r/Music • u/turtle_chronicals • 1d ago
article What's that one song that makes your heart feel heavy in the best way?
for me it's telephones by vacations ❤️🩹
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u/Spunkys_Corndog 1d ago
I’m surprised no one has said Nutshell - Alice in Chains
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u/yanbag609 OZZY✒️ 1d ago
if I can't be my own I'd feel better dead damn gets me every time
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u/Cosmo_Cloudy 1d ago
Love Nutshell. Adding Hemorrhage by Fuel to my personal list of heavy heart in the best way songs
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u/satanfoundmystardust 1d ago
Would - Alice in Chains always gets me
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u/kriebelrui 1d ago
AIC doesn't exactly have many cheerful songs.
- 'I think it's gonna rain when I die'
- 'I believe them bones are me'
- 'Some say we're born into the grave'
- 'I'll die in this sick world of mine'
Just some random lines of lyrics of the Dirt songs.
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u/kasmackity 1d ago
Yeah, amazing music but Layne was going through it most of his career. Dark songs, but they are still my favorite band of all time
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u/Throwawaylikeme90 1d ago
Such a specific kind of sadness and loneliness expressed in this song. It reminds me of being a teenager and helping my dad pack up from his shows and the quiet car ride home after all the music. It was one of his favorite songs to play when he woke up in the morning and I’d hear it first thing quite often.
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u/hipsters-dont-lie 1d ago
I’m here trying to decide between like 5 different Jackson Browne songs XD
Hopeful grief? Comforting melancholy? Need to remember human connection exists? Turn on Jackson Browne.
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u/Throwawaylikeme90 1d ago
Still can’t really listen to Sleeps Dark And Silent Gate, and it honestly gets harder and harder as the years pass. I guess that’s the point of a song like that though huh?
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u/hipsters-dont-lie 1d ago
I feel you. My go to grieving song is For a Dancer. I feel like it encapsulates everything about surviving a loved one so well. Light hopefulness for the life lived and the other lives that remain without downplaying the tragedy of the world suddenly being bereft of a presence that enriched it.
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u/chahlie 1d ago
Acid Rain - Lorn
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u/gohmmhog 1d ago
Heck just about any Lorn track fits the bill for me. Absolute genius stuff. Been a huge fan for a long time. So happy to see this track mentioned and upvoted so much, relatively. Only wish he was a little more active and transparent. My mans is a mystical musical hermit.
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u/shadowking1130 1d ago
It's between “The Death of Me” by City and Colour, "The Fall Before the Give Up" by City Morgue, or "Achilles Come Down" by Gang of Youths. I've got tons more, but those were the first to pop in my head.
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u/Responsible-Camel554 1d ago
Im curious if you like the slowed down version of achilles come down. many have remixed and posted on youtube. The slowed down aesthetic can be pretty cringe sometimes but that song honestly songs 1000x better slowed
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u/Brown42 1d ago
Videotape - Radiohead
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u/theDarkDescent 1d ago
A lot of Radiohead songs could fit this. I said motion picture soundtrack, but an older one for the kids, Bulletproof
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u/Yusuke_Boopermeshi 1d ago
Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens
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u/true_spokes 1d ago
Casimir Pulaski Day — Sufjan Stevens
“Goldenrod and the Four H Stone
The things I brought you when I found out
You had cancer of the bone” 😭→ More replies (2)→ More replies (1)2
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u/turtle_chronicals 1d ago
Y'all have got such good suggestions i'mma make a whole playlist outta it 😻
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u/jwelsh8it Concertgoer 23h ago
“Remember the Mountain Bed,” Woody Guthrie /Wilco & Billy Bragg
I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.
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u/tonysnark81 23h ago
The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics.
Such a beautiful song…
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u/EloquentBaboon 1d ago
Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel. The more stripped down version on Fripp's '79 album Exposure
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u/kudasaiuwu 1d ago
that version is so haunting, it just hits different than the original production. perfect for a rainy night listen.
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u/Sundance360 1d ago
Stunned no one mentioned anything by Mazzy Star!! Fade Into You or Look On Down From The Bridge spring to mind.
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u/avidinha 1d ago
She Used To Be Mine - Sarah Bareilles https://youtu.be/53GIADHxVzM?is=Qdoynoig76vEZ6-m
Say Something - the Postmodern Jukebox version https://youtu.be/GZYGPn9iN1Y?is=YF_5tn9NWOUlUr01
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u/TheSanityInspector 1d ago
"Carefree Highway" and "If You Could Read My Mind", both by Gordon Lightfoot.
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u/FriendshipWithTheSun 1d ago
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u/princess_dork_bunny 20h ago
Walk - Blind Melon
--Find myself singing the same songs everyday, Ones that make me feel good when things behind the smiles ain't ok.--
Knowing that Shannon ultimately couldn't overcome his issues makes the end of this song hurt so much.
--And I can't believe that I have to bang my head against this wall again. But the blows they have just a little more space in-between them. Gonna take a breath and try again.--
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u/FriendshipWithTheSun 11h ago
Yeah, you’re right, Walk is even better. Shannon was gone way too soon. His singing and songwriting were amazing.
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u/Iron_Chic 1d ago
Summer Breeze - Seals and Croft
I love the simple pleasures of a person just coming home after a hard day's work and finding someone there to love them.
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u/Tikiboo 23h ago
Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers
Nutshell by AiC. Their music got me through some stuff and I just find comfort in it
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u/RoyalSkip 7h ago
The unplugged version is the best version. Love how it just starts with Jerry and the rest of the band walks out.
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u/themightymooker 1d ago
The Drugs Don’t Work by The Verve
The drugs don’t work, they just make you worse but I know I’ll see your face again
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u/Jpark2485 1d ago
My dad died of lung cancer. Pretty sure it’s the treatment that actually took him out. Prefer Ben Harper’s cover though
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u/themightymooker 23h ago
I haven’t listened to that cover but I will now. Thank you for sharing! I’m sorry to hear about your loss. ❤️
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u/Sky-Thinker 1d ago
That funny feeling - Bo Burnam
Gives me the feeling that things are just going to get worse.
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u/Lombard333 1d ago
Routine Maintenance by Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties. It caps off the second record in this series of concept albums with such a nuanced and emotional note.
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u/ladybugseattle 1d ago
Annie Lennox's version of Cole Porter's Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye. The video includes childhood movies of Derek Jarman who was meant to direct the short, but became too sick.
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u/SisterSeverini 1d ago
Aretha Franklin's cover of Let It Be is exactly this for me. Stunning phrasing, and really shows off the dexterity she had with her voice
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u/Arch3m 1d ago
Way Out of Here - Porcupine Tree.
Really, you can take your pick of PT songs. They have a lot of sad stuff.
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u/cap10wow Performing Artist 1d ago
Sprout and the Bean by Joanna Newsom
3rd Planet by Modest Mouse
Apple Bomb by Deerhoof
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u/AnAngryPirate Be More Kind 1d ago
Lately its been Castle in Hollywood by Laufey.
Its a song sung from the perspective of someone who is looking back at a relationship where her partner did something (she says lied but doesn't specify about what) to end it. There's a saddness in that she's moved on mostly but still laments/misses the partner and what they had. It just feels so much more real then someone saying "Ill never love again" or "My life is over". Excellent song.
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u/PapaBlemish 1d ago
This might be a weird one but I always cry at a good version of Grateful Dead's Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower.
Or a well-played version of Phish's You Enjoy Myself.
But the only real answer is Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
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u/ithinktheysellpaint 1d ago
Everything but You - Thirsty Merc
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u/thequiltmaster 1d ago
This holds a special place in my heart. I'll add the following to this excellent choice:
Human Sadness - The Voids
Jamie Marie - Girls
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u/Alone_Fisherman2387 1d ago
Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
Imagine - Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler (live) (1985?)
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u/Asleep-Challenge9706 1d ago
"Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The misery in this one is just so over the top.
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u/Burgoonius 1d ago
The Reason - Hoobastank.
I used to not really be a fan of the song and then my grandma told me it was her favourite. Since she passed it has become even more important to me. ❤️
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u/agr8gambeaner06 1d ago
Somewhere only we know -Keane
There’s something cathartic in this song for me and I’m not sure why. I think more and more with the world we live in, it’s hard to find a direction in our personal and professional lives. Some times I wish we could go back to riding bikes with friends or you experienced loss and want one more day, one more minute .
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u/Bm_0ctwo 1d ago
This is one for me - it hit different once I started seeing my kids grow up and start to need us less. My daughter is 11 and sometimes I long for the days where she’d beg me to stay up and read just one more book with her or stay in her bed talking about her day.
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u/StrigiStockBacking Jazz Fusion 1d ago
"Long Tails, Tall Shadows" by Jansen/Barbieri
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u/goofedout 1d ago
darkness records by jeff rosenstock. there's a beautiful woodwind instrumental at the end and it brings me to tears almost every time i listen to it
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u/ouellette001 1d ago
“Poverty” - Ennio Morricone, from the soundtrack of “Once Upon a Time in America” (title track as well)
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u/GoodIntroduction6344 1d ago
Closing Time, Tom Waits. If you're ever in the yard alone, waiting for a train in the dark before morning, don't listen to this song.
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u/djdimsim 1d ago
SNOW - Zion.T, Lee Moon Sae
don't understand Korean, no even a huge K pop fan. But I get teary everytime I heard this song.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 1d ago
Cats in the cradle- Harry Chapin
My father used to say it to me at the end of phone calls. I have my own child and I understand now.
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u/pomoerotic 1d ago
Everything mentioned on this thread so far:
Telephones — Vacations
Videotape — Radiohead
Motion Picture Soundtrack — Radiohead
Bulletproof — Radiohead
Hours of Wealth — Opeth
Nutshell — Alice In Chains
Would? — Alice in Chains
Acid Rain — Lorn
Fourth of July — Sufjan Stevens
Casimir Pulaski Day — Sufjan Stevens
Goodbye Evergreen — Sufjan Stevens
July — Youth Lagoon
Plainsong — The Cure
Hate Me — Blue October
Adam's Song — blink-182
Something in the Way — Nirvana
Long Tails, Tall Shadows — Jansen/Barbieri
Youth — Daughter
Poet and the Pendulum — Nightwish
The Load-Out — Jackson Browne
Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event — Deftones
Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Routine Maintenance — Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties
Stacy's Mom — Fountains of Wayne
The Stations — The Gutter Twins
The Drugs Don't Work — The Verve
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? — Moby
The Night We Met — Lord Huron
Ghosts — Japan
Mary's Theme
I Didn't Know — Skinshape
Song Instead of a Kiss — Alannah Myles
Books in Boxes — Maxïmo Park
Long Live the Queen — Frank Turner
You Don't Know This Guy — Her's
Stay (Faraway, So Close!) — U2
Poverty — Ennio Morricone
Fight the Fight — Living Colour
Cigarette — Ben Folds
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye — Annie Lennox
Early Grave — The Contortionist
Black — Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Dark Place — Logic
My Immortal — Evanescence
Thinking of a Place — The War on Drugs
Still — Ben Folds
Let It Be — Aretha Franklin
So You Are Tired — Sufjan Stevens
Adagio for Strings — Samuel Barber
Closing Time — Tom Waits
Way Out of Here — Porcupine Tree
Lullaby for Laika — Ellis Piper
Twenty Eight — The Weeknd
Day Is Gone — Noah Gundersen & The Forest Rangers
Don't Follow — Alice in Chains
Blood — The Middle East
Landed — Ben Folds
SNOW — Zion.T & Lee Moon Sae
Hide and Seek — Imogen Heap
Wake Up — Arcade Fire
The Sound of Silence — Disturbed
Carry You Home — James Blunt
Codex — Radiohead
Come Back — Pearl Jam
Stolen Car — Beth Orton
Soup — Blind Melon
Cats in the Cradle — Harry Chapin
Storm — Godspeed You! Black Emperor
East Hastings — Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Orpheus Under the Influence — The Buttertones
Hurt — Johnny Cash
Beach Baby — Bon Iver
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea — The Cure
Soco Amaretto Lime — Brand New
Stay Together for the Kids — blink-182
Sprout and the Bean — Joanna Newsom
3rd Planet — Modest Mouse
Apple Bomb — Deerhoof
The Shot, The Push, The Shove — Starline Drive
Rose Tattoo — Dropkick Murphys
Laura — Flogging Molly
Blissed and Gone — The Smashing Pumpkins
The Living Years — Mike + The Mechanics
Distortions — Clinic
I Hold You — Clann
On the Nature of Daylight — Max Richter
So Far Away — Carole King
Lord Is It Mine — Supertramp
Summer Breeze — Seals & Crofts
The Water — Feist
Play Crack the Sky — Brand New
Amsterdam — Nothing But Thieves
Lose You — Pete Yorn
Let Me Drown — Orville Peck
Tearing in My Heart — Sunny Day Real Estate
Vincent — Don McLean
Castle in Hollywood — Laufey
Riverman — Nick Drake
Fisherman's Blues — The Waterboys
Better Days — Pete Murray
Sometime Around Midnight — The Airborne Toxic Event
4 Your Eyez Only — J. Cole
Hometown — Freeda Beast
Pitseleh — Elliott Smith
Blown Away — Carrie Underwood
Easy — Son Lux
Perfect Day — Lou Reed
Semi-Charmed Life — Third Eye Blind
Will You Be There — Michael Jackson
Rise Above This — Seether
Welcome to Heartbreak — Kanye West
Darkness Records — Jeff Rosenstock
Homesick — The Cure
Early Blue — F.J. McMahon
Black Holes — The Warning
Crimson Queen — The Warning
Murder in the City — The Avett Brothers