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The Most Depressing Song Ever
Just listened to Bright Eyes on the radio. The song about Dead Rabbits, where Art Garfunkel invites us to "follow the river of death downstream".
Has there ever been a more depressing song? |
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Bright Eyes is a little jolly summer song to skip too compared to Seasons in the Sun
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehit...sunlyrics.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8 |
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Elvis - Old Shep
Bobby Goldsboro - Honey Mike and The Mechanics - The Living Years |
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I always find The Living Years by Mike & The Mechanics uber depressing.
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Level 42 - It's Over
Always gets me. |
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Patches - Clarence Carter: Quote:
Two days later papa passed away Or Ghetto Child by the Spinners:And I became a man that day Everyday I had to work the fields 'Cause that's the only way We got our meals See, I was the oldest of the family And everybody was depending on me Quote:
When I was 17 Or My Country Tis of Thee by Buffy Sainte MarieI ran away from home And from everything I had ever known I was sick and tired Living in a town Filled with narrow minds And hate They used to laugh at me And children called me names I would run and hide Feeling so ashamed Just for being born I was just a boy Punished for a crime That was not mine Quote:
That the nation of leeches that conquered this land Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best. And yet where in your history books is the tale Of the genocide basic to this country's birth, Of the preachers who lied, how the Bill of Rights failed, How a nation of patriots returned to their earth? And where will it tell of the Liberty Bell As it rang with a thud O'er Kinzua mud, And of brave Uncle Sam in Alaska this year? My country 'tis of thy people you're dying. Hear how the bargain was made for the West: With her shivering children in zero degrees, Blankets for your land, so the treaties attest, Oh well, blankets for land is a bargain indeed, And the blankets were those Uncle Sam had collected From smallpox-diseased dying soldiers that day. And the tribes were wiped out and the history books censored, A hundred years of your statesmen have felt it's better this way. |
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Sally's Pigeons by Cyndi Lauper is a desperately sad song. It's about losing a childhood friend who dies due to having a back-street abortion. The music video especially chokes me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxwDnypJw3Y |
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Luka by Suzanne Vega.
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In the ghetto by elvis usually gets me going.
My skin by Natalie merchant is another. |
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I've always found Perfect Day by Lou Reed to be an extremely depressing song. I think I'm the only one though!
Agree with Luka. It is deceptive at first, but it really is a depressing song, once you focus on the lyrics. |
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And another choice is Death Cab For Cutie's "I Will Follow You Into The Dark". |
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Baby - Justin Bieber.
Everytime I hear it I die on the inside. |
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Morrissey's Moon River.
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4st 7lb - Manics
Would? - Alice in Chains Promise to Try - Madonna Sullen Girl - Fiona Apple Wipers - D-7 A Short Term Effect - The Cure Changes - Black Sabbath Doll Parts - Hole Toy Soldiers - Martika The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever. I know it's not meant to be sad but I always found it really claustrophobic and beautiful at the same time, there are loads of other 60s songs that bring that out in me too like A Whiter Shade of Pale and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, they all sound like funeral elegies... |
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Another song that's also quite sad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjwnWU6OsaI Here Today by Paul McCartney But on reflection, I think Mother by John Lennon is very depressing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkOoZDK7Rz8 |
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Baby - Justin Bieber.
Everytime I hear it I die on the inside.
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Alabama Blues JB Lenoir Quote:
I never will go back to alabama, that is not the place for me (2x) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvilFSMVHTs
You know they killed my sister and my brother, And the whole world let them peoples go down there free |
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aqualung - strange and beautiful
coldplay - the scientist |
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A lot of Bright Eyes tracks are really depressing (I mean Bright Eyes the band!) - Waste Of Paint is probably one of the most depressing.
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The whole of the album Hospice by the antlers is incredibly sad seeing as it's about terminal illness. Brilliant album though
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Quote:
aqualung - strange and beautiful
coldplay - the scientist Possibility by Lykke Li is also really depressing. I like depressing songs, though
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Biko - Bloc Party Quote:
Was my love strong enough to bring you back from the dead From a Distant Shore - Willard Grant ConspiracyIf I could eat your cancer I would but I can’t So I keep writing these songs for you To steal you from your grey And we can dance in our front room again So toughen up Biko toughen up Biko toughen up I need you be strong for us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZw6G0vBxl4 Quote:
Tomorrow I’ll meet my maker
My body broken on the shore I’ll ask for my forgiveness and then for nothing more Every night you lay awake for now and ever more My breath will be the breeze you feel From a distant shore Give me hope give me light Let the dawn follow night I will stay awake until There is nothing left to see |
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Im sure there are more depressing songs but
The eternal by Joy Division - and The wrong child by REM are both DEPRESSING both are about disabled kids too apparantley ![]() I like joy division but that song just makes me feel weird ![]() so
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