DAY 10 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
I’M NOT CRYING! YOU’RE CRYING!!!
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
Sufjan Stevens “The Only Thing”
The entire Carrie & Lowell album, really. I won’t lie, that song in particular has made me tear up a few times. It’s about the death of a loved one (his mother in this case).
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
From the first time I heard this song up until today it just hits my emotions completely. Now to go sad cry on Saturday!
Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters, “Boneyard”.
Sputnik by Smile.
It starts out about Laika, the dog that the USSR sent into space and died, and goes downhill from there.
They seem to be a relatively unknown band, but if you like it, try “Staring at the Sun” for something not so downer.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hRYeC9mjFK2nrm6guHAM0?si=sD0HrcxyQuuIDVbBxBTvfg
Phil Elverum from The Microphones and Mount Eerie lost his wife to cancer and then wrote an album about it called A Crow Looked at Me. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Here’s the opener from the album.
There’s plenty of sad songs in this thread but this is the “this isn’t cathartic it’s just devastating” kind of sad that can only come from real, deep, somber, visceral pain
That’s a great way of putting it. It’s devastating and honestly difficult to listen to. But maybe someone needs to hear it so that’s why I posted it
Absolutely, Phil’s an incredible artist that doesn’t get nearly as much attention as he deserves
Cavetown really hits that a lot for me, but this song has made me so listening to the album because I can’t stop thinking about past pets.
As a side note, you should listen to Lemon Boy from the same album.
Here’s one I’d forgotten about. This live version is really nice (slow starter)
Crippled Black Phoenix - Burnt Reynolds
Here’s some alternative hip hop that might make you cry
Thanks for this. “Puppets” was also one of my better finds recently.
Atmosphere has a lot of good songs. The Waitress is another good one from the same album.
I had trouble finding something recent, but this works, I think, just older.
Chris Bell - I am the cosmos
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
"I’m not here.
This isn’t happening."
Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day and for the same reason. I miss you, Dad. Nine years.
This one is an old, sad favorite of ours: Katy Song - Red House Painters
Keaton Henson makes some beautiful somber music
Bear’s Den - Pompeii
This version, specifically.oh it’s gotta be “Forever” by Bruderschaft (featuring vocals by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBugs8pgtK0This song is uncompromisingly beautiful: a poem of love and dedication from a son to a dying father.
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