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!
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
"I’m not here.
This isn’t happening."
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
I had trouble finding something recent, but this works, I think, just older.
Chris Bell - I am the cosmos
Here’s one I’d forgotten about. This live version is really nice (slow starter)
Crippled Black Phoenix - Burnt Reynolds
Amanda Ann Platt and the Honeycutters, “Boneyard”.
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
Here are five, though they get slightly more mainstream as you go down the list.
- “I’m So Tired” by Fugazi
- “How to Disappear Completely” by Radiohead
- “Summer Skin” by Death Cab for Cutie, or maybe just the whole album, Plans.
- “21 Guns” by Green Day
- “Adam’s Song” by blink-182
EDIT: I’m trying to fix the links. Gimme a sec.
EDIT 2: Here are the music videos and fan lyric videos. I’m giving up on Beatbump, HyperPipe, and YT Music.
grandson - Heather Hits me right in the feels every time.
This one always gets me, double so with the video.
Massive Attack - Live With Me (2006)
This one is an old, sad favorite of ours: Katy Song - Red House Painters
Keaton Henson makes some beautiful somber music
Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day and for the same reason. I miss you, Dad. Nine years.