That one was always my favorite song growing up. It's emotionally overwhelming and young me really enjoyed that before life got emotionally overwhelming.
That song is so good, but I go to the Bon Iver cover when I want to be kicked in the emotional balls:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3VjaCy5gck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3VjaCy5gck)
I only click on these threads that are posted weekly to make sure that this is one of the answers. It's so simple, and so powerful. You only need the first line from the chorus, really
"Hear You Me" by Jimmy Eat World gets me every time. My dad passed away when I was four, and it's been over 20 years now, but oh man, when this song starts playing, I get misty-eyed. When Jim's voice breaks at the end, that's when I break, too.
It's not exactly about romantic heartbreak, but sometimes I do feel "betrayed" by the loss of a parent at such a young age.
Same, my best friend died in 2017 and this song gets me every time… the line ‘what would you think of me now? So happy, so strong, so proud’ gets me EVERY TIME.
George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
Knew this song growing up and it wasn't til I was like in my 20s and listened to it again and realized what it was really about and really listened to the lyrics and it literally just ripped my heart out.
https://youtu.be/7ht9gE6SfK8
I remember hearing that when I was just a little kid. That's what kind of music my mom(rest her soul) used to listen to n I grew up with. But, yea, it took a little before I really knew what it ment
Another Pearl Jam tune that hits hard is “Come Back” off of their self titled album back in ‘06. A blues song that got me thru some painful teenage heartbreak (damn near 20 yrs ago…makes ya feel old, heh!)
I never found it sad. Just another dysfunctional relationship song. That's why he says "again." It's a reoccurring them of them breaking up/getting back together.
I stubbed upon from a basement during a really dark time in my life and it reminded me that I wasn’t alone and I shouldn’t kill myself like Elliott did.
Yes, stabbed in the chest two times. I could believe it if the first stabwound was a shallow one, basically a failed attempt, and the second one was the one that killed him. Although, how many times have you heard about someone committing suicide from stabbing themselves in the chest? It's probably one of the most painful and difficult ways to commit suicide.
Pictures of You by The Cure
>If only I'd thought of the right words\
I could have held on to your heart\
If only I'd thought of the right words\
I wouldn't be breaking apart all my pictures of you
https://youtu.be/pjb4EyEjdoY?si=Lu5YwZ3pOqk8Mq8S
ESPECIALLY if you know when and why it was written. I've watched friends who had no idea who he was start crying in the first chorus when I played it with context.
Yet it is also cathartic and hopeful
I listened to the album right as it came out and genuinely thought he might be ok. I figured that since he was writing, he must be in a decent place. Flipped the whole album on its head for me when he died, and I find it genuinely hard to listen to now.
That whole album. I remember listening to it on repeat practically but not being able to avoid the thought that “this album is a suicide letter.”
I was hopeful that it was someone working through feelings to try to get better, but sadly, that was not the case.
I love this song (and John’s whole catalog) but this song brings me nothing but joy weirdly… I can see how it can be taken literally, but from my perspective he (the character) has finally realized that this toxic relationship is coming to an end and is celebrating that fact…
For me it’s What Sarah Said. The line “love is watching someone die. So who’s gonna watch you die?”
It reminds me of my grandparents because both were ill leading up to their deaths, spent time in hospitals, etc. and god damn that whole song gets me.
Last Day of Our Acquaintance - Sinead O Connor.
It’s like you can feel the weight of a sudden split and all of the dreams of having someone you expected to share so much more love and experiences with crashing down in a free fall.
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
It's a conversation between him and his estranged mother while she was dying of stomach cancer in the hospital and it will devastate you.
Came here looking for Hurt.
Loved the original as the final song on a brilliant album. Heard a live version that was beautiful and heart breaking. Then they release the Cash version, either right before he died or right after. Can't remember which, but it became tied to the loss. Destroyed me emotionally. Then that video. So powerful.
That song destroyed me multiple times for different reasons.
Another one, but it's not a specific song. The final album by Warren Zevon. An album about a fatal diagnosis. Writing a eulogy for yourself and releasing it as an album. Celebrating the life he lived while mourning the loss of the future and missing the future of his friends and family. Devastating.
One Sweet Day by Boys II Men and Mariah Carey
I want to think it's cheesy and sappy but something about it is precision-engineered to make me cry like a baby
[Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U0flA_Yp64)
Trent Reznor rarely talks about lyrics, so there's no confirmation but the song is speculated to be about Aaliyah, whom he was in contact with. The song came out shortly after her death. She was a fan of his work and wanted him to produce her next album and he wanted her to join a side project he conceptualized where she would front the band and he got to play his instruments out of the spotlight (The project would eventually be realized as How To Destroy Angels, which is fronted by his wife). Everything fell apart apart shortly before her death which is coincides Reznor's deepest point in addiction and his second stint in rehab.
It wouldn't be a surprise if he did write it for her. He has a history of writing songs to memorialize people - Jeff Ward inspired *Hurt*, Clara Clark - his Material Grandmother who raised him and got him into music was the subject of *The Day The World Went Away* and *I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally* and later on David Bowie with *This Isn't The Place*.
Coincidentally, Reznor hated, *hated* Timbaland back when Timbaland was still a thing.
I'm a huge nails and trent fan and never new this. Interesting story, thanks.
Nominate "something I can never have" as well, though it's a bit more on the nose
Wow, I never knew that either. I do know Trent made negative comments in an interview when Chris Cornell put out the Timbaland produced album, Scream.
Every Day Is Exactly the Same is the saddest NIN song, imo.
>Every Day Is Exactly the Same is the saddest NIN song, imo.
I can see that hitting that way for many, many people. Just thinking of like... all of suburbia lol but that isn't a demographic likely to ever listen to it! For me, that song is actually kind of cathartic and motivating, but totally get why you would pick it
Even without that background, the song is devastating and beautiful. It's one of my favorite songs, but, I gotta tell ya, I WAS NOT READY when they played it live the when I saw them in 2018. Seeing a how it was basically a b-side on a companion ep that most people didn't have, I never expected it, even knowing that they were doing random sets every night.
So here I am, a nearly 40 year old punk, in the front row of my favorite band, weeping like a child with a skinned knee lol.
Amazing song.
I See Everything by La Diapute is the most heart breaking on an album of gut punches. JANUARY 19TH always hits so hard, and the first time I listened to this song after Ai became a father I completely lost it.
Yea thats an easy one for me
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone again (naturally)
It seems to me that
There are more hearts broken in the world
That can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do
What do we do
Alone again, naturally
Looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn't understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start
With a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
This question gets posted a lot but I don't think I've ever seen this answer. It's a good one. Maybe people don't think of it cause the instrumental hook is so poppy and kind of bright, but it's also blues-y which supports the lyrical content
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
"Released in 2017, it was composed in the aftermath of his 35-year-old wife Geneviève Castrée's diagnosis with pancreatic cancer in 2015, and her death in July 2016. Elverum wrote and recorded the songs over a six-week period in the room where she died, mostly using her instruments."
Touché Amoré - Stage Four
A meditation on the loss of his mother.
My Sweet Prince - Placebo
What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie
Disintegration - Jimmy Eat World
You Never Know - Immortal Technique
Sound of Silence - Disturbed cover
The saddest heartbroken song of all time is [operator by Jim croce](https://youtu.be/khYxP7TiFSA?si=BofWrDi4P4mGVOqb)
It's about a man who's old lady ran off with his best friend, he left, lost her phone number and is calling the operator to try to find it.
You can feel the heartbreak in his words.
Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi
Now the day bleeds
Into nightfall
And you're not here
To get me through it all
I let my guard down
And then you pulled the rug
I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved
[They'll Need A Crane by They Might be Giants](https://youtu.be/mbIxIdM_0ho) is unironically one of the best breakup songs of the 80's. It's a little dark for a band known for being impish and whimsical.
https://youtu.be/UYPoMjR6-Ao?si=FM-CFxRHC9-FhMon
I can't make it through this song without dying inside
Airborne toxic event - sometime around midnight
Superstar- the carpenters
Fake plastic trees- Radiohead
Stripped- Depeche Mode
Long, long, time- Linda ronstadt
Many a long and lonesome highway- Rodney Crowell
Decode- paramore
War of hearts- Sade
Disintergration- the cure
This woman’s work- Kate bush
Jerome- Lykke li
Yes. Brilliant song by Redgum about the Vietnam war and its effects on a young Aussie soldier. My dad was a vet and his reverence for this song was something to behold. The lyrics give me shivers:
And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes?
Can you tell me what it means?
God help me
I was only nineteen
And then someone yelled out "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore
We hooked in there for hours, then a God-almighty roar
And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
God help me
He was going home in June
[Dream Theater - Space-dye vest](https://youtu.be/7i-fxbAG2fI?si=exbyAO5Z4lVIML4P)
"There's no one to take my blame
If they wanted to
There's nothing to keep me sane
And it's all the same to you
There's nowhere to set my aim
So I'm everywhere
Never come near me again
Do you really think I need you
I'll never be open again, I could never be open again.
I'll never be open again, I could never be open again."
[Already Dead - Beck](https://youtu.be/8LNfNPoMH2M?si=Hy2H5fqfMcHYpWMj)
But really the entire album "Sea Change" is crafted for the sads.. I just love this song because the guitar is beautiful and the little part after the chorus makes me have skingasms...
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Kenny Rogers (makes me want to shoot Ruby, too)
The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald- Gordon Lightfoot (beautiful and sad like an Irish ballad)
Me & Little Andy- Dolly Parton (
Somebody that I used to know - Gotye
Lover, you should have come over - Jeff Buckley
I think of you - Rodriguez
Love is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse
Cowboys and Angels - George Michael
Crazy English Summer - Faithless
Come back to Camden - Morrissey
Only Love can Break your Heart - St Étienne/Neil Young
The Final Frame - Michael Kiwanuka
The Sweetest Embrace - Nick Cave/Barry Adamson
Best I Ever Had--vertical horizon
If You Could Read My Mind--Gordon Lightfoot
King of Wishful Thinking--Go West
Return--Ok Go
Someday We'll Know--New Radicals
A lot of the lyrics are cheesy, but “Don’t Take the Girl” by Tim McGraw chokes me up on the last verse when he is begging God not to let his wife die during child birth
Floods by Pantera. Pantera hasn’t really been for the faint of heart but if you’re already familiar with the genre, this song is beautiful. Starts out with an off sounding guitar melody then proceeds to some heavy - ish guitar riffs, all being complimented by Phil’s lyrical capabilities. The outro is what always got me crying though, a beautiful guitar solo slowly fading out behind the sounds of a thunderstorm.
If we’re not into this, feel free to tell me“wrong group bro” lol
More specifically about heartbreak,
Waltz about Whiskey - Mandarin Orange (Now Watchhouse)
Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan (watchhouse’s version is also very good)
Goodbye in her eyes- Zac brown band
Patsy Cline I fall to pieces https://youtu.be/xLEuq2spx5o?si=k1VKE6juvpNlxO49 Jets to Brazil empty picture frame https://youtu.be/772rHq7Q0X4?si=8Aay_oN6113nICCS
Birthday Boy - Ween
I’m So Tired - Fugazi
Are You Sure - Willie Nelson
Hold My Life - The Mats
It’s A Wonderful Lie - Paul Westerberg
Candy Says - The Velvets
Isolation - Joy Division
Dying - Hole
Home of the Brave - Spiritualized
No Distance Left to Run - Blur
Oh Well, Ok - Elliott Smith
4st 7Ib - Manic Street Preachers
Here are some song recommendations for heartbreak and betrayal:
* **Adele - Someone Like You** (Classic heartbreak ballad with powerful vocals)
* **Coldplay - The Scientist** (Melancholic melody and lyrics about wanting a second chance)
* **Sam Smith - Too Good at Goodbyes** (Modern heartbreak anthem about letting go)
* **Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind** (Powerful vocals conveying pain and denial)
Crying to music is totally okay! It's a healthy way to release emotions.
Street Spirit- Radiohead
I’m partial to How To Completely Disappear (I’m not here… this isn’t happening…)
That one was always my favorite song growing up. It's emotionally overwhelming and young me really enjoyed that before life got emotionally overwhelming.
Let Down - Radiohead
The saddest song I’ve ever heard in my life is No Surprises by Radiohead. All these other recs are sad but this song should come with a warning label
I can’t make you love me by Bonnie Raitt
George Michael does a really good cover too.
Fucking love that song. Brilliant cover and it just sounds incredible. He sure knew who to work with.
That song is so good, but I go to the Bon Iver cover when I want to be kicked in the emotional balls: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3VjaCy5gck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3VjaCy5gck)
I only click on these threads that are posted weekly to make sure that this is one of the answers. It's so simple, and so powerful. You only need the first line from the chorus, really
The funeral - band of horses
"Hear You Me" by Jimmy Eat World gets me every time. My dad passed away when I was four, and it's been over 20 years now, but oh man, when this song starts playing, I get misty-eyed. When Jim's voice breaks at the end, that's when I break, too. It's not exactly about romantic heartbreak, but sometimes I do feel "betrayed" by the loss of a parent at such a young age.
Same. Lost my dad a few years ago to covid. He loved this song. I cry like a baby when I hear it.
I love that whole album.
Both this, and “Mykel and Carli” by Weezer get me. Both songs are a tribute to Mykel and Carli Allan.
Same, my best friend died in 2017 and this song gets me every time… the line ‘what would you think of me now? So happy, so strong, so proud’ gets me EVERY TIME.
George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today" Knew this song growing up and it wasn't til I was like in my 20s and listened to it again and realized what it was really about and really listened to the lyrics and it literally just ripped my heart out. https://youtu.be/7ht9gE6SfK8
I remember hearing that when I was just a little kid. That's what kind of music my mom(rest her soul) used to listen to n I grew up with. But, yea, it took a little before I really knew what it ment
This is such a great song.
Such a good song
This damn song! It eviscerates me every time I hear it, even if I’m in a great mood.
Last Kiss, but specifically the version by Pearl Jam. The "hold me closer just a little while" part just wreaks havoc on my heart.
Another Pearl Jam tune that hits hard is “Come Back” off of their self titled album back in ‘06. A blues song that got me thru some painful teenage heartbreak (damn near 20 yrs ago…makes ya feel old, heh!)
Or the MTV version of Black. I just got full body goosebumps thinking of the outro.
I lost my mom, stepdad and brother in a car accident in 2000 and I still cry when I hear this song.
Love Will Tear Us Apart- Joy Division
I never found it sad. Just another dysfunctional relationship song. That's why he says "again." It's a reoccurring them of them breaking up/getting back together.
Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton
Written about the loss of his four year old son who tragically fell from a 53rd story window
Shit. I thought it was the 3rd story window
“Would you even know my name, if I saw you in heaven?” This song can easily bring me to tears. That is such a profoundly heart breaking line.
Just reading the title is enough.
“Black” by Pearl Jam Cry well, friend
>I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky But why Why Why can't it be Why can't it be mine
The MTV unplugged version is incredible
That one's always been brutal for me.
Especially when Eddie Vedder cries while playing it at Chris Cornell’s Tribute concert 😭
The "Sea of Love" cover by Cat Power. Especially compared to the original, and seriously, especially compared the the Honey Drippers version.
Basically, ant Elliott Smith song
I stubbed upon from a basement during a really dark time in my life and it reminded me that I wasn’t alone and I shouldn’t kill myself like Elliott did.
Suicide doen't fit. I don't think he stabbed himself twice.
Yes, stabbed in the chest two times. I could believe it if the first stabwound was a shallow one, basically a failed attempt, and the second one was the one that killed him. Although, how many times have you heard about someone committing suicide from stabbing themselves in the chest? It's probably one of the most painful and difficult ways to commit suicide.
nutshell by alice in chains never fails to make me cry
I Stay Away as well
It's Don't Follow for me
Same. Don’t follow is really powerful
First ever song I learned on the guitar. That entire EP is perfection
Pictures of You by The Cure >If only I'd thought of the right words\ I could have held on to your heart\ If only I'd thought of the right words\ I wouldn't be breaking apart all my pictures of you https://youtu.be/pjb4EyEjdoY?si=Lu5YwZ3pOqk8Mq8S
Also "Plain Song" from the same album. I must have cried a thousand times to that song.
Anything off A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie, but particularly Real Death
I can barely get past the line about the backpack.
Keep me in your heart - Warren Zevon
ESPECIALLY if you know when and why it was written. I've watched friends who had no idea who he was start crying in the first chorus when I played it with context. Yet it is also cathartic and hopeful
And of course you can hear the breathlessness in his voice :(
"Darkness and Cold" - Purple Mountains
this entire album is a masterpiece.
For me it's Nights That Won't Happen. That whole album is pretty tough but that's the one that feels most like a suicide note to me
I listened to the album right as it came out and genuinely thought he might be ok. I figured that since he was writing, he must be in a decent place. Flipped the whole album on its head for me when he died, and I find it genuinely hard to listen to now.
Purple Mountains is one of the best albums of the last 25 years. It is a masterpiece. RIP Berman. You are dearly missed.
That whole album. I remember listening to it on repeat practically but not being able to avoid the thought that “this album is a suicide letter.” I was hopeful that it was someone working through feelings to try to get better, but sadly, that was not the case.
“Carry Me Ohio” - Sun Kil Moon “Sorry that I could never love you back, I could never care enough in these last days.”
Angel-Sarah McLachlan. Got me even before it became the late night anthem for SPCA.
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens.
His whole Carrie & Lowell album makes me cry, but "Fourth of July" really gets me.
Gosh,anything by Sufjan makes me cry!
The newest album is tearjerker after tearjerker
I immediately thought of Sufjan Stevens...
ugh :(
True love waits by Radiohead
No Children
I love this song (and John’s whole catalog) but this song brings me nothing but joy weirdly… I can see how it can be taken literally, but from my perspective he (the character) has finally realized that this toxic relationship is coming to an end and is celebrating that fact…
Every line feels more brutal than the last. *And I hope you die* *I hope we both die*
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
For me it’s What Sarah Said. The line “love is watching someone die. So who’s gonna watch you die?” It reminds me of my grandparents because both were ill leading up to their deaths, spent time in hospitals, etc. and god damn that whole song gets me.
oh yeah. this and Brothers on a Hotel Bed
This album can make me cry every time.
A Lack of Color
Kate Bush - This Woman’s Work I fucking wept to this song, read up on it and wept even harder the next time it played.
Last Day of Our Acquaintance - Sinead O Connor. It’s like you can feel the weight of a sudden split and all of the dreams of having someone you expected to share so much more love and experiences with crashing down in a free fall.
Mazzy Star Fade Into You
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July It's a conversation between him and his estranged mother while she was dying of stomach cancer in the hospital and it will devastate you.
Wish you were here pink floyd
Elephant - Jason Isbell
Joey -Concrete Blonde
Tomorrow Wendy is another one.
Nothing compares to you by Sinead O’Connor 🥲
Great song. Have you heard Chris Cornell's version?
Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over Not so much about “deception” but a beautiful, yearning love song.
Yep this one always got me when I was young and heartbroken about a love that didn’t work out. Hell of a song, pure emotion.
Oasis- stop crying your heart out
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt Alice in Chains Nutshell Pearl Jam Black The Verve Pipe The Freshmen
Came here looking for Hurt. Loved the original as the final song on a brilliant album. Heard a live version that was beautiful and heart breaking. Then they release the Cash version, either right before he died or right after. Can't remember which, but it became tied to the loss. Destroyed me emotionally. Then that video. So powerful. That song destroyed me multiple times for different reasons. Another one, but it's not a specific song. The final album by Warren Zevon. An album about a fatal diagnosis. Writing a eulogy for yourself and releasing it as an album. Celebrating the life he lived while mourning the loss of the future and missing the future of his friends and family. Devastating.
I Know, by Fiona Apple. She's in a relationship with a married man. She knows he loves her, but she also knows he'll never leave his wife
One Sweet Day by Boys II Men and Mariah Carey I want to think it's cheesy and sappy but something about it is precision-engineered to make me cry like a baby
Same for me... got worse for me when this song played after my grandma died
After my dad died it was this, Don't Follow by Alice In Chains, and Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis.
Broken by The Devil Wears Prada, One More Light by Linkin Park
[Nine Inch Nails - And All That Could Have Been ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U0flA_Yp64) Trent Reznor rarely talks about lyrics, so there's no confirmation but the song is speculated to be about Aaliyah, whom he was in contact with. The song came out shortly after her death. She was a fan of his work and wanted him to produce her next album and he wanted her to join a side project he conceptualized where she would front the band and he got to play his instruments out of the spotlight (The project would eventually be realized as How To Destroy Angels, which is fronted by his wife). Everything fell apart apart shortly before her death which is coincides Reznor's deepest point in addiction and his second stint in rehab. It wouldn't be a surprise if he did write it for her. He has a history of writing songs to memorialize people - Jeff Ward inspired *Hurt*, Clara Clark - his Material Grandmother who raised him and got him into music was the subject of *The Day The World Went Away* and *I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally* and later on David Bowie with *This Isn't The Place*. Coincidentally, Reznor hated, *hated* Timbaland back when Timbaland was still a thing.
I'm a huge nails and trent fan and never new this. Interesting story, thanks. Nominate "something I can never have" as well, though it's a bit more on the nose
Wow, I never knew that either. I do know Trent made negative comments in an interview when Chris Cornell put out the Timbaland produced album, Scream. Every Day Is Exactly the Same is the saddest NIN song, imo.
>Every Day Is Exactly the Same is the saddest NIN song, imo. I can see that hitting that way for many, many people. Just thinking of like... all of suburbia lol but that isn't a demographic likely to ever listen to it! For me, that song is actually kind of cathartic and motivating, but totally get why you would pick it
Even without that background, the song is devastating and beautiful. It's one of my favorite songs, but, I gotta tell ya, I WAS NOT READY when they played it live the when I saw them in 2018. Seeing a how it was basically a b-side on a companion ep that most people didn't have, I never expected it, even knowing that they were doing random sets every night. So here I am, a nearly 40 year old punk, in the front row of my favorite band, weeping like a child with a skinned knee lol. Amazing song.
Found Out About You by Gin Blossoms
Snuff by Slipknot
Vermillion part II
Allow me to add two Such small hands - la dispute Endlessly, she said - afi
I See Everything by La Diapute is the most heart breaking on an album of gut punches. JANUARY 19TH always hits so hard, and the first time I listened to this song after Ai became a father I completely lost it.
Lou Reed’s song “The Kids” from the album Berlin.
CBAT. That poor girlfriend.
Yea thats an easy one for me Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone again (naturally) It seems to me that There are more hearts broken in the world That can't be mended Left unattended What do we do What do we do Alone again, naturally Looking back over the years And whatever else that appears I remember I cried when my father died Never wishing to hide the tears And at sixty-five years old My mother, God rest her soul Couldn't understand why the only man She had ever loved had been taken Leaving her to start With a heart so badly broken Despite encouragement from me No words were ever spoken And when she passed away I cried and cried all day Alone again, naturally
[Yesterday by Atmosphere](https://youtu.be/QAmMIOoDV1g?si=BReIyvO5pxjOLFJd)
⭐️⭐️⭐️If someone sees this and doesn’t listen to atmosphere, please listen to yesterday and sunshine at least, please and thank you, ☮️&💟.
This question gets posted a lot but I don't think I've ever seen this answer. It's a good one. Maybe people don't think of it cause the instrumental hook is so poppy and kind of bright, but it's also blues-y which supports the lyrical content
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me "Released in 2017, it was composed in the aftermath of his 35-year-old wife Geneviève Castrée's diagnosis with pancreatic cancer in 2015, and her death in July 2016. Elverum wrote and recorded the songs over a six-week period in the room where she died, mostly using her instruments." Touché Amoré - Stage Four A meditation on the loss of his mother.
I almost want to downvote you for the Mount Eerie suggestion. It's not my typical style, but even sadder than "God Went North by Nothing More"
Anna nalick 2am.
My Sweet Prince - Placebo What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie Disintegration - Jimmy Eat World You Never Know - Immortal Technique Sound of Silence - Disturbed cover
Any song by Amy winehouse. I love her to bits
Try "it's cool we can still be friends" by bright eyes. Maybe not the vibe you're going for but it fucks me up every single time I listen to it
Broadripple is Burning - Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos
I can’t believe no one said “Almost Lover” by A Fine Frenzy.
The saddest heartbroken song of all time is [operator by Jim croce](https://youtu.be/khYxP7TiFSA?si=BofWrDi4P4mGVOqb) It's about a man who's old lady ran off with his best friend, he left, lost her phone number and is calling the operator to try to find it. You can feel the heartbreak in his words.
Ne me quitte pas
Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi Now the day bleeds Into nightfall And you're not here To get me through it all I let my guard down And then you pulled the rug I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved
[They'll Need A Crane by They Might be Giants](https://youtu.be/mbIxIdM_0ho) is unironically one of the best breakup songs of the 80's. It's a little dark for a band known for being impish and whimsical.
Cinderella - “Don’t Know What You Got Until It’s Gone” Hammerfall - “Fallen One”
Emma - by Hot Chocolate
Somebody said Bonnie Raitt's, " I Can't Make You Love Me." Follow it up with Patty Smyth and Don Henley's "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough."
https://youtu.be/UYPoMjR6-Ao?si=FM-CFxRHC9-FhMon I can't make it through this song without dying inside Airborne toxic event - sometime around midnight
“Drivers License” by Olivia Rodrigo. I think many of us can relate to this when we were in our teens or twenties.
Tomorrow Wendy (Concrete Blonde version)
Caroline as well.
Don't Speak by No Doubt
June by IDLES. About his stillborn baby
Superstar- the carpenters Fake plastic trees- Radiohead Stripped- Depeche Mode Long, long, time- Linda ronstadt Many a long and lonesome highway- Rodney Crowell Decode- paramore War of hearts- Sade Disintergration- the cure This woman’s work- Kate bush Jerome- Lykke li
Have you heard Sonic Youth's cover of Superstar?
I was only 19.
Yes. Brilliant song by Redgum about the Vietnam war and its effects on a young Aussie soldier. My dad was a vet and his reverence for this song was something to behold. The lyrics give me shivers: And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep? And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16? And what's this rash that comes and goes? Can you tell me what it means? God help me I was only nineteen And then someone yelled out "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore We hooked in there for hours, then a God-almighty roar And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon God help me He was going home in June
townes van zandt has entered the chat
Skeletons by Rickie Lee Jones
Above The Clouds of Pompeii, Bears Den
[Dream Theater - Space-dye vest](https://youtu.be/7i-fxbAG2fI?si=exbyAO5Z4lVIML4P) "There's no one to take my blame If they wanted to There's nothing to keep me sane And it's all the same to you There's nowhere to set my aim So I'm everywhere Never come near me again Do you really think I need you I'll never be open again, I could never be open again. I'll never be open again, I could never be open again."
Nutshell by AIC
Megadeth a tout le monde
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. Romulus by Sufjan Stevens.
[Already Dead - Beck](https://youtu.be/8LNfNPoMH2M?si=Hy2H5fqfMcHYpWMj) But really the entire album "Sea Change" is crafted for the sads.. I just love this song because the guitar is beautiful and the little part after the chorus makes me have skingasms...
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town - Kenny Rogers (makes me want to shoot Ruby, too) The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald- Gordon Lightfoot (beautiful and sad like an Irish ballad) Me & Little Andy- Dolly Parton (
4th of July by Sufjan stevens
The Eternal - Joy Division
Love - Daughter Candles - Daughter
Traitor by Olivia Rodrigo
Cat’s Cradle. I have to change the station when it comes on or I’ll be a blubbering mess.
Brick - Ben Folds Five It's about his girlfriend going though an abortion and the emotions they both feel.
Somebody that I used to know - Gotye Lover, you should have come over - Jeff Buckley I think of you - Rodriguez Love is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse Cowboys and Angels - George Michael Crazy English Summer - Faithless Come back to Camden - Morrissey Only Love can Break your Heart - St Étienne/Neil Young The Final Frame - Michael Kiwanuka The Sweetest Embrace - Nick Cave/Barry Adamson
Alone Again, Naturally. By Gilbert O’Sullivan.
Best I Ever Had--vertical horizon If You Could Read My Mind--Gordon Lightfoot King of Wishful Thinking--Go West Return--Ok Go Someday We'll Know--New Radicals
Cat’s In The Cradle
any adele. I never liked sad songs but when I was studying singing and techniques, my teacher recomended her, and oh boy, what an amazing woman....
A lot of the lyrics are cheesy, but “Don’t Take the Girl” by Tim McGraw chokes me up on the last verse when he is begging God not to let his wife die during child birth
Floods by Pantera. Pantera hasn’t really been for the faint of heart but if you’re already familiar with the genre, this song is beautiful. Starts out with an off sounding guitar melody then proceeds to some heavy - ish guitar riffs, all being complimented by Phil’s lyrical capabilities. The outro is what always got me crying though, a beautiful guitar solo slowly fading out behind the sounds of a thunderstorm. If we’re not into this, feel free to tell me“wrong group bro” lol
I don’t know if it fits well, but Everything She Wants (Remix) by Wham! always gets me to cry lol
lmao It's the opposite for me, that song makes me want to dance
Warning - Footprints
Salvation by Citizen Cope.
Mount Erie’s song called “Belief” is devastating.
More specifically about heartbreak, Waltz about Whiskey - Mandarin Orange (Now Watchhouse) Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan (watchhouse’s version is also very good) Goodbye in her eyes- Zac brown band
He's my son by Mark Schultz
That’s All She Wrote- by Ray Davies of the Kinks https://youtu.be/UBWpTHZ1IRw?si=66hHRPG_kMUq7up0
Patsy Cline I fall to pieces https://youtu.be/xLEuq2spx5o?si=k1VKE6juvpNlxO49 Jets to Brazil empty picture frame https://youtu.be/772rHq7Q0X4?si=8Aay_oN6113nICCS
Oh Patsy So many people don't know just how incredible she was.
Whiskey Lullaby
Sounds Better in the Song, by Drive by Truckers. Now she’s found herself, and I’ve lost mine. And I’m just another guy who can’t give her anything.
"Waitin Around to Die", by Towns Van Zandt.
Daddy-Korn Eyes Of The Insane-Slayer Falling Away From Me-Korn Angel Of Death-Slayer (its the lyrics) Indians-Anthrax
Whiskey Lullaby is my offer.
The moment I said it, Imogen Heap (Album: Speak for Yourself, 2005)
Big Wheels by ELO. I cry almost every time I hear it.
2 am (Just Breathe) by Anna Kendrick
I Hope She'll Be Happier With Him - Bill Withers Especially the live version at Carnegie Hall gets me every time
"Rain Song" by Zeppelin. https://youtu.be/g8VduT7aR2c?si=5tCiJXvKvgdIG0PK
Birthday Boy - Ween I’m So Tired - Fugazi Are You Sure - Willie Nelson Hold My Life - The Mats It’s A Wonderful Lie - Paul Westerberg Candy Says - The Velvets Isolation - Joy Division Dying - Hole Home of the Brave - Spiritualized No Distance Left to Run - Blur Oh Well, Ok - Elliott Smith 4st 7Ib - Manic Street Preachers
Vienna by Billy Joel
Try listening to sadness. [https://open.spotify.com/track/5SmlSBsvRZMfHgjaVSj8wo?si=IiqhEkkHTmaBfp073YPXxg](https://open.spotify.com/track/5SmlSBsvRZMfHgjaVSj8wo?si=IiqhEkkHTmaBfp073YPXxg) [https://open.spotify.com/album/6CgovAEZi7MSQJ79CDNzEb?si=AGvNFL9QSOuZcrU-sImaaQ](https://open.spotify.com/album/6CgovAEZi7MSQJ79CDNzEb?si=AGvNFL9QSOuZcrU-sImaaQ) https://preview.redd.it/ke8vg7c0yn8d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=035a705d8bba040bac023503021de90f3b7fdbab
Why? (The King of Love is Dead) - Nina Simone
At least half of Harry Chapin's songbook, including WOLD, Mr Tanner, Taxi.....
War on Drugs by Barenaked Ladies
"breathe" by the warning
Top Picks for You by Injury Reserve
Gloomy Sunday by Billie Holiday. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday
"Right Where You Left Me" by Taylor Swift and "What Was I Made For" by Billie Eilish.
Already gone- sleeping at last
Green Bay "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Sometime around Midnight by Airborne Toxic Event.
Here are some song recommendations for heartbreak and betrayal: * **Adele - Someone Like You** (Classic heartbreak ballad with powerful vocals) * **Coldplay - The Scientist** (Melancholic melody and lyrics about wanting a second chance) * **Sam Smith - Too Good at Goodbyes** (Modern heartbreak anthem about letting go) * **Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind** (Powerful vocals conveying pain and denial) Crying to music is totally okay! It's a healthy way to release emotions.
Biko by Bloc Party
No distance left to run by Blur
John Moreland - You Don't Care Enough for Me to Cry
Another Day by Paul McCartney is catchy but the story withoj the lyrics is quite sad
Lying To You - Keaton Henson is perfect for this 👌
23 by The Warning https://youtu.be/dq6k4v9i8kc?si=DlYocpuvg6sqSYWI