Music that is sad, yet beautiful at the same time. Hauntingly Beautiful (?)

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So much good stuff here. Most of what I would have suggested has been posted, but a bit more Trent never goes astray. And a game song, but it breaks my heart when I hear it.


Ashtar Command - Dead Man's Gun (RDR spoilers in the comments)
NIN - A Warm Place (Inspired by David Bowie - Crystal Japan)
NIN - Another Version of the Truth and the even better (imo) remix
Kronos & Enrique Gonzales Muller - Another Version Of The Truth
Johnny Cash - Hurt

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Amir0x said:
God I guess I just have to show this because it is the most amazing thing ever when coupled to that music.

Listen to it here. Start at the 1:00 mark.

If this isn't one of the most mind blowing and gorgeous things you'll ever see in your life, I don't know what is. It literally brought tears to my eyes, and I've almost never cried in my entire life. The pure beauty of it is almost unbearable.
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Holy shit. That is amazing.
 
Mortrialus said:
Oddly enough, the best threads about music are when they call for a specific mood or emotion. That is music's biggest advantage over the other art forms. Well executed music, as far as I see it, captures pure emotion.
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Agreed. It's pretty enjoyable to look through the types of responses in the thread and see how many different directions it's gone in while still remaining mostly relevant. Nice to see Sakamoto and Sylvian brought up, btw. A select few (non-instrumental; that's almost too easy) that jump to mind:

Matthew Good, "Flight Recorder from Viking 7" -- I used to take the lonely back roads home at night in NY just to have a few extra minutes to listen to this in the "proper" conditions.

Jimmy Scott, "Nothing Compares 2 U" -- One of the all-time saddest songs manages to get even more heartwrenchingly poignant.

Azure Ray, "Raining in Athens" -- Such a small, delicate song, even sounding a bit whimsical at times, but Christ are those lyrics depressing.

Danny Saul, "Your Death" -- I'm not even sure how to express the way the incredible album this is from makes me feel. This track (the album opener) had me nearly in a trance the first time I heard it, and evokes thoughts of your entire world crumbling apart but with an inexplicable sense of hopefulness creeping in at the end.
 
Not sure if these count, neither are particularly sad, but they have that hauntingly beautiful sound to them. Really heavy on the dissonance. Both of these are choir pieces as a heads up.

Eric Whitacre - Sleep

As an explanation for that video, like the youtube info says - The 2011 Virtual Choir video features 2052 performances of 'Sleep' from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to YouTube between September 2010 and January 2011. Impressive as hell.

Performed that song my Senior year in our concert choir. Performing it was an experience in itself. Simply amazing.

Another by Eric Whitacre -

Eric Whitacre - Cloudburst

Beautiful song. I will say being in the front row for a performance of this song - Absolutely unreal. Especially when it gets to the
Cloudburst part
of the song. So powerful and so beautiful. Video does not remotely do it justice.
 
 
Gattaca - The Departure

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Here's one that's kind of personal to me.

I've always liked the song "Sorry So Sorry" by Howie Day. For those not familiar he mostly performs solo with an acoustic guitar and a couple of samplers. He records himself as he plays and then triggers loops to provide his own accompanying chords, backing vocals, bass lines, etc. There are a bunch of videos on Youtube of him performing. Anyway, he never really performs a song exactly the same way twice. Someone sent me this recording of him playing the last few minutes 'Sorry So Sorry' in Columbus Ohio from 2004. I don't know what was going on with him that day, good or bad, but it carries an emotional weight with it that hit me really hard and has always stuck with me, maybe because of some stuff I was going through at the time. Apparently he's had his own issues with addiction, so maybe during that particular performance he was working through something. Whatever it was, it always gives me chills toward the very end when he really lets the vocals fly.

Sorry So Sorry
 
This thread has given me plenty to listen to over the next couple days.

I will stand behind NIER's soundtrack until the day I die. This song in particular:

Song of the Ancients

And its remix:

Song of the Ancients - Fate

Are two songs that really stuck with me long after playing the game. Something about them, despite the lyrics being complete gibberish, stirs up a lot of emotion in me.
 
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