I've got one to beat you all out.......

Eric Carmen(not to be confused with Eric Cartman) "All By Myself"

get ready to f'ing cry when u hear it.......

Junkmale78,
That song would be better if Eric Cartman were singing (see his Styx cover of Sail Away). That song could be described in one word: kitsch.

The Smiths/ Morrisey are quite depressing.

But I seem to prefer:
Death Cab For A Cutie - Company Calls Epilogue

as my depressing song of the moment. its good.

These songs seem to depress me in different ways.

No peticular order
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
Ozzy - Momma(I'm coming home)
Acid Bath - Screams of the butterfly
Nirvana - Lake of fire(Meat puppets cover)
Metallica - Nothing else matters
Greenday - Time of your life
Blink 182 - Adams song
Bjork - All is full of love
Pink Floyd - Hey You
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the bridge

thats all I can think of right now

Most songs by Radiohead are pretty sad, except from that Tricky made some really depressing ones

I gave a few generalizations, but here are some specific songs:

Thom Parrott - Pinkville Helicopter

Thom Parrott - Hole in the Ground

Thom Parrott - The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy

Dan Bern - Oklahoma

Dan Bern - Kid's Prayer

Dan Bern - God Said No

Dan Bern - Broken Up in the Wasteland

Glassjaw - Must've Run All Day

Glassjaw - Gillette Cavalcade of Sports

Phil Ochs - Changes

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Radiohead - Creep

Radiohead - Idioteque

Radiohead - Lucky

Metallica - One

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man

The Used - Poetic Tragedy

The Used - Greener with the Scenery

Lostprophets - Still Laughing

Lostprophets - For Sure

Lostprophets - ...And She Told Me To Leave

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - How Near, How Far

Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song

Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty

Townes Van Zandt - Snow Don't Fall

Townes Van Zandt - Marie

Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers


that's all I can think of right now...

chris isaak-wicked game
A beautifully depressing song I find.

Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest
Ben Folds - Still Fighting It
John Michael Montgomery - I Miss You A Little

They all get me choked up

The Beatles - Yesterday

Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

the most depressing song i have ever heard was christian. it's by kathy trocoli (i think thats how you spell it). it was about this mother-to-be, i think a teen, and how she was going to get an abortion. thing about the song was that it was being sung from the baby's point of veiw, like the baby was singing it. how it could hear her talking about getting rid of it and everything. it was touching and really sad. it made alot of us cry.

Ok, in no particular order, and I am going to repeat some just for my own thought process...

Aerosmith - Hole in my soul
Aerosmith - Don't want to miss a thing (corny I know, but whatever)
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Ozzy - Goodbye to Romance
Nine Days - Wanna Be
Joe Satriani - Always with me, Always with you
Edwin Mcain - I'll Be
Can't think of the band, but the song Suicidal Dreamer
Gary Jules - Mad World
Dashboard Confessional - The Best Deceptions
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven (Unplugged)
Ben Folds Five - Brick
A Perfect Circle - Three Libras
Coldplay - Careful Where You Stand
Matchbox Twenty - Bed of Lies
Guster - Rainy Day

I have more, I'll be back...

How is always with me, always with you depressing? :)

I rkn Something I can never have by nine inch nails is rather depressing.

Can't decide whether I like the recent version on "still" better than the original though...

Anyone?

Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt" takes the cake.

A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras, also.

The *most* depressing song? Hmmm good question...

I know most of you may not be into country music, but I would have to say the most depressing thing I have ever heard was:

Little Jimmy Dickens - "Raggedy Ann"

It's a song in which a man is talking to an old Raggedy Ann doll as he walks up the hill to his childs grave. Raggedy Ann was the childs doll. As he talks to the doll, he explains the death of the child and his wife, and keeps apologizing that this will be the last time he talks to the doll, for he is about to go off and die himself. It's more a form of emotional torture than a song. So, for me it takes the cake.

Eleanor Rigby depresses me every time. So does Precious Things by Tori Amos. And... well, there are a lot more. I was really into depressing music for a long time, and I guess I still am.

Look into COIL (Astral Disaster is pretty good for it, so is the song "Who'll Fall?").

I think it has to deal with my frame of mind...It is a wonderful and beautiful song, and it saddens me when I listen to it, it strikes something in me, that I seem to lack, I guess. Kind of like the song John Mayer - Comfortable. The song itself isn't really depressing, it's the way my mind processess it. I want to feel the way the music is being portrayed in Always with me, Always with you.

I know all that may sound really wierd, and I'm sorry if I didn't answer your question... I guess to sum it up: The song makes me feel like I am missing something, yet I don't know what it is.

It is one of my favorites though. I am going to add Comfortable by John Mayer to the list as well.

/me is a weird kid.

Radiohead and other slow songs

Lithium By Nirvana is espescially sad when you don't have friends.

Listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall from beginning to end is the most depressing thing I've ever heard (as far as music goes).

Ani DiFranco - Grey

the sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey
and i feel right at home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way

i smoke and i drink, and every time i blink i have a tiny dream
but as bad as i am i'm proud of the fact that i'm worse than i seem

what kind of paradise am i looking for?
i've got everything i want and still i want more
maybe some tiny shiny key will wash up on the shore

you walk through my walls like a ghost on tv, you penetrate me
and my little pink heart is on its little brown raft floating out to sea
and what can i say but i'm wired this way and you're wired to me
and what can i do but wallow in you unintentionally

what kind of paradise am i looking for?
i've got everything i want and still i want more
maybe some tiny shiny key will wash up on the shore

regretfully, i guess i've only got three simple things to say:
why me?
why this now?
why this way?
with overtones ringing and undertows pulling away
under a sky that is grey, on sand that is grey, by an ocean that's grey

what kind of paradise am i looking for?
i've got everything i want and still i want more
maybe some tiny shiny key will wash up on the shore

Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs

all by myself - eric carmen

I rarely get through any of these songs w/o hitting repeat and sinking into a funk.
Richard Buckner - Roll
The Smiths - There is a Light That Never goes Out
Patty Griffin's cover of Springsteen's Stolen Car
Tom Waits - Martha
Others artists that kill me - Nick Drake, The Red House Painters, Low

When I was growing up, we always thought "The Wall" by Pink Floyd was pretty depressing.

Hell, that whole album was depressing. Kids would kill themselves in their cars and that would be in the tape deck.

"All in all you're just another Brick in the Wall"

Sylvia's Mother - Dr. Hook

Wait, wait! I thought of another one.

Shannon - that song about the dead dog floating out to sea.

Bands You shouldn't Listen to If You're Feeling Suicidal

Antimatter
Anathema
My Dying Bride
The Old Tree
Neurosis
Sentenced
St. Vitus

Try Gary Jules - Mad World (recently featured in Donnie Darko)
Depressing Enough?
"I find it kinda funny, i find it kinda sad, the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had"

D'Sound - Tatooed On My Mind

Everything on this CD is depressing...

Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence

Just about every song is about rape and murder, from the rapist/murderer's point of view.

Cash -Hurt

Wonderful- Everyclear

Radiohead-the whole THE BENDS album

Depressing and i love all of them!

,,

Snapcase - A Synthesis of Classic Forms

Snapcase - I.D./Hindsight

You might need a lyrics sheet to really see the meaning on those two.

Starry,starry night

Anything by Dashboard Confessional.

Depeche Mode. 80% of their music is depressing, but damn good.

forelle - mask
blink 182 - stay together...
boy sets fire - the fine art of falling
glassjaw - cavalcade
red hot chili peppers - tearjerker
tool - disposition
used - poetic tragedy
deftones - teenager
john frusciante - going inside

Close my eyes forever

Ozzy and Lita

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata