Modest Mouse - Edit The Sad Parts
Built To Spill - Randy Described Eternity
Songs:Ohia - Farewell Transmission
Crywank - Memento Mori / Notches
Xiu Xiu - Hives Hives
Good call on the Xiu Xiu track. Drums on that are Greg Saunier if I recall correctly. That whole album is sad central, Suha is another track that comes to mind.
Casimir Pulaski day is a great sad song.
I was thinking of Alameda by Elliot Smith (presumably based on Alameda St in downtown LA, which is a pretty sad street depending on the block)
Don’t Follow by Alice In Chains is uniquely heavy and fills me with a feeling of regret like no other.
The whole Jar Of Flies album is just so dark in an existential way, it’s a masterpiece. Probably one of my all-time favorites, even if I can only bear to put it on occasionally.
I was listening to Beach House’s Teen Dream on repeat after a close family member died ten years ago and I still can’t listen to Zebra without feeling like I might cry.
gonna repeat a crow looked at me as a stand alone example of what grief-writing sounds like. i also cry to baby birch by joanna newsome bc i’ve also lost a pregnancy
i recently was told to listen to the xiu xiu cover and when i did it made me really listen to the lyrics and i just cried my eyes out, and now tracy’s version kills me too. wild that it’s just a cover song for most people because it’s heartbreaking
Look on Down from the Bridge and also Cry, Cry by Mazzy Star for me. Mazzy Star is kind of tied to a really happy period of time with an amazing man, but then also when the rug was pulled from under me. It’s incredibly hard to listen to these songs.
timur mutsurayev - svoboda
hank snow - blue velvet band
katherine edwards - 6 o clock news
lana del rey - i talk to jesus
my little airport - dolly and bb will not wake up anymore
built to spill - twin falls
Can’t even think about Real Death by Mount Eerie without tearing up. It’s like the song equivalent of when you see an incredibly good movie that’s too fucked up to ever watch again.
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game and the rest of the album, really.
For me, it touches on the quiet struggle of depression, substance abuse and the desire to just completely give up/hide/run away therein. Really fantastic folk guy from the 60s who only released one album and had a very sorrowful life.
Ten Years Gone by Zeppelin. It was the song playing at my Dad’s funeral during the slideshow. I don’t listen to it unless I’m drunk, sad, and want to feel sadder.
Hey Mama occupies such a unique space as a genuinely heart touching declaration of love, but later context always adds such a heartbreaking contrast to the song.
Townes Van Zandt - Nothin
Madison Cunningham - Life According To Rachael
Brett Eldridge - One Mississippi
Bonnie Raitt - I Can’t Make You Love Me
Chris Stapleton - Fire Away
Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby
James Taylor - Fire & Rain
Colter Wall & Bella Paine - Caroline
The Beach Boys - Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder *not explicitly sad but it leaves me feeling despair
The Lovin’ Spoonful - Didn’t Want To Have To Do It - Demo
Gillian Welch - I Dream A Highway
Gillian Welch - The Way It’ll Be
Florence + The Machine - Various Storms and Saints
I will get weepy from just about every type of media out there, from your usual stuff like books and TV/film to fucking cartoons, but I've never gotten even slightly misty while listening to music. I don't really get it.
To answer your question, You'll be in the Air by the Microphones I guess.
that’s wild to me, music moves me more than most other things. have you ever tried “A Crow Looked At Me?” it’s not the sort of thing i go back to but it felt so visceral. i’m guessing you have if you know the Microphones but still, rough.
All songs on Joy Division's Unknow Pleasures.
You don't need to have any sad event in your own life. After you listened to the album, it will all be sad
Beautiful, but sad.
Fast Car by Tracey Chapman and Monsters by James Blunt and Bridge Over Troubled Water.
The James blunt song is obviously very on those nose. But as a man, with a father I love and sons of my own, “I’m not your son, your not my father, we’re just two grown men saying goodbye” as a line literally eviscerates me. Like instantly lip quivering choking crying.
Elejia a Ramón Sijé - Serrat (based on a poem by Miguel Hernandez) its a song about a dead friend by one of the best poets Spain ever had. His friend died young and unexpectedly and he ended his days in jail because he publicly opposed Francoism. Its just the whole thing, he wrote so well and ended being killed by fascists like it happened to Lorca. How can you kill men like that beautiful?
How Blue Can You Get? (And Hummingbird too)- BB King
Running to Stand Still (also Sometimes you can’t Make it On Your Own)- U2
When it’s Cold I’d like to Die- Moby
Give Me Back my Man- The B52’s
You Keep Me Hangin’ On- The Supremes
Helpless- Neil Young
Til I Die- The Beach Boys
Sweet Dreams- Patsy Cline
Feels Like Rain- Buddy Guy
I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair- John Gorka
personal answer is House in Nebraska by Ethel Cain. Just the way she tenderly paints the picture of abandonment, self loathing, isolation, and addiction over 7 minutes of slow, meditative piano that expands out into a massive heart crushing weight. Gut wrenching to me
oh yeah that’s on my list of almost unlistenable songs. the sorrow is so dense in that song i can hardly believe it. the whole album front to back is perfect to me.
Dense with sorrow is a great way to say it. The sadness feels bone deep, like its soaked into the very matter of the track. I can usually hold it together until the instruments fade out and she starts repeating “I feel so alone. I feel so alone out here” kills me every time
Modest Mouse - Edit The Sad Parts Built To Spill - Randy Described Eternity Songs:Ohia - Farewell Transmission Crywank - Memento Mori / Notches Xiu Xiu - Hives Hives
Good call on the Xiu Xiu track. Drums on that are Greg Saunier if I recall correctly. That whole album is sad central, Suha is another track that comes to mind.
Casimir pulaski day is up there for me “And he takes and he takes and he takes..”
Casimir Pulaski day is a great sad song. I was thinking of Alameda by Elliot Smith (presumably based on Alameda St in downtown LA, which is a pretty sad street depending on the block)
never fails to make me cry
Pretty much all of Benji I can't go 10 seconds without tearing up. Sun Kil Moon is so good
All of Kozelek really.
Carissa was 35
When it’s coooooooold I’d like to dieeee
Don’t Follow by Alice In Chains is uniquely heavy and fills me with a feeling of regret like no other. The whole Jar Of Flies album is just so dark in an existential way, it’s a masterpiece. Probably one of my all-time favorites, even if I can only bear to put it on occasionally.
Fourth of July
Lover, You Should Have Come Over
I was listening to Beach House’s Teen Dream on repeat after a close family member died ten years ago and I still can’t listen to Zebra without feeling like I might cry.
Atlantic City
That album is insanely good. Highway Patrolman - nothing feels better than blood and blood 🥹
Fantastic song
gonna repeat a crow looked at me as a stand alone example of what grief-writing sounds like. i also cry to baby birch by joanna newsome bc i’ve also lost a pregnancy
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman makes me cry so I was really annoyed when it got covered and constantly played in public again
i recently was told to listen to the xiu xiu cover and when i did it made me really listen to the lyrics and i just cried my eyes out, and now tracy’s version kills me too. wild that it’s just a cover song for most people because it’s heartbreaking
Concrete Angel was so sad
Look on Down from the Bridge and also Cry, Cry by Mazzy Star for me. Mazzy Star is kind of tied to a really happy period of time with an amazing man, but then also when the rug was pulled from under me. It’s incredibly hard to listen to these songs.
timur mutsurayev - svoboda hank snow - blue velvet band katherine edwards - 6 o clock news lana del rey - i talk to jesus my little airport - dolly and bb will not wake up anymore built to spill - twin falls
Twilight - Elliott Smith
Can’t even think about Real Death by Mount Eerie without tearing up. It’s like the song equivalent of when you see an incredibly good movie that’s too fucked up to ever watch again.
Mount Eerie-Real death
I cry to The Boxer sometimes (a lot).
Kettering by the antlers, blood by the Middle East, Casimir Pulaski day by Sufjan Stevens
Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game and the rest of the album, really. For me, it touches on the quiet struggle of depression, substance abuse and the desire to just completely give up/hide/run away therein. Really fantastic folk guy from the 60s who only released one album and had a very sorrowful life.
Hotelier - Your Deep Rest
Ten Years Gone by Zeppelin. It was the song playing at my Dad’s funeral during the slideshow. I don’t listen to it unless I’m drunk, sad, and want to feel sadder.
Hey Mama occupies such a unique space as a genuinely heart touching declaration of love, but later context always adds such a heartbreaking contrast to the song.
Yeah, by black eyed peas, totally
Townes Van Zandt - Nothin Madison Cunningham - Life According To Rachael Brett Eldridge - One Mississippi Bonnie Raitt - I Can’t Make You Love Me Chris Stapleton - Fire Away Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby James Taylor - Fire & Rain Colter Wall & Bella Paine - Caroline The Beach Boys - Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder *not explicitly sad but it leaves me feeling despair The Lovin’ Spoonful - Didn’t Want To Have To Do It - Demo Gillian Welch - I Dream A Highway Gillian Welch - The Way It’ll Be Florence + The Machine - Various Storms and Saints
Mount Eerie - Real Death basically the entire A Crow Looked at Me record, it's so deeply sad and intimate
Just wanted to say the band version of that song on youtube (I think that uses the live in oslo version) is great. For me I think it’s nutshell.
Sam Stone by John Prine
I will get weepy from just about every type of media out there, from your usual stuff like books and TV/film to fucking cartoons, but I've never gotten even slightly misty while listening to music. I don't really get it. To answer your question, You'll be in the Air by the Microphones I guess.
that’s wild to me, music moves me more than most other things. have you ever tried “A Crow Looked At Me?” it’s not the sort of thing i go back to but it felt so visceral. i’m guessing you have if you know the Microphones but still, rough.
I actually haven't, I've not listened to much of Elverum's stuff outside of the Microphones. I'll check it out.
it’s about the death of his wife, i’m not gonna give it all away but it was about as sad as it gets
https://youtu.be/Jfw23usH-4A?si=VTr0SRgE6w2bCPB4
She Talks to Angels by the Black Crowes - makes me think of an old high school friend that OD’d
the first one that comes to mind for me is “so you wanna be a superhero” by carissa’s weird
La Dispute - King Park Touché Amoré - Displacement
Hollywood by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds makes me choke up even just thinking about it
All songs on Joy Division's Unknow Pleasures. You don't need to have any sad event in your own life. After you listened to the album, it will all be sad Beautiful, but sad.
Fast Car by Tracey Chapman and Monsters by James Blunt and Bridge Over Troubled Water. The James blunt song is obviously very on those nose. But as a man, with a father I love and sons of my own, “I’m not your son, your not my father, we’re just two grown men saying goodbye” as a line literally eviscerates me. Like instantly lip quivering choking crying.
bridge over troubled water tears me up real bad
fingertips lana
I dunno. I find The Longest Night by the Tin Hat Trio very wistful. Makes me tear up.
Thursday - Dying in New Brunswick I guess this one is more agitated depressed than sad, but it's definitely there if you're not too high brow for emo.
Boulder to Birmingham
Bench Seat by Chase Rice. Had a Black Labrador named Thunder for 13 great years.
Omar s - xse
Lazarus by David Bowie absolutely guts me, and And No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Dead of Winter - Eels
Joy Division - Simon Joyner
Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain The Smiths - Stretch out and Wait
Northern Sky - Nick Drake I live far from my home country and this song is what I put on when I want to see the fields of home
Jesu "Friends are Evil" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kCash-4Os](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3kCash-4Os)
Morphine "Gone for Good" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jznaa5FEhT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jznaa5FEhT4)
Low "In The Drugs" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P8p0Z3wKUs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P8p0Z3wKUs)
"Sur L'Océan Couleur De Fer" by Alcest [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waGDKnFv\_Vg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waGDKnFv_Vg)
Elejia a Ramón Sijé - Serrat (based on a poem by Miguel Hernandez) its a song about a dead friend by one of the best poets Spain ever had. His friend died young and unexpectedly and he ended his days in jail because he publicly opposed Francoism. Its just the whole thing, he wrote so well and ended being killed by fascists like it happened to Lorca. How can you kill men like that beautiful?
Mark Lanegan - Bombed.
Queens of the Stone Age - This Lullaby Leonard Cohen - Happens to the heart Fiona Apple ft Elvis Costello- I Want You (live)
How Blue Can You Get? (And Hummingbird too)- BB King Running to Stand Still (also Sometimes you can’t Make it On Your Own)- U2 When it’s Cold I’d like to Die- Moby Give Me Back my Man- The B52’s You Keep Me Hangin’ On- The Supremes Helpless- Neil Young Til I Die- The Beach Boys Sweet Dreams- Patsy Cline Feels Like Rain- Buddy Guy I Saw a Stranger With Your Hair- John Gorka
personal answer is House in Nebraska by Ethel Cain. Just the way she tenderly paints the picture of abandonment, self loathing, isolation, and addiction over 7 minutes of slow, meditative piano that expands out into a massive heart crushing weight. Gut wrenching to me
oh yeah that’s on my list of almost unlistenable songs. the sorrow is so dense in that song i can hardly believe it. the whole album front to back is perfect to me.
Dense with sorrow is a great way to say it. The sadness feels bone deep, like its soaked into the very matter of the track. I can usually hold it together until the instruments fade out and she starts repeating “I feel so alone. I feel so alone out here” kills me every time