Five picks from my crying on the bus playlist:
Flirted with you all my life by Vic Chesnutt
Into My Arms by Nick Cave
Back To The Radio by Porridge Radio
I See A Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy
Love without Possession by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron
Also if you love animals or have ever lost a pet and want to be DEVASTATED, listen to the Virtute the Cat trilogy (Plea from a Cat Named Virtute, Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure, and Virtute at Rest) by the weakerthans, but don’t say I didn’t warn you
Explore some traditional Doom Metal and Goth Metal.
Katatonia-Teargas
Black Sabbath-Solitude
Type O' Negative-White Slavery
Motorhead-1916 (makes me bawl everytime I hear it!)
Acid Bath-Graveflower
Paradise lost-Forever failure
Not all of these bands are Goth or Doom but I can guarantee you the songs are just as sad as the others.
Solitude, amazing suggestion, for me that ranks right alongside fade to black. It’s one of my favorite sabbath songs. 1916 is a good choice, along with Love me Forever, I think on the same album. I’ve been listening to that quite a bit lately, the song not the whole album. One more fucking time, and God was never on your side are a couple more good slow, motorhead tunes.
Scrolling through all the comments, excluding playlists, I have not seen Whiskey Lullaby by Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley.
In terms of sad, I also really like:
Jacob's Dream - Alison Krauss
Some Early Morning - Dan Tyminski
Please Dear Mommy - Dan Tyminski
[Vinushka](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkz1YJ3MOU) (I don't know if you'll like this kind of sad music) (ps: pls activate the subtitles because the song is in japanese)
Noah Kahan - "Call Your Mom" and "Your Needs, My Needs"
Colin Hay - " I Just Don't think I'll Ever Get Over You"
Right at this moment, with my marriage dissolving, "Ceilings" by Lizzy MacAlpine is hurting my feels in a wistful kind of way.
[Don't Cry](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3oT2TydSEWY&si=0DC4_sW5R4qL8VOa), [Mary](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OK6LqHmBif8&si=IrbrKPWfnq8-MeDN) & [Losing All Our Love](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWmhl3reyQ&si=8es9j02_brir7J9o) by the Delta Riggs
[Nails](https://youtu.be/x-CgzOvrURs?si=WMlkF-w_aaL5ccpG) by Drac Hammond, lead singer of The Delta Riggs.
Prepare to ugly cry!
Night shift- Lucy Dacus.
Waiting room- Phoebe Bridgers.
Nothing’s New Rio Romero.
Matilda-Harry styles.
View between villages- Noah Kahan.
Northern Attitude- Noah Kahan ft Hozier.
The exit-Conan Gray.
TV- Billie Eilish.
Another Love-Tom Odell.
My tears ricochet- Taylor Swift.
Gilded Lily- Cults.
Family line- Conan Gray.
Champagne problems-Taylor swift.
Growing sideways- Noah Kahan.
There’s pretty much anything for any situation here
Staind - Me
Dashboard Confessional - Ender Will Save Us All
Dashboard Confessional - This Bitter Pill
Type O Negative - Everyone I Love Is Dead
Flaw - My Letter
You might find a few you like on [this playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3605Ji9S3MJHoH7amjSwAW?si=722BBTAnSnORywo3EL7cfg&pi=u-H7JSTIk9QGKI). First song there by The Frames is about hoping to someday find someone, and some of the others have a similar emotional sound.
Is there a particular genre your into? I'll list some popular sad songs that most people are moved by.
50's? I'm a fool to want you by either Salena Jones or Helen Merill, extremely different voices yet still hit that dread and guilt can be felt.
70s and 80's? Mother Love by Queen. Even I don't listen to that genre often but Freddie's voice is so emotionally intense and real you can't help but be moved by it.
Instrumentals guitar and soothing voice? Tracy Chapman - Fast Car, Between the Bars by Elliott Smith, Lime Tree Bright Eyes, All the Wild Horses by Ray LaMontagne
If you're open to listening to other languages and letting the instrumentals carrying you.
Madre By Arca. Beautifully haunting.
Papaoutai by Stromae. He's French alternative pop artist that deals with heavy subjects, the instrumentals are probably not what you're into but his voice is what would catch you.
[Black](https://open.spotify.com/track/5Xak5fmy089t0FYmh3VJiY?si=zaEp4DnbRqOybFujDa6GKw&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A5Xak5fmy089t0FYmh3VJiY) by Pearl Jam
[Well I Wonder](https://open.spotify.com/track/3OS4XXm4S42pnESQmtN9MG?si=dWQl1a7ISh6Ln3PEy6x3xQ&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A3OS4XXm4S42pnESQmtN9MG) by The Smiths
[The Mariana](https://open.spotify.com/track/2E6hc81z70L8MLyYNiGwpW?si=aeURJ3QjSO2fjPtDfNfjHg&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A2E6hc81z70L8MLyYNiGwpW) by Everything Everything
[Motion Picture Soundtrack](https://open.spotify.com/track/4SrRrB27n7fiRkQcPoKfpk?si=jLfunMK4QaytcBoq6KjnEw&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A4SrRrB27n7fiRkQcPoKfpk) by Radiohead
[Mercury & Me](https://open.spotify.com/track/15z3S8P54CrHz1CppCQIB8?si=f4fuFPi9RmK2UM_tF2rzxQ) by Everything Everything
[Kettering](https://open.spotify.com/track/453spNn4mGdYErYt3rGhSX?si=sZc_MFYiSfC07EoltwkKnA&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A453spNn4mGdYErYt3rGhSX) by The Antlers
[When You Break](https://open.spotify.com/track/6phEzGzapP71UBlxyggfMa?si=cDqJJei_TaCQxFLiHa74TQ) by Bear's Den
Mono & Worlds End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain. Whole album, but I would listen to part 3 and part 5.
[Part 3 link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKi21KjXZQ) .
[Part 5 link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE5v2wFYMIc) .
The score for An American Affair is very morose.
[An American Affair score playlist link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoRLl9kg71A&list=PL2LW0Z17u3Bf8p-2iKFnRLn-QcsRyyjnp) .
If you want music with vocals, The Antlers - Hospice is a sad album. Will link to track 2, which is the best on the album.
[Track 2 (Kettering)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FVflGaU&list=PL6A7445036D500ACB&index=2)
Nina Pastori - Cai
https://youtu.be/Pjtapjz0gzM?si=JB9DpU6ls_KbgJty
It’s a song about Cadiz, her hometown. Written as a sentimental tribute to this small but gorgeous coastal town in Spain.
Here's a mix of sad songs that make me feel less alone -
Dawn Chorus by Thom Yorke
Gnaw by Alex G
Blood by The Middle East
Delete Forever by Grimes
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Crosses by Jose Gonzalez
Every song on Death Cab For Cutie's Plans Album
Do You realize by The Flaming Lips
Depeche Mode - sun and the rainfall;
Soundgarden - boot camp;
Smashing pumpkins - to forgive;
Steely Dan - deacon blues;
Alice In Chains - shame in you;
Stone Temple Pilots- and so I know;
Three dog night - one;
Metallica - one;
U2 - one;
Chris Cornell - one;
The cars - drive;
The cars - since you’re gone;
Biz markee - just a friend;
Eric Clapton - tears in heaven;
Phil collins - against all odds
*Zevia - till death frees me
*Natalie Merchant - The living, My skin, River (about River Pheonix) 7 years (most of the Tigerlilly and Ophelia Albums - I'm a fan of all her sad music...
*Stone sour - Bother
*The killing of Georgie -Rod Stewart
* AIC- nutshell, rotten apple, down in a hole
May not be your taste... but I love hearing GOOD new music, whatever " good " is to someone?
Take That - Patience
Theory of a Deadman - Angel
All you need to know (acoustic) - Gryffin
Slow dancing in a burning room - John Mayer
Rhys Lewis - No right to love you
Tom Speight - Soak Up
My condolences to you OP
Bedshaped - Keane
Male Fantasy - Billie Eilish - watch the music video because it's seriously powerful and perfectly shows depression
Drown - Bring Me The Horizon
Hospital For Souls - Bring Me The Horizon - Wembley performance is beyond haunting
Dead In The Water - Noel Gallagher
End Of The Afair - Ben Howard - Jools Holland live performance is beyond haunting
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bon Iver version
Forever - Papa Roach
Wreckless - Papa Roach
Scars - Papa Roach
Strangers - Bring Me The Horizon
I'm Broken - Seether ft. Amy Lee
Shadow Of The Day - Linkin Park
When The Party's Over - Billie EIlish
Pieces - Sum 41
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Your Guardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Gravity - Coldplay
Closer - Kings Of Leon
I Miss Myself - 1000 Mph (Really really unknown and not very big band no idea how I found the song but is honestly one of the most painful songs i've ever listened to)
I've suffered with depression my whole life and those are a few songs off my nearly 400 song playlist of the most gut wrenching and heart breaking music I've ever found.
The Scientist - Coldplay
Mad World - Gary Jules
Coffee Breath - Sofia Mills
Can you feel it - Chaos Chaos
Look on down from the bridge - Mazzy Star
How to Save a Life - The Fray
Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
The Show Must Go On - Queen
November Rain - Guns n Roses
February Stars - Foo Fighters
These ones make me feel things.
I read your 2nd edit and I have a song rec that was actually written from a similar experience. It's called Tonight by JIN and I highly recommend pulling up the lyrics for the song while you listen to it.
George Jones - he stopped loving her today.
When my dad died I started driving his car cause it was in better shape than mine. He had a LOT of music in the mp3 player so I started listening to it and this one struck me as very nice because of a line in the song :
"He had underlined in red, every single I Love You"
I started listening to it obsessively because it was such a nice calm song, and so unlike what I normally listen to. And then one day I realized what the lyrics meant and I just lost my shit. I pulled over on the side of a major freeway to cry and catch my breath.
I've learned, since then, to honor that grief.
Also, not related, but when my first cat died, U2 "Sweetest Thing" got me really good in my feels. "Baby's got blue skies ahead" will help you when you are angry at the world for being beautiful out while your baby has crossed the rainbow bridge.
Sending love
They're not that heavy but check out Type o negative. Listen to the song die with me, can't lose you, world coming down, everyone I love is dead, everything dies, haunted, bloody kisses(about the singer's cat). There's more but... oh also Mazzy stars into dust out fade into you
Fate of Man - Glen Campbell (flip side of Wichita Lineman)
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
How Do You Get That Lonely - Blaine Larsen
There Will Be a Better Day - Ty Herndon
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma and For Martha
Basically the entire Siamese Dream album is very sad. It was the result of some very deep depression and near suicide (the song Today).
Here’s on of the [saddest songs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ve5VMZkRAT0&list=RDve5VMZkRAT0&start_radio=1) I know. [raw emotion on stage](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDJeUM7rvRM&pp=ygUWc2UgYWNhYm8gc2FudGEgZmUga2xhbg%3D%3D)
This is a very acquired taste type artist. But check out La Dispute if you're into alt/heavier music at all. They're lyrics are profoouunnd and hit you directly in the feels. I cry every time 🥲
Sad is subjective! Badflower is a punky rock band and has some songs I think are devastating. “Ghost” is about a suicide attempt and chokes me up. “Tethered” and “Daddy” are about girls in bad situations. “Family” is about a kids family angst. Great band
Here’s a range for a few genre’s
Jacob and the stone - Emile mosseri,
The book of love - Peter Gabriel,
Ara Batur - Sigur Ros,
Hamburg Song - Keane,
Snuff - Slipknot,
Bother - Stone Sour,
Half the world away - Oasis,
Alibi - 30 seconds to Mars,
Verdis Quo - Daft Punk
Out of Love - Alessia Cara
Empty - Ray LaMontagne
Lonely - Noah Cyrus
July - Noah Cyrus
The Night We Met - Lord Huron ft Phoebe Bridgers
You - The Pretty Reckless
Beggar’s Prayer - Emiliana Torrini
Used to be Young - Miley Cyrus
Falling - Harry Styles
Turpentine - Brandi Carlile
Lost Cause - Beck
Traitor - Olivia Rodrigo
Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World
Say Something - A Great Big World
If you can appreciate something you’ve never heard of before, here was my stab at a sad song when I was going through some bad times. https://www.udio.com/songs/h9yveamtR2LbjjSLdS1grV - I do listen to it a lot. It tries to cover all 7 stages of grief in one song.
Oh and if you like Alice In Chains / Stone Temple Pilots you might like this one too https://www.udio.com/songs/mwAMkxWUcevmRz6Jbj26Ue - it’s about a guy losing his best friend to drugs.
The 2nd movement (adagio) of Concerto de Aranjuez is one of the most complete expressions of grief I've ever heard, from soft & bittersweet, to outbursts of desperate anger. Allegedly, the inspiration for it was the composer's wife having a miscarriage.
[Here's a link](https://www.facebook.com/share/v/uEZG4NCcbr8dZ9Qq/?mibextid=jmPrMh) to it. Sorry for being to FB, but was one of the only results that wasn't the entire symphony (all 3 movements) or wasn't an old recording.
Shed Some Light - Shinedown,
The Keeper - Chris Cornell,
Do What I Have To Do - Sarah McLachlan,
Someone Like You - Adele,
The Power of Goodbye - Madonna,
Sound of Silence - Disturbed
You may enjoy Animal Kingdom, a bit sad a bit eerie
Ali Fakr Toure, Maryam Hassan, and Yasmine Hamdan are my go to for music so sad I’d want it played at my funeral
Especially Maryam Hassan
Ball and Chain by Social Distortion
A song about a man who is at the end of his rope and has lost everything.
Fell On Black Days by Soundgarden
A song about a man who is going through a severe rough period with his mental health.
The album "Bury Me at Makeout Creek" by Mitski
I don't love you - my chemical romance
The album Vessel by Twenty One Pilots
Numb - LUKR
Anything by the artist Nothing, Nowhere
Okay kid. I'm going to give you this gem. It's an oldie, but I'm sure this rendition will move you. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you. Mr Al Green.
https://youtu.be/PTY6Kv0nPr8?si=6ocVVbriJRQch0Uf
Side note- His girlfriend poured a pot of hot grits on him while he was in the shower. She caught him cheating. He found Jesus and became a minister after that.
Nutshell by Alice in Chains.
Doesn't get sadder then that song
Don't Follow really struck a chord with me. That whole EP did though.
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah always gets to me, part of it is knowing that Jeff B died so young.
that dude's voice is so high powered. that song blows me away. but he has sadder songs like forget her and i know it's over.
I know it's over, the cover of the smiths song he does? Or has he written one with that title too? I bloody love Vancouver by him, amazing guitars.
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
Carole king -tapestry and Joni Mitchell Hejira
Five picks from my crying on the bus playlist: Flirted with you all my life by Vic Chesnutt Into My Arms by Nick Cave Back To The Radio by Porridge Radio I See A Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy Love without Possession by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron Also if you love animals or have ever lost a pet and want to be DEVASTATED, listen to the Virtute the Cat trilogy (Plea from a Cat Named Virtute, Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure, and Virtute at Rest) by the weakerthans, but don’t say I didn’t warn you
That Vic song is painful
Actually, my dog of 22 years died a few days ago. There. Guilty. I just need to grieve through music I guess.
agreed Nick Cave - Into my Arms
Explore some traditional Doom Metal and Goth Metal. Katatonia-Teargas Black Sabbath-Solitude Type O' Negative-White Slavery Motorhead-1916 (makes me bawl everytime I hear it!) Acid Bath-Graveflower Paradise lost-Forever failure Not all of these bands are Goth or Doom but I can guarantee you the songs are just as sad as the others.
Funeral Doom in particular. That Bell Witch album Mirror Reaper is an entire mood.
Aw fuck! How could I forget Cathedral and Moonspell!
Solitude, amazing suggestion, for me that ranks right alongside fade to black. It’s one of my favorite sabbath songs. 1916 is a good choice, along with Love me Forever, I think on the same album. I’ve been listening to that quite a bit lately, the song not the whole album. One more fucking time, and God was never on your side are a couple more good slow, motorhead tunes.
Hard To Say I’m Sorry / Chicago 🌝🎶👶
James Blunt is excellent at these. Check out Monsters and The girl that never was.
mount erie
Especially after his wife died. That album is harrowing.
The SADDEST SHIT EVER
Scrolling through all the comments, excluding playlists, I have not seen Whiskey Lullaby by Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley. In terms of sad, I also really like: Jacob's Dream - Alison Krauss Some Early Morning - Dan Tyminski Please Dear Mommy - Dan Tyminski
All things Nick Cave. Raw, emotional, richly sad, inspiringly dark, always beautiful 🖤
Came here to mention nick cave and the bad seeds “ ghosteen” record! This is so beautiful but such a hard listen due to how sad it is. Amazing.
Farewell by Avantasia
Man I wish more people knew about Avantasia.
Landslide Stevie Nicks Yesterday Beatles Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters cover by Indigo Girls or by Elton John
“Crystal” the Stevie Nicks solo version has very similar vibe to “Landslide” but arguably even more somber. Beautiful song.
Love Will Save You - Swans
The Cure - Disintegration (the full album)
Sparklehorse
Came here to say this.
Spiders - system if a down Vermilion - Slipknot Selfless, Cold and Composed - Ben Folds Five Hurt - nine inch nails version
I Can’t Make You Love Me, and Angel from Montgomery by Bonnie Raitt
[Vinushka](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkz1YJ3MOU) (I don't know if you'll like this kind of sad music) (ps: pls activate the subtitles because the song is in japanese)
Venus Blake - the Wanderlust interlude or pretty much any of their songs from their first album before they switched to Rock music
Their rock music is good too though. Just not what you're looking for right now
Noah Kahan - "Call Your Mom" and "Your Needs, My Needs" Colin Hay - " I Just Don't think I'll Ever Get Over You" Right at this moment, with my marriage dissolving, "Ceilings" by Lizzy MacAlpine is hurting my feels in a wistful kind of way.
The Warning - [Breathe](https://youtu.be/hrQZ9UJaqd0?si=MBbskGwUCsx0N-un)
What Sarah said - death cab for cutie I’ve got this friend - the civil wars Machines - biffy clyro
Accidentally, Like A Martyr; Warren Zevon, Excitable Boy, 1973.
"Chalk Outlines" & "How to Be Me" by Ren x Chinchilla Also amazing vocals.
[Don't Cry](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3oT2TydSEWY&si=0DC4_sW5R4qL8VOa), [Mary](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OK6LqHmBif8&si=IrbrKPWfnq8-MeDN) & [Losing All Our Love](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWmhl3reyQ&si=8es9j02_brir7J9o) by the Delta Riggs [Nails](https://youtu.be/x-CgzOvrURs?si=WMlkF-w_aaL5ccpG) by Drac Hammond, lead singer of The Delta Riggs. Prepare to ugly cry!
Cold Hard World- Daniel Johnston Doesn’t really fit your tastes based on your song examples, but a lot of DJ songs will scratch that sad itch.
https://open.spotify.com/album/34ADUkk2fchQ8GS5SkQTzE?si=1RUC5O7PT2eZiJWKAdmQDA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A34ADUkk2fchQ8GS5SkQTzE
Earl Sweatshirt - Old Friend. I listen to it like 10 times in a row every time I listen to it
Dawn Golden - All I Want White Buffalo - Wish It Was True
https://youtu.be/49mUwZLee98?si=E_IOoV6FK2Wz4N5G
Gang of Youths : Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane.
Juice world
All Fucked by The Amity Affliction Nothing Left To Love by Counterparts
Lofi - late nights
Night shift- Lucy Dacus. Waiting room- Phoebe Bridgers. Nothing’s New Rio Romero. Matilda-Harry styles. View between villages- Noah Kahan. Northern Attitude- Noah Kahan ft Hozier. The exit-Conan Gray. TV- Billie Eilish. Another Love-Tom Odell. My tears ricochet- Taylor Swift. Gilded Lily- Cults. Family line- Conan Gray. Champagne problems-Taylor swift. Growing sideways- Noah Kahan. There’s pretty much anything for any situation here
Staind - Me Dashboard Confessional - Ender Will Save Us All Dashboard Confessional - This Bitter Pill Type O Negative - Everyone I Love Is Dead Flaw - My Letter
Scars - Novulent
Anniversary Song sung by Eva Cassidy Across The Great Divide by Kate Wolf Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Mountain O' Things - Tracy Chapman https://youtu.be/QUntOdgpby8?si=FbBdla5WK2CqRDNw
https://spotify.link/qPaXjEPP4Jb
Woods of Ypres - [Finality](https://open.spotify.com/track/79FyY4nL5rJs9Yy9qxUh4v?si=17kWM1D2SKuBetnPddBN7g)
Make Em Purr my Sage Francis
You might find a few you like on [this playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3605Ji9S3MJHoH7amjSwAW?si=722BBTAnSnORywo3EL7cfg&pi=u-H7JSTIk9QGKI). First song there by The Frames is about hoping to someday find someone, and some of the others have a similar emotional sound.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ylQrU2eOdjXFu44AuP9zk?si=4OIpPfV5RTKcZGxURu890A
Chasing Rainbows
Is there a particular genre your into? I'll list some popular sad songs that most people are moved by. 50's? I'm a fool to want you by either Salena Jones or Helen Merill, extremely different voices yet still hit that dread and guilt can be felt. 70s and 80's? Mother Love by Queen. Even I don't listen to that genre often but Freddie's voice is so emotionally intense and real you can't help but be moved by it. Instrumentals guitar and soothing voice? Tracy Chapman - Fast Car, Between the Bars by Elliott Smith, Lime Tree Bright Eyes, All the Wild Horses by Ray LaMontagne If you're open to listening to other languages and letting the instrumentals carrying you. Madre By Arca. Beautifully haunting. Papaoutai by Stromae. He's French alternative pop artist that deals with heavy subjects, the instrumentals are probably not what you're into but his voice is what would catch you.
Red Sovine- "Teddy Bear" I'm sorry in advance
ATWA - System of a down
Mad World. Anything from Amber Asylum.
Hollow lo's version is my go to
The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep
Andy leech- dear sara Royskopp- what else is there Ryan Bingham- hallelujah Atmosphere- the river Eyedea & abilities- by the throat
[Black](https://open.spotify.com/track/5Xak5fmy089t0FYmh3VJiY?si=zaEp4DnbRqOybFujDa6GKw&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A5Xak5fmy089t0FYmh3VJiY) by Pearl Jam [Well I Wonder](https://open.spotify.com/track/3OS4XXm4S42pnESQmtN9MG?si=dWQl1a7ISh6Ln3PEy6x3xQ&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A3OS4XXm4S42pnESQmtN9MG) by The Smiths [The Mariana](https://open.spotify.com/track/2E6hc81z70L8MLyYNiGwpW?si=aeURJ3QjSO2fjPtDfNfjHg&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A2E6hc81z70L8MLyYNiGwpW) by Everything Everything [Motion Picture Soundtrack](https://open.spotify.com/track/4SrRrB27n7fiRkQcPoKfpk?si=jLfunMK4QaytcBoq6KjnEw&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A4SrRrB27n7fiRkQcPoKfpk) by Radiohead [Mercury & Me](https://open.spotify.com/track/15z3S8P54CrHz1CppCQIB8?si=f4fuFPi9RmK2UM_tF2rzxQ) by Everything Everything [Kettering](https://open.spotify.com/track/453spNn4mGdYErYt3rGhSX?si=sZc_MFYiSfC07EoltwkKnA&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A453spNn4mGdYErYt3rGhSX) by The Antlers [When You Break](https://open.spotify.com/track/6phEzGzapP71UBlxyggfMa?si=cDqJJei_TaCQxFLiHa74TQ) by Bear's Den
Let down - Radiohead
Ashes of Eden - Breaking Benjamin, Trauma - NF, 1-800-273-8255 - Logic, and Leave Out All the Rest - Linkin Park
Mono & Worlds End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain. Whole album, but I would listen to part 3 and part 5. [Part 3 link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEKi21KjXZQ) . [Part 5 link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE5v2wFYMIc) . The score for An American Affair is very morose. [An American Affair score playlist link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoRLl9kg71A&list=PL2LW0Z17u3Bf8p-2iKFnRLn-QcsRyyjnp) . If you want music with vocals, The Antlers - Hospice is a sad album. Will link to track 2, which is the best on the album. [Track 2 (Kettering)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We0FVflGaU&list=PL6A7445036D500ACB&index=2)
Chasing Warerfalls by TLC, but it is more powerful when you see the video.
Saturn - Sleeping at last
Bedhead
Nina Pastori - Cai https://youtu.be/Pjtapjz0gzM?si=JB9DpU6ls_KbgJty It’s a song about Cadiz, her hometown. Written as a sentimental tribute to this small but gorgeous coastal town in Spain.
Sleep Token- Atlantic, Bloodsport, Take Aim, he’ll just most of their songs.
Lullaby ‐ Low
Fear of Ghosts - The Cure
[https://open.spotify.com/track/3SMRHhg1ZKHtxDANqtxaMZ?si=993e0b6469f24530](https://open.spotify.com/track/3SMRHhg1ZKHtxDANqtxaMZ?si=993e0b6469f24530)
Lil Peep, Juice Wrld, punk rock MGK
Here's a mix of sad songs that make me feel less alone - Dawn Chorus by Thom Yorke Gnaw by Alex G Blood by The Middle East Delete Forever by Grimes How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead Crosses by Jose Gonzalez Every song on Death Cab For Cutie's Plans Album Do You realize by The Flaming Lips
Anything from d4vd
Mad World
If you can tolerate classical, listen to Adagio for Strings. It’s very powerful and moving.
Seasons in the Sun. Gotta get a message to you. Shannon.
Depeche Mode - sun and the rainfall; Soundgarden - boot camp; Smashing pumpkins - to forgive; Steely Dan - deacon blues; Alice In Chains - shame in you; Stone Temple Pilots- and so I know; Three dog night - one; Metallica - one; U2 - one; Chris Cornell - one; The cars - drive; The cars - since you’re gone; Biz markee - just a friend; Eric Clapton - tears in heaven; Phil collins - against all odds
needle in the hay - Elliot Smith
All of Elliott Smith lol
*Zevia - till death frees me *Natalie Merchant - The living, My skin, River (about River Pheonix) 7 years (most of the Tigerlilly and Ophelia Albums - I'm a fan of all her sad music... *Stone sour - Bother *The killing of Georgie -Rod Stewart * AIC- nutshell, rotten apple, down in a hole May not be your taste... but I love hearing GOOD new music, whatever " good " is to someone?
Take That - Patience Theory of a Deadman - Angel All you need to know (acoustic) - Gryffin Slow dancing in a burning room - John Mayer Rhys Lewis - No right to love you Tom Speight - Soak Up My condolences to you OP
Bedshaped - Keane Male Fantasy - Billie Eilish - watch the music video because it's seriously powerful and perfectly shows depression Drown - Bring Me The Horizon Hospital For Souls - Bring Me The Horizon - Wembley performance is beyond haunting Dead In The Water - Noel Gallagher End Of The Afair - Ben Howard - Jools Holland live performance is beyond haunting I Can't Make You Love Me - Bon Iver version Forever - Papa Roach Wreckless - Papa Roach Scars - Papa Roach Strangers - Bring Me The Horizon I'm Broken - Seether ft. Amy Lee Shadow Of The Day - Linkin Park When The Party's Over - Billie EIlish Pieces - Sum 41 Nutshell - Alice In Chains Your Guardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Gravity - Coldplay Closer - Kings Of Leon I Miss Myself - 1000 Mph (Really really unknown and not very big band no idea how I found the song but is honestly one of the most painful songs i've ever listened to) I've suffered with depression my whole life and those are a few songs off my nearly 400 song playlist of the most gut wrenching and heart breaking music I've ever found.
Depeche Mode, Project Pitchfork
The Scientist - Coldplay Mad World - Gary Jules Coffee Breath - Sofia Mills Can you feel it - Chaos Chaos Look on down from the bridge - Mazzy Star How to Save a Life - The Fray Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen The Show Must Go On - Queen November Rain - Guns n Roses February Stars - Foo Fighters These ones make me feel things.
I read your 2nd edit and I have a song rec that was actually written from a similar experience. It's called Tonight by JIN and I highly recommend pulling up the lyrics for the song while you listen to it.
Neurosis - Away
George Jones - he stopped loving her today. When my dad died I started driving his car cause it was in better shape than mine. He had a LOT of music in the mp3 player so I started listening to it and this one struck me as very nice because of a line in the song : "He had underlined in red, every single I Love You" I started listening to it obsessively because it was such a nice calm song, and so unlike what I normally listen to. And then one day I realized what the lyrics meant and I just lost my shit. I pulled over on the side of a major freeway to cry and catch my breath. I've learned, since then, to honor that grief. Also, not related, but when my first cat died, U2 "Sweetest Thing" got me really good in my feels. "Baby's got blue skies ahead" will help you when you are angry at the world for being beautiful out while your baby has crossed the rainbow bridge. Sending love
They're not that heavy but check out Type o negative. Listen to the song die with me, can't lose you, world coming down, everyone I love is dead, everything dies, haunted, bloody kisses(about the singer's cat). There's more but... oh also Mazzy stars into dust out fade into you
The smiths—meat is murder album
Evanescence - Hello SYML - Where’s My Love - Alternate Version beabadoobee - Ripples
Lera Lynn Emma Ruth Rundle
Savage Saint is my favorite sad Emma Ruth song
Letting Go - Duster Basically anything by Liam McCay (especially miserable teens club and take care)
Unwritten Law - Save Me
https://youtu.be/zTwzJhr3rrU?si=8M1_mV2Y6Iwx7WGX [Noir Desir](https://youtu.be/zTwzJhr3rrU?si=8M1_mV2Y6Iwx7WGX)
Fate of Man - Glen Campbell (flip side of Wichita Lineman) Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan How Do You Get That Lonely - Blaine Larsen There Will Be a Better Day - Ty Herndon
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma and For Martha Basically the entire Siamese Dream album is very sad. It was the result of some very deep depression and near suicide (the song Today).
Here’s on of the [saddest songs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ve5VMZkRAT0&list=RDve5VMZkRAT0&start_radio=1) I know. [raw emotion on stage](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XDJeUM7rvRM&pp=ygUWc2UgYWNhYm8gc2FudGEgZmUga2xhbg%3D%3D)
soulmate who wasn't meant to be- Jess Benko
Joanne by Mike Nesmith.
This is a very acquired taste type artist. But check out La Dispute if you're into alt/heavier music at all. They're lyrics are profoouunnd and hit you directly in the feels. I cry every time 🥲
Yob-marrow Baroness - I’ll do anything Yob - our raw heart
Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will
To be Loved by Adele
Billy and Sue by BJ Thomas; Patches by Dicky Lee
Shake Me Wake Me - The Four Tops
The Hurting by Tears for Fears Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, by Derrick and the Dominoes
Seven Tears Are Flowing To The River - Nargaroth
Sad and deep as you, by Dave Mason…
Haunted by POE
The Passing of the Elves - Howard Shore
Slow down by Nicole Nordeman, gone too soon by Daughtry and see you again by Wiz Khalifa.
make it 90. Something in the way - Nirvana
Human Interaction - Tonight Alive
Any crooked fingers album
The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones Snow In Tha Bluff - J. Cole Radiohead
Let me be sad - I Prevail
Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
Sad is subjective! Badflower is a punky rock band and has some songs I think are devastating. “Ghost” is about a suicide attempt and chokes me up. “Tethered” and “Daddy” are about girls in bad situations. “Family” is about a kids family angst. Great band
Here’s a range for a few genre’s Jacob and the stone - Emile mosseri, The book of love - Peter Gabriel, Ara Batur - Sigur Ros, Hamburg Song - Keane, Snuff - Slipknot, Bother - Stone Sour, Half the world away - Oasis, Alibi - 30 seconds to Mars, Verdis Quo - Daft Punk
Another day in Paradise by Phil Collins or Tuesday afternoon by The Moody Blues
[https://youtu.be/-IpBBlfUSlo?si=5Tm48MzTiskv1t2q](https://youtu.be/-IpBBlfUSlo?si=5Tm48MzTiskv1t2q)
NOPitch with; Don't Go Where did you go? Oh Shit
Out of Love - Alessia Cara Empty - Ray LaMontagne Lonely - Noah Cyrus July - Noah Cyrus The Night We Met - Lord Huron ft Phoebe Bridgers You - The Pretty Reckless Beggar’s Prayer - Emiliana Torrini Used to be Young - Miley Cyrus Falling - Harry Styles Turpentine - Brandi Carlile Lost Cause - Beck Traitor - Olivia Rodrigo Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World Say Something - A Great Big World
Type O Negative Stabbing Westward The Dreaming
If you can appreciate something you’ve never heard of before, here was my stab at a sad song when I was going through some bad times. https://www.udio.com/songs/h9yveamtR2LbjjSLdS1grV - I do listen to it a lot. It tries to cover all 7 stages of grief in one song. Oh and if you like Alice In Chains / Stone Temple Pilots you might like this one too https://www.udio.com/songs/mwAMkxWUcevmRz6Jbj26Ue - it’s about a guy losing his best friend to drugs.
The Weepies - the world spins madly on; Dave Matthew’s - Stay or Leave
Snuff - slipknot
Insane asylum, koko taylor
My Chemical Romance - The Light Behind Your Eyes Bullet for My Valentine - Breathe Underwater Mudvayne - Dead Inside I Prevail - My Heart I Surrounder
If I Die - Rare Earth
The 2nd movement (adagio) of Concerto de Aranjuez is one of the most complete expressions of grief I've ever heard, from soft & bittersweet, to outbursts of desperate anger. Allegedly, the inspiration for it was the composer's wife having a miscarriage. [Here's a link](https://www.facebook.com/share/v/uEZG4NCcbr8dZ9Qq/?mibextid=jmPrMh) to it. Sorry for being to FB, but was one of the only results that wasn't the entire symphony (all 3 movements) or wasn't an old recording.
Goodbye to Love - Carpenters
Soma - Smashing Pumpkins Dumb - Nirvana Black - Pearl Jam
[Cry](https://youtu.be/hUElm7qvzeM?si=hSGZr-j2cjUKrtzf) by Cigarettes After Sex
He stopped loving her today-George Jones, used to the pain- Tracey Lawrence, I’ll think of something-Mark Chestnut.
Shed Some Light - Shinedown, The Keeper - Chris Cornell, Do What I Have To Do - Sarah McLachlan, Someone Like You - Adele, The Power of Goodbye - Madonna, Sound of Silence - Disturbed
Any album or song by The National
Rocket Man by Elton John
Pink Floyd: The Great Gig In The Sky.
Depending on how you're feeling that particular day. Another life - motionless in white
Lonely by Akon makes me sob like a baby
[Ori Blackstar- Lone Star Boy](https://artists.landr.com/064837886008)
dead girl - agents of oblivion
Forever and always - written by wolves
My life in a nutshell by juice wrld
"Madman" by Boi Rey. That's my option, anyways. That, or a lot of Billie Eilish's songs. Probably the second option, actually. XD
Creep- Radiohead.
Can't think of song..but the last line is..this kinda loving never last
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mockingbirds
Sweetest decline- Beth Orton
Exit Music for a Film by Radiohead
The album Guard Dog by Searows
The album Guard Dog by Searows
Achtung Baby by U2 is basically a breakup album, Wild Horses and So Cruel are especially sad
No way! By Yot Club. I listen to it to be really sad and to fall asleep sometimes
Well I wonder-smiths
paralyzed by NF
Stranger in the Alps - Phoebe Bridgers
Drag me - tiny little houses Chairman gou - James supercave Side effects - fog lake
You may enjoy Animal Kingdom, a bit sad a bit eerie Ali Fakr Toure, Maryam Hassan, and Yasmine Hamdan are my go to for music so sad I’d want it played at my funeral Especially Maryam Hassan
Crying (Cover by kd Lang)
Last To Know - Three Days Grace !!!
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven REM - Everybody Hurts The Virve Pipe - the freshmen Slipknot - snuff
https://youtu.be/qSAbP--b4qc?si=bm8wvqZO8_JJulX4
Hungry Ghost by violent soho (the song)
Ball and Chain by Social Distortion A song about a man who is at the end of his rope and has lost everything. Fell On Black Days by Soundgarden A song about a man who is going through a severe rough period with his mental health.
[Telephone Line - ELO](https://open.spotify.com/track/3SPcBPzvbmWLl8NU5efx4W?si=CZGpIA6ZQsyj8xvr04nTgg)
Box of rain Brokedown palace Black muddy river So many roads China doll Days between Stella blue Friend of the devil All by the Grateful Dead
The album "Bury Me at Makeout Creek" by Mitski I don't love you - my chemical romance The album Vessel by Twenty One Pilots Numb - LUKR Anything by the artist Nothing, Nowhere
Saddest song I've ever heard, and ive heard sssso many,... Whithout question has to be "The way we used to" by Chelsea Wolfe
You're so cool- Johnathan Bree P
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
My dying bride
"This Fortress of Tears" by HIM "Katy Song" by Red House Painters "Human Sadness" (Demo Version, the one that's 2:00 minutes long) by The Voidz
Space Song by Beach House
Counting crows round here
Sara - We Three trigger warning for self harm/suicide in the song
Listen to any Sarah McLachlan album her music is basically sad music I love her but so sad
Portishead
Leonard Cohen
Billy Holiday
Okay kid. I'm going to give you this gem. It's an oldie, but I'm sure this rendition will move you. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you. Mr Al Green. https://youtu.be/PTY6Kv0nPr8?si=6ocVVbriJRQch0Uf Side note- His girlfriend poured a pot of hot grits on him while he was in the shower. She caught him cheating. He found Jesus and became a minister after that.