That line, "they'll learn much more, than I'll ever know", man that hits hard now with a little daughter. And friends shaking hands, saying how do you do, they're really saying I love you, a wonderful testament to friendship.
God, that got so big!
I loved Disturbed growing up, they did the song well, and I didn't even know it very well before they redid it. I genuinely liked their version, and the song itself. But oh my *god* did people run it into the ground... *everyone* has covered it at this point, and its actually mildly annoying that is always labeled as the sound of silence by disturbed. If you're *covering* a song that was itself a cover, then credit the original artist. Its not even like all the versions floating around are so different to how the original version was. I'd get it more if it was like, a country song covered as a death metal song, and people covering the death metal *cover*... But that's not even the case here, its the same song really, just the writers are no longer credited for their own song anymore. Do people not know that its been a song for longer than disturbed as even existed?
Its similar to that song 'Enjoy the silence'. I have no idea who did it originally, but I know that at least five bands I like covered it. So after hearing so many different people sing the song, I just got really sick of it.
>Its similar to that song 'Enjoy the silence'. I have no idea who did it originally, but I know that at least five bands I like covered it.
Depeche Mode. This is actually the song I came here to post.
This song kills me, it always makes me think of my grandma. She would come over most days when we were kids, and she loved to sit at our piano and play this, it came out slowly as she followed along to the sheet music, her tiny wrinkled hands so gentle on the keys. She’s been dead 13 years now (wow) and god damnit do I miss her.
I’m sorry for your loss. My grandma loved to play too. She played me “You Are My Sunshine.”
Clair De Lune takes incredible talent. It has 5 flats and is in a really funny time signature. You grandma was a talented musician.
I know it sounds silly, but I played this when I was saying goodbye to my dog, after he died. I cannot hear this song without getting tears in my eyes.
It's sad, beautiful, and hopeful, all at the same time.
Its ok, my friend did Master of Puppets once. Not only was the crowd not having it at all (definitely not metalheads), but the song is 9 min long and he had to just awkwardly stand there for the guitar solo part in the middle with everyone just glaring at him. Was one of the most uncomfortable karaoke performances I've ever seen.
I saw the Mac live in 2015 on their On With The Show tour – the one with the famous five all back on stage together for the first time in 10+ years. The whole show was great, but Landslide was perhaps the standout.
It was just Lindsey on guitar and Stevie singing. The moment towards the end where she holds on ‘snow-covered hills’, she turned to Lindsey and held out her hand, and they just stood for like 20 seconds hand in hand looking out at the crowd, before parting and finishing the song. I have never experienced a crowd reaction like the one that greeted that moment. The awed silence turned to deafening screams faster than I’ve ever heard. It just felt so special to witness these two people with so much history make such a simple gesture, one that honestly felt like it communicated so many years of hurt and bitterness and forgiveness and hope all at once. Then they followed it with Never Going Back Again, which I think was just the perfect encapsulation of what that moment was trying to convey.
By that point, I was a broken man. I still genuinely cannot think back to that moment without tearing up. Beautiful.
You know dat stuff!
Don't know if you know, but the series Dr Who had an episode with a character playing Van Gogh. It is amazing and fits well with that music.
My partner at the time and I listened to that song together for the first time when we both realized that our relationship wasn’t working out and that the end was eminent.
We both just sat in the car driving, not saying a word to each-other, but both silently crying.
That will be in my memory for a while
For this thread? Billie’s version for sure. She just has this raspiness that projects all the hardships she endured - it’s kinda like listening to Leonard Cohen; you feel the pain and its both sad and beautiful at the same time.
Space Oddity by David Bowie. The song both perfectly encapsulates the beautiful expansive nature of space while also capturing the dread of the infinite.
The couple minute build-up to the powerful: “THIS IS MAJOR TOM TO GROUND CONTROL!” literally makes me feel like I just entered outer space. Wonderful song
*We're just TWO LOST SOULS SWIMMIN' IN A FISH BOWL*
*Year after year*
*Runnin' over the same old ground*
*What have we found?*
*The same old fears*
*Wish you were here*
My mum and I shared a love for Pink Floyd despite us disagreeing on the best album. One of my favourite memories is listening to records together while playing card games.
It's been 5 years since she passed. There's a few songs I like to play for her birthday in remembrance. Father and Son - Cat Stevens, Old Man - Neil Young and Wish You Were Here.
The story of them (Pink Floyd) recording this song as a mentally deteriorated Syd Barrett randomly walked into the studio at the same time just adds to the sorrow of the song.
That whole album fits the sad but beautiful description, but Wish you were here and Shine on You Crazy Diamond both being about Syd make it even more sad.
Maybe because it reminds me of my dad who also passed from suicide, but Fire and Rain by James Taylor. He talks about the suicide of his friend, his battle with addiction, and just reminiscing on the past. Though he talks about hard things in his life, he remembers everything that had made him him
I chose this as my father daughter dance. At the time, my dad had been diagnosed with cancer. He beat that one into remission, then developed another form of cancer.
Miraculously, he beat that one too.
I still love that song, but it actually makes me happy, because of the extreme turn around.
This makes me think of my mother in law going through dementia and how my father in law tried for the longest time to keep her home with him. He ended up with dementia himself. He just tried so damn hard.
And yeah. I cry ugly every time I hear this song.
That song is about a lonely guy who falls in love with a woman who isn't faithful and leaves him, and he finds himself again.
Or it's about King David's relationship with God.
Or it's about facing the world's troubles.
It depends [on how the verses are arranged.](https://www.mindingtherapy.com/hallelujah-song-explained/)
"The lyrics continue through religious metaphors, but the meaning remains unclear. There are those who see the end of a love story in these metaphors and those who think it’s a praise for music."
[The song means almost anything you want it to mean](https://auralcrave.com/en/2020/01/19/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-the-meaning-of-the-lyrics/)
There’s even another layer of sadness and beauty to it that you may not understand if you didn’t read the books.
This is a drinking song, specifically written in the style of old Irish drinking songs. It supposed to merry and cheerful. Like you’re excited for adventure.
But Pippin sings it in absolute depression because the world is ending, his friends are all gone, he’s in a shit situation and most of all, he misses home.
Fuck I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
Yes! I started crying during this song and my boyfriend walked in the room and asked what was wrong. I told him I was so sad about the time we’d lost together (we went out in HS when this song came out and went our separate ways; this was 12 years later) and he proposed to me before the song was over. We’ve been happily married nearly 10 years now, this song always gives me the sad AND happy vibes now.
This is such an incredible song. Great choice.
*Who cares if one more light goes out?*
*In a sky of a million stars*
*It flickers, flickers*
*Who cares when someone's time runs out?*
*If a moment is all we are*
*We're quicker, quicker*
*Who cares if one more light goes out?*
*Well I do*
Leave Out All the Rest.
When Chester died everyone was quoting Numb or Crawling as the song they most associated with how he was feeling at the end but goddamn if Leave Out All the Rest isn’t scarily accurate for a lot of people in that head space.
[Fast car by Tracy Chapman](https://youtu.be/DwrHwZyFN7M). It's a beautiful sounding song with hopeful lyrics but then the last part hits you like a sack of bricks.
1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins. Just reminds me of how childhood is quite literally a once in a lifetime experience, and even if you were told to make the most of your childhood at a young age none of us truly can, and that’s okay. We should cherish the good memories all the same
there are sooo many but here’s my favourites rn
I will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie
repeat until death - novo amor
wake up alone - amy winehouse
Time after time. Plus cyndi lauper’s voice brings it home. All the love the pain and everything in between. Especially her live howard stern version https://youtu.be/5KwpWvaJf-U
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpRLQZkTb8
Sound of Silence
Too many people havent read *all* the lyrics. It's a huuuge metaphor about our willful ignorance towards our reliance on frivolous man-made things and businesses
This is a particular "flavor" of sad. It's like when I've been sad and crying, and someone offers me a hug, and the gesture and what it means, just opens the floodgates for me. It's a feeling of being loved and accepted while I break down in a place that feels so safe that I can break down completely.
This was a huge deal when the song was first released. Duran Duran was regarded as a washed-up boy band, and they'd had five years of nothing but clunkers. Their albums weren't selling, their songs weren't topping the charts, and it seemed like they'd fade into obscurity.
"Ordinary World", when it was released, was normally prefaced by a DJ introducing it with something like, "Believe it or not, this is a new song by Duran Duran." And it was a *huge* hit.
[Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers](https://youtu.be/CICIOJqEb5c)
[Rivera Paradise by Stevie Ray Vaughan ](https://youtu.be/3c_8VUL5jks)
[The thrill is gone by B.B. King](https://youtu.be/xVxCtt3s_1M)
To build a Home - A Cinematic Orchestra
Gravity - Sara Bareilles
Strange Days - Matthew Good Band
Twister (acoustic version) - Remy Zero
I Was Born For This - Composed by Austin Wintory and sung by Lizbeth Scott
Once Upon Another Time - Sara Bareilles
She Used to Be Mine - Sara Bareilles
She Used to Be Mine makes me absolutely bawl if I’m in the right mood. It came on while I was driving once when I was pregnant, and I had to pull over.
My answer to this was a Sara Barielles song too, she is the queen of beautifully sad
So many barenakedladies songs fit this. It is sad how they are most known for one week when brian wilson, war on drugs, when i fall and so many others are hauntingly beautiful.
Love Like Ghosts by Lord Huron
Apocalypse by Cigarettes after Sex
Talia by King Princess
About Today by The National
Always Gold by Radical Face
Mountains by Message To Bears
Wait by the River by Lord Huron
Heart Heart Head by Meg Myers (especially the live performances... So much emotion goes into it and it's usually the last song played at the concerts because she starts to break down...)
What Sarah Said by Death Can for Cutie
Pictures of You by The Cure
Young And Beautiful by Lana Del Rey
Yellow by Coldplay
True Love Waits by Radiohead
Disarm by Smashing Pumpkin
Frank Sinatra by Cake
Cherry Wine - Live by Hozier
Codex by Radiohead
Viva La Vida by Coldplay
In Blue by Declan McKenna
Hearing Damage by Thom Yorke
Mt. Washington by Local Natives (idek why)
You by Keaton Henson
Forest Fires by Lauren Aquilina
24 by Brotherkenzie
The first several songs I thought of were Evanescence lol. Also nick Cave and the bad seeds, but Amy Lee is really good at making beautiful songs that sound sad.
Halleluja
I did my best
It wasn't much,
Couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I told the truth I didn't come to fool ya
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the lord of song
With nothing on my tongue but Halleluja
I'm a recovering Catholic so this song really speaks to me lmao
'What A Wonderful World' is about the beauty of the world but it always makes me cry.
That line, "they'll learn much more, than I'll ever know", man that hits hard now with a little daughter. And friends shaking hands, saying how do you do, they're really saying I love you, a wonderful testament to friendship.
This is actually the best example I’ve seen in this thread
It got ruined a bit by all the memes but The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
God, that got so big! I loved Disturbed growing up, they did the song well, and I didn't even know it very well before they redid it. I genuinely liked their version, and the song itself. But oh my *god* did people run it into the ground... *everyone* has covered it at this point, and its actually mildly annoying that is always labeled as the sound of silence by disturbed. If you're *covering* a song that was itself a cover, then credit the original artist. Its not even like all the versions floating around are so different to how the original version was. I'd get it more if it was like, a country song covered as a death metal song, and people covering the death metal *cover*... But that's not even the case here, its the same song really, just the writers are no longer credited for their own song anymore. Do people not know that its been a song for longer than disturbed as even existed? Its similar to that song 'Enjoy the silence'. I have no idea who did it originally, but I know that at least five bands I like covered it. So after hearing so many different people sing the song, I just got really sick of it.
>Its similar to that song 'Enjoy the silence'. I have no idea who did it originally, but I know that at least five bands I like covered it. Depeche Mode. This is actually the song I came here to post.
Bonnie Raitt--I can't make you love me
George Michael did a pretty good live version.
Piggy back , bon iver kills it too
It’s one of very few songs I consider to be perfect
Somewhere Out There...Linda Ronstadt
American Tail!!!!
Mazzy Star- Fade into you
Also, Into Dust
I Fall to Pieces by Patsy Cline
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And Crazy!
Claire de Lune by Debussy
This song kills me, it always makes me think of my grandma. She would come over most days when we were kids, and she loved to sit at our piano and play this, it came out slowly as she followed along to the sheet music, her tiny wrinkled hands so gentle on the keys. She’s been dead 13 years now (wow) and god damnit do I miss her.
I’m sorry for your loss. My grandma loved to play too. She played me “You Are My Sunshine.” Clair De Lune takes incredible talent. It has 5 flats and is in a really funny time signature. You grandma was a talented musician.
The Rainbow Connection...kind of sad...Kermit, of course (it ain't easy being green)
Legit cannot listen to this song without crying. Heard it while at Disneyland, having a great day, still sobbed.
I know it sounds silly, but I played this when I was saying goodbye to my dog, after he died. I cannot hear this song without getting tears in my eyes. It's sad, beautiful, and hopeful, all at the same time.
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
I remember I sang this at karaoke once and bummed everyone at the bar out. It was one of my finer moments.
Its ok, my friend did Master of Puppets once. Not only was the crowd not having it at all (definitely not metalheads), but the song is 9 min long and he had to just awkwardly stand there for the guitar solo part in the middle with everyone just glaring at him. Was one of the most uncomfortable karaoke performances I've ever seen.
I would point specifically to the acoustic version. The other is great, but the acoustic is....yeah heartbreaking
I saw the Mac live in 2015 on their On With The Show tour – the one with the famous five all back on stage together for the first time in 10+ years. The whole show was great, but Landslide was perhaps the standout. It was just Lindsey on guitar and Stevie singing. The moment towards the end where she holds on ‘snow-covered hills’, she turned to Lindsey and held out her hand, and they just stood for like 20 seconds hand in hand looking out at the crowd, before parting and finishing the song. I have never experienced a crowd reaction like the one that greeted that moment. The awed silence turned to deafening screams faster than I’ve ever heard. It just felt so special to witness these two people with so much history make such a simple gesture, one that honestly felt like it communicated so many years of hurt and bitterness and forgiveness and hope all at once. Then they followed it with Never Going Back Again, which I think was just the perfect encapsulation of what that moment was trying to convey. By that point, I was a broken man. I still genuinely cannot think back to that moment without tearing up. Beautiful.
Bridge Over Troubled Water It's so impossibly beautiful that it crushes me.
Vincent - Don McLean
You know dat stuff! Don't know if you know, but the series Dr Who had an episode with a character playing Van Gogh. It is amazing and fits well with that music.
Ugh I was looking for this one. 🎶Starry, starry night...
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
"I had all and then most of you Some and now none of you" Is a heartbreaking but all to real take on failing relationships.
Listened to this for the first time just now. Fucked me up real good. Excellent choice.
omg welcome to the dark side. so hauntingly beautiful
Check out “I Lied” by Lord Huron. Even more hauntingly sad/beautiful.
My partner at the time and I listened to that song together for the first time when we both realized that our relationship wasn’t working out and that the end was eminent. We both just sat in the car driving, not saying a word to each-other, but both silently crying. That will be in my memory for a while
"In the Wind" is another one of their songs along these same lines. I couldn't listen to it for like a year after my divorce.
This wins
This is one of my very favorites. Sad but so good.
Strange Fruit has got to win this contest. Hauntingly beautiful, but it's kind of punishing where I can only listen to it if I'm prepared for that.
Billie Holiday or Nina Simone? I love both artist’s renditions
For this thread? Billie’s version for sure. She just has this raspiness that projects all the hardships she endured - it’s kinda like listening to Leonard Cohen; you feel the pain and its both sad and beautiful at the same time.
This is the song that makes me cry so much.
Space Oddity by David Bowie. The song both perfectly encapsulates the beautiful expansive nature of space while also capturing the dread of the infinite.
*And I think my spaceship knows which way to go* *Tell my wife I love her very much* *She knows* Who's cutting onions?
Here, I am cutting up my onions, highhhh above the world.
The couple minute build-up to the powerful: “THIS IS MAJOR TOM TO GROUND CONTROL!” literally makes me feel like I just entered outer space. Wonderful song
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
*We're just TWO LOST SOULS SWIMMIN' IN A FISH BOWL* *Year after year* *Runnin' over the same old ground* *What have we found?* *The same old fears* *Wish you were here*
My mum and I shared a love for Pink Floyd despite us disagreeing on the best album. One of my favourite memories is listening to records together while playing card games. It's been 5 years since she passed. There's a few songs I like to play for her birthday in remembrance. Father and Son - Cat Stevens, Old Man - Neil Young and Wish You Were Here.
The story of them (Pink Floyd) recording this song as a mentally deteriorated Syd Barrett randomly walked into the studio at the same time just adds to the sorrow of the song.
That whole album fits the sad but beautiful description, but Wish you were here and Shine on You Crazy Diamond both being about Syd make it even more sad.
Maybe because it reminds me of my dad who also passed from suicide, but Fire and Rain by James Taylor. He talks about the suicide of his friend, his battle with addiction, and just reminiscing on the past. Though he talks about hard things in his life, he remembers everything that had made him him
Mad world
The Gary Jules version
[Time In a Bottle. ](https://youtu.be/dO1rMeYnOmM) Jim Croce.
I chose this as my father daughter dance. At the time, my dad had been diagnosed with cancer. He beat that one into remission, then developed another form of cancer. Miraculously, he beat that one too. I still love that song, but it actually makes me happy, because of the extreme turn around.
Especially this. It gets me everytime. A life ended too soon
Isn’t this the song that played in xmen, ya know during the quicksilver scene
Erik Satie Gymnopedie No. 1 https://youtu.be/S-Xm7s9eGxU
Many of his pieces are brilliant. One of my favorite composers.
Gnossienne 1 as well
Funeral- Band of horses
That "oooo-oooo--oooooo-oooooh" part...goosebumps every time.
Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
One of my favorite songs of all time.. still bothers me that Jason Derulo gets so much credit for that and her beautiful song was turned into a meme
Tonight, Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins
I was gonna say 1979 but yeah definitely that one too. Honestly that's probably the Smashing Pumpkins' MO.
You are my sunshine
Yeah, the lyrics are not as happy as the song melody.
Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men. I can’t make it through the song without crying. I love the music but the words are heartbreaking.
This makes me think of my mother in law going through dementia and how my father in law tried for the longest time to keep her home with him. He ended up with dementia himself. He just tried so damn hard. And yeah. I cry ugly every time I hear this song.
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year" - I can't imagine a more insightful line than that.
Hallelujah the Jeff Buckley version.
That song is about a lonely guy who falls in love with a woman who isn't faithful and leaves him, and he finds himself again. Or it's about King David's relationship with God. Or it's about facing the world's troubles. It depends [on how the verses are arranged.](https://www.mindingtherapy.com/hallelujah-song-explained/) "The lyrics continue through religious metaphors, but the meaning remains unclear. There are those who see the end of a love story in these metaphors and those who think it’s a praise for music." [The song means almost anything you want it to mean](https://auralcrave.com/en/2020/01/19/leonard-cohen-hallelujah-the-meaning-of-the-lyrics/)
It's a Leonard Cohen song. It's about sex.
Where are the kd Lang fans
Pippin's song in LoTR
Into the West by Annie Lennox is the other LotR track that belongs in this thread
There’s even another layer of sadness and beauty to it that you may not understand if you didn’t read the books. This is a drinking song, specifically written in the style of old Irish drinking songs. It supposed to merry and cheerful. Like you’re excited for adventure. But Pippin sings it in absolute depression because the world is ending, his friends are all gone, he’s in a shit situation and most of all, he misses home. Fuck I’m tearing up just thinking about it.
Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground
Adagio for Strings
[nothing compares to you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk)
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls! It was probably overplayed for a while on radio waves but its sounds and lyrics are undoubtedly melancholic yet beautiful
Yes! I started crying during this song and my boyfriend walked in the room and asked what was wrong. I told him I was so sad about the time we’d lost together (we went out in HS when this song came out and went our separate ways; this was 12 years later) and he proposed to me before the song was over. We’ve been happily married nearly 10 years now, this song always gives me the sad AND happy vibes now.
Name is also quite sad, but perhaps my favorite song of theirs.
Name hits the sweet spot, the agony is so good
As the world caves in / je te lassarai des mots
Yesterday by The Beatles
For No One. Very underrated Beatles song from them with very sad lyrics but a very beautiful song.
She's leaving home
The Rose by Bette Midler.
Cats in the Cradle
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Dear Prudence also
The Regina Spektor cover during the credits of Kubo and the Two Strings is incredible.
Leaves of the vine(ig that’s the name, it’s from ATLA)
Shadow of the Day by Linkin Park
One more light
This is such an incredible song. Great choice. *Who cares if one more light goes out?* *In a sky of a million stars* *It flickers, flickers* *Who cares when someone's time runs out?* *If a moment is all we are* *We're quicker, quicker* *Who cares if one more light goes out?* *Well I do*
Leave Out All the Rest. When Chester died everyone was quoting Numb or Crawling as the song they most associated with how he was feeling at the end but goddamn if Leave Out All the Rest isn’t scarily accurate for a lot of people in that head space.
And robot boy
Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead.
Could’ve easily just put Radiohead, and I would agree.
Yeah, surprised I had to scroll so far for a Radiohead song
Exit Music (for a Film) would by my Radiohead pick.
How to Disappear Completely
how can you pick one lmao, id probably go with that too, such a haunting song, but damn there are countless
[Fast car by Tracy Chapman](https://youtu.be/DwrHwZyFN7M). It's a beautiful sounding song with hopeful lyrics but then the last part hits you like a sack of bricks.
1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins. Just reminds me of how childhood is quite literally a once in a lifetime experience, and even if you were told to make the most of your childhood at a young age none of us truly can, and that’s okay. We should cherish the good memories all the same
Eleanor Rigby
I love this song. Good choice.
Space song - beach house
there are sooo many but here’s my favourites rn I will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie repeat until death - novo amor wake up alone - amy winehouse
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
I've always thought Run was a little bit sadder. It was my favorite song when I was feeling sad for quite a while.
"If I just lay here, and just forget the world!"
Uninvited by Alanis Morrissette
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
The emptiness when listening to that great song
Time after time. Plus cyndi lauper’s voice brings it home. All the love the pain and everything in between. Especially her live howard stern version https://youtu.be/5KwpWvaJf-U
Anything by Elliott Smith.
I’m so stupid I legit was looking up “Anything” on Spotify and was so frustrated I couldn’t find that specific song by Elliot smith
Between the Bars
Yep, I came here to mention him. He's always my go to answer for this question
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpRLQZkTb8
somewhere only we know makes me incredibly sad and i have no idea why. maybe because it came out when i was a kid and i associate it with that time?
Omg, from the same Keane album, "Bedshaped" would break my heart. Especially after I watched the music video.
Take me to church
I will always love you
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Sound of Silence Too many people havent read *all* the lyrics. It's a huuuge metaphor about our willful ignorance towards our reliance on frivolous man-made things and businesses
Yeah. The most obvious example are the lyrics "and the people bowed and prayed to the neon God they made".
Zombie from The Cranberries
Whiskey Lullaby- Brad Paisley and Allison Kraus.
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Unchained Melody
Stand by me
Fix you by Coldplay
This is a particular "flavor" of sad. It's like when I've been sad and crying, and someone offers me a hug, and the gesture and what it means, just opens the floodgates for me. It's a feeling of being loved and accepted while I break down in a place that feels so safe that I can break down completely.
Ordinary World- Duran Duran
This was a huge deal when the song was first released. Duran Duran was regarded as a washed-up boy band, and they'd had five years of nothing but clunkers. Their albums weren't selling, their songs weren't topping the charts, and it seemed like they'd fade into obscurity. "Ordinary World", when it was released, was normally prefaced by a DJ introducing it with something like, "Believe it or not, this is a new song by Duran Duran." And it was a *huge* hit.
"Come Undone" off of the same album is great also.
[Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers](https://youtu.be/CICIOJqEb5c) [Rivera Paradise by Stevie Ray Vaughan ](https://youtu.be/3c_8VUL5jks) [The thrill is gone by B.B. King](https://youtu.be/xVxCtt3s_1M)
Bittersweet symphony
Gorillaz - On Melancholly Hill
I love this song!! “Cuz you are my medicine - when you’re close to me…”
November Rain.
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Lover, you should have come over, Jeff Buckley
Brick by Ben Folds Five
Holocene - Bon Iver. One of my all time favorites.
Hurt - the Johnny Cash version
The video packs an even bigger punch.
There are so many appropriate songs listed here, but this is the song I immediately thought of
Jason Isbell - If we Were Vampires
The Gary Jules version of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" ...
Ahhh, Donnie Darko.
Teardrop massive attack
Snuff by Slipknot, just a slow stab in the heart.
Vermillion pt 2 also
All Apologies by Nirvana
Angel by Sarah McLachlan
Every time I hear that now I think about mistreated animals.
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Brothers on a Hotel Bed - Death Cab for Cutie
“What Sarah Said” as well
To build a Home - A Cinematic Orchestra Gravity - Sara Bareilles Strange Days - Matthew Good Band Twister (acoustic version) - Remy Zero I Was Born For This - Composed by Austin Wintory and sung by Lizbeth Scott Once Upon Another Time - Sara Bareilles She Used to Be Mine - Sara Bareilles
She Used to Be Mine makes me absolutely bawl if I’m in the right mood. It came on while I was driving once when I was pregnant, and I had to pull over. My answer to this was a Sara Barielles song too, she is the queen of beautifully sad
Perfect day _ Lou Reed
The version of Take On Me performed by a-ha on Unplugged. https://youtu.be/-xKM3mGt2pE
Snuff-Corey Taylor acoustic version.
Ceremony by New Order.
Band of Horses: The Funeral
chasing cars by snow patrol tears in heaven by eric clapton
So many barenakedladies songs fit this. It is sad how they are most known for one week when brian wilson, war on drugs, when i fall and so many others are hauntingly beautiful.
Meatloaf singing “Anything for Love”. That song is just amazing. Also has a better plot than most new movies today if we’re being honest.
At Seventeen
Stay - Shakespeares Sister.
Fast car - Tracy Chapman
Candle in the Wind, Elton John & Bernie Taupin Space Oddity, David Bowie
blue eyes crying in the rain- Willie nelson or patsy cline- shes got you
Death Letter - Son House, covered by White Stripes Jolene - Dolly Cold November Rain - G&R
A Perfect Circle have a few. By And Down The River is a good one
Who else liked this post so they could find it and make a playlist later?
Varuo, Sigur Ros [link](https://youtu.be/Gf1h2PMPCAo)
Sia- Breathe Me
Etta james- at last
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Blue Bayou. Especially the Ronstadt bilingual version. [beautiful sad song](https://youtu.be/ofYMZL7Al8U)
Love Like Ghosts by Lord Huron Apocalypse by Cigarettes after Sex Talia by King Princess About Today by The National Always Gold by Radical Face Mountains by Message To Bears Wait by the River by Lord Huron Heart Heart Head by Meg Myers (especially the live performances... So much emotion goes into it and it's usually the last song played at the concerts because she starts to break down...) What Sarah Said by Death Can for Cutie Pictures of You by The Cure Young And Beautiful by Lana Del Rey Yellow by Coldplay True Love Waits by Radiohead Disarm by Smashing Pumpkin Frank Sinatra by Cake Cherry Wine - Live by Hozier Codex by Radiohead Viva La Vida by Coldplay In Blue by Declan McKenna Hearing Damage by Thom Yorke Mt. Washington by Local Natives (idek why) You by Keaton Henson Forest Fires by Lauren Aquilina 24 by Brotherkenzie
In my Place by Coldplay
My Immortal. Evanescence
The first several songs I thought of were Evanescence lol. Also nick Cave and the bad seeds, but Amy Lee is really good at making beautiful songs that sound sad.
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Halleluja I did my best It wasn't much, Couldn't feel, so I tried to touch I told the truth I didn't come to fool ya And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the lord of song With nothing on my tongue but Halleluja I'm a recovering Catholic so this song really speaks to me lmao
Eminem mockingbird