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edited February 27 in Chit-Chat
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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  • Posts: 10,740 Member
    Biko by Bloc Party

    Fade Into You by Mazzy Star

    Kyoto Song by The Cure
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    Gloomy Sunday (Marilyn Monroe version)
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    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
  • Posts: 4,553 Member
    *waits for someone to post, "Don't Worry, Be Happy"*
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Posts: 916 Member
    Journey....Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
  • 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.
  • Posts: 4,323 Member
    "nothing lasts for long" - the samples
  • Posts: 4,251 Member
    Most of Adele's songs.


    The Cure-Pictures of you
    Brad Paisly and some chick-Whiskey Lullaby
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    Dauoalogn- Sigur Rós ❤️
    Take me somewhere nice- Mogwai
  • Posts: 911 Member
    Everybody Hurts-REM
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    Falling Down Blue - Blue Rodeo
    Caruso - Various Artists, but Andrea Boccelli does a great rendition.
  • 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
  • Posts: 564 Member
    http://www.liketotally80s.com/80s-breakup-songs.html These make you feel all the feels.
    They hurt good.
  • 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
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    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"
  • 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
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    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.
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    The Airborne Toxic Event- Sometime Around Midnight
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Otherside
    Underoath- Some will seek forgivness, others escape
    Kid Cudi- All Alone
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    'having a bad day' Blue Flannel :blushing:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcRDTOZkG3M
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    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.
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    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 ...
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    I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

    Instant tear factory
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    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
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    jessie-Joshua Kadison
    Crucify-Tori Amos
    Putting The Damage on-Tori amos

    Most tori amos
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    Long Road- Patty Griffin
    Bad Timing- Blue Rodeo
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    you - keaton henson
    thirty three - smashing pumpkins
    the noose - a perfect circle
    say goodnight to the world - dax riggs
  • Posts: 38 Member
    OMG True colors by Cyndi Lauper. Only the intro to that song brings me to tears
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    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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