I’m listening to Jacques Brel right now. What else y’all got for me? All genres and languages welcome.
I call random customer service phone lines and wait in line and then hang up after 30 seconds of listening to the saddest person on earth asking if I’m there or if I can hear them.
There is a bunch of melancholic songs but what that always comes to mind and I enjoy since I was a teenager is this 3 songs by Moby:
- Porcelain, the video clip is nothing special, just abstract.
- In this world, this is the saddest clip, the poor cute aliens.
- Why does my heart feel so bad?, The clip is cute and kinda sad.
I listened to all three. Number 3 is the saddest and cutest thing I ever seen. Thank you!
Edit: The sad little aliens are pretty relatable too
I am really happy you enjoyed :)
The sad little aliens are pretty relatable too
Right?
I didn’t know Jacques Brel by name but I when to check it out and the first YouTube suggestion was Ne me quittes pas and I recognize it, very sad and very beautiful indeed.
Portishead - Roads ( live version from the CD plz ) Carla Morrison - Dime Mentiras Sasha Sloan - The Only ( Two Lanes Remix )
I don’t , it’ll just make me cry harder and longer and that’s exhausting
Sigur Ros.
I loved Hvarf/Heim. Which studio album of theirs is your favorite? It’s really chill music.
Ágætis byrjun, Takk, and ( ) are my favorites. The older stuff is more my style.
Little girl blue, the version of Janis Joplin. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYHJ_A8qnXw
“Real Big Sky”, Emma Ruth Rundle: https://youtu.be/bspwpdTvaUw?si=SZISTfebS_bcYSO_
“For Everything a Reason”, Carina Round: https://youtu.be/AKqgE8z7PcA?si=R8g1MCLN4CYVG9
“A Singularity - Re-Imagined by Carina Round”, Puscifer: https://youtu.be/ORcrjdXD0Xk?si=-o6UL1CvWMxRiH95
“Moon”, All the Luck in the World: https://youtu.be/hLZpvWvNdZo?si=Q8pTTxOXFtycy9UG
“Dark Eyes”, All the Luck in the World: https://youtu.be/3sySciqN1x0?si=-TiXq3R6Dktwt-o
“Round Here”, The Counting Crows: https://youtu.be/SAe3sCIakXo?si=50YWhvz8mmPFzFx3
“Move Me”, Badflower: https://youtu.be/j2iM1mYuYD8?si=A3Ced8y-tyYL2WnF
“.haunted.”, Dead Poet Society: https://youtu.be/xYclMPNwy0E?si=oqm7ns4M7GDQM6gL
But if I’m being honest like 75% percent of what I listen to is sad. Lmk if anyone wants more.
Chon or Strawberry Girls. They are both upbeat, neat and will turn your teardrops sweet.
Both bands slap. I especially liked Agua Verde by Strawberry Girls. Thanks for the recommendation. I love prog music.
Mini Ripper by Strawberry Girls is my favorite. Also if you haven’t already checked 'em out: Thank You Scientist is a good prog rock band.
My go to when I’m suicidal is the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. It’s the perfect album when I need to feel okay with not being okay. Also gives my depression a name and a face that I can insult and yell at when my brain is being mean to me.
I love NIN, I have the album on CD. Pretty Hate Machine is still one of my all-time favorites. Probably a good time to listen to it again.
I reserve some wordless music for when my sadness gets critical. That way, they always sound bittersweet without me listening them to death.
- Lourié’s 5 Préludes Fragiles. Makes me feel aware of how easy I am to break at the moment, but also how pretty survivalism through fragility can be.
- Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. It’s not about a dead princess, just one in the past, but it makes me feel like I’m that princess, rich and sad and stepping around in a bright, cream-beige ballroom. Instead of just solely sad.
- Debussy’s Images. II. Hommage à Rameau. A quiet plaintiveness with occasionally rising energy helps me tend closer to neutrality.
- Stanchinsky’s Prelude in the Lydian Mode. As the n-tuplets get desperate, I get desperate to fix everything. But then the curses stop and we return to a pretty but occasionally sickly quiet. The nonsenses are pinpricks in its floral thoughts.
- Glinka/Balakirev’s The Lark. Reminds me that I’m fluttering, not just floundering.
In any order, but I usually start with the Fragile Preludes (especially the middle few of the set). Lyrical songs are usually for higher energy/mood to me
It depends, if I’m feeling cathartic then I’ll listen to something like Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In
If I want to feel better then Electric Callboy - We Got the Moves
If I want to get angry then Off With Their Heads - Clear The Air
Smog - The Well
or some Brad Sucks
Down down down my itchy, Red water by rehab
When I’m feeling what I can only describe as ‘general despair at the state of things’ (weltschmerz?) I have to admit that Babylon Zoo’s Spaceman does a great job in vocalising what I feel.
Oh, the tearjerkers:
Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham and Red Dirt Girl
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
So good, so sad, so cathartic.
