Tori Amos:

Winter
Horses
Hey Jupiter
Bells For Her
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Marilyn Manson-

Count to Six and Die
Suicide is Painless
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Bette Midler-

The Rose
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Suicidal Tendencies-

How Will I laugh Tomorrow (Heavy Emotion Version)
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Linkin Park-

My December
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Lita Ford-

Close My Eyes Forever



to name a few.

Matthew Good Band
Strange Days

Good morning
Don't cop out
You crawled from the cancer to land on your feet
Are you crazy to want this
Even for a while?
We're making this shit up
The reasons for being are easy to pay
You can't remember the others
They just kind of went away
So you're driving, it's rush hour
The cars on the freeway are moving like slugs
When you drift off to wake up
Do you always hit the brakes?

We're done lying for a living
The strange days have come and you're
You're gone
You're gone
Either dead or dying
Either dead or trying
To go

It's evening, you're tired
You sleep walk, a robot out on the street
Are you crazy to want this, even for a while?
You're driving, it's rush hour
The cars on the freeway are moving
Backwards
Into a wall of fire
Backwards
Into a wall of fire
Backwards
Into a wall of fire
Backwards
Into a wall of fire

And we're done lying for a living
The strange days have come and you're
You're gone
You're gone
And we're done lying for a living
The strange days have come and you're
You're gone
You're gone
Either dead or dying
Either dead or trying
To go

Good morning
Don't cop out



The video is excellent, totally suits the mood of the song.

I also agree with ad world by Gary Jules... off of the donny darko soundtrack. Its a pretty depressing song if you ask me.

when the angles sing by social distortion
did you really by pennywise

Holdin Her and Lovin' You - Earl Thomas Conley

Classic. Depressing rock bands have nothing on the old country singers.

One of the most depressing is "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry" I think it was originally by Hank Williams but it has been recorded by Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Hank Jr., Aaron Tippin etc.

I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY Lyrics

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep?
When leaves begin to die
Like me he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

Hurt by Johnny Cash. I thought it was kinda cheesy until I saw the video.... I just about cried while watching it.

O' Danny Boy by just about anyone who does it justice. My mother's side of the family is Irish, my grandfather who just about raised me and about 4 of his siblings died since I've been alive. Every Irish funeral has that song, and most of my relatives had the pipes too.

Also:

Life of Agony: Let's Pretend
Life of Agony's cover of "Don't you forget about me".
K's Choice: Not an Addict

I really like that song. A friend of mine got me listening to it. Kind of funny, since he's something I can never have. Nope, that's not funny. Thats depressing :(

I whole heartedly agree with everyone whe mentioned Radiohead... even when they try to sound upbeat it sounds depressing...

Besides that, I have to add Weezer's "Mykel & Carli" mainly bc the girls they are singing about were killed in a car accident...

and Slick Rick's "Childrens Story"

Almost any Radiohead song, though "Fake Plastic Trees" is what I tend to listen to when depressed.

Bingo. That song also has a lot of personal meanings tied in with my ex.

"Black Hole Sun" by I believe it was SoundGarden

Pearl Jam- Man of the Hour
from the Big Fish Soundtrack.

Alice in Chains - Rooster

Especially when you realize it’s about his Dad's stories about Vietnam.

Probably not the most depressing song for everyone, but I can't listen to it without almost losing it.

unfortunatly i happen to be a connoisseur of depressing songs. The one that gets me right behind the tear ducts the most is Bright Eyes' It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends. The way he sings the last verse makes him sound like he's drunk with a gun to his head.
The Aimee Mann cover of "One" is pretty poweful as well.
Still Fighting It and Smoke by Ben Folds Five
Most anything by Elliot Smith will make you want to kill yourself. I recommend
2:45 am and Alameda.

" And you say that I hurt you, in a voice like a prayer
Yeah, you say that I've hurt you, and your voice is like a prayer
Yeah, well maybe I hurt you sometimes, but let's contrast and compare
Lift up your shirt, the wound isn't there

I guess that your truth, is just the ghost of your lies
I guess your kind of truth, is just the ghost of your lies
Yeah, your kind of truth, darling, is just the ghost of your lies
I see through them all the time

So I'm pouring some whiskey, I'm gonna get drunk
Yeah, I'm pouring myself some whiskey, I'm going to get really fucking drunk
I'm pouring some whiskey right now, I'm going to get so, so drunk
That I pass out, forget your face, by the time I wake up"
-Bright Eyes, It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends

Yes, sir! That's a goodie.

Also Two Doors Down by Dwight Yoakam.

Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson
Just The Other Side of Nowhere - KK
The Pilgrim Ch. 33 - KK

Noah's Dove - 10,000 Maniacs
anything by Godspeed You Black Emperors

The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve

Puts a lump in my throat when I'm in the right mood

Good Call! the Ben Harper version is good too.

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

Pretty much any Coldplay is pretty depressing, but i must say that i love their music.

Will Never Marry- Morrisey

I’m writing this to say
In a gentle way
Thank you - but no
I will live my life as i
Will undoubtedly die - alone

He has issues.

NIN - Hurt (I hate the Johnny Cash version. Musically it sucks.)
Alice in Chains - Nutshell, Down in a Hole
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Radiohead - Bulletproof, Exit Music (For a Film), How to Disappear Completely, Let Down, No Surprises, Street Spirit
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

The Postal Service's cover of "Against All Odds". I have to lock up the razor blades and whiskey when that comes on.

Good choices all :thumbsup:

Gotta repeat APC - 3 Libras, thanks for pointing out there is an acoustic version of this song, I'm listening to it as we speak, and it's wonderful..

John Mayer - "Wheel"
Silverchair - "Emotion Sickness"
Linkin Park - "My December"
NIN - tons upon tons..

J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers - Last Kiss. Oldie but goodie, and so incredibly sad. In all the time since it came out, I don't think a sadder song has been written.

I'm gonna have to go with Dear Sweet Impaler by Park. Incredibly depressing and vivid, especially if your going through a break up. I suppose all of Park's songs can be described that way though. Still one of my favorite bands.

I couldn't disagree more. I think Cash's version is better than the original.

William Shatner has a new album out called "Has Been." One track on the album is just him talking about finding his wife's body floating dead in their swimming pool. It's called: What Have you Done?

Very creepy, poingant and depressing.

Dntel - Why I'm So Unhappy
or
Morphine - In Spite of Me

Somewhat depressing, but quite beautiful: "In spite of all the damage" by the Be Good Tanyas.
Or, just about anything by Portishead, especially "Sour Times"

Deed is Done by Dave Matthews. I don't think anyone has captured the pain of the loss of a loved one like that. I've only found it on the Live from Luther College with Tim Reynolds

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Nick Cave & The bad seeds - Shivers
Arnold McCuller - Freebird

Luna's Boat song from the Lunar video game for the ps.

There's a hidden track off of Staind's first album, Disfunction, called Excess Baggage. It's a very pretty song but also very depressing. I think a lot of the songs Aaron Lewis writes are incredibly depressing, and looking at some of the other posts, it would seem some others agree with me.

Me2. I don't have much interest in the original version.

Actually Cat's in the Cradle was done by Harry Chapin....He has some good ones, but I gotta go with a real oldie tearjerker: Old Shep by Elvis..If you haven't heard it check it out...If you are human you can't help but drop a tear or two!

well, alot of the polyphonic spree's songs sound kinda helpless, some of the flaming lips' work makes me all mushy. but what never fails to depress with its beauty. Pale Blue Eyes by velvet underground. If you havent heard it download it or something

a few of my favorites...
the freshman- the vervepipe
change- blind melon
glycerine-bush
one lonely visitor- chevelle
fuel-shimmer
comfortable- john mayer (more of a personal issue)
hero of the day- metallica

Hurt the johnny cash remake is definately at the top of my list especially since he passed away, cuz i grew up listening to all the outlaws and slowly they will be gone and the real heart and soul of music will follow them.

another song that makes me sad is "I can't stop loving you" by ray charles something about it, also another fallin legend.

desolation row bob dylan powderfinger neil young.

metallica - fade to black
*sniff*

that poor amp!...WHY?! *sobs*

"Ballad of Worms" by Cage

I definately agree with many of the selctions already posted, here is my list.

Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
Hurt - Cash
The Lighthouse - Nickel Creek
House Carpenter - Nickel Creek
And So it Goes - Billy Joel
One - Metallica

Adams Song - Blink 182
Change in the House of Flys- Deftones

Bush - Let the Cables Sleep
Sarah McLachlan - Angel
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Alanis Morissette - Uninvited
Ben Folds' Five - Brick

The Flaming lips - You Have To Be Joking (Autopsy Of The Devil's Brain)

Elliot Smith - Needle In the Hay

It was featured in a similarly mooded scene in the Royal Tenenbaums to perfection.

Also, I agree with the multitude for the various versions of Hurt, though the video for the Cash version is wrenching.

Also agree with all those saying Gary Jules - Mad World

Don't know the artist, but the song came from a movie called Cornbread Earl and Me:

It's so Hard to Say Good-bye to Yesterday

Song and video is just depressing...

REM-Losing my Religion

First one to come to mind is Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush"

Almost anything on the violent femmes first album.

VF rock.


Mr Mephisto

My first thought was "Two Suns in the Sunset" by Pink Floyd (Roger Waters) off the "The Final Cut" CD. When I hear the child cry "daddy daddy", it always gets me.

All the good ones have been said, but this song gets to me everytime I hear it.
Light in Your Eyes---Blessed Union of Souls

Although it became uber-famous really quick after donnie darko dropped, for years i've loved Mad World. great cut, hella sad.

MahlerIsGod beat me to it because Take It With Me
by Tom Waits has to be the saddest song I've ever heard.

Somebody - Depeche mode

anything by either Katatonia or anathema!
brilliant dark and depressing!
check them out Katatonia is from sweeden and anathema are from england;

hey guys...i recommend this...sounds really darn sad...sigh..

Nine Inch Nails - Losing Hope

its a Halo 2 song...man...the music speaks for itself...just listen..

Blink 182 - Adam's Song
&
Johnny Cash - Hurt

the simple minds- "don't you (forget about me)"

here's one more...sigh..its pretty sad..

Rick Price - Heaven Knows

hey..i see alot of Adam's Song.... i've got the song...and listened.. i dont really understand ..what happened to 'adam' ...can someone please tell me? thanks

anything by Elliot Smith

wgheow: It's a song about killing yourself. That's why it is depressing.

I think that Johnny Cash's cover of the NIN song "Hurt" is a pretty depressing song.

Yeah, seen some good ones:

Hurt
Wish You Were Here
Wild Rose

I'll second those...

"Cats in The Cradle" by Harry Chapin and "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks.

Goodbye to you, my trusted friend
We've known each other since we're nine or ten
Together we climbed hills or trees
Learned of love and ABC's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees

Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
When you see them i'll be there

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
Were just seasons out of time

Goodbye, Papa, please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I get along

Goodbye, Papa, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them i'll be there

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song
Like the seasons, all have gone

Goodbye, Michelle, my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground

Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
When all the bird are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers ev'rywhere
I wish that we could both be there

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach.

thankss avail..i guess i have to read deeper into the lyrics...to understand...:/

yea hurt is pretty sad...

Red House Painters - Brockwell Park. Desolate and utterly beautiful:

in the night we freeze
and you want me to tell
in london's lonesome park
brockwell

but out here
i am distracted
as fire bombs explode
bonfire lamps glow to the crowded road

if the days weren't so precious
and no worlds where shorted wires had kept us
things would be better than this
there's an angel by the ocean i miss
and trips on the train
before our lives changed
the mirror where i watched your naked body strain

"If You See Her, Say Hello" by Dylan

I cant believe nobody has mentioned "Fade into You" by Mazzy Star I mean that song makes me want to kill myself.

But undoubtedly Johnny Cash's remake of Hurt is the most chilling and emotionally draining song I can think of. I remember when it came out everyone was saying that Johnny was saying goodbye with that song. June had died six months earlier and it seemed that he was ready to go.

Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me

Special because it was played at my best friend's funeral.


Honorable Mentions (surprise, all emo):

Brand New - Play Crack the Sky
A Static Lullaby- Love to Hate, Hate to Me
Jimmy Eat World - Drugs Or Me
Get Up Kids - Overdue
Pedro the Lion - Bad Diary Days
Ben Folds Five - Brick
Taking Back Sunday - Ghostman on Third
Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love
Bright Eyes - A Perfect Sonnet

"What do I have to do?" by Stabbing Westward.
and
"My December" by Linkin Park

I can't listen to the first one more than once. Such sad songs for me...I've felt this way so many times when I've broken up with someone I really loved...

Wow good question...okay my contribution.

Pearl Jam - Black, Jeremy, Betterman, Other Side, Bee Girl (about Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon), Alive, Thumbing My Way, etc. etc.

Tracy Chapman - Behind the wall, Fast Car

Billy Holiday - Strange Fruit

Lifehouse - Simon

Counting Crows - A Long December, Anna Begins, Black & Blue, Millers Angels (fave CC track), Perfect Blue Buildings, Raining In Baltimore, Sullivan Street...

Bush - Letting The Cables Sleep, Out Of This World, Inflatable

Finger Eleven - Broken Words

The Verve Pipe - The Freshman, Half A Mind

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut, Marooned, A Great Day For Freedom, Wish You Were Here, Two Suns In The Sunset, etc.

Queen - Love Of My Life, Who Wants To Live Forever?

Rod Stewart - My Heart Can't Tell You No, I Don't Want To Talk About It

Hootie - Goodbye, Not Even The Trees

Silverchair - Anna's Song (Open Fire), Emotion Sickness, Miss You Love, Black Tangled Heart, My Favourite Thing

Kansas - Dust In The Wind

Bette Middler - Wind Beneath My Wings (Yeah I said it!), The Rose

Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven

The Rolling Stones - Angie

Blessed Union Of Souls - Nora

Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

Cranberries - When You're Gone

Goo Goo Dolls - Name, Iris, Acoustic #3

Sarah Mclachlan - In The Arms Of An Angel

Prince - Purple Rain

Our Lady Peace - 4 A.M.

Train - Blind, Hopeless

3 Doors Down - Be Like That

Travis - Luv

Lauren Hill - Ex Factor

System Of A Down - Spiders

Rufus Wainwright - Natasha

Rush - Tears

Starsailor - She Just Wept, Way To Fall

Don Mclean - Empty Chairs

Alan Parsons Project - Don't Let It Show, Time

Barry Manilow - Weekend In New England

The Beatles - Yesterday, The Long And Winding Road

Babyface feat. Stevie Wonder - How Come (How Long)

Damien Rice - Cold Water

The Carpenters - Superstar

James Taylor - Fire And Rain

Carol King - So Far Away

Jim Croce - Photographs & Memories, These Dreams, Operator

Keane - Bedshaped, We Might As Well Be Strangers, She Has No Time

Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years

Kenna - Hell Bent, Yeneh Araba (The Rose)

Boys II Men - It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday

Mariah Carey feat. Boys II Men - One Sweet Day, Whenever You Call

The Moody Blues - Isn't Life Strange

Nilsson - Without You

Ray Charles - You Don't Know Me (cover)

Wu-Tang Clan - Impossible (especially Ghostface's verse)

Cuban Linx - Flowers For The Dead

Okay I'm all burned out now...more may come to my head but I just know when I hit the reply button I'm gonna be like "Shit I did it again..I posted 845955 songs" so I should stop here for now and let someone else take over.

Asta!!

I think that Swallowed by Bush is a depressing song...not just the lyrics but the guitar part just has kind of a depressing rythm to it....don't get me wrong....it's a great song though!

Track 12 by The Getup Kids. I forget which album...the one with the robot on it, i think its "something to write home about". The song just sounds really sad.

I second that:)

Dashboard Confessional "Screaming Infidelities"
The Church "Under the Milky Way"
Armin Van Buuren's "Yet Another Day"

Those would be some of my favorite depressing songs.

EDIT: 2nd on Goo Goo Doll's "Iris"
Johnny Mandel "Suicide is Painless"
U2 "If God Would Send His Angels"

Pretty much the whole American IV The Man Comes Around album will get me down. Also for some odd reason Misery by Soul Asylum seems to depress me.

On a whole nother level, The Used are so "depressing" it's infuriating!

Ulver - Utreise

That guitar... aaaah

umm ..maybe blacksheep-sneakerpimps

Dirt by Phish. I have no idea why but that song always makes me so incredibly sad. Whenever I'm sad and listen to it I end up crying. Plus it has an amazing solo.

A Perfect Circle's whole Thirteenth Step album, especially The Noose and Blue. System of A Down - Atwa seems to make me sad. The Beatles - Yesturday. Alot of the songs on Pink Floyd's The Final Cut. All I can think of for now, I will let you know if I think of more.

- MuckLuck

The Drugs Don't Work by the Verve

Broken Heart by Spiritualized

Yep.

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

I will DEFINTELY second Dirt (Phish) and Thumbing my way (Pearl Jam)

One song I've always found myself listening to when depressed is "Like Suicide" by Soundgarden. It's really more of an uplifting song for me when I *am* down, but it fits the theme. There is an acoustic version of it from the SFW soundtrack that is the most amazing performance I've ever heard from this band, PERIOD. I'd be happy to provide a copy of it to anyone interested since you pretty much can't find this soundtrack anymore.

Dark Tranuility - Insanity's Crescendo

Candlemass - Solitude

Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles

Children of the Night - Richard Marx

I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton

Carmelita - Dwight Yoakam

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

Jevetta Steele - Calling You (Theme from Bagdad Cafe)

YOUR BREATHING MY AIR-mars volta

"already dead" -beck, from the beautiful bummer of an album SEA CHANGE

Linkin Park - My December

No one said Kevin Gilbert - Song For A Dead Friend yet? that's surely the most depressing thing i've ever heard in my life.

Beck - Lonesome Tears

The Postal Service: The District Sleeps Alone Tonight; Nothing Better
George Jones: He Stopped Loving Her Today
Deathcab for Cutie: Title and Registration
Sherrie Austin: Streets of Heaven
Cat Stevens: Cats in the Cradle
Blessid Union of Souls: Nora, Standing at the Edge of the Earth
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps
Counting Crows: Colour Blind

Just a few off the top of my head, and yeah, I know a few of these have already been said, but they're still ones that stand out to me as utterly crushing (yet immensely beautiful).

The Reason - Hoobastank
Say Goodnight, Not Goodbye -- Beth Nielsen Chapman
He's My Son -- Mark Schultz

And All that Could Have Been off of Nine Inch Nails "Still"
The rest of still is pretty upsetting too. That will definately hold you down.

Dust in the Wind is awful

"Lua" by Bright Eyes (off "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning")

I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor's west side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening, by the morning they'll be gone

When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and a paper, have my own conversations
with the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening by the morning looks like shit.

And I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me, I'm not a gamble. You can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist

You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you'll be right back.
Well it takes one to know one kid I think you got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening, by the morning's such a drag.

I have a flask inside my pocket we can drink it on the train
And if you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same.
We might die from medication but we still killed all the pain
But what was normal in the eveing by the morning seems insane.

And I'm not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
The reasons all have run away, but the feeling never did
It's not something I would reccomend, but it is one way to live
Because what is simple in the moonlight by the morning never is
It was so simple in the moonlight now it's so complicated.
It was so simple in the moonlight....so simple in the moonlight....so simple in the moonlight


Ironically, this album also has one of the happiest, sweetest songs I've ever heard ("First Day of My Life")

Songs that bring about the feeling of genuine depression (not sadness)? Anything by Staind.

I'm being nitpicky, but a lot of the songs I see being touted as "depressing" are, to me anyway, just sad songs.

Massive Attack - Tear Drop
Powderfinger - Save Your Skin
Redgum - A Walk in the Light Green (I Was Only Nineteen) - bloody incredible song
The Shins - New Slang
The Weakerthans - The Left and Leaving
Tex perkins - Will It Away
Blind Melon - Mouthful of Cavities
Blind Melon - Soul One
Brand New - Am I Wrong
Coldplay - The Scientist
(Another vote for) Dashboard Confessional - Screaming Infidelities
Death Cab for Cutie - Passenger Seat
Idlewild - The Bronze Medal
Iron and Wine - Such Great Heights
John Lee Hooker - I Cover the Waterfront
Mercury Rev - The Dark is Rising
Something for Kate - Back To You

Hanson - mmm bop


On a serious note,

Death Cab for Cutie - Army Corps of Architects.

The outro on that song with the fading out bass riff, just kills me. I love it.