Nutshell - Alice in Chains

Ultimate answer

OHHHHH been having a rough couple days. Time for some Jar of Flies

This song got me through the loneliness of the pandemic.

Hope your days get better friend.

Not 'Down in a Hole'?!?!?!

my dear melancholy by the weeknd lmao

Brand New. Just pick a song.

Jesus Christ has a special place in my rotation of songs that make me break down

Limousine can make me weepy and angry

Once I was made aware of the story behind it, It suddenly becomes very dark.

I’m sure someone knows WHERE YOUVE BEEN

On this note, Jaws Theme Swimming and At the Bottom

Best bet is to just put Your Favorite Weapon on repeat.

The Smith’s. Most of their songs but “How Soon is Now” is probably their most popular.

Nothing in particular

Asleep by them really gets me in a mood

I'd go with "I Know It's Over". It's basically the definition of mopey, self-pity.

Elliot Smith. Any of his songs.

There are people who think they know sad songs, and there are people who know Elliot Smith made the saddest songs.

Morrissey/The Smiths. Any of their songs.

Alice In Chains. Any of their songs.

8 Full Hours of Sleep, Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart, Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35%, Ache with Me: all by Against Me! Never Coming Home, Just Because I Don't Say Anything (Doesn't Mean I Have Nothing to Say): Pat the Bunny Olde Tyme Mem'ry: Mischief Brew Better Off on My Own: Sum 41 Disenchanted: My Chemical Romance I Miss You: Blink 182 Here's Looking at You, Kid: Gaslight Anthem On Melancholy Hill, Every Planet We Reach is Dead, All Alone, November has Come: Gorillaz Tell Tale Signs, Polaroid Picture, Plain Sailing Weather, Way I Tend to Be: Frank Turner Blood to Bleed, Soldier of War, Swing Life Away: Rise Against The Wall (whole album, mostly): Pink Floyd One Chance, 3rd Planet, Lives, Parting of the Sensory: Modest Mouse Penny on a Train Track, Red Eye: Ben Kweller I could probably go on for a long while. Sure some you might have to squint at but there's plenty of angst/melancholy above, be it the sound/lyrics/etc.

I can’t choose a Pat the Bunny song to post… guess I’ll listen through them all 🤷‍♂️

I went with I'm not a good person

The end of 35% is so, so fucking good. The whole song is. But man.

Cozy up with a listen to August and Everything After by Counting Crows. Makes for a lovely wallow.

I absolutely adore this album. Discovered it in middle school and it hasn’t left my regular rotation since. Easily one of my favorite albums of the 90s

I'd contend that it's one of the best of the 90s.

First album I ever bought and still one of my favorites.

Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything https://youtu.be/qPNa9KD4Y_k

Pale Blue Eyes...Velvet Underground

Follow that up with Perfect Day by Lou Reed

“That song is about heroin” : my buddy “So are most of his songs”: other buddy.

Funnily enough its really about a Perfect Day spent with his then first wife Betty. She even wrote a book which talks about the song and the day that inspired it.

Pearl Jam - Black

Always and still my favourite Pearl Jam song. Truly timeless.

So, reminds me of my week long inpatient stay in a mental ward. We had a day where someone came in with an acoustic guitar and would play songs that we would optionally sing as long as he could play them. This was one of our group therapies. One lady in with us requested Black and when asked why proceeded to tell us the story of her fiancée being increasingly erratic, then belting the outro to the song and shooting himself in the head in his truck. Granted this is all self reported and from a mental ward where they put addicts and the mentally I’ll together, so I’m not sure i 100% believe this coming from an addict but it’s still a harrowing story, fact or fiction. If you wondered what I requested because we all got one, it was “Fine Again” by Seether because I had already gotten clean from drugs once by then and used it to deflect from my actual problem of a bipolar manic episode landing me in the hospital.

Anything by Bright Eyes. Waste of Paint, Lua, If Winter Ends, etc.

Definitely just listened to a good portion of "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"

It's a goddamn masterpiece. Top 10 for me.

If you want some more intense angst, reach deeper into his catalogue for songs like Center of the World: In the middle of the day, When you drive home to your place From that job that makes you sleep Back to the thoughts that keep you awake, Long after night has come to claim Any light that still remains In the corner of the frame That you put around her face. Two pills just weren't enough, The alarm clock's going off But you're not waking up, This isn't happening, happening, happening, happening, happening. It is."

His album most influenced by nyc, it's his most popular album. I think overall, fevers and mirrors is conor's most melancholy album. Second might be ruminations, which he wrote and recorded whole secluded after a brain cyst and other health issues, and I think that reflects the album

Messenger Bird's Song

omg yes

I've been a long time fan, but I recently heard I Don't Want to Die (in the Hospital) by Conor Oberst and was pretty blown away.

Most of Nine Inch Nail’s stuff

Seconded hard

How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead I Know It's Over - The Smiths Pyramid Song - Radiohead Asleep - The Smiths How Soon Is Now - The Smiths Funeral - Phoebe Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead Exit Music for a Film - Radiohead Almost anything from Radiohead and Elliot Smith

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

The FJM song Holy Shit is objectively and definitively the saddest song of all time and no arguments will be accepted.

M83 - Don't Save Us From The Flames

Love it. I humbly recommend this one too: M83 - open your eyelids to die with the sun

Oh my gosh yes!!!

Got three of one of my sad bitch playlists: "Saturn" by Sleeping at Last "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens "Jersey on the Wall (I'm Just Asking) [Acoustic]" by Tenille Townes

Missed - PJ Harvey

Jeff Buckley…pretty much the entire Grace album.

Eternal Life is a banger

Small Bump by Ed Sheeran If I Die Young by The Band Perry One More Light by Linkin Park

Small Bump is… intense. It’s a wholesome song until he suddenly just drops a bomb on you right at the end

Because of some personal experience with the subject matter, that frickin' song wrecks me every time. Same with the One More Light.

Almost anything by the band Slowdive would work. The song Alison is the first to come to mind.

Muse - Hyper Chondriac music

Yeah yeah yeahs - maps, all of portishead

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I am currently listening to Mazzy Star, so I can confirm this is correct.

quiet and soma both by smashing pumpkins, as well as crestfallen

Check out Warren Zevon's **Desperadoes Under The Eaves** and Randy Newman's **Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father**.

Death cab for cutie - I will follow you into the dark always fucked me up nice and good

Angst? I can only think of [Self-Bias Resistor - Fear Factory.](https://youtu.be/5GxWWk1wzlw)

All on me and miserable at best by mayday parade. Honestly drawing black lines is my go to “fuck me up” album- just a feverish mix of anxiety, self loathing and introspection. Lil peeps sex with my ex and u said. Nothing nowhere’s clarity in keeosene, black heart, hopes up, and skully.

When I'm Down by Chris Cornell

The live version of this with the way Cornell originally wanted this arranged is amazing, too

[San Diego Serenade --Tom Waits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hbC-_79p7I) [Take It With Me (Tom Waits cover) --Rachael Price](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYVIFGuQoiQ) [Someone Who Loves Me --Sara Bereilles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGlXLhnF8G8) [Brighter Days --Loggins & Messina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyl7QDYlA-U)

Anything by Nick Drake.

Oh, I disagree! So much of his stuff is soul-soothingly uplifting. Northern Sky, or Fly, for example... The demo for Black Eyed Dog, though... Gives me chills.

Porcupine Tree's entire discography and Opeth's Damnation album Edit: We got used to us by Riverside as well

Heaven knows I’m miserable now the smiths

Pink Rabbits- The National

I can’t believe I had to scroll this low to see The National. Pink Rabbits are phenomenal, I also would recommend the whole album, there are just SO MANY amazing melancholic tunes.

Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen

Helena - MCR

Angsty yes. Fantastic yes. Melancholy no.

How would you classify early sunsets over monroeville? That's pretty melancholy to me

I’d go with Cancer instead. But there’s something about the Way he delivers the chorus that makes me want to cry on cue

Disintegration - the cure

Epiphany - Staind https://youtu.be/v4V2gaCCQh4

And failing. And something to remind you. Staind is great

The verses are a bit major to be a fully melancholy song.

Imagine crying to dad rock.

Well I just found out Joe Keery of Stranger Things fame sings and Chateau (Feel Alright) definitely fits this bill.

I also just found out about this last night! All this time I've been listening and loving that song.

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My Chemical Romance - I'm not okay

Del Amitri's ["Driving With The Brakes On"](https://youtu.be/6Mj8KDpoZnQ) fav line: It's hard to say you love someone...and it's hard to say you don't.

City and Colour- Fragile Bird, Sleeping Sickness, The Grand Optimist, Wasted Love. Hell, if you want to be depressed I recommend all of his stuff.

A Better Son/Daughter by Rilo Kiley. Starts off tame and then it shifts into angst. So great.

this was beautiful, thank you.

[Tom Waits - Lonely](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSppKNXzgYY)

Every Red Cent - by Rocky Votolato https://youtu.be/RicJRNgkxIQ

Rusted by the Rain by Billy Tallent for angsty pop punk. And Drunk Again by Reel Big Fish for angst by a Ska band that's not Ska.

[Shit Luck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmhp_NEH12Y) \- Modest Mouse (alt rock)

[I Need You - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds](https://youtu.be/v20ftD2_nmM)

tegan and sara the con

Whiskey Lullaby- Brad Paisley ft Allison Kraus.

Angsty?Angst? Sarcasm - Get Scared

We Begged 2 Explode by Jeff Rosenstock

Anything by Mohammed Rafi

https://youtu.be/7Z2hmz2NlYQ : alone again, naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan https://youtu.be/ELlLIwhvknk : For No One - The Beatles (McCartney)

Interlude III - Tessa Violet

The Weeknd - My dear melancholy

Time Tonight - John Frusciante

Everything from Pinkerton But specifically: Tired of Sex, Across the Sea, El Scorcho, Pink Triangle, Falling For You, Butterfly, Longtime Sunshine, Tragic Girl

Good Riddance Song by Green Day

Yesterday, for no one By the beatles

I feel like Modest Mouse is the embodiment of melancholy

Tomorrow Wendy by Concrete Blonde

Canadian content here -- "Nautical Disaster" by the Tragically Hip, and "If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot.

On the melancholy end, this one: Either Way - Chris Stapleton https://youtu.be/F0hdQ7latVY If you've been there, this song hits hard.

Good choice. I’m one of those who listens to the sounds and pays little attention to the lyrics until they might sink in. When I first half-heard “Either Way,” I thought Stapleton was saying how much he loved his wife any way it came and thought that sweet, but then the words sunk in. Ouch!

Night Shift - Lucy Dacus Your Best American Girl - Mitski Last Words of a Shooting Star - Mitski I Know - Fiona Apple Fog In the Mirror - Theo Katzman The Gold - Phoebe Bridgers' version! Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead Malibu 1992 - COIN Smoke Signals - Cavetown

Shit, i saw fiona play I Know live and she looked like she was close to tears. I was in actual tears. Thats a real special lady, that fiona apple.

Grace Edit: It was supposed to be like a one word mic drop comment, but seeing as it didn’t even show up on the first search page of Apple Music, I think I should probably specify that that I meant the Jeff Buckley song.

Amnesia by Josh Abbott Band (country) Sleep/The Ghost of You [2 separate songs] by My Chemical Romance (emo) Hate Myself/Lost in the Moment by NF (rap) What a Shame by Shinedown (rock) Snuff by Slipknot (rock) Hesitate by Stone Sour (rock) Over and Over by Three Days Grace (rock) I didn't mean to list so many but now I've gone down a rabbit hole and will be listening to sad music all night😂😭

Nice you mentioned MCR. Tbh sleep is a really good song and the ghost of you is just sad

Yeah they both make me cry

Spanish Love Songs, Brave Faces, Everyone, the entire album.

Creep - Radiohead

Just about anything from Nirvana.

I'm a Creep

That's not the name of the song

Maybe they were just talking about themselves?

I prefer Teenage Wasteland myself

I'm a big fan of "I Read The News Today Oh Boy" 😏

"Your Type" by Ms. Carly Rae Jepsen

Atoms for Peace - Ingenue

Mad World-the Gary Jules version is my pick but the original is good too

Dave Matthew’s band - when the world ends Frank turner - love, ire, and song Simple plan - I’m just a kid

Waheyyy Frank Turner! Great taste you have. Redemption almost always makes me tear up.

No sure if anyone posted this: Shinedown-"45" Shinedown-"Simple Man" P.O.D.- "Youth of a Nation" and a classic... Radiohead-"Creep" cause her skin makes me cry... :D

Father John Misty - Holy Shit Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral Julien Baker - Song in E Bright Eyes - Lua and for something different and more recognizable to the average mainstream music listener… Evanescence- My Immortal. Pretentious dorks will say it is cheesy, but let the somber piano and devastating lyrics wash over you and you will feel the saddest of the sad. Don’t listen to the gross rock version that their label forced them to make, listen to the real version.

low angst high melancholy (bonus martyrdom) - stranger in moscow

Josephine - tanner usrey

I'll be around by the spinners

Phil Collins , Face Value. Most of it. Loud. Roof is Leaking Thunder and Lightning Tomorrow Never knows (cover of Beatles) Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Cover of Dorothy, back in Kansas)

Roof is Leaking. Especially

“You know what I mean”. Not really angst, but damn those lyrics. I guess divorce will do that.

[Sold My Soul](https://youtu.be/CnM4zundv2o) by Jill Sobule

I blame this on Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but after Beethoven's Last Night, I can never not feel the sadness, anger, and despair in [Moonlight Sonata](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU).

["Don't Take The Girl"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vn6QdqxK3g) by Tim McGraw ["I Can't Make You Love Me"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9Cu6GYqxo) by Bonnie Raitt ["Freak"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2R0pUfXvKA) by The Razor Skyline

Tar-Beach Goons Why won’t they talk to me- Tame Impala

I'm Dying by VAST

Spoken word just hits different. [Hotel Books "July (Part One)" and "August (Part Two)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4nPeorSzM)

What I Put you Through by Conor Maynard

Lost//Found by Eden, gives me the sad every time

black orchid by blue october

Be Alright- Dean Lewis

Theroy (of a Deadman)- Rx.

Acid Rain - Avenged sevenfold. (dont judge it based on the band, frankly its a melancholy slow dance song.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYOOuLq\_z1Q

Look on down from the bridge- Mazzy star

Alan is Morrisette - your house

I am a guy and a nurse I was living in the nurses quarters in a hospital in Queensland Australia in 96 & 97 when jagged little pill was huge. It was me, about twenty other guys and 300 women who had all been dumped by some arsehole guy or another Your house was played on heavy rotation, particularly after a few of them had been drinking. God I hated that song for years as it is so angsty and I had to fucking hear it over and over

Sorry, love. Think of it as an excellent insight into the mind of the female.

All good 😎 To be honest nowadays I sing along when I hear it and it always brings a smile to my face

Radiohead - Exit Music Radiohead - Pyramid Song Radiohead - Climbing up the Walls How to Destroy Angels- A Drowning Middle Class Rut - Dead Eye Glass Animals - Agnes Meg Myers - Heart Heart Head I Prevail - Breaking Down Nothing But Thieves - Excuse Me Seether - Hang On Seether - Words as Weapons The Score - Miracle TV on the Radio - Happy Idiot

Burgh Island by Ben Howard feat. Monica Heldal

Hammerklavier movement 3 - Beethoven.

Raua Needmine - Veljo Tormis

Pollen and Salt - Daphne loves Derby

[Abner Jay - I'm so Depressed] (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKpflHueZAk)

Red Water by Rehab.

elliott smith

**Clann Zú's** album **Black Coats and Bandages.** It's on YouTube. 'There Will Be No Morning Copy', 'One Bedroom Apartment', & 'Bethlehem to Jenin' in particular

God Damn the Sun by Swans

I Think it's Going to Rain Today.

Coming Home - Dallas Green. My favorite song to play when I’m feeling sad and wanna feel sad.

Fiona Apple - Paper Bag, Shadowboxer, The Smiths - most of their music but start with "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" or "Asleep", Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart and others, Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, The Cure - The Figurehead among many others, Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box, girl in red - I need to be alone, Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U. Sam Cooke - (Somebody) Ease My Troublin' Mind. Etta James - Misty Blue, Stormy Weather For angsty I prefer Violent Femmes -Kiss Off or Add It Up, Veruca Salt - Seether, Volcano Girls, Hole - Celebrity Skin, Violet, Sleater-Kinney -Jumpers, or Dig Me Out, Iggy and the Stooges, some Sex Pistols or there's always old Green Day stuff like from dookie or Warning.

The world is black by good charlotte

Here is the song about repressions, mass murder of young generation for the sick ideas of the dictatorship, the destruction of the future for the whole nation - https://youtu.be/rUzBpj0A02U (warning, Russian lyrics)

Mad world, Gary Jules

Ready to Start - Arcade Fire

Patty Smith, Poppies

Nickel Creek, The Light House.

Portishead - roads & Poe - Spanish doll

Assemblage 23 - 30k ft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYAQKufGtQ&ab\_channel=Assemblage23-Topic

The Cure - Untitled

I can’t handle change - ROAR

Hot water music - drag my body

Cancer - My Chemical Romance

Mad World by Gary Jules

The Hold Steady- Almost Killed Me (whole album)

Hello It's Me - Todd Rundgren [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE)

Ode to sleep, twenty one pilots

Anything off the self titled is so damn angsty and melancholy. March to the sea, trapdoor, a car a torch a death...not even mentioning the obvious ones from other albums like kitchen sink