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Offline azile0

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Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
on: June 25, 2009, 05:40:06 pm
So, if you read my first topic, you'd see that Pandora was playing as one of my tabs. Well, the song "Song from a Secret Garden" just started playing and I'm sobbing over my keyboard right now. Do any of you know of any songs that move you just by listening to them? "Handlebars" by Flobots comes to mind.
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #1 on: June 25, 2009, 05:56:39 pm
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #2 on: June 25, 2009, 05:56:57 pm
Most of the songs that do that to me are from soundtracks of shows/movies I've seen.  The anime series Cowboy Bebop has at least two or three of them.  I can't get through "Call Me Call Me" or "Blue" without tearing up a bit.
 

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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #3 on: June 25, 2009, 05:59:55 pm
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #4 on: June 25, 2009, 06:09:07 pm
Hmmm.... Clint Mansell's Lux Aeterna. I know it's been overused as generic awesome music, but after seeing it in its original context (As one of the crowning pieces of the soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream), it gains a very different note.

Then there's "Skin" and "Dark City" by Machinae Supremacy.
And "Letter - From the lost days" by Akira Yamaoka and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn.
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #5 on: June 25, 2009, 06:48:15 pm
I can't say any song on its own moves me to tears but,

"The Best is Yet to Come" is pretty haunting. Oh and "The World of Midnight" from Black Lagoon is kind of a downer too.
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #6 on: June 25, 2009, 06:57:58 pm
Adagio for strings. Every.Damn.Time.

I blame Homeworld.
 

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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #7 on: June 25, 2009, 07:06:36 pm
*sniff* I love the Homeworld soundtrack.

Entre Moi, by Qntal. Gets me every time, and I don't know why.

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Offline TESLA

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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #8 on: June 25, 2009, 07:09:49 pm
Well here are the ones I feel make you think, or feel some emotion

Sacrifice from 'the gift' (Tv: Buffy) (Josh Whedon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdjVo68ASak

Shooting Star (Film: Stardust)(Ilan Eshkeri)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exhwAvO3-M


Arrival to Earth (Film: Transformers)(Steve Jablonsky)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H0JDomv8ac&feature=related

Now We Are Free (Film: Gladiator)(Hanz Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCw9zo0CAZU

Run (Band: Snow Patrol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5j_Q9CZ3w

May It Be (Artist: Enya)(From Lord Of The Rings)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTQAAupd25g

Admiral and Commander (Bear Mc Creary) (Battlestar Galactica)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jH45JVdTw

All these can be bought from Amazon or iTunes. Have loads of em, really really good!
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #9 on: June 25, 2009, 07:32:06 pm
Tom Waits, "I'll be gone".
 

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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #10 on: June 25, 2009, 07:36:58 pm
Trust You by Yuna Ito

Tears me up something fierce when I think about how Lyle had Anew in his fingers and had her ripped away.  Burn in hell Ribbons Almark, burn in hell.
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The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Reply #11 on: June 25, 2009, 07:44:27 pm
Tears...not for a long time. Randy Edelman's Gettysburg soundtrack used, to particularly Fife and Gun and Killer Angel,

But some other things.

I Saw Your Ship is awe given musical form. I really can't describe it better than that.

...But Still We Go On is a problem. I can't quite explain what it speaks to, only that it fits its title.

Rob Dougan is the master of conveying anger as I know it; dark, intense, somehow sad. Clubbed to Death does it best, but Furious Angels does it well (that's not the full version of Furious Angels on the album, oddly I can't find that...the video's actually pretty good, though) as well. His Nothing At All used to hold the title of "best description of what it's like to be in love" but that's gone to Lamb - Gorecki by now.
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Offline perihelion

Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #12 on: June 25, 2009, 09:06:54 pm
Not tears, exactly, but I can still feel all the blood drain out of my face and the hairs on my neck stand on end whenever I listen to Radiohead's "Blow Out," even after 13 years.  It really captured the feeling of panic that you might be losing your mind and powerless to stop it.
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #13 on: June 25, 2009, 10:17:40 pm
Blood On The Risers always moves me.  :drevil:
 

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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #14 on: June 25, 2009, 11:55:42 pm
When i first heard it with pinning scene in season 2 it was pretty damn sad, especially when it kicks in at about 2:00.  I've designed a Battlestar or two to this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG-Js_rMEV4
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #15 on: June 26, 2009, 12:36:52 am
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Reply #16 on: June 26, 2009, 01:02:44 am
The only song I can think of is Judgement Fray by Machinae Supremacy for the album Jets'n'Guns.

...this is interesting. MS knows that people are distributing their music on P2P networks, and this is their take on it:



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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #17 on: June 26, 2009, 01:04:30 am
Quote from: Flipside on June 25, 2009, 06:57:58 pm
Adagio for strings. Every.Damn.Time.

I blame Homeworld.
Yes.

Also: Vode An. Or 'Brothers All' in Mando'a. Ever since I got into the series and put more mythology behind it, it's become quite stirring for me.

Then there's Late Goodbye (ignore the visuals in that video, they are dumb. First heard it over the end credits of Max Payne 2, and I really felt it encapsulated the storyline, and it's since become probably my favorite song. It moves me every time.
 

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Reply #18 on: June 26, 2009, 01:08:01 am
Oh yes, Late Goodbye. An excellent song indeed. :nod:
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Re: Sad/Epic enough for a double topic.
Reply #19 on: June 26, 2009, 01:34:01 am
I've always found "Follow Me" by Kenji Kawai very powerful.  It was used for the end theme to Innocence, and I've always felt it totally summed up Batou's devotion to Kusanagi.

Another good one is Advent Rising - the main theme from the game with the same title.  The soundtrack to the Karas films also has some very affecting music.

And I'll agree with Late Goodbye.
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