Saddest Songs 1980’s
The Eighties, most arguably the decade with the most unique, emotional, raw, music of all time. The music of the eighties was reactionary to the hedonistic music and themes of the 1970’s.
Many of the saddest songs of the eighties had electronic sounding instrumentation, giving them a an absence of the human qualities people we used to in the music of its preceding decades. This absence of human elements gave the songs a coldness and feeling of isolation that made listeners beg for more.
Amazing Bands like Robert Smith & The Cure and Morrissey & The Smiths etched out their places in history during this era bringing us the saddest songs of the eighties:
- Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx 1989
- Take My Breath Away - Berlin 1986
- And So It Goes - Billy Joel 1989
- The River - Bruce Springstein 1980
- Wicked Game - Chris Isaac 1989
- Pictures of You - The Cure 1989
- Love Song - The Cure 1989
- The Same Deep Water as you - The Cure 1989
- All I Want - The Cure 1987
- A Thousand Hours - The Cure 1987
- Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure 1986
- A Night like This - The Cure 1986
- I Just Died in your arms tonight - Cutting Crew 1986
- End of the Innocence - Don Henley 1989
- Fade to Black - Metallica 1984
- Three Miles Down - Saves The Day 1998
- Back To The Old House - The Smiths 1984
- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths 1984
- I Know its Over - The Smiths 1986
- Still Ill - The Smiths 1984
- Fast Car - Tracy Chapman 1988
- Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler 1983
- With or Without You - U2 1987
*Bold text denotes SaddestSongs.com’s saddest songs of all time list.