I can't believe nobody's mentioned 'Addagio For Strings' (AKA that sad song from the movie Platoon). It was also in Homeworld. I've always found it moving, and I'm not a classical music fan... heck, its one of the few songs I actually know the title of.

There's a few songs that can actually move me to tears if I'm in the right mindset. Songs like Skid Row's 18 And Life and Iron Maiden's Wasted Years both kind of remind me of myself. I've also cried to Journey's Open Arms, if only because it reminds me of something someone once said to me before slamming the door...

Ahem. But the only song that's actually made me cry upon first listening, without using the unfair advantage of bringing up other feelings deep inside, would be Iron Maiden's song Paschendale. It's just so sad and tragic, in a thorough way from music to lyrics, that it made me cry the first time I heard it. Just thinking about that guitar lead over the hi-hat-signal-tapping gives me goosebumps.

In the more traditional vein, I've also considered Poison's 'Life Goes On' to be a rather sad-sounding song. I'd have to second A Toute Le Monde (though I prefer the demo version somewhat), and I'd also nominated 'In My Darkest Hour'. It's more angry, but the first half is rather downbeat. Also Dokken's 'Alone Again' and Warrant's 'Heaven' strike me as sad, but that's probably because I'm tragically misinterpreting the lyrics to Heaven as a guy singing to his dead daughter...

And Mr. Big's 'I'm The One Who Wants To Be With You' makes me sad because it sounds like the Backstreet Boys...