Saddest Songs 1990’s

Much like the music of the 1980’s, the music of the 1990’s were reactionary as well. The Pop music of the late 1980’s was like eating candy; it tastes good but too much will make you sick. And thats just what adolescents of the decade were: sick and wanting something new. Before, this decade, sad songs would account for about two track on the average album.

Now in the nineties, we began to see sadder songs, account for far many of the hits topping the charts. Alternative Rock and Grunge were the predominant music genres and rocked the anthems of a new generation of youth. Generation “X” was disillusioned, bored, depressed and needed a voice of their generation.

The saddest songs of the 1990’s:

  1. Walk Away - Ben Harper 1994

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  2. Brick - Ben Folds Five 1997

    3. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen - Brick

  3. Evaporated - Ben Folds Five 1997

    4. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen - Evaporated

  4. Waiting on an Angel - Ben Harper 1994

    5. Ben Harper - Welcome to the Cruel World - Waiting On an Angel

  5. Another Lonely Day - Ben Harper  1995

    6. Ben Harper - Fight for Your Mind - Another Lonely Day

  6. It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday - Boyz II Men 1991

  7. Always - Bon Jovi 1994

    8. Bon Jovi - Cross Road - Always

  8. Thunder Rolls- Garth Brooks 1990
  9. Glycerine - Bush 1994

    10. Bush - Sixteen Stone - Glycerine

  10. Round Here - Counting Crows 1993

    11. Counting Crows - August and Everything After - Round Here

  11. A Long December - Counting Crows 1996

    12. Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites - A Long December

  12. Colorblind - Counting Crows 1999

    13. Counting Crows - This Desert Life - Colorblind

  13. Walking in my Shoes - Depeche Mode 1993
  14. Waltz No.2 - Elliot Smith 1998

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  15. Bullet - Emmet Swimming 1996
  16. Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton 1992
  17. Never is a Promise - Fiona Apple 1996
  18. Careless Whisper - George Michael 1998
  19. November Rain - Guns ‘N’ Roses 1991
  20. Alone - Heart 1995
  21. Let Her Cry - Hootie & The Blowfish 1995
  22. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah 1994
  23. Foolish Games - Jewel 1995
  24. Table For Glasses - Jimmy Eat World 1999
  25. Just Watch The Fireworks - Jimmy Eat World 1999
  26. Comfortable - John Mayer 1999
  27. Back to You -  John Mayer 1999

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  28. Missing you - John Waite 1996
  29. Lightning Crashes - Live 1994
  30. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star 1994
  31. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan 1999
  32. Nothing Else Matters - Metallica 1991
  33. Hurt - Johnny Cash (Nine Inch Nails) 1994

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  34. All Apologies - Nirvana 1993

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  35. Don’t Speak - No Doubt 1997
  36. Black - Pearl Jam 1991
  37. Nothingman - Pearl Jam 1994
  38. Immortatlity - Pearl jam 1994
  39. Roads - Portishead 1994
  40. Everybody Hurts - REM 1992
  41. Country Feedback - REM 1991
  42. Nightswimming - REM 1992
  43. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead 1995
  44. I Could Have Lied - Red Hot Chili Peppers 1991

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  45. The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel 1996
  46. Thirty-Three - Smashing Pumpkins 1995
  47. Soothe - Smashing Pumpkins 1994
  48. Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins 1994
  49. Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden 1994
  50. Lately - Stevie Wonder 1999
  51. I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer - Stevie Wonder 1999
  52. I Can’t make you Love Me - Bonnie Raitt 1991
  53. In Circles - Sunny Day Real Estate 1994
  54. Pillars - Sunny Day Real Estate 1998
  55. Motorcycle Driveby - Third Eye Blind 1997
  56. Not The Red Baron - Tori Amos 1996
  57. Caught A Lite Sneeze - Tori Amos 1996
  58. Silent all These Years - Tori Amos 1992
  59. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Tori Amos 1992 originally by Nirvana 1991
  60. The Promise - Tracy Chapman 1995
  61. One - U2 1992
  62. Sunrays & Saturdays - Vertical Horizon 1995
  63. The World Has Turned and Left me Here - Weezer 1994
  64. Butterfly - Weezer 1996
  65. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston 1992

*Bold text denotes SaddestSongs.com’s Saddest Songs of all time list.