover Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 What about the Sleheyron (based on filename anyway) track from KotOR 1? It's the music that plays when you go into that Mysterious Rakata Prison Box. If you downloaded that "KotOR Soundtrack" from a while ago it's #42 - Unknown World. Pure Pazaak - The Stand-alone Multiplayer Pazaak Game (link to Obsidian board thread) Pure Pazaak website (big thank you to fingolfin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) A lot of older celtic type music (not reels) is what I would call 'hauntingly sad' - not sobbing/tears kind of sad...just melancholy. ...spelling mistooks...can we have that 1 minute 'edited by' delay back? huh? Edited January 19, 2006 by LadyCrimson “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveThaiBinh Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Mahler's Fifth Symphony, fourth movement. I find it sad, but in a consoling rather than a despairing way. "An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Raven Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 A lot of older celtic type music (not reels) is what I would call 'hauntingly sad' - not sobbing/tears kind of sad...just melancholy. ...spelling mistooks...can we have that 1 minute 'edited by' delay back? huh? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I agree with that Celtic music is sad. Soundtracks to movies can be sad, depending on the movie. Some of the themes from Lord of the Rings has a sad feeling to it to name one. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildegard Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Here's what I listen when I'm in a mood for sad, melanconic and yet beautiful music: Hildegard von Bingen: Favus distilans - nothing else can calm me down like her music J.S. Bach:St Matthew Passion, BWV244 & BMV140 - spiritual, I only like it preformed in German, the essence gets lost when performed in English. A.Vivaldi: Four seasons - Autumn & Winter - I like them best preformed in E-dur... W.A. Mozart: Nachtmusik - especially part 2 Romanze - Andante , one of the best compositions in classical music ever W.A. Mozart: Requiem - especially Kyrie - it's sad but yet so powerful, one of my favourite V. Bellini: Norma; Casta Diva - very melanconic, excellent vocal ornamentation G.Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - masterpiece, one of my favourite operas R.Wagner: Tristan & Isolda - don't listen to this if you're sucidial , actually I would recommend this only for die hard Wagner fans - not my preference G.Puccini: Tosca; E lucevan le stelle - Cavaradossi's Act III aria - best opera ever in my opinion. L. van Beethoven: moonlight sonata - a must R.Schumann: In the Wonderful Month of May and his other similar compositions - nothing brings back my childhood memories like his music ^_^ That's it, I listen mostly classical music but I hope this will help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 There's something about the ending credits theme in Braveheart. One of the few times bagpipes don't devastate my eardrums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepixiesrock Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 The theme from Love Story? http://www.thailander.com/entertainment/so...di/lovstory.mid Schindler's List? http://www.thailander.com/entertainment/so...idi/s_listg.mid Lou Gutman, P.I.- It's like I'm not even trying anymore!http://theatomicdanger.iforumer.com/index....theatomicdangerOne billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the galaxy. I can feel every single b-ball that has ever existed at my fingertips. I can feel their collective knowledge channeling through my viens. Every jumpshot, every rebound and three-pointer, every layup, dunk, and free throw. I am there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Raven Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 R.Wagner: Tristan & Isolda - don't listen to this if you're sucidial , actually I would recommend this only for die hard Wagner fans - not my preference An excellent choice, one of my favorites. Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoch Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Charles Mingus: "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" His tribute to the then-recently-departed Lester Young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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