Fake Plastic Trees is the most beautifully melancholic lovesick song to me.
How to Disappear Completely is definitely sad too but in a more unsettling way.
It seems to me this song is about how everything's so perfect and incredible it makes the singer sad because nothing would ever live up to it again. I can't decide if I think that means it's really a sad song or not.
Exit Music (For A Film).
You can laugh your spineless laugh
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you
Now we are one in everlasting peace
We hope that you choke, that you choke
Sad af.
Lol a bit harder to play the string arrangement at home. A couple effect pedals and good technique could mimic the Ondes Martenot - both of which I lack
I’m with you. To me it’s always been a song about everything being fucked up, and wishing for things to be dull instead. Like, I’ll take boring, dull, quiet… anything but this. I read people here saying that it’s about accepting things are going to be ok or coming to terms with grief and I’m dumbfounded. To me it has always been the exact opposite. It’s grief, sadness, knowing that things will probably NOT be ok.
To me it’s a song about settling into a life of mediocrity, without taking risks and living life for what you want, instead chasing what society deems as successful. Never thought about it your way though, I can see it.
To me, it’s in the ‘No surprises, please’ part. It’s something you wish you had, not something you have right now. But something that you didn’t think you’d ever find yourself wanting for yourself until now, but you’ve had enough bs. That’s why to me it makes sense that it sounds a bit lullaby-ish. You’re rocking yourself to sleep, it’s over, you can’t fight anymore. It’s accepting that somehow you lost in trying to find or be something ‘special’.
It’s an absolutely gut wrenching song. To me it’s about a person reaching breaking point after years of anxiety, which is summed up perfectly by the video. The line “This is my final fit, my final bellyache” is so desperately sad but peaceful at the same time. It’s an incredible song.
And a blurring between longing for something quiet and simple with suicide. It's a pretty disturbing song about being so fraught with anxiety you want everything to just stop whatever that means. And it's contrasted with the idea that this quiet life with a pretty house and garden - idealised as something we are meant to aspire to - is bad in of itself, mediocre, narcotised, a form of suicide. The song both longs for it and criticises it.
A suicide lullaby. Is that a genre? I can think of The Smiths with Asleep as another example. Is there any more?
To me, it sounds so peacefully blissful. I know the lyrics don’t really back that up but to me it sounds like the feeling of accepting that everything’s going to be ok
I can’t even listen to the opening strains of Glass Eyes without welling up. When I saw them live in 2016 they opened with Daydreaming and you could hear a pin drop…except for my sniffles 😭 Shout out to the kind person behind me who asked if I was okay (I was great, just moved and happy to see them live again) - thank you!
How to Disappear Completely. But also Pyramid Song is very sad for me. I don’t know if this is intentional but when I’m feeling very sad or anxious, hearing “there was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt” is so depressing
I think it’s intentional, I feel the same. It’s because the narrator is saying this after (I think) jumping off a bridge into a river, killing himself. And the past tense of WAS nothing to fear or doubt means it’s too late.
And we all know that a lot of what we’re scared of which causes our anxiety a lot of the time means nothing in the perspective of our future selves on the death bed or wherever. It makes me wonder whether when I’m really old and all I can do is look back on my life, I’ll be really regretful for being so fearful and doubtful for my whole life, and all the anxiety was over imaginary, insignificant things.
And you’d think this realisation would zap me back to life and make really grab anxiety’s balls and tell it to F off but I just can’t, there’s some weird inevitability to my future regret. That’s why it’s sad for me
This is exactly how I feel about anxiety. The grip that it has on the present and the future, but then the painful regret of questioning if everything was as big as it seemed in the moment, or the regret of missing out. The never ending cycle of hope for relief, but the crippling reality that it still permeates every thought, reaction, and a lot of the time keeps me frozen in inaction, out of fear that something bad will happen if I push myself to get out of my comfort zone.
I listened to OK Computer for the first time not long after a long term relationship with a Sarah and the album was already hitting close to home in many ways. Lucky comes on and drops those lyrics, lol. I actually stopped the song and was like wtf... how can an album speak to so many people yet feel like it was written specifically for me?
Nice Dream broke 18-year-old me’s heart. The idea of having this concept of the ultimate friendship/relationship dynamic, only for reality to fall so short of it still resonates with me to this day. Also, the instrumentation of that last 45 seconds of the song move me in a way no other song does.
Same for me. "a white room by a window where the sun comes through. and we are just happy to serve you, happy to serve you" makes me think of a dialog around a hospitalized terminal patient. part of an exchange between the family and hospital staff. "it's too late, the damage is done".
I played Motion Picture Soundtrack in the car with my then girlfriend during the decline of our relationship. That was intense. And now when I hear it, I get a pit in my stomach.
Motion Picture Soundtrack (OKNOTOK Version) absolutely tears me apart.
Such a shame the third verse ended up being cut from the song. It’s so achingly beautiful.
https://youtu.be/BY9DWD6CRDQ?si=4uY7J2_xT13W0EKm
How I made my millions.
Discovered this song while my mother was going through chemotherapy, can remind listening to it for the first time very clearly on the ride home from the hospital room.
For me, it’s How To Disappear Completely.
“I’m not here, this isn’t happening.”
It just hits so hard emotionally especially whenever you’re feeling down for a moment, a day, or an even longer period of time. You could be having the happiest day of your life and hearing this song will make you sad as hell.
there's depressing sad, like how to disappear completely. but it's kind of comforting, in a way. when you're sad, it gets you, and you feel better.
then there's a different kind of sad, like weird fishes, nude, and knives out. they're not the saddest pieces musically. but the lyrics hit so damn hard. "everybody leaves if they get the chance." "now that you've found it, it's gone." "I want you to know. He's not coming back. Look into my eyes. It's the only way you'll I'm telling the truth."
How To Disappear Completely - i felt like I was living in this song for such a long time. But trying to remould those associations as i would like to listen to it just because it's a gorgeous fucking song
True love waits - "I'm not living//I'm just killing time" fuck
Bullet proof...I wish I was
Exit music (for a film) - think it was made for Romeo and Juliet, but been listening to it quite a bit after a break up
I played Motion Picture Soundtrack in the car with my then girlfriend during the decline of our relationship. That was intense. And now when I hear it, I get a pit in my stomach.
Bulletproof I wish I was. Why? Idk it's sad in a way that I can relate, when you've just taken so much shit you can't handle it anymore.
True Love Waits runs a close second, because I've definitely been in a co-dependent relationship that's reached that level.
All I Need. Just got out of a near decade long relationship and In Rainbows/Kid A was my therapy, but All I Need was the most cathartic. The song is sad, but it brings this sense of strength once the piano kicks in.
Exit Music (For a Film)
Have heard the song my entire childhood, and was always so invigorated by it. The part that always stuck with me was when the drums kicked in. Now that I’ve grown up a bit I am able to actually apply words to my feelings for this song. It is haunting, and extremely gut wrenching; I adore how it allows us to dwell in our misery. And instead of getting through our woes the song makes us sit with them. And quite frankly that is how I believe we should acknowledge and deal with our feelings. Listening to this song is a transcendent experience, and my entire being formulates an angst with such vigor. You feel so alive and empowered, yet at the same time you feel as if you have no substance and that your existence only materializes in the presence of others. What this song is capable of is terrifying.
No Surprises
This needs no explanation, it is just so brilliantly traumatizing. The song is horrific in the best way possible. And I always found the soft, sweet music in the background to be dangerously entrancing. I seriously have the tune constantly playing somewhere in my mind, and when I spotlight the tune I become numb.
“Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden”
How To Disappear Completely. Ik it's kind of a basic answer but it just works. Always hits when I'm feeling depressed or existential.
Also Exit Music (For A Film). It just always gets that feeling of anxiety and looming dread that's hard for me to find in other songs
let down. a sublime metaphor of the warrior’s path. from feeling crushed like a bug in the ground to developing wings.
i’m sure some of us can agree on feeling like the bug right now
One that always got me is A Wolf At The Door, the end part where he turns into the wolf himself, so I just go ooooooooo.. that breaks my heart
But like most Radiohead songs there is always some hope there
There’s so many that kind of portray a different kind of sad.
I’d have to say (Nice Dream).
It perfectly conveys that feeling of having a false sense of security, only to realize you never really had it, you were kidding yourself. It’s a sad, cruel feeling.
Reckoner. When I was in my darkest place as a a kid I’d listen to it, so it launches me back into those feels. Love it though. One of my favourite Radiohead songs. Hurts so good
How to disappear completely or life in a glasshouse.
documentary on my yt channel explaining more in depth but tldr: thom wrote htdc out of 2 experiences on stage that haunt him due to the immense anxiety.
faithless the wonder boy makes me very sad,, not too sure why but i guess it's because the band and the fans don't like it much when it's about being impressionable as a teenager and the glamourisation of heroine but idk !
No Surprises really illustrated my lowest moments in retail. They even nailed the [doorway chime melody](https://youtu.be/pl04aisgy-w?si=7paWDvvFzm9Cugwh).
Exit music is so despairingly passionate, catharsis for grief and betrayal. Personally only can relate through feeling ripped off by the universe when losing someone you love.
Videotape is only sad if it’s played at a funeral. Otherwise people just get annoyed with the syncopation theory.
Motion Picture soundtrack is enveloping dread, but it’s untitled follow up suggests renewal / reincarnation.
Daydreaming is realising *efil ym fo flah* is lost.
True Love waits: “I’m not living, I’m just killing time”. Damn.
Take your pick of the moment. Radiohead have you covered for cathartic sadness.
i’ve always felt connected to weird fishes just every moment of it i can feel so deeply
“your eyes, they turn me”
“why should i stay here, why should i stay?”
“yeah everybody leaves, if they get the chance”
“i’ll hit the bottom and escape”
true love waits. the live in oslo version.
“i’ll dress like your niece and wash your swollen feet” has multitudes of desperations in it. it’s a plea of a love song
Parachutes.... all of it. 2003, got stuck in Iraq... I listened to the album on repeat to sleep. It's an honest to god trigger...
Still my favorite Coldplay album, just can't listen to it .
For me it's wolf at the door. It just reminds me of being pushed to the edge with stress and responsibilities that all you can do is break down and cry
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Its the best kind of sad tho, like an almost hopeful sad
Except for this version which is absolutely heartbreaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeI0PXj7LIw&ab_channel=AnthonyPackwood
This gets me every damn time. The emotional swell at the end just wrecks me.
also the best radiohead song in general
The early piano version just kills me every time
What a way to close out Kid A…love this track. Listened to Kid A during a breakup years ago. MPS really moved me to tears.
Fake Plastic Trees is the most beautifully melancholic lovesick song to me. How to Disappear Completely is definitely sad too but in a more unsettling way.
Hearing Fake Plastic Trees at Glastonbury 2003 made it their best song for me, wish I couldve been there. Chills everytime
their best version, when at the end all the instruments stops and there is only thom with his guitar i get chills everytime..
I was lucky enough to be there but it was trumped by the version of Talk Show Host they played. God damn I wasn’t expecting them to pull that out.
i'm opening my bands next set with fake plastic trees. it's had a special place in my heart for a while now
Fake plastic trees just does shit to my brain, it's very beautiful. Tho when I'm feeling whimsical, it reminds me of the Lorax
Videotape
It seems to me this song is about how everything's so perfect and incredible it makes the singer sad because nothing would ever live up to it again. I can't decide if I think that means it's really a sad song or not.
I always interpreted it as the narrator about to end his own life… not to be unnecessarily bleak, but that whole album is IMO. Among other things.
Same. “This is my way of saying goodbye/cause I can’t do it face to face” He’s recording a video for his loved ones before…
I listened to it so much the day my mom died. It’s actually beautiful and hopeful as well as sad.
I didn’t. Sorry brother. It’s a big loss. Mom is still with you. She’s around when you don’t think she is.
Thank you. I get signs from her some days!
Where is the Coke Babies guy when you need him
Fr it’s weird not seeing him in a post
Be the Coke Babies guy you want to see in the world.
Exit Music (For A Film). You can laugh your spineless laugh We hope your rules and wisdom choke you Now we are one in everlasting peace We hope that you choke, that you choke Sad af.
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Bullet proof I wish I was
exactly. it's such a beautifully painful song, like it's better to not feel at all. the guitar during the chorus gets me every time
Lastflowers is really sad.
That was my answer
How To Disappear Completely, it helped me with my depression and with some... problems
It’s also fairly easy to play on guitar and sing to, so, it’s accessibly cathartic to play solo by yourself in a pool of tears.
Also we can count the incredible instrumental that Johnny Greenwood made
Lol a bit harder to play the string arrangement at home. A couple effect pedals and good technique could mimic the Ondes Martenot - both of which I lack
And don't forget Colin's bass, it's also great
How to disappear completely or true love waits
The Pulk/Pull version
No Surprises
I’m with you. To me it’s always been a song about everything being fucked up, and wishing for things to be dull instead. Like, I’ll take boring, dull, quiet… anything but this. I read people here saying that it’s about accepting things are going to be ok or coming to terms with grief and I’m dumbfounded. To me it has always been the exact opposite. It’s grief, sadness, knowing that things will probably NOT be ok.
To me it’s a song about settling into a life of mediocrity, without taking risks and living life for what you want, instead chasing what society deems as successful. Never thought about it your way though, I can see it.
To me, it’s in the ‘No surprises, please’ part. It’s something you wish you had, not something you have right now. But something that you didn’t think you’d ever find yourself wanting for yourself until now, but you’ve had enough bs. That’s why to me it makes sense that it sounds a bit lullaby-ish. You’re rocking yourself to sleep, it’s over, you can’t fight anymore. It’s accepting that somehow you lost in trying to find or be something ‘special’.
It’s an absolutely gut wrenching song. To me it’s about a person reaching breaking point after years of anxiety, which is summed up perfectly by the video. The line “This is my final fit, my final bellyache” is so desperately sad but peaceful at the same time. It’s an incredible song.
And a blurring between longing for something quiet and simple with suicide. It's a pretty disturbing song about being so fraught with anxiety you want everything to just stop whatever that means. And it's contrasted with the idea that this quiet life with a pretty house and garden - idealised as something we are meant to aspire to - is bad in of itself, mediocre, narcotised, a form of suicide. The song both longs for it and criticises it. A suicide lullaby. Is that a genre? I can think of The Smiths with Asleep as another example. Is there any more?
Yeah that’s also kinda what I said in my other comment earlier! I think we read it very similarly.
To me, it sounds so peacefully blissful. I know the lyrics don’t really back that up but to me it sounds like the feeling of accepting that everything’s going to be ok
exactly i’ve never thought no surprises was that sad
I think its hard to have a sad song with a glockenspiel haha
The lyrics are def sad to me.
It always gives me the feeling of coming to terms with your grief.
Like Spinning Plates ... the piano version. It's pure hopelessness.
honestly never heard anyone mention how good this one is before
It's a true underrated gem
Did someone say underrated?? As in Let Down??
Climbing up the walls. It got me through the day my cousin passed away
Glass Eyes and Daydreaming
I can’t even listen to the opening strains of Glass Eyes without welling up. When I saw them live in 2016 they opened with Daydreaming and you could hear a pin drop…except for my sniffles 😭 Shout out to the kind person behind me who asked if I was okay (I was great, just moved and happy to see them live again) - thank you!
How to Disappear Completely. But also Pyramid Song is very sad for me. I don’t know if this is intentional but when I’m feeling very sad or anxious, hearing “there was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt” is so depressing
pyramid song is amazing but god it’s so sad
It’s really dark. The video is as well. However, it’s one of my all time favorite songs, so not sure what that says about me!
I think it’s intentional, I feel the same. It’s because the narrator is saying this after (I think) jumping off a bridge into a river, killing himself. And the past tense of WAS nothing to fear or doubt means it’s too late. And we all know that a lot of what we’re scared of which causes our anxiety a lot of the time means nothing in the perspective of our future selves on the death bed or wherever. It makes me wonder whether when I’m really old and all I can do is look back on my life, I’ll be really regretful for being so fearful and doubtful for my whole life, and all the anxiety was over imaginary, insignificant things. And you’d think this realisation would zap me back to life and make really grab anxiety’s balls and tell it to F off but I just can’t, there’s some weird inevitability to my future regret. That’s why it’s sad for me
This is exactly how I feel about anxiety. The grip that it has on the present and the future, but then the painful regret of questioning if everything was as big as it seemed in the moment, or the regret of missing out. The never ending cycle of hope for relief, but the crippling reality that it still permeates every thought, reaction, and a lot of the time keeps me frozen in inaction, out of fear that something bad will happen if I push myself to get out of my comfort zone.
True love waits
This is the correct answer. https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/22/14698446/radiohead-most-depressing-song-data-spotify-gloom-index
Lucky..... It's got some memories attached to Sarah that was in my life
I listened to OK Computer for the first time not long after a long term relationship with a Sarah and the album was already hitting close to home in many ways. Lucky comes on and drops those lyrics, lol. I actually stopped the song and was like wtf... how can an album speak to so many people yet feel like it was written specifically for me?
Worrywort just listen to it
worrywort’s lyrics are kind of a mix of sad and happy but each part makes it sad for its own reason. i love worrywort so much
Worrywort is the mix of perfect and perfect
Probably how to disappear completely :(.
Nice Dream broke 18-year-old me’s heart. The idea of having this concept of the ultimate friendship/relationship dynamic, only for reality to fall so short of it still resonates with me to this day. Also, the instrumentation of that last 45 seconds of the song move me in a way no other song does.
If you think that you’re strong enough If you think you belong enough …it kills me every time.
Hmm…Sail to the moon for me currently! It always changes! Or Present Tense :)
Back in college I had Pyramid Song and How to Disappear Completely on my “depression playlist”
Black Star. The acoustic version is way sadder for me
High and Dry because I have some memories of a girl I used to like attached to that song
AMSP version of True Love Waits
Yeah, especially considering what it was in live performances, to what it became during Tom’s divorce. Heart breaking, that was my choice as well
Codex
Thank you. It even has a weeping ANGEL OOOO-ooooooooo-OOOooo
Street spirit
It’s probably not the absolute saddest but I’m surprised I haven’t seen Go Slowly yet
Daydreaming
Same for me. "a white room by a window where the sun comes through. and we are just happy to serve you, happy to serve you" makes me think of a dialog around a hospitalized terminal patient. part of an exchange between the family and hospital staff. "it's too late, the damage is done".
Give Up The Ghost.
real shit nobody talks about this song
Creep is mine, crush said that song reminds him of me.
i a crep i a werdo
Lyrically and vocally I think Nude. There’s just something so sad and haunting in his voice and the way he sings
Glass Eyes I just find this song so calming whilst also being sad
gagging order.
I played Motion Picture Soundtrack in the car with my then girlfriend during the decline of our relationship. That was intense. And now when I hear it, I get a pit in my stomach.
Decks Dark
Motion Picture Soundtrack (OKNOTOK Version) absolutely tears me apart. Such a shame the third verse ended up being cut from the song. It’s so achingly beautiful. https://youtu.be/BY9DWD6CRDQ?si=4uY7J2_xT13W0EKm
Videotape will be played at my funeral....
For me that song is Gagging Order.
You and Whose Army. I first heard it when I was watching Incendies. The one song in my life that actually takes me to a semi-dark place in my life.
Pyramid song, how to disappear completely
How I made my millions. Discovered this song while my mother was going through chemotherapy, can remind listening to it for the first time very clearly on the ride home from the hospital room.
All I need is disturbing with how depressing and desperate it is
For me, it’s How To Disappear Completely. “I’m not here, this isn’t happening.” It just hits so hard emotionally especially whenever you’re feeling down for a moment, a day, or an even longer period of time. You could be having the happiest day of your life and hearing this song will make you sad as hell.
Let down. You know? Where it goes—YOU KNOW YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE WITH. It made me both sad and grateful that I still have someone special in my life
Reckoner for me
Pyramid Song, Knives Out or Nude😔 they're just so beautiful, makes me feel like I'm floating in the nether.
Climbing up the walls
for me its spectre.
pyramid song . cuz it sounds sad asf
Bulletproof and Scatterbrain because they seem to nail the struggle with mental issues the best.
there's depressing sad, like how to disappear completely. but it's kind of comforting, in a way. when you're sad, it gets you, and you feel better. then there's a different kind of sad, like weird fishes, nude, and knives out. they're not the saddest pieces musically. but the lyrics hit so damn hard. "everybody leaves if they get the chance." "now that you've found it, it's gone." "I want you to know. He's not coming back. Look into my eyes. It's the only way you'll I'm telling the truth."
Bullet proof... I wish I was :)
Glass eyes. I relate with it often, It's like, I listen to it on loop. I wouldn't call it sad.. just, real, I guess
"Let Down" is pretty sad to me- probably favorite Radiohead song, too.
How to disappear completely and Exit music for a film
How to Disappear Completely makes me want to crawl under a rock. Every. Single. Time.
Exit Music. The explosion is so heartfelt and gutwrenching. It's like a cult suicide or something. It almost feels like it was made for a film.
It was actually was made for a film! It was made for Romeo + Juliet
How To Disappear Completely - i felt like I was living in this song for such a long time. But trying to remould those associations as i would like to listen to it just because it's a gorgeous fucking song True love waits - "I'm not living//I'm just killing time" fuck Bullet proof...I wish I was Exit music (for a film) - think it was made for Romeo and Juliet, but been listening to it quite a bit after a break up
Creep and I'm so tired
I would say I Promise, idk, I think it's too melancholic
I played Motion Picture Soundtrack in the car with my then girlfriend during the decline of our relationship. That was intense. And now when I hear it, I get a pit in my stomach.
motion picture soundtrack and codex
Black star for me
Bulletproof I wish I was. Why? Idk it's sad in a way that I can relate, when you've just taken so much shit you can't handle it anymore. True Love Waits runs a close second, because I've definitely been in a co-dependent relationship that's reached that level.
All I Need. Just got out of a near decade long relationship and In Rainbows/Kid A was my therapy, but All I Need was the most cathartic. The song is sad, but it brings this sense of strength once the piano kicks in.
Nude
Exit Music (For a Film) Have heard the song my entire childhood, and was always so invigorated by it. The part that always stuck with me was when the drums kicked in. Now that I’ve grown up a bit I am able to actually apply words to my feelings for this song. It is haunting, and extremely gut wrenching; I adore how it allows us to dwell in our misery. And instead of getting through our woes the song makes us sit with them. And quite frankly that is how I believe we should acknowledge and deal with our feelings. Listening to this song is a transcendent experience, and my entire being formulates an angst with such vigor. You feel so alive and empowered, yet at the same time you feel as if you have no substance and that your existence only materializes in the presence of others. What this song is capable of is terrifying. No Surprises This needs no explanation, it is just so brilliantly traumatizing. The song is horrific in the best way possible. And I always found the soft, sweet music in the background to be dangerously entrancing. I seriously have the tune constantly playing somewhere in my mind, and when I spotlight the tune I become numb. “Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden”
Glass Eyes
Pyramid Song
I want Videotape played at my funeral.
How To Disappear Completely. Ik it's kind of a basic answer but it just works. Always hits when I'm feeling depressed or existential. Also Exit Music (For A Film). It just always gets that feeling of anxiety and looming dread that's hard for me to find in other songs
let down. a sublime metaphor of the warrior’s path. from feeling crushed like a bug in the ground to developing wings. i’m sure some of us can agree on feeling like the bug right now
you and whose army
One that always got me is A Wolf At The Door, the end part where he turns into the wolf himself, so I just go ooooooooo.. that breaks my heart But like most Radiohead songs there is always some hope there
True love waits
Fake Plastic Trees All I Need Motion Picture Soundtrack True Love Waits (the live version especially)
Fog- Again Again Version from Kid Amnesia
How I made my millions. I don’t know why, but it hurts.
There’s so many that kind of portray a different kind of sad. I’d have to say (Nice Dream). It perfectly conveys that feeling of having a false sense of security, only to realize you never really had it, you were kidding yourself. It’s a sad, cruel feeling.
How I Made My Millions
Before having kids: gagging order After having kids: videotape
Gagging Order 🥲
Reckoner. When I was in my darkest place as a a kid I’d listen to it, so it launches me back into those feels. Love it though. One of my favourite Radiohead songs. Hurts so good
To me, probably everything in its right place and let down. by far.
Gagging order has always been my personal saddest song. Other than that, house of cards was a song I listened to a lot during a bad breakup.
fake plastic trees and true love waits
For me right now it's True Love Waits since I'm going through a lot having a complicated relationship
Creep. Will always be my fav.
Lucky
True love waits
lift
True love waits
Motion picture soundtrack/ True love waits/ Dawn chorus
Backdrifts
Nude but its my favorite
Bullet Proof (Wish I was)
It has to be just .
Let down
How to disappear completely or life in a glasshouse. documentary on my yt channel explaining more in depth but tldr: thom wrote htdc out of 2 experiences on stage that haunt him due to the immense anxiety.
Dawn Chorus. My ex showed it to me, whenever I listen to it, I mentally get teleported back to those times.
faithless the wonder boy makes me very sad,, not too sure why but i guess it's because the band and the fans don't like it much when it's about being impressionable as a teenager and the glamourisation of heroine but idk !
All I need
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
Pyramid Song. Can cry anytime I hear it
Mine was I Will because of tone, but ironically, Thom Yorke called it their angriest song lol
Nude
Codex if you interpret it as a song about suicide.
Videotape, its so underrated too
For me it's Videotape. I listen to that in my darkness moments.
Harry Patch
Pyramid song.... That video....
fitter happier
True love waits
The only correct answer is Sail to the Moon
Last flowers
either life in a glasshouse, no surprises or motion picture soundtrack
No Surprises really illustrated my lowest moments in retail. They even nailed the [doorway chime melody](https://youtu.be/pl04aisgy-w?si=7paWDvvFzm9Cugwh). Exit music is so despairingly passionate, catharsis for grief and betrayal. Personally only can relate through feeling ripped off by the universe when losing someone you love. Videotape is only sad if it’s played at a funeral. Otherwise people just get annoyed with the syncopation theory. Motion Picture soundtrack is enveloping dread, but it’s untitled follow up suggests renewal / reincarnation. Daydreaming is realising *efil ym fo flah* is lost. True Love waits: “I’m not living, I’m just killing time”. Damn. Take your pick of the moment. Radiohead have you covered for cathartic sadness.
I Promise
True Love Waits (live)
For me it is true love waits or videotape
life in a glasshouse makes me feel like i’m slow motion falling after getting shot in the throat
Daydreaming
i’ve always felt connected to weird fishes just every moment of it i can feel so deeply “your eyes, they turn me” “why should i stay here, why should i stay?” “yeah everybody leaves, if they get the chance” “i’ll hit the bottom and escape”
True Love Waits. That song absolutely shreds me to pieces with how beautiful and sad it is
True love waits because I didn't wait for my love.
For me its lift alternate mix … there just a feeling to this song …
true love waits. the live in oslo version. “i’ll dress like your niece and wash your swollen feet” has multitudes of desperations in it. it’s a plea of a love song
Bulletproof... i wish i was and black star together, the fact that they are right after another makes for an incredibly sad listen.
How to Disappear Completely
While i agree not their saddest song, mine is Nude
pyramid song gets me p good but atoms for peace before your very eyes hits me harder
Parachutes.... all of it. 2003, got stuck in Iraq... I listened to the album on repeat to sleep. It's an honest to god trigger... Still my favorite Coldplay album, just can't listen to it .
No surprises for me
For me it's wolf at the door. It just reminds me of being pushed to the edge with stress and responsibilities that all you can do is break down and cry
How to disappear completely and Pyramid song.
faithless the wonder boy or true love waits
Shocked nobody said morning bell
Nude
Motion Picture Soundtrack.
My saddest song is definitely Present Tense. Probably my favourite song too. Everytime I hear "in you I'm lost" my white ass gotta start crying
How to disappear completely