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.