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Anything acoustic by Chris Cornell.

My go to when I'm suicidal is the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. It's the perfect album when I need to feel okay with not being okay. Also gives my depression a name and a face that I can insult and yell at when my brain is being mean to me.

I call random customer service phone lines and wait in line and then hang up after 30 seconds of listening to the saddest person on earth asking if I'm there or if I can hear them.

Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt"

I reserve some wordless music for when my sadness gets critical. That way, they always sound bittersweet without me listening them to death.

• Lourié's 5 Préludes Fragiles. Makes me feel aware of how easy I am to break at the moment, but also how pretty survivalism through fragility can be.
• Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess. It's not about a dead princess, just one in the past, but it makes me feel like I'm that princess, rich and sad and stepping around in a bright, cream-beige ballroom. Instead of just solely sad.
• Debussy's Images. II. Hommage à Rameau. A quiet plaintiveness with occasionally rising energy helps me tend closer to neutrality.
• Stanchinsky's Prelude in the Lydian Mode. As the n-tuplets get desperate, I get desperate to fix everything. But then the curses stop and we return to a pretty but occasionally sickly quiet. The nonsenses are pinpricks in its floral thoughts.
• Glinka/Balakirev's The Lark. Reminds me that I'm fluttering, not just floundering.

In any order, but I usually start with the Fragile Preludes (especially the middle few of the set). Lyrical songs are usually for higher energy/mood to me

Alan Walker has some bangers. Personal favourites are On My Way, Not You, and End of Time

Alec Benjamin is also amazing. Favourites are If I Killed Someone For You and Boy in the Bubble

Also Pokemon Mystery Dungeon has some of the best instrumental-only pieces IMO. Don't Ever Forget from PMD Explorers is my all time favourite sad song (partly because of the context around when that song played in game but it stands just as well on its own).

Chon or Strawberry Girls. They are both upbeat, neat and will turn your teardrops sweet.

Usually angry music like melodic black metal or heavy stoner/doom. somehow gives me the right energy to get out of the slump.

Type O Negative, doom and gloom is my cup of tea even when I'm not sad lol.

Sigur Ros.

I like to listen to dodie sometimes

I don't , it'll just make me cry harder and longer and that's exhausting

There is a bunch of melancholic songs but what that always comes to mind and I enjoy since I was a teenager is this 3 songs by Moby:

• Porcelain, the video clip is nothing special, just abstract.
• In this world, this is the saddest clip, the poor cute aliens.
• Why does my heart feel so bad?, The clip is cute and kinda sad.

Mad World Covered by Gary Jules

Last Kiss Covered by Pearl Jam

Curse of the Blackened Eye by Orville Peck

The band Spanish Love Songs.

Surf goth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRZAKumetY

Ashnikko, she's great. By my understanding, some of her music was a way to process her feelings.

Damien Rice Wet

EDEN - vertigo (album)

Schnittke's Choir Concerto.

The National and Bon Iver should be on this list.

Oh, the tearjerkers:

Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham and Red Dirt Girl

Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World

So good, so sad, so cathartic.

When I'm feeling what I can only describe as 'general despair at the state of things' (weltschmerz?) I have to admit that Babylon Zoo's Spaceman does a great job in vocalising what I feel.

Down down down my itchy, Red water by rehab

I've found that Charlie Cunningham has some stuff that can really motivate or put stuff in perspective. Stuff like Pathways or Headlights can feel like a hand on the shoulder.

Try some of Matt Elliott, it's going to crush you

Eyedea especially the song Even shadows have shadows

mt. Marcy

I usually listen to the album Still Can't Kill Us (Acoustic Sessions) by Icon for Hire.

When I feel really miserable I listen to the album I Went to Hell and Back by As It Is.

Smog - The Well

or some Brad Sucks

It depends, if I'm feeling cathartic then I'll listen to something like Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In

If I want to feel better then Electric Callboy - We Got the Moves

If I want to get angry then Off With Their Heads - Clear The Air

"Real Big Sky", Emma Ruth Rundle: https://youtu.be/bspwpdTvaUw?si=SZISTfebS_bcYSO_

"For Everything a Reason", Carina Round: https://youtu.be/AKqgE8z7PcA?si=R8g1MCLN4CYVG9

"A Singularity - Re-Imagined by Carina Round", Puscifer: https://youtu.be/ORcrjdXD0Xk?si=-o6UL1CvWMxRiH95

"Moon", All the Luck in the World: https://youtu.be/hLZpvWvNdZo?si=Q8pTTxOXFtycy9UG

"Dark Eyes", All the Luck in the World: https://youtu.be/3sySciqN1x0?si=-TiXq3R6Dktwt-o

"Round Here", The Counting Crows: https://youtu.be/SAe3sCIakXo?si=50YWhvz8mmPFzFx3

"Move Me", Badflower: https://youtu.be/j2iM1mYuYD8?si=A3Ced8y-tyYL2WnF

".haunted.", Dead Poet Society: https://youtu.be/xYclMPNwy0E?si=oqm7ns4M7GDQM6gL

But if I'm being honest like 75% percent of what I listen to is sad. Lmk if anyone wants more.

To tune out and reset my mental and emotional state: Most anything by Paleowolf

To restore hope and interest in seeking good things from life:

• Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog
• Glorious Dawn by Melodysheep
• Nightswimming by R.E.M. (This one can be risky though, sometimes it makes me feel even more nostalgia-sad.)

The goofy answer: https://alvinisemo.ytmnd.com/

Well if you're already into Brel... I can confidently give you Brassens. I consider him to have been the greatest poet. It's difficult to convey just how beautifully he told mundane things (les copains d'abord, l'orage...), how he made life and death sweet (le testament, la prière...), how he brought the humblest people under the limelight (la complainte des filles de joie, l'auvergnat...), and elevated already beautiful works of poetry (Paul Fort, Victor Hugo) into musical classics (Gastibelza, le petit cheval...).

Right Next To The Right One by Tim Christensen. It's a nice mellow song