What Are Some Of Your Favorite Sad Songs?

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11/07/2014 at 09:41 • Filed to: musiclopnik, sad songs, depression

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Hey guys. I've been feeling like shit lately from a lot of personal issues. I just want to know some of your favorite sad songs. I have my three picks below. I'd love to hear some others.

"Sometime Around Midnight" by The Airborne Toxic Event

This whole song... essentially a story about seeing the one you love... leaving and having fun with someone else.

"Black" by Pearl Jam

"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, can't it be mine?"

"The River" by Bruce Springsteen

Those two lines right near the end... "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true/Or is it something worse"

What are your picks?


DISCUSSION (16)


Kinja'd!!! Nibby > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 09:43

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I JUST WANT SOMETHING I CAN NEVER HAVE


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11/07/2014 at 09:51

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Kinja'd!!! Milky > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 09:54

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On principal I don't like too many sad songs, #JustBeHappyDuh. But this song in particular right now ….. dem feels.


Kinja'd!!! Imirrelephant > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 09:56

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Social Distortion always does it for me.


Kinja'd!!! MountainCommand > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 09:57

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That airborne toxic event song is pretty good actually. Ive got 3 off the top of my head.

civil twilight, quiet in my town

augustana, heart shaped gun

Coldplay, amsterdam (any coldplay song pre 08 is usually pretty sad anyways, amsterdam is a favorite sad song of mine)


Kinja'd!!! thebigbossyboss > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 09:58

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this song is my favourite sad song.


Kinja'd!!! Sweet Trav > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 10:02

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When you want to get depressed, Tom Waits is the best.

Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waits

A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun - Tom Waits

also

Alabama Pines by Jason Isbell and the 400 unit is a homesick sad song.


Kinja'd!!! ly2v8-Brian > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 10:17

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Clint Black Killin Time


Kinja'd!!! Land Ark > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 10:19

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My go to is "Waking Up Beside You" by Stabbing Westward

http://youtu.be/d0tnAoyVJh4


Kinja'd!!! ttyymmnn > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 10:27

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I used to listen to this when I was in a funk. Please don't feel the urge to drown yourself in a river, though.


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11/07/2014 at 10:33

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Beck's Sea Change. The entire album. It was recorded after Beck's longtime girlfriend/fiance cheated and left him. It's musically fantastic, and according to Wikipedia: "The recordings from Sea Change sessions include themes of heartbreak and desolation, solitude and loneliness" Sad enough for ya?

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Kinja'd!!! Mattbob > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 13:13

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that airborne toxic event song reminds me of this song for some reason


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11/07/2014 at 13:23

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I love sad music!

Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

Sheryl Crow - We Do What We Can

Jenny Rivera - Mirame

DyE - Fantasy (the video is serious nuts)

Deftones - Simple Man

The Cure - The Figurehead


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11/07/2014 at 14:27

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Awesome pick. I honestly forgot about this song. Didnt know many people liked him! I have three of his albums and this is one of my favorites by him. I love the acoustic guitar in a lot of his songs.

I can relate to this song a whole lot.


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11/07/2014 at 18:49

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Oh man, the river, that's one of my favorites. Always have also liked "smoke rings in the dark" by Gary Allan if you do the country-ish sorta thing


Kinja'd!!! davedave1111 > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
11/07/2014 at 20:07

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You don't need more sad songs, you need cheering up. It's Steinman time.

Now smile, you sad bastard.