04-19-2003, 08:35 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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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.
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04-19-2003, 09:55 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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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. |
04-19-2003, 05:08 PM | #9 (permalink) |
And we'll all float on ok...
Location: Iowa City
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Dan Bern - God Says No. Brilliant song, check it out.
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04-19-2003, 05:09 PM | #10 (permalink) |
Kick Ass Kunoichi
Location: Oregon
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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.
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04-20-2003, 02:03 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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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...
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04-20-2003, 10:03 AM | #22 (permalink) |
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"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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04-20-2003, 10:55 AM | #23 (permalink) | |
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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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04-20-2003, 12:00 PM | #25 (permalink) |
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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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04-20-2003, 12:03 PM | #26 (permalink) |
Go Packers! (*sigh!*)
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"Black" by Pearl Jam
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04-20-2003, 12:14 PM | #27 (permalink) |
And we'll all float on ok...
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Andrea Bocelli - Con Te Partiro. Absolutely beautiful. Foreign language but that doesn't matter.
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04-20-2003, 05:01 PM | #29 (permalink) |
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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
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04-20-2003, 05:05 PM | #30 (permalink) |
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KKK took my baby away - Ramones.
I mean, the Klan took his girlfriend. That's pretty sad.
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04-20-2003, 05:39 PM | #31 (permalink) |
beauty in the breakdown
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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.
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04-20-2003, 06:18 PM | #33 (permalink) | |
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04-20-2003, 10:32 PM | #35 (permalink) |
Psycho
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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.
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04-20-2003, 11:18 PM | #37 (permalink) |
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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
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04-20-2003, 11:45 PM | #39 (permalink) |
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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............
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