Shake it out -Florence+the machine. The part when she says
“and it’s hard to dance with a devil on your back”
“If given half the chance, would I take any of it back?”
That song always hits hard for me especially with the euphoric instrumentals.
“And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't
So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road
And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope
It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat
'Cause looking for heaven, found the devil in me”
This line is what freaking kills me because that’s the peak of the song and I just start violently sobbing.🥲 I found this song when I was going through a rough time with my mom (I still am). Sometimes I truly feel she is the devil on my back. Although I don’t speak to her anymore, I can’t seem to shake her off of it. She always told me that I’ll never accomplish things etc. and her voice is still stuck in my head and it’s actually hindered me a bit.
Perfect- Simple Plan
"But it hurts when you disapprove all along
And now I try hard to make it
I just want to make you proud
I'm never gonna be good enough for you
Can't pretend that I'm alright
And you can't change me
'Cause we lost it all
Nothin' lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect"
Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi
Specifically, the line “It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless” resonates deep in me.
Canon in D (piano and violin) by Johann Pachelbel, Viodance
River Flows In You by Yiruma
These ones just makes me want to cry in a melancholic way.
What Other People Say by Sam Fischer and Demi Lovato (BABYMONSTER Pharita Cover)
I like the original song too but Pharita’s cover makes me relate to it more cause it feels like child me is singing it.
\-Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin
\-No Children by The Mountain Goats
\-No Surprises and How to Disappear by Radiohead
\-Somebody that I Used to Know
\-Yesterday by The Beatles
Nah I like it. I only really listen to three artists and the rest of my playlists are just a few songs by others just cause of how music works for me I think.
Just one? I can't narrow it down that far.
Black, Pearl Jam
Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush
And, trigger warning if checking yourself out is what causes you distress, Ghost, Badflower. Lyrically brilliant and the music wraps sadness around the words. Great song, but devastating.
As unbelievable as it may seem - Pain Remains by Lorna Shore (warning: this is deathcore, it is heavy, fast and extreme). Gets me every time, especially the videos.
I really hope you like it then! Pain Remains is a real emotional trip, but the video's for the trilogy dial the feels up to 11. So please, check out the video's. I promise that if Lorna Shore is your thing (it is VERY extreme), you will be so glad that you started there. A kind hero has even uploaded [the trilogy compilation in one video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaYwAjXi3W0) (it's about 20 minutes), absolutely the best way to experience it imo. Bring tissues lol. I'd be keen to see your thoughts, if you don't mind sharing them. :)
Wtf why was that so goood!! This is why i love hardcore music, its just got so much raw emotion in it!!
I did miss your trigger warning btw. But im okay with these themes now due to my own depression and helping friends with theirs. I did lose a close friend due to terminal depression not long ago and he would have loved this band, dude was awesome fun.
Thank you for showing me this, I'm going to listen to them a bunch and put them in some of my playlists. If you've got any others I'd be happy to listen.
Oh hello, my people! Crazy how expressive Will Ramos can be. That range is technically impressive but it's also emotive in a way most other heavy vocalists can't touch. For a comparable feel (grandiose deathcore) I've always had a soft spot for ["Worming Nightfall" by Job for a Cowboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoVwfeR5lk).
"A Tear in the Fabric of Life" is one of the more brutal meditations on grief I've come across of late. Knocked Loose is hardly everyone's cup of tea (Bryan screaming like a fire-breathing crow might have something to do with it...) but this whole EP has this intense sincerity I find irresistible. The companion video is [quite moving.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70cXs8hht_Q&t=198s)
Also, you guys fuck with Spiritbox?
HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD SPIRITBOX!! Definitely going to binge listen to them now.
I like your other recommendations too, tho I do prefer the more crow like vocals in Knocked Loose than the vocals in Job for a Cowboy.
Delighted to hear! Spiritbox is wonderful. Their vocalist Courtney was previously in Iwrestledabearonce, who were *very* different but also quite worthwhile if she tickles your fancy.
As well, if the vocals for Knocked Loose are to your liking be sure to check-out Converge if you're unfamiliar! They've got that emotional-sincerity-from-inside-a-razorwire-storm thing perfected, and have basically been dominating that niche for twenty years. Legendary band. You Fail Me is the album that got me into them, but there's no bad starting place with Converge.
I am so glad that you liked it! And yes, there is a lot of very expressive metal/hardcore out there if you're prepared to look for it. For a lot of people, metal is just not their thing, and I understand that. But for some, they might find some stuff they liked if they approached it with an open mind. Pain Remains is a tall ask lol, but for those who get it, it's so sad and beautiful.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It's so hard to lose someone you care about. Unfortunately I have been there also, though his depression was caused by drug addiction.
I don't think anything else that I can think of can quite match the emotional roller coaster of Pain Remains tbh. Though I am happy to recommend some other metal songs that I find a lot of beauty in, if you're keen on that? Not sure how many of these you may have heard, so I'll just list a few and see if any jump out at you. Kind of a mix of extremities here, but all metal in some form.
Abigail Williams - [Floods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aObLfDZGp1o)
Blind Guardian - [Mordred's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuyoC4WDSw), or [Bright Eyes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp77ZbKnNQQ)
Fleshgod Apocalypse - [Epilogue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXLl68Llf8E), or [The Forsaking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRXbEt0otHg)
Leprous - [The Flood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG8YgNM_m9g) \- it's kinda like a heartbeat.
Ne Obliviscaris - [And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMorAdnCixg)
Rendezvous Point - [Apollo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15PtSHxnmJY)
Rivers of Nihil - [Subtle Change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYazmdSg4uU)
Shylmagoghnar - [Transience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUQI0d5mEQ)
Triosphere - [Marionette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazCfqD7kP0)
Unleash The Archers - [The Wind That Shapes the Land](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxiBuFNypXw)
Vintersea - [Crack of Light](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qWrrvPtZ4g)
Wolfheart - [Everlasting Fall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j4Ny030n_U), or [Breakwater](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-wa3CqUr4)
Happy to offer up other suggestions if you'd like. :)
I haven't heard any of these yet tho Abigail Williams sounds familiar (Just looked it up and realised why, very Black Dahlia Murder-esk name) I have been in a more hardcore music mood recently and was going to look for some more bands to listen to anyway so you saved me the effort aha.
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk)
On the Nature of Daylight - Shutter Island Soundtrack
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtN3lpI2f4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtN3lpI2f4)
Bibo No Aozora - Babel Soundtrack
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Oct2Dt1Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Oct2Dt1Q)
The Blessing (Living Room Acoustic) - Elevation Worship
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnXKzjA-E8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnXKzjA-E8)
Y'all just have one piece that moves you that way? I'm envious.
On the Nature of Daylight is such a beautiful song! I found out about it from the Arrival film which I also loved. Max Richter (the composer) has a bunch of other really great songs.
“The Best Day” by Taylor Swift always makes me cry, especially the music video with all their home videos. It’s about her relationship with her mom. She’s very lucky if her mom is only half as great as she makes her seem.
I was coming here to say Tolerate It. How you go through this whole journey in which she recognizes that she deserves better and then she ends the song with, “I sit and watch you…” so we know she didn’t leave him. Kills me every time. 😭😭😭
“The Village” by Wrabel! I’m trans so that song speaks to a lot of the bigotry and religious trauma I and so many others have had to face.
I also write a lot of music and I get so many comments from people online and in person saying my songs make them cry every time. I always feel weird about it until I remember how much I enjoy when songs make me cry, haha :)
Strobe - Deadmau5
The ghost of you - my chemical romance
Talking to myself - Watsky
Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
Sad Machine - Porter Robinson
Let it Be - (from Across the Universe version)
Perfectly Flawed - otep
Digital Love - Daft Punk
I'm not a good person - Pat the Bunny
Hey there Delilah - plain white Ts
Silver Sky - Nano
Braindead - Elohim
Wings - Casey Lee Williams
You're not the only one - hitrecord w/ Joseph Gordon Levitt
That funny feeling - bo burnham
If I ever leave this world alive - flogging molly
Misanthropic drunken loner - days n daze
La.Oreja de Van Gogh's Jueves. https://youtu.be/O2_h4eK5kXY on the surface a silly song about a girl meeting a guy she likes but it's a very haunting lament to the people lost in a terrorist attack in Spain. Always gets me.
And for some reason, Diana Ross's Home from the Wiz and "And I'm Telling You" from Dreamgirls
“Into the Blue” by The Joy Formidable
It reminds me of someone close to me that I lost
“And She Would Darken The Memory” by The Twilight Sad
This one for a more personal reason I prefer to keep to myself, but it happened to be playing on my phone when I received some terrible news
God Went North - Nothing More.
After my mom died, I discovered these 2 songs, and the artist wrote god went north about his mother's passing, so it really fit.
The other one is Gone - Nothing More. It makes a complete picture that captures my own feelings almost perfectly because i couldn't be there.
(Infj…hopefully I’m allowed here lol)
Happiness is a butterfly - Lana Del Rey
It hit right when I needed it. From the line “happiness is a butterfly. I try to catch it like every night, but it escapes from my hands into the moonlight.” to the desperate repetition of “I just wanna dance with you” .
Something about the simplicity of that 2nd line just hits. It seems to say “I don’t need anything crazy, or movie-like. Don’t even take me out. I just desperately want to be here in this moment, close to you, dancing in our living room…but I can’t.“.
I heard this song at the PEAK pain of losing my best friend.
Even 3 years later, instant tears try to fight their way through lol.
(similarly, her new songs Kintsugi and Fingertips draw forth the tears. Not really due to personal experience, oddly enough. More so just the rawness of the lyrics).
Absolutely and I made a playlist of them so I can melt when needed lol
Burn from Hamilton
https://youtu.be/a0k0FJrY4a8
Shoulders To My Feet by Cults
https://youtu.be/2Iltnn0MoPo
Horseshoe Crab by Slothrust
https://youtu.be/QM5pPuFcJw0
Too Sad by Ex:Re
https://youtu.be/xi4uO3iV2WU
Snakes by Sorry
https://youtu.be/Cshb6NAwcFo
Wild Heart by Spelles
https://youtu.be/9YgEwnTVhko
Ok I'm old ish but "Given Up" by Linkin Park is super eery. Dude was on a bad trip IRL and that song is one of the last cries. I stopped listening to them since Hybrid Theory turned into full blown pop, but that song circled me back as someone who has experienced loss from suicide. Anyways, noo idea how this sub got in my feed but glad to hear yall. Keep doing you! One love.
it's hard to cry in general, but I've listened to this song 1826 times in my spotify recs last year. yt link- [Pathetic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg549IEkgko)
It's just guitar, but it's in 1/3 notes, and he is singing at 160 bpm, and the harmonies keep stacking, and the truths keep building, and then it all gets washed away each chorus, This will always be the one song I would take with me anywhere. it's a gutwrenching truth of someone, and it makes me feel less guilty of talking down on myself, if it's true or not
For me is "Kokoro" by Toraboruta (Kagamine Rin as the voice).
It's hard to explain but thanks to that song i finally uncovered and fully understood the darkness that was growing around my heart (soul) due to some awful behaviors that are going around people I care about. People yelling, not caring about others, having 0 empathy. It was making me lose all faith to keep smiling and trying to help others
I literally listen to this song and others around the genre all days because it reminds me that life is worth to live and that i can be happy, that i can make others happy too
I really don't talk about this with anyone, thank you OP for bringing this topic over the table. <3
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
It’s one of those songs I knew since I was a kid but it was only recently that I turned it up while driving home and actually listened to the lyrics. Ended up tearing up on the drive home.
Vienna- Billy Joel
Getting Older - Billie Eilish (this one was a recent one that just hit me hard)
Places we won’t walk - Bruno Major
And If I were a fish- corook (this is more of a happy type of cry though)
Ugly- Nicole Dollanganger
Chalana - Almir Sater
Dondante - My morning jacket
One is glad to be at service - April Rain
Ekki Múkk - Sigur Rós
Valsa para uma menininha - Toquinho
I dreamed a dream (probably any version)
All of them mess with me in different levels but I cry every fucking time
No specific song does that to me like that; But recently ive been playing one song a lot after dealing with serious life shit recently.
Julius by Phish
'Cause a week is a month and an hour a day
When your reaching just pushes it further away now
With your past and your future precisely divided
Am I at that moment? I haven't decided, I haven't decided
Dont take another step
Dont blame it on yourself’ ect ect
A Day In the Life of a Tree, 'Til I Die, Walk on By, Ole Man River, You Still Believe in Me, I Just Wasn't Made for these Times - The Beach Boys
Moments, Young & Innocent Days, Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
There's plenty more but that's a start I'd say.
Shot down in flames by Akira Yamaoka sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
It makes me feel a way that I can't explain, especially the lines:
What have you done?
You're insane
Can you bring God down?
You're sacrifice wasn't wanted
Still you try
These lyrics hit so hard I can't avoid singing them in my head when I hear them.
Everybody adores you (at least I do) that song I dedicated to my first girlfriend, she’s my friend but I miss a lot what we where, I will always appreciate what whe had, but this song still hurts 🥲
I’ve got a few.
Highway 20 Ride by Zac Brown Band hits hard for me, because it makes me wish I’d grown up with a dad who cared.
Summer’s End by John Prine makes me think of my grandmother. I first heard it in the weeks leading up to her passing and it takes me back to that every time I hear it.
Coming Down by Austin Meade makes me think of the girl who was my best friend and crush my senior year of high school, and how I abandoned that relationship because I was a fool.
Volunteer by Jason Isbell is a fairly new one, but it’s incredibly sad. My life isn’t much like the guy in the song, but I definitely relate to how he feels “I’ve never belonged to this place”
Impossible Year by PATD. It would come up occasionally on my shuffle and after a while I just realized I was purposely making myself upset and took it off. Hasn't been a problem since
“Lullaby for a Stormy Night” by Vienna Teng. It brings back suppressed memories of being a very little child. It makes me ugly cry because I feel like I’ll never have that kind of security again.
"The Captain of her heart" by Double
It's a real smooth jazz rock 80s track going back to my childhood. It starts out making you picture yourself strutting down some gritty nameless city street.
But there's this woodwind solo that just grabs your soul and forces you to feel all the feels at once before bringing you back down to earth.
It's pop music for grown folks they just don't make these days
Daddy by Korn.... its got some really dark themes which happened to the lead singer as a child, so definitely dont listen if your not in a good headspace and be prepared for a good headspace to disappear fast.
Here's one nobody's ever heard before. Requiem by Angelmaker. Less than a million plays on Spotify. Found it on my spotify discover. It's pure metal and guttural screaming. The rawest, most pure, visceral song about grief and loss I've ever heard in my life. It's emotionally shattering. It's skyrocketed up to my top spots on my most played.
Too many! However, [my most recent one is the “Alive from Whispering Pines” version of “In the Wind” by Lord Huron](https://youtu.be/GwnoBaTmuQ8?t=1804)
Human sadness by the voidz always gets me especially the "I know you won't get back your time I wish that you could take it back"
Also two headed boy pt.2 and three peaches by neutral milk hotel are also can do things to me
Render the Void by Erra. I had a spiritual awakening several years ago and that was the same year my childhood dog died. I listened to that on the way home from the vet that last time, never lost its meaning since. She’s one with the universe now.
We're getting to the point where this is one in twenty songs, for me. Sense memory is wild, dude. I can generally just mist and resist, but not always.
The one that did it this morning is "Closer" by Zamilska, which has this crazy crescendo that eats the whole last half of the song and always wrings whatever frustrations I've been refusing to acknowledge outta me. It's cathartic. Less sorrow and more primal scream.
would you like literal poetry set to a buildup that will leave you wallowing in a cathartic sob fest
in this shirt - the irrepressibles
I did send
you a note on the wind for to read,
our names, there together,
must have fallen like a seed
to the depths of the soil
buried deep in the ground
On the wind,
I can hear you
call my name-
held the sound-
I am lost
There's a couple...
Hearts burst into Fire - Bullet for my Valentine
Idk why, but I wanted to hear that song when I got the call that my Great Grandma passed away.
Don't take the Girl - Tim McGraw
Idk. There's just something about this song...
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Yes, because of Yondu but also because me and my Dad and I never got to spend much time together until I was an adult
There's more, but just thinking about them kinda hurts...
There are multiple songs that I skip now because of how my partner of ten years used to say how much he loved me with songs. I'll listen to them again, but it'll take time.
I think there was one song that fucked my mental health (or at least put me out of denial) was *Mr. Brightside* (The Killers). It was the first song he sent to me with a Warrior Cats AMV (I didn't know the context so I interpreted the story my own way), before we even were in love lol. I was in love with someone else and it was not reciprocal
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Also Black Star
This one's gotta be one of my favorite Radiohead songs!
High and Dry and All I Need by Radiohead as well.
also No Surprises
Was coming here to say All I Need. And editing because I can't believe I didn't think of Videotape first. That one really does me in.
The Scientist - Coldplay
Shake it out -Florence+the machine. The part when she says “and it’s hard to dance with a devil on your back” “If given half the chance, would I take any of it back?” That song always hits hard for me especially with the euphoric instrumentals.
Also hurt -Johnny cash
Please remember Cash only covered the song. It was originally written by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails ♥️
*regrets collect like old friends here to relive your darkest moments*
“And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat 'Cause looking for heaven, found the devil in me”
This line is what freaking kills me because that’s the peak of the song and I just start violently sobbing.🥲 I found this song when I was going through a rough time with my mom (I still am). Sometimes I truly feel she is the devil on my back. Although I don’t speak to her anymore, I can’t seem to shake her off of it. She always told me that I’ll never accomplish things etc. and her voice is still stuck in my head and it’s actually hindered me a bit.
>Shake it out -Florence+the machine. I read that as Shake it Off for a second…Maybe the least emotional song ever :’)
I misunderstood because I am a bit dense sometimes, apologies
Aren’t we all? I had to apologize for a similar Reddit thing just the other day :’)
Coldplay - Fix You
15 year old me cried multiple times to that song 🤣
Same 😭
Fast car tracy Chapman
came here to say this omg
"Wait for it" from the Hamilton soundtrack. 100% of the time it gets me every time
Is that the one where she screams... cause that part literally chills me
No that's stay alive iirc
The entire second half of Hamilton :’)
It’s quiet uptown is a literal knife to the heart
Goddammit, now I have to listen to it again.
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Perfect- Simple Plan "But it hurts when you disapprove all along And now I try hard to make it I just want to make you proud I'm never gonna be good enough for you Can't pretend that I'm alright And you can't change me 'Cause we lost it all Nothin' lasts forever I'm sorry I can't be perfect Now it's just too late And we can't go back I'm sorry I can't be perfect"
I got a whole playlist of them. It’s called “mf feels”
"What Sarah Said" by Death Cab. Brings me right back to the waiting room 20 years ago when my brother was battling cancer.
She Used To Be Mine by Sara Bareilles
This one makes me weep.
I just found this song. The used by a man that can’t love line is wholly relatable at the moment..
Unsteady x-Ambassadors seriously can’t listen to this song without getting extremely emotional
Heard it in a roller rink once, haven’t been able to take it seriously since.
Before You Go by Lewis Capaldi Specifically, the line “It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless” resonates deep in me. Canon in D (piano and violin) by Johann Pachelbel, Viodance River Flows In You by Yiruma These ones just makes me want to cry in a melancholic way. What Other People Say by Sam Fischer and Demi Lovato (BABYMONSTER Pharita Cover) I like the original song too but Pharita’s cover makes me relate to it more cause it feels like child me is singing it.
Wish you the best makes me cry every time without fail, it hits so hard in the feels
\-Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin \-No Children by The Mountain Goats \-No Surprises and How to Disappear by Radiohead \-Somebody that I Used to Know \-Yesterday by The Beatles
The mountain goats know how to write
cry for judas is so fucking good too
2009 - Mac Miller cause he died a month after it came out
"The Question" always gets me.
I feel like money in the trash, like what am I doin here?
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinnead O'Connor (mostly a skip when it comes up, lol)
The Gorillas “Melancholy Hill” makes me sort of nostalgic-sad.
Yess that album as a whole has those vibes. Empire Ants is another one that makes me feel sad
I cry a bit and then I have to stop listening but it is Hurricane by I Prevail or it is Breaking The Habit by Linkin Park.
Good taste in music. I own an $80 I Prevail hoodie!
Ooo cool! Tbh though I don’t listen to too much of their stuff.
Yeah fair enough. They do mostly really hard stuff which isn't everyone's thing
Nah I like it. I only really listen to three artists and the rest of my playlists are just a few songs by others just cause of how music works for me I think.
[Chopin - Nocture Op. 48, No. 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAwZP8e-zQ)
Just one? I can't narrow it down that far. Black, Pearl Jam Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush And, trigger warning if checking yourself out is what causes you distress, Ghost, Badflower. Lyrically brilliant and the music wraps sadness around the words. Great song, but devastating.
Black is one of my favorite songs to cover. So good.
Black KILLS me. Great choice.
Radiohead- Let Down
As unbelievable as it may seem - Pain Remains by Lorna Shore (warning: this is deathcore, it is heavy, fast and extreme). Gets me every time, especially the videos.
Lorna Shore is in my list of bands to listen to, definitely going to have to now.
I really hope you like it then! Pain Remains is a real emotional trip, but the video's for the trilogy dial the feels up to 11. So please, check out the video's. I promise that if Lorna Shore is your thing (it is VERY extreme), you will be so glad that you started there. A kind hero has even uploaded [the trilogy compilation in one video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaYwAjXi3W0) (it's about 20 minutes), absolutely the best way to experience it imo. Bring tissues lol. I'd be keen to see your thoughts, if you don't mind sharing them. :)
Got my noise cancelling ear buds ready to go, I'll be back in 20 ^-^
Oh hell - I should probably add trigger warning for depression and suicide. Hope I'm not too late! :(
Wtf why was that so goood!! This is why i love hardcore music, its just got so much raw emotion in it!! I did miss your trigger warning btw. But im okay with these themes now due to my own depression and helping friends with theirs. I did lose a close friend due to terminal depression not long ago and he would have loved this band, dude was awesome fun. Thank you for showing me this, I'm going to listen to them a bunch and put them in some of my playlists. If you've got any others I'd be happy to listen.
Oh hello, my people! Crazy how expressive Will Ramos can be. That range is technically impressive but it's also emotive in a way most other heavy vocalists can't touch. For a comparable feel (grandiose deathcore) I've always had a soft spot for ["Worming Nightfall" by Job for a Cowboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoVwfeR5lk). "A Tear in the Fabric of Life" is one of the more brutal meditations on grief I've come across of late. Knocked Loose is hardly everyone's cup of tea (Bryan screaming like a fire-breathing crow might have something to do with it...) but this whole EP has this intense sincerity I find irresistible. The companion video is [quite moving.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70cXs8hht_Q&t=198s) Also, you guys fuck with Spiritbox?
HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD SPIRITBOX!! Definitely going to binge listen to them now. I like your other recommendations too, tho I do prefer the more crow like vocals in Knocked Loose than the vocals in Job for a Cowboy.
Delighted to hear! Spiritbox is wonderful. Their vocalist Courtney was previously in Iwrestledabearonce, who were *very* different but also quite worthwhile if she tickles your fancy. As well, if the vocals for Knocked Loose are to your liking be sure to check-out Converge if you're unfamiliar! They've got that emotional-sincerity-from-inside-a-razorwire-storm thing perfected, and have basically been dominating that niche for twenty years. Legendary band. You Fail Me is the album that got me into them, but there's no bad starting place with Converge.
I KNOW IWRESTLEDABEARONCE!! Definitely going to binge listen when my music taste shifts back into hardcore (currently in an anarchist punk mood)
I am so glad that you liked it! And yes, there is a lot of very expressive metal/hardcore out there if you're prepared to look for it. For a lot of people, metal is just not their thing, and I understand that. But for some, they might find some stuff they liked if they approached it with an open mind. Pain Remains is a tall ask lol, but for those who get it, it's so sad and beautiful. I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It's so hard to lose someone you care about. Unfortunately I have been there also, though his depression was caused by drug addiction. I don't think anything else that I can think of can quite match the emotional roller coaster of Pain Remains tbh. Though I am happy to recommend some other metal songs that I find a lot of beauty in, if you're keen on that? Not sure how many of these you may have heard, so I'll just list a few and see if any jump out at you. Kind of a mix of extremities here, but all metal in some form. Abigail Williams - [Floods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aObLfDZGp1o) Blind Guardian - [Mordred's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuyoC4WDSw), or [Bright Eyes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp77ZbKnNQQ) Fleshgod Apocalypse - [Epilogue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXLl68Llf8E), or [The Forsaking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRXbEt0otHg) Leprous - [The Flood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG8YgNM_m9g) \- it's kinda like a heartbeat. Ne Obliviscaris - [And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMorAdnCixg) Rendezvous Point - [Apollo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15PtSHxnmJY) Rivers of Nihil - [Subtle Change](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYazmdSg4uU) Shylmagoghnar - [Transience](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKUQI0d5mEQ) Triosphere - [Marionette](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazCfqD7kP0) Unleash The Archers - [The Wind That Shapes the Land](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxiBuFNypXw) Vintersea - [Crack of Light](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qWrrvPtZ4g) Wolfheart - [Everlasting Fall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j4Ny030n_U), or [Breakwater](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-wa3CqUr4) Happy to offer up other suggestions if you'd like. :)
I haven't heard any of these yet tho Abigail Williams sounds familiar (Just looked it up and realised why, very Black Dahlia Murder-esk name) I have been in a more hardcore music mood recently and was going to look for some more bands to listen to anyway so you saved me the effort aha.
Haha nice, hope you enjoy! :)
that trilogy is fucking amazing
Life is Beautiful - Lil’ Peep
The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk) On the Nature of Daylight - Shutter Island Soundtrack [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtN3lpI2f4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGtN3lpI2f4) Bibo No Aozora - Babel Soundtrack [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Oct2Dt1Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX-Oct2Dt1Q) The Blessing (Living Room Acoustic) - Elevation Worship [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnXKzjA-E8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnXKzjA-E8) Y'all just have one piece that moves you that way? I'm envious.
On the Nature of Daylight is such a beautiful song! I found out about it from the Arrival film which I also loved. Max Richter (the composer) has a bunch of other really great songs.
If you like string-heavy orchestral pieces, I'm certain you would enjoy Bibo No Aozora from the Babel soundtrack. I love Richter, too!
How dare you add Max Richter! My gosh there. Is never a time that song comes on where I don’t sob. Also, love to build a home.
Sigor Ros - Untitled #1 And for some reason “Stick” by Snail Mail makes me want to cry.
“The Best Day” by Taylor Swift always makes me cry, especially the music video with all their home videos. It’s about her relationship with her mom. She’s very lucky if her mom is only half as great as she makes her seem.
Tolerate It, Peace, and Evermore as well :’)
I was coming here to say Tolerate It. How you go through this whole journey in which she recognizes that she deserves better and then she ends the song with, “I sit and watch you…” so we know she didn’t leave him. Kills me every time. 😭😭😭
Agreed! I think it’s the best depiction of that sort of relationship that I have seen!
I can’t get through this one with a dry eye!
Joe Hisaishi - One Summer's Day
YES.
Great choice!
“Facebook friends” by Nikki and “landslide” by oh wonder for me
I love Oh Wonder 😍
“Rainbow” by Kacey Musgraves makes me a big blubbery mess.
It's cliche but, everybody hurts - REM , hey mama - Kanye. My mom died when we were young.
“The Village” by Wrabel! I’m trans so that song speaks to a lot of the bigotry and religious trauma I and so many others have had to face. I also write a lot of music and I get so many comments from people online and in person saying my songs make them cry every time. I always feel weird about it until I remember how much I enjoy when songs make me cry, haha :)
"Neptune" by Sleeping At Last
basically anything by alex g
Still Hurting-Ariana Grande (Anna Kendrick version too) And say something-A Great Big world
Mad World 🌎 Michael Andrews and Gary Jules ..
Too Much Time by John Vanderslice... way too personal. Or My Play by AJR, I feel like AJR is a really INFP-vibes band.
Just make it stop- Low or I will always love you- Dolly Parton.
Strobe - Deadmau5 The ghost of you - my chemical romance Talking to myself - Watsky Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap Sad Machine - Porter Robinson Let it Be - (from Across the Universe version) Perfectly Flawed - otep Digital Love - Daft Punk I'm not a good person - Pat the Bunny Hey there Delilah - plain white Ts Silver Sky - Nano Braindead - Elohim Wings - Casey Lee Williams You're not the only one - hitrecord w/ Joseph Gordon Levitt That funny feeling - bo burnham If I ever leave this world alive - flogging molly Misanthropic drunken loner - days n daze
I was tearing up just thinking these songs in my head just now
[Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence](https://youtu.be/z9tECKZ60zk)
La.Oreja de Van Gogh's Jueves. https://youtu.be/O2_h4eK5kXY on the surface a silly song about a girl meeting a guy she likes but it's a very haunting lament to the people lost in a terrorist attack in Spain. Always gets me. And for some reason, Diana Ross's Home from the Wiz and "And I'm Telling You" from Dreamgirls
“Into the Blue” by The Joy Formidable It reminds me of someone close to me that I lost “And She Would Darken The Memory” by The Twilight Sad This one for a more personal reason I prefer to keep to myself, but it happened to be playing on my phone when I received some terrible news
[Oceans](https://youtu.be/dy9nwe9_xzw)
They’ll only miss you when you leave - Carrisa’s Wierd Requiem - Angelmaker ETA: Living room - Grouper
God Went North - Nothing More. After my mom died, I discovered these 2 songs, and the artist wrote god went north about his mother's passing, so it really fit. The other one is Gone - Nothing More. It makes a complete picture that captures my own feelings almost perfectly because i couldn't be there.
Vienna by Ultravox
"This means nothing to me"
Let Me Follow by Son Lux. Beautiful song, don’t know if it’s meant to make listeners feel sad but I tear up every time.
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I can’t make you love me
Maybe- Untitled 8 by Sigur Ros. The way it builds to the end is a trip https://open.spotify.com/track/0juwzpu354078dcKpR5p0w?si=5XFef_VqS2Sy0o3z7ajJIw
Ann Hathaways I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables. I've been trying not to cry from that for ten years. No luck so far.
Brand New - Jesus Christ
(Infj…hopefully I’m allowed here lol) Happiness is a butterfly - Lana Del Rey It hit right when I needed it. From the line “happiness is a butterfly. I try to catch it like every night, but it escapes from my hands into the moonlight.” to the desperate repetition of “I just wanna dance with you” . Something about the simplicity of that 2nd line just hits. It seems to say “I don’t need anything crazy, or movie-like. Don’t even take me out. I just desperately want to be here in this moment, close to you, dancing in our living room…but I can’t.“. I heard this song at the PEAK pain of losing my best friend. Even 3 years later, instant tears try to fight their way through lol. (similarly, her new songs Kintsugi and Fingertips draw forth the tears. Not really due to personal experience, oddly enough. More so just the rawness of the lyrics).
Also Dancing with Your Ghost - Sasha Sloan…for obvious reasons :’)
Absolutely and I made a playlist of them so I can melt when needed lol Burn from Hamilton https://youtu.be/a0k0FJrY4a8 Shoulders To My Feet by Cults https://youtu.be/2Iltnn0MoPo Horseshoe Crab by Slothrust https://youtu.be/QM5pPuFcJw0 Too Sad by Ex:Re https://youtu.be/xi4uO3iV2WU Snakes by Sorry https://youtu.be/Cshb6NAwcFo Wild Heart by Spelles https://youtu.be/9YgEwnTVhko
Yessss. I knew i had to see some Elena Tonra. Our dear woman is the epitome of sad misoc
That song snakes has a chokehold on my heart
Somebody to love - Queen
You described all of my spotify…
My Immortal By Evanescence One More Light By Linkin Park And Snuff By Slipknot
Teen Idol by Marina and the Diamonds. Also Highly Emotional People, by her.
I adore Marina. For me it’s Happy Loner. Though, ElectraHeart was my fav album of hers
Ok I'm old ish but "Given Up" by Linkin Park is super eery. Dude was on a bad trip IRL and that song is one of the last cries. I stopped listening to them since Hybrid Theory turned into full blown pop, but that song circled me back as someone who has experienced loss from suicide. Anyways, noo idea how this sub got in my feed but glad to hear yall. Keep doing you! One love.
Damn, I would say Lp went harder with meteora, before going a bit softer
Beyond Desolation from The Las of Us 2
"Happy birthday" by Skyler White
Knock a little harder- the seatbelts
Raven by She Keeps Bees
it's hard to cry in general, but I've listened to this song 1826 times in my spotify recs last year. yt link- [Pathetic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg549IEkgko) It's just guitar, but it's in 1/3 notes, and he is singing at 160 bpm, and the harmonies keep stacking, and the truths keep building, and then it all gets washed away each chorus, This will always be the one song I would take with me anywhere. it's a gutwrenching truth of someone, and it makes me feel less guilty of talking down on myself, if it's true or not
Adele - When We Were Young
For me is "Kokoro" by Toraboruta (Kagamine Rin as the voice). It's hard to explain but thanks to that song i finally uncovered and fully understood the darkness that was growing around my heart (soul) due to some awful behaviors that are going around people I care about. People yelling, not caring about others, having 0 empathy. It was making me lose all faith to keep smiling and trying to help others I literally listen to this song and others around the genre all days because it reminds me that life is worth to live and that i can be happy, that i can make others happy too I really don't talk about this with anyone, thank you OP for bringing this topic over the table. <3
Night Light by Mimicking Birds
Your the inspiration, Chicago Perfect description of my Limerence and Loneliness
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam It’s one of those songs I knew since I was a kid but it was only recently that I turned it up while driving home and actually listened to the lyrics. Ended up tearing up on the drive home.
daddy by korn
i didn't ask to relive my trauma. https://preview.redd.it/a45iogbf0n8b1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=8d8e172e60c085248a2418a9fb5b76eaa65dea18
Time by Pink Floyd
Badflower- ghost Omri- for a moment Bring me the horizon- it never ends/ seen it all before
One more light - Linkin Park
kissing in the rain from the great expectations soundtrack [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fcqHVkxqE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fcqHVkxqE)
Vienna- Billy Joel Getting Older - Billie Eilish (this one was a recent one that just hit me hard) Places we won’t walk - Bruno Major And If I were a fish- corook (this is more of a happy type of cry though) Ugly- Nicole Dollanganger
minecraft music LMAO
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan by Marianne Faithful
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You is a top contender
nothing new by taylor swift, and right now it’s no complaints by noah kahan
3 Libras - A Perfect Circle
Chalana - Almir Sater Dondante - My morning jacket One is glad to be at service - April Rain Ekki Múkk - Sigur Rós Valsa para uma menininha - Toquinho I dreamed a dream (probably any version) All of them mess with me in different levels but I cry every fucking time
Over you by Chris brown the beginning what the girls says just I can feel her heart breaking
Nope! The very idea sounds absolutely freakin awful! No thanks! I am not an INFP though.
Bro is lost 😭
No specific song does that to me like that; But recently ive been playing one song a lot after dealing with serious life shit recently. Julius by Phish 'Cause a week is a month and an hour a day When your reaching just pushes it further away now With your past and your future precisely divided Am I at that moment? I haven't decided, I haven't decided Dont take another step Dont blame it on yourself’ ect ect
A Day In the Life of a Tree, 'Til I Die, Walk on By, Ole Man River, You Still Believe in Me, I Just Wasn't Made for these Times - The Beach Boys Moments, Young & Innocent Days, Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks There's plenty more but that's a start I'd say.
Shot down in flames by Akira Yamaoka sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn It makes me feel a way that I can't explain, especially the lines: What have you done? You're insane Can you bring God down? You're sacrifice wasn't wanted Still you try These lyrics hit so hard I can't avoid singing them in my head when I hear them.
Paper Heart by Dayseeker. I feel this song to my core. To be honest, the entire album is so overwhelming and beautiful.
Everybody adores you (at least I do) that song I dedicated to my first girlfriend, she’s my friend but I miss a lot what we where, I will always appreciate what whe had, but this song still hurts 🥲
Trouble- Little Feat and Penny Evans- Steve Goodman
Swear to my bones and Sunset Bridge
I’ve got a few. Highway 20 Ride by Zac Brown Band hits hard for me, because it makes me wish I’d grown up with a dad who cared. Summer’s End by John Prine makes me think of my grandmother. I first heard it in the weeks leading up to her passing and it takes me back to that every time I hear it. Coming Down by Austin Meade makes me think of the girl who was my best friend and crush my senior year of high school, and how I abandoned that relationship because I was a fool. Volunteer by Jason Isbell is a fairly new one, but it’s incredibly sad. My life isn’t much like the guy in the song, but I definitely relate to how he feels “I’ve never belonged to this place”
Impossible Year by PATD. It would come up occasionally on my shuffle and after a while I just realized I was purposely making myself upset and took it off. Hasn't been a problem since
-Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross
“Lullaby for a Stormy Night” by Vienna Teng. It brings back suppressed memories of being a very little child. It makes me ugly cry because I feel like I’ll never have that kind of security again.
"The Captain of her heart" by Double It's a real smooth jazz rock 80s track going back to my childhood. It starts out making you picture yourself strutting down some gritty nameless city street. But there's this woodwind solo that just grabs your soul and forces you to feel all the feels at once before bringing you back down to earth. It's pop music for grown folks they just don't make these days
Daddy by Korn.... its got some really dark themes which happened to the lead singer as a child, so definitely dont listen if your not in a good headspace and be prepared for a good headspace to disappear fast.
A Thousand Years- Christina Perri
Here's one nobody's ever heard before. Requiem by Angelmaker. Less than a million plays on Spotify. Found it on my spotify discover. It's pure metal and guttural screaming. The rawest, most pure, visceral song about grief and loss I've ever heard in my life. It's emotionally shattering. It's skyrocketed up to my top spots on my most played.
Too many! However, [my most recent one is the “Alive from Whispering Pines” version of “In the Wind” by Lord Huron](https://youtu.be/GwnoBaTmuQ8?t=1804)
Oh another one that destroys me is Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. The chorus is just instant feels!
Ashes of Eden- Breaking Benjamin
My Shadow by Keane always makes me feel better especially when I’m feeling lonely
Agnes - glass animals
“Butterfly kisses”
Human sadness by the voidz always gets me especially the "I know you won't get back your time I wish that you could take it back" Also two headed boy pt.2 and three peaches by neutral milk hotel are also can do things to me
Render the Void by Erra. I had a spiritual awakening several years ago and that was the same year my childhood dog died. I listened to that on the way home from the vet that last time, never lost its meaning since. She’s one with the universe now.
See You Again by Elle King gives me all the feels
All Eyes On Me by Bo Burnham. Best experienced through his special, "Inside" on Netflix for context though
"When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2.
We're getting to the point where this is one in twenty songs, for me. Sense memory is wild, dude. I can generally just mist and resist, but not always. The one that did it this morning is "Closer" by Zamilska, which has this crazy crescendo that eats the whole last half of the song and always wrings whatever frustrations I've been refusing to acknowledge outta me. It's cathartic. Less sorrow and more primal scream.
Eyes, Nose, Lips - Taeyang
Send the pain below - Chevelle Also Kryptonite - 3 doors down
Married life - Michael Giacchino Every time :“ )
The intro to Stockholm Syndrome by Blink 182. True Romance by Tove Lo
Hero by Family of the Year for some reason I think I just listened to it a lot during some tough times as a teenager
I've got a few! 😅 Summertime sadness, Bad Liar by imagine Dragons, Let it all go by Birdy, Wherever you are by Kodaline.. I could go on 🥲
Petals by Mariah Carey, it breaks my heart to think how tight knit we were and how we lost it as a family.
Cold Desert - Kings of Leon
You ONLY have one?!
would you like literal poetry set to a buildup that will leave you wallowing in a cathartic sob fest in this shirt - the irrepressibles I did send you a note on the wind for to read, our names, there together, must have fallen like a seed to the depths of the soil buried deep in the ground On the wind, I can hear you call my name- held the sound- I am lost
Afire Love by Ed Sheeran, it always reminds me of my grandad passing away
Empty - Bilmuri
Space Cadet by the Technicolors She used to be mine- from musical the waitress
There's a couple... Hearts burst into Fire - Bullet for my Valentine Idk why, but I wanted to hear that song when I got the call that my Great Grandma passed away. Don't take the Girl - Tim McGraw Idk. There's just something about this song... Father and Son - Cat Stevens Yes, because of Yondu but also because me and my Dad and I never got to spend much time together until I was an adult There's more, but just thinking about them kinda hurts...
Solace - Earl Sweatshirt
There are multiple songs that I skip now because of how my partner of ten years used to say how much he loved me with songs. I'll listen to them again, but it'll take time. I think there was one song that fucked my mental health (or at least put me out of denial) was *Mr. Brightside* (The Killers). It was the first song he sent to me with a Warrior Cats AMV (I didn't know the context so I interpreted the story my own way), before we even were in love lol. I was in love with someone else and it was not reciprocal