[Complete!] 105 sad songs (90s-00s)

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Sinéad left a year ago today 🕊

 

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(The film was 2011, one of the few I watched the same year as released :-D but the film began production early 2009)

 

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Sort of mixed on whether this is a sad song overall but I suppose so with the verses

Aw this was 2010-11 but oh well haha

 

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I'm sure this was hold music for the GP surgery c. 2009-10

 

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🌬♡

 

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Spoiler: Notes

I actually discovered Maggie's version first (in around 2020) and later realised that it was a cover of this song by Heart, sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson (other way around in the thumbnail)

Aw, I didn't know this before today

I like both versions lots, I heard the Heart version on the radio earlier.

 

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Also thanks @Marina Salty for sharing the remixed version on the previous ASFM

 

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Sorry can't count this it's 2011

 

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Sorry can't count this it's 2011

It's okay, I did too 1989 ones too, it's only a couple of years off

 

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Ah no this is obviously 70s but never mind

Spoiler: Extra notes, better known version

There is this main version too, and I remember it was played before Sinéad O'Connor's funeral, she liked (and understood) reggae, Bob Marley. I like both versions but prefer the feel of the early version.

 

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Spoiler: Original by Bob Marley

Not the SNL nor Bob Dylan concert version but same Sinéad's cover, awesome and thought-provoking. ♡

 

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There are 9 including mine that seem to be outside 90s-00s (5 of which are 1989 or 2010-11 which are close enough). Maybe allow a few more at the end, if that happens before 2025..!

Edit: let's do 105 sad songs.

 

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44.

🌧
@GALA

 

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Very different feel but again 🌧

I think The Memory of Trees (1995) seems like the most sad -sounding Enya album. It's also the only one with no guest musicians (unless the next one is too). Favourite album cover ♡

 

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It's cool, but I think an acoustic arrangement would suit it better, amusing but sad.

 

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🌧
@GALA

Darling, there's nothing sad about this song. I also love that VC song, but don't get sadness from that one either. I mean, keep the high taste dosages coming though obviously.

Edit: I've just spied Haddaway. I can't.

 

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True, not immediately sad songs but lyrically I thought they seemed somewhat sad/laughing in the face of pain-type.
Then again I don't see Only Time as a sad song, but maybe this next one...

 

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Spoiler

Vocals only too..

♡

 

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True, not immediately sad songs but lyrically I thought they seemed somewhat sad/laughing in the face of pain-type.
Then again I don't see Only Time as a sad song, but maybe this next one...

"You touch my shoulder / could you be colder?"

I guess this is definitely melancholic. And the spoken word refrain that then engulfs her. Okay, take it back.

 

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That's okay

This next one is a cover of an old Irish poem "Táim sínte ar do thuama" and was also covered by Sinéad O'Connor in 1989.

 

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The breathing too 🌬♡

Spoiler

Eithne Ní Uallacháin sang the vocals around the late 90s; the album was posthumously released in 2014 I think.

 

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49.

Saddest song/single by Tasmin for sure also her brilliant acting in the video

 

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♡
I think this music video was 2012, but Kylie performed it in 2008, written in 2007.

 

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My 2nd favourite Sail Away song ️

 

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I kind of think of this Enya song as (lyrically) the closest one to the next song

Spoiler: Some nice quote/quip 😊

Enya, 2001 (from this)
That was before Dido released White Flag, Enya probably liked Thank You in particular. ♡

 

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♡

 

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Sting's original is good too but this is more sad

 

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♡
Before discovering Enya, I often considered Robbie as my favourite artist

 

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(Also 26th August, 20 years since Laura Branigan passed )

 

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We learnt about the story behind the song in religious education at school. Poor boy

 

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♡

Spoiler: Changed my mind a bit..!

I think The Memory of Trees (1995) seems like the most sad sounding Enya album.

Sad sounding tunes maybe, but thematically Amarantine seems more sad.

Favourite sad Enya song ♡

That one feels sad, but Someone Said Goodbye is my favourite sad Enya song to listen to.

Spoiler

Have this remix edit too

 

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Oh! Can I invade this game, please? I spent almost the entire 00s being SAD! My holy quintet of sad songs that I'd have on loop from that era:

62. 'Maps' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs


63. 'Hurt' - Johnny Cash


64. 'Good Woman' - Cat Power


65. 'Lost Cause' - Beck


66. 'Skinny Love' - Bon Iver