Saddest / melancholic electronic songs

david_2017 · March 2018

love meant to be by hybrid minds. melancholic for sure

kobamoto · March 2018

indulge me...

CracklePot · March 2018

@1nsomniak said:

@Joel75 said:
@DrChris, I'm thrilled that someone out there loves Consequence as much as I do. I just discovered the song a couple of months ago (although ironically I remember being introduced to Notwist around 10 years ago and then promptly forgetting about them).

I love the Notwist but forgot about them, saw them live for the Neon Golden tour but kind of lost track of them since. That song brought me back. I was interning at the Ninja Tune office in Montreal at the time.

We need some Depeche Mode in this thread, lots to choose from. "Somebody" would be the obvious choice but it's not very electronic, try this one instead....

Edit: anyont know what 80s movie thats from?

Modern Girls, released 1986.

CracklePot · March 2018

Here’s some Depeche Mode for you

brice · March 2018

This one has been known to provoke the emotions

And this one has been known to obliterate them

Another....

Bluepunk · March 2018

Anything from @richardyot or @JohnnyGoodyear in SOTMC. Both are ambassadors of ache.

BlueGreenSpiral · March 2018

Track #3 from selected ambient works volume II always does it for me.

This recent song and video from Sufjan Stevens seems to bring out the emotions, I have no idea why!

oddSTAR · March 2018

@brice, I loved those first two tracks! Thanks for sharing.

I'll throw this one out there because it IS one of my favorites, it's sad and gorgeous, and I just don't think it gets the attention it deserves. It's got less than 5000 views and I probably account for half of them.

Also, this guy (Crywolf) can do no wrong and never fails to pull at my heart strings:

Also, being a rebel, I'm going to break the rules with this one (because pretty sure it's not electronic but damn will it give you goosebumps):

Also, I love all the DM, New Order and OMD in here...

crouchie · March 2018

Always gets me

JohnnyGoodyear · March 2018

@brambos said:
Gorecki - Lamb

+1

SevenSystems · March 2018

Chicane -- Autumn Tactics

CracklePot · March 2018

Another classic. Melancholy, but still danceable!

CracklePot · March 2018

Yet another classic. Music isn’t so sad sounding to me, but the tragic lyrics are.

CracklePot · March 2018

These guys had a lot of dark songs on the earlier albums. Pretty sunny on the later stuff, but the cold, dark lyrics of the early stuff is great.

Mad World is another great one, but @TheVimFuego already posted the great cover.

VincentT · March 2018

the classic.

MarkR · March 2018

Lisa Gerrard.

(Not heavily electronic, just her stunning voice backed by synths. Regardless, you'll be moved.)

CracklePot · March 2018

Not sure if you will find it sad or melancholic, but dark and creepy as hell is definitely how I would describe it.

gusgranite · March 2018

gusgranite · March 2018

SanAnto7 · March 2018

The old originals:

JeffChasteen · March 2018

Phil999 · March 2018

I was also thinking about Suicide when it is about sad songs. Cheree, but of course Frankie Teardrop, which is not only sad but disturbing. Devastating. Not really recommended for the faint hearted.

Tuxedomoon is a group that has a lot of songs in that area. Stranger, Alone, their adaption of I Heard It Through The Grapevine, In A Manner Of Speaking, and many more. This one is one of their early tracks:

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And of course Anne Clark with her great lyrics:

Stumbling words and stuttering lips
Make the sentence complete

A death sentence
Complete

Create hell out of hopelessness
Confirm the failure of it all

Falling and calling
Falling and crawling

A stick in the ground scratches your name
A scream in the darkness is searching again and again

Watching eyes wait for sadness to rise
True superstitions
Combine and thicken
This poison that reaches my soul
This terror that blackens my soul
I must smile at your strategy
And laugh at your plan
And the execution of it all

Like death itself love is rotting inside of me
But there'll be no protection for you
You cannot hide me

I am cold on a bed of ice
But like seasons I know it will pass
It will always return again though
A summer of love is a momentary transient thing
Winter will always return again
And I should have known
We're only killing time
Now you have chosen your killing time
Let's hope you make the kill in time
Lies fall out of your mouth like
Love that's so shallow to become so disposable

We have faith like a cross
We have trust like a flag

We have faith

We have trust

We have faith

We have trust

Killing time

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The Vyllies. That's what I could find on YT, what I would have liked to post is the song The Souls With Doors. But here are at least the lyrics:

Oh let's turn the key in the wound
Let's walk home where the heart is and...
Oh let's turn the key in the wound
Let's walk home where the heart is and...
At night we'll have a long way to go
At night we'll have a long way to go
Collecting the sighs
Collecting the sighs
Hanging from the window

We are the souls with
The souls with doors
We are the souls with
The souls with doors
Doors without keyhole

Room after room
Let's turn the pages
I know your soul remains my lonely home
You lie above the faces amongst the places
Place after place
Let's slip down the ages
But oh our soul remains our only home
From ashes to more to no-more you'll pace the floor
Door after door

At night we'll have a long way to go
At night we'll have a long way to go
Collecting the sighs
Hanging from the window

We are the souls with
The souls with doors
We are the souls with
The souls with doors
Doors without keyhole
And when locked from the inside

We are the souls with
The souls with doors
We are the souls with
The souls with doors
Doors without keyhole

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Finally, a very sad song from Colin Newman's LP A-Z:

Alone,
With too much generosity
A theatre mask
Of hostility attracts
Assaults occur, infrequently
And those who come, to conquer?
Need strength
But damage accumulates
Still moving him to tears
Retained, a sense of humour