Sad Rock Songs

Sad rock music playlist, to get you over your partner, to get you over your bad days and other sad situations. Here, is my playlist of such songs.
According to the situations, always keep a playlist of sad rock tracks. You can arrange the songs into playlists when you wish to get over your partner, this playlist when you had a bad day, or a playlist when you feel like you don't belong to the world. Here, are the different sad rock tracks right from the classic Metallica to the latest Green Day. The format below is: Song - Artist/Band.

List of Sad Rock Songs
Listed below are the classic and modern rock songs. There are some soft rock songs for easy listening by artists like Dido, Coldplay, The Jets, etc. and some aggressive rock songs by The Exies, The Cranberries, Avril Lavigne, etc.
  • Everybody hurts - REM
  • The freshmen - The Verve Pipe (really sad song, that makes you depressed)
  • Kiss and say goodbye - The Manhattans
  • White rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
  • Piece of my heart - Janice Joplin
  • I don't love you - My Chemical Romance
  • Your woman - White Town (not exactly a sad song, but great to get over a break-up)
  • Don't speak - No Doubt
  • My happy ending - Avril Lavigne (Skater boy another similar good song by Avril Lavigne)
  • Cry me a river - Julie London (other versions by Lost Prophets and Justin Timberlake)
  • Hands of time - Groove Armada (beautiful lyrics)
  • Black metallic - Catherine Wheel (one of the best sad rock vocal ever)
  • November rain - Guns and Roses
  • Unforgiven - Metallica (very depressing song, with a more depressing video)
  • Mother mother - Tracy Bonham
  • Look What You've Done - The Jets
  • Life for rent - Dido
  • Brothers in arms - Dire Straits
  • Bitter sweet symphony - The Verve
  • Zombie - The Cranberries
  • Creep - Radiohead (an essential sad rock song)
  • Fix you - Coldplay (fix you is a sad but hopeful song, the scientist is another good sad song by Coldplay)
  • Enjoy the silence - Depeche Mode ('try walking in my shoes' is another good sad song by this band)
  • Ugly - The Exies (brilliant sad song, with a lot of aggression)
  • Numb - Linkin Park (crawling & somewhere I belong are another songs by LP that make you feel sad)
  • My immortal - Evanescence (especially love the rock version)
  • Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
  • End of the world - Skeeter Davis
  • She will be loved - Maroon 5 (kind of hopeful-sad song)
  • Brain stew - Green Day
  • Please, please, please let me get what I want - The Smiths
  • When the sun goes down - Arctic Monkeys (one of the best songs by this band)
  • Anxiety - The Black Eyed Peas feat Papa Roach
  • Hate me - Blue October
  • Broken - Evanescence & Seether
  • Runaway train - Soul Asylum (one unique song!)
  • Rise and fall - Craig David & Sting
  • In the air tonight - Phil Collins (the version with feat by 2pac is also awesome)
  • Cold - Crossfade (great lyrics)
  • Dream on - Aerosmith (kind of sad song that give you hope)
  • The blower's daughter - Damien Rice
  • Sleep to dream - Fiona Apple (awesome classic rock song)
  • You know you're right - Nirvana
  • Poster of a girl - Metric
  • Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
  • Losing my religion - REM
  • Goodbye for now - POD
  • Self esteem - The Offspring (the guy in the song is real sad one)
  • Why does it always rain on me - Travis
  • Someday - Nickelback
  • Let the drummer kick - The Citizen Cope (one of my favorite sad songs)
  • Behind blue eyes - The WHO (the Limp Bizkit version is good too)
I hope you agree with the above sad rock list. If you haven't heard some of the above songs, then get them and listen, am sure you like them. Dig any other sad rock songs?
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Last Updated: 9/27/2011
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