[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 10 - An alternative song that makes you SAD 😢
[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 10 - An alternative song that makes you SAD 😢
DAY 10 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING!!!
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
Sufjan Stevens "The Only Thing"
The entire Carrie & Lowell album, really. I won't lie, that song in particular has made me tear up a few times. It's about the death of a loved one (his mother in this case).
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
From the first time I heard this song up until today it just hits my emotions completely. Now to go sad cry on Saturday!
Here's some alternative hip hop that might make you cry
Thanks for this. "Puppets" was also one of my better finds recently.
Atmosphere has a lot of good songs. The Waitress is another good one from the same album.
Here’s one I’d forgotten about. This live version is really nice (slow starter)
Crippled Black Phoenix - Burnt Reynolds
Sputnik by Smile.
It starts out about Laika, the dog that the USSR sent into space and died, and goes downhill from there.
They seem to be a relatively unknown band, but if you like it, try "Staring at the Sun" for something not so downer.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hRYeC9mjFK2nrm6guHAM0?si=sD0HrcxyQuuIDVbBxBTvfg
Phil Elverum from The Microphones and Mount Eerie lost his wife to cancer and then wrote an album about it called A Crow Looked at Me. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Here's the opener from the album.
There's plenty of sad songs in this thread but this is the "this isn't cathartic it's just devastating" kind of sad that can only come from real, deep, somber, visceral pain
Cavetown really hits that a lot for me, but this song has made me so listening to the album because I can't stop thinking about past pets.
As a side note, you should listen to Lemon Boy from the same album.
Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters, "Boneyard".
I had trouble finding something recent, but this works, I think, just older.
Chris Bell - I am the cosmos
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
"I'm not here.
This isn't happening."
Keaton Henson makes some beautiful somber music
Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day and for the same reason. I miss you, Dad. Nine years.
Bear's Den - Pompeii
This version, specifically.This one is an old, sad favorite of ours: Katy Song - Red House Painters
This one always gets me, double so with the video.
Massive Attack - Live With Me (2006)
oh it's gotta be "Forever" by Bruderschaft (featuring vocals by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBugs8pgtK0This song is uncompromisingly beautiful: a poem of love and dedication from a son to a dying father.
Here are five, though they get slightly more mainstream as you go down the list.
- "I'm So Tired" by Fugazi
- "How to Disappear Completely" by Radiohead
- "Summer Skin" by Death Cab for Cutie, or maybe just the whole album, Plans.
- "21 Guns" by Green Day
- "Adam's Song" by blink-182
EDIT: I'm trying to fix the links. Gimme a sec.
EDIT 2: Here are the music videos and fan lyric videos. I'm giving up on Beatbump, HyperPipe, and YT Music.
grandson - Heather Hits me right in the feels every time.
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
Ugh! Yes. Their cover. Woof! Gets ya good.
Sad musics' my jam! Enjoy being down in the dumps today
Edit the Sad Parts - Modest Mouse
Indie rock
Folk, noise
Indie rock, folk
TW: Rape, abuse, religious trauma
Appalachian, avant garde, noise
Twenty Four Hours - Joy Division
Post punk
Screamo
To a Husband at War - I Hate Myself
Emo
You have a awesome username
Elliott Smith - Everything means nothing to me
Brother Ali - "All You Need", TW: child abuse
The Roots - "Return to Innocence Lost", TW: domestic abuse, rape, other violence
Hurray for the Riff Raff - "Fourteen Floors"
Bonus, same idea but more angry than sad, Open Mike Eagle - "My Auntie's Building"
Sorry to punch you all in the gut.
The Arcade Fire's Haiti
https://youtu.be/tGvpUgo7ayY Controversies with members of the band aside, this song makes me cry every time. I have no connection to Haiti but the poignant vocals really pulls at your heart strings and makes you mourn for a lost homeland. The French lines really help too.
I have an AF song too that used to get me so emotional about my daughters - but I couldn’t remember the title yesterday. A line about “if I had a daughter”, maybe from Suburbs??? But yeah, the song is in me now.