I love sad songs, who doesn’t??! 😀 There has actually been a recent study that showed that people that listen to sad songs feel better. I’ve been meaning to put together a song list of sad songs that I like, but I’ve put it off because I have so many songs and they range from childish pop to metal. I’ve decided to create several different sad music song lists so you can find songs that caters to that very particular sad feeling that you want to experience! Enjoy! I could go on forever adding songs (especially more Ingrid Michaelson songs) but it’s 11:15 pm and I got work tomorrow so I think this will just have to do.
I’m a shitty human being and I’m sad. This song list only has two song but the songs are so powerful that I deemed that two was enough.
Sad songs about love/relationships
Corner of your heart – Ingrid Michaelson
Famous Blue Raincoat – Leonard Cohen
Unsuffer Me – Lucinda Williams
To build a home – Cinematic Orchestra
We both go down together – The Decemberists
Sad songs that holds a promise of a better future:
Better son/daughter – Rilo Kiley
I’m weird and sad
Creep – Radiohead, of course. I know some people think it’s been done to death but its a good song.
Not a Pretty Girl – Ani DiFranco (It’s so much more than just a sad song but whatever, it’s great).
A powerful ache instead of a stab wound
I’ve flirted with you all my life – Vic Chesnutt
I see a darkness – Bonny Prince Billy
The trick is to keep breathing – Garbage
Letting the cables sleep – Bush
Existential sad songs/I don’t know what the fuck these songs are about but I like them-songlist
On an unknown beach – Peter Jefferies
Apathetic and/or depressed
Right where it belongs – Nine Inch Nails
Every day is exactly the same – Nine Inch Nails
Uninhabited Man – Richard Thompson
Sad and addicted-song list
Mosquito – Ingrid Michaelson (ALL THE INGRID SONGS! :D)
The drugs don’t work – The Verve
Loss – songlist
Casimir Pulaski Day – Sulfjan Stevens
Yankee Bayonet – The Decemberists
Padraic My Prince – Bright Eyes
Passing Afternoon – Iron & Wine
Empty chairs at empty tables – Les Miserables
Broken Bride – Ludo (The entire EP to be honest, not because it is sad but because it is AWESOME and I’ve loved it ever since I discovered it)
Lonelyness
Hope there’s someone – Anthony and the Johnsons
Everything beautiful is far away – Grandaddy
Hurt – Nine Inch Nails or Johnny Cash, both are very good in their own right.
Whew! I hope it’s true that listening to sad songs will make you feel better, otherwise I’m afraid for whoever listened to all the songs in this music post…
