Most depressing songs

nosmo

So, just to balance Neil's thread, here's
THE MOST DEPRESSING SONGS LIST!
I know its cheap, but..well..

Here are some of mine:
Hurt(quiet) - Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral -Nine Inch Nails
Something in the way-Nirvana
Violate-Machine Head
Live Wire-Beastie Boys
Exit Music for a Film-Radiohead
Fat Lip-sum41 (well, it depresses me!)
Everybody Hurts-REM
Disarm-Smashing Pumpkins

I'm in a metally mood, so funk you if you dislike my choices.

Asuka

3 that practically walk all over all the rest:

1) Radiohead - Paranoid Android (not so bad)
2) Machinehead - The Burning Red
3) Radiohead - Exit Music

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nosmo

C'mon:
I listed Exit Music.
Paranoid Android is happy because of the heavy bit.
Burning Red:meh... can't comment, because my cd is so scratched i cant even start to listen to this track.

You have to hear Violate first.Soo good.

Clintons Cat

you lot need owning for such a lamentable list of songs
I see your moody angst and raise you 5


1 Heaven Knows I'm Misserable Now by The Smiths.
2 The Boy With The Thorn In His Side by The Smiths.
3 There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths.
4 Girlfriend In A Coma by The Smiths.
5 Panic by The Smiths.

I am so depressed thinking about these songs that i am going off to write some poetry...Why does nobody like me?...am i so ugly?
Wail Sob

zAbbo

Portsihead - Roads
Leonard Cohen - well most of his stuff really
Oasis - Champayne Supernova

nosmo

i find you attractive...
seriously..

lordsippa

There are two songs that make themselves become incredibly depressing if you know the stories behind them...

Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven
Motley Crue - Nona

Songs that depress me mostly for personal reasons (many are CTYI songs)... and most of these also elate me at various times too:
American Pie <me being a nevermore and all... i find nostalgia comforting but also hideously depressing>
Iris
Street Spirit
Stairway To Heaven
Lithium

Rest are just depressing songs:
Radiohead - No Surprises
Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Radiohead - Knives Out
NiN - Something I Can Never Have
NiN - Somewhat Damaged <i think that's the name...>

Being rushed off now... more later.

Man U babe

Depressing? Dunno really
Radiohead-Street Spirit...uuuuuughhh
Any Leonard Cohen stuff
There's other stuff that just depresses me, it reminds me of bad times. As a nevermore, American Pie really depresses me too.
Do songs that make you want to punch someone count as depressing?
If so, most of the chart
Anything by Eminem
Anything by Westlife
The crap dance music my brother listens to

Cait

i really don't find the smiths depressing at all. they make me laugh

Bard

plenty of good suggestions already made...

I'll add Radiohead's cover of "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd...
and...:

Chris Rea - "Tell Me There's A Heaven"
The Cure - "Love Song"
Phil Collins - "I Wish It Would Rain Down", "Separate Lives"
John Denver - "Leaving on a Jet Plane"
Bruce Springsteen - "Down to the River"

lordsippa

actually... just realised a horrible oversight...

ANYTHING by The Cure (with a few mild exceptions)
and ANY of Blur's later stuff.... especially off 13.

ccindex

Leonard Cohen - One of us cannot be wrong

Gordon

Sisters of Mercy - Bury me deep

lordsippa

Violent Femmes - Colour me Once

Elvish

i find Stuck in a moment by U2 to be incredibly depressing. I don't know why. It just is......

-Rob

imp

Originally posted by Elvish
i find Stuck in a moment by U2 to be incredibly depressing. I don't know why. It just is......

Weird... I always find that song picks me up a little when I'm depwessed.

/me runs off to find U2 CD...

}:>

lordsippa

"With a kiss on the lips of another... dream brother..."

Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother.

Crash

Hmmmm.....lessee.

/me browses mp3 collection.

Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
MaryJane - Alanis Morrisette

Will add more later

imp

Why does everyone find Stairway to Heaven depressing?? Its basically just about how its never too late to change from being a bad person to a good person. And other such things.

}:>

Gordon

...or maybe
Mazzy Star - Fade into you
(possibly just old memories though)

Crash

Originally posted by imp
Why does everyone find Stairway to Heaven depressing?? Its basically just about how its never too late to change from being a bad person to a good person. And other such things.

}:>

Its more the tone of the song.

lordsippa

Oh man... reading Dream Brother and suddenly realised... "hang on! The song Dream Brother is about his father..."

It's a weird song.


Type O Negative - World Coming Down <more angry than depressed at the end>
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

shep the malevolent pixie

asleep-the smiths
strawberry gashes-jack off jill
the pyramid song-radiohead
iris-goo goo dolls
lady of the flowers-placebo
black-pearl jam
try not to breathe-R.E.M.
vivica-jack off jill
summer's gone-placebo
last goodbye, lover you should've come over, grace, mojo pin-jeff buckley
under the bridge-red hot chili peppers

these songs when played at the right time crucify my heart and rip the pieces into shreds while burning my soul into oblivion and unearthing so many emotions that i wasn't aware existed inside me.
that is all.
sHep :cool:

lordsippa

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
Alice In Chains - Brother

Clintons Cat

asleep-the smiths

I had totally blanked that song out of my memory thats one really F***ed up song,

also some more for consideration by the panel

Bedsit land by Soft Cell
She'll never forget by Cindy Peres
Baby can i hold you by Tracy Chapman
twist in my sobrity by Tinita Tikarum
un amour by the gypsy kings
shes leaving home by the beatles
elanor rigby by the beatles
Killing moon by Echo And The Bunny Men
Spiderman by the cure
love will tear us apart by joy division
missing you by all about eve
there are some very bleak songs on the albumn Savage by the eurythmics,stand out tracks are

• Do You Want To Break Up?
• You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
• Shame
• Savage
• Put The Blame On Me
• I Need You

Mystic Fibrosis

Well, here's my crappy selection (in no particular order)

1: Unreal- Soil
2: Disarm- Smashing Pumpkins
3: My Last Serenade- Killswitch Engage( the intro, anyway)
4: Epiphany- Staind(I know, I know....)
5: 11am- Incubus
6: 3 Libras- A Perfect Circle

Couldn't be arsed thinking up more.
I should be finishing my Russian project......................

Focalbhach

Damn.....Eleanor Rigby.......I'm getting depressed just thinking about it.......

And how can you say Stairway to Heaven is depressing?! I listen to it in the morning at 6.00 before swimming training to wake me up and get me going!!

Paulj

radiohead - big ideas (nude)/a reminder/ the tourist/exit music/climbing up the walls
unkle - lonely soul /rabbit in your headlights
blur - caramel / mellow song
beatles - the long and winding road
pink floyd - echoes
lou reed- perfect day
john lennon - imagine
gary moore - parisienne walkways

some classical music can be really depressing too (gymnopedie #1). But i think radiohead's stuff is the best.

qwidgybo

hmm.songs don't depress me.bad songs can anger me(i punch invisible things when a pop idol starts to sing)but good songs,no matter how *depressing* they are considered by others,make me happy.it's nice when people write and perform good songs,and if that depresses you,well and good,but it makes me feel .....an-sásta."satisfied" doesn't quite describe it,but for some reason "an-sásta" does.

éadaoin

shep the malevolent pixie

Originally posted by Clintons Cat

Spiderman by the cure
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isn't that lullaby? the one about "the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight" yeah? damnit i've confused myself again...
i'm in a really crappy mood, i played last goodbye around 12 times last night because i needed to cry about something and i couldn't....:(
sHep :cool:

Miss-Misery

In response to Svens post a billion years ago 'dream brother' was written after one of jeff's friends ( michael tighe i think,but could be wrong) got a girl pregnant and was written as a warning not to abandon her and the child as Tim did.
Hmmm my list would be
'over our bodies' longpigs
'I know its over' The Smiths
'last goodbye' jeff buckley
'disappointed' the frames
'love will tear us apart' joy division
'cheers darlin' Damien Rice
'I never asked to be your mountain' Tim Buckley
'Adams Song' Blink 182
'Between the bars' Elliott Smith