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“Flirted With You All My Life” is sobering, addressing death directly: “Oh death, oh death, oh death / Really, I’m not ready.” It relates his own experience with dying, whether through his lifelong flirtation with suicide or his mother’s battle with cancer, and it’s that honesty paired with Chesnutt’s colorful past that will make you question and almost certainly cry—in public, for the public or for life’s adventure in general.—Brittany Joyce, Mike Hadreas’ songwriting is unabashedly raw, the kind that speaks about the dirty and the unsightly in a way you can’t ignore. Opening with a clarification that death shouldn’t be reduced to art, that the true experience of it is too profound to turn into music, he goes ahead and does just that on “Real Death.” Singing over electric guitar strums and a droning accordion, he describes the immediate aftermath of Geneviève’s dying, how rooms feel empty now, how she still gets mail. —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. 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. The Velvet Underground – ‘Candy Says’. Copied to … James Murphy questions someone’s priorities when he sings, “You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan/ And the next five years trying to be with your friends again,” but he switches to first person by track’s end, singing, “If I could see all my friends tonight.” Before cranking this one up, make sure your closest pals are on speed dial. Walker Brothers – ‘Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’. Sharon Van Etten – ‘We Are Fine’. Sad country songs connect with fans because the songs let listeners know they’re not alone with their feelings of heartache, disappointment, loneliness, grief, and depression. Shelby Lynne: “Heaven’s Only Days Down the Road”, 26. This plaintive song from ‘Parklife’ is Blur’s most beautifully hopeful track. The remaining cranes were finished by friends and family, and the poor young victim of WWII was ultimately buried with them. Blackstar’s valedictory title track isn’t just an epic Sad Song because of the timing, though-and it isn’t just a sad song, though it had me in tears the first time I heard it. Grandaddy – ‘Everything Beautiful Is Far Away’. It didn’t take long to get responses. Dierks & Josh. Morrissey – ‘Every Day Is Like Sunday’. Bright Eyes – ‘Nothing Gets Crossed Out’. “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. Bachmann’s voice is stronger and more resonant than on the earlier version, which featured acoustic guitar instead of the piano that carries the song here. 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. I don’t want to be a part of it. As this character is withering away due to cancer’s effects, everyone tries to ignore the “elephant” in the room and just make her final moments as joyful as possible. —Matt Fink, Months before SZA dropped her hotly anticipated debut studio album Ctrl, “Drew Barrymore” introduced listeners to precisely how Solana Rowe’s Pop Album of the Decade contender would sound. My Wedding Songs is a reader-supported website. This song is sad enough to begin with but if you’re a Sparklehorse fan, jeez, you’re going to be sobbing. “The moon and stars hang out in bars just talking,” Prine adds. As bleak as his songs can be, Moreland’s most recent album, Big Bad Luv, has a slightly more contented tone. “I miss my beautiful friend”, he sings, before the song changes gear sweetly and unexpectedly. 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. Listen to Top 100 Country Songs of the 2000s in full in the Spotify app. Such a beautifully sad, heart-wrenching song. 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. Not many songs can sum up being dumped for an ex as well as Winehouse does when she woefully sings, “I died a hundred times.”—Tess Duncan, Self-proclaimed adopter of the sadcore genre, indie folk crooner Phoebe Bridgers knows how to write a melancholic tune. Here, Beam has accomplished nothing less than telling the story of our sadness.—Shane Ryan, Few lyrics have resonated more this decade than “You’re the only motherfucker in the city who can handle me.” But “New York’s” strength doesn’t necessarily come from its refrain as much as its hyper-specific ode to Manhattan crossed with a breakup song. If David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ was a song about the terror of floating uncontrollably into space, this song was about what happens when you land, the reminiscences of a space traveller lost in a desolate world. Instead she triumphantly announces, “I keep dancing on my own.” The situation is undeniably hurtful and uncomfortable, but Robyn wants her audience to know that she’s going to be just fine alone, and you are too.—Tess Duncan, “Darling I loved you” opens up Side B of Laura Marling’s pitch perfect third album, A Creature I Don’t know. Though it’s a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song, the late Johnny Cash brought a fragile poignancy to this track. 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. “Rivers and Roads” is about change, and about missing people. When the album version was finally released 21 years later, a melancholy piano ballad complete with ambient sounds throughout, they had recently broken up and Owen was diagnosed with the cancer that killed her later that year. Anthony & The Johnsons – ‘Hope There’s Someone’. Mike Hadreas (he’s not really called Perfume Genius, silly) explained its meaning: “It’s a song for a man whose lover has died. Though a warm display of fingerpicking and pedal play, there’s no light at the end of this song’s tunnel: Bridgers addresses her depression as she wails, “Jesus Christ, I’m so blue all the time/ And that’s just how I feel/ Always have an always will.” “Funeral” is a brave declaration of grief and likely requires a lot of courage to perform. “Don’t you like me for me?” she sings. All James Murphy wants his ‘your pity’ and ‘your bitter tears’. Depression is not an easy thing to talk about, nor sing about, but this bleak track by The National feels suitably spiralling and claustrophobic. 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. A few years ago, Paste looked at the 50 saddest songs of all time, but as the need for new music to help you grieve—to show you that you’re not alone in your pain and to give you the space to process sorrow—is unending, we asked our staff and writers what songs they return to in times of sadness. Top Country Songs 2021 is a chart with today's most popular country music. Country music is well-known for having sad songs. It’s hard to separate the album from its contextual sadness—especially given the LP’s heart-stopping centerpiece, a brooding rendition of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt,” in which the iconic singer glimpses his own mortality. 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. Describing a painful break-up between Damon Albarn and Elastica’s Justine Frischmann, ‘No Distance Left To Run’ is a painful song for the singer to perform. By Melinda Newman. Luke Bryan earned another career achievement this week when he was named Billboard's top country artists of the 2010s, earning the distinction thanks to his 11 No. 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. by the admonishing acoustic cut “Lost Cause,” a hallucinatory goodbye letter to an unknown lover, Beck’s repeated refrain of “I’m tired of fighting” sounds as eerily comforting today as it did over a decade ago.—Ryan J. Prado, This deeply personal song from Brandi Carlile, set to the quiet strumming of guitars and shuffling drums, remembers a friend who committed suicide when she was a teenager—and all the confusion and sadness and rage that comes with tragedy. First song “Afraid of Nothing” lets you know up front exactly where she’s going. —Ellen Johnson, When your topic is the atom bombing of Hiroshima, the resulting tune isn’t going to end up in your “happiest songs” list. “I’m never gonna hold you like I did / Or say I love you to the kids / You’re never gonna see it in my eyes / It’s not gonna hurt me when you cry / I’m not gonna miss you.” Knowing that Campbell was lucid enough to co-write and perform the song, feeling the truth of every word, and probably no longer is, is heartbreaking.—Josh Jackson, There’s never been a shortage of soulfulness in Winehouse’s songs, so it’s no surprise that she crafted such a painful breakup song. Malin sounds resigned as he sings about lingering “funny memories” and contrasts them with a bleak present and hopeless future. But in the chorus, Jules manages to laugh in spite of his dreams of death. Made all the more poignant by Jeff Buckley’s untimely death at the age of 30 in Memphis, Tennessee, ‘Morning Theft’ is an under-appreciated gem from his second, unfinished album, ‘…My Sweetheart The Drunk’. ‘Skinny Love’ is about not wanting to end a relationship but knowing you have to (probably). He captured an overwhelming sadness seasoned with hope in his 2018 song Summer’s End, from The Tree of Forgiveness, his last album. “Why’s it so hard to accept the party is over?” SZA asks at the song’s outset, and at the track’s end, listeners will wonder the same. Here's our list of the top 50 saddest dance music picks of all-time, from sad love songs to depressing songs about death. In the context of the episode, in which it is set off like a jewel in a ring, it’s especially agonizing (it’s juxtaposed with a major-league ave atque vale monologue by the dying Catherine Coulson, and onstage del Rio appears in a dress with an “owl cave” motif against a rippling Black Lodge-style red velvet curtain) but you don’t have to be a Twin Peaks fan or remotely have the extra freighted symbolism to feel the raw longing in that powerhouse voice (Autotuned though it might be), or to feel the throwback-’50s ballad vibe suffusing the track with sorrow at the death of a more innocent world “where it all began/ on a starry night” and we felt safe and encircled and loved. “I just want to be a woman,” cries Beth Gibbons. Flaming Lips – ‘Do You Realize?’, “That everyone you know will someday die?” asks Wayne Coyne. Music is a potent force—it can create friendships and help us get in touch with our feelings, both as listeners and creators—but as all-powerful as it feels when you’re hanging out with your friends in your teens, its limitations grow impossible to ignore with time and age. Alex Turner’s on typically brilliant form here lyrically. It’s not the sort of fact of life you want to tackle at a festival but hearing this with all your friends under the stars rocks. “Love is watching someone die,” a quote from his friend Sarah, sings Ben Gibbard virtually a capella before asking, “So who’s gonna watch you die?” Sure, this is a love song at its heart, but in a dark and twisted way—“What Sarah Said,” one of the highlights on Plans (which includes another saddest-song contender “I Will Follow You Into the Dark”), envisions the strength of love in the emergency room, “a place where we only say goodbye,” decades into a relationship when it is—quite literally—on life support. Radiohead: “True Love Waits” (2016 version), 28. 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. Now, we look at the opposite: 50 beautifully sad songs, beginning with Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’. “You and me, you know we don’t talk much/ It’s hard to handle something you can’t touch,” he sings. “You live long enough and the people you love get old,” she sings, and all too soon, they’re gone. pop music has got “sadder” in the past 30 years, 50 beautifully sad songs – Spotify playlist. But instead of addressing his musical exile in the South Pacific for his comeback song, he responded with a heartbreaking tale over sinister beats about growing up without his father. 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. We wanted to see how Canadian artist songs fare compared to their international counterparts. But listen to it enough times, and Judgement Day imagery will begin to unfold. A song so desolate – ‘death to you, death to me’ – I’m not sure what environment it calls for. 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. Moreland displays a rueful fondness for his younger self, even as he winces at how life can drain away the innocence and enthusiasm of youth until all that’s left is cynicism and uncertainty that we cover with false bravado. The 35 Best Country Songs of the 2010s: Staff List. The track’s massive sound contributes to the punch it packs—as the strings swell and fall, the brooding piano chords mingle with Winehouse’s grief-stricken vocals and pauses are filled in by spare tambourine shakes. Death Cab For Cutie – ‘Transatlanticism’. Most Hauntingly Beautiful and Sad Songs Title is quite self explanatory. Bingo! The Top Ten. —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. Sinead O Connor – ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. “All My Friends,” though danceable and streamline in nature, relays a universal sadness about getting older and the fluctuation of friendships as we age. Neko Case makes it her own on her latest album Hell-On. —Ellen Johnson, This one is truly difficult to withstand without crying, but the visceral reactions that “Elephant” incites are why this song is so everlasting. But when “Fond Farewell” was released almost a year to the day after his apparent suicide, this was the song that wrecked me. Kev's Country Classics. The subject of “Making Pies” is a lonely spinster whose sweetheart died in the War. Every clever, colorful verse teases a course to victory while stoically accepting defeat: “We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole/ We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul/ And in this endless race for property and privilege to be won/ We must run, we must run, we must run.” Joy in the face of hopelessness or the existential equivalent of gallows humor, it’s a nihilistic glimpse into the empty void that ends: “Oh my morning’s coming back/ The whole world’s waking up/ All the city buses swimming past/ I’m happy just because/ I found out I am really no one.” —Josh Jackson, Following the passing of his wife, visual artist and musician Geneviève Castrée, Phil Elverum took a couple months to grieve and then sat down in the room where she died and recorded the 11 songs that make up A Crow Looked at Me. On the face of it, a laserquest should be a great day out. There are so many details that lead to my inevitable goosebumps: the guilty sexual explorations of teens who’ve been taught the importance of abstinence (“I almost touched your blouse”); the strict and distant father who makes a big display of his grief; the ineffectual laying of hands and praying; the cardinal hitting the window. You’ve still got a bit of life in you yet, lads! 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. Despite that the title of “Self Control” is a reference to choosing composure over vulnerability, the track is fragmented and indecisive, aching most in the moments where Ocean lets his slip. 2006 Lake Playlist. 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. Was it about recreational drugs or medication? Robert Wyatt – ‘Shipbuilding’. —Eric R. Danton, This is a sad song with a secretly positive message. 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. “Oh, Laura, you’re more than a superstar,” sings Khan, but her friend just wants to go out on the piss. Johnny Cash – ‘Hurt’. “Now that I know you so well.” But, again, as on the rest of the album, Jacklin marches fearlessly ahead, through the pain, the loneliness, “into the darkness, or is it the light?” This is one of those songs that leaves me wondering, “How does she get on stage every night and bear her whole, entire soul?” —Ellen Johnson, At the beginning of 2011, Glen Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. —Eric R. Danton, Folk songs are especially good at stirring up emotion, and the first line of this acoustic tear-jerker from The Head and the Heart’s self-titled debut is enough to inspire a buyout of Kleenex stock: “A year from now we’ll all be gone, all our friends will move away.” Lyrics predict those friends will be off to “better places,” perhaps to new cities and careers, but the impending loneliness and separation take emotional control from congratulations’ grasp. 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. 1 songs on the weekly Hot Country Songs chart and nine leaders on the Top Country Albums chart during the decade (encompassing his career totals). Smith wrestled his demons in his music, and “Fond Farewell” feels like his goodbye note in song. The Bristol trip-hop group track from their unbelievable debut ‘Dummy’ is an uneasy, ambiguous love song. Playing with the expression “stars in your eyes,” the lyric mourns a relationship, and a world, from which the light has vanished. The record comes to a screeching standstill on “Poke,” a heartbreaking stunner of an acoustic fingerpicked track, where he details the process of finally cutting the chord, delving deep in the ugliness that Baker spoke about with some of the most brutally honest yet beautiful breakup lyrics in recent memory. The 113 absolute best songs from the 2010s, ranked - Insider “I love you.” The whole album makes everything else seem frivolous while you’re hearing it. Nick Cave – ‘People Ain’t No Good’. —Amy Glynn, When Beck released Sea Change in 2002, gone were his freeform experimentations in the jigsaw jazz and get fresh flow. Death Cab For Cutie – ‘Transatlanticism’. Anthony & The Johnsons – ‘Hope There’s Someone’. He retreated to his family’s cabin planning to regroup for a few weeks, and ended up staying there for three months while working on the songs that became For Emma. Her 2017 album Stranger in the Alps is replete with mournful ballads and stories of longing and loss, but “Funeral” may just be the most woeful. So I can relate to Ben Gibbard’s narrator in “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.” He probably had such high hopes his time in D.C., but it’s just left him unwanted and unloved and a little disoriented in a strange place where he clearly doesn’t belong. “It upsets me, that song,” Albarn has said. 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. But it’s through songs like this one that he transcends even that. 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. Listen out for Johnny Greenwood on the ondes martenot. Radiohead – ‘How To Disappear Completely’. —Steven Edelstone, It’s probably safe to assume that Robyn advocates dancing your worries away, so it makes sense that she’d write a song that’s empowering in its self-awareness. “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. The whole story is recounted in much more detail in a work of historical children’s fiction by Eleanor Coerr, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes—Jim Vorel, Look, when your name is Bonnie, a song about a dead girl called “Little Bonnie” is going to make you sad. He’s also master of the image. Alienation was a common theme in Roger Waters’ lyrics, but he never nailed it so succinctly or poignantly as in this song, the title track from the 1975 album. Of all the tragedies on the record, “Carissa” is the most gruesome and harrowing. Bat For Lashes – ‘Laura’. Sharon Van Etten: “Afraid of Nothing”, 40. Sparklehorse, ‘Sad And Beautiful World’. But you don’t have to be a Bonnie—little or big or in-between—to be moved by this Drive-By Truckers track. Bright Eyes: “At the Bottom of Everything”, 46. 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. 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. The Top 100 Country Songs were updated today. Vic Chesnutt: “Flirted With You All My Life”, 19. She sings about the devastating death of a friend and the survivors who help her through it. 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? 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. LCD Soundsystem – ‘All I Want’. And the only conclusion is a chorus of angels whose weeping turns into something like joy as a triumphant trumpet kicks in. Soulful desperation at its best. Perhaps the definitive song about getting the Sunday blues, Moz directs his ire at the grease-tea and deals of a silent and grey coastal town “that they forgot to bomb”. The Verve – ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’. 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. 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