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  3 0 Fur Elise. Simplest, saddest little piano melody ever. Geni answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Irena… 0 0 Oh, this one. Absolutely. Irena commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Nothing is sadder and prettier than Eric Satie. His Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes are perfect on a rainy day. Have you ever listened to Saint Etienne? "Summerisle" from their album Finisterre is beautiful. There is also pretty piano on "Roseneck" and "Mountain Rain", which are on Interlude. Irena answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 2 comments by Irena and Irena… 0 0 Some more: "Yes, Anastasia" by Tori Amos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbvMcHg0qjo "Drawn to the Rhythm" by Sarah McLachlan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG8c0tdPHmU Oh -- and Daniel Lanois, "The Maker" Irena commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 And Cowboy Junkies' cover of "Sweet Jane" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o Irena commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Here are a few for you: Elvis Costello - Almost Blue. (The original album version of this has Elvis' voice accompanied by piano.) Neko Case - Lived in Bars. So awesome and melancholy. Also, if you want piano melodies that will pull at your heartstrings, listen to Ryuichi Sakamoto. kitschnsync answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by ozchick… 0 0 The Almost Blue link had a side link to Lou Reed's Perfect Day, which always makes me want to cry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4pppHD7HNQ&feature=fvw ozchick commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Roscoe, by Midlake. Sweetly, sadly nostalgic and very pretty. Meggers answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Basil… 0 0 That whole album is great and sad. Basil commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 A whole, whole bunch by Richard Thompson: Al Bowlly's in Heaven Beeswing God Loves a Drunk (single saddest song I've ever heard) 1952 Vincent Black Lightning King of Bohemia Walking on a Wire. Colin Killick answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 "Hallelujah", particularly the Rufus Wainwright cover "If I Have to Go" by Tom Waits "A Change is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke And my favorite piano piece ever: "Raindrops" (prelude # 15 ib D flat) by Chopin Jim C answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Some of these aren't so much sad as melancholy I guess... Don McLean: Empty Chairs Don McLean: Vincent Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata James Taylor: Fire and Rain Ani Difranco: Hypnotized Laurie Anderson: White Lily Annie Lennox: Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (from the Red Hot + Blue album) Cirque Du Soleil: Rain One (from Varekai) Tracy Chapman: Fast Car Kristin Bell answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 2 comments by Kristin Bell and Irena… 0 0 Have to add the power ballad: "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. Kristin Bell commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 Fire and Rain is great! Have you seen the literal version for the Bonnie Tyler video? It is freakin' HILARIOUS (although it might ruin the song for you, so be warned): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA Irena commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 "Love is Blue" by Paul Mauriott "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" by Elton John "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin "Pretty Maids All in A Row" by the Eagles/Joe Walsh "Desperado" by the Eagles "The Last Resort" by the Eagles "I Think It's Going to Rain" by Randy Newman "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Booke Benton O my captain answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 2 comments by O my captain and Irena… 0 0 "The Old School" by Rulpert Holmes "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel "Scarlburl Affair" by S&G "The Dangling Conversation" by Simon & Garfunkle O my captain commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 "Scarlburl Affair"? Do you mean Scarborough Fair? It's an old ballad, by the way, S&G didn't write it. But it's a great song. Irena commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Anything elliott smith, i especially enjoy the album 'from a basement on a hill'. Sad, piano heavy music from a man who suffered from chronic alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression. At 34 he drove 2 steak knives into his chest. From a basement was what he working on before he died. Ross Patton answered in Arts & Music about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Ross Patton… 0 0 Some sample lyrics: "it doesn't matter because I have no sex life, all I wanna do now is inject my ex-wife" "i can't prepare for death any more than I already have" Ross Patton commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 "Landslide" sung by either Fleetwood Mac or the Dixie Chicks. "Major Tom" "Greensleeves" "Turpentine" (Brandi Carlisle) "The Lady of Shallot" CleverScreenName answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Rev.Enant… 0 0 the smashing pumpkins/billycorgan cover of landslide is pretty fair too Rev.Enant commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I could make too long a list So, instead: here's what's on rotation today... Chris Cornell's unplugged cover of "Billie Jean" What Sarah Said - Death Cab Hyperballad (string quartet version) - Bjork Papa was a rolling stone - Temptations Prayers for Rain - Cure Rev.Enant answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report 1 comment by Rev.Enant… 0 0 (though out of those, hyperballad takes the cake) Rev.Enant commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 If I Have to Go Empires of Straw When Doves Cry Luna01 answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 "Cattle and Cane" and "Bye Bye Pride" by the Go-Betweens. "The Winter Proper" and "The Sandringham Line" by the Lucksmiths. "I Wish That I Was Beautiful For You" by Darren Hanlon, especially in this lovely video he made starring the actor Eli Wallach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-GH35-FDP8 "Make a Deal With The City" or "I Know My Life Is Wrong" by East River Pipe. "Emma's House" by the Field Mice. And best of all, "Meet Johnny Rave" by Blueboy. Sorry, not a lot of piano there. Wait, here's one: "100,000 Fireflies" by the Magnetic Fields. Fnarf answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I usually use "Ooh La La" by the faces to indulge my melancholy side. "California One" by the Decemberists is good, too. "White Winter Hymnal" by Fleet Foxes "Civil Twilight" by the Weakerthans "The Way I Feel Inside" by The Zombies, and "Life on Mars" by Bowie, both on The Life Aquatic soundtrack. "Domino Effect" by Ozma "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" by Flogging Molly "Wooly Muffler" and sometimes "Carlotta Valdez" by Harvey Danger Mike Smith answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 sigur ros has some fantastic sad-ish sounds () in particular. eluvium's "An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death" is a fantastic all-piano composition by a fantastic ambient artist. erik answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 For the good times -Al Green Daniel -Elton John The Blower's Daughter -Damien Rice 2nd for Landslide (but only the original) Uninvited -Alanis Morissette Dust in the Wind -Kansas Zoom -The Commodores Bunzerelli answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Dixie Chicks: Travelin' Soldier ams23 answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 This song always hit me hard. To me it evokes what it is like to watch a dying planet, the death of daylight and hope for our future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USbg_pd7VUQ Daylight and the Sun - Antony and the Johnsons. Basil answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 A Day in the Life by the Beatles is consistently the best combination of most melancholy and most listenable song for me. Sometimes it has a lot going on (full orchestra), and sometimes it's just a simple, beautiful piano melody and Lennon's raw-ish voice in poignant mode. I'm not prone to chills when I listen to music, but this one occasionally gets me. The other one that gets me is Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Symphony No. 3). Parts of it are genuinely haunting. From Wikipedia: A solo soprano sings a different Polish text in each of the three movements. The first is a 15th-century Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a Silesian folk song of mother searching for son killed in the Silesian uprisings.[2] The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a parent who has lost a child, and the second movement from that of a child separated from a parent. The dominant themes of the symphony are motherhood and separation through war. Mike answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 The aria from La Wally, that is featured in the movie Diva. This is the version from the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsmoo97CVA&feature=related but the voice and vid are not quite in sequence, so is a bit distracting. This is another version, sung by Maria Callas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUYbCksbjk&feature=fvw ozchick answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Let's see: B. Fleischmann - Gain - this one always gets me... Anything off of Selmasongs by Bjork (mostly because it reminds me of that movie). Nick Drake...   I'll need to think about that more. j_lee answered in Arts & Music over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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