[Excalibur]

What do you think are the saddest film scores (or any sad music,?

- The Edward Scissorhands soundtracks
- Dead Can Dance - The host of Seraphim
- Titanic soundtrack
- Michael Nyman - The Piano

and some others that many would or would not know:

- Action and Adventure Vol 5 - Amends in vain (freeplaymusic)
- Action and Adventure Vol 5 - Out of time
- Drama Vol 2 - Steadfast
- Music for Pictures Vol 7 - Should of known
-  Orchestral Vol 5 - 06 - Imperfect Perfection
- Orchestral Vol 5 - 08 - Last Attack (at least, some of it is)
- Freeplaymusic.com - Farewell
- Tasmin Archer - Sleeping satellite
- The Killers – Human
- The Killers – When you were young
- Tracy Chapman - Fast car
- Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
- Dire Straits - So Far Away
- Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
- The Bloodhound Gang - The bad touch (yes, I think so)
- Erik McClure - Everything Burns
- Erik McClure - Risukos Tears
- Erik McClure - The Rain Never Stops
- Erik McClure - Tail Note (sort of, nice credits theme I reckon)
- Erik McClure - Nerdgasm – Title (though there’s something missing)
- Erik McClure - 09 - Temperature of Loneliness
- Amy McDonald - This is the life
- Dan Wentz - Ending Score Part 2
- Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
- Medivo - Joshua Mix (sort of, near the end)
- Effiel 65 - Blue_(Da_ba_dee)
- Europe - The Final Countdown
- Hot Butter – Popcorn (if you can get over thinking how “annoying” it is)
- The Hardest Part
- Coldplay - Speed Of Sound (Album Version)
- Coldplay - Fix You
- Erik McClure - Freedom Of The Cosmos
- Erik McClure - Eyes Through A Window
- Erik McClure - Home At Last - Freedom Of The Cosmos
- Abandoned (freeplaymusic)
- Freeplaymusic.com - Kyrie
- Pierre Langer and Scott P. Schreer - Pirates Nest (freeplaymusic, it’s more than just a pirate song)
- Truce (freeplaymusic)
- Backstreet Boys - Incomplete
- Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm (mmm, it is…)
- Fort Minor - Where'd You Go (ft. Holly Brook and Jonah Matra ( I reckon the **** ruins it though)
- Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
- Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day
- Natalie Imbruglia -Torn
- R.E.M. - Losing my Religion
- Toto – Africa (why do people reckon this song is crap?)
- The Moody Blues – Foolish Love
- 3 Doors Down - Here Without You
- Dido - White Flag
- Evanescence - My Immortal (Full Band)
- Mattafix - Big City Life (very)
- Robbie Williams - Advertising space
- Take That - Patience_(Album_version)
- Alex Lloyd - Amazing
- DHT - Listen to Your Heart (I suppose any version)
- Evanescence - Lithium
- Evermore- It's Too Late
- James Blunt - Wisemen (sort of)
- Kanye West – Stronger (some of it)
- Ugly Kid Joe - Cats In The Cradle (though not sad, it reminds me of an excellent book I read, if they ever make a movie of it, I reckon they should put this song in it, or at least an instrumental) oh, and someone actually reckoned it was sad…

I shouldn’t go on for too long though…your thoughts?

And, download "Checkmate" from freeplaymusic.com, and listen to the part from 1:30 to 1:50. I know this comes from some other song, but I don't know the name of it. Help anyone?

[Nuclear1]

Barber's Adagio for Strings.

[BrotherBryon]

Theme from the movie Platoon.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Cat's in the cradle isn't by Ugly Kid Joe although there may be a remake.  The origial was by Harry Chapin(sp) It does become a very sad song after you loose your Father.

Moody Blues:  Lucky Man
Moody Blues:  Knights in White Satin
Kansas:  Dust in the wind
Blue Oyster Cult:  Don't Fear the Reaper
Heart:  Blue Lamp (When watching Heavy Metal)
Simon & Garfunkel:  Just about every song 
Warren Zevon:  Wreck of the Edmon Fitzgearld(sp)

7:00 time to grab a beer an put the upbeat tunes on. 

And for some strange reason the random play decided to start with:

Live:  Lightning Crashes

[General Battuta]

Black Hawk Down.

neo-Battlestar Galactica.

[Nuclear1]

BB: That was Adagio for Strings in Platoon.

[General Battuta]

And in Homeworld!

[Ghostavo]

[Flipside]

Kissing in the Rain from Great Expectations

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNER1fot5U

Lucia De Lamemoor - The Opera part sung in Fifth Element

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4MR6D7tL38U&feature=related

Never though I'd enjoy a song as sung by what looks like a Minbari warship with legs...

[Rick James]

And in Homeworld!

A common misconception. The music piece heard in Homeworld is "Agnus Dei", a liturgical hymn written centuries ago and eventually adapted to Barber's "Adagio for Strings".

[Retsof]

Kinda skipped over the list, don't usually pay attention to who does what...  But I know Everything Burns is a sad one.  Some others of Erik's are sad too, but I don't feel like figuring out which ones they were.

[Spicious]

You did say +music so:
Juliet's Funeral, Juliet's Death - Prokofiev
Symphony 6, 4th movement - Tchaikovsky
Piano trio (various parts) - Tchaikovsky
Piano trio 2 (most of it) - Shostakovich
Vocalise - Rachmaninov

[Flipside]

Forgot one of my favourites!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_m4dAB7o2Cc&feature=related

[Bobboau]

Lux Aeterna (requiem for a dream)?

you  don't get much more //wrists than that.
as cliched as it is now it is so for a good reason, think about the first time you heard the song, you immediately recognized it as a song about loss. a downward unending spiral of hopeless despair, everything you ever knew or loved slowly withering to ash in your hands and there is nothing you can do about it. it is almost funny how depressing it is.

[Ford Prefect]

"Da le belle contrade"-- Cipriano de Rore
Pavane pour une infante defunte-- Ravel
Thomas Tallis' Lamentations of Jeremiah
Eric Whitacre's setting of When David Heard...
Lamentate-- Arvo Pärt

[General Battuta]

And in Homeworld!

A common misconception. The music piece heard in Homeworld is "Agnus Dei", a liturgical hymn written centuries ago and eventually adapted to Barber's "Adagio for Strings".

Ah! Thank you.

[Solatar]

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D Major: III - Romanza: Lento.

As with a lot of his earlier orchestral works, it's both incredibly sad and somehow happy. It seems nostalgic to me. Almost as if the music is describing a happy place that either never really existed or has since departed from the world. The focal points and orchestral swells are gorgeous, and almost tear jerking in a nostalgic way.

EDIT: Darn you Spicious for posting Tchaikovksy 6 before I could.

[Nuclear1]

And in Homeworld!

And Elephant Man.

[BloodEagle]

Mad World (not the first one):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

[Rick James]

Mad World (not the first one):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4

Dammit, that one made me sad  .