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:

  1. Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx 1989

  2. Take My Breath Away - Berlin 1986
  3. And So It Goes - Billy Joel 1989
  4. The River - Bruce Springstein 1980
  5. Wicked Game - Chris Isaac 1989
  6. Pictures of You - The Cure 1989
  7. Love Song - The Cure 1989
  8. The Same Deep Water as you - The Cure 1989
  9. All I Want - The Cure 1987
  10. A Thousand Hours - The Cure 1987
  11. Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure 1986
  12. A Night like This - The Cure 1986
  13. I Just Died in your arms tonight - Cutting Crew 1986
  14. End of the Innocence - Don Henley 1989
  15. Fade to Black - Metallica 1984
  16. Three Miles Down - Saves The Day 1998
  17. Back To The Old House - The Smiths 1984
  18. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths 1984
  19. I Know its Over - The Smiths 1986
  20. Still Ill - The Smiths 1984
  21. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman 1988
  22. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler 1983
  23. With or Without You - U2 1987

*Bold text denotes SaddestSongs.com’s saddest songs of all time list.