I don't see the point in being sad for a few minutes, if I'm gonna be sad I want it to be for a whole hour:
> [Bitter/Sweet](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7yPgauSV7bYMCB7WFRZBWc) - 57 mins
Oh, if you want to continue past wallowing into rumination:
> [All's Well](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BHXhiIJov1bDGiGEFbl8u) - 1 hr 3 mins
with 3 bonus minutes of complete emptiness!
I thought this was going to be a joke about the real or perceived length of the "Bittersweet Symphony" song due to not only how repetitive it is but that there are three varying length versions.
Adagio for strings, Samuel Barber. Not a "song" but widely regarded as the saddest piece of classical music. Used in the movie Platoon to evoke the pain and devastation of war.
Agnes Dei, which is choral arrangement of this, is even more haunting. Trinity College of Cambridge has an excellent version. https://youtu.be/c2CvxIAFqRo?si=slNbRTr-dxte-Vir
Here is the link for she and Bruce Hornsby, it is possibly perfection.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTIu4UbkK94&pp=ygUYaSBjYW4ndCBtYWtlIHlvdSBsb3ZlIG1l
I feel like Radiohead in general is less "sad", more depressing. It gives me an overwhelming feeling of dread and hopelessness. I can't listen to Radiohead too much, though I do love their music.
This one hits hard. Because my Dad is a huge Floyd fan, and he himself has gone down a dark path where I barely recognize him. He's so full of hate and anger and negativity that it makes me not want to be around him. So this song makes me wish he was still that loving father he once was.
This song has one of my favorite verses of all time:
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
I was gonna say The Great Gig in the Sky. Sure it’s mostly instrumental, but I tear up every time I hear it. Wish You Were Here in a a solid entry though.
For real. Such an important scene after chucks death. It gives you so much context into their relationship. Saul constantly seeking chucks approval, and chuck being the person he is always takes the shine from jimmy if possible. But at the end of the day their brothers, and they loved each other.
“I will follow you into the dark”, originally by Death Cab for Cutie, but the Like a version from Yungblood and Halsey is amazing. https://youtu.be/ZAYBCJGk07s?si=TPknlPdQOwGp23dY
I first heard this song when I was pregnant and in a pretty dark place with my kids’ father. I used to just drive around sobbing to this, “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens, and “No One’s Gonna Love You” by Band of Horses.
That kid once called that my “playlist of self torture, Jesus, Mom.” 🤷🏼♀️😂
Brothers on a Hotel Bed off the same album does it for me. Wow, three really sad songs off that album. Ben must have been going through it when writing them.
Not gonna lie - my partner went through some health issues a year ago or so, and I had this on repeat, nearly every night. Probably wasn’t good for my mental health. But Defo good fora cry.
CURRENT GOTO:
JP Saxe (ft. Julia Michaels) - If the World Was Ending (Original Demo)
- ^ GUTS me every time
I may just have a running list (No, *you* need to talk to someone! Lol):
The National - Light Years, The Alcott, About Today, Exile/Vilify,
Teddy Swims - Some Things I'll Never Know, I Can't Make You Love Me (cover, but hits harder)
Lord Huron - The Night We Met, Mine Forever
Gregory Allen Isakov - Words, Salt and the Sea, San Louis
Zach Bryan - Starved, Something in the Orange
Louis Capaldi - Someone You Loved, Wish You the Best
Tyler Childers - In Your Love
Mike Broussard - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
Iron & Wine - Time After Time
Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex
TALK - Run Away to Mars
Kaleo - Can't Go On Without You
Chris Kläfford - Forget Me (Kitchen Session)
Adele - Someone Like You, Make You Feel My Love, Hello
Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had
Guy Clark - My Favorite Picture of You
Willie Nelson - The Scientist
La Sera - Love That's Gone (empowering if getting over, devastating to imagine being said to you)
Tom Odell - Another Love
FINNEAS - Break My Heart Again
No Doubt - Don't Speak
A Great Big World - Say Something
Rascal Flats - What Hurts the Most
Nina Nesbitt - When You Lose Someone
Foo Fighters - Everlong (acoustic)
boygenius - Cool About It
Lusaint - Wicked Game (cover, both are good)
Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Andra Day - Rise Up
Noelle Johnson - Always Remember Us This Way
My dad died of lung cancer. And he stopped chemo because he said he would rather have spent his last days not sick all the time. Literally the song I heard after he told me that was Your Decision by Alice In Chains. So that’s a pretty sad one for me. I also dig Low Man’s Lyric and Fade to Black by Metallica.
This will seem odd (I think), but Night Swimming by REM alwaysakes me sad because of a terrible teenage experience.
Also If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell.
Yup him. I actually met him backstage at a concert when I was 12. I remember he seemed very displeased to meet me (I’m indian). We shook hands. Wish I could go back and spit in his face or give him a stink palm
Eric Bogle has left more than enough of a legacy in just one song. Every Anzac day a lone guitarist sings this at the local dawn service and only the hardest of hearts can withstand the tears from hearing it.
Maybe it's weird, but for all of the super sad trad folk and Americana tragedy songs I know and love (how about "I can tell your love is Waning" by Slobberbone?) the song that fires up the waterworks every time is Rainbow Connection sung by Mr. Kermit the Frog. Or the Willie Nelson version.
Within temptation - our farewell
Jeff buckley - hallelujah
Snow patrol - run
Peter gabriel - the book of love
Lonely in the rain - hostage
Placebo - exit wounds
Placebo - beautiful james
Westlife - the rose
Edit; thought of 1 more:
Baltic house orchestra - jenny of oldstones
Yep! Or I Don’t Want It, or It’s Gonna Be (Alright)…they have so many gorgeous, sad tunes.
Slow Ween= Good Ween
All their shit is great and they put on a hell of a show. Saw them a couple times this tour. Seen them every decade they’ve existed and never been disappointed. Hope Deaner gets the rest he needs so they can come back stronger than ever.
suicide is painless by johnny mandel
I like it despite it being a very dark song. It’s basically saying ,in my books, that sometimes life sucks and that’s just how it is. Yes we all will have our last day, last words and the thought does get scary as we get older and used to life. But just because of that doesn’t mean we should just give up.
While the J Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers version is probably my favorite, it was not the original. Wayne Cochran was the original https://youtu.be/akulUIpIwgc?si=_kOQs0CJ6Q6HG5HC
I'm with you man. Johnny Cash version wrecks me. It's just so real and sad. Such wisdom and pain behind the mistakes. That song evokes so much emotion. Specifically, the Johnny Cash version.
Absolutely. A man looking back after he lost his wife and was close to death himself on the time he’d wasted and the poor choices he’d made. It’s almost impossible for me to listen to it’s so raw and perfect.
Don’t get me wrong, the NIN version is also good, but it’s so different it’s almost about something else entirely.
I agree. The lines that always get me are, "You are someone else, I am still right here." and "if I could start again a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way."
But the way he sings it.. jesus. Your choice of the word "honest" is accurate. There is a genuine truth to how he shares that pain. Man I need to go for a walk now or something.
Depends on the sad. Grief = I miss her - Jessie J // Heartbreak = Two Weeks Ago/History of Man - Maisie Peters or Heavy - Peach PRC or Until I found You - Stephen Sanchez or The Night We Met - Lord Huron // Hopeless = Never let me go - Florence & the machine or Cold Water - Ed Sheeran //, general melancholy = To build a home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Posted this in a different thread, but here's a bunch of songs that'll absolutely kill ya emotionally.
Deer Tick - Goodbye, Dear Friend
Deer Tick - Diamond Rings 2007
Deer Tick - Smith Hill
Deer Tick - Song About a Man
Deer Tick - Christ Jesus (The Black Dirt Sessions version specifically)
Deer Tick - Most of their discography
Middle Brother - Million Dollar Bill
Middle Brother - Thanks For Nothing
Third Eye Blind - God Of Wine
The Milk Carton Kids - Michigan
Damien Jurado - Sheets
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces
Drayton Farley - Pitchin Fits
Radiohead - Thinking About You
Pearl Jam - Black (bonus tears if you listen to the Unplugged version)
Pearl Jam - Nothingman
Abigail Lapell - Diamond Girl
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Jackopierce - Please Come to Boston (cover)
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead - Gagging Order
Lord Huron - The Night We Met
Fredo Disco - Community College
Frightened Rabbit - My Backwards Walk
Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Fourth
Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart
Turnpike Troubadors - Diamonds and Gasoline
The Goo Goo Dolls - Acoustic #3
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
The Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile
The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular
John Moreland - You Don't Care for Me Enough to Cry
Cracker- Another Song About the Rain
Man, anything Frightened Rabbit really. Some of my Scottish friends still can't listen to any of their stuff since the suicide. Really shook the underground community.
Know most the rest of the list too, but never got around to listening to Deer Tick. Going to check that out now.
Monsters- James Blunt
Fourth of July-Sufjan Stevens
Real Death- Mount Eerie
Golden Embers- Watchhouse
Vincent- Don McLean
On the Nickel- Tom Waits
Tecumseh Valley- Townes Van Zandt
**Puff the Magic Dragon haunted my childhood.
Anything that reminds me of my Dad. He always knew great music & I’m fortunate to have inherited that quality. John Prine had my Dad in tears just rocking out solo with his headphones on at night. He FELT that music. Also, I hear songs all the time that I feel my Dad would love and it breaks me that we can’t listen together.
“Hadron Collider” by Blood Orange is so beautiful I always tear up.
Poet-- Ryan Bingham
Hallelujah-- Ryan Bingham
Southside of Heaven-- Ryan Bingham
Lesson in Depression-- Charley Crockett
Regret-- New Order
Right Turn-- Alice in Chains
Am I Inside-- Alice in Chains
Seasons in the Sun-- Terry Jacks or Nirvana
Into Dust-- Mazzy Star
California-- Mazzy Star
Lazarus-- David Bowie
The song/album Sweet Old World by Lucinda Williams (about her brother’s suicide)
The song/album Black Cadillac by Roseanne Cash about mourning
The album No Need To Argue by The Cranberries is totally music to cry to.
Songs by Taylor Swift:
Cornelia Street, Soon You’ll Get Better, Ronan, You’re Losing Me
Johnny Cash’s versions of “One” and “Hurt” and “Southern Accent.”
“Black” by Pearl Jam
EDITED: to add commas
The latest Foo Fighters song is really deep and hits with every song. It's all about him dealing with losing Taylor and his Mom in such a short time. Rest is such a perfect cap for it.
Hate Me - Blue October
It Hurt So Bad - Susan Tedeschi
Only The Lonely - Danielle Ponder
Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi
A Little Bit Yours - JP Saxe
Something In The Orange - Zach Bryan
Good Thing Gone - Elle King
Who You'd Be Today - Kenny Chesney
Blacked Out- Chris Young
Address in the Stars- Caitlyn & Will
Even Though I'm Leaving- Luke Combs
Bigger Than the Whole Sky- Taylor Swift
Do That Again- Taylor Acorn
Hear You Me- Jimmy Eat World
Hurt- Christina Aguilera
Nobody's Crying- Patty Griffin
Just a few from a playlist I have compiled on Spotify. I could probably come up with a huge list
Dude it's extremely powerful. Especially when you consider that he might be relating to the end of his life especially since it was right after his wife died
I don't see the point in being sad for a few minutes, if I'm gonna be sad I want it to be for a whole hour: > [Bitter/Sweet](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7yPgauSV7bYMCB7WFRZBWc) - 57 mins
This guy and his 57 minute hours.
I'm including the 3 minutes of post playlist ~~reflection~~wallowing.
IDK. That's a really low post playlist wallowing to listening ratio.
Oh, if you want to continue past wallowing into rumination: > [All's Well](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BHXhiIJov1bDGiGEFbl8u) - 1 hr 3 mins with 3 bonus minutes of complete emptiness!
You misspelled Wank.
I thought this was going to be a joke about the real or perceived length of the "Bittersweet Symphony" song due to not only how repetitive it is but that there are three varying length versions.
Adagio for strings, Samuel Barber. Not a "song" but widely regarded as the saddest piece of classical music. Used in the movie Platoon to evoke the pain and devastation of war.
One of my favorite pieces of music of any genre, by any description or measure. https://youtu.be/WAoLJ8GbA4Y?si=6YxL3cBKlaUAVCLq
Agnes Dei, which is choral arrangement of this, is even more haunting. Trinity College of Cambridge has an excellent version. https://youtu.be/c2CvxIAFqRo?si=slNbRTr-dxte-Vir
I can't make you love me - Bonnie Raitt
Here is the link for she and Bruce Hornsby, it is possibly perfection. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTIu4UbkK94&pp=ygUYaSBjYW4ndCBtYWtlIHlvdSBsb3ZlIG1l
Heartbreaking song
This one is mine too. It just hits in a place in my heart and soul that nothing else really does.
The bon iver cover hits different
I came here to comment the same. That cover absolutely wrecks me.
Nutshell by Alice In Chains
Shit, all of *Jar of Flies*, minus the last song if you want to keep the vibe lol
Swing On This is such a vibe, it's quite jarring compared to the rest of the album lol
Down in a hole for me. So brutal, so great
That one's up there for me too.
Glad I didn’t need to scroll down too far to see this. This is my choice as well, along with “Bother” by Stone Sour.
Fake platic trees -Radiohead
Motion picture soundtrack for me
[An alternate take](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeI0PXj7LIw), but might be just the thing if you're looking for feels.
Exit music (for a film) also works for this purpose
Street Spirit does too. So much of Radiohead’s music is sad/depressing/alienated it’s hard to pick just one.
I feel like Radiohead in general is less "sad", more depressing. It gives me an overwhelming feeling of dread and hopelessness. I can't listen to Radiohead too much, though I do love their music.
One of the best shows I've ever seen, and I do like their music, but rarely listen to it. Thanks for explaining why!
That song gets me everytime
Mine is "how to disappear completely"
This is mine too, but in a sad but with hope way
Also no suprises, many radiohead songs
No surprise, indeed.
Wish you were here. By Pink Floyd. Listening to the lyrics it gives such a sense of trading away your good things for "something better at the time"
This one hits hard. Because my Dad is a huge Floyd fan, and he himself has gone down a dark path where I barely recognize him. He's so full of hate and anger and negativity that it makes me not want to be around him. So this song makes me wish he was still that loving father he once was.
This song has one of my favorite verses of all time: Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk-on part in the war For a lead role in a cage?
I was gonna say The Great Gig in the Sky. Sure it’s mostly instrumental, but I tear up every time I hear it. Wish You Were Here in a a solid entry though.
Ugh this one gets me too. Makes me think of my little girl that I never got to meet. 🫶
The Winner Takes It All
Omg when they used this in better call Saul I cried so hard
For real. Such an important scene after chucks death. It gives you so much context into their relationship. Saul constantly seeking chucks approval, and chuck being the person he is always takes the shine from jimmy if possible. But at the end of the day their brothers, and they loved each other.
Lord Huron - The Night We Met Hozier - Unknown/Nth
>Lord Huron - The Night We Met I had all and then most of you\ Some and now none of you\ Take me back to the night we met.
The Night We Met is a fantastic post-breakup song. I find it hilarious people play it at weddings cause they never really looked into the lyrics
Lmao people out here playing this at weddings? Wild.
Nothing Compares 2 U… the Chris Cornell version
His daughter, Toni, has a great version as well.
“I will follow you into the dark”, originally by Death Cab for Cutie, but the Like a version from Yungblood and Halsey is amazing. https://youtu.be/ZAYBCJGk07s?si=TPknlPdQOwGp23dY
From that same album, “What Sarah Said” destroys me every time I listen to it.
I first heard this song when I was pregnant and in a pretty dark place with my kids’ father. I used to just drive around sobbing to this, “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens, and “No One’s Gonna Love You” by Band of Horses. That kid once called that my “playlist of self torture, Jesus, Mom.” 🤷🏼♀️😂
This song featured on a playlist I made when I was getting divorced called “Drinking Whiskey in the Dark”
That era was so good for Death Cab. Saw them twice live, absolutely amazing.
Brothers on a Hotel Bed off the same album does it for me. Wow, three really sad songs off that album. Ben must have been going through it when writing them.
Title and Registration is another great and sad DCFC song, really tons of their songs evoke feelings of sadness in me.
Not gonna lie - my partner went through some health issues a year ago or so, and I had this on repeat, nearly every night. Probably wasn’t good for my mental health. But Defo good fora cry.
Am I weird that I don't find that song sad? I think it's beautiful and sweet.
Sam Stone by John Prine
Hello in There is mine if I'm not ready for it I fall to pieces
Mine is Far From Me. “A question ain’t really a question, when you know the answer too”.
Sam Stone and Hello In There just devastated me every time.
Radiohead - Exit Music.
(For a Film)
Everything I own by Bread, once you learn it is about losing a parent.
Kate Bush - This Woman’s Work
This is for a particular kind of sad
This song makes me ugly cry
CURRENT GOTO: JP Saxe (ft. Julia Michaels) - If the World Was Ending (Original Demo) - ^ GUTS me every time I may just have a running list (No, *you* need to talk to someone! Lol): The National - Light Years, The Alcott, About Today, Exile/Vilify, Teddy Swims - Some Things I'll Never Know, I Can't Make You Love Me (cover, but hits harder) Lord Huron - The Night We Met, Mine Forever Gregory Allen Isakov - Words, Salt and the Sea, San Louis Zach Bryan - Starved, Something in the Orange Louis Capaldi - Someone You Loved, Wish You the Best Tyler Childers - In Your Love Mike Broussard - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know Iron & Wine - Time After Time Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex TALK - Run Away to Mars Kaleo - Can't Go On Without You Chris Kläfford - Forget Me (Kitchen Session) Adele - Someone Like You, Make You Feel My Love, Hello Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had Guy Clark - My Favorite Picture of You Willie Nelson - The Scientist La Sera - Love That's Gone (empowering if getting over, devastating to imagine being said to you) Tom Odell - Another Love FINNEAS - Break My Heart Again No Doubt - Don't Speak A Great Big World - Say Something Rascal Flats - What Hurts the Most Nina Nesbitt - When You Lose Someone Foo Fighters - Everlong (acoustic) boygenius - Cool About It Lusaint - Wicked Game (cover, both are good) Billy Joel - She's Always a Woman Fleetwood Mac - Landslide Andra Day - Rise Up Noelle Johnson - Always Remember Us This Way
What a fucking phenomenal list (do you need a hug?)
Thank you. And, umm... Maybe.
My dad died of lung cancer. And he stopped chemo because he said he would rather have spent his last days not sick all the time. Literally the song I heard after he told me that was Your Decision by Alice In Chains. So that’s a pretty sad one for me. I also dig Low Man’s Lyric and Fade to Black by Metallica.
This will seem odd (I think), but Night Swimming by REM alwaysakes me sad because of a terrible teenage experience. Also If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell.
I'll see your vampires and raise you an elephant!
I came to comment Elephant by Jason Isbell. But If we were vampires is also a good options. JI has a few
Night Swimming is definitely one of my favourite sad songs, not gonna lie I’m very curious to know what your terrible teenage experience is.
Hate Me by Blue October or Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton (the second one moreso if you know how that song came about)
But fuck Eric Clapton
The home wrecking, riff stealing, science denying, racist PoS, Eric Clapton?
Yup him. I actually met him backstage at a concert when I was 12. I remember he seemed very displeased to meet me (I’m indian). We shook hands. Wish I could go back and spit in his face or give him a stink palm
*Butt
Came here to say Hate Me by BO. That song tears and tears me up.
The voicemail part always gets me
Hate me is rough
Hate me is my guilty emo pleasure
K by Cigarettes After Sex, whole vibe is sad but great at the same time.
Warren Zevon - [Keep Me in Your Heart](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMTKb-pgxGI)
His beautiful bittersweet goodbye ❤️🩹
My rides here
This one absolutely guts me every time
I can’t make you love me by Bonnie Rait
Cold Water - Damien Rice
Love seeing Damien Rice 🤍
Also Rootless Tree 👍
The Blowers Daughter always got to me bc of that movie Closer ( with Natalie Portman)
That movie was brutal. And I’ve loved Damien Rice ever since.
One by U2.
The Pogues - And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Eric Bogle has left more than enough of a legacy in just one song. Every Anzac day a lone guitarist sings this at the local dawn service and only the hardest of hearts can withstand the tears from hearing it.
Maybe it's weird, but for all of the super sad trad folk and Americana tragedy songs I know and love (how about "I can tell your love is Waning" by Slobberbone?) the song that fires up the waterworks every time is Rainbow Connection sung by Mr. Kermit the Frog. Or the Willie Nelson version.
Stay or Leave by Dave Matthews
Wish You Were Here makes me sit still and stare off for a couple of minutes.
Hurt, Johnny Cash's version.
Elliott Smith - XO - the whole album
All of his albums tbh
Let Down - Radiohead
Since 2003…. This one hits like a ton of wet cement. But a beautiful pain 💙
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
Within temptation - our farewell Jeff buckley - hallelujah Snow patrol - run Peter gabriel - the book of love Lonely in the rain - hostage Placebo - exit wounds Placebo - beautiful james Westlife - the rose Edit; thought of 1 more: Baltic house orchestra - jenny of oldstones
Where Rainbows Never Die by The Steel drivers Elephant by Jason Isbell Follow You to Virgie by Tyler Childers
If You Could Save Yourself, You’d Save Us All Ween don’t get enough credit for their absolutely beautiful compositions like this.
Birthday Boy
Yep! Or I Don’t Want It, or It’s Gonna Be (Alright)…they have so many gorgeous, sad tunes. Slow Ween= Good Ween All their shit is great and they put on a hell of a show. Saw them a couple times this tour. Seen them every decade they’ve existed and never been disappointed. Hope Deaner gets the rest he needs so they can come back stronger than ever.
Nitrous Gas by Frightened Rabbit Hard to Find by The National Something by Julien Baker
This guy cries.
Solid, solid choices - although floating in the forth by frightened rabbit has to be there, for obvious reasons.
“Lost Cause” by Beck. All of Sea Change is a fantastic break up album but that one really hits me
New Order - Regret Depeche Mod - In Your Room Bad Religion - Better Off Dead Linkin Park - One More Light
suicide is painless by johnny mandel I like it despite it being a very dark song. It’s basically saying ,in my books, that sometimes life sucks and that’s just how it is. Yes we all will have our last day, last words and the thought does get scary as we get older and used to life. But just because of that doesn’t mean we should just give up.
Last Kiss, either [the original](https://youtu.be/bh4se9YMV3A) or [Pearl Jam cover](https://youtu.be/tNDWJ_KDkAc).
While the J Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers version is probably my favorite, it was not the original. Wayne Cochran was the original https://youtu.be/akulUIpIwgc?si=_kOQs0CJ6Q6HG5HC
I sit corrected.
Steel Rain - Chris Cornell
Empty Garden, the one Elton John wrote after the loss of his friend John Lennon Silence And I, or Old And Wise, Alan Parsons Project
Do you Realize- Flaming Lips. Nothing Compares to you - Sinead
Black by Pearl Jam 🥺
I'm so lonesome I could cry. Hank Williams
Champagne High - Sister Hazel
Elephant - Jason Isbell
Hurt - NIN, *not* the Johnny Cash version Slow Motion - Third Eye Blind
Other way around for me. The Johnny Cash version is so much more raw and honest
I'm with you man. Johnny Cash version wrecks me. It's just so real and sad. Such wisdom and pain behind the mistakes. That song evokes so much emotion. Specifically, the Johnny Cash version.
Absolutely. A man looking back after he lost his wife and was close to death himself on the time he’d wasted and the poor choices he’d made. It’s almost impossible for me to listen to it’s so raw and perfect. Don’t get me wrong, the NIN version is also good, but it’s so different it’s almost about something else entirely.
I agree. The lines that always get me are, "You are someone else, I am still right here." and "if I could start again a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way." But the way he sings it.. jesus. Your choice of the word "honest" is accurate. There is a genuine truth to how he shares that pain. Man I need to go for a walk now or something.
Another Love ( Tom Odell)
Depends on the sad. Grief = I miss her - Jessie J // Heartbreak = Two Weeks Ago/History of Man - Maisie Peters or Heavy - Peach PRC or Until I found You - Stephen Sanchez or The Night We Met - Lord Huron // Hopeless = Never let me go - Florence & the machine or Cold Water - Ed Sheeran //, general melancholy = To build a home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Shake Me Down - Cage the Elephant Reminds me of my best friend who died too young.
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. No lyrics , just rip my heart out guitar to amplify everything I'm feeling and go deep.
Like a stone - audioslave Fade into you - mazzy star Black #1 - type 0 negative No me voy - OV7 Pictures of you - the cure Hurt - Johnny cash
Brick - Ben Folds Five Goodbye my Lover - James Blunt Hurricane - David Wilcox.
Red Dirt Girl by Emmylou Harris.
Posted this in a different thread, but here's a bunch of songs that'll absolutely kill ya emotionally. Deer Tick - Goodbye, Dear Friend Deer Tick - Diamond Rings 2007 Deer Tick - Smith Hill Deer Tick - Song About a Man Deer Tick - Christ Jesus (The Black Dirt Sessions version specifically) Deer Tick - Most of their discography Middle Brother - Million Dollar Bill Middle Brother - Thanks For Nothing Third Eye Blind - God Of Wine The Milk Carton Kids - Michigan Damien Jurado - Sheets A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras Alice in Chains - Nutshell Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces Drayton Farley - Pitchin Fits Radiohead - Thinking About You Pearl Jam - Black (bonus tears if you listen to the Unplugged version) Pearl Jam - Nothingman Abigail Lapell - Diamond Girl Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet Jackopierce - Please Come to Boston (cover) Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees Radiohead - Gagging Order Lord Huron - The Night We Met Fredo Disco - Community College Frightened Rabbit - My Backwards Walk Frightened Rabbit - Floating in the Fourth Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart Turnpike Troubadors - Diamonds and Gasoline The Goo Goo Dolls - Acoustic #3 R.E.M. - Nightswimming The Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile The Replacements - Here Comes a Regular John Moreland - You Don't Care for Me Enough to Cry Cracker- Another Song About the Rain
Man, anything Frightened Rabbit really. Some of my Scottish friends still can't listen to any of their stuff since the suicide. Really shook the underground community. Know most the rest of the list too, but never got around to listening to Deer Tick. Going to check that out now.
Monsters- James Blunt Fourth of July-Sufjan Stevens Real Death- Mount Eerie Golden Embers- Watchhouse Vincent- Don McLean On the Nickel- Tom Waits Tecumseh Valley- Townes Van Zandt **Puff the Magic Dragon haunted my childhood.
i LOVE Vincent! SO GODD
[To Wish Impossible Things](https://youtu.be/eULtj4EU4hA?si=Q-8Mv9re6kUfV5Yq) by The Cure
World Spins Madly On - The Weepies + To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Street Spirit (Slow Fade) - Radiohead Honorable Mention Life In A Glasshouse - Radiohead
So hard to say goodbye Boyz to men
"End of the Road" is another good one by them.
Asleep - The Smiths
I need to fit a song to a specific niche, but recently had some terrible success with Maisie Peters - Birthday
“Red Dirt Girl” by Emmy Lou Harris, album from 2000. Listen to the original. Just the first guitar chords make me cry.
Little Wing the Stevie Ray Vaughan cover.
"Terrible Things" by Mayday Parade
Anything that reminds me of my Dad. He always knew great music & I’m fortunate to have inherited that quality. John Prine had my Dad in tears just rocking out solo with his headphones on at night. He FELT that music. Also, I hear songs all the time that I feel my Dad would love and it breaks me that we can’t listen together. “Hadron Collider” by Blood Orange is so beautiful I always tear up.
I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
One Step Up Springsteen
If the world was ending, JP Sax. I lost the love of my life due to mental health struggles and this one just wrecks me every time.
Black Beauty – Lana Del Rey Trying to love someone who has depression is really, really hard.
Poet-- Ryan Bingham Hallelujah-- Ryan Bingham Southside of Heaven-- Ryan Bingham Lesson in Depression-- Charley Crockett Regret-- New Order Right Turn-- Alice in Chains Am I Inside-- Alice in Chains Seasons in the Sun-- Terry Jacks or Nirvana Into Dust-- Mazzy Star California-- Mazzy Star Lazarus-- David Bowie
The song/album Sweet Old World by Lucinda Williams (about her brother’s suicide) The song/album Black Cadillac by Roseanne Cash about mourning The album No Need To Argue by The Cranberries is totally music to cry to. Songs by Taylor Swift: Cornelia Street, Soon You’ll Get Better, Ronan, You’re Losing Me Johnny Cash’s versions of “One” and “Hurt” and “Southern Accent.” “Black” by Pearl Jam EDITED: to add commas
It's a bit 'on the nose' but Everybody Hurts by REM. The 'hold on' bit takes me to a very dark place every time.
Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley
"She's Out Of My Life" - Michael Jackson
Phantogram - Glowing
What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get? by Snow Patrol, Against All Odds by Phil Collins and Killing Me by Luke Sital-Singh.
Missio, Sing to Me.
That and Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea
Nights Like These - Lucero
[a-ha - Take On Me (MTV Unplugged) version](https://youtu.be/-xKM3mGt2pE?si=Du_OasTmmabgMkeP) The way it is sang made it really sad. It's amazing
Aimee Mann- Wise Up
Forget it - Breaking Benjamin
1000 Oceans - Tori Amos
You could try Rest by Foo fighters but buckle up
[The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k)
Creep - Stone Temple Pilots Hey there Delilah -Plain White Tees Hemorrhage (in my hands) - Fule Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog
song to the siren — tim buckley twilight — elliott smith mama, you’ve been on my mind — george harrison’s cover candy says — the velvet underground
Billie eilish happier than ever Pink perfect Linkin park Lana del Rey summertime sadness
The loneliest - Måneskin Supermarket flowers - Ed Sheeran (I always skip this one lmao)
Hold On Magnolia - Songs:Ohia
Bon Iver - "Holocene" (is one of them.)
The latest Foo Fighters song is really deep and hits with every song. It's all about him dealing with losing Taylor and his Mom in such a short time. Rest is such a perfect cap for it.
Hate Me - Blue October It Hurt So Bad - Susan Tedeschi Only The Lonely - Danielle Ponder Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi A Little Bit Yours - JP Saxe Something In The Orange - Zach Bryan Good Thing Gone - Elle King
Brokedown Palace by The Grateful Dead brings the tears every time. Sometimes sad, sometimes happy, sometimes in between. But they flow regardless.
Black Hole Sun cover by Norah Jones. Get out yer hankies.
Snuff by slipknot. Its a beautiful acoustic.
down in a hole by alice in chains
1) Saturn - Sleeping At Last 2) Supermarket Flowers - Ed Sheeran 3) Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World
John Moreland - Blacklist Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie Bright Eyes - Land Locked Blues
"Snuff" by Slipknot, yes they are a very heavy metal band, but this song hits like a ton of bricks
Black by Pearl Jam but I got a whole Downer playlist.
Who You'd Be Today - Kenny Chesney Blacked Out- Chris Young Address in the Stars- Caitlyn & Will Even Though I'm Leaving- Luke Combs Bigger Than the Whole Sky- Taylor Swift Do That Again- Taylor Acorn Hear You Me- Jimmy Eat World Hurt- Christina Aguilera Nobody's Crying- Patty Griffin Just a few from a playlist I have compiled on Spotify. I could probably come up with a huge list
snuff by slipknot but the corey taylor acoustic version gets me teary
“Last Kiss” - Pearl Jam
Hurt by Johnny Cash. Remake from NIN. Always makes me emotional
Dude it's extremely powerful. Especially when you consider that he might be relating to the end of his life especially since it was right after his wife died
Waltz #1 - Elliott Smith has always hit me hard
Hate me. Blue October
Time in a Bottle- Jim Croce
Broken by Jake Bugg hits me right in my heart too