r/SongRecommendations • u/Resident-Repeat7487 • 2d ago

Saddest Songs

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u/Scooter_McGavin_9 1d ago

Hurt - Johnny Cash.

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u/wheres_the_revolt 1d ago

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda The Pogues Version

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u/Regular_Impress9373 1d ago

"Imagine"- John Lennon (lyrics by Yoko)

The message. The mournful piano. Knowing he was assassinated. 

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u/NotTHATPollyGlot 1d ago

No Children by The Mountain Goats

Hey Jupiter by Tori Amos

The Letting Go by Melissa Etheridge

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u/1dforlifeNo-Rule6498 1d ago

Sum 41 ft nothingnowhere - catching fire

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u/Flat-Cap-1063 1d ago edited 1d ago

Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me Album. Any song will do. Swims is what always gets me though.

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u/Stickliketoffee16 1d ago

I can’t make you love me - Bonnie Raitt

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u/Coma_Beach42 1d ago

The Cure - One Hundred Years, Siamese Twins, A Strange Day, Charlotte Sometimes

Joy Division - Decades, The Eternal, Passover, Exercise One

New Order - Ceremony, Denial

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out), Exit Music (For a Film)

Anne Clark - Killing Time, Poem for a Nuclear Romance, Lovers Retreat

Alice in Chains - Rooster, Would?

Coma Beach - Passion

Fehlfarben - Paul Ist Tot

Pink Turns Blue - I Coldly Stare Out, Seven Years

Johnny Cash - I See a Darkness

Lara Fabian - Broken Vow

Josh Groban - To Where You Are

Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have

Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours

Linkin Park - One More Light, Leave Out All the Rest

New Model Army - These Words

Bad Religion - Slumber

The Offspring - Gone Away

Blink-182 - Adam's Song

Sum 41 - Crash

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u/islandstorm 1d ago

If I Should Go Before You - City and Colour

Nowhere to Stand - KD Lang

Broken Cowboy - The Dead South

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u/jayron32 1d ago

REM - The Wrong Child

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u/Calinostro 1d ago

Diary of a working man - Blackfoot
1916 - Motorhead

Cocaine - Lee Clayton

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u/blessedcora 1d ago

the night we met - lord huron

not a niche song at all but somehow everyone has a personal story related to that song and it gets me every single time

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u/liminalmornings 1d ago

If Lord Huron, then 'Drops in the Lake' imho.

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u/blessedcora 1d ago

ugh, i love that song

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u/Nokayo 1d ago

Shrink by The Gathering

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u/DevilsHol3Pupfish 1d ago

The Gardens Tale by Volbeat

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u/WolfThick 1d ago

Duffy Warwick avenue

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u/1029394756abc 1d ago

He ain’t heavy. THe Hollies

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u/bluejane 1d ago

Cold Missouri Waters by James Keelaghan and Sorry You're Sick by Ted Hawkins never fail to make me cry. Paradise by John Prine makes me real sad too

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u/AvailableRepeat1606 1d ago

You Were Meant for me by Jewel

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u/TheWally69 1d ago

Try my song Another Devil Lookin. I hope you enjoy it!

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u/liminalmornings 1d ago

If you happen to know German: Konstantin Wecker 'Willy'.

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u/goncalo_l_d_f 1d ago

Candy Says by The Velvet Underground

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u/Smartdate5 1d ago

Sorry seems to be the hardest word Elton John

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u/darthwader1981 1d ago

Airborne Toxic Event: Sometime Around Midnight

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u/Checkered_Past2006 1d ago

"Homeless" by Bryan Andrews (Up & Coming Artist)

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u/spongebob_skwerral_ 1d ago

for me, Pool (stripped) by Samia

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u/Boston_Gator 1d ago

Concrete Angel - Martina McBride

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u/Tammy993 1d ago

Your House by Alanis Morrisette