- Kiss and say goodbye - The Manhattans
- White rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
- Piece of my heart - Janice Joplin
- I don’t love you - My Chemical Romance
- Don’t speak - No Doubt
- Hands of time - Groove Armada (beautiful lyrics)
- Black metallic - Catherine Wheel (one of the best sad rock vocal ever)
- November rain - Guns and Roses
- 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)
- Ugly - The Exies (brilliant sad song, with a lot of aggression)
- 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
- 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
- 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