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give me the saddest music you know about. just miserable shit. real crybaby tunes. thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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 πŸ‘

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Alice by Tom Waits is some real "cry into your whiskey" shit

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mitski is great for this. Here’s a good one:
I Bet on Losing Dogs

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/UOAfA5SDq50?si=IH5GtLHAw9nhdrsz

Joanna Newsom - Cosmia

Written about a close friend of hers who died while she was touring.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - vs Children

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Shellac - Prayer to God

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Burial and Lusine are pretty depressing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Mark bearns, cranes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/IoNEeKJ2x44

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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.

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Blacks - xiu xiu
Apistat commander - xiu xiu

Similar themes, sad songs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Child We Lost 1963 by La Dispute.

Edward Benz, 27 Times (also by La Dispute) is about an elderly man who’s stabbed by his schizophrenic son. Just reading the name of the song makes me start choking up.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The Drones - Why Write a Letter That You'll Never Send is the only thing that has actually strongly emotionally resonated with me (cw: suicide). Also, I guess, the entirety of Doopee Time, but for different less obvious reasons.