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Sad Tunes Disguised as Happy Songs

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Mournful Music

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Just Good Ole Bops

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Angry Jams

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Sorrowful Instrumental

The Darkness Underlying Light

  • Telephone Line - Electric Light Orchestra

  • Under Pressure - David Bowie and Freddie Mercury

  • Wake Up - Arcade Fire

  • Renegade - Styx

  • Somebody to Love - Queen

  • All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hopple

  • Some Nights - fun.

  • Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People

  • Father John Misty (think Elton John but sad and on LSD)

  • Sufjan Stevens

  • Silver Lining - Mt. Joy

  • Baba O-Riley - the Who

  • Mad World - Tears for Fears (not to be confused with the popular cover)

  • Once in a Lifetime - the Talking Heads

  • Perfect Day - Lou Reed

  • Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney

Happy-Sad Songs

For the Love of Tragedy

  • The Night We Met - Lord Huron

  • Skinny Love - Bon Iver

  • The Fold - Wickerbird

  • Gold - Penny and Sparrow

  • For No One - Houndmouth

  • The Box - Damien Rice

  • Snaggletooth - Vance Joy

  • The War - SYML

  • Do Not Resuscitate - Tall Heights

  • How to Save a Life - The Fray    

  • Organs - Of Monsters and Men

  • The Lament of Eustace Scrubb - the Oh Hellos

  • Our Remains - Beta Radio

  • I & Love & You - The Avett Brothers

  • Murder in the City - The Avett Brothers

  • Piano Man - Billy Joel

  • Vienna - Billy Joel

  • Rocket Man - Elton John

  • Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John

  • Your Song - Elton John

  • Across the Universe - the Beatles

  • Yesterday - the Beatles

  • Space Oddity - David Bowie

  • Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

  • Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

  • Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

  • American Pie - Don McLean

  • Vincent - Don McLean

  • The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel

  • Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

  • Mad World - Gary Jules

  • Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan

  • Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

  • Blackbird - the Beatles

  • Behind Blue Eyes - the Who

  • Adele (Someone Like You, Million Years Ago, Remedy...)

  • Fix You - Coldplay

  • Trouble - Coldplay

  • Amsterdam - Coldplay

  • Soldier's Poem - Muse

  • Vor i Vaglaskogi - Kaleo

  • I Can't Go On Without You - Kaleo

  • Dreams - the Cranberries

  • Just Breathe - Pearl Jam

  • Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

  • Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

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Sad Tunes

Cheerful Rhythms

Like these playlists? Check on my Spotify for the complete selection of Hannah's Tunes. 

  • All You Need is Love - the Beatles

  • Come Together Now - the Beatles

  • Get by with a Little Help from My Friends - also the Beatles

  • Yellow submarine - the Beatles

    • Watch the movie too!

  • Hey Jude - the Beatles

  • Here Comes the Sun - the Beatles

  • Don't Bring Me Down - Telephone Line

  • YMCA - Village People

  • I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

  • Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees

  • Build Me Up Buttercup - the Foundations

  • Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Simon and Garfunkel

  • You're My Best Friend - Queen

  • Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

  • Mr. Roboto - Styx

  • Africa - Toto

  • Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

  • Wish I Knew You - the Revivalists

  • Don't Stop Believin' - Journey

  • Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go -Wham!

  • You Spin Me Right Around - Dead or Alive

  • Whip It - DEVO

  • Take On Me - aha​

  • Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra

  • Drop the Game - Chet Faker

  • Gold - Chet Faker

  • Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega

  • Norah Jones

  • Love Don't Die - the Fray

  • Feeling Good - Nina Simone

  • Clocks - Coldplay

  • Kangaroo Court - Capital Cities

  • It's Time - Imagine Dragons

  • Big Enough - Kirin J Callinan ft. Alex Cameron, Molly Lewis, Jimmy Barnes

    • Skip to 2:20 in the YouTube video for the best part

  • The Mysterious Ticking Noise - Potter Puppet Pals

  • Beer Song - Adam Sandler

  • Duck Walks Up to Lemonade Stand 

 

Happy Bops

Ripped Raw

  • 21 Guns - Green Day

  • When September Ends - Green Day

  • Visions of China - the Lumineers

  • Snake Song - Isobel Campbell

  • Human - Rag n Bone Man

  • Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • Fade to Black - Metallica

  • Power Out - Arcade Fire

  • Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

  • Hozier

  • The Trial - Pink Floyd

  • One of These Days - Pink Floyd

  • Come With Me Now - KONGOS

  • River - Bishop Briggs

  • Bittersweet Symphony - the Verve

  • Melancholy Hill - the Gorillaz

  • Feel Good Inc - the Gorillaz 

  • Clint Eastwood - the Gorillaz

  • Falling off the Wagon - The Family Crest

  • Pink Floyd

  • When I Was Done Dying - Dan Deacon

  • Too CLose - Alex Clare

  • Fire - Barns Courtney

  • Champions - Barns Courtney

  • Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - Cage the Elephant

  • Unholy War - Jacob Banks

  • Paint It, Black - Rolling Stones

  • Seven Nation Army - the White Stripes

  • Sail - AWOLNATION

  • Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

  • Kids - MGMT

  • Kill Your Heroes - AWOLNATION

  • Risk - Trampled by Turtles

  • Highway to Hell - ACDC

  • Glitter and Gold - Barns Courtney

  • Glass House - Kaleo

  • Chainsmoking - Jacob Banks

  • How You Like Me Now - The Heavy 

Angsty Jams

Instrumental Wonders

  • Time - Hans Zimmer

  • Cornfield Chase - Hans Zimmer

  • Tsimtsum - Mychael Danna, Rob Simonsen

  • On the Nature of  Daylight - Max Richter

  • Mass (Re-Imagined) - Phoria 

  • Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

  • Gnossiene: No. 1 - Erik Satie (piano version)

  • Patience - the Lumineers

  • Hope - Rush

  • January Rain - David Gray

  • Intro - the xx

  • Claire De Lune - Claude Debussy

  • Sleeping Lotus - Joep Beving

  • Consonance - Golden Retriever

  • The Lamp Kept Us Warm - Trevor Ransom, Olivia Dixon

  • Kindred Spirits - Brian Balmages

  • The Planets - Holst

  • Fresh Paint - Anne Dudley

  • Quintessence - Theodore Shapiro, Jose Gonzalez

  • Idyll's End - The Last Samurai

  • Sunder - Really Slow Motion

  • Thunderstruck - Two Cellos

  • Tears in the Rain - Hans Zimmer

  • Soundtrack from the Princess Bride - Mark Knopfler

  • John Williams

  • Married Life - Michael Giacchino

  • Tron Legacy Soundtrack - Daft Punk 

  • Arrival of the Birds - the Cinematic Orchestra

Symphonic Euphoria
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