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archetypal fool 05-26-2007 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ch'i
Edvard Grieg, in his Pier Gynt suite No.1, wrote a song called Ase's Death after his wife died that's definately one of the most depressing songs I've ever heard.

I had never heard this piece before, until I had to play it at a concert (with orchestra, of course). I was blown away by how haunting it was. I looked at the audience, and, I'm not kidding, I could see three people crying, all in the first or second row.

But anyways, I'd have to say that the most heart-wrenching songs I've ever heard are from a couple of Puccini operas. Nothing I've ever heard has had the impact these songs have had on me (and I have a HUGE music collection).

"E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca, "Un bel di" and "Tu? tu? Piccolo iddio" from Madama Butterfly are the most dramatic and depressing songs I've ever heard. They're serious business, especially if you have a good recording and are familiar with the back-stories.

Fuck, now I'm depressed. Thanks a lot. :sad:

Estevez 05-27-2007 11:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fightnight
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley gets me going every time.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I've had this song stuck in my head for a week now, but I didn't know who performed it. It's too depressing to be played on a constant loop in my brain. Now I can listen to it and exorcise the demons, if you will.

Pogue Mahone 05-29-2007 10:27 AM

In no real order

Mad Season - River of Deceit
Third Eye Blind - Slow Motion, Motorcycle Driveby, I Want You, The Background
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus, Collapse the Light Into Earth
The Posies - Coming Right Along
Screaming Trees - Sworn And Broken
Cash - Hurt
Pearl Jam - Strangest Tribe
Opeth - In My Time Of Need
Blackfield - Summer, Once
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Zakk Wylde - Way Beyond Empty

Plan9 06-13-2007 02:16 PM

I Am Crushed by the Vandals.

Hands down.

factiongroove 06-16-2007 05:37 PM

needle in the hay- elliott smith

Jetée 06-16-2007 05:48 PM

The Lonely Shepherd by Zamfir has nothing but heart-wrenching acoustics and melodies.

dirtyrascal7 06-17-2007 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jetstream
The Lonely Shepherd by Zamfir has nothing but heart-wrenching acoustics and melodies.

Heart-wrenching yes, but I find that song rather inspirational and soothing... definitely not what I'd call depressing.

Anyway, Dashboard Confessional and Howie Day definitely have some good and depressing songs... and I agree with those who mentioned Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.

hagatha 06-17-2007 10:48 AM

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" by NIN ---grabs you in the gut.

Jetée 06-19-2007 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dirtyrascal7
Heart-wrenching yes, but I find that song rather inspirational and soothing... definitely not what I'd call depressing.

I suppose you are quite right, but it is another thing altogether to hear those first few melodies at the beginning...
chilling, yet in a way that is good and uplifting...

perhaps comparable to eating a candy cane than drinking some water right after. It is an experience! :D

Redjake 06-19-2007 05:40 PM

Haven't read the rest of the replies, but Glycerine by Bush really puts me in a sad mood.

punkedjask8er 06-20-2007 06:49 AM

Dave Matthews Band - Grace is Gone
Dave Matthews Band - Let You Down
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

holeyfred 07-05-2007 11:26 AM

Funeral/Bastard - Devin Townsend.
Room 429 - Strapping Young Lad.

Plus, I'm not sure if these are too obvious or what, but I haven't seen anyone mention:

Fade to Black - Metallica
Dust in the wind - Kansas
Abraham, Martin & John - Dion

Strange Famous 07-05-2007 12:20 PM

Buck 65 - The Floor

?

It's kind of depressing to learn that "it's better to be happy if possible" was a lie from the start.

filtherton 07-05-2007 12:30 PM

my humps - the fact that that piece of garbage became so popular is pretty depressing.

Strange Famous 07-06-2007 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by punkedjask8er
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

Thats strange, Ive always thought that that was quite a positive song.

uncle phil 07-19-2007 04:05 PM

wow...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=2

Mesmero85 08-20-2007 05:06 PM

Most melancholic songs for me:

Mazzy Star - Into Dust
J. J. Johansson - Suffering
Death In June - Falling Apart
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Jeff Buckley - Lilac Wine
Scott Matthew - Language
The Beatles - Yesterday
The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
Marianne Faithfull - So Sad
Gary Jules - Mad World
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Nouvelle Vague - In a Manner of Speaking
Bright Eyes - The Awful Sweetness of Escaping Sweat (depressing AND creepy)

and possibly others I can't recall right now

mixedmedia 08-20-2007 05:10 PM

Tracy Chapman's Fast Car always makes me tear up.

noodle 08-20-2007 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by filtherton
my humps - the fact that that piece of garbage became so popular is pretty depressing.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :thumbsup:


the news - jack johnson

spectre 08-20-2007 07:46 PM

Black Label Society has a few that are really good, especially "My Lost Heaven." Great, sad song.

Baraka_Guru 08-20-2007 07:50 PM

Leonard Cohen's "The Future"

Seriously.


...and to think I heard it on the CBC today. At lunchtime. Really.... :shakehead:

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

icevrething 08-20-2007 09:09 PM

Most Depressing Music I have ever encountered: "Track 7"- Sigur Ros,"Farewell Fire" - Boards of Canada, "Stone in Focus"- Aphex Twin, "Just For Now"-Imogen Heap, "12 Stations From Gemini"- Mark Mercury, Mazzy Star of course is beautiful, David Darling, "Closing" - Philip Glass, "Rusted" - Psyclon Nine, "Bubble and Spike" - Telefon Tel Aviv. Thats it for now:thumbsup:

thespian86 08-25-2007 10:06 AM

Yeah

Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" is extremely sad but in a beautiful way. If that makes sense.

I think most of Ryan Adam's work, especially the album "Love is Hell" could be considered depressing. "Does Anybody Want To Take Me Home", "Blue Manhatten" and "I see Monsters" are pretty fucking sad.

Reese 08-25-2007 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil

I love that song...

Cyrusxx 10-13-2007 11:26 AM

Entire Album
 
The Unloco Album, Becoming I is by far the most depressing cd i've ever heard, every single song on there is sad... there are 3 songs in particular that are extremely depressing are...

Failure

Watching me slip

texas

i listened to all genres of music and unloco is the worst for me... great songs, but REALLY depressing.

spectre 10-13-2007 12:00 PM

Bother by Stone Sour

Quote:

Wish I was too dead to cry
My self-affliction fades
Stones to throw at my creator
Masochists to which I cater
You don't need to bother;
I don't need to be
I'll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on,
I won't let go 'til it bleeds

Wish I was too dead to care
If indeed I cared at all
Never had a voice to protest
So you fed me shit to digest
I wish I had a reason;
my flaws are open season
For this, I gave up trying
One good turn deserves my dying

You don't need to bother;
I don't need to be
I'll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on,
I won't let go 'til it bleeds

Wish I'd died instead of lived
A zombie hides my face
Shell forgotten
with its memories
Diaries left
with cryptic entries

And you don't need to bother;
I don't need to be
I'll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on,
I won't let go 'til it bleeds

You don't need to bother;
I don't need to be
I'll keep slipping farther
But once I hold on:
I'll never live down my deceit

Jack The Lad 10-23-2007 01:06 PM

Child Psychology by Black Box Recorder:

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Now that I'm older, I prefer the slower songs that I hear to be tongue-in-cheek, or uplifting, rather than melancholic.

I got rid of my Joy Division boxset years ago - life's too short for depressing music! :) Each to their own, of course, but if you are what you eat, then what does listening to miserable songs do to a person's mood?

It's a shame that any kind of optimism seems to be frowned upon these days, but give me the Ramones, instead of Leonard Cohen, any day of the week! :thumbsup:

sadboy 10-23-2007 10:59 PM

I recommend Njosnavelin (nothing Song) by sigur ros prolly my top fav outta most of the songs recommended for sad as hell, be careful super sad.

Opus55 10-28-2007 07:07 PM

Most Depressing Song.
 
Try this one on for size; think Africa and get a box of Kleenex handy:

Harry Chapin - The Shortest Story

I am born today, the sun burns its promise in my eyes;
Mama strikes me and I draw a breath and cry.
Above me a cloud softly tumbles through the sky;
I am glad to be alive.

It is my seventh day, I taste the hunger and I cry;
my brother and sister cling to Mama's side.
She squeezes her breast, but it has nothing to provide;
someone weeps, I fall asleep.

It is twenty days today, Mama does not hold me anymore;
I open my mouth but I am too weak to cry.
Above me a bird slowly crawls across the sky;
why is there nothing now to do but die?

intellijence 10-31-2007 04:09 PM

A Life of Arctic Sounds by Modest Mouse....something about driving for hundreds of miles by yourself is just a depressing thing to do/think about, really.

and...
Six Days At the Bottom of the Ocean by Explosions in the Sky...it'll be more depressing while listening to the CD in its entirety, but just the song itself is quite a downer.

Scrub0 11-02-2007 06:03 PM

Finger Eleven - Thousand Mile Wish
Fuel - Most of All
Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole, and Them Bones
Third Eye Blind - How's It Going To Be
Pearl Jam - Black
Skid Row - 18 and Life

ogra 11-03-2007 03:28 AM

A Pair of Brown Eyes by The Pogues
All Her Favourite Fruit by Camper Van Beethoven

Jocke 11-03-2007 05:06 AM


gothicgirl123 11-18-2007 10:06 AM

Leonard cohen-closing time
Leonard cohen-dance me to the end of love
actually...any Leonard Cohen song
Bruce Springsteen-Streets of philadelphia
Bruce Springsteen-Badlands
Bruce Springsteen-Dancing in the Dark
Bruce Springsteen- The River..
The Bangles-Manic Monday .
The Stranglers-96 tears
Queen-show must go on
Justin Hayward-Forever Autumn
Poison-every rose has its thorn

Ustwo 11-18-2007 11:24 AM

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Zodijackyl 11-19-2007 12:44 AM

Bad Religion - Broken

A very upbeat song, but extremely sad.

Sticky 11-21-2007 02:29 PM

Are these depressing songs or songs that make you "feel"

Alot of the songs listed are not songs that make me depressed. They are songs that mak me feel. Strong feelings course through my body when listening to these songs.

I guess I don't really have any songs that depress me.
Maybe I will start a thread for songs that move you, songs that make you feel.

As far as this thread goes, I am VERY VERY surprised that no one (I just read through the whole thread) listed I don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats

Story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Ann_Spencer

And if you want depressing, watch this video.

I posted this on another thread.

ring 11-21-2007 05:18 PM

Mr. Bo-Jangles.

ozahs 11-21-2007 07:40 PM

If I ask you - Marshall Tucker Band
Human - The Pretenders
Torch Song - Todd Rundgren
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Brilliant Disguise - Springsteen
Your Latest Trick - Dire Straits
I Can't Tell You Why - Eagles
Cry to Me - Heart
The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
With Or Without You - U2
Don't Speak - No Doubt
Cool Change - Little River Band
Ticking - Elton John
Foreigner Suite - Cat Stevens

Sampling from my "Torch Songs" Ipod playlist.

Elegia 11-26-2007 11:54 AM

'Bibo No Aozora' from the soundtrack of Babel.


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