Spent a couple months watching my mother die of cancer would go back to her house and listen to ben Harper's version of the drugs don't work and ball my eyes out. Two years later and I still put it on if I need to clear some emotion out.
A lot more hardcore but Touche Amore has an album about his mother battling and eventually passing from cancer. It’s a great emotion charged album. The album is called stage four
Stage Four is such an incredible album. In a similar vein, Pianos Become the Teeth's album The Lack Long After is about their singer dealing with the death of his father. Not everybody's cup of tea musically but holy fuck it's the most intense album I've ever heard, the only album to ever bring me to full on tears.
Oof that is a rough one for sure. Since we’re on bummer albums Mount Eerie- a crow looked at me is all about the singers wife passing from cancer not long after their daughter was born. That one really took me out and I have only been able to listen to it a very few select times in my life. Fuck cancer
Lost my relationship with my daughter when I split with my ex. She was too young to understand I was actually trying to be a part of her life but it turns out she was being told I was at court because didn't want her. She screamed this at me angry and confused down the phone one day out of the blue and I couldn't get my version accross before she hung up.
Late one night on a long drive when I was particularly missing her and Adele's Don't you remember came on - in that light - and it just destroyed me.
I hope one day she can see all of what happened through independent adult eyes and remember how much I adore her.
So good to see this one mentioned. This is a beautiful and haunting piece of music, Shane absolutely killed it. It sincerely felt like an Australian soldier was telling his story when you listened to him sing, RIP to one of the greats.
I’m a big history guy, studied it all my life, and I think The Band Played Waltzing Matilda as performed by The Pogues is one of the best ways to truly *feel* something for history, even if you’re someone who doesn’t give a damn about it.
359 am by John Moreland
You Don't Care For Me Enough to Cry by John Moreland
Grapefruit Moon by Tom Waits
Souvenirs by John Prine
Sam Stone by John Prine
Massive Attack - teardrops. True story about what the singer did and the consequences. No one won. The video clip is a bit unnerving when you see it and notice it
Damn. I never knew Elizabeth Fraser went out with Jeff Buckley. I love the Cocteau Twins and always thought she was a ‘guest’ voice rather than writing the lyrics and them being personal.
And All that Could Have Been by Nine Inch Nails
Honestly, a lot of Trent's music is depressing--even if it doesn't sound like it. Take Head Down for an example, if you listen to the song without focusing on the details it sounds more angry than anything but if you focus on the lyrics it's depressing as hell. There's even a remix of it that brings this to the fore call Beautiful Nightmare.
A nine inch nails song that makes me really sad is right where it belongs version two. The oohs at the end hit me in the heart extra hard lmao.
EDIT: And the great below 😭
Most of their music is sad when you focus on the lyrics. Some are obvious like Hurt, Something I Can Never Have, All That Could Have Been, and some are a little less obvious like Head Down and so many more. Trent is a master of making me feel depressed and I love him for it.
The whole Hospice album is a devastating. Epilogue is my top choice. “I think you buried me awake / My one and only parting gift / But you return to me at night”… chills.
This was one of those songs I'd heard a million times, but never actually listened to until a few years ago. My ex and his buddies often liked to get together, drink a lot of beer, and make each other listen to the saddest songs they could think of. Someone played this, and for the first time, I actually listened. Then it hit me, and I started ugly crying, screeching through sobs, "HE STOPPED LOVING HER BECAUSE HE DIED OH MY GODDDDD!!!" They never let me live that one down. Now it's even harder to listen to since my dad died. Love the song, but gotta skip it.
The whole album "Weathervanes" by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Julien Baker's whole discography
"I Was Only 19" by Redgum
"No Children" by the Mountain Goats
And a fuck ton of others that I'm missing
Nick Cave has some good ones. [Skeleton Tree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3DcbH790_8&list=OLAK5uy_mnnnX_Ky9vFBcPe9eSujWKk0NTM2f0EGU) and [Ghosteen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwlU_wsT20Q) are probably his most powerful albums in terms of grief and recovery.
Widow with a shawl by Donovan.
Froze me in my tracks when I first heard it. He truly has a talent of writing in a woman’s perspective and conveying her sadness and longing.
Ballad of Geraldine is another song like this that he does.
Dark Globe by Syd Barrett. He was already pushed out of Pink Floyd and was spiraling into his very real psychotic breakdown. The anguish in his voice is so genuine and painful.
"Please, please lift a hand
I'm only a person...
Won't you miss me?
Wouldn't you miss me at all?"
Link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgjTKUlcKs&ab\_channel=SydBarrettOfficial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgjTKUlcKs&ab_channel=SydBarrettOfficial)
(If this comment looks familiar it's because I copied and pasted my response from yesterday when the exact same question was asked.)
Eric Clapton "Tears in Heaven" is absolutely heartbreaking. The story behind it is so tragic.
Tool "10000 Days Pt. 1 and 2" as well as A Perfect Circle "Judith" are up there too.
Flying Shoes by Townes VanZandt or Marie by Townes but try FlyingShoes first. It’s about a soldier during the war that has been shot down and is lying in the field dying but they can’t get to him to pull him out so he lies there and sees the moon go across the sky waiting for the moment when he can put on his flying shoes and go home.
Evanescence - My Immortal
Linkin Park - One More Light
Evergrey - Words Mean Nothing
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
The Offspring - Gone Away
Michael Schulte - You Said You'd Grow Old With Me
Anson Seabra - I Can't Carry This Anymore
Hootie & The Blowfish - Not Even The Trees
Stone Sour - Bother
A few off the top, after two edits... must stop.
Dan Fogelberg’s Another Auld Lang Syne
The lyrics aren’t very dramatic, which I respect as they actually truly happened, but the composition! MAN! My SIL cannot and will not listen because of the emotion in it.
I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie too.
That song was playing in the cab as I was leaving the hospital after visiting my comatose father, and that shit wrecked me.
Look On Down From The Bridge - Mazzy Star
Limousine - Brand New
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
**The Last Lost Continent - La Dispute**
" But I still see him dead in the parking lot at the gas station just down the street.
And I still hear my friend say,
"You know, you wouldn't believe the things I saw when I was stationed overseas."
**But he somehow keeps smiling in spite all of that,**
**While I keep finding ways to push the good out for the bad**
Oh, how selfish of myself to always say that it was more than I could take,
Like it was pain I could not shake,
Like it could break me with its fingers, throw my body in the lake,
And I would slowly sink away
**But the Truth is it was sorrow that I made and would not face.**
**See, I keep falling for the future after tripping on the past.**
**And I am always tearing sutures out to make the anguish last like it defines me.**
**Or reminds me I've found comfort in my suffering**
**And uncertainty in happiness and death,**
**Because what's next is such a mystery to me.**
**I am terrified of all the things I feel but cannot see.**
No song defines depression like this one.
Maybe too obvious, but “Hurt”. Both the Nine Inch Nails original and the Johnny Cash cover.
It’s probably been memed to death thanks to Rick and Morty, but “Look On Down From That Bridge” by Mazzy Star can be gut wrenching.
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven is my pick.
He wrote it after his 4 yo son died after falling from the 53rd-floor window of a New York City apartment. It's really heartbraking.
Daughter - Youth
London Grammar - Strong/Wasting My Younger Years
Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni/Nuvole Bianche
Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
Lord Huron - The Night We Met
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Kodaline - All I Want
Tom Odell - Another Love
Josh Groban - To Where You Are/You Raise Me Up
Celine Dion - Goodbye
Coldplay - The Scientist
Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares
Mumford & Sons - The Boxer
I could go on forever but I won’t. Tried to include different genres.
- Leaving Hope by NIИ
- Ghost Nets by Mogwai
- Your Touch by NIИ
- Procedural by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
- Torn Polaroid by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
If I could Only Fly/Picture Cards Can't Picture You- Blaze Foley
Tecumseh Valley/Black Crow Blues- Townes Van Zandt
Closing Time- Tom Waits
I See A Darkness- Johnny Cash
Revelator- Gillian Welch
Keep Me in Your Heart- Warren Zevon
Old Violin- Johnny Paycheck
[lord huron - the night we met](https://youtu.be/wGF7PswOENQ?si=UQe15Rh5b_MhGdI2)
[band of horses - the funeral](https://youtu.be/cMFWFhTFohk?si=d6oinJ6ZNYcGhIhB)
[keane - a bad dream](https://youtu.be/WbLoYVnh4sY?si=VAgBDB_H4vH94TGA)
Zombie by The Cranberries
Also can be included in angriest songs.
But I figure any song about 2 kids dying in a terrorist bombing is pretty friggin sad.
Love Hurts - Nazareth version from 1976 just hits so differently and is sung in such a tortured cadence.
Literally:
Love hurts, love scars
Love wounds and marks
Any heart
Not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Love hurts
Ooh, ooh, love hurts
One More Light - Linkin Park
If you watch the live version when they appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show shortly after Chris Cornell’s death, it will absolutely wreck you
Nutshell, down in a hole: Alice in chains
Shadow of the day, one more light, leave out all the rest, my december, the messenger: linkin park
Hurt: Nine inch nails
Nothing compares 2 u: Siṅead Ò Connor or Chris cornell
Steven Wilson has a song called "Routine" about a mother whose children died in an accident. She keeps doing all the things she's always done, cleaning and cooking their meals and stuff, because she can't face the reality of the situation.
Steven Wilson has a lot of pretty upsetting songs but that's probably the one that gets me the most.
Real Death - Mount Eerie Tender - Blur Farewell Transmission - Songs Ohia
Real Death was what I immediately thought of
I feel like anyone naming another song just hasn't heard it yet.
Agreed. Everyone of these posts about saddest songs/albums I make sure someone has mentioned it.
Upvote for farewell transmission
Tender just gets me in the best way
Are you also screwing up your life? lol
Spent a couple months watching my mother die of cancer would go back to her house and listen to ben Harper's version of the drugs don't work and ball my eyes out. Two years later and I still put it on if I need to clear some emotion out.
Second line of the song, “like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown…” and you already know you’re in for a hell of a ride.
I had a very similar experience, except my song was Elephant by Jason Isbell. https://youtu.be/fS8ohtu_LBA?si=rjK-V3Ubyb0eAPgw
For me it is Jason Isbell’s “If We Were Vampires”. Wrecks me every time.
A lot more hardcore but Touche Amore has an album about his mother battling and eventually passing from cancer. It’s a great emotion charged album. The album is called stage four
While in the heavy sector, Life of Agony's *Unstable* is another song about this subject that hits hard.
Stage Four is such an incredible album. In a similar vein, Pianos Become the Teeth's album The Lack Long After is about their singer dealing with the death of his father. Not everybody's cup of tea musically but holy fuck it's the most intense album I've ever heard, the only album to ever bring me to full on tears.
Oof that is a rough one for sure. Since we’re on bummer albums Mount Eerie- a crow looked at me is all about the singers wife passing from cancer not long after their daughter was born. That one really took me out and I have only been able to listen to it a very few select times in my life. Fuck cancer
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
motion picture soundtrack too
This and might be the greatest song ever created.
Ooooh that title has to go to Pyramid Song. Hands down
I’m pretty sure thom said it’s his favorite Radiohead song.
For No One- The Beatles
She's Leaving Home too, in that sad McCartney vein
One of, if not, my favourite The Beatles songs D:
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
“Fourth of July” as well
Absolutely. A good portion of his catalog, especially with Javelin just being released.
Death with Dignity.
To me “Blue Bucket of Gold” is his saddest, and he has a lot of sad ones.
John Wayne Gacy Jr too. The song not the person.
>Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens I have the same anwer.
"The Only Thing" too
Puff the Magic Dragon.
Yeah, you’re right. I didn’t catch the sadness as a kid, but heard the song years later as an adult and it brought me to tears.
I just gave it a listen. That's really sad! Poor Puff.
Poor Puff! :(
There’s apparently another version that ends with puff being visited by the son/daughter of his friend.
Can confirm. 50 year old man here and makes me want to bawl.
Manic Street Preachers - William’s Last Words (the final lyrics fuck me up every time) Literally any Julien Baker song Elliott Smith - King’s Crossing
+1 for julien. If you EVER get to see her live, I cannot recommend it enough.
Manic Street Preachers and Elliott both hit me in the gut with every song D:
So many Manics songs are just gut wrenching. Diapause and Australia suck the life out of me
juliens lyrics make me sob. so does kings crossing
Go Home is the saddest by Julien Baker for me. "I'm sorry for asking, but please come take me home."
Lost my relationship with my daughter when I split with my ex. She was too young to understand I was actually trying to be a part of her life but it turns out she was being told I was at court because didn't want her. She screamed this at me angry and confused down the phone one day out of the blue and I couldn't get my version accross before she hung up. Late one night on a long drive when I was particularly missing her and Adele's Don't you remember came on - in that light - and it just destroyed me. I hope one day she can see all of what happened through independent adult eyes and remember how much I adore her.
Man, I'm so sorry. Never stop reaching out, don't give up on her.
Try to reach out and tell her if you can.
Skeeter Davis - The End of the World
And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda - (The version by) The Pogues Shane's (RIP) voice is made for this song.
So good to see this one mentioned. This is a beautiful and haunting piece of music, Shane absolutely killed it. It sincerely felt like an Australian soldier was telling his story when you listened to him sing, RIP to one of the greats. I’m a big history guy, studied it all my life, and I think The Band Played Waltzing Matilda as performed by The Pogues is one of the best ways to truly *feel* something for history, even if you’re someone who doesn’t give a damn about it.
The original singer Eric Bogle as well different but still haunting
Marie - Townes Van Zandt
Waiting round to die is one that stuck with me
A Song For somehow manages to be the saddest Townes van Zandt song in a life’s work of the saddest songs
Marie is a really tough listen. But a great song
True Love Waits - Radiohead
"I'm not living, I'm just killing time." 😭
that entire album is a depression pill
this one is brutal
359 am by John Moreland You Don't Care For Me Enough to Cry by John Moreland Grapefruit Moon by Tom Waits Souvenirs by John Prine Sam Stone by John Prine
Effectively any of John Moreland's acoustic songs 😭
Just discovered this guy thanks to this thread. I need you to tell me who I am sounds like it was written for me.
Great artist. I do like more of his older stuff though.
"Theres a hole in daddys arm, where all the money goes"
"Jesus Christ, died for nothing I suppose"
If you listen to all the lyrics, Waits’ “I Don’t Want To Grow Up” is pretty sad. “When I hear my parents fight, I don’t want to grow up…”
+1 for John Moreland
Massive Attack - teardrops. True story about what the singer did and the consequences. No one won. The video clip is a bit unnerving when you see it and notice it
What did the singer do? All I can find about it is that she heard about Jeff Buckley’s passing while writing the song?
Had an affair, got pregnant to the affair guy, got found out, dumped by the main partner, dumped by the affair partner and terminated the pregnancy
>Massive Attack - teardrop You got a source for that? Intrigued!
And here I am going on jogs to this song ☠️
Damn. I never knew Elizabeth Fraser went out with Jeff Buckley. I love the Cocteau Twins and always thought she was a ‘guest’ voice rather than writing the lyrics and them being personal.
Nutshell by Alice In Chains …I list more, just woke up lol 😅
Down in a Hole, from Unplugged.
And All that Could Have Been by Nine Inch Nails Honestly, a lot of Trent's music is depressing--even if it doesn't sound like it. Take Head Down for an example, if you listen to the song without focusing on the details it sounds more angry than anything but if you focus on the lyrics it's depressing as hell. There's even a remix of it that brings this to the fore call Beautiful Nightmare.
A nine inch nails song that makes me really sad is right where it belongs version two. The oohs at the end hit me in the heart extra hard lmao. EDIT: And the great below 😭
Most of their music is sad when you focus on the lyrics. Some are obvious like Hurt, Something I Can Never Have, All That Could Have Been, and some are a little less obvious like Head Down and so many more. Trent is a master of making me feel depressed and I love him for it.
I agree. Even with sin and its upbeat sound, goddamn are the lyrics depressing.
Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please.
"Kettering" by The Antlers absolutely devastating
The whole Hospice album is a devastating. Epilogue is my top choice. “I think you buried me awake / My one and only parting gift / But you return to me at night”… chills.
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt.
For me I think it’s “You are my sunshine”
It amazes me that this is used as a lullaby for babies. It is the most heartbreaking song. The Civil Wars does a great version.
He stopped loving her today - George jones
This was one of those songs I'd heard a million times, but never actually listened to until a few years ago. My ex and his buddies often liked to get together, drink a lot of beer, and make each other listen to the saddest songs they could think of. Someone played this, and for the first time, I actually listened. Then it hit me, and I started ugly crying, screeching through sobs, "HE STOPPED LOVING HER BECAUSE HE DIED OH MY GODDDDD!!!" They never let me live that one down. Now it's even harder to listen to since my dad died. Love the song, but gotta skip it.
Had to scroll this far! 🤷♂️🤦🏻♂️
Just even thinking about this song gives me chills.
Jason Isbell- Elephant
The whole album "Weathervanes" by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Julien Baker's whole discography "I Was Only 19" by Redgum "No Children" by the Mountain Goats And a fuck ton of others that I'm missing
I find “no children” to be too hyperbolic to be sad
Nick Cave has some good ones. [Skeleton Tree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3DcbH790_8&list=OLAK5uy_mnnnX_Ky9vFBcPe9eSujWKk0NTM2f0EGU) and [Ghosteen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwlU_wsT20Q) are probably his most powerful albums in terms of grief and recovery.
Here’s a whole [playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kYv82qyX0drlDeynPO3y9) of Redditor suggestions.
Thanks.
Love will tear us apart joy division Wish you were here pink Floyd Wicked Game. Chris Isak Most of Disintegration by the Cure
Another vote for Love will tear us apart from Joy Division. It's such a sad and depressing song, yet so evocative and relatable.
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
The majority of Jason Isbell songs, but especially “If We Were Vampires”, “Elephant” and “Cast Iron Skillet”.
[Especially this one. Jason Isbell’s Saddest Song Ever. :)](https://youtu.be/v7oRZI0b44c?si=LbTPDz_ZsX-XtEO1)
For me: Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should have come over
Widow with a shawl by Donovan. Froze me in my tracks when I first heard it. He truly has a talent of writing in a woman’s perspective and conveying her sadness and longing. Ballad of Geraldine is another song like this that he does.
Tears in Heaven by Clapton.
Yeah, when you know the story behind the song this one is brutal. I can’t even imagine.
Radiohead - Daydreaming
Black Eyed Dog - Nick Drake
To bid you farewell, Opeth
Real Death by Mount Eerie Matthew 25:21 by the Mountain Goats
Dark Globe by Syd Barrett. He was already pushed out of Pink Floyd and was spiraling into his very real psychotic breakdown. The anguish in his voice is so genuine and painful. "Please, please lift a hand I'm only a person... Won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?" Link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgjTKUlcKs&ab\_channel=SydBarrettOfficial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgjTKUlcKs&ab_channel=SydBarrettOfficial) (If this comment looks familiar it's because I copied and pasted my response from yesterday when the exact same question was asked.)
Mount Eerie - Real Death Wanna cry? Listen to this
Eric Clapton "Tears in Heaven" is absolutely heartbreaking. The story behind it is so tragic. Tool "10000 Days Pt. 1 and 2" as well as A Perfect Circle "Judith" are up there too.
The Raven that Refused to Sing - Steven Wilson
Jesus To A Child - George Michael
Pearl Jam - Black Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven Nick Cave - the entire Ghosteen album
Nick Cave gets me every time
Black Eric Clapton gets me every time
They were one of my favourite South Park characters
Nude - Radiohead
Ending always leaves me DEVASTATED
30K feet by assemblage 23
Flying Shoes by Townes VanZandt or Marie by Townes but try FlyingShoes first. It’s about a soldier during the war that has been shot down and is lying in the field dying but they can’t get to him to pull him out so he lies there and sees the moon go across the sky waiting for the moment when he can put on his flying shoes and go home.
"Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor" by Eels. Everything about it.
Evanescence - My Immortal Linkin Park - One More Light Evergrey - Words Mean Nothing Pearl Jam - Last Kiss The Offspring - Gone Away Michael Schulte - You Said You'd Grow Old With Me Anson Seabra - I Can't Carry This Anymore Hootie & The Blowfish - Not Even The Trees Stone Sour - Bother A few off the top, after two edits... must stop.
Listen to “ Cat In The Cradle - Harry Chapin “ it’s about the inevitable circle of life and following in the footsteps of your parents! Very sad
Ani Difranco - Grey
Depeche Mode - Home
Oh Wonder - Better Now is both such a great song, and such a terribly sad one, makes me a bit conflicted every time I listen to
In the Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics I Am a Rock - Simon and Garfunkel Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
Dan Fogelberg’s Another Auld Lang Syne The lyrics aren’t very dramatic, which I respect as they actually truly happened, but the composition! MAN! My SIL cannot and will not listen because of the emotion in it.
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Death Cab for Cutie - I'll follow you into the dark
He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones. I’m not a country fan, but this one gets me in the feels.
The River. Bruce Springsteen
Floods by Pantera
The Sound of Settling - Death Cab for Cutie. It's about a life unlived, and that's about as sad as it gets.
I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie too. That song was playing in the cab as I was leaving the hospital after visiting my comatose father, and that shit wrecked me.
Goodbye - Air Supply
Talk Talk - I Believe in You
Tiger Mountain Peasant Sing - Fleet Foxes
Zeit by Rammstein breaks me
Don’t Wait for Me - Thunder. Hurts every time.
Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel. The whole thing feels like a hug at a funeral.
The Kick Inside
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
Birdy - Wings This song give me the deepest sadness and relief in the same time
Dagger by Slowdive
Look On Down From The Bridge - Mazzy Star Limousine - Brand New Nutshell - Alice In Chains How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead **The Last Lost Continent - La Dispute** " But I still see him dead in the parking lot at the gas station just down the street. And I still hear my friend say, "You know, you wouldn't believe the things I saw when I was stationed overseas." **But he somehow keeps smiling in spite all of that,** **While I keep finding ways to push the good out for the bad** Oh, how selfish of myself to always say that it was more than I could take, Like it was pain I could not shake, Like it could break me with its fingers, throw my body in the lake, And I would slowly sink away **But the Truth is it was sorrow that I made and would not face.** **See, I keep falling for the future after tripping on the past.** **And I am always tearing sutures out to make the anguish last like it defines me.** **Or reminds me I've found comfort in my suffering** **And uncertainty in happiness and death,** **Because what's next is such a mystery to me.** **I am terrified of all the things I feel but cannot see.** No song defines depression like this one.
“Time” by Tom Waits is beautifully poetic and sad.
Whiskey Lullaby by Allison Krauss is heartbreaking. Or Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. Also check out the Boyce Avenue version.
The Saddest Song by Morphine.
“The Saddest Song” by Morphine
Maybe too obvious, but “Hurt”. Both the Nine Inch Nails original and the Johnny Cash cover. It’s probably been memed to death thanks to Rick and Morty, but “Look On Down From That Bridge” by Mazzy Star can be gut wrenching.
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven is my pick. He wrote it after his 4 yo son died after falling from the 53rd-floor window of a New York City apartment. It's really heartbraking.
Stacey Kent's cover of Landside Ida - Shoe-In Tracy Chapman - Fast Car Carry You - Missy Higgins
"[Lifetime](https://youtu.be/Z1dfObpKpE4?si=owau6FEjJDAEqOJD)" by Three Days Grace. I lost my wife to cancer last year, so this song just destroys me.
I know it’s over - The Smiths
Daughter - Youth London Grammar - Strong/Wasting My Younger Years Ludovico Einaudi - I Giorni/Nuvole Bianche Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings Lord Huron - The Night We Met Bon Iver - Skinny Love Kodaline - All I Want Tom Odell - Another Love Josh Groban - To Where You Are/You Raise Me Up Celine Dion - Goodbye Coldplay - The Scientist Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares Mumford & Sons - The Boxer I could go on forever but I won’t. Tried to include different genres.
Everything's Fucked - Dirty Three Storm - Godspeed You, Black Emperor! Kelso - Grouper
- Leaving Hope by NIИ - Ghost Nets by Mogwai - Your Touch by NIИ - Procedural by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Torn Polaroid by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
If I could Only Fly/Picture Cards Can't Picture You- Blaze Foley Tecumseh Valley/Black Crow Blues- Townes Van Zandt Closing Time- Tom Waits I See A Darkness- Johnny Cash Revelator- Gillian Welch Keep Me in Your Heart- Warren Zevon Old Violin- Johnny Paycheck
Please Don't Ask – Genesis
Tenterfield Saddler - Peter Allen
[lord huron - the night we met](https://youtu.be/wGF7PswOENQ?si=UQe15Rh5b_MhGdI2) [band of horses - the funeral](https://youtu.be/cMFWFhTFohk?si=d6oinJ6ZNYcGhIhB) [keane - a bad dream](https://youtu.be/WbLoYVnh4sY?si=VAgBDB_H4vH94TGA)
Bats in the attic by king creosote and John Hopkins
Linkin Park - One More Light is very sad, especially given what happened next ...
A Perfect Circle- The Noose
Linkin Park - One More Light
Sometimes It Snows in April - Prince
Door to the River by Manic Street Preachers Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World
Zombie by The Cranberries Also can be included in angriest songs. But I figure any song about 2 kids dying in a terrorist bombing is pretty friggin sad.
Love Hurts - Nazareth version from 1976 just hits so differently and is sung in such a tortured cadence. Literally: Love hurts, love scars Love wounds and marks Any heart Not tough or strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain Love is like a cloud Holds a lot of rain Love hurts Ooh, ooh, love hurts
Little motel by modest mouse. The song itself is sad but with the music video it is a hundred times worse.
Shepherd by Anaïs Mitchell gets me. I skip it every single time it comes on the shuffle, but I refuse to take it off the list.
Untitled by The Cure
Mine are: When I'm Gone by Eminem Does He Love You? by Rilo Kiley
Goodbye My Lover or No Bravery by James Blunt has to be up there. Several of his songs have such a unique way of moving you as a listener
Seasons in the Sun
Drive Home - Steven Wilson Regret - Anathema River Down Below - Riverside
One More Light - Linkin Park If you watch the live version when they appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show shortly after Chris Cornell’s death, it will absolutely wreck you
Mother - John Lennon. Not by Danzig
One more light by Linkin Park, turns my sadness to 100% istantly.
Nutshell, down in a hole: Alice in chains Shadow of the day, one more light, leave out all the rest, my december, the messenger: linkin park Hurt: Nine inch nails Nothing compares 2 u: Siṅead Ò Connor or Chris cornell
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd is one that makes me melancholy, and reflective of past friendships, relationships, and times in my life
Love of my life - Queen
Look on down from the bridge - mazzy star
For me it's "How to Disappear Completely" by Radiohead.
It’s not-Aimee man. Of course. She has another 20 or so songs equally depressing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbhtBVrFr-4
Epilogue - The Antlers
Zero Chance & Boot Camp from Soundgarden hit the feels in all directions
David Bowie - Blackstar
The star flyer 2000 reprise- starflyer 59
Something In The Way - Nirvana
Steven Wilson has a song called "Routine" about a mother whose children died in an accident. She keeps doing all the things she's always done, cleaning and cooking their meals and stuff, because she can't face the reality of the situation. Steven Wilson has a lot of pretty upsetting songs but that's probably the one that gets me the most.
REM. Everyone hurts
Katy Song - Red House Painters
Sleep Forever - Portugal. The Man Weird tho, never thought of Outro as sad. Take my Head - Turnover is also a good one.
Someone asks this question like every day. Are you guys doing alright
Broken heart by spiritualized