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R.E.M - Everybody hurts
Toni Braxton - Unbreak my heart Annie Lennox - No more I love you's Adele - Someone like you |
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Surely it's got to be that thing by Eminem - the one where he drives his pregnant girlfriend off the bridge
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The song airplanes in the night sky is the most depressing song i have ever heard.
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You want depressing? I present you this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_03WVKArFI Warning, it is utterly heartbreaking ![]() ![]() |
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Nobody's Child (lots of people have made this, it's so pathetic),
Leader of the Pack by the Shangralas, Terry by Twinkle, Ebony Eyes by the Everly Bros, Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valence, Caroline No by the Beach Boys. All By Myself (lots of people have done this one too), Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks, Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt, Another Suitcase, Another Hall by Barbara Dixon, Most songs by the Carpenters as Karen Carpenter had such a miserable sounding voice. Just thinking about them makes me feel miserable! |
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Nobody's Child (lots of people have made this, it's so pathetic),
Leader of the Pack by the Shangralas, Terry by Twinkle, Ebony Eyes by the Everly Bros, Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valence, Caroline No by the Beach Boys. All By Myself (lots of people have done this one too), Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks, Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt, Another Suitcase, Another Hall by Barbara Dixon, Most songs by the Carpenters as Karen Carpenter had such a miserable sounding voice. Just thinking about them makes me feel miserable! |
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Nobody's Child (lots of people have made this, it's so pathetic),
Leader of the Pack by the Shangralas, Terry by Twinkle, Ebony Eyes by the Everly Bros, Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valence, Caroline No by the Beach Boys. All By Myself (lots of people have done this one too), Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks, Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt, Another Suitcase, Another Hall by Barbara Dixon, Most songs by the Carpenters as Karen Carpenter had such a miserable sounding voice. Just thinking about them makes me feel miserable! |
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Having skimmed through the thread, songs not mentioned:
Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog (I bet Brad Pitt wishes he'd never introduced Heath Ledger to Nick's wonderful, dark music) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzkknCfvlEo Kate Bush - A Coral Room (written about the death of her mother) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnGsLDIhOSc Spiritualized - Stop your Crying http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMqSKJYMZww This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM But the most depressing song IMHO: Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice (Finished recording this eerie nervy sounding track (that is far far better than any of the saccharine tracks on Double Fantasy) influenced by Talking Heads & Grace Jones with some very disturbing lyrics on Dec 8th, 1980, immediately after leaving the studio to go to their home, John Lennon was shot dead) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft7-xEiwvJw |
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Codeine - D
The Cure - most of their back catalogue, but I'll pick A Hundred Years because any song which starts "It doesn't matter if we all die" is going to be pretty bleak. The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want The Wedding Present - No Christmas Joy Division - Atmosphere Manic Street Preachers - Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky Ultravox - Your Name Has Slipped My Mind Again This Mortal Coil - I Come and Stand At Every Door Elvis Costello - I Want You The God Machine - The Blind Man Sigur Ros - Untitled Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat The Low Lows - The Russian Ending Pink Floyd - The Gunner's Dream Radiohead - Lucky Sophia - I Left You Tindersticks - My Sister That'll do for starters |
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The winner is clearly Johnny Cash's version of Hurt which is soul-wrenching but I'll add this to the list.
To Forgive by Smashing Pumpkins. Personally I find 99% of the music in the charts in the last 5 years thoroughly depressing.
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Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
A Coral Room by Kate Bush Bulimic Beats by Catatonia My Immortal by Evanesence (sp?) Someone Like You by Adele |
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Elton John's Your Song makes me sad.
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Different strokes for different folks it would seem. I must like what some people consider to be depressing songs. I really like the songs on your list that I've highlighted, and I absolutely love "Caroline No", which is not only my favourite ever song by the Beach Boys it's also in my Top Ten favourite songs of all time by any artist.
As to the others, it is the words of the songs rather than the sound of them that I find depressing. With Another Suitcase, Another Hall, I love all the music from Evita, it is just what the subject matter is. I used to like Terry by Twinkle but it's again the words that are so sad. Ebony Eyes is very sad when you listen to the words, although in general I like the Everly Bros songs. |
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Poison Girls - Cry No More http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwbC0AbjrLg Quote:
I’m tired of crying for the underprivileged
For the blacks, the women, for even black women For the starving children, for the Irish, I’m tired of crying For the unemployed, the one eyed Jews, I’m tired of crying For refugees, for amputees, I’m tired of crying For the pain of the third world, the poor unfortunates Of Hiroshima, Bikini, I’m tired of crying America, America, I’m tired of crying for America. I’m tired of crying for collecting boxes, for noble causes, for victims, more victims Victims of violence and protection, victims of privilege, more violence, more victims For teachers’ lies, for poisoned milk, I’m tired of crying, it changes nothing For the abuse of sex, the endless rape, the decay, the decaying, I’m tired of crying For the broken broken broken hopes, the broken hearts and promises For the broken backs and the broken dreams, I’m tired of crying It’s a savage world, a savage world, and I just want to cry for me |
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A number of songs by Kate Bush.
Moments of Pleasure - "Just being alive, it can really hurt..." And So Is Love - "We used to say, 'Oh hell, we're young', but now we know that life is sad, and so is love..." I feel myself on a downward spiral when I hear these songs. |
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Surely it's got to be that thing by Eminem - the one where he drives his pregnant girlfriend off the bridge
![]() my choices would be: "You are so beautiful" (the song plays out like it is a tribute to a deceased partner and i just see it as being ironic) "One Day In Your Life" by Michael Jackson ("i don't need you now, you will stay in my heart and when things fall apart, you'll remember one day". scary stuff!) "Love" by John Lennon "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)" and "A few words in defense of my country" by Randy Newman |
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Sorry to dig up an old thread but I was looking for inspiration for my err 'depressing 'playlist
. I suddenly remembered an song we used to listen to obsessively at uni ,can't remember but we may have actually laughed at it .Listening to it again ,a good 5 years later it's pretty depressing!Brenda's got a baby - 2pac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUs0KtB-I&ob=av3e |
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The song airplanes in the night sky is the most depressing song i have ever heard.
The Part II of it is probably more depressing than the original. The instrumental is based around a little piano melody rather than guitar and it has two new verses from B.o.B and also a verse from Eminem, and they get more personal, like discussing what their lives could've been like if they had failed at becoming rappers. But even that version isn't that depressing in my opinion. |
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I LOVE depressing music! lol
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Sorry to dig up an old thread but I was looking for inspiration for my err 'depressing 'playlist
. I suddenly remembered an song we used to listen to obsessively at uni ,can't remember but we may have actually laughed at it .Listening to it again ,a good 5 years later it's pretty depressing!Brenda's got a baby - 2pac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUs0KtB-I&ob=av3e That 2pac song is grim. The main thing with songs like those is often that the lyrics can be really depressing, but then the beat/instrumental isn't that sad, so it doesn't seem as depressing as it should really be. At least that's how it is to me. |
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I admit I love depressing songs as well
![]() Imo I find this really depressing though love it Roger Whittaker - Durham Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9XcuN5hZwk |
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Too many to mention but I'll just name a few off the top of my head that I don't think have been said already:
Tori Amos - Me and a Gun Richard and Linda Thompson - The End of the Rainbow Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms. |
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Tindersticks - No More Affairs
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I do like a bit of depression sometimes, and it can help if you understand what the song is about.
Eels - Climbing Up To The Moon A song about the singers sister commiting suicide while in a mental hospital. Most of the Electro-Shock Blues album is pretty depressing to be honest as it deals with suicide and the singers mother who was dying with cancer at the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcMjOMfnnlE Drugstore - My Favourite Sinner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEzY-GHwcSs |
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