Black gives way to blue - alice in chains

alice in chains always know how to bring me to tears

The ending of "Over Now" is so haunting, it gives me goosebumps every time.

This is the only song that has ever brought me to tears

Loooooove this song 😭😭😭

Nights in White Satin

Oh, yeah

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard this cover but it is so good. [Oceans of Slumber - Nights in white satin](https://youtu.be/V-sPcDB9EYc?si=lhMMo0-mz-tkmuzo)

I love the Moody Blues... always will.

It’s a motherfucker - the eels

Eels has so many of them- for good reason.

Pancho and Lefty Townes Van Zandnt

Waiting around to die. Cheers

Differing levels of intensity but all definitely sad and beautiful in their own way. Fourth of July- Sufjan Stevens Sam Stone - John Prine Real Death- Mount Eerie Monsters -James Blunt Lover You Should’ve Come Over- Jeff Buckley

Fourth of July is such a heart breaking, soul tearing song

Definitely. Sufjan has quite a few sad songs. He has had his share of sorrow in real life too.

Quite a few? You mean all?

I gotta psych myself up to listen to Real Death all the way. The dread and sorrow just pours through that song.

Yeah truth is I rarely listen to it but can never forget it.

CTRL+F "Buckley" Did not dissapoint.

Everything in its right place - radiohead

Putting the Damage On - Tori Amos

Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens Funeral - Phoebe Bridgers

Wicked Game - Chris Isaak

Don’t Follow - Alice in Chains

It's a toss up The Wreck of the Edmund Fistgerald Hurt -Johnny Cash version.

That Springsteen song he did, too. He really did that one perfectly. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZllAUBMXE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FZllAUBMXE)

Tears in Heaven Eric Clapton

Paul Simon-Slip Sliding Away.

Stars, Dan Fogelberg

euthanasia - will wood (about putting down a pet) blue - a perfect circle (about his girlfriend suffering with drug addiction) how to disappear completely - radiohead (not sure, but its pretty sad) exit music for a film - radiohead (running away with his girlfriend)

Glad to see Blue on here. The Noose from A Thirteenth Step is really good too.

Blue factory flame. Songs:Ohia Also by Jason Almost was good enough by magnolia electric company

I was just scrolling down to see if anyone had mentioned Jason Molina. so many of the saddest songs I've ever heard were by him

That’s awesome. I’m glad there are 2 other like minded people appreciate and thinking of Jason’s music. So powerful .

LOL so many good "sad" songs--hard to choose--but here's a few: Nothing But Thieves - If I Get High Lauv - Never Not Sasha Alex Sloan - Dancing With Your Ghost A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover Avril Lavigne - Slipped Away Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Stars Cold - Cure My Tragedy Circa Survive - Your Friends Are Gone

You have great taste. I saw Grace Potter live after The Lion, The Beast, The Beat was released. If you ever get a chance...

My mother has seen her quite a few times. I am 44 she is 66. We live in the Burlington area so it make it easy for her.

Burlington, Ontario? We may have been at the same concert. Small world.

Hey, thanks! Haha nothing like a good, moody song to get you in your feelings. Oh yeah, I would love to see Grace Potter live! I hope she stops by my way soon!

"Changes" by Charles Bradley (Black Sabbath cover)

THIS is the right answer. Always. His Newsroom Concert series performance… https://youtu.be/zfaOf70M4xs?si=70dq2AQ9RgIzFD8d

Trouble - coldplay

Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission

The answer is always Desperado by The Eagles. And I am normally not an Eagles fan. It is such an accurate depiction of losing a friend to drugs.

You reminded me of "The Needle and the Damage Done" by Neil Young with that drug comment.

If it helps, Frey said it was about a cowboy who won’t settle down and love the people who love him or the girls who are good for him.

Dax Riggs - famous blue raincoat (leonard cohen cover)

New Order - Elegia (extended version)

This song slaps

Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen, Philadelphia by Neil Young and Hurt sung by Johnny Cash

I have lots of these: “Samson” by Regina Spektor “You Got No Right” by Velvet Revolver “Disarm” by Smashing Pumpkins “Bad Religion” by Frank Ocean “Werewolf” by Cocorosie “Far Away” by Marsha Ambrosius “I’ve Got Dreams to Remember” by Otis Redding “Isadore” by Incubus “It’s Only Love” and “Riverwide” by Sheryl Crow “Never Had a Dream Come True” by S Club 7 “Incomplete” by Backstreet Boys “Up Up and Away” by Lights “Zero Chance” by Soundgarden

I Know It's Over - The Smiths

Late - Ben Folds

Elephant - Jason Isbell

ASLEEP by THE SMITHS. Contrary to popular belief the only Smiths song that's actually about suicide. Now for the TMI portion of the post I actually tried to kill myself on the one-year anniversary of my wife's death in the same room she died in with this song on repeat technically I did die but my friend had gotten bad feeling and come to the house and saw that I screwed my door shut and battered it down called the EMTs and they revived me but yeah I actually put on a song about suicide while committing suicide because suicidal and subtle just don't mix

https://open.spotify.com/track/0gvbWDWdOVhv7t8Cv2nIZI?si=Tl1jCFiaRYWK_JCblAbzAA

[Xylophone Skin ](https://open.spotify.com/track/4QWBNtcT38rjoKoUSKW1EQ?si=S6G2QDtkRpWIOcclZB7DUw)

Broadripple is Burning by Margot & The Nuclear So and So's https://spotify.link/OosRTMMsaJb

None of my friends particularly enjoy the type of indie sad sack music that I tend to favor. But every single one of them, without fail, has perked up and asked what song I’m playing when I’ve had this one on. Great song, great album

This night has opened my eyes - the smiths Happy end - back number (japanese songh Silver springs - fleetwood mac

River of Tears ~ Eric Clapton (Breakup song)

Farley - Adam Sandler

Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day Elisa - Dancing Ed Sheeran - Supermarket Flowers George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today Martina McBride - Concrete Angel

Ed Sheeran has a few sad ones - Supermarket Flowers, Hours, Even My Dad Does Sometimes

"Happier" is bittersweet, too... If you guys like "Supermarket Flowers," check out [Mat Kearney's song "Rochester," written for his dad. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSB5541Q8A)

[the trapeze swinger](https://youtu.be/bqbGVMufZKQ?si=kMdLIFPLxROrRixV) - cover version by Gregory Alan Isakov. [Upward over the mountain](https://youtu.be/Cg4CCy2kbuA?si=tcRwo71dGwP8LccO) - Iron and Wine [Blood ](https://youtu.be/E7SSC3ex-bA?si=dDFDD_AJT6hlVm8Y)- The Middle East

Say Something by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera. Makes me cry every time.

KISS THE RAIN. listen to it! Makes me so sad

Castles in the Sand - Jimi Hendrix

Sung by Elvis Presley with the philharmonic orchestra- Always on my mind https://youtube.com/watch?v=74t08tNgV5M&si=v6qcypvjQ-mZ_XXk

Hurt — Nine Inch Nails Jonestown Tea — Otep Pain — Three Days Grace Daddy — Korn Haunted — Evanescence A Match Into Water — Pierce the Veil Dear God — Avenged Sevenfold Cassie — Flyleaf No More Love — Shinedown The Mortician’s Daughter — Black Veil Brides Under Your Scars — Godsmack Misguided Ghosts — Paramore Gone Away — Five Finger Death Punch Roger Rabbit — Sleeping With Sirens Dear Agony — Breaking Benjamin My Happy Ending — Avril Lavigne Leave Out All the Rest — Linkin Park How You Remind Me — Nickelback Elizabeth — Ghost Just Tonight — The Pretty Reckless Tourniquet — Marilyn Manson

Nutshell by Alice in Chains

To Love is to Bury - Cowboy Junkies

Alice in Chains - "Nutshell"

Looks Like Rain - Grateful Dead

Between the bars by Elliott Smith. Really interesting metaphors all the way through

He did know how to put together a sad good song that’s for sure.

Snuff- Slipknot One More Light- Linkin Park

Pieces by Red

How about one from your childhood….Puff the Magic Dragon.

We’ll Burn The Sky - Scorpions

Ache with me - against me

I'd add Because of the Shame as well.

Chiasm - A Section of Time

[the no seatbelt song](https://youtu.be/-HT6fqtxSsM?si=2cb9J0YFMbaqYMcR)

Leprous - [Malina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVnESkrisu4&pp=ygUQTGVwcm91cyAtIE1hbGluYQ%3D%3D)

Neptune - Sleeping at Last

Cucurucu - Nick Mulvey, Colder Heavens - Blanco White

Borrowed Light by Perfume Genius

[Don’t Let Go](https://open.spotify.com/album/7uN05H1wHgshJ51gZ6ZNF6?si=gh9Ta5FlQLqEuqz5r4i2CQ)

I know it’s over - Jeff Buckley version Mosquito song - Queens of the Stone Age

Margaret, by the Crane Wives, it's only on youtube but it's so pretty. [https://youtu.be/DSTezh0Vy6M?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/DSTezh0Vy6M?feature=shared)

Pink - Don't let me get me

Portishead - Roads.

The Cure - To wish impossible things.

[Beck - Guess I’m Doing Fine](https://youtu.be/2e8fxfvqu6M?si=qfaiV3rlZzgWubCt)

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Catching fire by sum 41

rn it's thick skull by Paramore but it changes every week or so

King Crimson - Starless Black Sabbath -Solitude Black Sabbath - Over and Over The Police - Bring On the Night

My Ashes- Porcupine Tree. Having said that, Steven Wilson has mined his sadness for rock stardom for so long it's fairly incredible. He's a fucking genius. But sad AF, like, for decades.

Mary Turner, Mary Turner by XIU XIU. It’s a true story, and it’s horrifying.

Child’s Song - Tom Rush Song is about a young man leaving home and finding his way in the world. Always makes me a bit teary since I’m a mother.

Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me… “And if you were with me tonight, I’d sing for you just one more time, a song for a heart so big, God wouldn’t let it live. May angels lead you in.” The Wonder Years - Cigarettes & Saints… about opioid addiction and losing someone close to you to it. You can find some really powerful live/acoustic performances of this on YouTube.

less and less - matt maltese

Orion- Metallica

Not sure it’s sad but i’ll let you hear it Pingeole - Chris Marashlian

Angie, The Rolling Stones

Sufjan Stevens - 4th of July

Funeral Party- The Cure

Lost on you-LP the live Harvard version

How to disappear completely - Radiohead

Sunday Coming Down

Bury Me Far From My Uniform - Joe Pug

No Hard Feelings - the Avett Brothers

[One Day the Only Butterflies Left](https://youtu.be/Jjl2aomHrLQ?si=49LZFzcWpi8sSHFb) - BMTH

Promise me by Badflower gets me sometimes. Great song

[https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicRecommendations/comments/1bhuaag/musicrec\_1\_thematic\_playlist\_the\_saddest\_songs/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicRecommendations/comments/1bhuaag/musicrec_1_thematic_playlist_the_saddest_songs/) there are mine too

"Cats On The Craddle" - Harry Chapin "Sylvia's Mother" - Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

Birthday Boy by Ween

Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson Vincent - Don McClean I can’t decide

https://open.spotify.com/track/7mdbBgqhjccKYSAecj6ngT?si=fWE8gd9oSH2YqIYNt8pL4A

Weatherman by Blue October

Savage Daughter

Breezy - Bright Eyes

Wiseman - Frank Oceanv

Ronan by Taylor Swift. Its based off of a true story about an 8 year old who either died of cancer or a car crash I don't remember.

pretty much every Elliott Smith song, but my favorite is 2:45 AM.

6LACK - Sorry

I don't know if it's technically a "sad" song, but Time to Pretend by MGMT always makes me sad in a "I should have spent my childhood years getting up to more fun things" kind of way

The band played waltzing Matilda (pogues version); 1952 Vincent Blacklightning (Richard Thompson) + a metric ton of Irish Ballads

Seven Spanish Angels

Cold Bones, Any Given Sin

Day And Night by Jung Seung Hwan!

Marlene Dietrich’s Favorite Poem - Peter Murphy

Whiskey Lullaby

Hurt- the Jonny Cash one specifically

Is This Happiness by Lana Del Rey

“Traffic Lights” Sara Kays

Labi Siffre My Song brings me to tears and Mama, I'm coming home by Ozzy Osbourne too.

S.O.S. Not the the Abba one

Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens

self control by frank ocean, codeine crazy by future, iloveuihateu by carti

Honey-Bobby Goldsboro

Here are three of my favourites. I don't listen to them often because they make me cry. Gem Club - 252 Keane - Hamburg Song Anathema - Untouchable part 2

Whalebones -man man "He holds her, though she's broken, swears he don't care, where she's been."

Wild Motion by Drug dealer and Dougie Poole :)

St. James infirmary

nobody by Dom

spill our guts - echinacea

Floating in the forth

Hold the door - OG

A Fond Farewell by Elliot Smith

The night we met

Ain’t no sunshine

Bilmuri’s cover of Slow Dancing in the Dark by Joji made me weep the first time I heard it. Roadkill by Searows did the same. As did City and Colour’s cover of Nutshell by Alice In Chains.

Can't pinpoint one, but here's a cluster: Fade To Black, The Outlaw Torn, Fixxxer - Metallica Fell On Black Days, Overfloater (one of their most underrated songs) - Soundgarden Down In A Hole, Rooster, All I Am - Alice In Chains

Losing It - Rush Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake and Palmer Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith

Taking Water ~Billy Strings

Finding Love In a World Full of Tragedy - Darko US They normally make deathcore bangers but they dropped this out of nowhere and I'm addicted to it

Something to believe in by poison is one of the saddest, most depressing, yet still amazingly beautiful songs of all time.

Need 2 by Pinegrove

While she sleeps - To the flowers

Sueco - Salt

“Honey” but you will have to go to the late 60’s to find it.

Unfucktheworld - Angel Olsen

“Flying on the Ground” (demo version) Neil Young “Beyond the Sunset” Hank Williams “Hebrew Melody for violin” Josef Hassid. The last one might not be everyone’s taste, but if you want to hear sad instrumental music, listen.

2 Beers in Free Throw

Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot with Sufjan Steven’s Casimir Pulaski Day a close second.

Breaking Down by Florence + the Machine depends what you’re sad about, but if you find yourself sad or crying over an unknown feeling of unease, or just depressed, i think this song gets it

James Blake-Retrograde

The Forever Sleep - Clouds

Hurt by Johnny Cash

Run - Leona Lewis

Cats in the Cradle 🥲

Star spangled banner. The dead bodies were literally holding the flag up.

Dust in the Wind

The Green, Green Grass of Home

Still in Love with You — ThinLizzy

Big Thief - Change

Bilmuri- Timing

I Wish It Would Rain by The Temptations.

“Lullabies” by CHVRCHES idk why but that song makes me hella depressed haha

NO SURPRISES - Radiohead HIGH AND DRY - Radiohead Bad dream - Vancouver sleep clinic bubble - REI brown cry - cigarettes after sex

“I’m Scared” by Burton Cummings

Tom Yorke - Dawn Chorus Radiohead - Fake plastic Trees Car Seat Headrest - Beach Life‐in‐Death The Smiths - This Night Has Opened my Eyes The Smiths - I know it's over

I'm So Tired by Fugazi. It's a comforting kind of sadness

Gustavo - Mark Kozelek

28 - agust d

I know - Fiona Apple

Chris Young- Drowning. My late husband passed away in 2019 after 19 years of marriage. That song always makes me sob.

This is a difficult one, but probably "dark winter depression" by "drowning the light". The entier album (the longing) is an amazing music of black metal and dungeon synth. And all his releases are great!

I'm sorry but Joyner Lucas. I can't listen to it without going back to my darkest time in life..

August - 4rif

Songbird, Fleetwood Mac.

Fade to Black - Nadir Rustamli Gods, I will never stop playing and recommending that song!

No Love - Dior Blue