What songs do you listen when you are sad?

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by catinthedark

i am a HUGE believer in owning my sadness. when i am sad, i put on the saddest music i own, and just let my heart break off piece by piece. my best friend actually calls and threatens to come over and take my ipod away.

omg dude. me too. I want to saturate myself in it and get over it for real. not just "pretend" everything is o.k. and turn on happy **** . happy **** ain't my style

lesse-


beauty and the beast-stevie nicks
I'll stand by you- pretenders
crush-dave matthews band
storms-fm
total eclipse of the heart-bonnie tyler
here without you-3 doors down
sometimes love just ain't enough-pattie smyth/don henley
how can I help you to say goodbye-patty loveless
simple kind of life-no doubt
insensitive-jann arden
i can't make you love me-bonnie raitt
smile at you(angry version)-stevie/fm
like we never loved at all-faith/tim

but those are all just from the general sadness category but it really all depends on why I'm sad. if it's because of a boy-silver springs all the way.

[estranged4life]

To add to the songs I added, when I'm sad I'm a miserable and EMO bastard, who would rather wallow in his misery than cheer up.

[DavidMn]

Another one for me during sad times is:

I Started A Joke- The Bee Gees. One of the most beautiful songs Ive ever heard! Just magnificent

[xdreamsunwindx]

I can't believe I forgot this tune - "Ball And Chain" by Social Distortion. One of the greatest, most beautiful songs of all time.

Well it's been ten years and a thousand tears
And look at the mess I'm in
A broken nose and a broken heart,
An empty bottle of gin
Well I sit and I pray
In my broken down Chevrolet
While I'm singin' to myself
There's got to be another way

Take away, take away
Take away this ball and chain
Well I'm lonely and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain
Take away, take away
Never to return again
Take away, take away
Take away
Take away this ball and chain

Well I've searched and I've searched
To find the perfect life
A brand new car and a brand new suit
I even got me a little wife
But wherever I have gone
I was sure to find myself there
You can run all your life
But not go anywhere

Take away, take away
Take away this ball and chain
Well I'm sick and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain
Take away, take away
Never to return again
Take away, take away
Take away
Take away this ball and chain

Well I'll pass the bar on the way
To my dingy hotel room
I spent all my money
I've been drinkin' since half past noon
Well I'll wake there in the mornin'
Or maybe in the county jail
Times are hard getting harder
I'm born to lose and destined to fail

Take away, take away
Take away this ball and chain
Well I'm lonely and I'm tired
And I can't take any more pain
Take away, take away
Never to return again
Take away, take away
Take away
Take away this ball and chain

Mike Ness' voice and lyrics are so great. There's something very real about him. Loves.

[DeadliestPoison]

Typically anything that will keep me sad.

Goin' through the iTunes:
Aimee Mann - Humpty Dumpty, High On Sunday 51, This Is How It Goes, Invisible Ink, Today's The Day, The Moth, It's Not, Fourth Of July, Stupid Thing, I've Had It, Wise Up, Save Me, Satellite, Video, Little Bombs, That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart
Arrah & the Ferns - Southern Comfort
Babble - Hold The Sky
Beth Gibbons - Funny Time Of Year, Candy Says
Blondie - Rules For Living, The Dream's Lost On Me
Casey Stratton - Cellophane, I Can't Make You Love Me
Cat Power - The Greatest, Wonderwall
Charlotte Gainsbourg - AF607105
The Church - Under The Milky Way
Clint Mansell/Kronos Quartet - Lux Aeterna
Conjure One & Poe - Center Of The Sun
The Creatures - Killing Time
The Decemberists - Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
DeVotchKa - The Last Beat Of My Heart
The Elected - 7th September 2003, Greetings In Braille, A Response To Greed
Elvis Costello - Alison
Emilie Autumn - Hollow Like My Soul, I Don't Care Much, Ever, Remember, What If, Mad Girl, The Art Of Suicide, Shalott, Photographic Memory, Gloomy Sunday, A World Of My Own
Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Doctor Blind, The Lottery
Fiona Apple - Sullen Girl, Sally's Song
Frou Frou - Let Go
Garbage - Medication
The Good Life - Inmates
Imogen Heap - Hide & Seek, Hallelujah, Speeding Cars
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - You Are What You Love
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Broad Ripple Is Burning, A Sea Chanty of Sorts, Jen Is Bringing The Drugs, Dress Me Like A Clown
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Métisse - Boom Boom Bâ
Midlake - Young Bride
Neko Case - Outro With Bees, Tightly, Look For Me (I'll Be Around), I Wish I Was The Moon, Runnin' Out Of Fools, Ghost Wiring, Knock Loud, In California, Margaret Vs. Pauline, Porchlight, Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis, Hex, Duchess
Nelly Furtado - Scared Of You, Onde Estás, Try, Build You Up
Olive - Trickle
Patti Smith - Elegie, Beneath The Southern Cross, Cartwheels, Helpless, Pasttime Paradise, Perfect Day, Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect, Everybody Hurts
Paul Schwarz - Veni Redemptor Gentium
Placebo - Twenty Years, Running Up That Hill
Poe - Haunted, Spanish Doll, Amazed, If You Were Here, Fly Away
PORTISHEAD - ROADS, Elysium, Over, Undenied
The Pretenders - Human, Samurai, Chill Factor, Hymn To Her, Kid, I Hurt You, Criminal, Creep, 977, Forever Young, Goodbye, The Needle & The Damage Done, Angel Of The Morning, I Go To Sleep
Regina Spektor - Samson, The Flowers, Chemo Limo
Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won't Come Out, So Long, A Better Son/Daughter, Papillon, Asshole, Ripchord, Absence Of God, A Man/Me/Then Jim, Somebody Else's Clothes, It Just Is, A Town Called Lucky, Simply Irresistible, Xmas Cake, American Wife, Science Vs. Romance, Plane Crash In C
Sia - Breathe Me
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Obsession, Melt!, Face To Face, I Promise, I Could Be Again, Carousel, The Last Beat Of My Heart, Rhapsody, Forever, Little Sister, The Ghost In You, Hall Of Mirrors, Strange Fruit, Lullaby
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
This Story - An Old Slave Hymnal
Tilly and the Wall - Lost Girls, Coughing Colors, Bessa
Tom Petty - Crawling Back To You
Tom Waits - Time
Tori Amos - Horses, Hey Jupiter (Dakota Version), Smells Like Teen Spirit, Spark, Jackie's Strength, iieee, Northern Lad, Playboy Mommy, Pandora's Aquarium, Crucify, Winter, Me And A Gun
The Watson Twins - Shoot The Lights Out
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Turn Into, The Diamond Sea

I like sad stuff idk

[darklinensuit]

Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin
Think About It, Straight Back, Battle of the Dragon - SN
Desperadoes Under the Eaves - Warren Zevon
Yerushalaim Shel Zahav - Ofra Haza
Desperado - The Eagles
Southern Accents - Tom P.
Jackie Brown - John Mellencamp
Helpless - Crosby SN&Y
Midnight Voyage - Mamas & the Papas
All Fired Up - Pat Benatar
Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan
Moon River - Andy Williams

I'm sure there are others.

- Jake W.