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[Big_Bird]

For me, one such piece is the second movement of Mozart's piano concerto 23.

Here played by Horowitz

I couldn't bear to listen to this when my father was dying, though.

[blurgalurgalurga]

Cat Power's You are Free album is a delicious bummer. Here's 'i don't blame you...' great song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdQz9ghg_sk

Barber's Adaggio for Strings is a bit over used but it's good for those downer days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g

Also I dig Bach's Sheep May Safely Graze, as a weeper, for personal reasons. I think it's not a sad song at all, for most people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEXDPzqo2g

Long live the indulgence of melancholy! Whoop whoop!

[blurgalurgalurga]

This one makes the hair on my arms stand up. Damn, she's got a good voice.
Cat Power again, same album...Good Woman is the song's name.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lJiwKskTlE

[robot]

John Wayne Gacy, Jr - Sufjan Stevens
Skates - Hayden
And Then I See A Darkness - Bonnie Prince Billy
Hurt - Johnny Cash version
Superstar - Sonic Youth version
Needle in the Hay - Elliott Smith
Lonesome Tears - Beck
Selmasongs - Bjork

[i_teach_esl]

i dont know why, i really love being sad to Goapele's "closer."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRSMaCjCjw

[i_teach_esl]

when i feel lonely, i play erykah badu's "YeYo" and sing it out loud. it's like she knows whats in my heart.

forward to 1:18 tho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXyKgoptqBg

[milkweedma]

Lassie theme. Puff the Magic dragon song, Rupert the bear theme.

[tzechuk]

Horowitz is so great. What a gifted pianist.

so many for me, BB... music moves me a great deal. When I am sad I actually play the piano or sing to make myself even sadder.. sigh..

I play or sing:

~Funeral March by Chopin, especially the middle section
~Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven - I play the whole thing to get my anger out with the last movement (if I am sad AND angry)
~La Berceaux by Faure

and some Debussy pieces, too.

I listen to this Elgar's Cello Concerto, too.. here's Jacqueline Du Pre's version. What a great cellist.. too bad she died so young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

I play this, too.. what a great piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8CxcKsJSmA&feature=related

An even better interpretation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02dEwtNAtO8&feature=related
Definitely makes me sadder than ever playing it.

[blurgalurgalurga]

Glenn Gould playing the Goldberg Variation of Bach's Aria (is that the correct way to phrase it? I dunno) is another widely overplayed piece that I invariably love to hear. Unlike a lot of Beethoven's sonatas, or Barber's Adagio, I never get tired of it, no matter how many times I hear it used to sell cars or washing machines or what-have-you.
Here's it on the youtubes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv94m_S3QDo

[Arthur Dent]

"Mad World" on the Donnie Darko film soundtrack by Tears for Fears. It was covered by composers Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the film.



Also, Jeff Buckley's version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

And of course, Eleanor Rigby....

[tzechuk]

[alice123]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2fGWQKbX68
I got the piano sheet music too, but haven't got around to playing it yet. AKA Hungarian suicide song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgyTl8yqbw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_(Faur%C3%A9)
I've heard this is a funeral song for some princess. Don't know the details though. It's such a pretty piece.

[alice123]

I usually forget that it's a funeral song when I listen to Pavane. It's very relaxing. I found out that people used to dance to it. http://www.answers.com/topic/pavane

[Kurtz]

Mazzy Star "Fade into you"
The Cure, anything off "Disintegration"
Sigur Ros
Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Explosions in the Sky
The Dirty 3

[oldtactics]

Aimee Mann
Sigur Ros
acoustic Matt Good