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present_future · 12-05-2003, 06:27 PM

I was just wondering what song everyone finds the most depressing. I'm trying to make a CD of all depressing songs for whatever reason. Anyway, I would have to say the most depressing song for me is the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt".

Edit: Sorry if this thread has already been started, but since the search function is down I had no way of knowing.

djtestudo · 12-05-2003, 09:17 PM

I think it has been, but I doubt anyone is worried

I'll second "Hurt".

gnort · 12-05-2003, 09:48 PM

I think Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World" (Originally by Tears for Fears) from the end of Donnie Darko is a pretty depressing song.

I agree with "Hurt" being up there on the depressing song list

tikki · 12-05-2003, 10:43 PM

How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead

Evil Milkman · 12-06-2003, 12:09 AM

Dave Matthews - "Grave Digger"

Gortexfogg · 12-06-2003, 08:59 AM

"Idiot Wind" by Bob Dylan. The first time I heard this song it just blew me away, all the pain in the words and stuff. Also, "You're a Big Girl Now" by Dylan is another one that you can feel the emotion in the song.

mystmarimatt · 12-06-2003, 03:38 PM

"And So It Goes" by Billy Joel, just about cried the first time i heard it.

"Hurt" is also a great choice

username · 12-06-2003, 06:12 PM

I'll have to 4th or 5th or whatever Hurt. Especially the Johnny Cash version of the song. It didn't mean a whole lot in my opinion when NiN sang it, but when Cash did it sounded real.

Most Ben Folds songs are depressing when you listen to the lyrics.

anti fishstick · 12-07-2003, 01:19 AM

vast - lady of my dreams is really depressing and its an instrumental. it's actually moved me to tears before.

but i'm a sap :P

also, i think "me and a gun" by tori amos is depressing bcos its very real and raw and a'capella. singing about her rape.

mad world is a good one too

MahlerIsGod · 12-07-2003, 02:37 AM

Evanescence - My Immortal
Lisa Gerrard - Sanvean (I Am Your Shadow)
Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness Or I Hung My Head (much, much better songs than Hurt) R.I.P.
Tom Waits - Take It With Me
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You
Warren Zevon - Let Us Not Get Sick R.I.P.

Sorry, went a little overboard but those are just a few of my favorites

gwr_gwir · 12-07-2003, 08:53 AM

The Wanderer by Johnny Cash.
Old City Bar by Trans-Siberian Orchestra

brandon11983 · 12-07-2003, 07:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gnort
I think Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World" (Originally by Tears for Fears) from the end of Donnie Darko is a pretty depressing song.

Yes. And it fits so well with whats going on in the movie.

Jonsgirl · 12-07-2003, 07:52 PM

My vote goes for "Wild Rose" by Nick Cave.
Very beautiful song. Very haunting.

Reese · 12-08-2003, 09:11 AM

Nine inch nails - A Warm place

I'll say no more.

otnorot · 12-08-2003, 02:11 PM

I agree with Gary Jules - Mad World

vonstalhein · 12-08-2003, 02:22 PM

Any linkin Park or nickleback...(personally) to think a band could be that rubbish is depressing...

seriously though, Radiohead, yeah. Opeth can also be pretty upsetting...

CS733t · 12-08-2003, 05:44 PM

Downface - Alone (acoustic)
Saliva - Always
Seether - Fade Away
Radiohead - True love waits (acoustic/live)
Sensefield - Save yourself

wordssmith22 · 12-08-2003, 10:23 PM

radiohead is right. especially street spirit or exit music, at least for me. also some of rjd2's stuff, like rain or june.

Jadey · 12-08-2003, 10:52 PM

Pantera - Hollow

What's left inside him?
Don't he remember us?
Can't he believe me?
We seemed like bothers
Talked for hours last month
About what we wanna be
I sit now with his hand in mine
But I know he can't feel...

(chorus) No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead

I'm close with his mother
And she cries endlessly
Lord how we miss him
At least what's remembered
It's so important to make best friends in life
But it's hard when my friend sits with blank expressions

(chorus) No one knows
What's done is done
It's as if he were dead

He as hollow as I alone now

He as hollow as I alone
A shell of my friend
Just flesh and bone
There's no soul
He sees no love
I shake my fists at skies above
Mad at God

He as hollow as I converse
I wish he'd waken from this curse
Hear my words before it's through
I want to come in after you
My best friend

He as hollow as I alone

itchy93 · 12-09-2003, 09:41 PM

A Day at the Fair - Beautiful Double Edged Sword
A Day at the Fair - Grasshopper of Waywayonda
A Day at the Fair - Jersey-California Life
A Day at the Fair - Neoteny
A Day at the Fair - So Much for Nostalgia
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
American Hi-Fi - Another Perfect Day
Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
Ben Harper - Forever
blink-182 - Adam's Song
blink-182 - Going Away to College
Brand New - Play Crack the Sky
Bush - Inflatable
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Counting Crows - Round Here
Dashboard Confessional - A Plain Morning
Dashboard Confessional - The Brilliant Dance
Dashboard Confessional - This Ruined Puzzle
Dave Matthews Band - #41
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Hootie & the Blowfish - Goodbye
Inspection 12 - Intentions Never Waive
Keepsake - Sweet White Lies
Keepsake - The Alcohol Diary
Keepsake - The Art of Collapsing
No Motiv - Broken and Burned
No Motiv - Empty
No Use for a Name - Feels Like Home
No Use for a Name - Let It Slide
nothing to lose - If Dreams Were Real
Pearl Jam - Black
Plain White T's - A Lonely September
Saves the Day - Freakish
Saves the Day - Nightingale
Something Corporate - Ben Franklin's Kite
Stereophonics - Is Yesterday Tomorrow Today
The Ataris - Between You and Me
The Beatles - Yesterday
The Cranberries - Empty
The Cranberries - I Still Do
The Cranberries - Linger
The Cranberries - Not Sorry
The Cranberries - Twenty One
The Damnwells - For My Own Good
The Damnwells - Sleepsinging
The Dandy Warhols - Sleep
The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You
The Get Up Kids - Newfound Mass [2000]
The Juliana Theory - As It Stands
The Juliana Theory - Constellation
The Juliana Theory - Don't Push Love Away
The Juliana Theory - Into the Dark
The Juliana Theory - Is Patience Still Waiting
The New Amsterdams - Goodbye
The New Amsterdams - Idaho
The New Amsterdams - Lonely Hearts
The New Amsterdams - Picture in the Paper
The New Amsterdams - Stay on the Phone
The New Amsterdams - That Side of Me

Seen some good suggestions in this thread; I'll definitely have to check them out.

Itchy93

Averett · 12-10-2003, 06:04 AM

Hey Itchy, along with those 3 Dashboard songs, add "This Bitter Pill" Chris Carrabba (their singer) stopped playing that song live because he couldn't get through it. I guess he played it at a few shows their last tour but unfornatly not at the one I went to. I was really hoping he would.

Jay Francis · 12-10-2003, 06:27 AM

I think that my vote would go to:

Alone again, naturally.

itchy93 · 12-10-2003, 08:03 AM

Averett

Yeah, you can definitely feel the emotion in his voice when he screams. Actually, I don't why that's not in my playlist. Thanks!

Itchy93

NatureBoy · 12-10-2003, 10:21 AM

Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore
Counting Crows - Goodnight Elisabeth
Red House Painters - Have You Forgotten

la petite moi · 12-10-2003, 10:24 AM

Spinning Plates- Radiohead.
Suicidal Dreams- Silverchair.
Toi et Moi- Indochine.
Perfect Drug/The Great Below/Ruiner- NIN.
...different random soundtracks too.

gwr_gwir · 12-10-2003, 03:43 PM

also, Five For Fighting - Superman.

MSD · 12-11-2003, 11:54 PM

Since my friend Adam killed himself two years ago, I can't even listen to Blink 182's "Adam's Song."

mercury-hg · 12-12-2003, 12:48 AM

Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine

really, there's nothing more gloriously derpressing than the whole "Dirt" album though

Perfect Drug is a good pick too

Plan9Senior · 12-12-2003, 01:42 AM

Dust in the wind, by any one of the many people who cover it. It reminds me of when a good friend of mine passed away and I cant listen to it without getting teary eyed.

MaGlC_MaN · 12-12-2003, 11:58 AM

i'll have to agree with Hurt and Mad World
also Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me is another

dy156 · 12-12-2003, 12:28 PM

Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia was almost designed to be depressing.

chingador · 12-12-2003, 11:46 PM

Hands down, the most depressing song I can think of is The Eternal by Joy Divison. Actually, Closer has got to be the most depressing album I can think of. Great stuff though.

MahlerIsGod · 12-13-2003, 01:27 AM

I, personally, would say that Neil Young's song (from the same movie as Bruce's) "Philadelphia" is much more "depressing". Still, both are great, great songs.

dy156 · 12-13-2003, 01:45 PM

I just heard this old country song I think called "the hardest thing I'll ever have to do(is holding her, and loving you)" I have no idea who sings it, but it's about this guy that's cheating on his wife, and how it sucks that he's cheating, it sucks that he has to tell the woman he's cheating with that he can't see her anymore, and it sucks to go back to his wife but still think about his mistress. The whole song is depressing, and I bet a good thing for anyone that's ever thought of cheating to hear. Or you can just remember what the drunk married doctor told me he thinks of when he sees the cute nurses-
"A ten second muscle spasm isn't worth half your net worth!"

LivingDead · 12-13-2003, 07:23 PM

Nine Inch Nails - A warm place
Nine Inch Nials - Something I can never have

kellererd · 12-16-2003, 12:02 AM

Obvious, yet true : Everybody Hurts / REM

Runner-up : 'Washing of the Water' by Peter Gabriel. Haunting.

2nd runner up : 'Shape of my Heart' by Sting.

numberfive · 12-16-2003, 05:19 PM

"Maps" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

If anyone has seen this live or the music video the emotion Karen O puts out is amazing. Especially in contrast to their other songs.

boxcarracer277 · 12-16-2003, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by maglc_man
i'll have to agree with Hurt and Mad World
also Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me is another

That Jimmy one always gets me.

RemyLebeau97 · 12-16-2003, 05:58 PM

" Tears in Heaven" Eric Clapton
" Wish you were here" Pink Floyd
"Color Blind" Counting Crows
"Dreaming Tree" Dave Matthews Band
"This Love" Craig Armstrong feat. Elizabeth Fraser

Amethyst · 12-17-2003, 07:23 PM

I would have to say the country song Go rest high on that mountain by Vince Gill.

12-05-2003, 06:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
present_future Take my hand Location: Everywhere, but nowhere	Most Depressing Song I was just wondering what song everyone finds the most depressing. I'm trying to make a CD of all depressing songs for whatever reason. Anyway, I would have to say the most depressing song for me is the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt". Edit: Sorry if this thread has already been started, but since the search function is down I had no way of knowing. __________________ The only thing I'll ever ask of you... you gotta promise not to stop when I say when.

12-05-2003, 09:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
djtestudo Baltimoron Location: Beeeeeautiful Bel Air, MD	I think it has been, but I doubt anyone is worried I'll second "Hurt". __________________ "Final thought: I just rented Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. Frankly, it was the worst sports movie I've ever seen." --Peter Schmuck, The (Baltimore) Sun

12-05-2003, 09:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
gnort Psycho Location: MA	I think Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World" (Originally by Tears for Fears) from the end of Donnie Darko is a pretty depressing song. I agree with "Hurt" being up there on the depressing song list __________________ You had me at Qapla'

12-05-2003, 10:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
tikki Justified Location: West Lafayette, IN	How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead __________________ Take notice. Take interest. Take me with you.

12-06-2003, 03:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
mystmarimatt Omnipotent Ruler Of The Tiny Universe In My Mind Location: Oreegawn	"And So It Goes" by Billy Joel, just about cried the first time i heard it. "Hurt" is also a great choice __________________ Words of Wisdom: If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane.

12-06-2003, 12:09 AM	#5 (permalink)
Evil Milkman Addict Location: Illinois	Dave Matthews - "Grave Digger"

12-06-2003, 08:59 AM	#6 (permalink)
Gortexfogg I and I Location: Stillwater, OK	"Idiot Wind" by Bob Dylan. The first time I heard this song it just blew me away, all the pain in the words and stuff. Also, "You're a Big Girl Now" by Dylan is another one that you can feel the emotion in the song.

12-06-2003, 06:12 PM	#8 (permalink)
username Insane	I'll have to 4th or 5th or whatever Hurt. Especially the Johnny Cash version of the song. It didn't mean a whole lot in my opinion when NiN sang it, but when Cash did it sounded real. Most Ben Folds songs are depressing when you listen to the lyrics.

12-07-2003, 01:19 AM	#9 (permalink)
anti fishstick Post-modernism meets Individualism AKA the Clash Location: oregon	vast - lady of my dreams is really depressing and its an instrumental. it's actually moved me to tears before. but i'm a sap :P also, i think "me and a gun" by tori amos is depressing bcos its very real and raw and a'capella. singing about her rape. mad world is a good one too __________________ And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

12-07-2003, 02:37 AM	#10 (permalink)
MahlerIsGod At The Globe Showing Will How Its Done Location: London/Elysium	Evanescence - My Immortal Lisa Gerrard - Sanvean (I Am Your Shadow) Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness Or I Hung My Head (much, much better songs than Hurt) R.I.P. Tom Waits - Take It With Me Spiritualized - Broken Heart The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You Warren Zevon - Let Us Not Get Sick R.I.P. Sorry, went a little overboard but those are just a few of my favorites __________________ "But a work of art is a conscious human effort that has to do with communication. It is that or its nothing. When an accident is applauded as a work of art, when a cult grows up around the deliciousness of inadvertent beauty, we are in the presence of the greatest decadence the West has known in its history." Last edited by MahlerIsGod; 12-07-2003 at 02:50 AM..

12-07-2003, 08:53 AM	#11 (permalink)
gwr_gwir Crazy	The Wanderer by Johnny Cash. Old City Bar by Trans-Siberian Orchestra __________________ Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Robert Heinlein

12-07-2003, 07:52 PM	#13 (permalink)
Jonsgirl Semi-Atomic Location: Home.	My vote goes for "Wild Rose" by Nick Cave. Very beautiful song. Very haunting. __________________ Someday, someone will best me. But it won't be today, and it won't be you.

12-08-2003, 09:11 AM	#14 (permalink)
Reese Delicious	Nine inch nails - A Warm place I'll say no more. __________________ “It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick” - Dave Barry

12-08-2003, 02:11 PM	#15 (permalink)
otnorot Tilted Location: Toronto CANADA	I agree with Gary Jules - Mad World __________________ Your imagination's having puppies.

12-08-2003, 02:22 PM	#16 (permalink)
vonstalhein Insane Location: Where You Live.	Any linkin Park or nickleback...(personally) to think a band could be that rubbish is depressing... seriously though, Radiohead, yeah. Opeth can also be pretty upsetting... __________________ No Win No Fee

12-08-2003, 05:44 PM	#17 (permalink)
CS733t Crazy	Downface - Alone (acoustic) Saliva - Always Seether - Fade Away Radiohead - True love waits (acoustic/live) Sensefield - Save yourself __________________ So tired now of paying my dues I start out strong but then I always lose It's half the distance before you leave me behind It's such a waste of time

12-08-2003, 10:23 PM	#18 (permalink)
wordssmith22 Crazy	radiohead is right. especially street spirit or exit music, at least for me. also some of rjd2's stuff, like rain or june.

12-08-2003, 10:52 PM	#19 (permalink)
Jadey This Space For Rent Location: Davenport, Iowa	Pantera - Hollow What's left inside him? Don't he remember us? Can't he believe me? We seemed like bothers Talked for hours last month About what we wanna be I sit now with his hand in mine But I know he can't feel... (chorus) No one knows What's done is done It's as if he were dead I'm close with his mother And she cries endlessly Lord how we miss him At least what's remembered It's so important to make best friends in life But it's hard when my friend sits with blank expressions (chorus) No one knows What's done is done It's as if he were dead He as hollow as I alone now He as hollow as I alone A shell of my friend Just flesh and bone There's no soul He sees no love I shake my fists at skies above Mad at God He as hollow as I converse I wish he'd waken from this curse Hear my words before it's through I want to come in after you My best friend He as hollow as I alone

12-09-2003, 09:41 PM	#20 (permalink)
itchy93 Tilted Location: Wandering North America	A Day at the Fair - Beautiful Double Edged Sword A Day at the Fair - Grasshopper of Waywayonda A Day at the Fair - Jersey-California Life A Day at the Fair - Neoteny A Day at the Fair - So Much for Nostalgia A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras A Perfect Circle - Orestes American Hi-Fi - Another Perfect Day Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day Ben Harper - Forever blink-182 - Adam's Song blink-182 - Going Away to College Brand New - Play Crack the Sky Bush - Inflatable Counting Crows - Colorblind Counting Crows - Round Here Dashboard Confessional - A Plain Morning Dashboard Confessional - The Brilliant Dance Dashboard Confessional - This Ruined Puzzle Dave Matthews Band - #41 Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Hootie & the Blowfish - Goodbye Inspection 12 - Intentions Never Waive Keepsake - Sweet White Lies Keepsake - The Alcohol Diary Keepsake - The Art of Collapsing No Motiv - Broken and Burned No Motiv - Empty No Use for a Name - Feels Like Home No Use for a Name - Let It Slide nothing to lose - If Dreams Were Real Pearl Jam - Black Plain White T's - A Lonely September Saves the Day - Freakish Saves the Day - Nightingale Something Corporate - Ben Franklin's Kite Stereophonics - Is Yesterday Tomorrow Today The Ataris - Between You and Me The Beatles - Yesterday The Cranberries - Empty The Cranberries - I Still Do The Cranberries - Linger The Cranberries - Not Sorry The Cranberries - Twenty One The Damnwells - For My Own Good The Damnwells - Sleepsinging The Dandy Warhols - Sleep The Get Up Kids - I'll Catch You The Get Up Kids - Newfound Mass [2000] The Juliana Theory - As It Stands The Juliana Theory - Constellation The Juliana Theory - Don't Push Love Away The Juliana Theory - Into the Dark The Juliana Theory - Is Patience Still Waiting The New Amsterdams - Goodbye The New Amsterdams - Idaho The New Amsterdams - Lonely Hearts The New Amsterdams - Picture in the Paper The New Amsterdams - Stay on the Phone The New Amsterdams - That Side of Me Seen some good suggestions in this thread; I'll definitely have to check them out. Itchy93 __________________ That's just my opinion; I could be wrong.

12-10-2003, 06:04 AM	#21 (permalink)
Averett Is In Love Location: I'm workin' on it	Hey Itchy, along with those 3 Dashboard songs, add "This Bitter Pill" Chris Carrabba (their singer) stopped playing that song live because he couldn't get through it. I guess he played it at a few shows their last tour but unfornatly not at the one I went to. I was really hoping he would. __________________ Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

12-10-2003, 06:27 AM	#22 (permalink)
Jay Francis Psycho Location: Houston, Texas	I think that my vote would go to: Alone again, naturally.

12-10-2003, 08:03 AM	#23 (permalink)
itchy93 Tilted Location: Wandering North America	Averett Yeah, you can definitely feel the emotion in his voice when he screams. Actually, I don't why that's not in my playlist. Thanks! Itchy93 __________________ That's just my opinion; I could be wrong.

12-10-2003, 10:21 AM	#24 (permalink)
NatureBoy Crazy	Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore Counting Crows - Goodnight Elisabeth Red House Painters - Have You Forgotten

12-10-2003, 10:24 AM	#25 (permalink)
la petite moi Filling the Void. Location: California	Spinning Plates- Radiohead. Suicidal Dreams- Silverchair. Toi et Moi- Indochine. Perfect Drug/The Great Below/Ruiner- NIN. ...different random soundtracks too.

12-10-2003, 03:43 PM	#26 (permalink)
gwr_gwir Crazy	also, Five For Fighting - Superman. __________________ Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Robert Heinlein

12-11-2003, 11:54 PM	#27 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	Since my friend Adam killed himself two years ago, I can't even listen to Blink 182's "Adam's Song."

12-12-2003, 12:48 AM	#28 (permalink)
mercury-hg Psycho Location: U of MD	Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole Alice in Chains - Dirt Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine really, there's nothing more gloriously derpressing than the whole "Dirt" album though Perfect Drug is a good pick too

12-12-2003, 01:42 AM	#29 (permalink)
Plan9Senior Banned Location: Orange County, California	Dust in the wind, by any one of the many people who cover it. It reminds me of when a good friend of mine passed away and I cant listen to it without getting teary eyed.

12-12-2003, 11:58 AM	#30 (permalink)
MaGlC_MaN Insane Location: Tennessee	i'll have to agree with Hurt and Mad World also Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me is another __________________ Bye.

12-12-2003, 12:28 PM	#31 (permalink)
dy156 cookie Location: in the backwoods	Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia was almost designed to be depressing.

12-12-2003, 11:46 PM	#32 (permalink)
chingador Junkie Location: WI	Hands down, the most depressing song I can think of is The Eternal by Joy Divison. Actually, Closer has got to be the most depressing album I can think of. Great stuff though.

12-13-2003, 01:27 AM	#33 (permalink)
MahlerIsGod At The Globe Showing Will How Its Done Location: London/Elysium	I, personally, would say that Neil Young's song (from the same movie as Bruce's) "Philadelphia" is much more "depressing". Still, both are great, great songs. __________________ "But a work of art is a conscious human effort that has to do with communication. It is that or its nothing. When an accident is applauded as a work of art, when a cult grows up around the deliciousness of inadvertent beauty, we are in the presence of the greatest decadence the West has known in its history."

12-13-2003, 01:45 PM	#34 (permalink)
dy156 cookie Location: in the backwoods	I just heard this old country song I think called "the hardest thing I'll ever have to do(is holding her, and loving you)" I have no idea who sings it, but it's about this guy that's cheating on his wife, and how it sucks that he's cheating, it sucks that he has to tell the woman he's cheating with that he can't see her anymore, and it sucks to go back to his wife but still think about his mistress. The whole song is depressing, and I bet a good thing for anyone that's ever thought of cheating to hear. Or you can just remember what the drunk married doctor told me he thinks of when he sees the cute nurses- "A ten second muscle spasm isn't worth half your net worth!"

12-13-2003, 07:23 PM	#35 (permalink)
LivingDead Crazy	Nine Inch Nails - A warm place Nine Inch Nials - Something I can never have

12-16-2003, 12:02 AM	#36 (permalink)
kellererd Crazy Location: Austin	Obvious, yet true : Everybody Hurts / REM Runner-up : 'Washing of the Water' by Peter Gabriel. Haunting. 2nd runner up : 'Shape of my Heart' by Sting. Last edited by kellererd; 12-16-2003 at 01:45 AM..