These were the first ones that came to mind

Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
Chris Cornell - Steel Rain
Bjork & Thom Yorke - I've Seen It All
The Cure - Fascination Street
Muse - Sunburn
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
The Beatles - Yesterday
Alice in Chains - Nutshell

smashing pumpkins- blank page, soothe, age of innocence, sweet sweet, set the ray to jerry, believe.
the beatles, i need you
mogwai, cody
yeah yeah yeahs, maps
interpol - a time to be so small
cat power - say
velvet underground- pale blue eyes

there are probably a whole more ive forgotten,

[QUOTE=RollerQueen]Better Than Ezra - "At The Stars" (they have a lot of hit or miss stuff, but they got the nail in the head with this one)
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Love that song. All you guys have diverse and kick @ss taste.

Nick Cave - Darker With The Day

The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

Iron & Wine -Bird Stealing Bread

American Football - Honestly

The New Radicals - Don't Wanna Die Anymore, I Hope I Just Didn't Give Away The Ending, Crying Like A Church On Monday

[QUOTE=Scott Herren]Oh, and the Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"[/QUOTE]

Just saw this. **** you guys rock.

Switch mine to Velvet Morning then. ;)

[QUOTE=LTJ386]The Freshman is sort of a sad song too.
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That's the Verve Pipe.

**** good list guys :thumb:
adding: smashing pumpkins - mayonnaise

[QUOTE=Spikey]
Nirvana -- Paulie
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:p It's "Polly"

I'll add:
Candlebox - Far Behind

I would like to add
Ryan adams-oh my sweet carolina, goodnight holywood boulevard
Electric soft parade-its wasting me away
Arvo Part-spiegel Im spiegel
Manic street Preachers-this is yesterday
Jeff Buckley-lilac wine

[QUOTE]yjhjhtyjty[/QUOTE]

Why? That was totally pointless.

[QUOTE=ZEROthirtythree]:p It's "Polly"

I'll add:
Candlebox - Far Behind[/QUOTE]
oops! I always forget which way it's spelled.


hum, some more...

Bad Religion -- Struck a Nerve
Modest Mouse -- Ohio
Sarah MacLaughlin -- Aidia and Angel
Jets to Brazil -- Empty Picture Frame
and so many Our Lady Peace, but I always cry so hard during Clumsy and Shaking.
Something Corporate -- Konstantine.

Alkaline Trio-Radio
Alkaline Trio-This is getting over you
Alkaline Trio-'97
Emery-As your voice fades
Saves the day-Freakish
Saves the day-This is not an exit
Bright Eyes-neely ohara
Bad Religion-Sorrow
Blink 182-Not now
The Beatles-The long and winding road.
The Beatles-Yesterday
Me without you-Silencer
Murder by death-Killbot 2000

i'm just gonna do grunge
AIC- bleed the freak, man in the box
Pearl Jam-black, oceans
soundgarden-burden in my hand, fourth of july
there are many others, particularly from these three bands

hey everyone this is my first post on this forum !! how exciting !!

songs that i listen to when i am low:

Sweetness :: JimmyEatWorld
So Real :: Jeff Buckley
B.Q.A.D :: the Deftones
Untitled :: Interpol (his voice kills me and the bass!!) :o


proJ3CHT
*awaiting final restructure

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead - Exit Music
Something Corporate - Konstantine
The Streets - It's Too Late
The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You
Seafood - What May Be The Oldest

[QUOTE=Doctor D.]Johnny Cash - Hurt
Warren Zevon - Keep me in your heart for a while
Ween- She Wanted To Leave[/QUOTE]


hurt is definately sad
i also listen to queen- somebody to love

wow the streets great choice

Sound garden-Black hole sun
oasis - sad song(lol obviously)
Nirvana-were did you sleep last nite
Foo Fighters-Walking after you
Coldplay- We never Change
The verve- Sonnet
Theirs loads more just cant think of any

ok this is like waay oldschool and its not really alternative... but Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin... prolly because my relationship with my dad sucks ***...

screaming trees:i nearly lost you, butterfly

Some good ones here...here's my list...well, part of it

Bruce Hornsby - Lost Soul
Janis Ian - At Seventeen, Tea and Sympathy
Warren Zevon - Keep Me in Your Heart
Natalie MacMaster - If Ever You Were Mine
Tracy Chapman - The Promise, I'm Ready (especially the very end...when the song fades out, don't stop the CD...the very end is beautiful)
Marc Cohn - True Companion
Mary Chapin Carpenter - 10,000 Miles
There's a song at the end of the movie "Paying it Forward" called "Calling All Angels"...I don't know who sings it, but it is heartbreakingly beautiful
Ashokan Farewell - used in Ken Burns' wonderful Civil War series on PBS
And there is a song in the "Highlander" movies that is a stunner...I don't know the name of it, and I don't know who sings it - it's a woman, I know that, but it is a very beautiful song...can anyone help me out on that one?

Theres a lot more than this, I think.

Cat Power - Names
Cursive - The Recluse
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay
Xiu Xiu - Apistat Commander, Suha, Support Our Troops OH
Iron & Wine - Faded From the Winter
Sufjan Stevens - Flint (for the unemployed and underpaid)
Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
M. Ward - Transfiguration #2
Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun
Everything from the Microphones, especially the Glow Pt. 2.

um i really tired but some that i can think of right now are
Cold- Bleed
Mayonaise- Smashing Pumpkins
Eric Clapton- Tears in heaven
AFI- This Time Imperfect
Eve 6 - Girlfriend

forgot one
Drown- SP

Cursive - The Recluse / After The Movies

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing

The Get Up Kids - The Most Depressing Song / I'll Catch You

Thursday - Understanding In A Car Crash / I Am The Killer

Rilo Kiley - Paint's Peeling

and a fair bit of Portishead

[QUOTE=Scott Herren]Primitive Radio Gods - "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand"[/QUOTE]

i used to love that song... haven't heard it in so long. i totally forgot about it.

and gary jules - mad world is the only one i can think of right now.

How can no one mention Incubus yet. They have done some depressing stuff but nothing too depressing.
So I say 11AM by Incubus

Radiohead - No surprises
REM - everybody hurts

Radiohead - Street Spirit
Radiohead - Exit Music
Radiohead - Big Ideas
Muse - Hyper Chondriac Music
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo - Blue American

Gary Jules - Mad World

some Modest Mouse is kind of in that direction.

[QUOTE=MrBojangles29]
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay
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Excellent choice, I don't know why I didn't think of that song. Elliot Smith definitely belongs in this thread.

Paw - Jessie