Songs for a "sad" play list

MSeel1984
MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
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I'm looking for music that I'd want to listen to if I'm having a bad day but don't really want to be cheered up. Sometimes it feels good to cry it out and just face our feelings without trying to tell ourselves everything is ok.
Because sometimes everything isn't ok...

Any song suggestions? No heavy metal/hard rock, etc, please.
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  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Biko by Bloc Party

    Fade Into You by Mazzy Star

    Kyoto Song by The Cure
  • Veil5577
    Veil5577 Posts: 868 Member
    Gloomy Sunday (Marilyn Monroe version)
  • sinker59
    sinker59 Posts: 130
    Love Hurts - Nazareth
    Love Stinks - J Geils Band
    Jolene - Dolly Parton
    Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
    Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd
    Hurt -Johnny Cash
    Happy Birthday To You - Various
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
    *waits for someone to post, "Don't Worry, Be Happy"*
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
    Stay With Me - Sam Smith
    Yellow - Coldplay
    Cry For You - Jodeci
    Can't Get You Off My Mind - Lenny Kravitz
  • gym_king_carlie
    gym_king_carlie Posts: 528 Member
    the lyrics to this song nearly brought me to tears only a month or so ago, made me well up because I related to it.

    Pop Evil - Somebody like you.
  • DBoone85
    DBoone85 Posts: 916 Member
    Journey....Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
  • MSeel1984
    MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
    Great suggestions, guys...

    Something very therapeutic about listening to songs that match your mood and just letting yourself cry/let it out. I appreciate your contribution.
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    "nothing lasts for long" - the samples
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    Most of Adele's songs.


    The Cure-Pictures of you
    Brad Paisly and some chick-Whiskey Lullaby
  • Ansie13
    Ansie13 Posts: 86
    Dauoalogn- Sigur Rós ❤️
    Take me somewhere nice- Mogwai
  • catneon
    catneon Posts: 911 Member
    Everybody Hurts-REM
  • Derp_Diggler
    Derp_Diggler Posts: 1,456 Member
    Falling Down Blue - Blue Rodeo
    Caruso - Various Artists, but Andrea Boccelli does a great rendition.
  • Erin_goBrahScience
    Erin_goBrahScience Posts: 1,215 Member
    Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
    Stars - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
    Can't Cry Hard Enough - Williams Brothers
    I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
    Brick - Ben Folds Five
    Positive - Marry Me Jane
  • aledba
    aledba Posts: 564 Member
    http://www.liketotally80s.com/80s-breakup-songs.html These make you feel all the feels.
    They hurt good.
  • sassyjae21
    sassyjae21 Posts: 1,217 Member
    Mad World- Gary Jules
    Nothing Compares to you- Sinead o conner
    Stranger in Moscow - Michael Jackson
    Let it Die- fiest
    Play Dead- Bjork
    Sullen Girl- Fiona Apple
    Traveling Woman- Bats for Lashes
    Details in the Fabric - Jason Mraz

    Oh I could go on for days...that's like, all I listen to.

    what the hell is wrong with me. lol
  • _Emma_Problema_
    _Emma_Problema_ Posts: 261 Member
    My go to is Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt"

    Also:
    Anthony and the Johnsons "Hope There's Someone"
    Arcade Fire "My Body is a Cage"
    Ben Folds "Brick"
    Sia "Breathe Me"
  • scrapjen
    scrapjen Posts: 387 Member
    I used to have a playlist like that, then my Itunes burped and deleted all my playlists :(
    I still remember some favorites though ...

    "Say Something" A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera ... something so melancholy about that one
    "Gravity" Sarah Barielles
    "Keep Breathing" Ingrid Michelson
    "Deliver Me" Sarah Brightman
    "The Fear You Won't Fall" Joshua Radin
    "Falling Slowly" (mine was one from an American Idol performance, not sure if it's still available)
    "Never Enough" Rebecca Lavelle
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I taped this song on the day my daughter was born;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-IZ6yUXgIo

    It's on cassette. I am going to give it to her when she marries. She'll be 21 in October.
  • Mikkimeow
    Mikkimeow Posts: 1,282 Member
    The Airborne Toxic Event- Sometime Around Midnight
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Otherside
    Underoath- Some will seek forgivness, others escape
    Kid Cudi- All Alone
  • hookilau
    hookilau Posts: 3,134 Member
    'having a bad day' Blue Flannel :blushing:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcRDTOZkG3M
  • csuhar
    csuhar Posts: 779 Member
    I know I've got more somewhere, but four songs that come to my mind are:

    1) "Is it Real" from Cowboy Bebop
    2) "Sadness and Sorrow" from Naruto
    3) "Pride" from Jin-Roh: the Wolf Brigade
    4) the theme from Schindler's list.

    Yes, they're all from movies or anime, but I think that's why they stand out to me. These pieces were intended to elicit somber, melancholy emotions.

    Getting away from the movie / TV soundtracks, there's also:
    1) Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
    2) The first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"

    ETA: various forms of Blues can also have a cathartic effect.
  • cccoursey
    cccoursey Posts: 116 Member
    What affects each of us is different because of our personal experiences. To me the ones that make me sad are the things now lost to me.... things that will never return to how they were before. Leading to the lifting of tangible heavy things. Since a heavy heart isn't easily moved.

    Crying - Roy Orbison
    Broken Crown - Mumford & Sons
    Wipe your eyes - Maroon 5
    Mad World - Tear for Fears
    When I look at you - Miley Cyrus
    Arms wide open - Creed
    Set Fire to the Rain - Adele
    All of me - John Legend
    Bleeding out/Demons - Imagine Dragons

    too many but far less than my Spotify ...
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

    Instant tear factory
  • heylookitsval
    heylookitsval Posts: 1,141 Member
    Snow Patrol- Run
    Amos Lee- Careless
    Amos Lee- Colors
    One direction- More than this (don't judge me :D)
    Morgan Taylor Reid- The Greener side
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    jessie-Joshua Kadison
    Crucify-Tori Amos
    Putting The Damage on-Tori amos

    Most tori amos
  • AmandaLY17
    AmandaLY17 Posts: 184 Member
    Long Road- Patty Griffin
    Bad Timing- Blue Rodeo
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    you - keaton henson
    thirty three - smashing pumpkins
    the noose - a perfect circle
    say goodnight to the world - dax riggs
  • IHeart90s
    IHeart90s Posts: 38 Member
    OMG True colors by Cyndi Lauper. Only the intro to that song brings me to tears
  • aerochic42
    aerochic42 Posts: 843 Member
    five for fighting -superman
    stonesour - through glass
    staind - can't remember the song name but it's on the break the cycle album
    brad paisley & allison kraus or Dolly Parton (both versions are good) - whiskey lullaby

    i know there are more that get me everytime and some of these are more metal/ hard rock but still good songs.

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