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DAY 10 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING!!!
Each day Iβll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
From the first time I heard this song up until today it just hits my emotions completely. Now to go sad cry on Saturday!
Sufjan Stevens "The Only Thing"
The entire Carrie & Lowell album, really. I won't lie, that song in particular has made me tear up a few times. It's about the death of a loved one (his mother in this case).
Hereβs one Iβd forgotten about. This live version is really nice (slow starter)
Crippled Black Phoenix - Burnt Reynolds
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
"I'm not here.
This isn't happening."
I had trouble finding something recent, but this works, I think, just older.
Chris Bell - I am the cosmos
Cavetown really hits that a lot for me, but this song has made me so listening to the album because I can't stop thinking about past pets.
As a side note, you should listen to Lemon Boy from the same album.
Here are five, though they get slightly more mainstream as you go down the list.
EDIT: I'm trying to fix the links. Gimme a sec.
EDIT 2: Here are the music videos and fan lyric videos. I'm giving up on Beatbump, HyperPipe, and YT Music.
Here's some alternative hip hop that might make you cry
Thanks for this. "Puppets" was also one of my better finds recently.
Sputnik by Smile.
It starts out about Laika, the dog that the USSR sent into space and died, and goes downhill from there.
They seem to be a relatively unknown band, but if you like it, try "Staring at the Sun" for something not so downer.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hRYeC9mjFK2nrm6guHAM0?si=sD0HrcxyQuuIDVbBxBTvfg
Phil Elverum from The Microphones and Mount Eerie lost his wife to cancer and then wrote an album about it called A Crow Looked at Me. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Here's the opener from the album.
There's plenty of sad songs in this thread but this is the "this isn't cathartic it's just devastating" kind of sad that can only come from real, deep, somber, visceral pain
That's a great way of putting it. It's devastating and honestly difficult to listen to. But maybe someone needs to hear it so that's why I posted it
Absolutely, Phil's an incredible artist that doesn't get nearly as much attention as he deserves
oh it's gotta be "Forever" by Bruderschaft (featuring vocals by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBugs8pgtK0
This song is uncompromisingly beautiful: a poem of love and dedication from a son to a dying father.
Sad musics' my jam! Enjoy being down in the dumps today
Edit the Sad Parts - Modest Mouse
Indie rock
Folk, noise
Indie rock, folk
TW: Rape, abuse, religious trauma
Appalachian, avant garde, noise
Twenty Four Hours - Joy Division
Post punk
Screamo
To a Husband at War - I Hate Myself
Emo
You have a awesome username
This one always gets me, double so with the video.
Massive Attack - Live With Me (2006)
This one may seem strange, but I love "Leaving New York" by REM, always got me in the feels, but the live version from REM Live, the desperation in his voice and the moaning. It gets me https://youtu.be/OEwI3yKMxkI?si=6rYShLIzeCZZa4UU
But recently... Mitski's new song, "Bug Like An Angel" makes me cry every time - especially when watching the video https://youtu.be/5WW7cuAm-7Y?si=xGFW_cIhng-SY0Sa
Elliott Smith - Everything means nothing to me
The Arcade Fire's Haiti
https://youtu.be/tGvpUgo7ayY Controversies with members of the band aside, this song makes me cry every time. I have no connection to Haiti but the poignant vocals really pulls at your heart strings and makes you mourn for a lost homeland. The French lines really help too.
I have an AF song too that used to get me so emotional about my daughters - but I couldnβt remember the title yesterday. A line about βif I had a daughterβ, maybe from Suburbs??? But yeah, the song is in me now.
The Roots - "Return to Innocence Lost", TW: domestic abuse, rape, other violence
for a hot second I thought this was Enigmaβs βReturn To Innocenceβ
Oh wow, yeah, I forgot all about that song, but different end of the 90s and different vibe entirely there
I read the title first! lol
Hurray for the Riff Raff - "Fourteen Floors"
Bonus, same idea but more angry than sad, Open Mike Eagle - "My Auntie's Building"