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I like sad music. Hashtag sorry not sorry. I wanted to share with you, and hopefully you will share with me, those songs that just destroy you emotionally when you hear them.
Tiger Lou's "Like My Very Own Blood" starts off innocently enough. It's doesn't sound sad, but it sure as hell doesn't make you think sunshine and rainbows. After you hit the first chorus, you even start to think it might be uplifting... and then the quick second verse is like a stab in the stomach. Heavy shit.
Sufjan Stevens writes some pretty sad songs, but "Casimir Pulaski Day" is (in my opinion) his saddest. Just from the first stanza ("Goldenrod and the 4H stone\the things I brought you when I found out you had cancer of the bone"), you know you're in for it, and the rest of the song continues the theme of rending your heart into confetti, line by line. By the time he's crying on the bathroom floor, you're right there with him.
Speaking of cancer, here comes Jason Isbell with "Elephant". I adore this album, and this song is the depressing centerpiece. There is nothing worse than watching a loved one fade away into nothing because of sickness, and he perfectly encapsulates that distress here. And that final chorus ("No one dies with dignity")... damn.
Sun Kil Moon, aka Mark Kozolek from Red House Painters, put out this album last year, which is basically a collection of his saddest life memories put to acoustic guitar. There's one song about his cousin dying in an explosion, one about his uncle committing suicide, and then this song, "I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love". The first time I heard this song, I was left in tears and distraught, because while the thought of my mother not always being in my life was something I hadn't even thought about, I realized I'm well above 30 now, and that reality is quickly approaching. This one definitely is the most personal on this list.
La Dispute is, by default, incredibly emotional and heavy, but "King Park"... I can't even begin to describe the weight it leaves in your chest. moot introduced me to this band with this song, and, to this day, I have listened to it fewer than ten total times, because I just can't take it. I understand the screamed vocals may turn some off, but I urge you to give the entire song a listen, because it isn't so much music as it is an experience. Add to that a gut punch climax like no other recorded by humans, and I have no problem saying this song has left me in tears multiple times (another reason I avoid listening to it).
Okay, that's all I've got off the top of my head. If I continue down this path, I'm liable to play in traffic. Whatchu got, tough guy?
Tiger Lou's "Like My Very Own Blood" starts off innocently enough. It's doesn't sound sad, but it sure as hell doesn't make you think sunshine and rainbows. After you hit the first chorus, you even start to think it might be uplifting... and then the quick second verse is like a stab in the stomach. Heavy shit.
Sufjan Stevens writes some pretty sad songs, but "Casimir Pulaski Day" is (in my opinion) his saddest. Just from the first stanza ("Goldenrod and the 4H stone\the things I brought you when I found out you had cancer of the bone"), you know you're in for it, and the rest of the song continues the theme of rending your heart into confetti, line by line. By the time he's crying on the bathroom floor, you're right there with him.
Speaking of cancer, here comes Jason Isbell with "Elephant". I adore this album, and this song is the depressing centerpiece. There is nothing worse than watching a loved one fade away into nothing because of sickness, and he perfectly encapsulates that distress here. And that final chorus ("No one dies with dignity")... damn.
Sun Kil Moon, aka Mark Kozolek from Red House Painters, put out this album last year, which is basically a collection of his saddest life memories put to acoustic guitar. There's one song about his cousin dying in an explosion, one about his uncle committing suicide, and then this song, "I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love". The first time I heard this song, I was left in tears and distraught, because while the thought of my mother not always being in my life was something I hadn't even thought about, I realized I'm well above 30 now, and that reality is quickly approaching. This one definitely is the most personal on this list.
La Dispute is, by default, incredibly emotional and heavy, but "King Park"... I can't even begin to describe the weight it leaves in your chest. moot introduced me to this band with this song, and, to this day, I have listened to it fewer than ten total times, because I just can't take it. I understand the screamed vocals may turn some off, but I urge you to give the entire song a listen, because it isn't so much music as it is an experience. Add to that a gut punch climax like no other recorded by humans, and I have no problem saying this song has left me in tears multiple times (another reason I avoid listening to it).
Okay, that's all I've got off the top of my head. If I continue down this path, I'm liable to play in traffic. Whatchu got, tough guy?