Well, it was sad that they could never go out except when it was raining, so you wouldn’t notice the tears in their eyes.
That was Roy Orbison’s advantage. As he was wearing shades all the time, no one could tell if he was weeping or not.
running scared by roy orbison.
i think he’s one of the best ever, but he’s just a little bit too worried about losing his girl.
“You Don’t Know Me” by Ray Charles
“Lonely Man There on the Corner” by Genesis
Pretty much anything by Three Doors Down. Man, that bands singer songwriter is a whiney loser that caters to whiney losers.
Kentucky Rainby Elvis has to be one of my all-time favourites for this. Great song, of course, but seriously creepy stalker territory.
“I’ve loved you much too long, my love’s too strong”
Gack.
And pissing on about the rain in his shoe? Please. She dumped and ran. For evidently good reasons. It happens. Deal.
I don’t really care about the lyrics in Lovefool - the instrumentals of the song are good. I think it’s one of the best pop melodies of the late 1990s.
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There are an asston of a songs out there about whiny losers, but few of them are actually good. I find my tolerance for whiny shit decreases significantly with every passing year of my life.
That said,
Beck’s ‘‘Loser’’ and The Offspring’s ‘‘Self-Esteem’’ are both phenomenal songs.
The all-time mother of all whiney loser songs: “The Man That Got Away”:
*The night is bitter,
The stars have lost their glitter;
The winds grow colder
And suddenly you’re older -
And all because of the man that got away.
.
.
.
Ever since this world began
There is nothing sadder than
A one-man woman looking for
The man that got away.
*
But it’s still a great song.
Hedley is a walking, talking Crowing Moment of Whine, IMHO, but For The Nights I Can’t Remember probably takes the cake.
I have to disagree with this one. Because he doesn’t know why she left. You never know - she could have been abducted by aliens.
Ballad of the Green Berets by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
Suck it up boy, you’re all volunteers.
Jonathan Coulton excels at mocking whiny losers, especially passive aggressive ones.
Note to mods: Coulton releases his work under Creative Commons Attribution/Noncommercial License, and it’s perfectly cool to share the lyrics provided we attribute and link back. Even so I’m not quoting the whole thing. 
Not About You:
I haven’t thought of you in fifteen days and today I still won’t think of you
And when I call you up and you’re not home,
Well I might not even care
Every day gets better than the one before
Cause every day I know that I’m fine without you
But I don’t think about it
(snip chorus)
Every time I ride past your house I forget it’s you who’s living there
Anyway I never see your face cause your window’s up too high
And I saw you shopping at the grocery store
But I was far too busy with my cart to notice
You weren’t looking at me
(snip chorus)
I saw that movie where the guy gets dumped when the girl goes off to find herself
But I think I may have missed the end - there was something in my eye…
Full lyrics & song here
Nerdy high school guy complaining about getting his heart broken and plotting revenge in The Future Soon:
Last week I left a note on Laura’s desk
It said ‘I love you’ signed anonymous friend
Turns out she’s smarter than I thought she was
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too
And I’m all alone during couple skate
When she skates by with some guy on her arm
But I know that I’ll forget the look of pity in her face
When I’m living in my solar dome on a platform in space
Cause it’s gonna be the future soon
And I won’t always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It’s gonna be the future soon
I’ve never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it’s already here
I’ll probably be some kind of scientist
Building inventions in my space lab in space
I’ll end world hunger I’ll make dolphins speak
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Building them one laser gun at a time
I will do my best to teach them
About life and what it’s worth
I just hope that I can keep them
from destroying the earth…
And for whiny loser most likely to turn into a stalker, there’s Make You Cry:
I drove seven hours
All day to see you
The least that you could do is be at home
I wait outside your front door
I guess that I surprised us both
When you get home you’re not alone
The way I thought you’d be
You introduce your friend
On some sunny day you’re gonna fall for me
The way I fell for you
That’s when I’m gonna make you cry
(snip)
I leave another message
That’s two this morning
My fingers crossed I wait for you to call
I feel it getting closer
I’ll wait forever, I know
Brick by brick I’m breaking down the wall
And when we’re side by side
I’ll build it up again
That’s when I’m gonna make you cry
Finally there’s possibly his best/worst example of a manipulative whiny loser:
Take Care of Me:
I woke up with a headache
Slept too late and my coffee turned cold
Nobody got me my breakfast
My eyes are tired and my body feels old
And no one seems to care
I’m looking at you when I say that
Why don’t you take care of me?
When you know that I can’t take care of myself?
I think this handle is broken
No one can fix it cause no one knows how
That’s not the pen that I wanted
Come and look what you made me do now
I’m not surprised at all
I know how it goes. I get it.
(snip)
I see you’re busy with something
Go ahead and finish I swear it’s alright
I’ll just sit here in the dark then
With no one helping me turn on the light…
I found that Weird Al’s “Angry White Boy Polka” did a great job pointing out how whiny a lot of those songs are.
Another one is probably “Everything You Want” by Vertical Horizon. And pretty much anything by Blink-182 that got radio play.
Hound Dog, by Elvis Presley. Seriously, did I miss it or did it take 74 posts for us to get there?
In that vein, Linkin Park - from “Breaking the Habit” -
"I hurt much more
Than any time before
I had no options left again
I don’t want to be the one
The battles always choose
'Cause inside I realize
That I’m the one confused"
Wah fucking wah.
Pretty much anything by Bright Eyes.
The Ballad of Who Could Care Less, by Ben Folds was the song that popped into my head when I saw the thread title. It could be written about people I went to high school with. Or hell, I bet we all went to high school with those people.
Puddle of Mudd - She Fuckin’ Hates Me
Cher’s I Found Someone, which I think was written by Michael Bolton. Basically, “Wah, you were so mean to me and broke up with me even though I’m totally awesome but now I have a new boyfriend and he’s so much better than you so I TOTALLY don’t care about you anymore so Nyah.”
If you don’t care so much, why go out of your way to point out your cool new boyfriend? Did the addition of a man to your life finally give you the moral superiority required to take your ex to task for treating you like garbage, because otherwise, clearly you mean nothing? Does your new man prove definitively that your ex was wrong and a bad bad man? Or maybe he left you because you are a co-dependent loser?
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats. First off, destroying expensive personal property because you were cheated on is beyond lame. You need perspective. Further “Carved my name into his leather seats”??? WHAT? Are you seriously such an idiot that you don’t realize the potential consequences of leaving your name at the scene of a crime that involves the destruction of very expensive property? Maybe he’s cheating because you’re such a whiny idiot that even the bleached blond tramp doing the bad Shania karaoke provides more intellectual stimulation than you! Now, go home and study the ins and outs of forensics before you attempt another major crime in an attempt to obtain moral superiority. Thank you.
Rant over. 
Well does "best " mean the song that is actually best musically and that happens to be about some schmendrick or is it just the whiniest lyrics / voice combo?
My favorites, as in I actually like the songs , have been mentioned, so I’ll throw out Kelly Clarkson’s “Because of You”. Good god, what self pitying, whiny, cliched dreck.
Here’s the loser’s lament in it’s vomitocious entirety.
“…because of you I find it hard to trust not only me but everyone around me. Because of you I am afraid”
Gah. Bitch is so deep in her pitty pot she can’t be bothered to stick to any kind of meter or rhyme scheme.