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I love sad music

I'm talking about music that when you're feeling down will make you feel worse. I don't want uplifting or inspirational. Some of Chopin's more melancholic works can do it for me.  I don't listen to country, but George Jones singing "It's a good day for the roses" is about as sad a song as you will find. Leonard Cohen's "Alexandra leaving" is another sad song. I have everything Davis and Coltrane recorded, so I'm looking for recommendations for the most beautiful but depressing music you've ever heard. I want to hear a violin, my favorite instrument, that will bring tears to your eyes. I know this is a strange request but some of the best music comes from dark places. Thanks
cal91
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emrofsemanon
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i long have thought "once i was" [tim buckley] was a breathtakingly sad song. listening to yoshikazu meru sing "solveig's song" in swedish, also made the waterworks work overtime. likewise with maria callas singing "o mio babbino caro." hers was a singularly sad-sounding voice. "somewhere over the rainbow" sung in "the wizard of oz" made me wanna get drunk and blotto. "everybody's talkin' at me" and "without you" by Nielson likewise. 
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richdirector
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I should have spent the day with my family _ Avett brothers

John Wayne gacy - Sufjan Stevens (a song about a serial killer grim beautiful) 

Carissa - sun kil moon

Wall and Hallways - josienne clark

Bob Iver - wolves

In fact breakup albums are always a fave too, artists do magic when they are f***** emotionally 

dtrandall
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Billie Holiday  Lady In Satin  “You’ve Changed”

Robert Cray  False Accusations  “The Last Time”

Death Cab For Cutie   Plans “I will follow you into the dark”

The Doors  “This is the end”

Julee Cruise   Floating Into The Night  “I Float Alone”

Ed Aames   The Windmills of Your Mind   “Windmills of Your Mind”



teo_audio
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Only in America would human self reflection be deemed as sad. 

:P
cd318
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@cal91,

"Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing"

His star crossed relationship with Marianne Ihlen was tragically just so Leonard Cohen. It had to be.


@emrofsemanon,


’maria callas singing "o mio babbino caro." hers was a singularly sad-sounding voice.’


Yes. The ugly fat girl who eventually came good had a voice to last the ages.

With a life like hers there was simply never any need for any artificial acting or vocal dramatics.

’Casta Diva’ is off any emotional scale and about as final as final can ever be.
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