Sad Songs

[Middnight Snack 24]

Give me your sad, sad, beautiful songs. I'm feeling a it under the weather at the moment and nothing helps me out more than just getting dem feels from a sad song.

 

Here's a couple to start y'all off with.

 

 

[the_jetfighter 94]

 i thought this might be the saddest song i ever listened too, i originality thought dr hook was one of the happiest bands i had ever listened to until this song

[Middnight Snack 24]

Just got a fresh shipment of more tear jerkers. Shed a tear for me y'all.
 

 

 

 

These songs just really make me feel sad (<---fillers lol) but seriously, some beautiful songs here.

Edited February 15, 2013 by Middnight Snack

[Kazuki Fuse 534]

 

The ultimate "no gf" song. This one seriously depresses me, but it's also one of my all-time favorite songs.

 

 

'Hospice' is one of the saddest albums ever. I highly reccomend it.

[ScaryMonster 1]

The saddest song I know, it's so pretty ;-;

It brings tears to my eyes when I hear it, I listen to it when I'm hyper to calm down, or if I need to write a sad part of a story.

[Rainbow Dash 1,471]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aF9AJm0RFc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7maJu5X7_Tk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_9HucYPYb4

some of my favorite sad songs. try not cry if you listen to them. would have posted more, but i dont want you guys to be depressed forever

[Circadian 1,273]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZRCIrTgQc

 

When the day is long... and the night, the night is yours alone... when you feel like giving up.... hold on.

 

 

Had consequence chose differently, had fate it's ugly head. My actions make me beautiful  and dignify the flesh. Me. I am free, I am free.

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

Some of the greatest songs ever written were sad ones

And some of the most beautiful songs were sad songs as well

These are some that I find emotional:

 

[uuunph 288]

 

 

The ultimate "no gf" song. This one seriously depresses me, but it's also one of my all-time favorite songs.

 

 

 

'Hospice' is one of the saddest albums ever. I highly reccomend it.

I second this. I mean, really. Also, their EP that came before Hospice, 'New York Hospitals' has some pretty sad stuff as well, though Hospice has the full story. Like this one, just a full step up from Bear/Epilogue's chord progression. Well, actually this came first, so I guess there other two songs are just a full step down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOHH0NAHQo

 

Also, this. Love the outro where it's just all guitar feedback and very vague, inaudible screaming in the background. Doesn't sound like it too much, but that kinda makes it more beautiful to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssb_H8rzuAI

Edited February 15, 2013 by Railrunner

[Cocodrillo 1,565]

Radiohead is the answer.

 

I'll give you a list because a) I love lists 

b ) I know a LOT of beautiful sad songs.

Have this to listen:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K7iZ4f9Big

 

+ make sure to check out my schoolmates band.

http://bandzone.cz/ghostofyou

Especially the "K." one.

 

THE LIST

 

TOP:

Broove - Heartbeats

Broove - You are just another me

Cat Power - Sea of Love

Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter

deadmau5 - I Forget

Eels - I need some sleep

Emilie Autumn - Gaslight

Eyes set to kill - Give you my all

Flyleaf - There for You

Johnny Cash - You are my Sunshine
Gary Jules - Mad World

Gorillaz - El Manana

Green Day - Wake me up when September ends

Chet Faker - I'm into You

John Foreman - In My Arms

Los Campesinos! - The Sea is a good place to think of the future

Markéta Irglová - The Hill

Mt Eden - Still Alive

Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never have

Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box

Parov Stelar - Dust in the Summer Rain

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

Radiohead - Creep

Radiohead - Last Flowers to the Hospital

Radiohead - No Surprises

Radiohead - You

Receptor - Run Run Run

Red hot Chilli Peppers - Under the Bridge

SlipKnoT - Dead Memories

SlipKnoT - Vermillion pt. 2

Snow Patrol - Set hte Fire to the Third Bar

Sonata Arctica - Shy

The Cure - Love Song

 

The Spill Canvas - All Over You

Yann Tiersen - La Noyée

Yann Tiersen - La valse d'Amélie (piano)

Other:

3 Doors Down - Here Without You

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Avenged Sevenfold - Fiction

Avenged Sevenfold - So Far Away

Blink 182 - I Miss You

Blur - Good Song

Blur - Miss America

Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane

Crystal Fighters - With You

deadmau5 - Careless

deadmau5 - I remember

Franz Ferdinand - Auf Achse

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill

GreyFoo - Archaeology

Hoobastank - The Reason

José Gonzalez - Heartbeats

Linkin Park - Somewhere I belong

Linkin Park - In Pieces

Lovex - Yours

Mňága a Žďorb - Hodinový Hotel

My Dying Bride - Fall with me

Oceana - The Abortion Plan

OK Go - End Love

Parov Stelar - Coco

Parov Stelar - Requiem for Annie

Pendulum - Watercolour

Poets of the Fall - Late Goodbye

Radiohead - All I need

<insert anything from Radiohead>

SlipKnoT - Snuff

Snow Patrol - You could be happy

Sum 41 - Pieces

System of a Down - Lonely Day

The All-American Rejects - My Paper Heart

The Subways - I wanna hear what you got to say

Three Days Grace - I hate everything about you

Weezer - Perfect Situation

Within Temptation - Forgiven

Within Temptation - Memories

Yellowcard - Breathing

 

P.S. ScootaMoog gets a cookie for Nine Inch Nails.

P.P.S. If you don't find some of them sad, ignore it. I'm not objective - Most of them I find sad because of the past and stuff.

Edited February 16, 2013 by Suntouched Coco

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

Curse you COCO!!!

You mentioned a bunch of songs that I wanted to!!

Also Like Spinning Plates and Reckoner are not on your list

I'd include them on mine

But anyways, some Sad Songs that are not by Radiohead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUK5mvUzsXw

 

And I might as well make a list too before anyone else steals a song that I wanna post:

Converge - Wretched World

Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (and the Johnny Cash version too)

Aphex Twin - Xtal

Aphex Twin - Rhubarb

Aphex Twin - Yellow Calx

Autechre - Clipper

Autechre - Nine

Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates

Radiohead - Reckoner

ISIS - Holy Tears

ISIS - So Did We

Pendulum - Witchcraft

Dream Theater - Octavarium

Dream Theater - Wither

My Chemical Romance - Desert Song

Boards of Canada - An Eagle In Your Mind

Squarepusher - Tundra

Squarepusher - Ultravisitor

Alice In Chains - Nutshell

Russian Circles - Station

Boards of Canada - A Moment Of Clarity

Deadmau5 - Strobe

Deadmau5 feat. Imogen Heap - Telemiscommunications

Deadmau5 - Sleepless

Edited February 16, 2013 by ScootaMoog

[PlunderSteed 1,251]

Definitely gotta agree that Johnny Cash's cover of NiN's "Hurt" was one of the most stark, painfully introspective performances ever made.  Cash had more to regret during his lifetime than most people could hope to experience...accidentally killing his brother, being drafted into the Korean War, squandering his first marriage, drinking away his first decade of touring, going to prison for his pill habit...the list goes on.

 

Some other sad and touching songs (I'll try to keep them mainstream enough to be recognized)...

 

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (life can be wearisome, and a sense of the futility of it all can be overwhelming at times)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik

 

Everclear - Father of Mine (my father in law cannot stand listening to this song, since it hits very close to home for him)

[Loriem 639]

 

 

Here's a couple semi-sad songs. Both are fairly good to listen to and calm down with, as their so innocent and, yea. I wish someone would make a PMV of them.

[IronPuddinG 249]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHPpKcdanaM

I've always found the slow ballad stuff to hit hard.  You also might find it kinda' corny, but the song 'The Sad Man With a Box' from Doctor Who is really good for getting yourself out of ruts.  It begins sad and ends pumping you up a bit. 

Hope you manage to pick yourself back up. 

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

Oh god I can't believe I forgot about this one:

Possibly the greatest cover, and the most depressing Nirvana song

As well as this one:

[Up From The Ashes 56]

Here's a couple which I personally feel have a sad vibe to each of their songs:

 

Fleetwood Mac ~ Little Lies

 

And one of my personal favourites with a sad vibe, 

 

Dream Theater ~ Change of Seasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgKHimdfNrY

[decoherence 183]

The song I wanted to share isn't available on YouTube. I had to do some creative searching and I can't promise this website isn't shady but if you're looking for da feels, I promise you this song is chalk full of 'em

 

http://www.trilulilu.ro/muzica-folk/buffy-sainte-marie-goodnight

[~Asuka <3~ 867]

Want to cry?  I've got the perfect song for you. 

 

 

My Dying Bride is the ultimate feel band.  I have yet to hear one song by them that isn't insanely sad.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3l7x7VihLU

[Cocodrillo 1,565]

Insert The man who sold the world cover

 

Oh my glob, yes...  This song means so much to me.

 

 

 

Also, I have no idea how I missed this:

Also, this:

Lesson learnt: Coco songs are best songs.

 

 

[Ragland Tiger 3,301]

Sarah McLachlan wrote this song about marrying and divorcing her best friend's ex,but, to me, there are many other meanings you can hang on it.  Her sad ballads have a way of doing that.

[Buttonmash1973 1,024]

Ron's Piece or The Last Rendez Vous performed by Jean Michel Jarre back in 1986.

 

This is from the anniversary concert for Houston.

 

[Moog the Kvlt 1,460]

Ron's Piece or The Last Rendez Vous performed by Jean Michel Jarre back in 1986.

 

This is from the anniversary concert for Houston.

 

 

JMJ's some good stuff man

And speaking of sad electronic music:

And pretty much any other song with Imogen Heap would work

Her vocals are so beautiful

And any other slow Deadmau5 song

[MelancholicMemory 2,022]

In my opinion, here are the two saddest songs of all time (for totally different reasons).

 

Other great examples:

 

 

I Hung my Head (specifically the Johnny Cash version)

When You Died- Violent Femmes

The Bed Song- Amanda Palmer

Eleanor Rigby- The Beatles

Working Class Hero- John Lennon

Mother- John Lennon

God- John Lennon

Sad Songs & Waltzes- Cake

Viva La Vida- Coldplay

I'm Only Happy When it Rains- Garbage

Mad World- Gary Jules or Tears for Fears

Basket Case- Green Day

Boulevard of Broken Dreams- Green Day

Estranged- Guns N' Roses

Don't Cry- Guns N' Roses

Jades- Aerosmith

What it Takes- Aerosmith

Breakdown- Guns N' Roses

Hurt (especially the Johnny Cash cover)

In My Life- The Beatles

Coffee Creek- Jon Itkin

Fool to Wander- Jon Itkin

Like a Bruise- Jon Itkin

Van Helsing Boombox- Man Man

One- Metallica

Disenchanted- My Chemical Romance

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

Everybody Hurts- R.E.M.

Institutionalized- Senses Fail

I Hate My Life- Theory of a Deadman

Whiskey Bottle- Uncle Tupelo

Back to the Moment- Slash's Snakepit

The Churchyard- Voltaire

Feathery Wings- Voltaire

Born Bad- Voltaire

Welcome to the World- Voltaire

Accordian Player- Julia Marcell

The Sounds of Silence- Simon and Garfunkel

The Shape I'm In- The Band

I am a Rock- Simon and Garfunkel

Brand New Hero- Reel Big Fish

Drunk Again- Reel Big Fish

Everyone Else is an Asshole- Reel Big Fish

Famous Last Words- Reel Big Fish

Somebody Loved Me- Reel Big Fish

What Are Friends For- Reel Big Fish

 

 

Edited February 17, 2013 by MelancholicMemory

[Hansel 1,511]

Someone decided to cut up a sad animated film by Michael Dudok de Wit and time it with a sad song by VNV nation. 

 

 

Maybe it's because I already watched the full film but... yeah, I cried. A lot.

 

The again, VNV nation have quite a few sad songs. *cough*Illusion*cough*

 

I think this might be more of personal thing for me, but Broken Iris in general are band I find really sad.

 

Edited February 17, 2013 by Hansel

[Allosauridae 54]

Give me your sad, sad, beautiful songs. I'm feeling a it under the weather at the moment and nothing helps me out more than just getting dem feels from a sad song.

 

I have an odd one for ya'll....   Summer of 69 will at times make me real sad... but there's a big reason for it...  RIP Tim  :/

 

He is a list of random sad songs... some to me are sad and will make me cry because of the meaning... or how they remind me of my aunt Connie or of Tim...   RIP to you both.

 

Sissy's Song - Alan Jackson

Skin - Rascal Flatts

You Raise Me Up - Celtic Women version

Wind Beneath My Wings

Live Like You Are Dying - Tim McGraw

Alissa Lies 

Concrete Angel - Martina McBride

Angel (in the arms of the angels song) Sarah McL.

Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisly

My Immortal - Evanescence

Hurt (9 Inch Nails or remake by Cash)

Hurt (Christina A.)

I Will Remember You - Sarah McL.

Don't Want To Lose You - Gloria Estefan

I Want To Know What Love Is - Journey

Something to Believe In - Poison

The Show Must Go On - Freddie was dying... was a big last hoorah for the band... the video is made up of footage since he was too ill to make a video....   The power of this song....  it's beautiful.

 

 

Here is The Show Must Go On by Queen... RIP Freddie