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Tsunami · 9 Dec 2011, 03:42 AM

Since we're digging into music here, I thought this one deserves a topic (well, I am a clinically depressed but in all honesty, listening to sad music has helped me through some very rough times since it gives the feeling you're not on your own with your sadness. Also, very often a sad song if you pay attention well has a hopeful undertone somewhere, although this is not a default obviously)

Some good ones to start with:

So Slow - Sophia
Where are you now? - Sophia
Swept back - Sophia
Something - Sophia (yes, they're quite sad as a whole, their entire catalogue...)
The flower song - The God Machine
It's all over - The God Machine
In Bad Dreams - The God Machine
My Immortal - Evenascence (preferably the piano-only version)
Illusion - VNV Nation
The Grey Ship - EMA
There is a Light that never goes out - The Smiths
How soon is now? - The Smiths
Asleep - The Smiths
Nothing compares 2 U - Prince / Sinead O'Connor
I faught in a War - Belle & Sebastian
I'll stand by you - The Pretenders
Seven - The Connells
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (yes, I prefer the original, as much as I respect Johnny Cash but this it a NIN song)
Vienna - Ultravox
All we ever wanted (was everything) - Bauhaus
Burning from the inside - Bauhaus
Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure
Last Stop: this Town - Eels
Sometimes you can't make it on your own - U2
October - U2
All I want is you - U2
Still I'm sad - the Yardbirds
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Run - Snow Patrol
The Sparrows & The Nightingales - Wolfsheim
Heart & Shoulder - Heather Nova
A Place nearby - Lene Marlin
Disorder - Joy Division
Day of the Lords - Joy Division
The Church-bells & the Razor-blades - Silke Bischoff

I could have picked a long list of goth artists but often their melodrama is too much over the top, making it more absurd than a song that really moves you.

9 Dec 2011, 03:42 AM	#1
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,341	The sad music playlist Since we're digging into music here, I thought this one deserves a topic (well, I am a clinically depressed but in all honesty, listening to sad music has helped me through some very rough times since it gives the feeling you're not on your own with your sadness. Also, very often a sad song if you pay attention well has a hopeful undertone somewhere, although this is not a default obviously) Some good ones to start with: So Slow - Sophia Where are you now? - Sophia Swept back - Sophia Something - Sophia (yes, they're quite sad as a whole, their entire catalogue...) The flower song - The God Machine It's all over - The God Machine In Bad Dreams - The God Machine My Immortal - Evenascence (preferably the piano-only version) Illusion - VNV Nation The Grey Ship - EMA There is a Light that never goes out - The Smiths How soon is now? - The Smiths Asleep - The Smiths Nothing compares 2 U - Prince / Sinead O'Connor I faught in a War - Belle & Sebastian I'll stand by you - The Pretenders Seven - The Connells Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (yes, I prefer the original, as much as I respect Johnny Cash but this it a NIN song) Vienna - Ultravox All we ever wanted (was everything) - Bauhaus Burning from the inside - Bauhaus Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure Last Stop: this Town - Eels Sometimes you can't make it on your own - U2 October - U2 All I want is you - U2 Still I'm sad - the Yardbirds Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd Angie - The Rolling Stones Paranoid - Black Sabbath Run - Snow Patrol The Sparrows & The Nightingales - Wolfsheim Heart & Shoulder - Heather Nova A Place nearby - Lene Marlin Disorder - Joy Division Day of the Lords - Joy Division The Church-bells & the Razor-blades - Silke Bischoff I could have picked a long list of goth artists but often their melodrama is too much over the top, making it more absurd than a song that really moves you.