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Old 12-05-2003, 06:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-05-2003, 09:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I think it has been, but I doubt anyone is worried

I'll second "Hurt".
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Old 12-05-2003, 09:48 PM   #3 (permalink)
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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
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Old 12-05-2003, 10:43 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 12-06-2003, 12:09 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Dave Matthews - "Grave Digger"
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Old 12-06-2003, 08:59 AM   #6 (permalink)
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"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.
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Old 12-06-2003, 03:38 PM   #7 (permalink)
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"And So It Goes" by Billy Joel, just about cried the first time i heard it.

"Hurt" is also a great choice
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Old 12-06-2003, 06:12 PM   #8 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-07-2003, 01:19 AM   #9 (permalink)
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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
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Old 12-07-2003, 02:37 AM   #10 (permalink)
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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
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Old 12-07-2003, 08:53 AM   #11 (permalink)
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The Wanderer by Johnny Cash.
Old City Bar by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
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Old 12-07-2003, 07:43 PM   #12 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-07-2003, 07:52 PM   #13 (permalink)
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My vote goes for "Wild Rose" by Nick Cave.
Very beautiful song. Very haunting.
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Old 12-08-2003, 09:11 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Nine inch nails - A Warm place

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Old 12-08-2003, 02:11 PM   #15 (permalink)
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I agree with Gary Jules - Mad World
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Old 12-08-2003, 02:22 PM   #16 (permalink)
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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...
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Old 12-08-2003, 05:44 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Downface - Alone (acoustic)
Saliva - Always
Seether - Fade Away
Radiohead - True love waits (acoustic/live)
Sensefield - Save yourself
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Old 12-08-2003, 10:23 PM   #18 (permalink)
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radiohead is right. especially street spirit or exit music, at least for me. also some of rjd2's stuff, like rain or june.
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Old 12-08-2003, 10:52 PM   #19 (permalink)
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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
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Old 12-09-2003, 09:41 PM   #20 (permalink)
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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.

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Old 12-10-2003, 06:04 AM   #21 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-10-2003, 06:27 AM   #22 (permalink)
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I think that my vote would go to:

Alone again, naturally.
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Old 12-10-2003, 08:03 AM   #23 (permalink)
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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!

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Old 12-10-2003, 10:21 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Counting Crows - Raining in Baltimore
Counting Crows - Goodnight Elisabeth
Red House Painters - Have You Forgotten
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Old 12-10-2003, 10:24 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Spinning Plates- Radiohead.
Suicidal Dreams- Silverchair.
Toi et Moi- Indochine.
Perfect Drug/The Great Below/Ruiner- NIN.
...different random soundtracks too.
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Old 12-10-2003, 03:43 PM   #26 (permalink)
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also, Five For Fighting - Superman.
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Old 12-11-2003, 11:54 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Since my friend Adam killed himself two years ago, I can't even listen to Blink 182's "Adam's Song."
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Old 12-12-2003, 12:48 AM   #28 (permalink)
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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
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Old 12-12-2003, 01:42 AM   #29 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-12-2003, 11:58 AM   #30 (permalink)
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i'll have to agree with Hurt and Mad World
also Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me is another
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Old 12-12-2003, 12:28 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia was almost designed to be depressing.
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Old 12-12-2003, 11:46 PM   #32 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-13-2003, 01:27 AM   #33 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-13-2003, 01:45 PM   #34 (permalink)
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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!"
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Old 12-13-2003, 07:23 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Old 12-16-2003, 12:02 AM   #36 (permalink)
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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.

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Old 12-16-2003, 05:19 PM   #37 (permalink)
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"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.
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Old 12-16-2003, 05:29 PM   #38 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 12-16-2003, 05:58 PM   #39 (permalink)
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" 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
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Old 12-17-2003, 07:23 PM   #40 (permalink)
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I would have to say the country song Go rest high on that mountain by Vince Gill.
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