Barber - Adagio for Strings...double-sad if listened to in the context of Homeworld; they choir it up and you're essentially watching your home planet and most of your people burn while they attack the survivors in orbit. First time I've cried playing a video game *sniffle*
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train...not really too sad if you just listen to the song, but with the video, idunno, it's really sad.
Bill Broonzy - Black, Brown, and White...it's sort of a satire but, as they say, the truth hurts. Whenever I think of how prevalent--and legal!--discrimination was in this country (US), it really does make me sad.
JB Lenoir - Alabama Blues...different context today, but same state, same blues. Lenoir's voice is full-on blues here, just sad.
Michael Andrews - Mad World...just spooky sad. I mean if you want a song that displays the pointlessness of life, this is it.
The National - Mistaken for Strangers...I mean any The National song would do, the guy's voice is so sad.
Interpol - Rest my Chemistry...song about being tired and drugged out. I mean what's sadder, physically, than being tired? Not much. Also the whiny guitars and sad vocals just make
Oh, and of course, Andrew Jackson Jihad songs. These songs are my personal anthem:
- Self Esteem
- Evil
- A Song Dedicated to Stormy the Rabbit
Townes van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die
Old Crow Medicine Show - Methamphetamine
@SOedipus said:
Oh yeah! There's a bunch, but these come to mind immediately.
Black Gives Way to Blue - Alice in Chains
Nutshell - Alice in Chains
I am the Highway - Audioslave
Wasted Years - Cold
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Gone Away - The Offspring
Oh man, great selection. TBH I've been avoiding Alice in Chains post-Staley, but it's actually a good group.
Alice in Chains never made me cry but it always tends to put me into a sad mood, but a good sad. The kind of sad I need to be in to get out of my more legitimate sad.
I think a lot of those 90's and grunge artist just put me in a depressed mood in general.
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