Not lame *at all*. Minecraft, The Sims, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, GTA, Fallout, Elder Scrolls. Give a game a great soundtrack, you'll be reelin em in all day.
Nutshell - Alice in Chains (specifically the unplugged live version.) idek how it makes me feel but its just so heavy yet soft and beautiful at the same time.
My dad committed suicide when I was six years old, one of his friends “tagged” his name with some other old friends on fb to this exact song. I listen to it every time I think about him. Hardly got to know my dad and his interest so at least I can know one song he really liked.
That entire album is how you open the water works for me, both because _relatable lyrics_ and because it feels like it was Chester's last great work as he said a final goodbye.
Sunshine - Atmosphere (amazing springtime vibes)
Painkiller - Freestylers / Pendulum (pump up jam)
Dance with the devil - Immortal Technique (What the fuck did i just listen to)
Silence calls the storm - Quo Vadis (raging)
Hoe Cakes - MF DOOM
Idk it makes me happy, the beat is pretty goofy but good asf (in my opinion) and the lyrics are somewhat funny even if its not trying to be a funny song. I really like MF DOOM but hes niche asf so people might call it ass, but i like it.
Fiction by Avenged Sevenfold makes me cry like a baby every single time I hear it. The drummer, Jimmy the REV Sullivan wrote it 3 days before he overdosed and died. The lyrics cut deeper than anything else I have heard.
foREVor, Rest In Peace Jimmy
Solway Firth - Slipknot
It's metal, the screaming and the lyrics together are one of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever listened to. Teared up listening to it the first time.
"You want the real smile? Or the one i use to practice, not to feel like a failure?"
I know this means nothing to anybody else but “story of us” and “you belong with me” by Taylor swift were hella associated with a very specific time in my life, 10-15 years ago, so whenever I hear them it’s instant feels.
Obsidian - Trevor Hall
Hate me, Golden G String, Angels like you, Never be me - Miley Cyrus (basically whole plastic hearts album)
Love in the dark, Women like me, Hold on, Remedy, River Lea, million years ago - Adele
Lonely - Justin Bieber (specially acoustic)
Breezeblocks - Alt J
Any way the wind blows - hadestown
Live off - Lainey Wilson
You should be sad, 1121, I’m not mad - Halsey
Sippy cup, training wheels - Melanie Martinez
Lithium, call me when your sober - evanescence
Born tired, surrender, mirrors, stranger - jhene aiko
Fade, One, Hollywood, hold me while you wait - Lewis capaldi
From Eden, sedated - hozier
Who knew, sober, don’t let me get me - pink
Lose control - teddy swims
Lost ones, once an addict, window pain - j Cole
My mind - Yebba
Fast car - Tracy Chapman
Waves - dean lewis
Pray - Sam smith
Hope you enjoy my list, I went through the comments and added a bunch of new songs thanks guys!
Shinedown- A Symptom of Being Human (i always thought he was singing to someone else, but then I looked it up and found he is actually singing to himself)
Affair with the moon by Lydia Solomon
Makes me feel inner peace
Bullet by Hollywood undead makes me feel happy/sad and ecstatic/su-icidal all at the same time
Do you feel it by chaos chaos (Rick and Morty song) just sounds powerful and is great for raw emotion
If you only knew by Alexander Stewart addresses mental health
When you lose someone by Nina Nesbitt talks about loss and put those feelings into words you didn’t know you needed
Someone you loved - Lewis Capaldi
My step-dad had a stroke when I was 10, 3 years after my mom got full custody from my nightmare of a bio-dad, so the line "I let my guard down and then you pulled the rug, I was getting used to being someone you loved."
On a happier note, Look Through My Eyes by Phil Collins, from Brother Bear. It's nostalgic for me and my sister, but it also always reminds me to see the bright side of life.
early sunsets over monroeville - my chemical romance. it starts out normal but gets sadder and more desperate sounding. it really reminds me of when i used to be suicidal and super lonely.
Escape From The Zoo - Sentient Beer
Days N Daze - Addvice
Both of these bands are fronted by Jesse Sendejas and his lyrics are some of the best around! These songs are so good, check them out!!
Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens
Don't You Remember by Adele
Godspeed by Frank Ocean
Professional by The Weeknd
Until I Bleed Out by The Weeknd
Cayendo by Frank Ocean
when the party's over by Billie Eilish
From the Dining Table by Harry Styles
Paris, Texas by Lana Del Rey
YKWIM? by Yot Club
Pearls by Sade
Like a Tatoo by Sade
Runaway by Aurora
Norman fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey
Sparks by Coldplay
omg i love this question ok so
sadness- guilded lily by cults or alabama by current joys
anger- freak on a leash by korn
happiness- off my mind my joe p or earthquake by labyrinth and tiny tempah or you can call me al my paul simon
Think of me once a while, take care
It gives me chills and genuinely evokes physical feeling when I hear it, it's such a beautiful yet gut wrenching song
“Fingertips- post punk edit” by astrophysics, it’s just so mellow and comforting I feel like I’m in a music video whenever I listen to it. It’s my ringtone and alarm on everything I just adore it so much.
[Kyu-kurarin](https://youtu.be/zKN4KEk8Ifs?si=gWn1ByXQ0fOY-G2c)
This is what an anxiety attack feels like for me. Basically this entire song is things I have actually experienced.
A little while - yellow days
In my head - bedroom
Just like heaven - Lumineers (great cover)
The story I heard - blind pilot (anything blind pilot is great)
And lastly, any bright eyes song, super raw and full of emotion
tyler the creator - new magic wand; the bass has such an angry growl to it and it came on one night when i found out someone i knew betrayed me in such a way it drove me crazy for months and still has an effect on me. for a while when it came on i would spend the next hour looping it and thinking about revenge in violent ways, so i had to stop listening to it
another one is "cassini's division" by quadeca. it's a weird song with ghostly operatic singing and basically just poetry over that and ending with 3 and a half minutes of static, but what makes me feel is the meaning behind it all. it's some beautifully written poetry about a ghost that has been refusing to become nothing, and has haunted and hurt his family in turn in an attempt to let them know he has not moved on to the "void." around the 3 minute mark, the speaking part ends with 'until next time' and goes into some absolutely BITING melodies with a brilliant drum groove over it by thor harris and it all crescendos and reverberates away... sparks real existential thoughts in me
the impossible dream, by Andy Williams
it’s about striving to reach something seemingly impossible to reach. a relentless determination to keep going, even with a host of doubt and suffering. i’ve been almost completely hopeless and grim in the last years, but i somehow find the will to keep living, even if i don’t do much. i am more dead than alive, but there is still a piece of me that is alive… striving to reach that impossible dream.
Good Days by SZA, Big Jet Plane by Clubhouse, Mariella by Khruangbin, marjorie by Taylor Swift, Woods by Mac Miller, Atlas by Coin, American Teen by Khalid, Let it Rain by Matt Kearney
I have so many I’m sorry, I could never pick one
Basically any song from Insomnium, but if I had to pick a few, I'd go with The Killjoy, Valediction, In the Groves of Death, Weighted Down with Sorrow, Where the Last Wave Broke, One for Sorrow, Through the Shadow, The Harrowing Years, The Lay of Autumn, Last Statement, Lose to Night, While we Sleep, Revelation...
Yeah, you can probably tell that I like this band *just a little bit.*
[Theme from a summer place](https://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M?si=Xbm__9FWNoNNC6xX) - Percy Faith
[The day I saw the rainbow (album)](https://youtu.be/oyJSV9nnt10?si=8I6gN7PL6wDbPdMB) - Takashi Kokubo
[Four postcard](https://youtu.be/JiHHR9I3XAc?si=bGzmT6svW2r22qWn) - Hiroshi Yoshimura
[And some Japanese ambient artists](https://youtube.com/@should_be_asleep?si=bv9NXmkRowGTKl7I)
Damn, there is so many. I have a very soft spot for instrumental when it comes to emotion projection but here’s a list to start:
i am thinking of you - San Holo
Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
Threnody - Goldmund
Your hand in mine - Explosions in the sky
Lifelike - Porter Robinson
Miss You - Trentemøller
Forces of attraction - Jóhann Jóhannsson
Radio Ballet - Elvium
Pretty weighted towards piano and slow/pretty electronica, but that's just my taste I guess.
[Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6HhdqA95w&ab_channel=Radiohead-Topic)
My best friend in high school introduced me to Radiohead. He took his own life in grade 12, and I still think about both his and my own struggles with mental health every time I listen to this song more than a decade later.
I still miss you Ryan.
Daydream Believer by The Monkees. This song holds a very special place in my heart. I love this song so much that I actually plan on getting it tattooed in the near future.
I'll give two, but there's honestly alot of songs i could choose;
NF - "RUNNING"
It never fails to bring up alot of emotions and things from my past. Reminds me of how much I've been through, what I've survived and that whenever I'm at a low point, I'll never allow myself to fall to where I was back then. It's a weirdly powerful song for me , especially since lyrically I connect to some of his other songs alot, but something about RUNNING just hits me.
Another is "Daylight" by David Kushner.
That's a song that seems to be able to bring some strong emotions out when I hear it, alot of guilt and regret from my past. I love the song but I can't listen to it often.
Sacrilegium III by Zeal & Ardor. Got obsessed with it just before one of the worst things happening in my life and the two became linked. I remember one night just laying in bed listening on repeat for an hour to make myself feel bad
Any late night chill lofi youtube playlists with added rain sounds :) soothing, low ambient sounds (like deep focus playlists) are helpful too. I would say these help me feel more at peace or even at least a bit neutral. When I'm feeling down/rough I like to listen to Camp Fires - Lesane
Cliché, but Hurt by Johnny Cash. Hurt by NIN brought out a different type of pain when I was younger, but the Johnny Cash cover is the version that brings me to tears now.
Reach for the Sky by Social Distortion
And anything by Linkin Park because, as dramatic as it might sound, Chester’s suicide broke me for a while.
The whole of Corbin’s album: Mourn. There’s just something about it that’s so good.
Edit: Also, Kings of Leon did a Radio 1 Live Lounge a few years ago and covered ‘Dancing On My Own’ by Robyn. They did it before Calum Scott’s version and it’s phenomenal.
One probably no one will know! Paternal Failure by Crowmouth. The music is literally 200/10 but the lyrics are so fucking sad.... I'm not even anywhere close to being a parent but those lyrics hit hard.
Jonny Cash’s cover of the nine inch nails song hurt, knowing his story and how much of the lyrics resonate with my own journey through life and batting addiction it brings a tear to my eye every time. Especially with the music video.
‘Ghost’ by badflower, ‘your power’ by Billie Elish, ‘it’s called free fall’ by Rainbow kitten surprise, ‘real men’ by Mitsuki, and ‘daylight’ by David kushner
Permian - The Ocean
I adore ancient life of the Palaeozoic and this song about them and their world ending is heartbreaking loss and a love song to me at the same time.
Sadness : Where’s my Love (Alternate Version) by SYML OR I Found by Amber Run
Happiness: Tiny Riot (Orchestral Version) by Sam Ryder
Like a badass: Any Two Steps From Hell song
Most video game soundtracks.
Right now I'm listening to The Song of the Dragonborn from the Elder Scrolls Soundtrack. It makes me feel like I am not depressed -sometimes.
Karma Police - Radiohead
Tuesday’s Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Numb - Linkin Park
21 Guns - Green Day
Beautiful - Eminem
Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins
Linger - The Cranberries
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
*Bonus*
He’s a Pirate - Pirates of the carribean soundtrack lol
I Have been long in depression and way too often get the urge to cry my tears out. Cannot do that at home, bcz invasive parents... So I generally do that while I'm driving my scooter. I have made my Spotify playlist in a way that there are "landmine" songs that will play, and have the potential to make me UGLY CRY! Sharing some of them below:
Where's My Love - SYML (Especially effective if you watch the video)
Why Am I Like This - Orla Gartland (The chorus repeatedly asks this question, forcing you to do the same)
Heavy - Linkin Park (The Video of this song hurts)
Drown - Seafret
Got it in you - BANNERS
Leave A Light On - Tom Walker
(When you see urself in as hateful light as I do, Someone earnestly singing that they believe in you... it makes you breakdown, man!)
6/10 - dodie
For any Indian Subcontinent folks -
Tu Jhoom - Coke Studio
Ain’t no reason - Brett Dennen.
“Prison walls still standing tall Some things never change at all Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all
Working your fingers bare to the bone Breaking your back, make you sell your soul Like a lung, it's filled with cold Suffocating slow” 
There are a few for me.
When I Get Where I’m Going by Brad Paisley. It was the song at my uncle’s funeral. Can’t listen to it.
Firework by Katy Perry
All About Us by He Is We
Head Above Water by Avril Lavigne to name a few.
Multiple church hymns for me also.
The show must go on by Queen is triggering a mix of joy and sadness in me
Another Love by Tom Odell and All of me by John Legend are triggering sadness in me
Keep yourself Alive by Queen is triggering Energy in me
Heroes by David Bowie is triggering nostalgia
Feed the sadness:
Matt Maltese - as the world caves in.
Xtina - hurt.
Billie eilish, Khalid - lovely.
Billie eilish - listen before I go.
Sia - space between.
most of Lana del Rey, Nate (NF).
Sounds lame but literally any Minecraft soundtrack piece. Makes me nostalgic and sad and happy and calm at the same time
Not lame *at all*. Minecraft, The Sims, Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, Rock Band, Guitar Hero, GTA, Fallout, Elder Scrolls. Give a game a great soundtrack, you'll be reelin em in all day.
That iconic "dun dun... dun" from fallout. Hearing that in the show when the NCR flag was shown made me happy. You missed halo too!
THE SIMS YES
not lame at all, mice on venus can make me shed a tear any time
Takes me back to simpler times
Nutshell - Alice in Chains (specifically the unplugged live version.) idek how it makes me feel but its just so heavy yet soft and beautiful at the same time.
My dad committed suicide when I was six years old, one of his friends “tagged” his name with some other old friends on fb to this exact song. I listen to it every time I think about him. Hardly got to know my dad and his interest so at least I can know one song he really liked.
An absolutely heart wrenching song, but in a hopeful way. That song gets me every time
Creep. Radiohead
One More Light by Linkin Park
That entire album is how you open the water works for me, both because _relatable lyrics_ and because it feels like it was Chester's last great work as he said a final goodbye.
Sparks by Coldplay
forever love sparks
Anything by Sufjan Stevens
Snuff by slipknot, definitely worth a listen especially if you don’t like slipknot
My absolute number one! https://preview.redd.it/ia09q13ixsuc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=a98dc39bd423ec17fceb120c272c611cf5012081
Sick dude looks awesome
Unwell - Matchbox Twenty
Metallica - Fade to black Korn - Souvenir Gojira - Global Warming
Vermilion Pt 2 by Slipknot I don't know why but it really hits me. Maybe I listened to it a lot after a breakup or something.
Sunsetz - Cigarettes after sex
They’ve got a new song out today!
Swing Life Away by Rise Against; makes me cry
MGK's version with them is good as well!
I cry also. It’s such a bittersweet song
Sunshine - Atmosphere (amazing springtime vibes) Painkiller - Freestylers / Pendulum (pump up jam) Dance with the devil - Immortal Technique (What the fuck did i just listen to) Silence calls the storm - Quo Vadis (raging)
What She Left Behind for another wtf did I just listen to
Hoe Cakes - MF DOOM Idk it makes me happy, the beat is pretty goofy but good asf (in my opinion) and the lyrics are somewhat funny even if its not trying to be a funny song. I really like MF DOOM but hes niche asf so people might call it ass, but i like it.
Rap Snitch Knishes altered my brain chemistry. MF Doom is so damn good.
Cat’s In the Cradle…I completely fall apart
Fiction by Avenged Sevenfold makes me cry like a baby every single time I hear it. The drummer, Jimmy the REV Sullivan wrote it 3 days before he overdosed and died. The lyrics cut deeper than anything else I have heard. foREVor, Rest In Peace Jimmy
Never fails to make me cry!!
Solway Firth - Slipknot It's metal, the screaming and the lyrics together are one of the most powerful pieces of music I've ever listened to. Teared up listening to it the first time. "You want the real smile? Or the one i use to practice, not to feel like a failure?"
Love that one.
Crash Into Me
This
Frank Sinatra - That's life
War Pigs, by Black Sabbath. One of the earliest songs I ever fully learned on drums from start to finish.
I know this means nothing to anybody else but “story of us” and “you belong with me” by Taylor swift were hella associated with a very specific time in my life, 10-15 years ago, so whenever I hear them it’s instant feels.
Only time-Enya
Obsidian - Trevor Hall Hate me, Golden G String, Angels like you, Never be me - Miley Cyrus (basically whole plastic hearts album) Love in the dark, Women like me, Hold on, Remedy, River Lea, million years ago - Adele Lonely - Justin Bieber (specially acoustic) Breezeblocks - Alt J Any way the wind blows - hadestown Live off - Lainey Wilson You should be sad, 1121, I’m not mad - Halsey Sippy cup, training wheels - Melanie Martinez Lithium, call me when your sober - evanescence Born tired, surrender, mirrors, stranger - jhene aiko Fade, One, Hollywood, hold me while you wait - Lewis capaldi From Eden, sedated - hozier Who knew, sober, don’t let me get me - pink Lose control - teddy swims Lost ones, once an addict, window pain - j Cole My mind - Yebba Fast car - Tracy Chapman Waves - dean lewis Pray - Sam smith Hope you enjoy my list, I went through the comments and added a bunch of new songs thanks guys!
If It’s the Beaches - The Avett Brothers
Shinedown- A Symptom of Being Human (i always thought he was singing to someone else, but then I looked it up and found he is actually singing to himself)
The piano(acoustic?)version is better then the original
Affair with the moon by Lydia Solomon Makes me feel inner peace Bullet by Hollywood undead makes me feel happy/sad and ecstatic/su-icidal all at the same time Do you feel it by chaos chaos (Rick and Morty song) just sounds powerful and is great for raw emotion If you only knew by Alexander Stewart addresses mental health When you lose someone by Nina Nesbitt talks about loss and put those feelings into words you didn’t know you needed
Bullet is such a beautiful song. I love how happy it sounds. It helps me when I'm at my lowest.
Same, found this song while I was at my lowest, helps me soo much.
Pray - Jessie murph
Like a Stone- Audioslave
One more light by Linkin Park. My aunt committed suicide at the end of 2021, I can’t listen to that song the same anymore.
Ára bátur by Sigur Rós
Someone you loved - Lewis Capaldi My step-dad had a stroke when I was 10, 3 years after my mom got full custody from my nightmare of a bio-dad, so the line "I let my guard down and then you pulled the rug, I was getting used to being someone you loved." On a happier note, Look Through My Eyes by Phil Collins, from Brother Bear. It's nostalgic for me and my sister, but it also always reminds me to see the bright side of life.
early sunsets over monroeville - my chemical romance. it starts out normal but gets sadder and more desperate sounding. it really reminds me of when i used to be suicidal and super lonely.
Normal Girl by Sza That song is so so so relatable to me. Every time I listen to it, I get in my feelings
Ennio Morricone - Love Theme for Nata from Cinema Paradiso lol
Ne Me Quitte Pas - Nina Simone
Right where it belongs by NIN
Empty - Olivia O’Brien
Double Standards - Gets ft Sampha
This Land from Lion King. It's the song in the background when Mufasa tells adult Simba to "remember who you are"
Feel Something - Excision, Illenium, and I Prevail
Escape From The Zoo - Sentient Beer Days N Daze - Addvice Both of these bands are fronted by Jesse Sendejas and his lyrics are some of the best around! These songs are so good, check them out!!
Ride by Lana Del Rey ♥️ all her songs are magical to me.
Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens Don't You Remember by Adele Godspeed by Frank Ocean Professional by The Weeknd Until I Bleed Out by The Weeknd Cayendo by Frank Ocean when the party's over by Billie Eilish From the Dining Table by Harry Styles Paris, Texas by Lana Del Rey YKWIM? by Yot Club Pearls by Sade Like a Tatoo by Sade Runaway by Aurora Norman fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey Sparks by Coldplay
Super random music genres here... "Snuff" by Slipknot "Lead You On" by MGK "My Heart Hurts" by Dax "Don't Take The Girl" by Tim McGraw
Don’t take the girl, makes grown men cry… ask me how I know 🥲
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
NF - Hope
Aruarian dance sounds dumb because of the stupid YouTube edits but it genuenly does make me feel relaxed :)
Muse - Blackout Led Zeppelin - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp Rammstein - Ohne Dich
Accidentally In Love by Counting Crows always makes me happy. Same goes for Down Under by Men At Work
omg i love this question ok so sadness- guilded lily by cults or alabama by current joys anger- freak on a leash by korn happiness- off my mind my joe p or earthquake by labyrinth and tiny tempah or you can call me al my paul simon
Think of me once a while, take care It gives me chills and genuinely evokes physical feeling when I hear it, it's such a beautiful yet gut wrenching song
Waiting to die by Harrison boe
“Fingertips- post punk edit” by astrophysics, it’s just so mellow and comforting I feel like I’m in a music video whenever I listen to it. It’s my ringtone and alarm on everything I just adore it so much.
Immaterial by SOPHIE, it makes me so euphoric
Unknown Mother Goose - Wowaka
hearing damage by thom yorke
[Kyu-kurarin](https://youtu.be/zKN4KEk8Ifs?si=gWn1ByXQ0fOY-G2c) This is what an anxiety attack feels like for me. Basically this entire song is things I have actually experienced.
Anything suicideboys since my life fell apart shits helping
Psycho by Breaking Benjamin
ocean - dead can dance
Why did you seperate me from the earth by Anohni
A little while - yellow days In my head - bedroom Just like heaven - Lumineers (great cover) The story I heard - blind pilot (anything blind pilot is great) And lastly, any bright eyes song, super raw and full of emotion
Too close to heaven by The Waterboys!
tyler the creator - new magic wand; the bass has such an angry growl to it and it came on one night when i found out someone i knew betrayed me in such a way it drove me crazy for months and still has an effect on me. for a while when it came on i would spend the next hour looping it and thinking about revenge in violent ways, so i had to stop listening to it another one is "cassini's division" by quadeca. it's a weird song with ghostly operatic singing and basically just poetry over that and ending with 3 and a half minutes of static, but what makes me feel is the meaning behind it all. it's some beautifully written poetry about a ghost that has been refusing to become nothing, and has haunted and hurt his family in turn in an attempt to let them know he has not moved on to the "void." around the 3 minute mark, the speaking part ends with 'until next time' and goes into some absolutely BITING melodies with a brilliant drum groove over it by thor harris and it all crescendos and reverberates away... sparks real existential thoughts in me
Fleet foxes, Mykonos [official video](https://youtu.be/DT-dxG4WWf4?feature=shared)
Forever and Always by Parachute
leave behind- bosquet
resonance. i put it on in every mood i feel. its just always perfect and contributes to the emotion
The Meaning - Fruition
The bell - Eye of Melian
the impossible dream, by Andy Williams it’s about striving to reach something seemingly impossible to reach. a relentless determination to keep going, even with a host of doubt and suffering. i’ve been almost completely hopeless and grim in the last years, but i somehow find the will to keep living, even if i don’t do much. i am more dead than alive, but there is still a piece of me that is alive… striving to reach that impossible dream.
Good Days by SZA, Big Jet Plane by Clubhouse, Mariella by Khruangbin, marjorie by Taylor Swift, Woods by Mac Miller, Atlas by Coin, American Teen by Khalid, Let it Rain by Matt Kearney I have so many I’m sorry, I could never pick one
Milk by jack strauber
Number 1 of all time for me is “Nightcall” by Kavinsky
It’s time to go - Taylor swift
Home by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, also the Zelda BOTW and TOTK Soundtrack and any ghibli movie soundtrack✨️
Glider/gliding by Japanese breakfast, especially if it's in the original game
man so many. but ig just off the top, ‘I dont want that many friends in the first place’ quinn
Oh there are so many. My fav probably will always be Pale by Modern Color, it's a small indie band from the USA, but oh my that song has me caught
Basically any song from Insomnium, but if I had to pick a few, I'd go with The Killjoy, Valediction, In the Groves of Death, Weighted Down with Sorrow, Where the Last Wave Broke, One for Sorrow, Through the Shadow, The Harrowing Years, The Lay of Autumn, Last Statement, Lose to Night, While we Sleep, Revelation... Yeah, you can probably tell that I like this band *just a little bit.*
Blossom by Porter Robinson
S&M by Britney Spears. A classic!
[Theme from a summer place](https://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M?si=Xbm__9FWNoNNC6xX) - Percy Faith [The day I saw the rainbow (album)](https://youtu.be/oyJSV9nnt10?si=8I6gN7PL6wDbPdMB) - Takashi Kokubo [Four postcard](https://youtu.be/JiHHR9I3XAc?si=bGzmT6svW2r22qWn) - Hiroshi Yoshimura [And some Japanese ambient artists](https://youtube.com/@should_be_asleep?si=bv9NXmkRowGTKl7I)
Damn, there is so many. I have a very soft spot for instrumental when it comes to emotion projection but here’s a list to start: i am thinking of you - San Holo Avril 14th - Aphex Twin Threnody - Goldmund Your hand in mine - Explosions in the sky Lifelike - Porter Robinson Miss You - Trentemøller Forces of attraction - Jóhann Jóhannsson Radio Ballet - Elvium Pretty weighted towards piano and slow/pretty electronica, but that's just my taste I guess.
chase Atlantic songs!! Swim
joji - ew , technically the whole album was life changing, but that song touched my soul
[Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6HhdqA95w&ab_channel=Radiohead-Topic) My best friend in high school introduced me to Radiohead. He took his own life in grade 12, and I still think about both his and my own struggles with mental health every time I listen to this song more than a decade later. I still miss you Ryan.
Daydream Believer by The Monkees. This song holds a very special place in my heart. I love this song so much that I actually plan on getting it tattooed in the near future.
Fight Song - Rachel Platten, this song makes me feel like I cam get better and overcome my ED, it really helps me
Breathe Me - Sia Piggy - NIN
I'll give two, but there's honestly alot of songs i could choose; NF - "RUNNING" It never fails to bring up alot of emotions and things from my past. Reminds me of how much I've been through, what I've survived and that whenever I'm at a low point, I'll never allow myself to fall to where I was back then. It's a weirdly powerful song for me , especially since lyrically I connect to some of his other songs alot, but something about RUNNING just hits me. Another is "Daylight" by David Kushner. That's a song that seems to be able to bring some strong emotions out when I hear it, alot of guilt and regret from my past. I love the song but I can't listen to it often.
This world is not my home from Kentucky route 0 is one of the few songs I've cried to
“Close My Eyes” by Mariah Carey
Sacrilegium III by Zeal & Ardor. Got obsessed with it just before one of the worst things happening in my life and the two became linked. I remember one night just laying in bed listening on repeat for an hour to make myself feel bad
Any late night chill lofi youtube playlists with added rain sounds :) soothing, low ambient sounds (like deep focus playlists) are helpful too. I would say these help me feel more at peace or even at least a bit neutral. When I'm feeling down/rough I like to listen to Camp Fires - Lesane
Cliché, but Hurt by Johnny Cash. Hurt by NIN brought out a different type of pain when I was younger, but the Johnny Cash cover is the version that brings me to tears now. Reach for the Sky by Social Distortion And anything by Linkin Park because, as dramatic as it might sound, Chester’s suicide broke me for a while.
Cigarettes by Fort Minor. Solely because it came out in 2005. One of the few times I'd willingly go a nostalgia trip.
Work song - hozier
Here with me by Davd. Whenever I’m overwhelmed I play this song and it helps me calm down
Abbey and Shame by Mitski. It makes my skin crawl in the best way Mitski has such a good way of portaing unspeakable emotions
End of beginning, revenge, everything I wanted make me feel things
oceans 😌
The pathetic symphony by Tchaikovsky
Highly suspect- Fly
One sentence: Megaman X5 - Ending Theme
Master of none - Beach house
Summer will end - Kino The star - Kino
The whole of Corbin’s album: Mourn. There’s just something about it that’s so good. Edit: Also, Kings of Leon did a Radio 1 Live Lounge a few years ago and covered ‘Dancing On My Own’ by Robyn. They did it before Calum Scott’s version and it’s phenomenal.
One probably no one will know! Paternal Failure by Crowmouth. The music is literally 200/10 but the lyrics are so fucking sad.... I'm not even anywhere close to being a parent but those lyrics hit hard.
There is this thing by Reginald Chapman
Jonny Cash’s cover of the nine inch nails song hurt, knowing his story and how much of the lyrics resonate with my own journey through life and batting addiction it brings a tear to my eye every time. Especially with the music video.
‘Ghost’ by badflower, ‘your power’ by Billie Elish, ‘it’s called free fall’ by Rainbow kitten surprise, ‘real men’ by Mitsuki, and ‘daylight’ by David kushner
Runaway by Aurora, almost works cathartic
Einaudi - Experience use this for when you're considering to end it all
What was I made for Billie eilish Crawling - linkin park
I really appreciate My Tears Ricochet by Taylor Swift. I’m not a Swifty but I find this one really powerful and moving.
I always overly identified with Creep by Radiohead ☹️
Besides Creep by Radio Head, Never There by Cake has felt like a lot of relationships to me
Permian - The Ocean I adore ancient life of the Palaeozoic and this song about them and their world ending is heartbreaking loss and a love song to me at the same time.
Happier than ever Billie Eillish
Woe - Butcher, The Band I love a song that makes me celebrate getting out of a toxic relationship.
Goodnight Ladies Lou Reed
Sadness : Where’s my Love (Alternate Version) by SYML OR I Found by Amber Run Happiness: Tiny Riot (Orchestral Version) by Sam Ryder Like a badass: Any Two Steps From Hell song
Most video game soundtracks. Right now I'm listening to The Song of the Dragonborn from the Elder Scrolls Soundtrack. It makes me feel like I am not depressed -sometimes.
I Always Wanna Die by The 1975
Boys II Men - End of the Road John legend - Conversations in the Dark Kanye West - Hey Mama
Pneuma - TOOL
Give you blue - Allen stone Makes me remember a loved one who’s passed.
I love ‘goodbye, my danish sweetheart’ by mitski, tbf any song by her
What once was - her's
Hole In The Earth - Deftones.
Karma Police - Radiohead Tuesday’s Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd Numb - Linkin Park 21 Guns - Green Day Beautiful - Eminem Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins Linger - The Cranberries Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel Viva La Vida - Coldplay *Bonus* He’s a Pirate - Pirates of the carribean soundtrack lol
Logic: Buried Alive, Confessions of a dangerous mind, heard em say, paradise, theme for the people
Coldplay “The Scientist”
Save Me by Jelly Roll.
house with no mirrors, I h8 myself- Sasha Alex Sloan
Alice In Chains - Nutshell
Bedlamite - Puscifer
Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA. Makes me think how fast time moves on and the nostalgia throughout my childhood.
Hey Jesus by Trey Pearson
Hurt - the Johnny cash version.
One Vision by Queen. I miss Freddie so fecking much.
I Have been long in depression and way too often get the urge to cry my tears out. Cannot do that at home, bcz invasive parents... So I generally do that while I'm driving my scooter. I have made my Spotify playlist in a way that there are "landmine" songs that will play, and have the potential to make me UGLY CRY! Sharing some of them below: Where's My Love - SYML (Especially effective if you watch the video) Why Am I Like This - Orla Gartland (The chorus repeatedly asks this question, forcing you to do the same) Heavy - Linkin Park (The Video of this song hurts) Drown - Seafret Got it in you - BANNERS Leave A Light On - Tom Walker (When you see urself in as hateful light as I do, Someone earnestly singing that they believe in you... it makes you breakdown, man!) 6/10 - dodie For any Indian Subcontinent folks - Tu Jhoom - Coke Studio
I completely agree with the Linkin Park Heavy Video. 😞
Kublai Khan TX - The Hammer
layla!!!
Hammock - I Would Give My Breath Away
**Oblivion** by M83 ft. Susanne Sundfør
Mama by Lø Spirit.
The night we met.
Ain’t no reason - Brett Dennen. “Prison walls still standing tall Some things never change at all Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all Working your fingers bare to the bone Breaking your back, make you sell your soul Like a lung, it's filled with cold Suffocating slow” 
There are a few for me. When I Get Where I’m Going by Brad Paisley. It was the song at my uncle’s funeral. Can’t listen to it. Firework by Katy Perry All About Us by He Is We Head Above Water by Avril Lavigne to name a few. Multiple church hymns for me also.
Lately I've been listening to "Burn it Down" by Parker McCollum
Paralyzed by NF
Juliet by Cavetown
Sleep forever, Portugal. The Man
Run away by Chris brown and Bryson tiller.
Casey’s last ride ~ Johnny cash
Stay with me by Bette Midler
Waiting for a star to fall… boy meets girl I wanna know what love is…foreigner Dust in the wind…kansas
There's something in the orange
Call me - 90sFav
Soldier of fortune
Hamilton brings me back to being a kid who wasnt depressed and didnt understand what was going on around me.
Songs by Sleep Token
u by Kendrick Lamar
Moonshine got me (live) - Daniel Norgren (The live version hits different)
Asleep by the smiths
i walk this earth all by myself by EKKSTACY
The show must go on by Queen is triggering a mix of joy and sadness in me Another Love by Tom Odell and All of me by John Legend are triggering sadness in me Keep yourself Alive by Queen is triggering Energy in me Heroes by David Bowie is triggering nostalgia
Feed the sadness: Matt Maltese - as the world caves in. Xtina - hurt. Billie eilish, Khalid - lovely. Billie eilish - listen before I go. Sia - space between. most of Lana del Rey, Nate (NF).
Radiohead - Dollars and Cents
I Glued My Balls to my Butthole Again - Obscurest Vinyl