I am in a poor mood and am in need of musical catharsis. Would you nice folks be kind enough to recommend some quiet, sad, angsty music to me? Something similar to Everessence Hello or the Donni Darco version of Mad World.
Thank you.
Try these…
Damaged - Plumb
The Liar - Ozzy
So Tired - Ozzy
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Sweeter For Me - Joan Baez
Not too familiar with the music you referred to, but the saddest, angstiest (is that a word?) band I can think of at the moment is The Handsome Family. I particularly recommend their album Through The Trees
It’s a perfectly crumulent word.
That’s “cromulent.” Don’t you have a dictionotomy?
The Red House Painters
Songs for a Blue Guitar
brilliantly simply sad and slowed down
Needle in the Hay by Elliot Smith
Slob by Weezer
Evanescence - “Anywhere” – this is from their demo tracks and didn’t make it to their debut album, so you may need to utilize some rather underhanded means in order to hear it.
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun – the entire album is dark, moody, and bittersweet. I wouldn’t exactly classify it as angst, but it definately holds some dark catharsis (at least for me).
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, Movement ii: Andante con moto – one of the most beautiful, sad, and expressive pieces of music you will ever hear that doesn’t have lyrics. This was composed around the time he realized he was going deaf.
Clint Mansell – Requiem for a Dream – I prefer the Lux Aeterna version from the Two Towers soundtrack, personally.
I have heard “Slob” before, good song, but far from quiet.
Similiar to Hansome Family, (really the Sparks family, husband and wife, Rennie and Brett), try Bonnie Prince Billy(real name Will Oldham.) Mr. Oldham also goes by the pseudonym Palace.
Rather than bands and singers, I would really appreciate particular songs. Which ones affected you the most?
Excess Baggage - Staind
Quiet, sad, and angsty, I think you’ll like it.
From the previously mentioned Dead Can Dance album, try “Cantara” and “Persephone (the gathering of flowers)”
Here’s a few more:
Mazzy Star - “Fade Into You”
Sarah McLachlan - “Good Enough”
Madredeus - “Vem” (more meaningful if you have a translation
handy or are fluent in Portuguese)
Samuel Barber - “Adagio for Strings”
Granted, not all these may be in the genre you seek, but I find them to be cathartic nonetheless 
Anything by the Magnetic Fields.
Be careful with Mazzy Star’s Fade into You. Don’t drive with it on.
Ennio Morricone - “Gabriel’s Oboe”
The Smiths - “Asleep” and “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”
Here’s some specific Handsome Family songs:
Weightless Again
Woman Downstairs
My Ghost
In the Air
So Much Wine
All the TVs in Town
Enjoy…
More popular artists would include:
** A Perfect Circle** - specifically the songs: 3 Libras, Sleeping Beauty, Thomas, and Breña.
Alice in Chains - specifically the songs: Nutshell, Rotten Apple, and Down in a Hole.
Bush - specifically: Inflatable and Letting the Cable Sleep.
Coldplay - specifically the songs: Warning Sign and Amsterdam.
Nine Inch Nails - specifically the songs: A Warm Place, The Great Below, and At the Heart of It All.
Pantera - specifically: Planet Caravan.
Portishead - almost anything by them, but I’m especially affected by the songs: Roads, Sour Times, and It Could Be Sweet.
Sarah MacLachlan - specifically the songs: I Love You, Witness, and Angel.
Some lesser known bands include:
Yo La Tengo - specifically the songs: Everyday, Night Falls on Hoboken, and Tears Are In Your Eyes.
Mad Season - specifically: Long Gone Day.
Cat Power - a girl with a truly cathartic voice. Specifically the songs: Colors and the Kids and Metal Heart.
Modest Mouse - specifically: Gravity Rides Everything, 3rd Planet, Lounge, and Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset.
All of it is quiet, most of it is sad, angsty is subjective. In one way or another they all should meet your specifications.
Music always helps me feel better, or at least worse before getting better, but I honestly believe it’s natural and good for a person to dwell on things sometimes. Hope these songs help you as they’ve helped me many times over the years.
I recommend Bonnnie Prince Billy’s “I See a Darkness” and “Wolf Among Wolves”
I second “Weightless Again” by the Handsome Family. It’s my favorite Handsome Family song. And although I don’t particularly like the song as a whole, the Handsome Family’s “Drunk by Noon” contains one of my favorite sad, angsty couplets:
“Sometimes I flap my arms like a hummingbird just to remind myself I’ll never fly/And sometimes I burn my arms with cigarettes just to pretend I won’t scream when I die”
“Timelessness” by Fear Factory.
“Something’s Always Wrong” by Toad the Wet Sprocket
And always for quiet and angsty, Radiohead:
“Climbing Up the Walls” (you’ll want the lyrics for this one, though, because it’s kind of hard to understand)
“Pyramid Song”
“Knives Out”