The drugs don't work - Verve
The Most Depressing Song Ever
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So Sad by George Harrison-recorded with him post-divorce and strugling with his faith and alcohol as well as a bout of laryngitis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrmIPKkQQYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrmIPKkQQYw
Surprised nobody's mentioned Radiohead yet:
No Surprises
Most of OK Computer is quite slitting wrist inducing.
No Surprises
Most of OK Computer is quite slitting wrist inducing.
Tonight, tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
Darkness Rising - Mercury Rev
Plus another vote for the Cash version of 'Hurt'
Darkness Rising - Mercury Rev
Plus another vote for the Cash version of 'Hurt'
Originally Posted by Agent Krycek:
“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”
“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”
Originally Posted by Cult of Z-List:
“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?”
“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?”
I love both of these songs but I've always thought The Drugs Don't Work, Everybody Hurts and Perfect Day are more depressing than them.
I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned 'All By Myself'. I shall include the Celine Dion version as I find that one particularly depressing:
http://youtu.be/naPgrhX6rIk
http://youtu.be/naPgrhX6rIk
Joni Mitchell - Magdalene Laundries. I almost cried when I heard it as it's about those awful Magdalene homes that used to exist in Ireland and around the world 
Originally Posted by d3nium:
“Level 42 - It's Over
Always gets me.”
“Level 42 - It's Over
Always gets me.”
Originally Posted by Rossall:
“Leaving Me Now is the one of theirs that gets me. I remember seeing them in concert in Liverpool and that song put me on a downer for the rest of the night.”
“Leaving Me Now is the one of theirs that gets me. I remember seeing them in concert in Liverpool and that song put me on a downer for the rest of the night.”
Yes to these songs. Beautiful songs but in the wrong frame of mind, they can tip a person over the edge.
Lots of mentions of Joy Division. Love Will Tear Us Apart is an incredibly sad song. It's brilliant but when you listen to the lyrics, you realise it's full of despair.
Most definitely I Know It's Over, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want and Asleep by The Smiths.
Nothing Lasts Forever by Echo and the Bunnymen
Out to Get You and Lullaby by James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiXTj0h0hU
Nothing Lasts Forever by Echo and the Bunnymen
Out to Get You and Lullaby by James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiXTj0h0hU
Originally Posted by My Sweet Life:
“I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned 'All By Myself'. I shall include the Celine Dion version as I find that one particularly depressing:
http://youtu.be/naPgrhX6rIk”
“I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned 'All By Myself'. I shall include the Celine Dion version as I find that one particularly depressing:
http://youtu.be/naPgrhX6rIk”
Original on BBC four now
Level 42 fans should listen to Lying Still. After reading this thread, I dug out my World Machine album and was reminded just how dark and depressing this song really is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH819sjG0Xs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH819sjG0Xs
Originally Posted by neel:
“Is gloomy sunday not the famous "hungarian suicide song" of urban myth fame.
So depressing so the myth goes that it was banned from the BBC for years incase it caused a lemming like mass march to the the white cliffs of dover to end it all.
It is a truly wonderfull, moving song though and the real story of its composer is far more tragic than the slightly cartoonish "suicide song" stories you can find on the net.”
“Is gloomy sunday not the famous "hungarian suicide song" of urban myth fame.
So depressing so the myth goes that it was banned from the BBC for years incase it caused a lemming like mass march to the the white cliffs of dover to end it all.
It is a truly wonderfull, moving song though and the real story of its composer is far more tragic than the slightly cartoonish "suicide song" stories you can find on the net.”
My cousin taught me Gloomy Sunday some little time before she died.
Originally Posted by neon tiger:
“Most definitely I Know It's Over, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want and Asleep by The Smiths.
Nothing Lasts Forever by Echo and the Bunnymen
Out to Get You and Lullaby by James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiXTj0h0hU”
“Most definitely I Know It's Over, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want and Asleep by The Smiths.
Nothing Lasts Forever by Echo and the Bunnymen
Out to Get You and Lullaby by James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkiXTj0h0hU”
Smiths, good choice,I would go for Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me and Girlfriend In A Coma by them,as well as Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks and Please Stay by The Cryin Shames. Funnily enough although they make me feel sad I love them
Me and a gun - Tori Amos. It's a powerful account of her own violent rape ordeal and doesn't make for happy listening.
Another track by Tori which never fails to make me cry is Playboy Mommy. A song about a miscarriage that happened to her.
Another track by Tori which never fails to make me cry is Playboy Mommy. A song about a miscarriage that happened to her.
Of the songs you've mentioned so far I agree most with Bright Eyes, Whiter Shade of Pale, Everybody Hurts and All By Myself.
I think Coldplay's Yellow is a happy summer song! I like Leaving Me Now (a good song that Christmas) too.
I have not checked the songs with a youtube link where the title is absent.
I have done my least favourite songs from the 80s in another thread. However, perhaps the most depressing songs from the 60s and 70s are Bobby Gentry's I'll Never Fall in Love Again and Chicago's If You Leave Me Now respectively.
I think Coldplay's Yellow is a happy summer song! I like Leaving Me Now (a good song that Christmas) too.
I have not checked the songs with a youtube link where the title is absent.
I have done my least favourite songs from the 80s in another thread. However, perhaps the most depressing songs from the 60s and 70s are Bobby Gentry's I'll Never Fall in Love Again and Chicago's If You Leave Me Now respectively.
Originally Posted by Makson:
“The drugs don't work - Verve”
“The drugs don't work - Verve”
I totally agree.I HATE that song so much.
If you are borderline suicidal,this song would definitely tip you over the edge.Horrible,nasty,depressing,loathsome song. If I as much hear the intro,I switch off the radio.If I could go back in time,I would like to stop this song ever being written. That's how much I despise the song.
Evanescence - My Immortal
The bits in bold especially go right through me.
Quote:
“I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
[Chorus]
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
[Chorus] ”
“I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
[Chorus]
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
[Chorus] ”
The bits in bold especially go right through me.
John Lennon 'Nobody Loves You When You're Down And Out'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjGcJc7lPYA
I used to hate this song, I felt so miserable listening to it. It sounds so long, exhausted and defeated, almost like a funeral dirge.
But now I've accepted the misery and love it.
There's also Lykke Li 'Possibility'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSApYvnTUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjGcJc7lPYA
I used to hate this song, I felt so miserable listening to it. It sounds so long, exhausted and defeated, almost like a funeral dirge.
But now I've accepted the misery and love it.
There's also Lykke Li 'Possibility'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SSApYvnTUQ
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