Can any one recommend any music that is especially sad and gloomy.......i.e. moonlight sonata, ase's death,

Question

the main theme from Platoon, Pathetique are just a few examples of what i am looking for. music that makes you cry or especially emotional.

Answer 1

Mad world by Gary Jules, was Christmas number one a few years back

Answer 2

Mad World, Gary Jules or Nine Crimes, Damien Rice, both get me every time.

Nesun Dorma, Puccini makes my Mum cry bucket loads!

Greensleeves, unknown author. That makes me cry too.

My Lover's Gone, Dido, very Celtic sounding, about a sailors widow.

The hymn The Lord Is My Shepherd, as it is such a popular one for funerals, certainly seems to be in my family anyway...

Oh God, just remembered, Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast, Wayne Newton, used to just kill me when I was a kid. It's about a man leaving his family and his child begging him not to. My father left when we were young, it got so bad I couldn't listen to it, and probably couldn't now! It's from the 70's I believe (not that I am that old!!!)

You Do Something To Me, Paul Weller.

Answer 3

Thanks for giving such good examples of what you're looking for--it makes it much easier! I think you would really enjoy Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings." There are several recordings of it available, and there's even an entire album of several of the versions.

Another thing you'd enjoy, though it will be much harder to find, is the soundtrack from "The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" by Marc Isham. There is a gorgeous piece in it. Isham's soundtrack for "Mrs. Soffel" is also very beautiful and sad.

Answer 4

Try meditation and relaxation compilations for those types of pieces. What you find sad I find very peaceful and relaxing it just depends on the person. Moonlight Sonata is one of my personal favorites. Beethoven and Chopin are good and try Claude Debussy.

Answer 5

The Lyke-Wake Dirge
Dies Iræ
"Quiet Please" radio drama theme
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire
Ruby Tuesday by The Rolling Stones
Dirge by Bob Dylan
Cybergod by Nausea
Dirge for November by Opeth
"Cheerful Dirge" by Theatre of Tragedy
Élégie, Gabriel Fauré
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Charles Mingus
An American Elegy, Frank Ticheli
Elegy, Jethro Tull
Elegy, Leaves' Eyes
Jethro Tull has a song named Requiem on their album Minstrel in the Gallery.
Alexander Borodin composed a "Requiem" piece for the collaborative piano work Paraphrases, which is a set of pieces based on the theme commonly known as "Chopsticks."
"Requiem of Spirit" was a song in the popular Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Jesper Kyd is a popular composer who has composed Requiem songs for many videogames.
In 1983 Pink Floyd released an album called "The Final Cut". The album's secondary title was "A Requiem for the Post-War dream".
"Requiem for a Sinner" is the opening track on the 1977 album "World Anthem" by Canadian hard rock band Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, and most fans consider it to be one of their best songs.
Ao no Requiem (Blue Requiem) is the opening song to the anime series, 'Samurai Deeper Kyo'
The soundtrack to anime series, Trinity Blood, has a track called Requiem~Inori (Requiem~Prayer) which was played near the end of the series.
Ambient Drone band Stars of the Lid have a two part song called "Requiem for Dying Mothers" on their album, 'Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid'
Requiem is the closing section in Arthur Miller's famous play, "Death of a Salesman".
"Requiem for a city", by Mike Oldfield, is the second track of the soundtrack to the movie "The Killing Fields".
The funeral march for piano written by Frédéric Chopin in 1837, which became the 3rd movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35 and the theme for his Marche funèbre in C minor, Op. 72 No. 2. (This is probably the most well known and famous funeral march with many appearances in popular culture, such as cartoons and/or computer games). [1]
The Dead March from Saul by George Frideric Handel
The second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
The third movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 12 (Beethoven)
The "Funeral March" from the incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Funeral March for the Final Scene of Hamlet by Hector Berlioz
The Marche funèbre second movement of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Symphony for solo piano, Op. 39 No. 5
Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner
The fourth movement of Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 1
The Trauermarsch opening movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
The ninth variation from Benjamin Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10
The third movement of Mahler's first symphony
The 2nd movement of Brahms' Deutsches Requiem
The "Funeral March": Adagio Molto from Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15

Answer 6

erm...shld be moonlight sonata,or oldies cos they r so absurd they make me cry...lol

Answer 7

Old Shep by Elvis..........