i think i'll chime in with one that i dont think i've seen yet.

radiohead - fake plastic trees (acoustic version)


thought of another few

goo goo dolls - iris
goo goo dolls - name
collective soul - the world i know
fiona apple - i know
fiona apple - never is a promise

Eagles - Desperado

Our Lady Peace - Not Enough

goodone
goodone

Cat Stevens - Cats in the Cradle

LYRICS

Sarah Mclachlan - In the Arms of an Angel

Hal Ketchum - I miss my Mary

George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today

Jewel - Angel Standing By

Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Counting Crows - `Round Here
Diamond Rio - One More Day
most of the second disk from the RENT soundtrack, but especially I'll Cover You - Reprise

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (just sad)
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun (suicidal sad)

I would have to say goo goo dolls - iris

Someone mentioned Tears For Fears - Mad World a while ago... I'll second that.

Yeah, I loved that movie. I almost cried at the end during that song..:(

I didn't understand that movie at all, but the cover of Mad World is a depressing song..

The original "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails is pretty depressing too, not that I didn't like Cash's version, but.. Reznor did it first.

Good point. The stripped down version on the "Still" album is beautiful..

Hurt - Johnny Cash
Something In The Way - Nirvana
Cut Up Angels - The Used

Depeche Mode - Deaths Door

The Downward Spiral - NiN
Sleep - Stabbing Westward

Cat Power


Names

His name was Perry
He had a learning difficulty
His father was a very mean man
His father burned his skin
His father send him to his death
He was ten years old
He was ten years old
He was ten years old

Her name was Naomi
Beautiful round face, so ashamed
Told me how to please a man
After school in the back of a bus
She was doing it every day
She was eleven years old
She was eleven years old
She was eleven years old

Her name was Sheryl
Black hair, like an electric space
She would pretty paint my face
She was a very good friend
Her father would come to her in the night
She was twelve years old
She was twelve years old
She was twelve years old

His name was Donovan
He was a very good friend
The cards were stacked against him
He was selling cocaine
The last time I saw him
He was thirteen years old
He was thirteen years old
He was thirteen years old

His name was Charles
He said he was in love with me
We were both fourteen
Then I had to move away
Then he begin to smoke crack
Then he had to sell ass
I don't know where he is
I don't know where they are

creepy... my names in that song...

mad world by gary jules
lots of radiohead songs, such as prove yourself, how to dissapear completely, street spirit etc...

Coldplay - The Scientist
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

My non-repeated (personally makes me depressed due to a girl *roll*)

Our Lady Peace - Story About a Girl :(

David Bowie - Thursday's Child
David Bowie - I Can't Read
Peter Gabriel - We Do As We're Told
Prince - Sometimes It Snows In April
Annie Lennox - Cold

Tea Party - Requiem
Tea Party - Emerald
Tea Party - Psychopomp (live)
REM - Everybody Hurts
A Perfect Circle - Three Libras (acoustic)
Opeth - To bid you farewell
Radiohead - Exit Music
Radiohead - Creep (acoustic)
Radiohead - Karma Police
Smashing Pumpkins - Try, Try, Try
Zwan - Of a broken heart

Tori Amos:

Winter
Horses
Hey Jupiter
Bells For Her
___________________

Marilyn Manson-

Count to Six and Die
Suicide is Painless
_______________________

Bette Midler-

The Rose
______________________

Suicidal Tendencies-

How Will I laugh Tomorrow (Heavy Emotion Version)
______________________

Linkin Park-

My December
___________________

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.