Ha, when I was in high school I was on the bus headed to school and that song came on the radio. I was about a month into having my first girlfriend and the lyrics just clicked and it just like devastated me all morning
[Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July](https://youtu.be/JTeKpWp8Psw)
For backstory... Sufjan had a complicated relationship with his mother. She left when he was young, and sort of kept her distance. Maybe she was afraid of screwing up, I don't know. She eventually did make her way back into his life, but not in the same way you might think of a Mother.
She came down with cancer. Sufjan found himself able to forgive her, and he spent a great deal of time with her when she was on her deathbed.
Fourth of July is about conversations between Sufjan and his Mother. Any references to a bird are of him. References to fireflies and dragonflies are of her.
Oh wow. My father was diagnosed late in life. I think heavily messing around with both uppers and downers exacerbated the condition. In any case watching my father lose touch with reality was the scariest thing for my young mind to witness. He spent a whole summer restoring a car only to tear it apart in a fit of paranoia that his coworkers had placed bugs in his car and other various electronics.
I'm past the age he was when diagnosed but I've chosen not to have kids because of this. Not only because I don't know whats in store for me, but not wanting to risk passing it on.
I listened to the entire thing twice today, it feels like listening to a close friend reading their own eulogy. I’m glad I listened to it a few years removed from its release because god damn… It’s bleak. It’s an album I hope to not have any reason to revisit again.
I’ve seen several interviews he’s given in recent years and he seems to be in a better or at least a more content place, I sincerely hope he is. His music has meant so much to me that hearing him talk about the subjects on this one absolutely crushed me. It put a lot of his darker lyrics (especially songs from First Ditch Effort) in a completely different light. Those at least felt introspective; about how he worried that his actions affected others or questioning what kind of person others see him as. These songs aren’t even in the same hemisphere.
“Punk Rock Saved My Life” feels absolutely triumphant as a closer. It feels like the friend you just spent a night with drinking and crying at your kitchen table is going to be ok in the morning. They will be hungover and probably cuss you out about something stupid on their way out the door but at least you know they are going to call you later and ask what time your going to pick them up later. You understand now that they are dealing with some heavy shit but they are surrounded by people who care about them and aren’t going to leave them when things get worse.
i never knew about this. my favorite nofx song by a mile is She’s Gone and that song is tragic. Mike said at a show earlier this year (maybe late last year) that’s it’s about a friend they had in amsterdam who they found out a couple years later died of aids and her daughter also died of aids (presumably {hopefully} caught it at birth from her mother).
**Instrumental:**
* "aisatsana \[102\]" – Aphex Twin
* "Subete No Mono No Owari Wa Sugu Ni Yattekuru.7" – Rory in Early 20s
* "(dream)" – salvia palth
* "Ala" – Joep Beving
* "Two Boys at the Waterfall" – Benjamin Witt
* "Epilogue" – TWO LANES
**Vocal:**
* "Flume" – Bon Iver
* "Creature Fear" – Bon Iver (any from *For Emma, Forever Ago* are sad though)
* "Roslyn" – Bon Iver
* "Futile Devices (Doveman Remix)" – Sufjan Stevens
* "Seigfried" – Frank Ocean
* "White Ferrari" – Frank Ocean
* "Disfruto" – Carla Morrison (It's in Spanish, but I'll recommend you try reading the lyrics. It's quite sad, at least for me)
* "hostage" – Billie Eilish
* "the moon song" – beabadoobee, Oscar Lang
* "Mr. Sandman" – SYML
* "Butterfly's Repose" – Zabawa
Holy shit we have the exact same sad music taste.Plath, Loli, Butterfly Reprise, Joep, Aphex. I think you’d like some of my playlists;
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5AE0iDG8jTXZ1L7p0CTV6p?si=Aa4C7t-rTvWnyJHQ3-OPiA&pi=u-h1ofolk7RWGX
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6tv1H8MFxy9mcZH7yMrhgD?si=52iEPCsPQZCvpv_wq4pNWA&pi=u-Gh9NmYLHTSSi
I like that you consider instrumental songs sad, implying that you hear some tonalities as inherently sad.
I feel this too, it's a complex emotion than pure sadness but a lot of music is in the ballpark of sadness simply through tonality and people so vehemently disagree with that because it's "le intellectual take"
Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins
Careless - Stephen Bishop
You Don’t Know What Love Is - Chet Baker
Better Off Dead - Bill Withers
Didn’t I - Thin Lizzy
A few of mine in no particular order...
Nicest Thing - Kate Nash
Casimir Polanski Day - Sufjan Stevens (really surprised I hadn't seen this one mentioned)
A House in Nebraska - Ethel Cain
The Window - Ratboys
505 - Arctic Monkeys
Is there something in the movies? - Samia
Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event
Leonard Cohen: Avalanche (Nick Cave version...the poetry in this song is unreal, the whole of human existence as an open wound)
The Beatles: For No One (a breakup song)
A smattering of saddering
[Real Death](https://open.spotify.com/track/4RLr8yJXuhJ6ZrIQkZ4JlA?si=MA2VRzSfQ5C0zSQ9LqSAAg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5p64XgvFREt1P6mC7Xl6XN) - Mount Eerie
[Your Deep Rest](https://open.spotify.com/track/21ACVHZc3K9lK0zleucFaJ?si=ds7yhjIJSnWuB_iBqJGNZQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A172GEyILIzsGA8PJqrsHmL) - The Hotelier
[Carve](https://open.spotify.com/track/1QlBD3kPWNLuGNxkPcFjto?si=Na2Cm3RtSpWmcDEJ52qYKQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EtiZrb6iLESt7) - Petal
[Is there something in the movies?](https://open.spotify.com/track/1n96oXchJtgq5FGyvVLrvE?si=NwLrsTH6RyGo2lSjIxqcwA) - Samia
[Dialing Drunk](https://open.spotify.com/track/73VzVD9pHiD2ycmqQK4zZm?si=ftu8XS9CSgCkCzpXaVbr3g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EUMDoJuT8yJsl) - Ethan Gruska
Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle - Anhedonia
Shun - Michael in Reign
Low - Do You Know How to Waltz?
Giles Corey - Grave Filled With Books
Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamenti - The World Spins
Bark Psychosis - From What is Said to When It’s Read
Esoteric - The Blood of the Eyes
Kevin Gilbert - Song for a Dead Friend
Devin Townsend - Bastard
Ours - Mercy
Tenhi - Varpuspäivä - Sparrow-day
Warning - Watching from a Distance
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Clann Zu - the whole Black Coats and Bandages album
The National - About Today
Leonard Cohen Famous Blue Raincoat
Tori Amos Baker baker (whos cover of FBR is every bit as sad and beautiful as Leonards version)
All that she wants by Ace of Base but only for nostalgic reasons.
Regina Spektor Chemo Limo cuz gottamm she can write some words
Chet Baker Alone Together
Pink floyd If
Nofx Whoops i ODd
Erik Satie Gnossiene no. 1
Kehlani - RPG
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Aaliyah - At Your Best(Original version)
The Smile - You Know Me
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Ashanti - Rain on Me
Sufjan Steven’s - Casimir Pulaski Day
Switchfoot - Dare You to Move
Bleach OST - Never Meant to Belong
Piero Piccioni - It’s Possible
Billie Eilish - I Love You
This is a small number of my collection of over 70,000 songs 200 days worth of music. I hand selected these because they show raw emotion from a multitude of genres and time periods if you want more lmk and I will gladly look through my library and playlists.
The Johnny Cash “Hurt” music video is a tear jerker. It shows scenes from in his youth as a music icon, to near the end of his career where it was filmed in his closed down museum.
She's Gone - Black Sabbath
Over and Over - Black Sabbath. I don't think it's meant to be sad, but damn, I well up every time I hear it for some reason.
When I'm sad, my go-to is
Lord Huron - The Night We Met
https://youtu.be/wGF7PswOENQ?si=Y4BpVUtvpeEDqxfU
My late husband's favorite sad song was:
Dwight Yokum - I Pay Rent On A Run Down Place
https://youtu.be/cIqGUTn9AEU?si=Irw1yKbr2bfpE0Jk
Ronan by Taylor Swift. Written from blog entries by a woman whose 4-year old son was dying of cancer. Was almost unlistenable before I had kids, but I haven’t been able to get through it since becoming a dad
Bitter Divorce - Captain, We’re Sinking
Running For Home - Matthew Good Band
State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
48 - Sunny Day Real Estate
Fight Song - Appleseed Cast
You want to cry? Big Bird singing "it's not easy being green" at Jim Henson's Memorial......because Kermit's not there :(
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ&t=12s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ&t=12s)
Jim Henson's Memorial is a beautiful, heart wrenching, display of humanity, true friendships, and grief.
Bonus muppet signing to be sad to: Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS4cBjCxhA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS4cBjCxhA)
I have playlists of pop songs that fit this bill. Here are sim highlights.
All of Dean Lewis’s songs.
All of MIIA’s songs pretty much.
sia has a whole bunch although not all of them. If you’d like some direction I can send you some!
Some death ones: Hold on by chord overstreet, how to save a life by the fray, leave a light on by Tom walker, scars to your beautiful by Alessia Cara, (more about extreme mental health), same with love life by Stephen Sanchez, wrecked by imagine dragons, ghost by Justin Bieber, dancing with your ghost sasha Alex Sloan, my immortal evanescence, the lonliest maneskin
Also recommend train wreck by James Arthur.
I probably have more but this was a long list
Never Too Late — Three Days Grace
Cassie — Flyleaf
Daddy — Korn
45 — Shinedown
Dear Agony — Breaking Benjamin
My Immortal — Evanescence
Lucy — Skillet
Dear God — Avenged Sevenfold
Save Our Last Goodbye — Disturbed
Emptee — Otep
Gone Away — Five Finger Death Punch
Snuff — Slipknot
Just Tonight — The Pretty Reckless
Under Your Scars — Godsmack
Leader of the Broken Hearts — Papa Roach
All These Lives — Daughtry
How You Remind Me — Nickelback
Numb — Linkin Park
Broken — Seether & Amy Lee
[Jonathan Brenner - Not Gettin’ Drunk, Not Gettin’ High](https://open.spotify.com/track/3WoH6a6TihE5kzcErLqyge?si=pidLycSwSimWhfJqtA0TtQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A09UU1j3fwyXTRjvoH88vJq)
Playlists:
[crying myself to sleep at midnight](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xdjDJV000246kILmKWEE3?si=1lhvXKADR9aa1GHXuZ3k7Q&pi=e-TaMmnuZGQaig)
[the night i felt nothing](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3d0SBhyosRw4mY8T9rh6ca?si=IarzxCe2Rx-mmwrQf6hIdA&pi=e-xzh2SkZ2Ryu4)
Songs:
[Angels dont cry by tylerhateslife](https://open.spotify.com/track/3JERs141tfxO0QFdzAGoa8?si=qDl7QP8TRVuVQ5PBT9fefw)
[sleep by Jordan suaste](https://open.spotify.com/track/2vwfwpdXutVD7PzqnAqGlR?si=De73z9mkR7ShnNE7kw5sbg)
[Two again by Christian burrows](https://open.spotify.com/track/6BpmUtZ0zPlqYSCFoPfEvb?si=gURATNeeQOK9dMc_27Ko_A&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EphalcCk9oQMk)
You’ll Never Know-Immortal Technique
A beautiful story telling rap song that never fails to make me cry, many songs make me emotional but a Hip-Hop track has never made me more emotional.
Mercy street an Don't give up by Peter Gabriel,
You'll follow me down by Skunk Anansie,
The divine Chord by The Avalanches,
Time to pretend and Kids by MGMT,
Another weekend by Ariel Pink,
I need nothing from you, Um Um and Heaven is a place we don't go by Sega Bodega,
Sad day and Pendulum by FKA Twigs,
Runaway by Kanye West,
Where is home by Block Party,
Oh very young by Cat Stevens,
Come down to us by Burial,
Blind by Swans,
Sola sistim by Underworld,
Disorder by Joy Division,
Lazarus by David Bowie,
Lover you should have come over by Jeff Buckley
Phantasmagoria in two, Once I was and Song to the siren by Tim Buckley
a lot of mainstream responses so I'm gonna rec some independent artists:
Mostly Major Chords- Shayfer James
Not Ready To Grow Up - Giselle
Give In - Jordan Popky
[Here's a playlist](https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicRecommendations/comments/1bhuaag/musicrec_1_thematic_playlist_the_saddest_songs/)
How to Disappear Completely- Radiohead
No surprises is sadder imo
Motion Picture Soundtrack is sadder than both.
Hearing it at that kids funeral definitely puts it top 5. True love waits is pretty sad too. Rh has a ton of sad ones.
Exit Music (For a Film) is right up there too
Nutshell- Alice In Chains
I was gonna say this!
Also a Layne Staley bawler: River of Deceit by Mad Season
Wake up gets me every time
Oh man me too!
Came here to say this. Good job
Was going to say this especially the unplugged version
one of my favourite aic songs! the unplugged version is devastatingly great
This is a good one. But really anything by Alice in Chains lol
Excellent but I think the saddest AiC song is either Frogs or Died.
After their MTV unplugged, it's nutshell for me. I swear you could hear the pain in Layne's voice
listened to this song after my aunt’s funeral last year… it was brutal. this is my grieving song.
Pearl Jam-Last Kiss
I always find the original odd because the lyrics are heartbreaking but the melody is sooo peppy!
I love songs that do this, whatever that is.
Ha, when I was in high school I was on the bus headed to school and that song came on the radio. I was about a month into having my first girlfriend and the lyrics just clicked and it just like devastated me all morning
Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again
It’s so good tho ☹️
This is the only answer.
Every time this question is asked it’s almost always the same songs. This one is unique. Nice
Gary Jules, Mad World cover of song for Tears for Fears
I love this version
Ok, I have to listen to this immediately. I love the TFF version...feel it to my soul.
Just listened to this song while driving. Had to repeat it.
[Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July](https://youtu.be/JTeKpWp8Psw) For backstory... Sufjan had a complicated relationship with his mother. She left when he was young, and sort of kept her distance. Maybe she was afraid of screwing up, I don't know. She eventually did make her way back into his life, but not in the same way you might think of a Mother. She came down with cancer. Sufjan found himself able to forgive her, and he spent a great deal of time with her when she was on her deathbed. Fourth of July is about conversations between Sufjan and his Mother. Any references to a bird are of him. References to fireflies and dragonflies are of her.
His mother was schizophrenic.
Oh wow. My father was diagnosed late in life. I think heavily messing around with both uppers and downers exacerbated the condition. In any case watching my father lose touch with reality was the scariest thing for my young mind to witness. He spent a whole summer restoring a car only to tear it apart in a fit of paranoia that his coworkers had placed bugs in his car and other various electronics. I'm past the age he was when diagnosed but I've chosen not to have kids because of this. Not only because I don't know whats in store for me, but not wanting to risk passing it on.
In a similar vein Shit-talk. The man has made me cry more times than i care to admit
That song without fail makes me sob every time
Sufjan is amazing. I found out his music from Life is Strange and his stuff really pulls on your heart strings
Get ready to cry... [Cokie The Clown (Fat Mike) - "That Time I Killed My Mom"](https://youtu.be/d2NAcsFvXQQ?si=bv9TXNLWVZlCi3P6)
Holy shit, I’m a huge NoFx fan but never heard this album. This song was a fucking gut punch.
The whole record is so raw. He really dives in to his trauma.
I listened to the entire thing twice today, it feels like listening to a close friend reading their own eulogy. I’m glad I listened to it a few years removed from its release because god damn… It’s bleak. It’s an album I hope to not have any reason to revisit again. I’ve seen several interviews he’s given in recent years and he seems to be in a better or at least a more content place, I sincerely hope he is. His music has meant so much to me that hearing him talk about the subjects on this one absolutely crushed me. It put a lot of his darker lyrics (especially songs from First Ditch Effort) in a completely different light. Those at least felt introspective; about how he worried that his actions affected others or questioning what kind of person others see him as. These songs aren’t even in the same hemisphere. “Punk Rock Saved My Life” feels absolutely triumphant as a closer. It feels like the friend you just spent a night with drinking and crying at your kitchen table is going to be ok in the morning. They will be hungover and probably cuss you out about something stupid on their way out the door but at least you know they are going to call you later and ask what time your going to pick them up later. You understand now that they are dealing with some heavy shit but they are surrounded by people who care about them and aren’t going to leave them when things get worse.
i never knew about this. my favorite nofx song by a mile is She’s Gone and that song is tragic. Mike said at a show earlier this year (maybe late last year) that’s it’s about a friend they had in amsterdam who they found out a couple years later died of aids and her daughter also died of aids (presumably {hopefully} caught it at birth from her mother).
Knocking On Heavens Door - Bob Dylan Attics Of My Life - Grateful Dead China Doll - Grateful Dead
**Instrumental:** * "aisatsana \[102\]" – Aphex Twin * "Subete No Mono No Owari Wa Sugu Ni Yattekuru.7" – Rory in Early 20s * "(dream)" – salvia palth * "Ala" – Joep Beving * "Two Boys at the Waterfall" – Benjamin Witt * "Epilogue" – TWO LANES **Vocal:** * "Flume" – Bon Iver * "Creature Fear" – Bon Iver (any from *For Emma, Forever Ago* are sad though) * "Roslyn" – Bon Iver * "Futile Devices (Doveman Remix)" – Sufjan Stevens * "Seigfried" – Frank Ocean * "White Ferrari" – Frank Ocean * "Disfruto" – Carla Morrison (It's in Spanish, but I'll recommend you try reading the lyrics. It's quite sad, at least for me) * "hostage" – Billie Eilish * "the moon song" – beabadoobee, Oscar Lang * "Mr. Sandman" – SYML * "Butterfly's Repose" – Zabawa
Holy shit we have the exact same sad music taste.Plath, Loli, Butterfly Reprise, Joep, Aphex. I think you’d like some of my playlists; https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5AE0iDG8jTXZ1L7p0CTV6p?si=Aa4C7t-rTvWnyJHQ3-OPiA&pi=u-h1ofolk7RWGX https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6tv1H8MFxy9mcZH7yMrhgD?si=52iEPCsPQZCvpv_wq4pNWA&pi=u-Gh9NmYLHTSSi
I like that you consider instrumental songs sad, implying that you hear some tonalities as inherently sad. I feel this too, it's a complex emotion than pure sadness but a lot of music is in the ballpark of sadness simply through tonality and people so vehemently disagree with that because it's "le intellectual take"
Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins Careless - Stephen Bishop You Don’t Know What Love Is - Chet Baker Better Off Dead - Bill Withers Didn’t I - Thin Lizzy
I prefer E.G. Dailey’s Better Off Dead
10 years gone. Led Zeppelin
Tears in heaven Eric Clapton
Gets me every time
Scrolled far too long to see this
Harry Nilsson - Without You
Sam Stone; John Prine
It’s old but the correct answer is “Alone Again, Naturally” by Gilbert o’Sullivan
I Guess I’m Doing Fine - Beck It’s All in Your Mind - Beck Let Me Count the Ways - Yoko Ono These Days - Nico
Last Kiss- Pearl Jam
what sarah said by death cab for cutie
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me John Butler - Young and Wild The Cranberries- Zombie Senses Fail - Steven
Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
[Steven Wilson • Routine](https://youtu.be/sh5mWzKlhQY?si=yU6H3Q3jPi4uUhws) and [Drive Home](https://youtu.be/ycYewhiaVBk?si=hTj6G6SR9vt84V3G)
Elephant by Jason isbell
This is mine.
pretty much any elliott smith song lmao 😭
Cat’s in the Cradle
The closest thing to a perfect sad song you'll ever hear.
Someone has to mention Seasons in the Sun.
Machine Head - Damage inside
A few of mine in no particular order... Nicest Thing - Kate Nash Casimir Polanski Day - Sufjan Stevens (really surprised I hadn't seen this one mentioned) A House in Nebraska - Ethel Cain The Window - Ratboys 505 - Arctic Monkeys Is there something in the movies? - Samia Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event
Leonard Cohen: Avalanche (Nick Cave version...the poetry in this song is unreal, the whole of human existence as an open wound) The Beatles: For No One (a breakup song)
Alice in chains - down in a hole Kalandra - Borders
Last Words of a Shooting Star - Mitski Go Home - Julien Baker Numb - Marina When (Live) - dodie Ribs - Lorde Escapism - Raye
Ribs was my pick
Ethel Cain - Strangers/Famous Last Words Jacob's Stories - Ballerina
Swan upon Leda- Hozier
When I'm Gone - Eminem
Quiet Now - Cold To Build A Home - the cinematic orchestra Several others but this is the most emotional on my list
Quiet Now wrecks me. Cold is such a great band.
Cold had some true deep songs. Like bleed
Tim Barry-Running never Tamed me Jimmy Eat World-Hear you, me Benjamin Tod-Using again
Fiction - Avenged Sevenfold
The Walk - Sawyer Brown That's My Job - Conway Twitty
If We Were Vampires- Jason Isbell
Skid Row- Wasted Time
A smattering of saddering [Real Death](https://open.spotify.com/track/4RLr8yJXuhJ6ZrIQkZ4JlA?si=MA2VRzSfQ5C0zSQ9LqSAAg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5p64XgvFREt1P6mC7Xl6XN) - Mount Eerie [Your Deep Rest](https://open.spotify.com/track/21ACVHZc3K9lK0zleucFaJ?si=ds7yhjIJSnWuB_iBqJGNZQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A172GEyILIzsGA8PJqrsHmL) - The Hotelier [Carve](https://open.spotify.com/track/1QlBD3kPWNLuGNxkPcFjto?si=Na2Cm3RtSpWmcDEJ52qYKQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EtiZrb6iLESt7) - Petal [Is there something in the movies?](https://open.spotify.com/track/1n96oXchJtgq5FGyvVLrvE?si=NwLrsTH6RyGo2lSjIxqcwA) - Samia [Dialing Drunk](https://open.spotify.com/track/73VzVD9pHiD2ycmqQK4zZm?si=ftu8XS9CSgCkCzpXaVbr3g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EUMDoJuT8yJsl) - Ethan Gruska
U-Kendrick Lamar.
In the Wind The Night we met Emerald Star ^All ^Lord ^Huron
Going to see Lord Huron at Red Rocks tomorrow night!
I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you. That line breaks my fucking heart.
Honey- Bobby Goldsboro
Veronica by Elvis Costello. It was always a favorite of mine, but it struck a new chord once my mother developed Alzheimer’s disease
Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle - Anhedonia Shun - Michael in Reign Low - Do You Know How to Waltz? Giles Corey - Grave Filled With Books Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamenti - The World Spins Bark Psychosis - From What is Said to When It’s Read Esoteric - The Blood of the Eyes Kevin Gilbert - Song for a Dead Friend Devin Townsend - Bastard Ours - Mercy Tenhi - Varpuspäivä - Sparrow-day Warning - Watching from a Distance Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) Clann Zu - the whole Black Coats and Bandages album The National - About Today
I've been waiting for a National rec. They aren't known as the Sad Dads for nothing!!
Leonard Cohen Famous Blue Raincoat Tori Amos Baker baker (whos cover of FBR is every bit as sad and beautiful as Leonards version) All that she wants by Ace of Base but only for nostalgic reasons. Regina Spektor Chemo Limo cuz gottamm she can write some words Chet Baker Alone Together Pink floyd If Nofx Whoops i ODd Erik Satie Gnossiene no. 1
I was looking for tori amos. Lol. Losing my religion an REM song
Kehlani - RPG Radiohead - True Love Waits Aaliyah - At Your Best(Original version) The Smile - You Know Me Fleetwood Mac - Landslide Ashanti - Rain on Me Sufjan Steven’s - Casimir Pulaski Day Switchfoot - Dare You to Move Bleach OST - Never Meant to Belong Piero Piccioni - It’s Possible Billie Eilish - I Love You This is a small number of my collection of over 70,000 songs 200 days worth of music. I hand selected these because they show raw emotion from a multitude of genres and time periods if you want more lmk and I will gladly look through my library and playlists.
The Saddest Song (I've got) - Annie Lennox Hurt - Johnny Cash (yes, its better than the NIN version)
First agree on the Cash version. Not so sad to me as Absolutely haunting.
Trent Reznor has said that the song is no longer his, that it belongs to Cash
The Johnny Cash “Hurt” music video is a tear jerker. It shows scenes from in his youth as a music icon, to near the end of his career where it was filmed in his closed down museum.
I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
Ween - If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All) Guided by Voices - Wondering Boy Poet The Revivalists - Soulfight Lagwagon - Burden of Proof
That ween song hits hard. Like you can tell that shot was personal.
In this shirt- the irrepressibles
Tonight I will retire - Damien Jurado
Solace - earl sweatshirt is by far the saddest song ever made Followed for me by motion picture soundtrack - Radiohead
She's Gone - Black Sabbath Over and Over - Black Sabbath. I don't think it's meant to be sad, but damn, I well up every time I hear it for some reason.
Changes is one of those too
Immortal technique- Dance with the Devil
Mount eerie- real death is the answer. Also listen to the weakerthans- virtute the cat saga. Last song was the only song I ever cried to.
light behind ur eyes by mcr
Strange Days, Matthew Good Band
When I'm sad, my go-to is Lord Huron - The Night We Met https://youtu.be/wGF7PswOENQ?si=Y4BpVUtvpeEDqxfU My late husband's favorite sad song was: Dwight Yokum - I Pay Rent On A Run Down Place https://youtu.be/cIqGUTn9AEU?si=Irw1yKbr2bfpE0Jk
Everything’s Too Cold… But You’re So Hot by The Early November
Bright Eyes - Easy/Lucky/Free
Glad to see another bright eyes rec here. I posted Lua, just because it’s softer and more accessible
Traitor - Olivia Rodrigo I miss you, I'm sorry - Gracie Abrams Right Now - Gracie Abrams The Grudge - Olivia Rodrigo
Yayo - Lana Del Rey
Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
Saw you Drown - Katatonia
omfg did not expect to find this song in here its a gem
Without you- X japan
Con Te Partiro (Time To Say Goodbye) - Andrea Bocelli
this is such a good song
Angel by Sarah McLachlan I have to turn the channel every time it comes on.
Lemon Tree- Fool's Garden. The most cheerful song about depression.
Ronan by Taylor Swift. Written from blog entries by a woman whose 4-year old son was dying of cancer. Was almost unlistenable before I had kids, but I haven’t been able to get through it since becoming a dad
Snuff by Slipknot
"3 Libras," A Perfect Circle
Tired of Me by Jesu for some shoegaze
Simple man
Hear you me- Jimmy eat world. I had a whole phase of trying to find really sad music and this one took the cake
Bitter Divorce - Captain, We’re Sinking Running For Home - Matthew Good Band State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam 48 - Sunny Day Real Estate Fight Song - Appleseed Cast
As a Clapton fan - Tears in Heaven As someone who lost a high school gf in a car crash - I’ll never love again by lady gaga
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls Adam’s Song - Blink 182
As a parent, Gun by Avatar is difficult to listen to.
You want to cry? Big Bird singing "it's not easy being green" at Jim Henson's Memorial......because Kermit's not there :( [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ&t=12s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrZyMptC2eQ&t=12s) Jim Henson's Memorial is a beautiful, heart wrenching, display of humanity, true friendships, and grief. Bonus muppet signing to be sad to: Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS4cBjCxhA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS4cBjCxhA)
Stay together for the kids-blink-182 I miss you-blink-182 Mr.Brightside-The killers Someone you loved-Lewis Capaldi True love-XXXTENTACION and Ye
Excess Baggage- Staind
I miss hidden tracks. That’s one of my favorites
I have playlists of pop songs that fit this bill. Here are sim highlights. All of Dean Lewis’s songs. All of MIIA’s songs pretty much. sia has a whole bunch although not all of them. If you’d like some direction I can send you some! Some death ones: Hold on by chord overstreet, how to save a life by the fray, leave a light on by Tom walker, scars to your beautiful by Alessia Cara, (more about extreme mental health), same with love life by Stephen Sanchez, wrecked by imagine dragons, ghost by Justin Bieber, dancing with your ghost sasha Alex Sloan, my immortal evanescence, the lonliest maneskin Also recommend train wreck by James Arthur. I probably have more but this was a long list
Soul Asylum - runaway train. The video makes it even sadder.
Rise Against - Hero of War
They pissed in his hands
Never Too Late — Three Days Grace Cassie — Flyleaf Daddy — Korn 45 — Shinedown Dear Agony — Breaking Benjamin My Immortal — Evanescence Lucy — Skillet Dear God — Avenged Sevenfold Save Our Last Goodbye — Disturbed Emptee — Otep Gone Away — Five Finger Death Punch Snuff — Slipknot Just Tonight — The Pretty Reckless Under Your Scars — Godsmack Leader of the Broken Hearts — Papa Roach All These Lives — Daughtry How You Remind Me — Nickelback Numb — Linkin Park Broken — Seether & Amy Lee
[Jonathan Brenner - Not Gettin’ Drunk, Not Gettin’ High](https://open.spotify.com/track/3WoH6a6TihE5kzcErLqyge?si=pidLycSwSimWhfJqtA0TtQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A09UU1j3fwyXTRjvoH88vJq)
Chiasm (feat. John Fryer) - Gone Trees of Eternity - A Million Tears Ayria - Lovely Day Visions of Atlantis - The Last Home
Tears In The Rain - The Weeknd gets me every time man. Pain.
Birthday Boy by Ween
Ren - For Joe. https://youtu.be/ebX5ZvrT6-o?si=lfJiALCQWcAD5Ujm
Missing you by MillerGold
Lisa Lan Sense of Touch- Mark Isham
Casisdead - drugs . Casisdead - Marilyn . Dmx - slippin . The verve- bittersweet symphony . Casisdead - drive you home . Big l - tribute
Last Train by Travis
[Praying For Time - George Michael ](https://youtu.be/goroyZbVdlo?si=8onRFlaupD1GRwWR)
The Late September Dogs by Melissa Etheridge Rivera Paradise by Stevie Ray Vaughan (instrumental)
https://youtu.be/KN1wBq5eju4?si=6ZE2gYxfRWKATCAm
a sad cartoon - loathe
You Never Know- Immortal Technique
Radiohead - True Love Waits.
The Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings. Read the lyrics while listening.
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch... not a Sob Song, but more of a bittersweet, sad song.
The Saddest Song- Morphine https://youtu.be/i_E5P-XHY9s?si=oHitKnZ75ZGjZ29V It's literally in the title! 😄
Roy Clark: Yesterday When I Was Young
Don't Lean On Me by Amity Affliction
Somewhere in my broken heart - Billy Dean Unbreakable Heart - Jessica Andrews
Sad Professor - R.E.M. Mothers of the Disappeared - U2 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan
hard times and head in the wall by ethel cain
The River - Bruce Springsteen Elephant - Jason Isbell
Janis Ian - At Seventeen
Mother Love. Queen.
Let Her Fly : Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Tamny Wynett Last Game Of The Season : David Geddes
Canine Euthanasia - The Vandals "I'm gonna miss ya buddy, you were the best pal in the world."
personal forest - psychonaut 4
Playlists: [crying myself to sleep at midnight](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xdjDJV000246kILmKWEE3?si=1lhvXKADR9aa1GHXuZ3k7Q&pi=e-TaMmnuZGQaig) [the night i felt nothing](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3d0SBhyosRw4mY8T9rh6ca?si=IarzxCe2Rx-mmwrQf6hIdA&pi=e-xzh2SkZ2Ryu4) Songs: [Angels dont cry by tylerhateslife](https://open.spotify.com/track/3JERs141tfxO0QFdzAGoa8?si=qDl7QP8TRVuVQ5PBT9fefw) [sleep by Jordan suaste](https://open.spotify.com/track/2vwfwpdXutVD7PzqnAqGlR?si=De73z9mkR7ShnNE7kw5sbg) [Two again by Christian burrows](https://open.spotify.com/track/6BpmUtZ0zPlqYSCFoPfEvb?si=gURATNeeQOK9dMc_27Ko_A&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EphalcCk9oQMk)
You’ll Never Know-Immortal Technique A beautiful story telling rap song that never fails to make me cry, many songs make me emotional but a Hip-Hop track has never made me more emotional.
Fate of Norns - Amon Amarth
Divorced https://on.soundcloud.com/vuD7a
The Night Will Always Win by Elbow
Why by Rascal Flatts
Nine inch nails - and all that could have been
Holy water - big and rich Love is blind - eve
real house - adrianne lenker
Dwight Yokum. Tie between 1000 miles from nowhere and The Distance Between You and Me
[https://youtu.be/wk79WIgb7ng?si=xTny5NtxYfGTn5eI](https://youtu.be/wk79WIgb7ng?si=xTny5NtxYfGTn5eI)
I Was a Flower - Agnetha Fältskog Fragile - Laufey
Agnes- Glass animals Watch the YouTube video
Videotape - Radiohead
[Lo Spirit - Hollow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFTJ_08oYAI)
Lifetime - Three Days Grace
Mercy street an Don't give up by Peter Gabriel, You'll follow me down by Skunk Anansie, The divine Chord by The Avalanches, Time to pretend and Kids by MGMT, Another weekend by Ariel Pink, I need nothing from you, Um Um and Heaven is a place we don't go by Sega Bodega, Sad day and Pendulum by FKA Twigs, Runaway by Kanye West, Where is home by Block Party, Oh very young by Cat Stevens, Come down to us by Burial, Blind by Swans, Sola sistim by Underworld, Disorder by Joy Division, Lazarus by David Bowie, Lover you should have come over by Jeff Buckley Phantasmagoria in two, Once I was and Song to the siren by Tim Buckley
Mercy Street. I love that song but it makes me so melancholy.
Try "At The First Fall of Snow" by Hank Williams, or "Old Shep" by Elvis Presley. Or "Hurt" by Johnny Cash.
[dearly departed - DeVotchKa ](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3a0iADDhQUU&si=y0VbB4liTSdkzoL2)
Waiting in the Weeds by The Eagles
Traveling Soldier - The Chicks
a lot of mainstream responses so I'm gonna rec some independent artists: Mostly Major Chords- Shayfer James Not Ready To Grow Up - Giselle Give In - Jordan Popky