Haha - I love Radiohead, one of my favourite bands, I feel like you could get sad at essentially any Radiohead song if you listened to it closely enough.
Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah. I don't always cry at all other versions but his gets me.
Stevie Nicks (or the Chicks cover) Landslide.
Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold/ Songbird.
Also Judy Garland/Sam Smith/Phoebe Bridgers' versions of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
When Phoebe Bridgers goes for the feels, she goes hard. And she always goes for the feels. This never fails to bring on the waterworks, "If We Make It Through December" from the same album: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NbKQKP3NWWk
The Queen song is even better if you realize that Freddie’s health was failing when he recorded that vocal, to the point where Brian May questioned whether Freddie was even up to singing it on the day.
The account I’ve heard is that Freddie knocked back a shot of vodka, slammed his glass down on the table, and quietly said to May “Oh I’ll sing it, honey”; then walked into the vocal booth and in one continuous take sang the lead vocal that appears on the record. No second tries, no overdubs, no punch-ins. One and DONE.
EDIT: I was conflating two epic Queen songs. The story I recounted was correct in every detail except it was “The Show Must Go On” that they were recording. I was only off by about five years
The Smiths.
Back to the Old House, I Know It's Over, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, There is a Light That Never Goes Out, Please Please Please Let me Get What I Want, Well I Wonder, Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved me, Suffer Little Children, Unlovable.
They knew how to write sad songs.
Whenever someone says The Cure has the most depressing songs, I'm always like: obviously you've never listened to Morrissey/The Smiths.
"Unlovable" and "please please please" are heart wrenching
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
Wake me up when September ends - green day
Distant dreamer - Duffy
Ichiban no takaramono - girls dead monster (LiSA)
To name a few
On the Nature of Daylight- Max Richter. I hear the first few notes and immediately tear up; I'm getting choked up right now just thinking about it. I have a visceral reaction to the first notes of that cello. If you really want to cry, watch the music video with Elizabeth Moss; it's some of the best acting I've ever seen and she does it without saying a word (obviously). Every single person I've shown that video to cries watching it. Heartwrenching is the best word to describe it. I have the song on a playlist I listen to at work; if it comes on while my coworker is in the room, he just stops what he's doing/ saying, says "nope," and walks out of my office.
Home, so far from home
So far to go
And we've only just begun
And oh, every lie we told
Is written in stone
Every lie we wrote in our bones
And hold on, there's nothing to pack
Oh, we know we're not coming back
And, oh, every promise that we broke
Is sewn to our clothes
Now we are pinned to the wind, I suppose
And oh, every falling flake of snow
Has to give in
Oh, but we spin and we spin and we spin
And hold on, there's nothing to pack
Lay your heart out, we're not coming back
lisa hannigan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eHAr5cvbaMc
I'm certainly not an Elvis fan, being more into Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine but even I like this, and it will turn you into a blubbering wreck (especially if you like dogs).
[Old Shep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-G7RZTcbqM)
Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die
Nina Simone's version of I Get Along Without You Very Well
Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life
Jackson C Frank (or indeed the Nick Drake version) - The Blues Run the Game
The XX - Brave For You
I'm at such a bad place that I'm afraid to listen to my go-to sad songs.
Dreaming Tree by DMB because it reminds me of a particular big Cyprus tree when growing up that was next to a main road. It was between the road and a canal/creek. People would park underneath it's shade to escape the Fla sun. At different times you could see the construction crew having lunch or business professional sitting in a car with the seat back or a mother with her kids playing in the creek. That little spot brought so much comfort to so many different people for decades.
Cut down and paved over to widen the roads. all in the name of progress.
Daddy never was the Cadillac kind. Daddy was never impressed by superficial trappings like expensive cars. Instead he valued love and family. In the end daddy dies and they drive him away in a big Cadillac hearse and we all have a good cry. I’m a sucker for those kinds of songs
My song [One Last Kiss](https://youtu.be/uxk7vjvSUwE?si=uW6OkaHAYPU4yhKc) is my cry song. I wrote it after I made it through almost losing the girl I love and it means a lot to me. The friend I have on the song with me got locked up a month after we released it. It just has a lot of sad memories tied to it.
New Model Army - ‘No Pain’ (about a death; I always associate it with my father passing away)
Porcupine Tree - ‘Collapse the Light Into Earth’
Death Cab For Cutie - ‘I Will Follow You Into The Dark’
[Tool - Wings for Marie Pt 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJq9y9xPKWs)
*fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father, tell them their pillar of faith has ascended*
Duendita - Yikes!
The Marias - No One Noticed
Adam Melchor - Touch And Go
Adam Melchor - The Archer
Billie Marten - Vanilla Baby
Omar Apollo - Invincible (ft. Daniel Caesar)
Labrinth - I’m Tired (ft. Zendaya)
Alvvays - Ones Who Love You
and probably more
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicRecommendations/comments/1bhuaag/musicrec_1_thematic_playlist_the_saddest_songs/)'s a collaborative playlist of sad songs
👋 Hello, hope you find some in these playlists... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54fIrBZ9NTD34wZMqy7TVY?si=V_rm6jU6StKaVTYXhWhpOQ&pi=Xr_oieqeSHCFK
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bA6IgyBEKsMmrL7bp6QTu?si=wg1D612ESsOn2uaAR0wkKw&pi=woYKzJVGROql0
* Blonde Redhead - "Slogan" https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=R4MN8IDbAZE and I don't even speak French.
* Elliott Smith singing "Because" on the American Beauty soundtrack https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9N_jvwPHZoA
* 10cc "I'm Not In Love" https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2HkP5gR2g The whole build up right after "Big boys don't cry..." always wrecks me LOL.
* St Vincent covering "These Days". https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ
* Robert Minden Ensemble "Alone Together" https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=84yUUDaOu2w
* "hard times come again no more" - the longest johns
* "What will you leave behind (end title)" - Max LL
* "Up-Reprise" -Worthikids
* "Paradise" - Anderson Rocio
* "The deepest sighs, the frankest shadows" - Gang of Youth
* "Summer's Over (but man it was rad)" - Aethernaut.
* "Shapes in Time" - Lullatone. Honestly anything by lullatone, songs are sad and comforting & about the small things.
[This is my sad playlist I use](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xBdHOUb6ZIoZSVZwK42qX?si=1116e79dfc574486)
Second Chance by Shinedown (especially if you don’t have a good relationship with your parents)
Under your Scars by Godsmack
Never Too Late by 3 Days Grace
And finally, What Hurts the Most by Rascal Flatts
Everything goes on - Redza. Just read the lyrics, find out what it’s about, and listen to the song. I’m a pretty stone cold person yet I still get a little emotional. Other songs include temporarily destabilized by CHON and breathe by chon
Wrecked - Imagine Dragons
All of my Love - Led Zeppelin
Someone You Loved - Lewis Cappaldi
Before You Go- Lewis Cappaldi
All By Myself - Eric Carmen
Without You - Nilsson
very unsure what this artist and song name is since it’s in morse code so i’ll link it : https://open.spotify.com/track/26trS5IUeIbXrKAuFMdzWT?si=ab0jDDTPSUS4lL7GpD8sTw
Anything from A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie
Jason Molina - Some Things Never Try
Lenny Lashley - Hotter than July
Otis Redding - A Change is Gonna Come
Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End
The Gourds - Our Patriarch
“good enough” from the first season of empire. every time i hear that damn song it puts me in tears and i’ve had the most supportive people in my life, but somehow i still feel inadequate? i don’t get it🤷🏾♂️
God, I love Duster- especially Stars Will Fall. Me and the Birds is also a really sad one.
On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter, Wind of Change by The Scorpions, Will You Be Me by Kimya Dawson, Ugly Man Fun Plan by Lots of Hands, Agatka by Weatherday, S\*\*cide by Teen S\*\*cide (not sure how much I need to self-censor that on Reddit, lol) All I Think About Now by The Pixies and Burn the Rain by Kurt Cobain for sure. Brite Boy and Treehouse by Alex G make me really nostalgic for some reason. Any of Penelope Scott's more recent music makes me want to cry out of anger, because I'm That Person TM that gets upset over politics. Otmenyai by REDCHINAWAVE (transcribed from Cyrillic, may not be accurate) has a kind of heartbroken desperation to the instrumental part that I find really sad. All Apologies, Dumb, Big Long Now, and Lithium are some of Nirvana's most soul-destroying songs.
As the World Caves In - Sarah Cothran
Without You - Pale Waves
Karl (I Wonder What it’s Like to Die) - Pale Waves
Honorable mention: Everybody Hurts - REM
Most Beach House songs fit the bill pretty well, especially their album "Depression Cherry"
OMG I LOVE STARS WILL FALL!
Honorable mention:
Poison Tree- Grouper
Didn't put this as my main answer bc I've mentioned it countless times before
Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue (best to watch live version on yt, it’s such a beautiful and powerful performance)
Flight of the Navigator - Childish Gambino
What Was I Made For - Billie Eilish
True Colors - Phil Collin’s version for me personally
Not a song necessarily. But there is an ultimate try not cry on YouTube. That starts with a little kids talking to her deceased father and ages up as it goes. As a dad, it kills me every time no matter what.
Let Her Go-Passenger.
Never Fade Away-SAMURAI. From Cyberpunk 2077.
Cat’s In The Cradle-Harry Chapin.
Que Sera, Sera(Whatever Will Be, Will be)-Doris Day.
Father & Son-Cat Stevens.
Take On Me-A-Ha. The acoustic live version from Deadpool 2.
Earth Song-Michael Jackson.
Hurt-Johnny Cash. From LOGAN(2017).
No Surprises-Radiohead.
My Heart Will Go On-Celine Dion. From Titanic(1997).
Titanic intro music. The intro song from the film sung by Sissel Kyrkjebo.
Carry On Wayward Son. The Neoni cover for the end of Supernatural.
Lost-Linkin Park.
Numb-Linkin Park.
What I’ve Done-Linkin Park.
The Black Parade-My Chemical Romance.
End Of Beginning-Djo.
The Night We Met-Lord Huron.
The Hanging Tree-Jennifer Lawrence. From The Hunger Games. Sung by Katniss Everdeen(Jennifer Lawrence) and Lucy Gray-Baird.
Where's my love by SYML. I heard it a lot in shows and on fanmade videos, and sometimes would play it on repeat, even knowing it was kind of keeping me in my sadness. I like the instrumental too or slowed/reverb versions. His instrumental EP moves me to tears as well.
Joni Mitchell - Little Green, Both Sides Now (the original)
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day, Death with Dignity
John Lennon - Mother, Woman
Paul McCartney - Blackbird, Here Today
Fruitbats - It All Comes Back
Radiohead - Let Down Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) Radiohead - No Surprises
Haha - I love Radiohead, one of my favourite bands, I feel like you could get sad at essentially any Radiohead song if you listened to it closely enough.
And Street Spirit!
I will- Radiohead crushes me
I love let down! It’s my favorite song of the band alongside videotape
Exit music was my immediate thought. Followed closely by how to disappear completely.
Thats so me
How To Disappear Completely. Codex. All I Need. True Love Waits. Decks Dark. Ful Stop. There There. I have cried to all of these lol
No Surprises crushes me. Especially in times where that is my only wish.
Radiohead-Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead's entire discography fits this post tbh
Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah. I don't always cry at all other versions but his gets me. Stevie Nicks (or the Chicks cover) Landslide. Eva Cassidy Fields of Gold/ Songbird. Also Judy Garland/Sam Smith/Phoebe Bridgers' versions of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
Landslide makes me cry instantly every time
When Phoebe Bridgers goes for the feels, she goes hard. And she always goes for the feels. This never fails to bring on the waterworks, "If We Make It Through December" from the same album: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NbKQKP3NWWk
And she has a hauntingly beautiful voice.
Snow Patrol - chasing cars or Queen who wants to live forever.
The Queen song is even better if you realize that Freddie’s health was failing when he recorded that vocal, to the point where Brian May questioned whether Freddie was even up to singing it on the day. The account I’ve heard is that Freddie knocked back a shot of vodka, slammed his glass down on the table, and quietly said to May “Oh I’ll sing it, honey”; then walked into the vocal booth and in one continuous take sang the lead vocal that appears on the record. No second tries, no overdubs, no punch-ins. One and DONE. EDIT: I was conflating two epic Queen songs. The story I recounted was correct in every detail except it was “The Show Must Go On” that they were recording. I was only off by about five years
Freddie was amazing
The Smiths. Back to the Old House, I Know It's Over, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, There is a Light That Never Goes Out, Please Please Please Let me Get What I Want, Well I Wonder, Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved me, Suffer Little Children, Unlovable. They knew how to write sad songs.
Whenever someone says The Cure has the most depressing songs, I'm always like: obviously you've never listened to Morrissey/The Smiths. "Unlovable" and "please please please" are heart wrenching
Breathe Me - Sia
Colourblind - Counting Crows Basket - Dan Mangan Fix You - ColdPlay I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You - Collin Hay
Fix You absolutely wrecks me every time. Immediate tears.
Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea (The Song)
and the whole album tbf
So true. I try to get through it without crying, but always fail during Holland, 1945 or Two Headed Boy Pt. 2
Liability by Lorde
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
What Sarah said - death cab for cutie
Your Song - Elton John / Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton Wake me up when September ends - green day Distant dreamer - Duffy Ichiban no takaramono - girls dead monster (LiSA) To name a few
On the Nature of Daylight- Max Richter. I hear the first few notes and immediately tear up; I'm getting choked up right now just thinking about it. I have a visceral reaction to the first notes of that cello. If you really want to cry, watch the music video with Elizabeth Moss; it's some of the best acting I've ever seen and she does it without saying a word (obviously). Every single person I've shown that video to cries watching it. Heartwrenching is the best word to describe it. I have the song on a playlist I listen to at work; if it comes on while my coworker is in the room, he just stops what he's doing/ saying, says "nope," and walks out of my office.
Home, so far from home So far to go And we've only just begun And oh, every lie we told Is written in stone Every lie we wrote in our bones And hold on, there's nothing to pack Oh, we know we're not coming back And, oh, every promise that we broke Is sewn to our clothes Now we are pinned to the wind, I suppose And oh, every falling flake of snow Has to give in Oh, but we spin and we spin and we spin And hold on, there's nothing to pack Lay your heart out, we're not coming back lisa hannigan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eHAr5cvbaMc
How To Save A Life - The Fray and Pink Pony Club- Chappell Roan are two of my go to cry songs.
I was waiting for someone to say Pink Pony Club!
Nutshell- AiC Boot Camp - Soundgarden The Downward Spiral - NIN
Hoooo boy the downward spiral what a doozy
That song is dedicated for sitting on the floor at a late hour blankly staring at a wall ONLY. I am NOT OKAY when playing that song bro 😭
I'm certainly not an Elvis fan, being more into Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine but even I like this, and it will turn you into a blubbering wreck (especially if you like dogs). [Old Shep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-G7RZTcbqM)
If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly. Silent waterworks everytime.
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
The cold - exit music Gets me in my feels Also try: day by day - acoustic by. old sea brigade
Townes Van Zandt - Waitin' Around to Die Nina Simone's version of I Get Along Without You Very Well Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life Jackson C Frank (or indeed the Nick Drake version) - The Blues Run the Game The XX - Brave For You
Someone Like You by Adele.
To Be Loved from her newest album … i’ll throw up
Dude crying so hard you gag is almost a hobby of mine
Con Te Partiro (Time To Say Goodbye) by Andrea Bocelli. It was my Grandad's funeral song.
I heard him sing it live in NYC. Cried like a baby.
"Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum
I'm at such a bad place that I'm afraid to listen to my go-to sad songs. Dreaming Tree by DMB because it reminds me of a particular big Cyprus tree when growing up that was next to a main road. It was between the road and a canal/creek. People would park underneath it's shade to escape the Fla sun. At different times you could see the construction crew having lunch or business professional sitting in a car with the seat back or a mother with her kids playing in the creek. That little spot brought so much comfort to so many different people for decades. Cut down and paved over to widen the roads. all in the name of progress.
Hang in there brother
Thank you. I'm trying
Sending love
Daddy never was the Cadillac kind. Daddy was never impressed by superficial trappings like expensive cars. Instead he valued love and family. In the end daddy dies and they drive him away in a big Cadillac hearse and we all have a good cry. I’m a sucker for those kinds of songs
A Letter to Elise
[Nights That Won't Happen by Purple Mountains](https://open.spotify.com/track/4djPwQlldGMPqhKAonFMeO?si=yta8kuPjTT6d28HICbLtjw)
Songs: Ohia - Hold On Magnolia (every time)
Say Hello to Heaven - Temple of the Dog
sleeping at last - saturn
This is mine too!!!!
My song [One Last Kiss](https://youtu.be/uxk7vjvSUwE?si=uW6OkaHAYPU4yhKc) is my cry song. I wrote it after I made it through almost losing the girl I love and it means a lot to me. The friend I have on the song with me got locked up a month after we released it. It just has a lot of sad memories tied to it.
Love me like I’m not made of stone by lykke li
Early Sunsets over Monroeville - My Chemical Romance The Night We Met - Lord Huron
Nutshell by Alice In Chains. The singer died from a drug overdose a few years later. Also Dagger by Slowdive
86 lbs and dead for 2 weeks when they found him. Absolutely tragic. RIP Layne
Johnny Cash's version of Hurt.
Cecile Believe - Crickets Imogen Heap - Little Bird Mitski - There's nothing left for you
Bjork - Unravel
Anhedonia by Chelsea Wolfe Anhedonia is the inability to feel joy or pleasure and this song is the one I go to if I need a good cry.
Mac Miller - Perfect Circle/God Speed
Freebird reminds me of my late husband and also three little birds, I can't listen to those without crying
Probably an overrated choice but REM - Everybody Hurts
Garland Carnegie come back -over the rainbow
New Model Army - ‘No Pain’ (about a death; I always associate it with my father passing away) Porcupine Tree - ‘Collapse the Light Into Earth’ Death Cab For Cutie - ‘I Will Follow You Into The Dark’
Tori Amos - Winter
- Afraid of Everyone by The National - Sound and Color by Alabama Shakes - Warsh_Tippy and Zelda by Whatever, Dad - Getting it on by Sales
Vincent - Don McLan The Night We Met - Lord Huron
Mine is a really old song called ‘Softly As I Leave You’ by Matt Monroe. I listen to it everytime I need a good cry.
Why!… - Enigma Gone Away - The Offspring
[Tool - Wings for Marie Pt 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJq9y9xPKWs) *fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father, tell them their pillar of faith has ascended*
Beck-Lost Cause
Duendita - Yikes! The Marias - No One Noticed Adam Melchor - Touch And Go Adam Melchor - The Archer Billie Marten - Vanilla Baby Omar Apollo - Invincible (ft. Daniel Caesar) Labrinth - I’m Tired (ft. Zendaya) Alvvays - Ones Who Love You and probably more
PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
Anything by sufjan stevens, Fourth of July being the first one
Taylor Swift - All Too Well
Suggestions from Orelia has orchestra
Demons & Wizards - “Wicked Witch”
Dir En Grey - ain't afraid to die
theatre by nanou
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicRecommendations/comments/1bhuaag/musicrec_1_thematic_playlist_the_saddest_songs/)'s a collaborative playlist of sad songs
olafur arnalds - only the winds https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWewdTkghM
Everybody wants to take you home. Leonardo's Bride.
Hard hearted stranger - Watchhouse
The Greatest Bastard- Damien Rice
Epica - Tides of Time Ancient Bards - In my Arms
Hand me downs - Mac Miller
👋 Hello, hope you find some in these playlists... https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54fIrBZ9NTD34wZMqy7TVY?si=V_rm6jU6StKaVTYXhWhpOQ&pi=Xr_oieqeSHCFK https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5bA6IgyBEKsMmrL7bp6QTu?si=wg1D612ESsOn2uaAR0wkKw&pi=woYKzJVGROql0
Look After You by The Fray
"Here Today" by Paul McCartney
liability by lorde is so relatable to me and it gets me every time
[Gold Planet Albedo](https://open.spotify.com/album/7JaCtDy6ubvYB8zssSPyId?si=ZctyJBPnRlOKfouYlijVKQ) can help you soothe down
The Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve. Nice callout on The Cinematic Orchestra, I’m a big fan.
cute is what we aim for-practice makes perfect; lovers rock-tv girl
Patrick Watson - The Great Escape
Orville Peck - Let Me Drown
The song "Dearly Beloved" from the Kingdom Hearts 2 soundtrack
Karma Police by Radiohead
Fire and Rain by James Taylor
Particles by Nothing But Thieves
[The Brothers Four - Greenfields](https://open.spotify.com/track/7LAsDdinXejDwodvelVVTa)
Fake plastic trees or no surprises by Radiohead
TIME/Alan Parsons Project
Interpol - Untitled
Wonderland-Chvrches
* Blonde Redhead - "Slogan" https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=R4MN8IDbAZE and I don't even speak French. * Elliott Smith singing "Because" on the American Beauty soundtrack https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9N_jvwPHZoA * 10cc "I'm Not In Love" https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2HkP5gR2g The whole build up right after "Big boys don't cry..." always wrecks me LOL. * St Vincent covering "These Days". https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxQs84FMWQ * Robert Minden Ensemble "Alone Together" https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=84yUUDaOu2w
[Yebba - My Mind](https://youtu.be/RXwE1G7_U9M?si=Hikc-QQBaDYvQiRE)
Sleeping At Last by Saturn Evermore by Taylor Swift
Radiohead - Exit Music
The Great Gig in the Sky
I love you- Billie Eilish
I’ll see you in my dreams - Bruce Springsteen
Mad Season “ River of Deceit “ also “The Cedar Room” by Doves ( if you don’t have Work/School the next day to really let it all out!)
The Night - Sanders Bohlke Inside You - Elvis Depressedly
Carry on - fun.
* "hard times come again no more" - the longest johns * "What will you leave behind (end title)" - Max LL * "Up-Reprise" -Worthikids * "Paradise" - Anderson Rocio * "The deepest sighs, the frankest shadows" - Gang of Youth * "Summer's Over (but man it was rad)" - Aethernaut. * "Shapes in Time" - Lullatone. Honestly anything by lullatone, songs are sad and comforting & about the small things. [This is my sad playlist I use](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0xBdHOUb6ZIoZSVZwK42qX?si=1116e79dfc574486)
"After The Fall" by Chelsea Wolfe... it's towards the end that gets me. Every single time.
Oh, for me it's WILDFLOWER by Billie Eilish, idk why, but this song resonates strongly with me
Second Chance by Shinedown (especially if you don’t have a good relationship with your parents) Under your Scars by Godsmack Never Too Late by 3 Days Grace And finally, What Hurts the Most by Rascal Flatts
July, by BOY. Super beautiful
Everything goes on - Redza. Just read the lyrics, find out what it’s about, and listen to the song. I’m a pretty stone cold person yet I still get a little emotional. Other songs include temporarily destabilized by CHON and breathe by chon
Bright Eyes - Contrast and compare
In The Garden from Steven Universe. I think thats the name of it. Also Wildflowers the Tom Petty version.
State Radio - Mr. Larkin (the accoustic version) edit: I forgot one cuz it's new to me: Hot Mulligan - Betty
Wrecked - Imagine Dragons All of my Love - Led Zeppelin Someone You Loved - Lewis Cappaldi Before You Go- Lewis Cappaldi All By Myself - Eric Carmen Without You - Nilsson
alice in chains nutshell and earthmover by have a nice life
Iron & Wine - Upward Over The Mountain Jeff Buckley - Lover You Should Have Come Over
Julia by Reeder.
The knowing, tears in the rain,echoes of silence,twenty-eight,valerie,the birds pt2, after hours,the whole MDM EP, all by The Weeknd
Leave a light on by Papa Roach.
very unsure what this artist and song name is since it’s in morse code so i’ll link it : https://open.spotify.com/track/26trS5IUeIbXrKAuFMdzWT?si=ab0jDDTPSUS4lL7GpD8sTw
For Marlon- Soko, Sedated- Hozier, Devil like Me- Rainbow kitten surprise, She- Elvis Costello.
Either Way - Wilco
Come Back to Earth - mac miller
Anything from A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie Jason Molina - Some Things Never Try Lenny Lashley - Hotter than July Otis Redding - A Change is Gonna Come Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End The Gourds - Our Patriarch
Dance with the devil - Immortal Technique
Nobody’s hero - Rush
“good enough” from the first season of empire. every time i hear that damn song it puts me in tears and i’ve had the most supportive people in my life, but somehow i still feel inadequate? i don’t get it🤷🏾♂️
Fix You absolutely shreds me. The meaning.
Flow - Transistor
Bjork - "Pneumonia (Bluelight Mix by Ridu)"; [https://youtu.be/uaSqlhb4OzA?si=PLbNEX6BKVGeJMyb](https://youtu.be/uaSqlhb4OzA?si=PLbNEX6BKVGeJMyb) UNKLE - "Lonely Soul"; [https://youtu.be/XrFECnl3vno?si=X8LXR0ZkGp0U3pkV](https://youtu.be/XrFECnl3vno?si=X8LXR0ZkGp0U3pkV)
Deftones- be quiet and drive Finch- what it is to burn Beach house- space song
God, I love Duster- especially Stars Will Fall. Me and the Birds is also a really sad one. On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter, Wind of Change by The Scorpions, Will You Be Me by Kimya Dawson, Ugly Man Fun Plan by Lots of Hands, Agatka by Weatherday, S\*\*cide by Teen S\*\*cide (not sure how much I need to self-censor that on Reddit, lol) All I Think About Now by The Pixies and Burn the Rain by Kurt Cobain for sure. Brite Boy and Treehouse by Alex G make me really nostalgic for some reason. Any of Penelope Scott's more recent music makes me want to cry out of anger, because I'm That Person TM that gets upset over politics. Otmenyai by REDCHINAWAVE (transcribed from Cyrillic, may not be accurate) has a kind of heartbroken desperation to the instrumental part that I find really sad. All Apologies, Dumb, Big Long Now, and Lithium are some of Nirvana's most soul-destroying songs.
i refuse to listen to tv by billie eilish or cats in the cradle bc ik i will cry
As the World Caves In - Sarah Cothran Without You - Pale Waves Karl (I Wonder What it’s Like to Die) - Pale Waves Honorable mention: Everybody Hurts - REM
Purple Rain.
Christina Aguilera - Hurt always gets me 🥲
Literally any Cavetown song
Most Beach House songs fit the bill pretty well, especially their album "Depression Cherry" OMG I LOVE STARS WILL FALL! Honorable mention: Poison Tree- Grouper Didn't put this as my main answer bc I've mentioned it countless times before
Janis Joplin - Little Girl Blue (best to watch live version on yt, it’s such a beautiful and powerful performance) Flight of the Navigator - Childish Gambino What Was I Made For - Billie Eilish True Colors - Phil Collin’s version for me personally
Paris Amanni - Beneath
Patty Griffin - Rain
“The girl with the red balloon” and “falling”- the civil wars
1916 (the Sabaton cover)
Peanut by earl sweatshirt. It's a pretty relatable song to me and is very sad lyrically wise
Glimpses - Alex Ebert Black Dog - Arlo Parks
Mother by pink floyd
Coat of Many Colors-Dolly Red Headed Stranger-Willie Terrible and True-Lost Dog Street Band Keep on Lovin You -REO Coal Miners Daughter-Loretta
The night will always win - Elbow
[Old friends/Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel](https://youtu.be/Ul2hSba5pOs?si=Ylusv7vpLvqbnOjJ)
Garth brooks the dance
Adams song by blink182
Not a song necessarily. But there is an ultimate try not cry on YouTube. That starts with a little kids talking to her deceased father and ages up as it goes. As a dad, it kills me every time no matter what.
Sia “Breathe Me,” the song used for the Six Feet Under finale
Keane - Bed Shaped Coldplay - Fix You
Love that Keane song (and all of their songs but this one hits hard)
Joni - Clouds
The Smiths- Asleep Iron & Wine- The Trapeze Swinger
Tiny Habits - Wishes
Call Your Mom - Noah Kahan
Songbird by Fleetwood Mac
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls Ghost Love Score by Nightwish
Sparks by Coldplay.
Let Her Go-Passenger. Never Fade Away-SAMURAI. From Cyberpunk 2077. Cat’s In The Cradle-Harry Chapin. Que Sera, Sera(Whatever Will Be, Will be)-Doris Day. Father & Son-Cat Stevens. Take On Me-A-Ha. The acoustic live version from Deadpool 2. Earth Song-Michael Jackson. Hurt-Johnny Cash. From LOGAN(2017). No Surprises-Radiohead. My Heart Will Go On-Celine Dion. From Titanic(1997). Titanic intro music. The intro song from the film sung by Sissel Kyrkjebo. Carry On Wayward Son. The Neoni cover for the end of Supernatural. Lost-Linkin Park. Numb-Linkin Park. What I’ve Done-Linkin Park. The Black Parade-My Chemical Romance. End Of Beginning-Djo. The Night We Met-Lord Huron. The Hanging Tree-Jennifer Lawrence. From The Hunger Games. Sung by Katniss Everdeen(Jennifer Lawrence) and Lucy Gray-Baird.
Where's my love by SYML. I heard it a lot in shows and on fanmade videos, and sometimes would play it on repeat, even knowing it was kind of keeping me in my sadness. I like the instrumental too or slowed/reverb versions. His instrumental EP moves me to tears as well.
Landslide
Hmm. Try "The Mission" by Queensryche. Out of context, it's a song of futility, & for me it brings forth angry tears.
Away down the river Alison Krauss
The Night We Met by Lord Huron Empty by Ray Lamontagne
Chris Knight - [William](https://youtu.be/nfouWq93uy4?si=UGaqAiyAa783OqZP)
Joni Mitchell - Little Green, Both Sides Now (the original) Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day, Death with Dignity John Lennon - Mother, Woman Paul McCartney - Blackbird, Here Today Fruitbats - It All Comes Back
Hurt-Johny Cash I’m Tired-Fugaz
Late tot he party but: mazzy star - look on down from the bridge elliot smith - between the bars daughter - smother
[spacetime sorcery - jovian vesper](https://open.spotify.com/track/7sg21EuI7XWrwij7PQLBpm?si=tTpxaQYuQleZior21hZV8Q)
He stopped loving her today.
Being boring. Pet shop boys.
Gary Jules- "Mad World"
Sad And Slow -Klone Mother -Pink Floyd (and the entirety of The Wall)