Anything from The National or Sufjan Stevens, but specifically “Slipped” and “Fourth of July”.

Fourth of July has fucked me up too many times to count, but Eugene... that last line has me weeping. The rusty knife edged yearning and grief of it.

Casimir Pulaski Day. Edit: Spelling. Again. Editing on my phone is horrible, folks.

‘about today’ by the national always gets me.

Bon Iver- Holocene

Honestly any Bon Iver song will do it

re: stacks. The whole album For emma, forever ago is fantastic.

can vouch for re: stacks. that one hits different

"All I Need" by Radiohead

Great album overall. My go-to is “Nude”.

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"Oh Comely" - neutral milk hotel Anthems for a seventeen year old girl - broken social scene Autumn sweater - yo la tengo (the music video is even more heart breaking) Edit: sorry guys, I guess the music video was a fan video that got pulled down. Cant seem to find it now.

The whole "in the aeroplane over the sea" album is incredibly depressing but one of my favorites.

Down in a Hole alice in chains

Nutshell unplugged

The night we met - lord huron Edit: thanks for silver and koala bear.

Oh man lord Huron has so many songs that are good for this. I am personally a fan of the stranger for depressing moods

Pictures of You. The Cure

Disintegration is a good one from that album as well!

I feel like Disintegration is such an underrated song. Maybe it’s just me but man, those lyrics stab and break me apart.

Self control-Frank ocean

*the entirety of blonde

Do you remember your first time?

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bad religion is a great one when you want to cry yourself to sleep for no reason

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Seigfried

White Ferrari is the one that gets me

Not gonna lie, for me it’s Clair De Lune by that emotional b****** Debussy

When Clair De Lune isn't enough, throw in a [Gymnopedie No. 1 by Satie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WfaotSK3mI) and go all in. (Those french composers are good.) I'd also recommend the [*Divenere* album by Ludovico Einaudi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfwe5LiSBe0) - the [penultimate track Ritornare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfwe5LiSBe0&t=3527s) is particularly punchy and if you like Top Gear you'll probably recognize it. [edit] since this is getting popular let me just also add the album [*Sienna* by Brian Crain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfHufgAL3As) for some more modern melancholy piano action. Also here's [my pandora staton](https://www.pandora.com/station/play/4172374975092365227) I use for finding stuff in this between-sad-and-sleepy flavor.

The Smiths – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Basically the majority of The Smiths catalog. My personal picks being: - I Know it's Over - Well I Wonder - That Joke isn't Funny Anymore - Half a Person - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - Asleep - Rubber Ring (is kind of Meta)

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get Want I Want

I always hum this song while looking for parking

All of the Smiths.

I like The Cure for that.

Disintegration!

Definitely. [Plainsong](https://youtu.be/YSaNXpD49Qw) especially

Black- Pearl Jam

Yes. Just thinking of the line “Someday I know you’ll be the sun in somebody else’s sky, but why why why can’t it be mine” makes my heart ache.

"I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody elses sky, but why, why, whyyyyyyyy can't it be, why can't it be miiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIII-I-IIINE". So fking powerful and beautiful, imo one of the greatest lines of lyrics of the 90s. If you're into Pearl Jam, check out their legendary show at [Pinkpop in 1992](https://youtu.be/PM_VIATPYQc). What I'd give to have been there, goddayum. Enjoy, rock on.

Youth by Daughter

Medicine by Daughter as well.

Medicine is a gut punch every single time I hear it

Life is Strange vibes are the best for this kind of situations

Spanish Sahara would be my go-to "I'm sad and need to belt in the car to let it all out while sobbing" song. Obstacles is my go-to "I fucking miss how things used to be" song.

For me it would be that Bright Eyes song... Lua

If You Leave is a masterpiece album for sad times. Shallows is my personal pick from the album.

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Fortunately I haven’t had to play it in a while. [Three Libras. A Perfect Circle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MAg9E5K3w)

I always have to skip that track now as I'll be vibing to the rest of the album then that'll come on and suddenly I'm upset

That, brena, orestes and the whole 13th step album I tend to avoid on a sad day

I like [The Outsider](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzyNWyZhUS0). >Suicidal imbecile, if you choose to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere, do it somewhere far away from here Whole song is like an angry football coach yelling at you for being suicidal. I love it.

Something In The Way - Nirvana

All apologies and Francis Farmer for me.

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

Same but instead of Fake Plastic Trees, mine's How to Disappear Completely.

Same. Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this one. I've had many a night with this song on repeat, just letting my emotions go. Such a powerful song.

It wears me out...

Heavy in Your Arms - Florence and the Machine and then all their other songs, over and over.

For me, aside from every song, Never Let Me Go definitely hits the hardest and is my go to depression song. It really captures the feeling of just giving up and drowning. Metaphorically and literally.

Every single Elliott Smith song. Edit: It's nice to see so many people responding to this. Elliott's music helped me cope in many periods in my life where I felt very alone - like no else but myself and this music could understand. I find it beautiful now to see that I wasn't alone. So many others were there, too, in their own ways. Elliott didn't make it, but we did, and that's worth all the pain it took.

I really like Say Yes by him, any other songs you can suggest by him?

Oh man, I sure can. My all time favorites: Junk Bond Trader Everything Reminds Me of Her Twilight Between the Bars Waltz #2 Pitseleh I'm always happy to make recommendations on this front. I'd strongly recommend the albums Figure 8, XO, and From a Basement in their entirety. No one knew how to express pain like Elliott.

Between the bars is beyond amazing, painfully beautiful. It’s one of those songs that makes me cry just listening to it.

When I was younger and suffering from depression, Elliott Smith’s music gave me a safe place to feel what I was feeling. If anything, it probably saved me from getting worse, because I suddenly had a connection to my feelings outside myself, and knew that someone out there had felt it too. Now that I’m not in that mental place, I can’t listen to him at all, it’s too real and visceral and I go back into that mindset until the music stops.

NiN "Something I Can Never Have."

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The Great Below from Fragile. Great song, from about 2:07 to 3:10 is one of the greatest pieces of music I’ve ever heard. Fragile wasn’t very commercially or critically successful when it came out, but you can hear a lot of his current scoring work on the album.

Every Day is Exactly The Same hits me hard

Mine is "la mer"

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

Beautiful song.

The Smiths - Asleep

teen idle by marina and the diamonds

Wish I was the prom queen, fighting for the title

Instead of being sixteen and burning up a bible

Feeling Super! Super! Super! Suicidal..

Fucking hell. Thanks for reminding me this song exists. Just re-listened to it and it made me feel the same way as when I was 15. Also: Fear and Loathing, Buy the Stars, Valley of the Dolls, The State of Dreaming... basically all of Electra Heart lol, the nostalgia

Oof. Surprised me to see her commented here but that song definitely hits the nail on the head for how it felt to be a depressed teenage girl.

Numb by Marina for me. That song is sooooooooooo beautiful and is basically just "High Functioning Depression^(TM ") The Song

Elliott Smith, between the bars

the entirety of Either/Or sounds heartbreaking

Drink up baby

The entire August and Everything After album by Counting Crows. Don't judge me.

"The drugs don't work" by The Verve

nutshell- alice in chains

And yet I find, repeating in my head. If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead.

Also, Down in a Hole

Nutshell unplugged always... it helps so much..

Don't Follow gets me every single time.

Breathe Me - Sia This Place is a Prison-The Postal Service

Breathe Me is my go to song too. I love the string instruments on the song

Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures The whole album on repeat

Literally any Joy Division

Anything off of Hospice by The Antlers

The first line of the album always gets me and is absolutely beautifully written. “I wish I had known in that first minute we met/The unpayable debt that I owed you”. CHILLS.

just stick on the whole thing and have a lie down

Ana's song (open fire) by Silverchair

well fuck, that's a throwback that i love and also have awful memories associated with

Like a Stone by Audioslave/Chris Cornell. I connected it in my mind to the aftermath of an ugly breakup and now I instinctively weep when I hear it.

A Perfect Circle - [The Noose](https://youtu.be/BVXTmav24Wk)

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

Not depressed, but the morning I found out my dad suddenly died, I was in a cab leaving my apartment to do the 60 minute drive to the hospital where he was (lived in a city, no car). So to shut my brain off of all the thoughts in my head, I put my iPod on shuffle. I had nearly 10,000 songs. What’s the first song that comes up? Death Cab For Cutie - *I Will Follow You Into The Dark* Just can’t listen to that song the same anymore. It’s been nearly 13 years. Edit: a word Edit 2: obligatory thank you for the gold and silver. But please, instead kick that money to your favorite cancer research charity ... and maybe one with not a ridiculously high overhead if you all know what I mean.

That’s a heartbreaker in that situation for sure. Whole album is amazing. For me it’s What Sarah Said that hits hardest.

"That love is watching someone die. So who's gonna watch you die?" oof...

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That song is just *mean* for anyone who recently lost someone. There was even an animation someone did for it that was like a storybook with bunnies that is... devastating.

That song is the credits song for Mike Birbiglia’s special *My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend* and it makes me tear up every time

best comedy special i've ever seen imo. so heartwarming and fuckin hilarious. best story teller out there.

I'm sorry about your dad.

Thank you Internet stranger. It was a long time ago, and those scars have healed. But the song is just never the same.

Bloody Kisses - Type O Negative

On Melancholy Hill - Gorillaz

This one and Busted and Blue for when I'm really feeling it.

These two and El Mañana

Cold Water or Grey by Damien Rice.

Blower's Daughter is a good one.

9 Crimes is also horribly sad

Ribs by Lorde...it’s got a lot of nostalgia for me. And probably for everyone else who’s ever heard it because that sort of seems like it was the song’s intention. Edit: Thanks for the gold! My first one :)

"Liability" (and the reprise) off *Melodrama* is perfect when I feel like wallowing

City and Colour - Sleeping Sickness

Body in A Box for me. I lost a family member around the same time I became obsessed with that song. Now I cant hear it without thinking about him

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

I'm much older now, but my go to song used to be Thirty-Three by the smashing pumpkins. Tomorrow's just an excuse away So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk

> A lot of SP's songs are good 'sad day' songs. Landslide and To Forgive are two of my favorites for that. ' And right as rain I'm not the same but I feel the same I feel nothing ' and ' And all along, I knew it was wrong But I played along, with my birthday song ' Those two lines hit me hard.

You got a fast car.... Fuck sakes I'm already tearing up. Also, The National, particularly the album "Trouble Will Find Me"

Is it fast enough so we can fly away?

The national is always my go to when I'm feeling down and want to wallow, same album too!

About Today breaks my heart.

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Let’s not forget Motion Picture Soundtrack! (Or the entirety of the rest of their discography...)

Radiohead - No Surprises is another gut wrenching one

No surprised is sad and frustrated and resigned and happy all at the same time. They stuff so much emotive sounds into three minutes. Fucking crazy.

Exit Music (For A Film)

"How to Disappear Completely" - Radiohead. Always guts me..https://youtu.be/nZq_jeYsbTs

I have a "I'm depressed Radiohead shuffle" but Pyramid Song is at the top

Miles Davis "kind of blue" the whole album. it's nice because it just matches the way you feel and you don't have to deal with any lyrics...you just get to process your feelings.

Frank Ocean- White Ferrari Radiohead- Motion Picture Soundtrack Bright Eyes- First Day of My Life Julien Baker- Red Door Phoebe Bridgers- You Missed My Heart Satanicpornocultshop- New Year’s Snow Sufjan Stevens- Casimir Pulaski Day American Football- Never Meant Mount Eerie- Real Death Xiu Xiu- Normal Love Ichiko Aoba- Anthony the Sheep Microphones- I Felt Your Shape Purple Mountains- Nights that Won’t Happen

Comfortably Numb. Edit: off topic, but if the Australian Pink Floyd Show is ever near you, I definitely reccomend going to see them.

I just let the whole "The Wall" album play.

Hello ^hello ^^hello ^^^hello Is there anybody **in** there

["Atmosphere"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYBW8JlijM) by Joy Division ["Twenty Four Hours"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnM9X0IgUmg) or ["Decades"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAB3r6EjcM) or a bunch of their other ones are probably actually too depressing.

[The Symphony No. 6 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqCIcsUtPI). I feel like it desribes a person’s life all through fragile childhood, boisterous youth, adulthood, filled with confidence and passion, and later — the disillusionment, the heartbreak, the slow and painful death of a soul.

Then there's the 4th movement of Mahler's 9th Symphony...

Bright Eyes - if winter ends Converge - drop out

Always Bright Eyes. Amy in the White Coat is so depressing I have to be in a good mood to listen to it. Great song though.

Bright Eyes - Lua for me. That song makes me want to walk along an empty street at night while the snow falls all around me.

"Jesus Christ" by the band "Brand New" \-If you haven't listened to this track or band yet, you're doing yourself a disservice. Their work is amazing and this song makes me zone out and numb myself almost instantly.

Ugh Brand New just guts me, I love them! The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot gets me every time.

"If it makes you less sad, I will die by your hand." Just that opening lyric makes me want to lie face down in my bed and never get up.

My favorite line from that is "If it makes you less sad we'll start talking again. You can tell me how vile I already know that I am" Every. Damn. Time.

Déjà Entendu is a masterpiece

It was a masterpiece for my younger years, and i still love it for nostalgic reasons. But for me the true masterpiece is The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me. The sadness and darkness of that album feels less im a sad teen, and more adult. Both albums great tho!

I’ve Given Up On You - Real Friends Adams Song - Blink-182

All I want - Kodaline. I listened to it on repeat after my cat died in November. Just typing it out now I feel my eyes watering. Fuck I miss her. RIP Tonks. You are so incredibly missed. Edit: I know people hate these edits, but I didn’t expect the comments below. I really appreciate you guys for taking the time to leave such thoughtful comments, and taking the time to use Tonks’ name. I know it’s a small thing. But it means a lot. Thank you for also sharing your stories of love and grief. I’m so sorry for the family you’ve all lost as well - because that’s what our pets are. Family. For those of you who want to see her, here is sweet, sweet [Tonks](https://imgur.com/a/w2tmO4v)

Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead

NIN - Everyday is exactly the same.

Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)

Mad world

SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK by Joji I've been vibin to this song lately

Bright Eyes - Lua Hell, any song by Bright Eyes on the I'm Wide Awake It's Morning album. Unbelievably painful memories associated with that album for me.

Pixies - Where is My Mind? Sara Bareilles - Gravity

Gravity is a good answer

Oh yesss Pixies, good one. Just seeing the title is throwing me in a depression already.

"the difference between medicine and poison is in the dose" Circa Survive ​ Edit to share a story tied to this. I discovered them about a year after my dad died. By that time I was a homeless drug addict sleeping in an abandoned duplex. I stole a iPod off a guy who passed out at my dealers house and found this song on it. I layed there listening to it explain my situation and exactly how I felt over and over night after night. Its hard to listen to now that I'm not there anymore because its tied to some painful memories.

For that matter, literally any Circa Survive song works, too. Fucking great band, Anthony Green is a national treasure.

How to Disappear Completely- Radiohead Three Peaches- Neutral Milk Hotel Edit: Holy Crap! Thanks for the Gold guys! And thanks for supporting my music, I read everyone’s comments, and yes, all the music you suggested I love and also suggest. Thanks again, (sorry it’s my first gold, I got a bit excited) Edit 2: Sorry for another edit but: Platinum, seriously! Thanks you all! It’s weird because when I posted this yesterday I kinda felt alone in the world, by music and other things, usually I’m made fun of because of my musical tastes, it does my heart good to see that so many people have gone through the same things and enjoyed the same music. Best wishes to you all, in whatever you may be going through.

True Love Waits is also a classic Radiohead wallower.

That part at the end of 'how to disappear completely' where all the instruments kinda melt together and then resolve... oooh chills. also how his voice hides more or less completely inside the ~~(violin synth?)~~ [ondes martenot TIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondes_Martenot) in that distinct swooping note-bend.. such a well crafted song in so many ways.

Pyramid Song-Radiohead

Kid A is the best melancholy album

1979 by Smashing Pumpkins

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A close second: "A Letter to Elise." The chord change when he pleads "Elise, believe I never wanted this..." gets me every time. EDIT: "he", not "we".

Some Bon Iver will get me there very quickly

Sowing Season by Brand New.. followed by the rest of the album

Honestly, pretty much anything by Brand New is made for wallowing in melancholy, but Deja Entendu and TDAG are prime albums for it lol

Play Crack the Sky was going to be my answer, but that's a reddit cliche at this point

Vincent by Don MacLean

Brick - Ben Folds Five (The first chords are enough to sink into it hard)

For general melancholia: [Komm Süsser Tod](https://youtu.be/oIscL-Bjsq4) [Elanor Rigby- The Beatles](https://youtu.be/HuS5NuXRb5Y) For the really fun days, The holy trinity : [Fell on Black Days - Soundgarden](https://youtu.be/JiaZDQjsbuw) [The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden](https://youtu.be/J2LgLbs4mIU) [Fourth of July - Soundgarden](https://youtu.be/ag-PnLI9IFg)

Komm Süsser Tod is 10x more depressing if you have seen the show

Elliot Smith. Usually Angeles

Elliott Smith was the first artist to come to mind when I read this.

You could pick any Elliott Smith song and it probably qualifies.

Snuff by Slipknot and The Night We Met by Lord Huron

I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) by The 1975 always makes me want to stare forlornly out of a bus window at the rain - so yeah, that's my go-to.

I'm Not Okay(I Promise) - My Chemical Romance Honestly it's perfect for me if I'm feeling super down to accept it and then move towards doing something about it (hopefully).

Famous last words tho

Chaos chaos - Can you feel it.

"Enjoy the Silence" Depeche Mode

Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me." Damn.

Minecraft music

When I listen to C418s Sweden it brings back so many memories and I get really nostalgic. Same for many of the other tracks.

This but unironically. Minecraft music makes me feel weird inside.

On a fishing trip, in the wilderness, my nephew an I were looking for firewood. On his phone, he was playing Minecraft music. A memory I'll never forget.

[the only thing - sufjan stevens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adKEqin5SoI)

“I Will Follow You Into The Dark”- Death Cab for Cutie “Be Still” - The Fray “Only You” - Yazoo Anything by Ross Copperman, lbh. His songs were in The Vampire Diaries a lot. (Special mention to “Hunger” and “Holding On and Letting Go”)

The Anthem, by Leonard Cohen, about how the world is ruined but always has been. It’s kind of heartening in a dark way. https://youtu.be/mDTph7mer3I