Here’s this year’s songlist, 456 songs! Of course, anything on the full KU list is available if you feel like we missed adding a sad song to this list.
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – How Near, How Far
13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me
6ths feat. Mary Timony – All Dressed Up In Dreams
7 Seconds – 99 Red Balloons (by Nina Hagen)
Adams, Ryan – Come Pick Me Up
Adams, Ryan – Magnolia Mountain
Adams, Ryan – To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
Adorable – Sunshine Smile
Afghan Whigs – My Curse
Against Me! – Black Me Out
Against Me! – FuckMyLife666
Against Me! – True Trans Soul Rebel
Air Miami – I Hate Milk
AJJ – Hate, Rain On Me
AJJ – People II: The Reckoning
Alkaline Trio – Maybe I’ll Catch Fire
Alkaline Trio – Radio
Alkaline Trio – San Francisco
ALL – Dot
ALL – Nothin’
ALL – Postage
Allo Darlin’ – My Heart Is A Drummer
Alvvays – Dreams Tonite
Alvvays – In Undertow
American Football – Never Meant
American Nightmare – AM/PM
Arcade Fire – Modern Man
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Archers Of Loaf – Wrong
At The Drive-in – Napoleon Solo
Bachelor – Stay In The Car
Bad Books – Pyotr
Bad Religion – 21st Century Digital Boy
Baker, Julien – Sour Breath
Band Of Horses – The Funeral
Barnett, Courtney – Avant Gardener
Barnett, Courtney – Before You Gotta Go
Barnett, Courtney – Depreston
Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust (by David Bowie)
Bell, Chris – I Am The Cosmos
Belle & Sebastian – Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Belle & Sebastian – Judy And The Dream Of Horses
Belle & Sebastian – Lazy Line Painter Jane
Belle & Sebastian – Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
Belle & Sebastian – Like Dylan In The Movies
Belle & Sebastian – Lord Anthony
Belle & Sebastian – Mayfly
Belle & Sebastian – Me And The Major
Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People
Belle & Sebastian – The Boy Done Wrong Again
Belle & Sebastian – The Fox In The Snow
Belle & Sebastian – The Stars Of Track And Field
Best Coast – Better Girl
Best Coast – Boyfriend
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Beths – Future Me Hates Me
Better Oblivion Community Center – Dylan Thomas
Big Boys – Sound On Sound
Big Boys – Which Way To Go
Big Star – September Gurls
Big Star – Thirteen
Big Thief – Mythological Beauty
Big Thief – Not
Big Thief – Shark Smile
Big Thief – Simulation Swarm
Big Thief – Vampire Empire
Bikini Kill – Feels Blind
Black Dresses – Thoughts And Prayers
Black Flag – Depression
Black Heart Procession – A Light So Dim
Black Heart Procession – It’s A Crime I Never Told You About The Diamonds In Your Eyes
Black Heart Procession – Square Heart
Blonde Redhead – 23
Blood Brothers – Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
Blow – True Affection
Bomb The Music Industry! – Everybody That You Love
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See A Darkness
Bottle Rockets – Thousand Dollar Car
boygenius – Bite The Hand
boygenius – Me & My Dog
boygenius – Not Strong Enough
Bratmobile – Well You Wanna Know What
Breeders – Drivin’ On 9
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Anemone
Bridgers, Phoebe – Kyoto
Bridgers, Phoebe – Motion Sickness
Bridgers, Phoebe – Scott Street
Bright Eyes – Bowl Of Oranges
Bright Eyes – Lover I Don’t Have To Love
Bright Eyes – Method Acting
Bright Eyes – Papa Was A Rodeo (by Magnetic Fields)
Broken Social Scene – Anthems For A Seventeen-Year Old Girl
Built To Spill – Twin Falls
Buzzcocks – Ever Fallen In Love?
Buzzcocks – What Do I Get?
Callahan, Bill – Too Many Birds
Camera Obscura – Lloyd I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken
Camera Obscura – The Sweetest Thing
Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favorite Fruit
Car Seat Headrest – Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An)
Cartalk – Wrestling
Case, Neko – Calling Cards
Case, Neko – Deep Red Bells
Case, Neko – Hold On, Hold On
Case, Neko – I Wish I Was The Moon
Case, Neko – Pretty Girls
Case, Neko – Red Tide
Case, Neko – Star Witness
Case, Neko – That Teenage Feeling
Case, Neko – This Tornado Loves You
Cat Power – Cherokee
Cat Power – Cross Bones Style
Cat Power – Nude As The News
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song
Cayetana – Scott Get The Van, I’m Moving
Charly Bliss – Capacity
Childbirth – I Only Fucked You As A Joke
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth
Cloud Nothings – Pyschic Trauma
Cock Sparrer – Argy Bargy
Cocteau Twins – Cherry-Coloured Funk
Come – Shoot Me First
Company Of Thieves – After Thought
Converge – Homewrecker
Cramps – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Crass – Systematic Death
Crooked Fingers – New Drink For The Old Drunk
Crooked Fingers – Sleep All Summer
Crooked Fingers – Under Sad Stars
Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
Cure – The Hanging Garden
Cursive – Art Is Hard
Cursive – The Recluse
Dacus, Lucy – Hot & Heavy
Dacus, Lucy – I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore
Dacus, Lucy – Night Shift
Danzig – Blood And Tears
Dashboard Confessional – The Brilliant Dance
Dawson, Kimya – All I Could Do
Dazey & The Scouts – Wet
Death Cab For Cutie – Title And Registration
Decemberists – The Chimbley Sweep
Desaparecidos – Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)
Descendents – Clean Sheets
Detroit Cobras – He Did It (by The Ronettes)
DEVO – Beautiful World
Diet Cig – Harvard
DiFranco, Ani – Both Hands
DiFranco, Ani – Untouchable Face
Dinosaur Jr – Just Like Heaven (by The Cure)
Dismemberment Plan – A Life Of Possibilities
Dismemberment Plan – The City
Dismemberment Plan – The Ice Of Boston
Dismemberment Plan – Time Bomb
Distillers – City Of Angels
Distillers – Drain The Blood
Distillers – I Am A Revenant
Dollyrots – My Best Friend’s Hot
Dream Syndicate – Tell Me When It’s Over
Dresden Dolls – My Alcoholic Friends
Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down
Dum Dum Girls – It Only Takes One Night
Eisley – Real World
Erickson, Roky – You Don’t Love Me Yet
ESG – You’re No Good
Face To Face – Blind
Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
Foxygen – San Francisco
Frankie Cosmos – Young
Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off
Front Bottoms – Twin Size Mattress
Frost, Edith – Cars And Parties
Frost, Edith – You Belong To No One
Fugazi – I’m So Tired
Furman, Ezra – Transition From Nowhere To Nowhere
Fuvk – Glasses
Gary, The – (Eyes In The) Tap Room
Get Up Kids – Holiday
Get Up Kids – Ten Minutes
Ghostland Observatory – Sad Sad City
Girls – Hellhole Ratrace
Golightly, Holly – There’s An End
Good Life – Lovers Need Lawyers
Good Riddance – Better
Grifters – Bummer
Guided By Voices – Game Of Pricks
Guided By Voices – If We Wait
Handsome Family – Weightless Again
Harvey, PJ – Rid Of Me
Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
Heatmiser – Antonio Carlos Jobim
Helium – Honeycomb
Hole – Jennifer’s Body
Hop Along – How Simple
Hop Along – Tibetan Pop Stars
Hot Water Music – Not For Anyone
Hot Water Music – Trusty Chords
Hum – Step Into You
Hüsker Dü – I Apologize
Hüsker Dü – Makes No Sense At All
Hüsker Dü – Never Talking To You Again
Hval, Jenny – Ashes To Ashes
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – According To Plan
Inspiral Carpets – This Is How It Feels
Interpol – Leif Erikson
Interpol – NYC
Jacklin, Julia – Pressure To Party
Japanese Breakfast – Road Head
Jawbox – Savory
Jawbreaker – Do You Still Hate Me?
Jets To Brazil – Chinatown
Jets To Brazil – Sweet Avenue
Jim Carroll Band – People Who Died
Johnston, Daniel – True Love Will Find You In The End
Joy Division – Dead Souls
Joy Division – Insight
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
La Dispute – Such Small Hands
La Luz – Sure As Spring
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
Lagwagon – Sick
Lekman, Jens – I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You
Lekman, Jens – The Opposite Of Hallelujah
Lewis, Jenny – The Big Guns
Low – Just Make It Stop
Lush – For Love
Lush – Light From A Dead Star
Magnetic Fields – All My Little Words
Magnetic Fields – All The Umbrellas In London
Magnetic Fields – Busby Berkeley Dreams
Magnetic Fields – Grand Canyon
Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want To Get Over You
Magnetic Fields – Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Magnetic Fields – No One Will Ever Love You
Magnetic Fields – The Saddest Story Ever Told
Magnolia Electric Co. – The Dark Don’t Hide It
Mannequin Pussy – Drunk II
Marked Men – Fix My Brain
Mazzy Star – Halah
McDowall, Rose – Tibet
Meat Puppets – Plateau
Menzingers – I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore
Metric – Now Or Never Now
Mineral – Parking Lot
Minutemen – Jesus & Tequila
Mirah – Jerusalem
Mitski – A Pearl
Mitski – I Bet On Losing Dogs
Mitski – i will
Mitski – Lonesome Love
Mitski – Nobody
Mitski – Washing Machine Heart
Modern Baseball – Fine, Great
Modest Mouse – Baby Blue Sedan
Modest Mouse – Bankrupt On Selling
Modest Mouse – Dark Center Of The Universe
Modest Mouse – Dramamine
Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash
Modest Mouse – You’re The Good Things (It’s Alright To Die)
Mogwai – R U Still In 2 It?
Morphine – Cure For Pain
Mountain Goats – Against Pollution
Mountain Goats – Cotton
Mountain Goats – Cry For Judas
Mountain Goats – Dance Music
Mountain Goats – Game Shows Touch Our Lives
Mountain Goats – No Children
Mountain Goats – Oceanographer’s Choice
Mountain Goats – Palmcorder Yajna
Mountain Goats – The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton
Mountain Goats – This Year
Mr. T Experience – Sackcloth And Ashes
Muth, Zoe – You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying
Nana Grizol – Photos From When We Were Young
Nastasia, Nina – A Dog’s Life
National – Mr. November
National – Pink Rabbits
Nerves – Hanging On The Telephone
Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel – King Of Carrot Flowers, Part 1
New Order – 1963 (’95)
New Order – Ceremony
New Order – Love Vigilantes
New Pornographers – Challengers
Newsom, Joanna – Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
Newsom, Joanna – Sadie
Newsom, Joanna – The Book Of Right-On
Nico – These Days
No Use For A Name – Justified Black Eye
Normal – Warm Leatherette
Numan, Gary (Tubeway Army) – Me! I Disconnect From You
Okkervil River – Black
Okkervil River – Westfall
Old 97’s – Big Brown Eyes
Olsen, Angel – Never Be Mine
Olsen, Angel – Shut Up Kiss Me
Olsen, Angel – Some Things Cosmic
Olsen, Angel – Unfucktheworld
Owen – O, Evelyn
Palace Brothers – For The Mekons, et al
Palmer, Amanda – The Bed Song
Paramore – Brighter
Parenthetical Girls – A Song For Ellie Greenwich
Pennywise – Bro Hymn
Phair, Liz – Divorce Song
Phair, Liz – Fuck And Run
Phair, Liz – Never Said
Pinback – Fortress
Pleasure Venom – Severed Ties
Pogues – A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing
Pom Pom Squad – Drunk Voicemail
Pop, Iggy – How Do Ya Fix A Broken Part
Popper Burns – Sunday
Postal Service – Brand New Colony
Postal Service – Clark Gable
Postal Service – Nothing Better
Postal Service – Sleeping In
Poster Children – Rain On Me
Pretty Girls Make Graves – Sad Girls Por Vida
Promise Ring – A Picture Postcard
Pulley – Second Best
Pulp – Disco 2000
Pulp – Like A Friend
Pup – DVP
Purple Mountains – All My Happiness Is Gone
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
Quasi – The Poisoned Well
Quiet Company – The Easy Confidence
Rainer Maria – The Reason The Night Is Long
Replacements – Unsatisfied
Rilo Kiley – A Better Son/Daughter
Rilo Kiley – Does He Love You?
Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous
Rilo Kiley – Science Vs. Romance
Rilo Kiley – The Good That Won’t Come Out
Rites Of Spring – For Want Of
Rutabega – Come Back Big Brother
Rutabega – Shiny Destination
Sarge – Beguiling
Saves The Day – At Your Funeral
School Of Seven Bells – Half Asleep
Sebadoh – Brand New Love (acoustic)
Sebadoh – Pink Moon (by Nick Drake)
Sebadoh – Too Pure
Shannon & The Clams – Baby Don’t Do It
Shannon & The Clams – Point Of Being Right
Shearwater – Century Eyes
Silkworm – Couldn’t You Wait
Silver Jews – Punks In The Beerlight
Silver Jews – Random Rules
Sincere Engineer – Trust Me
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Christine
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Dazzle
Sleater-Kinney – Buy Her Candy
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
Sleater-Kinney – Heart Factory
Sleater-Kinney – Jumpers
Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl
Sleater-Kinney – One More Hour
Slint – Good Morning, Captain
Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (by Marvin Gaye)
Small Brown Bike – Like A Future With No Friend
Smith, Elliott – Baby Britain
Smith, Elliott – Ballad Of Big Nothing
Smith, Elliott – Between The Bars
Smith, Elliott – Can’t Make A Sound
Smith, Elliott – Condor Ave.
Smith, Elliott – King’s Crossing
Smith, Elliott – Miss Misery
Smith, Elliott – St. Ides Heaven
Smith, Elliott – Strung Out Again
Smith, Elliott – Twilight
Smith, Elliott – Waltz #2 (XO)
Smith, Patti – Free Money
Smiths – Girlfriend In A Coma
Smog – Bathysphere
Smog – I Was A Stranger
Smoking Popes – Megan
Snail Mail – Full Control
Snail Mail – Valentine
Soccer Mommy – Circle The Drain
Soccer Mommy – Last Girl
Soccer Mommy – Your Dog
Somnia – (The Double Life Of) Ed Claiborne
Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
Songs: Ohia – I’ve Been Riding With The Ghost
Songs: Ohia – Just Be Simple
Songs: Ohia – Lioness
Songs: Ohia – Tigress
Sonic Youth – Brother James
Spanish Love Songs – The Boy Considers His Haircut
Sparks – Here In Heaven
Spiritualized – The Straight & The Narrow
Spoon – 10:20 a.m.
Spoon – Advance Cassette
Spoon – Anything You Want
Spoon – Don’t Let It Get You Down
Spoon – Laffitte Don’t Fail Me Now
Squirrel Flower – So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings (by Caroline Polachek)
St. Vincent – Cheerleader
St. Vincent – The Neighbors
Stars – Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Stevens, Sufjan – Chicago
Stevens, Sufjan – John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Stretch Panic – Vampire Love
Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me Ohio
Sun Kil Moon – Salvador Sanchez
Sundfør, Susanne – Undercover
Sunny Day Real Estate – In Circles
Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven
Swearin’ – Kenosha
They Might Be Giants – Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Noble Experiment
Title Fight – Numb, But I Still Feel It
Tuscadero – Nancy Drew
Two Nice Girls – I Spent My Last US$10.00(On Birth Control And Beer)
U.S. Girls – Rage Of Plastics
Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
Urban Heat – Have You Ever?
Van Etten, Sharon – Seventeen
Van Etten, Sharon – Your Love Is Killing Me
Vandals – My Girlfriend’s Dead
Vanderslice, John – Exodus Damage
Vega, Suzanne – Left Of Center
Veirs, Laura – Galaxies
Velocity Girl – Pop Loser
Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
Velvet Underground – Femme Fatale
Walkmen – Thinking Of A Dream I Had
Warpaint – Ashes To Ashes (by David Bowie)
Waxahatchee – Lilacs
Waxahatchee – Poison
Weakerthans – Aside
Weakerthans – Tournament Of Hearts
Weakerthans – Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure
Ween – Chocolate Town
Weyes Blood – Andromeda
What Made Milwaukee Famous – Selling Yourself Short
Whiskeytown – Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
Wilco – How To Fight Loneliness
Wilco – Passenger Side
Wolf Parade – I’ll Believe In Anything
Wye Oak – Civilian
Wye Oak – I Hope You Die
X – I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Xiu Xiu – Falling (by Julee Cruise)
Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
Yo La Tengo – Sugarcube
Zen Guerrilla – Moonage Daydream (by David Bowie)