Alice In Chains Unplugged - The entire show is a downer throughout. Sadly one AIC's last performances. RIP Layne Staley. Ex: http://www.therock1067.com/modules/h...ledave_158.jpg

i know i have alot, but heres my list:

a perfect circle-3 libras
air supply-all out of love
-------making love out of nothing at all
allanis morrisette-than you
allyptic-refuge
alphaville-forever young
art garfunkel-all i know
andreas boccelli-con te partiro
billy corgan-to love somebody
bone thugs n harmony-crossroads
brian eno-an ending (ascent)
-----------drift
coldplay-fix you
----------the scientist
counting crows-colorblind
the cranberies-dreams
the cure-pictures of you
-------the last day of summer
cyndi lauper-time after time
death cab for cutie-what sarah said
depeche mode-precious
-------enjoy the silence
-------but not tonight
-------blasphemous rumours
donna lewis-always forever
duran duran-ordinary world
incubus-i miss you
jay gordon-slept so long
jesus and mary chain-just like honey
jimmy chamberlin complex-newerwaves
-------- -loki cat
jonathan elias-movement III hope
k's choice-not an adict
kronos quartet-when our wings are cut can we still fly
lord of the rings-breaking of the fellowship
-------evenstar
morten lauridsen-o magnum mysterium
---------o nata lux
natalie imburglia-torn
new order-ceremony
nightwish-phantom of the opera
nine inch nails-hurt (i think johnny cash's version is better, but this NIN's is more depressing)
--------something i can never have
--------and all that could have been
-------- -leaving hope
oasis-wonderwall
postal service-recycled air
radiohead-motion picture soundtrack
-------videotape
--------fake plastic trees
sigur ros-hoppipolla
-------glosoli
-------njosnavelin
------- untitled 8
smashing pumpkins-home
-------galapogos
-------disarm
-------behold! the night mare
------shame
-------blissed and gone
-------if there is a god (live with radiohead)
-------mayonaise
south-paint the silence
spiritualized-ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
underworld-born slippy
the veils-vicious traditions
the verve-the drugs dont work
zwan-broken heart
------heartsong

"moonshiner" -uncle tupelo (although i think it's a cover of an old traditional)
 

i am a
moonshiner
for seventeen
long years

and i spent
all my money
on whiskey
and beer

and i go to
some hollow
and set
up my still

if whiskey
don't kill me
lord i don't know
what will


i go to
some barroom
to drink
with my friends

where the women
they can't follow
to see
what i spend

god bless them
pretty women
i wish
they was mine

with breath as
sweet as
the dew
on the vine



let me eat
when i'm hungry
let me drink
when i'm dry

two dollars
when i'm hard up
religion
when i die

the whole world
is a bottle
and life
is but a dram

when the bottle
gets empty
it sure aint
worth a damn

"Living Next Door to Alice" by somebody waaay back when.

"Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook

"Komm, süsser Tod"

I know there's more depressing tunes out there, but this one instantly jumped into my head as soon as I read the thread title. If you just hear this song it has a happy, upbeat sound to it, but if you actually listen to it, that is listen to the lyrics, it is pretty saddening.

I first heard this in the anime movie 'End of Evangelion.' Whether the song originates there or comes from elsewhere I do not know off the top of my head. I very much recommend all to listen to this song at least once.

Chris Vrenna's "My Life is Long" remix of Cold's Stupid Girl

I have plenty more depressing songs, but this one gives one a fearful impression too. My ex-girlfriend described this song like she was having a nightmare about me.

... yes
 

Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up" reminds me of a very dark time in my life. Kate Bush is amazing in this as well.

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Huh?? how?

The most depressing? It has to be "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks. Closely followed by "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot, eh?

The Canadian group, <i> Stars</i> has many songs
one of the many
Your Ex-Lover is Dead

And some of the Cat Power songs are just assisted suicide undercover

where is Stars from? is there a link?

They are from Montreal
http://www.arts-crafts.ca/stars/

I love them. If you want something fun to listen to (which completely contradicts the thread) listen to <i>Bitches in Tokyo</i>. If you want depressing <i> My Ex Lover is Dead</i> and <i>Personals</i>.

Just watched the Alice In Chains - Unplugged DVD and knew this one had to go here.

another one, same idea

Bad Religion - Struck a Nerve

The Roots -Clock with no hands
Strangely enough, it gets me down.
Jacques Brel - Ne Me Quitte Pas
Jacques Brel - Ces Gens La
He voices his emotion so unbelievably...he suffers, and lives with his music.

Drive-By Truckers - "Angels and Fuselage"

How Can I Help You to Say Goodbye - by Patty Loveless
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z4F_cXGQN9k
When I'm out of M&M's...Candyman is the most depressing.

Many people have listed Johnny Cash recordings as their saddest songs. I agree that Cash's version had something so visceral about them that they were actually better than the original, but just to set the record straight regarding the actual writers of these sad, sad songs:

Hurt- written by Trent Reznor
I See a Darkness- Will Oldham
Bird On a Wire- Leonard Cohen
The Mercy Seat- Nick Cave

Mary Gray - The Letter

I ever wanted was some love and peace and harmony
I could dance in the raw in the sun underneath the stars
When I walk over to my money tree ain't nobody there trying to take from me
When they ask "Are you truly free?" I'd say "Yes, truly"
But down here in reality everybody knows there ain't no such thing
And it's clear
It's obviously this is not the place I'm supposed to be
On and on and on I've searched
What I'm lookin for is not here on earth
I can't stand I can't take no more
So I know that I gotta go
So long everybody
Mama don't be sad for me
Life was a heartache and now I am finally free
Don't know where I'm headed
Hope I see you someday soon
So long everybody
I have gone beyond the moon

All I ever wanted,love and the peace and the harmony
Just to be live and shine
When I get ready I up and fly
And I can't remember none of the things that I want to forget
It's the best - satisfaction no less
Ask if I'm free and I'll say "Oh yes"
But down here in reality everybody knows there ain't no such thing
And it's clear
It's obviously this is not the place I'm supposed to be
On and on and on I've searched
What I'm lookin for is not here on earth
I can't stand I can't take no more
So I know that I gotta go
So long everybody
Mama don't be sad for me
Life was a heartache and now I am finally free
Don't know where i'm headed
Hope I see you someday soon
So long everybody
I have gone beyond the moon

Before I do
Just one more look at you
It's worth the stay
But I'll meet you later at that better place
All I ever wanted was
All I ever wanted was
All I ever wanted was

So long everybody
Mama don't be sad for me
Life was a heartache and now I am finally free
Don't know where I'm headed
Hope I see you someday soon
So long everybody
I have gone beyond the moon

Disclaimer - If you play this song too many times in a row people will start to wonder. I found out the hard way, but it made me feel better.

I don't know if I'd necessarily call these songs depressing, but they are a few that have brought tears to my eyes.

Tool - H... I really have no idea what this song is about... the great thing about a lot of Tool songs is that they are nebulous to take on a meaning entirely unique to the listener. I just remember waking up one morning to my alarm playing this song, it made me think of star-crossed lovers pitted against fate.

These next two are really more tied to the music videos associated to them than to the songs.

Collective Soul - The World I Know. I'm not a Collective Soul fan, and generally I dislike Christian music out of principle; however, this video moved me. It shows a man, apparently tired of the world he lives in, go to the top of a building and step to the edge, prepared to jump. At the last second, a pigeon lands on him and he begins to cry.

Metallica - One. This is an unlikely one. It's definitely more the video than the song on this one, though the video does go well with the song. It shows a young soldier, back from the war and wounded to the point that he can't see, hear, talk or move. Doctors, friends and family members are gathered around and it is discovered that he is attempting to communicate by tapping out morse code. When the message is deciphered, it turns out he is asking them to end his life, typing "Kill me" over and over. I think I read somewhere that this is a clip from the movie "Johnny Get Your Gun"

ummm....
 

.....all of these songs suck....like, really bad....except for the skynyrd song....but that's not sad either....come on, the Lost Prophets or as I like to call them....a bunch of d-bags, have never....ever made a good song....the end.

When I didn't "get" grindcore (I think that's what it is?) but wanted to understand what she saw/heard in it, my daughter and I sat down and looked at the lyrics together. This one really gets to me.

El Pinata De La Muerte
The Number 12 Looks Like You

Remember my face dirty man?
Smack me with a frying pan, maybe this will all come back to you.
You gave me a fever a long time ago, I never got better.
Remember me yet?
This is where I celebrate my recovery.
I'll find creative ways to strip your body parts and use them as weapons of torture, my mother will be proud.
Maybe you can appreciate this saw created with your nails, use it to cut off your lips and stuff them in your nostrils, empty my bladder into your dirty mouth.
Gargle my fluid.
Hum you and old tune while we dismember your legs.
Hung upside down by your waist... I blindfold myself with the skin of your thigh, ...spin 5 times... and use your leg to swing at you like a pinata.
You explode the remedy all over me.
My fever is gone and so are you.

A sure sign of getting old was listening to Roy Clark sing "When I Was Young" at Mickey Mantle's funeral.

For me, the saddest song is How To Save a Life by The Fray. I don't know why, it just stirs up really sad memories inside of me for some reason :(.

Come Around - Rhett Miller.

that song will insta depress you.

Hell throw in some Ride by Cary Brothers

"He loved him madly", Miles Davis. No words, but it's all about wrenching loss.

"I'm so lonesome i could cry" is another downer.

Some of those romantic lieder are pretty sad, too. "Wir wandelten" does it to me, although just going by the lyrics it's not really one of the sadder ones.

Fade to Black - Metallica

Pink Floyd - Time

And you run, and you run to catch up to the sun, but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.

radiohead - motion picture ending
animal collective - banshee beat
spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs

read this:

then

listen to this

hands down...

a few songs have been mentioned but i´m nominating the whole sigur rós album () it has a "light" half and a "heavy" half. even the light half is very heavy going.



ps if you know this album you know my avatar. for those who don´t it´s the only graphic on the cover.

depressing....
 

The key is to find someone who doesnt just write about depression, but lives it


Elliott Smith - hands down the mist depressing artist to ever live

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fd-zwe1fWB0
"The Biggest Lie" - elliott smith
"Between the Bars" - elliott smith
"Half Right" - Elliott Smith
"Pretty Mary K" (early version off new moon) - Elliott Smith
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapmen
"Say Yes" - elliott smith
"Pink Moon" - Nick Drake
"Hurt" - Nine Inch Nails
"Brick" - Ben Folds
"Pitseleh" - Elliott Smith
"Happiness" - Elliott smith (live ameoba records version)
"Single File" - Elliott Smith
"Roman Candle" - Elliott Smith (about being abused as a child)
"All Cleaned Out" - Elliott smith
"Talking to Mary" - Elliott Smith
"2:45" - Elliott Smith
"Stickman" - elliott smith
"True love" - elliott smith
"Alameda" - Elliott Smith
"Miss Misery" - Elliott Smith (oscars version)
"Late" - Ben Folds
"Let It Be" - The Beatles
"Three Hours Left" - Nick Drake
"Gravity" - John Mayer

-Pretty much everything by elliott smith, mainly because he lived depression - especially the biggest lie
-Fast Car is a heartwrenching song
-Ben folds has some depressing songs
- probably missing some

I actually find the Cash version of 'Hurt' quite uplifting and powerful for some reason. It is the NIN version which as the crescendo builds and the cadence in Trent's voice grows stronger that the entire song crashes into an array of feedback, cymbals and various other synth effects.

Building into nothing but eventual silence.

The pinnacle point in the song for me actually.

remember this?

sentenced are awesome. they al are but particularly them. another song is "bother" by stone sour. listen to it. go.
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hmmm

1. stone sour - bother
2. breed 77 - breaking the silence acoustic
3. breed 77 - tears
4. cold - gone away
5. cold - a different kind of pain
6. the foreshadowing - days of nothing,the whole album
7. godsmack - hollow
8. mushroomhead - embrace the ending
9. paradise lost - missing (cover)
10. sentenced - end of the road
11. slipknot - snuff
12. slipknot - til we die
13. smashing pumpkins - drown
14. staind - its been a while
15. cold - wasted years (piano version)


thats a start.

"Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam/Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers

Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road, up straight ahead
A car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screamin' tires, the bustin' glass
The painful scream that I heard last.

Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

When I woke up, the rain was pourin' down
There were people standing all around
Something warm rollin' through my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said
"Hold me darling just a little while."
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew I would miss
But now she's gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life that night.

Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
Oooh~ ooooh~

Tears In Heaven by Clapton has always gotten to me...

I have to say, the original made me laugh every time I heard it. At the time it came out, there were several "My lover died" sappy songs (Leader of the Pack, etc), even one where the girl runs back to get his ring and gets hit by a train. *rolls eyes*

The only time a song made me actually start to cry was when I watched k.d. lang sing "Crying" as a tribute to the recently departed Roy Orbison, but I think that was also because my sister's husband had also just died. But, man, she really did a fantastic job on bringing the emotion into that song.