Was it about recreational drugs or medication? And the only conclusion is a chorus of angels whose weeping turns into something like joy as a triumphant trumpet kicks in. Anyone got a tissue? First song “Afraid of Nothing” lets you know up front exactly where she’s going. The Bristol trip-hop group track from their unbelievable debut ‘Dummy’ is an uneasy, ambiguous love song. The truly great songs are passionate, emotion, and have great melody so fans can sing along. —Ellen Johnson, After one particular summer romance, I visited my girlfriend at her college two hours away, and the trip went horribly. In Cash’s hands, it’s a death-bed confessional.—Ryan Reed, There is one moment in one song in the world that gives me chills every time I hear it. Ryan Adams – ‘The Shadowlands’. Be sure to check out our own ranking of the Top 25 Rock Songs of the 2010s. The two tears that roll down her cheek in the video were, apparently, not faked. Matt Berninger and co. are gurus at crafting noirish, depressive rock songs, but “About Today” reigns as one of the sharpest. Perfume Genius’s music is so heartbreakingly sad that even he cries at his live shows, as well as the rest of the audience. We are counting down our 100 favourite songs of the 2010s. Sinead O Connor – ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. —Ellen Johnson, When Thom Yorke wrote “True Love Waits” in 1995, it was an acoustic love song for his partner of a few years, Rachel Owen. Neko Case makes it her own on her latest album Hell-On. There are few things in life as tragic as dead kids, and sadly, “Little Bonnie never married, Little Bonnie never even made it four.”—Bonnie Stiernberg, Compared to the larger-than-life characters that populated Frank Ocean’s 2012 masterpiece channel ORANGE, the scope of his follow-up Blonde is more interior, laden and tangled with the mental back-and-forths that plague relationships: heartbreak, desire and doubt. Anyone who has lost love, listened to this song and not bawled their eyes out is a bonafide psychopath. “You and me, you know we don’t talk much/ It’s hard to handle something you can’t touch,” he sings. Death Cab for Cutie: “What Sarah Said”, 31. Written about the relationship between Karen O and Liars frontman Angus Andrew, ‘Maps’ describes them being pulled apart on respective tours. to 1st and 8th Aves, Annie Clark bemoans the loss of a lover—presumably her ex, Cara Delevingne—and her friends, who like many in the arts community this decade, packed up their belongings and moved to Los Angeles. —Eric R. Danton, Serious audiophiles will point out that one of the saddest things about this song is the intrusively obvious pitch correction in the version used in Episode 10 of Twin Peaks: The Return (bummer), but setting aside that technicality, “No Stars” is still a heartbreaker even by Twin Peaks standards. But inside she’s hollow. Though she’s watching her former love get frisky with his “new friend” in the club, the chorus doesn’t come across as self-pitying. Radiohead – ‘How To Disappear Completely’. Listen out for Johnny Greenwood on the ondes martenot. Confined to a hospital and slowly dying, she was told the Japanese legend of the “1000 origami cranes,” whose creator would supposedly be granted a wish. “To sing that lyric I really had to accept that that was the end of something in my life.”. It was released in 2005 and remains one of the greatest songs of the 21st century. “I was far away.” Reckoning with the realization that he may lose her because of his inability to communicate, the protagonist is helpless. She and her sister Alison Moorer are the “two little girls better off this way,” orphaned at 17 and 13 and sent off to live with relatives.—Josh Jackson, When it comes to sad songs, I can’t think of anything quite as powerful or heartbreaking as Vic Chesnutt’s “Flirted With You All My Life.” Chesnutt is a poignant figure in general—an Athens, Ga. legend who created wild, beautiful music until his death in 2009. “Downliner” is one of the standout tracks, a rueful meditation on dissatisfaction and regret. Grandaddy – ‘Everything Beautiful Is Far Away’. Nick Cave – ‘People Ain’t No Good’. All Rights Reserved. There’s a particular kind of braveness unique to anyone who can get up on stage and sing through your tears about an ex for whom you still hold a flame. The second song on ‘Hospice’, the concept album about the relationship between a hospice worker and a patient dying of bone cancer, doesn’t take any prisoners. By Melinda Newman. ‘Laura’ sounds like a bit of a party girl with a penchant for wearing glitter and dancing on tables. We all have our go-to sad songs, like security blankets for those all-too-common times of need. “Trying hard to breathe, head between my knees/ take my hand and squeeze, say I’m alright,” says Van Etten in one of the most wrenching songs on her desolate album ‘Tramp’. It’s a powerful, clear description of the paralysis of fear: “But all I do is just lay in bed And hide under the covers”. But “Trapeze Swinger” made such an unforgettable impression that the setting remains locked in my head—senior year, central campus apartment, sitting in front of my computer with AIM running, heartbroken. This song is sad enough to begin with but if you’re a Sparklehorse fan, jeez, you’re going to be sobbing. The song is about staying in a relationship for the wrong reasons, and regretting the pain that inevitably results—a theme on his first album as Bon Iver, 2007’s For Emma, Forever Ago. —Amy Glynn, “It took me awhile to for me to be able to do ‘Go Home’ comfortably because that’s one of the most explicitly autobiographical songs,” Baker once told me while touring off of her first record, Sprained Ankle. “You live long enough and the people you love get old,” she sings, and all too soon, they’re gone. The song’s narrative ranges from heaven to hell, and represents Beam’s most ambitious poetry—it’s long, it meanders, and it hits you with a desperate intensity. Sinead O Connor – ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. Blackstar is the wise and self-aware work of a mature artist but retains Bowie’s almost childlike spirit of wonder at the vastness and weirdness of what we cannot perceive-at least not while we’re in our bodies. Robert Wyatt – ‘Shipbuilding’. “I’m making pies.”—Josh Jackson, This song leans a little harder on the angsty side of things, but it’s a lament-filled breakup song nonetheless. Just a few soft riffs and gentle drum hits are all that’s needed to back the wavering twang in her voice as she encourages a friend to move on from their dark past. John Darnielle spends most of the song wishing ill upon his ex-lover, but it’s made even more severe by his wishes of suffering for himself. But it’s through songs like this one that he transcends even that. On the face of it, a laserquest should be a great day out. Does anyone else think Bright Eyes would be a lot better if they changed their name? And of what the world lost in January 2016: An intergalactic traveler, and a superstar. —Steven Edelstone, You can try to hold it together on this song from McKenna’s album The Tree, but her loving portrait of her aging father is so rich with detail and so matter-of-fact way that there’s an excellent chance McKenna will have you all choked up by the end. We miss you, Jeff. But when “Fond Farewell” was released almost a year to the day after his apparent suicide, this was the song that wrecked me. That’s a perfect account of how even amicable breakups can leave lasting scars, and Ryan Adams’ clanging electric guitar riff evokes the noise that underscores heartache and echoes around inside your head late at night when the rest of the world is quiet. It’s a rant and shrug at the universe from the album ‘I See A Darkness’ which has the fitting cover art of an evil-looking skull. —Eric R. Danton, Less than a year after he returned from boarding school in American Samoa to countless “Free Earl” chants, Earl Sweatshirt released “Chum,” his first proper single ahead of his debut album, Doris. Co-written and produced by the literally-inimitable David Lynch, it’s a lyric meditation on desolation and the grief of lost intimacy. Highlighted (lowlighted?) From "Call Me Maybe" to "Hotline Bling," we've rounded up some of the biggest earworms of the decade — popular and viral numbers that have defined themselves as top songs of the 2010s. Walker Brothers – ‘Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’. It’s the ultimate mockery to compensate for (and attempt to comprehend) our irrevocable finality.—Hilary Saunders, David Bowie timed the release of his final album to coincide with his 69th birthday. From George Jones to Brad Paisley, here are the 40 saddest country songs of all time. It’s a bleak, desperate picture of heart-break.” I’ll pretend that you were just some lover,” he says – but we all know he’s kidding himself. It’s just life, and it goes inexorably onward, but sometimes—hell, usually—the people we love are gone before we’re ready to let them go, and who is ever really ready? But you don’t have to be a Bonnie—little or big or in-between—to be moved by this Drive-By Truckers track. Love is gone and Cave is down on the world: “It ain’t that in their hearts they’re bad, they’d stick by you if they could/ But that’s just bullshit baby, people just ain’t no good”. Studded with bluesy, cathartic guitar solos, it’s a song about being trapped in comfort, about chasing a sun you know is going to set anyways. “No Hard Feelings” is about dying with no regrets, about the day when one’s soul leaves their body and all that’s left to focus on is the joy that defines a life. When the narrator looks at the body of the girl he loves after she finally succumbs to cancer, he thinks for a moment that he sees her breathing. A beautiful, painful listen. Morrissey – ‘Every Day Is Like Sunday’. ‘Pictures Of You’ is, however, fairly desolate stuff, allegedly inspired by a house fire that left just the photos in his wallet. It’s been called “the saddest song ever,” and while it’s certainly not chipper, there’s something very beautiful about the ease with which Isbell sings about life-altering topics such as grief, death and cancer. Watch Morgan Wallen perform the hit single that dominates the top country songs this week and tops the country charts right now. Sufjan Stevens, ‘John Wayne Gacy Jr’. It’s to her that he addresses the painful refrain over and over in the song. She’d never been able to forgive and had put the whole event out of her mind for years. It’s a short, hook-filled blast of nostalgia about hitting record shops with your friends and driving around in the summer listening to reggae, and perhaps the leanest and most direct pop song Superchunk’s ever made. Here are the saddest songs of the 21st century so far: 50. It didn’t take long to get responses. “You could cry or die or just make pies all day,” she sings at the song’s conclusion. Lynch has always loved to flirt with melodrama, and this torch song found its perfect expression in del Rio’s full-throated, bell-like voice. Superchunk: “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo”, 37. Click to copy. The central conceit – “Oh I could drink a case of you darling/ Still I’d be on my feet” – is overshadowed by the first line – “just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star”. Paul McCartney’s baroque masterpiece told a darkly lonely story about a woman who “died in the church and was buried along with her name – nobody came.” McCartney originally named the song’s protagonist a more cheery Miss Daisy Hawkins. Blur – ‘This Is A Low’. A song so desolate – ‘death to you, death to me’ – I’m not sure what environment it calls for. Alex Turner’s on typically brilliant form here lyrically. In its place was one of the most depressing-sounding—and artistically brilliant—albums in recent memory. Neil Young, ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’. “What could I say?” Berninger bellows. At heart, “People Get Old” is a joyful song, as McKenna celebrates a lifetime’s worth of memories with her dad, who turns 83 this year. The past tense of that opening line, whispered and bitter, sets the tone for “Night After Night,” a track about a woman becoming increasingly detached and indifferent throughout a relationship that overstays its welcome by years, possibly decades. It didn’t take long to get responses. Here's our list of the top 50 saddest dance music picks of all-time, from sad love songs to depressing songs about death. After a final tour the following year, the Grammy-winning country singer, TV host and actor recorded a farewell song for a the documentary Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, even as he could feel his mind slipping. Beneath the brassy exterior, Winehouse had a real fragility that was never better bared than on this iconic track, and its monochrome video. “I love you.” The whole album makes everything else seem frivolous while you’re hearing it. From the brilliant ‘Submarine’ soundtrack, this song starts off with some of the greatest lyrics, as quoted by you, the readers: “I etched a face of a stopwatch/ On the back of a raindrop.” It’s a miserable theme – he’s heard that the lady is going to dump him – with a stunning rhythmic change that prevents it from being a Debbie Downer. The cheek-to-cheek slow-dance of love and extinction, romance and violence, mystery and piercing directness, emotional overflow and bleak emptiness. After receiving a backpack for their infant daughter that Geneviève ordered shortly before her death, he collapses on the porch in tears. Kev's Country Classics. —Loren DiBlasi, Justin Vernon recorded this song one winter in a cabin in the woods of northwestern Wisconsin, and it sounds like it: His acoustic guitar and double-tracked falsetto vocals are hushed and intimate, like the glow in a distant window in the midst of a snow-covered landscape. Listen to Top 100 Country Songs of the 2000s now. It’s a disturbing story made only more dismal when backing vocalists harmonize with Kozelek on lines like, “Carissa was 35/ You don’t just raise two kids and take out your trash and die.”—Tess Duncan, We could easily pull out half a dozen Elliott Smith songs for this list, and nearly that many were nominated. “Back to Black” recalls ’60s doo-wop with a moody, creeping tempo. Laurel Ridge Class of 2004 Soundtrack. Death Cab For Cutie – ‘Transatlanticism’. Recently we made a playlist of the 50 most uplifting songs ever.Now, we look at the opposite: 50 beautifully sad songs, beginning with Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’. Like most great songs, the lyrics alone don’t tell the story, but the simple refrain gets at the heart of the temporary nature of our lives contrasting with our human urge for permanence: “Please remember me.” Beam’s voice is at its most nostalgic here, and he tells the story of a boy and girl who connected and blew apart, complete with circus imagery, snippets of memory, and the bright, painful moments of consummation and separation. This list has been updated from its original publish in 2018. —Katie Cameron, This 1982 Tears For Fears song achieved another round of fame when Gary Jules and Michael Andrews covered it for the Donnie Darko soundtrack in 2001. Superchunk’s frontman Mac McCaughan can sing about the music he listened to with his friends, can sing songs about them, both in life and death, but no matter how much it means to him, that music can’t fill the space left by his friend’s absence. Singer Mark Linkous died in 2010, having battled depression for most of his life. Dolly Parton – ‘Jolene’. Written about transexual Candy Darling, the New York socialite and member of Andy Warhol’s coterie, The Velvet Underground find sadness and shyness beneath the exterior in this small, delicate, slow song. “Rivers and Roads” is about change, and about missing people. The Cure – ‘Pictures Of You’. Then he sings about God: “All the glory when he took our place / But he took my shoulders and he shook my face / and he takes and he takes and he takes.” He’s trying to reconcile the generosity of Jesus allowing himself to be sacrificed on the cross with a god who would let a young girl die from leukemia. Johnny Cash – ‘Hurt’. Arctic Monkeys – ‘Love Is A Laserquest’. Alex Turner – Piledriver Waltz’. He asks to be taken next, so they can be together again.”. Walker Brothers – ‘Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’. But the final verse sums up Carlile’s reconciliation, allowing her to finally grieve: “I was angry/ I was a Baptist/ I was a daughter/ I was wrong.” —Josh Jackson, If “About Today” is any indication, The National know a thing or two about regret. We kept it to one song per artist, though several had multiple nominations. The 35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s: Staff List. “Skinny Love” was the first single, and the tune that helped launch Bon Iver into the public consciousness and make Vernon into a reluctant indie-rock star, a record producer (Kathleen Edwards, the Blind Boys of Alabama), creator of the Eaux Claires music festival and, not least (if perhaps least likely), a musical collaborator with Kanye West. The Top 100 Country Songs were updated today. “But like a drunken night, it’s the best bits that are colored in,” he croons in his Scottish brogue before launching into perhaps the most tear-inducing stanza of the indie rock era, ending with a line that he routinely would scream live: “You should look through some old photos/ I adored you in every one of those/ If someone took a picture of us now they’d need to be told/ That we had ever clung and tied/ A navy knot with arms at night/ I’d say she was his sister but she doesn’t have his nose/ And now we’re unrelated and rid of all the shit we hated/ But I hate when I feel like this/ And I never hated you.” —Steven Edelstone, Benji is an album heavily focused on death. While Van Etten sometimes sounds distraught on Are We There, and sometimes hollowed out by emotion, she is quietly, sorrowfully sure of herself on “Afraid of Nothing.” There’s no going back, she seems to say, and pushing forward is going to hurt, a lot. You’ve still got a bit of life in you yet, lads! Frank Ocean – ‘Swim Good’. 50 Most Nostalgic Songs from the Last 50 Years (1970-2010s) | … The track is among the most candid on an album revered for its honesty: As SZA sings about envy, loneliness, and inflated female beauty standards, she embodies an outcast character like those the song’s titular actress has often played. Nick Drake – ‘Pink Moon’. The ‘New Moon’ included this track by the Brooklyn four-piece featuring Victoria Legrand on vocals. Flaming Lips – ‘Do You Realize?’, “That everyone you know will someday die?” asks Wayne Coyne. It’s the sensitivity with which Ben Folds describes the experience – the cold car seat, the feeling of uselessness – that makes this track so uniquely moving. Because the characters seem so real, so does the sorrow. In it, Parton takes the role of a desperate woman appealing to the beautiful Jolene not to steal her husband. The father of eight children from four wives, Campbell has been married to Kim Woolen for more than three decades. He captured an overwhelming sadness seasoned with hope in his 2018 song Summer’s End, from The Tree of Forgiveness, his last album. This plaintive song from ‘Parklife’ is Blur’s most beautifully hopeful track. Eddie Vedder stated that “fragile songs get crushed by the business. It’s melodically poignant, vocally burnished, arranged in a way I can’t not call “stellar,” and a kaleidoscopic exploration of his lifelong master trope: Stars, literal and figurative. A recent study found pop music has got “sadder” in the past 30 years. Mitch Rossell 2020. Pink Floyd – ‘Wish You Were Here’. This track from ‘Illinois’ tells the story of 1970s serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr. Stevens sings about the childhood abuse Gacy suffers and references his use of ‘chloroform’ with his victims and his nickname ‘Killer Clown’. The glacially slow breakdown of their love coincides with the decay of the subject’s body and mind: “Night after night, day after day/ Would you watch my body weaken/ And my mind drift away?” goes the reprise, sung by a mournful Marling. Sparklehorse, ‘Sad And Beautiful World’. Now, we look at the opposite: 50 beautifully sad songs, beginning with Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’. From the time I arrived, I could tell she was over our relationship. That the words are set to his impossibly lovely melodies just makes it harder to hear.—Josh Jackson, A great song can help you see the world from a different perspective, as Patty Griffin often proves. LCD Soundsystem – ‘All I Want’. Read our list of the 40 best country songs below, and here’s looking forward to the great Shane McAnally solo breakout in 2016.. 40. 1. new. “All My Friends,” though danceable and streamline in nature, relays a universal sadness about getting older and the fluctuation of friendships as we age. 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