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00:00Top 10 Saddest Rock Songs Ever Written
00:02Number 10. Nothing Else Matters, Metallica
00:07Metallica's 1991 ballad embraced vulnerability, defying metal norms.
00:13Later, S&M orchestration highlighted intimacy already evident within.
00:18Number 9. Only Women Bleed, Alice Cooper
00:21Cooper's 1975 ballad tackled domestic struggle, charted widely,
00:26using his shock persona to spotlight patriarchy's hidden emotional casualties.
00:32Number 8. Rainbow Eyes, Rainbow
00:34Rainbow's 1978 orchestral ballad unveils Dio's tenderness.
00:40Blackmore's delicate guitar proves that heaviness can shelter breathtaking emotional vulnerability.
00:46Number 7. Landslide, Fleetwood Mac
00:49Stevie Nicks confronts aging and impermanence.
00:53Buckingham's finger-picking sands time, with 1997's live revival deepening its fragile truths.
01:00Number 6. Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
01:03Buckley's 1994 rendition renders Cohen intimate and sensual.
01:08Sparse arrangement, post-1997 tragedy, amplifies confessional vulnerability and ache.
01:15Number 5. Love Hurts, Nazareth
01:18Nazareth's 1975 power ballad scaled charts.
01:22McCafferty's grit lends scars to universal heartbreak, granting communal, judgment-free catharsis.
01:29Number 4. Space Divest, Dream Theater
01:32Kevin Moore's 1994 outlier trades virtuosity for exposed diary pages.
01:37Piano and samples frame controlled unraveling into bearable vulnerability.
01:43Number 3. Romeo and Juliet, Dire Straits
01:46Mark Knopfler's 1980 ballad paints heartbreak in sepia tones.
01:51A resonator guitar romanticizes memory while exposing love's ordinary, ubiquitous disappointments.
01:57Number 2. Borderline, Thin Lizzy
02:00Thin Lizzy's 1976 deep cut reveals Linut's tenderness.
02:04A whispered confession creating sanctuary beneath leather and denim bravado.
02:09Number 1. Soldier of Fortune, Deep Purple
02:13Deep Purple's 1974 ballad whispers post-purpose emptiness.
02:18Acoustic restraint and blues lineage deliver devastating late-night confessional resignation.
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