Light songs by normally heavy bands
 

anybody know of any light, calmer (generally), songs by normally heavy bands? the heavier the band that does the light song, the more poignant the song usually is.

First thing that comes to mind for me is all of glassjaw's lighter songs. in no order, they are:

must've run all day
her middle name was boom
convectuoso (unreleased)
the number no good things could come of/st. alex (also unreleased)
everything you ever wanted to know about silence
trailer park jesus
THE HIDDEN TRACK ON THE ALBUM "EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SILENCE," AFTER THE SONG "MOTEL OF THE WHITE LOCUST"

The reason that last one is marked especially is because that is one of the most moving, beautiful songs i've ever heard, and is added to by the fact that many more of the bands songs are harsh, violent, and mostly hateful (not in a bad way though ;) ). It's an entirely vocal-piano number and it's just utterly heartbreaking... I suggest you all listen to it, people who like any genre of music can generally appreciate this song.

So can anyone else think of particularly light and poignant tracks by normally heavy bands? I'd love to hear some response, I love tracks like this.

I love these types of songs too. I think that's why I like TOOL so much, a lot of their songs seem to be right on that verge of unleashing something.

A while ago I made a whole CD of these types of songs.

Metallica - Unforgiven
Flaw - My Letter
Flaw - Best I Am
Pantera - Hollow
Pantera - Planet Caravan (Sabbath Cover)
Metallica - Low Man's Lyric
Unloco - Failure
Finger Eleven - One thing
Cold - Bleed
E Town Concrete - Stranglehold
Sevendust - Angels' Son (also Strait Up version)
Staind - Outside
Corrosion Of Conformity - Shelter

I think that's most of the songs I had on the disk.


Those are a few off of the top of my head.

between the buried and me - reaction
between the buried and me - shevanel take 2
prayer for a cleansing - a dozen black roses

blah. im tired.

try "lady of my dreams" by vast. man, that song has driven me to tears.

i would agree with jadey on the metallica, sevendust and staind songs plus:

pantera - cemetery gates
stone sour - bother
system of a down - aerials

all i can think of now

The biggest one in my head would be: pantera - planet caravan

Few other of my favorites are:

skycamefalling - thera
skycamefalling - the elephant graveyard
poison the well - apathy is a cold body

Pantera- Suicide note part I
Killswitch Engage- My last serenade(for the most part)
Fear factory- Invisible wounds

Now that I think of it...

Hopesfall - Escape Pods for Intangibles
Snapcase - ID/Hindsight
All of the "Damnation" album by Opeth

Dream Theater - Spacedye Vest

*sniffle*

The ones that crack me up are:

Sugar Ray - Fly
Extreme - More than Words

Both agressive bands (in their day), but their only hits were sappy love songs.

Disturbed - Darkness
Mushroomhead - Nowhere to Go
Boy Sets Fire - With Every Intention
A Perfect Circle and Tool have lots too..

Life of Agony's cover of "Don't you forget about me" always got me going...

Metallica's Fade to Black is mostly less than their normal fare.

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
AC/DC - Ride On
KISS - Going Blind

Couple of covers:
Faith No More - I'm Easy (straight up cover of that 70's tune, "I'm easy like Sunday morning, Yeeaaaha")
Bruce Dickinson - All the Young Dudes (His solo stuff is generally less hard than Maiden, but this is a note for note Mott the Hoople cover. Only thing that's different is the voice.)
Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World (Mad props to them for that cover.)

This one's not what you had in mind:
Reverend Horton Heat - Liquor Beer and Wine. Most of the rest of his stuff is hard driving rockabilly, but that one is a straight country ballad.

OK, the spawn are waking, so that's it for me this morning.

Demon Hunter- My throat is an open grave
Cradle of Filth- Thank God for the suffering (more slower, than lighter, but stilll, different than the rest)
Eighteen Visions- Love in Autumn
In Flames- Metaphor
Killswitch Engage- The element of one
Thursday- this song brought to you by a falling bomb

Rammstein - Mutter
Rammstein - Nebel
Metallica - Unforgiven

Of course the first 2 are in German, but they're still pretty kick ass

That's not a translated Misfits cover by any chance, is it?

Don't know if these are consider Heavy:

Skid Row:
18 and Like
I remember you

Salvia:
My goodbyes

Godsmack:
Serenity
VooDoo

Kiss:
Beth


Grim Reaper:
The Show must go on

Monster Magnet:
God says no
Baby GotterDamerung

Dangerous Toys:
Best of Friends

No, it's not a German translation of that song. IMO, Rammstein's Mutter is better.
Korn - Hollow Life
Tenacious D - Wonderboy
Cradle of Filth - Thank God for the Suffering
Mudvayne - World So Cold (I guess)

I'm with the metallica songs. The slower stuff is surprisingly good.

Since most of you have gotten to stuff that poped into my head all I got is

Fear Factory - Timlessness

the Beautiful World cover by Rage Against the Machine comes to mind.

Pantera - Cemetary Gates?

Also,

I dont know how heavy they are in the first place

But My Dying Bride - Roads (cover of a Portishead track)

That's pretty nice.

Metallica - Fade To Black | Nothing Else Matters | The Unforgiven | One | Bleeding Me |

Fear Factory - Timelessness | Ressurection | Memory Imprints (Never End) | Descent

Rammstein - Nebel
Dream Theatre - Tears

I was going to suggest this one as well, gives me chills when I listen to it.

Opeth:
The entire Damnation album
Harvest
To Bid You Farewell
Benighted
For Absent Friends
Patterns in the Ivy
Patterns in the Ivy II

Ulver:
The entire Kveldsanger album

How about..


Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of your Life)
Filter - Take a Picture

grinspoon - hate, chemical heart

the butterfly effect - without wings

finch - ender

the used - on my own

guns and roses - patience, november rain


just a couple more i thought of

Nevermore - Believe in Nothing
Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home

Hopesfall - (Anything off of 'The Satellite Years.' Staggeringly beautiful album)

stole my post :mad:

:D

Converge "Disintergration" (Cure cover)
Poison the Well "Pieces of You In Me"

Additions:

Blood Brothers - The Shame
Blindside - Silence

I also made a CD of these type of songs:

Suicide Note Part 1 - Pantera
Junkhead - Alice in Chains
Rain When I Die - Alice in Chains
Only the Strong (piano version) - Flaw
Epiphany - Staind
Still Remains - Stone Temple Pilots
Everlong (acoustic version) - Foo Fighters
Bleed - Cold
Take a Picture - Filter
Forsaken - David Draiman (Disturbed)
Hurt - Johnny Cash (NIN cover)
Reflection - Tool

tool - disposition
a perfect circle - 3 libras
from autumn to ashes - no trivia, chloroform perfume
staind - alot of new material... epephany
deftones - teenager, anniversary of an uninteresting event
glassjaw - must've run all day
poison the well - apathy is a clod body, horns and tales
dead poetic - bliss tearing eyes
limp bizkit - hold on
filter - take a picture
finch - ender
buckethead - anythign off colma or electric tears
the used - poetic tragedy
thursday - standing on the edge of summer
dredg - same ol' road
incubus - are you in, aqueous tranmission, i miss you
311 - stealing happy hours
nirvana - all apologies
soundgarden - burden in my hand
alice in chains - nutshell

the nirvana unplugged album, not really sure if this counts...

i really like the limp bizkit cover of the who's "behind blue eyes"

Stole _MY_ post! ;)

'deftones - teenager, anniversary of an uninteresting event'

The only other ones i can really think of are 'lucky you' by the deftones. Incidentally, I love Opeth SO MUCH. But are they typically angry? I'd say they have a pretty even mix. BRILLIANT!

I agree with Metallica- Nothing Else Matters One of my all-time favorite songs. Along with Extreme- More Than Words, but I don't consider them all that heavy... :shrug:

you are forgetting the deftones acoustic stuff, which i think is amazing....be quiet and drive, and also change. very nice. and one last one "no ordinary love", which suprisingly i dont know where it came from.

also

foo fighters - everlong (regular and acoustic)
foo fighters - my hero (acoustic)
dave grohl - tiny dancer
staind - epiphany
smashing pumpkins - thirty three
smashing pumpkins - tonight tonight

Stone Sour - Bother

Rise Against - Swing Life Away

Incubus- I Miss You

One? Maybe the first half, but I wouldn't consider it that much ligher than the rest of their stuff. Sure, they have heavier stuff, but not enough heavier to make One seem light.

The two that I was going to mention (In Flames - Metahpor, and Opeth- Damnation album) have already been said.

Man all this great music by great bands and you guys either left off one of the greats or know nothing of them. My alltime favorite slow songs by insane heavy bands are

Acid Bath
1.Smoke the bones of BabyDolls
2.Scream of the Butterfly
3.Dead Girl

Fade to Black. I LOVE that song. wow I love Unforgiven and Nothing Else Matters and One too. Fade to Black I recently discovered (read: past year) and I can't get enough of it.

the acoustic be quiet and drive is one of the most beautiful tings i've ever heard

Not really sure if this is valid on several counts, but I wanted to mention Staind's cover of Pearl Jam's "Black." And the original, too, of course.

the old skool green day song forgot the name

Hello??!!

Every Rose has its Thorn --Poison

The deepest, most meaningful song I know. It still gets to me sometimes. And the chord progression was just so different and cool.

Good call on the Deftones acoustic, I love that song.

Thursday - This song brought to you by a falling bomb.

From Autumn To Ashes - Chloroform Perfume

Finch - Letters To You

Funeral For A Friend - Your revolution is a Joke

Sevendust - Skeleton Song

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

The Used - On My Own

Edit: Sorry if there are repeats kinda just started to post :rolleyes:

Letters to you is really no lighter than most other finch songs, Ender is certainly much lighter than that.

oh really? hehe well I actually haven't heard Ender as Letters To You was on the Punk Gone Acoustic CD and it was a pretty light song will have to give Ender a listen.

Ohhhhhh... well that was an acoustic version of Letters to You then, the original version is pretty much parallel to the rest of their stuff.

In Flames - Acoustic Medley
In Flames - Pallers Anders Visa
In Flames - Whoracle

to name a few

He's not a band, but I heard Slash playing Flamenco. Song is called Obsession Confession. He's pretty good at it.

that came to mind as soon as I saw this thread

In addition to a lot of the ones listed above:

Death - Moment of Clarity (instrumental off of Sound of Perseverance - a beautiful song)
Machine Head - The Burning Red
Fear Factory - Timelessness
Flotsam and Jetsam - Trash (acoustic, hidden track on the album "My God" - every metal fan should buy that album)
Faith no More - RV (angel dust, funny song)
Sepultura - Hidden precussion track at the end of "Roots"
Down - Lies and Where I'm Going - Both on Down II

avenged sevenfold - warmness on the soul

but avenged sevenfold is all about the token cheesy power ballad on every album

It's been mentioned, but I love the song too much not to mention it again

More than Words by Extreme is an amazing song...

Definitely.

Also: The Ballad - Testament
Promises - Overkill

Definately! Also, some of the tracks which switch between heavy and soft are fantastic (eg Venus Blue).

Rammstein I would say Seeman, Mutter and Klavier.

Opeth do some great stuff as Darth Kettch mentioned. Some fantastic acoustic sequences.

I like Fear Factory's softer stuff, usually last couple of songs on their albums. Interesting stuff usually (a therapy for pain, timelessness, etc).

Type O Negative - Love you to death

If you're talking Mushroomhead softies..its not Nowhere to Go..you need to use One More Day

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence VIII: Losing Time/Grand Finale
This is a great song, and the solo is just amazing. It's the most emotional solo in Dream Theater's catelogue (It's only competition being The Spirit Carries On), but it's buried so deep that no one really notices it.

More Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On, Space-Dye Vest

For some reason I can't find any ballads from Slayer.

Guns & Roses - November Rain
System Of A Down - Spiders
Rush - Tears
Bad Company - Ready For Love
Finger Eleven - Awake and Dreaming, Broken Words
Skid Row - I remember you
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man, Tuesdays Gone
Bush - Glycerine, Alien, Letting The Cables Sleep, 40 Miles From The Sun, Inflatable
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Cold - Gone Away

I gotta admit most of those probably wouldn't qualify in the normal listeners perception of "heavy" bands but I gauge heaviness by the energy of the music and the anger or vulnerability in their voice...not by I can sream really deep and loud so as to sound angry at everything and really CRUNCH the power chords to where they almost don't sound musical anymore or cliche(A lot of em do have that good ol SHRED solo somewhere in the middle thats cool haha). Ya know? I've never liked that perception of heavy. It creates a lot of corny ass bands that think they have to follow a formula to be considered heavy.

Asta!!

Tons of Staind stuff... including Epiphany, Outside, Excess Baggage, Zoe Jane... I guess that's the really toned down stuff... you could always figure in It's Been Awhile, So Far Away, Me, Home, etc too I guess...

Pantera - Planet Caravan
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
311 - Sometimes Jacks Rule the Realm... excellent one...
311 - Seems Uncertain
Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes
Cold - Bleed
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Linkin Park - My December

Foo Fighters - Exhausted
Nirvana - Rape Me

awesome songs

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned iced earth, they have some soft ballads which are pretty out of place for a thrash/power metal band. my favourite is A Question of Heaven

Blind guardian has some as well

and i dont think ive seen iron maiden's Fear of the Dark or Blood Brothers on the list yet

If you haven't already, you might want to check out "Midwestern Stylings" by the same band. There's 3 different versions of it and the live version is by far, the most "moving" of them all.

I'll add my own list later.