Most Depressing Song Ever?
 

This was one of my best threads ever on the music forum... so feel free to share depressing tunes here.

Just about anything by these artists gets me down:

Nine Inch Nails

Townes Van Zandt

Thom Parrott

Radiohead


Anyone who can think of any more, feel free to share.

Everybody Hurts by REM and Johnny Cash's version of Hurt
For some reason Johnny's version is much more depressing than NIN's version...

dream city film club - the curse

Some Joy Division songs who then became new order. After Curtis hung himself
Sounded depressing but really Ian Curtis was a genius.

Cracker -- This is the Golden Age
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This is the Golden Age
It's hard to imagine
with the way I feel today
that this is the Golden Age
The Golden Age

Somewhere I failed
Somewhere I lost you
in a black crowd of crows
and shiny things
I can't remember
This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
The Golden Age
It seems like I'm high
but baby I'm crawling
in the unbearable days
I threw away
but I should have savored
The flaxen light
off of the dying wheat
Your rye whiskey mouth
and your dandelion teeth
This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age

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For various reasons it always gets me low like no other... but in a good way.

The Rose by Betty Midler.

Dunno why.

I always found the smith's to be quite dpressing.

"It was dark as I drove the point hope and it suddenly struck me that I just might die with a smile on my face after all."

or

" I smoke cause I'm hoping for an early death and I need something to cling to."

I'd like to nominate the whole Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence album (actually, it's 2 CDs) from <a href="http://www.dreamtheater.com/">Dream Theater</a>. Great stuff. Nice and depressing, but not overly so, if that makes sense.

Dan Bern - God Says No. Brilliant song, check it out.

ballad of a paralysed citizen by the faint. i cried when they performed it live. it's so sad.

the drugs don't work by the verve

history by the verve

broken heart by spiritualized

and there's this song by john michael montgomery called "the little girl" that makes me cry every time. :(

mad world - donnie darko soundtrack

joy division - love will tear us apart

Going Back a bit - - Honey by Bobby Goldsboro always brings me wayyyyyyyyyy down

Portishead - Dummy
the whole freaking cd is a downer, listen to the track 'sour times' with the line 'Nobody loves me, it's true' a few times and you feel like curling up in bed bith your blankie...

er, dido -hunter.

for some reason i find that song to be quite depressing. NFI why.

apart from that, the eels, novacaine for the soul, um, a few more that ill post when i remember =)

Stairway to heaven

Back when I was a teenager, Two people I know were killed by a drunk driver..And they played that song at the funeral, I hate it now.

Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Makes me think of how fast life has gone & all the times I didn't spend time with my Dad before he died.

Ben Folds - Still Fighting It
Same as above. But the added twinge that makes me feel like I'm a disappointment to my parents, or that they maybe felt like they were a disappointment to me. I sing loudly with it in my car, hoping Dad can hear me.

Everybody knows, it sucks to grow up.
... and you're so much... like me... I'm sorry...

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

perfect day - lou reed

Changes.....Black Sabbath

Don McLean - <i>Vincent</i>

Beautiful, but depressing as hell.

"Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space" by Spiritualized

I don't know about depressing, but it makes me tear up if I'm in a down mood, often I feel better when it's over.

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

All I want in life's a little bit of love
To take the pain away
Getting strong today
A giant step each day
All I want in life's a little bit of love
To take the pain away
Getting strong today
A giamt step each day
I've been told
Only fools rush in
Only fools rush in
But I don't believe
I don't believe
I could still fall in love with you

I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
And float in space and drift in time
All the time until I die
We'll float in space, just you and I
And I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
And float in space and drift in time
All the time until I die
We'll float in space, just you and I

Baby I love you today
I guess that's what you want
And I don't know where we are all going
Life don't get stranger than this
It is what it is
And I don't know where we are all going

I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
Everything happens today
And we're out here in space
And I don't know where we are all going
Baby I love you today
I guess that's what you want
And I don't know where we are all going

DAMN STRAIGHT!!!

Glad someone else here knows him... most of his songs are REALLY sad....

Oklahoma
Kid's Prayer
God Said No

Those ones REALLY stand out

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Uuudar already got mine - Colorblind by Counting Crows. I attribute that song to the first person who seriously shattered my heart into a million pieces. I used to love that song, too. Ah, how life changes us..

"Black" by Pearl Jam

Andrea Bocelli - Con Te Partiro. Absolutely beautiful. Foreign language but that doesn't matter.

- Mad World (donnie darko version as well as Tears for Fears version)
- Teardrop by Massive Attack
- Voir un amie pleurer by Jaques Brel

and so it goes- billy joel. (or if you're a choir geek, the king's singers) just about made me sob the first time i heard it
tears in heaven-eric clapton. it's even sadder if you know his reason for writing it
ben folds five-brick, evaporated, magic

KKK took my baby away - Ramones.

I mean, the Klan took his girlfriend. That's pretty sad.

Im gonna have to second Harry Chapin's Cats in the Cradle. Definitely depressing. In a sort of reminiscent way.

And yes, growing up sucks.

In the living years - Mike and the Mechanics

Did anyone ever see that HBO special about using ectasy? The dude in that would always start crying when they played that song. It was pretty damn funny.

YUP. Song is awesome but sad. You can add And I Love You So by him too. That song is depressing as hell too.

Candlebox - Far Behind

And Pearljams Black at close second.

Though Stainds rendition was a bit more depressing.

I'll agree that Vincent by Don McLean was pretty sad to.

woah, this is the most depressing thread ever. Johnny Cash doing "Hurt" really brings me down.

1)The Smiths: Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me

2)The SmithsThere is a light that never goes out

3)Ryan Adams: Empty baseball park

Don't know if these are the most depressing songs ever, but they sure as hell bummed me out (and continue to as well)

Great music listed on this thread

Cash's version of Hurt is more depressing for me because he doesn't hit a single note the entire song and I want to kill myself when I hear it.

/NIN fan

Here it goes:
1)Vast - Flames
2) Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness
3) Tom Waits - Take It With Me
4) Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
5)Red House Painters - Song For A Blue Guitar
6)Stage - Scientists Canvas
7)Tegan and Sara - Welcome Home
8)The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You
9)Tori Amos - Putting The Damage On
10)U2 - Running To Stand Still

Just a few of my personal favorites but there are so many more.............Velvet Underground - After Hours, Bush - Alien, NIN - Something I Can Never Have............

Oh yeah Chip. Six Degrees is an awesome album, but every DT album is incredible. Misunderstood gets me.... Dissappear as well.