In search for really sad music...

snowfallsoon said:
Piano Magic is brilliant. I have them all. Writers Without Homes is the
saddest(CD)...IMO
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I wouldn't call Writers Piano Magic's saddest album, only their most self-indulgent -- while melancholy on the whole, the arrangements are lackluster and confused, and the album boasts too many walk-on vocalists. That said, I love the song Postal; and it was nice to hear Paul Anderson from Tram. For those new to Piano Magic, the only full-lengths that I recommend heartily are Low Birth Weight and Disaffected (for God's sake, stay away from Part-Monster!); the bands strongest, most concise, statements have generally been their eps. (favourites: I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow, Opencast Heart, and Incurable)

Piano Magic - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today
 
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some that i think are worth checking out for sad music:

-nick drake ("time has told me" and "fly")
-wintersleep ("listen" and "fog")
-richard hawley ("long black train" and "no way home")
-caetano veloso ("a little more blue")
-broadcast ("tears in the typing pool" and "bit 35")
-arcade fire ("in the backseat" and "crown of love")
-nico ("you forgot to answer" and "these days")


mentioned already but totally backed:
-elliott smith
-red house painters
-slowdive

i'll think of some more later.
 
Codreanu said:
I wouldn't call Writers Piano Magic's saddest album, only their most self-indulgent -- while melancholy on the whole, the arrangements are lackluster and confused, and the album boasts too many walk-on vocalists. That said, I love the song Postal; and it was nice to hear Paul Anderson from Tram. For those new to Piano Magic, the only full-lengths that I recommend heartily are Low Birth Weight and Disaffected (for God's sake, stay away from Part-Monster!); the bands strongest, most concise, statements have generally been their eps. (favourites: I Came to Your Party Dressed as a Shadow, Opencast Heart, and Incurable)

Piano Magic - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today
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I think Writers Without Homes is my favorite because it was my first.( may have even heard of them here, I remember someone saying "Piano Magic is the only thing that's doing it for me right now" or something). Do you not like the fact that there are too many walk-on
vocalists, I loved Vashti Bunyan....Is it Caroline Potter who's also there
doing 'Shot thru the Fog' ? I hate the long silence in the middle of the
song though.
Can't say enough about Low Birth Weight and Disaffected...Do you not like Artist's Rifles?
Part Monster-still not sure on that one. 'Lights Come on at Three' is my favorite off Incurable.

Carissa's Wierd-I have been listening to Songs About Leaving all night. Beautiful. Never heard of them-Thanks for mentioning them.
Will need to check out the rest of your list.
 
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I don't find Jeff Buckley's music particularly sad (unless I think about his death while listening) but I do find his singing style probably the most gut wrenchingly passionate I have heard.
 
1. Miles Davis -Blue In Green
2. My Bloody Valentine -Lose My Breath, All I Need, I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It), Sometimes
3. Pavement -Zurich Is Stained, Here, Secret Knowledge Of Backroads, Perfect Depth
4. Cocteau Twins -Lots
5. Air -Redhead Girl, Playground Love, Run
6. The Cure -Anything off Seventeen Seconds, Faith, or Pornography pretty much
7. Anything off Nico's The End, as previously mentioned.
8. Half of Radiohead's discography
9. Lou Barlow and his many projects
10. Neil Young -Tell Me Why-
11. Six Organs Of Admittance

That's all I can think of, off the top of my head right now.
 
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Robert Plant - Darkness Darkness



Robert Plant and Allison Krauss - Raising Sand album

Polly Come Home -



Through the Morning



Trampled Rose

 
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PJ Harvey's latest,"White Chalk," is slow, bleak, delicate, and absolutely beautiful. It's one of those albums that sneaks up on you: a bit sketchy at first, but mesmerizing once you fall into it.

I just love it.
 
I was going to mention Cocteau twins but someone did it, I add

This Mortal Coil
Pale Saints
Mojave 3
Galaxie 500
Cranes
Heidi Berry
and Magnetic Fields sound sad to me at some point
 
seriously, 4 pages and no one's mentioned Tindersticks?

"dying slowly-seems better than shooting myself"

also, Throbbing Gristle's "Hamburger Lady" is so relentlessly depressing that i skip past it sometimes.
 
Mahler - Tenth Symphony (excerpts)


Renee Fleming - Strauss' 4 Last Songs - Im abendrot
 
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More:

Rivulets
Bluetile Lounge
Lisa Germano
Savoy Grand
Arco
Annelies Monseré
Lycia
Mike Johnson
Idaho
Migala
Azure Ray
Half Asleep
Damien Jurado (Ghost of David, And Now That I'm in your Shadow)
Great Lake Swimmers
Nick Grey
Harper Lee (first three records)
Shearwater (first three records)
Richard Youngs (Sapphie)
Jasmine Star
Simon Joyner (Songs for the New Year, Hotel Lives, Lost with the Lights On)
Tor Lundvall
The Caretaker (We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow)
The Montgolfier Brothers
Jason Molina (Let me Go, Let me Go, Let me Go)
July Skies
Agitated Radio Pilot
W-S Burn
 
f***frankie said:
seriously, 4 pages and no one's mentioned Tindersticks?

"dying slowly-seems better than shooting myself"

also, Throbbing Gristle's "Hamburger Lady" is so relentlessly depressing that i skip past it sometimes.
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I like Tindersticks, "My Sister" is a sad one.
What about Throbbing Gristle's "Weeping"?
 
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