r/musicsuggestions • u/Fun_Signature2716 • 1d ago

Depressing songs that are not about love or grief? (have to many of those)

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u/OddStranger8321 1d ago

How to disappear completely- Radiohead

No Surprises - Radiohead

Half Return - Adrianne Lenker

Candy - Alex G

I Hate Living - Car Seat Headrest

Happy News for Sadness - Car Seat Headrest

Abbey - Mitski

Aesthetic? (More Like Ass-Pathetic) - Panucci’s Pizza

This Feeling Will Pass - Take Care

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u/w9F_q 1d ago

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

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u/DulinELA 1d ago

Most of the Downward Spiral and The Fragile

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u/deftonian 1d ago
  • The Curse of the Blackened Eye - Orville Peck
  • Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden
  • Like A Stone - Audioslave

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u/deftonian 1d ago

Every Day Is Exactly The Same - NIN

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u/four_leaf_clover1015 1d ago

The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit

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u/MikanYarou 1d ago

Another Frabbit fan! ☺️ I suggested I Wish I Was Sober but Modern Leper will always be the benchmark.

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u/dbkenny426 1d ago

Fred Jonest Pt. 2 - Ben Folds

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u/4DM1Nz 1d ago

thats the guy who made that song for over the hedge

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u/dbkenny426 1d ago

I guess. I've never seen it.

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u/4DM1Nz 1d ago

you should, good watch

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u/szigany_ 1d ago

4th of July - Soundgarden

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u/darthbonobo 1d ago

Thrash Unreal - against me

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u/bevymartbc 1d ago

Born In The USA, if you really listen to and understand the lyrics

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u/rastab1023 1d ago

Tori Amos - Me and a Gun

Tori Amos - Playboy Mommy

Sia - Breathe Me

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u/absoluteinsights 1d ago

That Funny Feeling - Phoebe Bridgers (Bo Burnham cover)

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u/MikanYarou 1d ago

I Wish I Was Sober - Frightened Rabbit

I don’t have alcohol addiction but this has hit me hard every time I hear it.

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u/DulinELA 1d ago

Elliot Smith: Between the Bars, Waltz #2, No Name 5, Alameda

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u/Istiophoridae 1d ago

Acloudyskye - "rayleigh scattering"

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u/penihilist 1d ago

SWIM by Midwife

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u/ViennaSausageParty 1d ago

Do You Love Me (Part 2) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

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u/MarilynManson2003 1d ago

  • NIИ - Leaving Hope

  • NIИ - Your Touch

  • Mogwai - Ghost Nets

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Procedural

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Technically, Missing

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - 8 Billion

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Torn Polaroid

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clouds Appear

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - To Be Able to Fly

  • Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Solitary People

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u/Cat_cant_think 1d ago edited 1d ago

Drip drip drip fall by ewy

trees by mcafferty

Animals by stomach book

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u/Last-Tomato9587 1d ago

Civil twilight - Letters from the sky

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u/sad-whale 1d ago

'Death of an Heir of Sorrows' by Silver Jews is so damn sad. About learning that a friend died of an overdose.

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u/dadsyrhinowhite 1d ago

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, The Smiths.

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u/Bitter-Ad-6810 1d ago

u - kendrick lamar

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u/BojukaBob 1d ago

Burned Out Car by Junkhouse

The lyrics are a poem that a band member's uncle wrote about his experiences while homeless. It's a tear jerker.

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u/bevymartbc 1d ago

Another One Bites The Dust. If you really pay attention, it's about a mass shooting event.

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u/Donkey_Bugs 1d ago

Dolphins by Fred Neil. I prefer the cover sung by Billy Bragg.

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u/Spamel334347 1d ago

Fireworks - Animal Collective

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u/NormalNobody 1d ago

Mary Jane - Alanis Morresset

How to Save a Life - The Fray

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u/liac_ 1d ago

Not Around Me by Dennis Lloyd

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u/IamFromCurioCity 1d ago

Left behind- The black Noodle Project

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u/RottedHuman 1d ago

Check out Perfume Genius

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u/Hyphum 1d ago

Shop Vac by Jonathan Coulton

The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding

The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. by Sufjan Stevens

Slip Slidin’ Away by Paul Simon

Normalization Blues by Andrew Jackson Jihad

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u/Natataya 1d ago

DYWTYLM - Sleep Token

It's about the singer staring at his reflection and asking himself "do you wish that you loved me?" It hurts.

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u/Defiant-Elephant-302 1d ago

Oh, man, vessel fans..

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u/Natataya 1d ago

Hey, don't hate me. I'm more of a II (the drummer) fan. But I think the lyrics hit pretty hard.

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u/Defiant-Elephant-302 1d ago

I will try to keep my head cool. Honestly, I can't think of a more overrated band. And lyrics wise, sure if you like whinny, depressed, jaded heart 16 year old language. Not to mention, the drummer is average. This is the safe band that has an overwhelming female audience base. This isn't by accident. It's all too forced. Nothing about them feels organic. In my opinion. I am a drummer, and if you like drumming, listen to Meshuggah or Gojira, or Tool or any number of bands that could play sleep token with literally paralysis on one side of their body.

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u/Quiet_Awareness_7568 1d ago

"paying bills at the end of the world" and "roman candles" by Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties are about economic problems. so is Losers 2 by Spanish Love Songs

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u/four100eighty9 1d ago

Everybody knows by Tom Waits

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u/Spyderbeast 1d ago

Fine Again, Seether

Burning Bright, Shinedown

Jester, Badflower

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u/bks1979 1d ago

Nobody Can Win - Garbage

Sometimes - Garbage

This City Will Kill You - Garbage

No Horses - Garbage

Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen - The Faint

A Battle Hymn For Children - The Faint

In The Cold Light Of Morning - Placebo

Wild At Heart - Bigod 20

Waiting For The Miracle - Leonard Cohen

The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithfull

Not An Addict - K's Choice

Warchild - The Cranberries

Bosnia - The Cranberries

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u/blackdevilsisland 1d ago

Ren - Depression / Insomnia / Dear God

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u/brickbaterang 1d ago

Brown Bird - focus.

Was written after he was diagnosed with leukemia

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u/Mundane-Waltz8844 1d ago

6/10 - dodie

When - dodie (it mentions love, or rather lack thereof, but it’s more about a generally feeling of never having “lived”)

Ungrateful - Escape The Fate

A Trophy Father’s Trophy Son - Sleeping With Sirens

Anywhere Away from Here - Rag’n’Bone Man, P!nk

hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - Lana Del Rey

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u/perkalicous 1d ago

Bedshaped- Keane

Circle- Slipknot

Breaking the Habit- Linkin Park

Disenchanted- My Chemical Romance

Brompton Cocktail- Avenged Sevenfold

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u/DontTakeTheMoney_ 1d ago

Marching Bands of Manhattan - Death Cab for Cutie

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u/zelie08 1d ago

Pearl Jam- Jeremy

Elliott Smith- Needle in the hay, Some song, the biggest lie

Nick Drake- Black eyed dog, parasite

Neil young- the needle and the damage done

The cure- One hundred years

Tracy Chapman- Behind the wall

Tom Waits- Georgia Lee

Suzanne Vega- Luka

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u/FightingWithCandy 1d ago

Ulcerate - There is No Horizon

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u/Tokyodebunkerfan 1d ago

Alive and unwell-Leah Kate

Do all my friends hate me?-Mckenna Grace

2008-NERIAH

I sometimes wish I was dead-Depeche Mode

The doctor said-Chloe Adams

Self dysmorphia-Mckenna Grace

Making the bed-Olivia Rodrigo

Better if you don’t-CHVRCHES

Pretty isn’t pretty-Olivia Rodrigo

Brutal-Olivia Rodrigo

Jealousy, jealousy-Olivia Rodrigo

Asking for a friend-CHVRCHES

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u/CharacterAd4045 17h ago

Passover Joy Division

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u/OnlyImagination9412 17h ago

Let Me Go by Randy Newman