give me the saddest music you know about. just miserable shit. real crybaby tunes. thanks.
I've had coworkers play Radiohead for literal hours at work. Constantly hearing that guy's whiny moaning definitely made me want to kill myself at times. That said, I absolutely despise Radiohead. Not because it's sad, but because it's truly mediocre music.
Listening to flaccid, slurred moans over the worst beat imaginable just isn't to my taste. At that point just go for Shoegaze. It's the same vibes, but better in every possible way.
Roadiohead guys, Tool guys, Mike Patton guys etc really need to get over themselves. You like mainstream rock thst is more artistic than other mainstream rock. Congrats 👏
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The entire 'Carrie and Lowell' album by Sufjan Stevens Posthumous Forgiveness by Tame Impala Mad World (Gary Jules) 'The Downward Spiral', entire album by Nine Inch Nails Someone else pointed out too, but the entire 'OK Computer' by Radiohead, specifically Paranoid Android, Exit Music (From a Film), and ofc, No Surprises, How to Disappear Completely, also by them Like a Stone by Audioslave, Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden The Eternal by Joy Division Suicide Season by BMTH Crown of Love by Arcade Fire I will follow you into the dark by Death Cab for Cutie Losing a Religion, Everybody Hurts (R.E.M) Whiskey Lullaby (Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley) Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan I am the Antichrist to you by Kishi Bashi Snuff, A Liar's Funeral (Slipknot) Adam's Song by Blink182 Crawling, In the end, Somewhere I belong, Papercut (Linkin Park) Forever and Always by Parachute
and lastly, if it gets too bad, my dms, by me
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Someone literally just showed me the Facundo Cabral version, I'm partial to it due to the added lyrics at the beginning. Fantastic song regardless, it's incredible that it was written on a dime while drunk. Do share if you have more trovador stuff. I'm ironically super alienated from music in spanish, despite it being my first language.
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Mostly just purely spiteful on its face, but there's definitely a lot of underlying sadness in there. Good for when you got a case of the bitters (though not likely to help get you out of it lol).
The Mountain Goats - No Children
Also more spiteful than weepy sad, but up there.
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Joanna Newsom - Cosmia
Written about a close friend of hers who died while she was touring.
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Literally the only song that’s made me cry.
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Phoebe Bridgers, likely something like Motion Sickness. She also has a song called You Missed my Heart from the same album Motion Sickness is on. I think it's melodramatic and overlong, but it might be what you're looking for.
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Mahler's 9th Symphony. It's four meditations on death. Leonard Bernstein did a great lecture on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5I7lYN5adU
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Dystopia- Stress Builds Character
Cyandie Scenari - Awayday to Aushwitz
The bads themselves are depressing as hell across all their material too
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The Way to Us by echoes of giants, especially the first part of the album is just super depressingly sad, while the middle portion is more melancholic, leading to a more hopeful ending.