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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
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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
---------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------- 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.
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Dan Bern - God Says No. Brilliant song, check it out.
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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
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joy division - love will tear us apart
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Going Back a bit - - Honey by Bobby Goldsboro always brings me wayyyyyyyyyy down
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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
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perfect day - lou reed
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Changes.....Black Sabbath
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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 |
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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..
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"Black" by Pearl Jam
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Andrea Bocelli - Con Te Partiro. Absolutely beautiful. Foreign language but that doesn't matter.
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- 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
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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.
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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?"). |
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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
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Lithium By Nirvana is espescially sad when you don't have friends.
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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).
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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
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all by myself - eric carmen
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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
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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
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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! |
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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
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Anything by Dashboard Confessional.
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Depeche Mode. 80% of their music is depressing, but damn good.
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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
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this one is old, i don't care for Elvis but,
In the getto, Elvis arron Pressley none sadder just go check it out! |
Tindersticks - Tiny Tears. Sopranos fans will recognize it from Season One just before the big attempt on Tony's life.
Louis Armstrong - Black and Blue. Beck's latest album is a real downer too, I like it but its a hell of a downer. Lou Reed - Perfect Day |
Metallica's Fade to Black. Nuff said
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Tears in Heaven - Clapton - very sad. His reason for writing it and in the movie: "Rush" - when Jason Patric croaks.
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Eminem - Stan
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Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Most depressing and odd sounding song ever. It is based off of a poem regarding the lynchigns of African Ameriacns in the 20's and 30's.. CHeck it out and let me know what you think. |
Blink 182's "Adam's Song" jumped to the top of my list of depressing songs after my friend Adam killed himself.
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Post the Most Depression Music you Like
I really love depressing music, sometimes it just fits whats going on perfectly
Jets to Brazil - Sea Anenime Ben Folds Five - Brick Radiohead - Everything in its right Place oh man and a million others, my mp3 players not working right now so i cant look anything up, anyway, post 'em if you got 'em |
Alice In Chains - them bones, i stay away. whale & whasp
Portishead - only you Pink Floyd - wish you where here, high hopes, goodbye cruel world |
Pedro the Lion - Bad Things to Such Good People, To Protect the Family Name
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tend to love depressing music as well, even though im usually a very happy person. i do however like my stuff a bit "darker" than your mainstream stuff
Tool - Undertow (especially the start of flood) Anything by Smashing Pumpkins massive attack - anything from Mezzanine |
Caroline's Spine-Deep in your wake
Michelle Branch-Second chances eve 6-on the roof again third eye blind-how's it gonna be |
Pearl Jam - Black
Beck - Sea Change (The whole album) Jeff Buckley - Forget Her, Lover you should have come over and a bunch of others The Tea Party - All My Charms |
One of the recent sad songs I've heard is "Patricide" NothingFace, but I was also thinking of another song too, but can't remember now.
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dammmmmnnnn i agree with Beck's Sea Change album. you can be getting head after winning the lottery and still have to fight off suicidal tendencies when it plays.
some music i avoid at times due to sadness: anything mazzy star some heather nova - namely Paper Cup Smashing Pumpkins - a LOT of stuff heh NIN's Something I Can Never Have & Hurt Radiohead's Creep and No Surprises and um..... exit to a french theeme or something? Jimmy Eat World's Don't Call & Hear You Me (HYM is _depressing_) Testament's Return to Serenity Metallica's One. heh. wow. i'll have to make a real list now.. heh..... soooooooooooooo many |
If it's depressing music you're looking for, you can already find it all here: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...=&threadid=373
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Dream Theater - Spacedye Vest
Definitely a song to put on repeat right after your girlfriend dumps you, and just leave it there for the next 20 days. |
Weezer - Across The Sea
blink-182 - Adam's Song Eminem - Stan Green Day - Good Riddance Nirvana - All Apologies Pearl Jam - Jeremy Radiohead - Creep |
I'm listening to R.E.M.'s "Me in Honey" for about the dozenth time in a row right now, coincidentally enough.
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