Most wonderfully depressing song

Lolo

I'm on a mission to find the most depressing song in the worlld- you know, the kind that are so relentlessly grim they make you giggle and actually cheer you up. So far I've got:

"Weightless Again" by the Handsome Family
"No Peace for the Wicked" by the Only Ones (opens with the marvellously deadpan Peter Perrett intoning "Why do I go through these deep emotional traumas?")
"Suffer Little Children" by the Smiths - has me in fits of laughter from the first line

dccarm

Girlfriend in a Coma - The Smiths

Red Moose

About half of Superunknown

Bard

Radiohead: Exit Music for a Film - depressing but wonderful all the same

WhiteWashMan

Originally posted by Bard
Radiohead: Exit Music for a Film - depressing but wonderful all the same

ditto, fav song of the album.

anything after that album is just depressing....

indie_chick

Jewel - Adrian or Painters.....Both are found on Pieces of you, her first album...

chernobyl

Radiohead: Street Spirit [fade out] also Korn:No Way...but the korn song will not induce any smiling, but any Radiohead video will...:)

Karl Hungus

Ah, here's a great moment for me to shine...


Basically ANYTHING by My Dying Bride.
But in Particular:
Sear Me MCMXCIII
For My Fallen Angel
The Cry Of Mankind


Something surely to bring a tear to your eye:
The Gathering - In Motion #2



And I'll leave you with that.
Please, try and listenen to some of them, and not let my prattling be in vein.

Lemming

Albinoni's "adagio in G minor"

Easily the most depressing yet emotionally inspiring. The ONLY song to truly move me emotionally (and have the ability to bring water to my eyes)

For those unsure of what the song is - think of the film "Rollerball". The main classical music song played in that film. That's it.

Runner up would probably be the Barber "Adagio for Strings" (Platoon).

Incidentally .. both songs are a b*llocks to play in concert, especially the Barber Adagio (D minor ... -*shudder*)

Karl Hungus

Anything from Anathema's Alternative 4 album.

atonal

Jeff Buckley - Lover You Should Have Come Over
ok ANYTHING Buckley

Meh

Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

Mills

Radiohead, definately, too many to choose from really, there's probably more depressing music hanging about but radiohead is actually good at the same time.

PiE

Are we talking 'bout songs that are embarrasingly depressing or depressingly beautiful? If it's the latter, everything on Adore (Pumpkins).

o sleep

tindersticks - cherry blossoms, or talk to me: the strings at the end going crazy is just ... amazing

Chaos-Engine

Jimi Hendrix - "Castles Made of Sand"

if u really listen to teh words and feel the pain... It makes me cry
and

The Cure - "Love song"

if u lost your love but if u have it then it is the happiest song in the word.

Jim Daniels

1. The Shangrai La's: I Can Never Go Home Anymore.
2. Handsome Family: A Beautiful Thing
3. Smog: Your New Friend

All totally hilarious, yet immensely moving!

I edited this cause I had a few others but they weren't funny, just sad.

Lolo

Originally posted by PiE
Are we talking 'bout songs that are embarrasingly depressing or depressingly beautiful? If it's the latter, everything on Adore (Pumpkins).

I was thinking more on the lines of ridiculously OTT depressing, not poignantly, beautifully depressing - I think most of you got the wrong end of the stick.

I used to add Terry Jacks 'Seasons in the Sun' to that list until it was ruined for ever by that bunch of tossers.

Lolo

Originally posted by Jim Daniels
1. The Shangrai La's: I Can Never Go Home Anymore.
3. Smog: Your New Friend

Ooh yes, you could add quite a few Shangri Las and Smog songs to that list - Walking in the Sand and All Your Woman Things come to mind immediately. Although when I saw Bill Callahan doing the latter recently he really seemed to *mean* it, which scared me somewhat.

BLITZ_Molloy

Anything by radiohead.

'Nothing compares' by Sinead O' Connor perhaps?

Chief

nine inch nails - hurt (the video is fúckin' mad to)

nine inch nails - somthing i can never have

I must admit the oul cure one, lovesong is a doozy to

Cheez

The National Anthem by Radiohead
and Reflection by TooL

o sleep

Originally posted by Lolo
when I saw Bill Callahan doing the latter recently he really seemed to *mean* it, which scared me somewhat.

yeah, i seem to have missed your point. if i had understood, i would've gone for smog, maybe back in school or something of the doctor came at dawn. i always thought he was kind of taking the piss in most of his OTT songs, but if he really meant all your women things, that *is* scary. building a doll out of the clothes of his ex-girlfriend? *shudder*

alb

Originally posted by Bard
Radiohead: Exit Music for a Film - depressing but wonderful all the same

My favourite radiohead song. But I don't find it depressing at all, I'd say romantic is more the word. No surprises is depressing.

Gordon

The Sisters of Mercy - Bury Me deep

slash99

Life of Agony - My Mind is Dangerous
Life of Agony - Heroin Dreams

FreaK_BrutheR

A few unmentioned ones just

Tindersticks - Dying Slowly
Palace Brothers - Come In
PJ Harvey - Plants and Rags
Ben Folds Five - Brick (maybe not)

cournioni

I find anything on Fear Factory's "Obsolete" album depressing for some reason.

*shrugs*

Occidental

Surely this is a basic guideline of American country music.

Maybe a thread on "Music when you want to feel sorry for yourself " would be useful.

DiscoStu

say hello wave goodbye - soft cell
how soon is now - the smiths

DerekD Goldfish

The version of hallalula with the smiths i know its over on the end of it that is on the mystery white boy album. fairly ironic he chose that song to cover