[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 10 - An alternative song that makes you SAD šŸ˜¢

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DAY 10 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING!!!

Each day Iā€™ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

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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).

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.

https://youtu.be/qdlOco92FOY

As a side note, you should listen to Lemon Boy from the same album.

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.

Real Death - Mount Eerie

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

Sad musics' my jam! Enjoy being down in the dumps today

Edit the Sad Parts - Modest Mouse

Indie rock

Spectral Bride - Giles Corey

Folk, noise

My Madonna - Two Galants

Indie rock, folk

MANY HANDS - Lingua Ignota

TW: Rape, abuse, religious trauma

Appalachian, avant garde, noise

Twenty Four Hours - Joy Division

Post punk

ego death - foxtails

Screamo

To a Husband at War - I Hate Myself

Emo

Elliott Smith - Everything means nothing to me

The Roots - "Return to Innocence Lost", TW: domestic abuse, rape, other violence

The Arcade Fire's Haiti

https://youtu.be/tGvpUgo7ayY Controversies with members of the band aside, this song makes me cry every time. I have no connection to Haiti but the poignant vocals really pulls at your heart strings and makes you mourn for a lost homeland. The French lines really help too.

I have an AF song too that used to get me so emotional about my daughters - but I couldnā€™t remember the title yesterday. A line about ā€œif I had a daughterā€, maybe from Suburbs??? But yeah, the song is in me now.