Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Tear Jerker

This post-rock band from Montreal can really do some incredibly emotional songs.

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• "I said, 'Kiss me, you're beautiful, and these are truly the last days.' You grabbed my hand and we fell into it. Like a daydream. Or a fever." from "The Dead Flag Blues" is particularly heart-wrenching. This is, arguably, the most bleak and depressing piece of music ever written. The cheery bit and the end actually makes it worse.
• "They don't sleep any more on the beaches" from the intro to "Sleep".
• "Love Song for 15 Ontario" by Godspeed side-project Set Fire to Flames manages to be heartbreaking with no vocals at all.
  • The song was used on the soundtrack of the equally heartbreaking movie Tout est parfait, that centers around a teen whose four closest friends all kill themselves, leaving him out of their pact...
• "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" features a beautiful build-up to a crash that feels like dawn... It can make one tear up every time.
• The beginning of "Storm" with the sampled speech.