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Old 10-05-2011, 08:32
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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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Old 10-05-2011, 08:58
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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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Old 10-05-2011, 09:24
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The song airplanes in the night sky is the most depressing song i have ever heard.
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Old 10-05-2011, 10:48
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You want depressing? I present you this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_03WVKArFI

Warning, it is utterly heartbreaking
Interesting, never heard that before, it reminded me of the story of HMS Birkenhead - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bir...9#Final_voyage
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Old 10-05-2011, 11:05
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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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Old 10-05-2011, 16:00
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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!
ooohhhh... you are on dodgy ground there dissing the delightful, dulcet tones of karen...
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Old 10-05-2011, 22:35
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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!
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.
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Old 10-05-2011, 23:07
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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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Old 10-05-2011, 23:28
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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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Old 10-05-2011, 23:38
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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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Old 10-05-2011, 23:46
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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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Old 11-05-2011, 00:31
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Elton John's Your Song makes me sad.
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Old 11-05-2011, 10:32
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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.
Further to this. I really like the Beach Boys, they are one of my favourite groups. The only reason I find Caroline No depressing is that I watched a documentary where Brian Wilson explained what was happening when he wrote this song and for ever after, when I hear it, it reminds me of the pain he was going through.

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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Old 11-05-2011, 15:17
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Poison Girls - Cry No More

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwbC0AbjrLg

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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Old 11-05-2011, 19:08
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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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Old 11-05-2011, 20:51
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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
could the song in question, be "Stan" by any chance?

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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Old 20-01-2012, 23:50
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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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Old 21-01-2012, 00:23
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Old 21-01-2012, 00:34
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The song airplanes in the night sky is the most depressing song i have ever heard.
Really? That's one of my favourite songs, but whether it makes me happy or sad depends on what mood I'm in really. I can find it uplifting sometimes and depressing other times.

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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Old 21-01-2012, 00:36
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I LOVE depressing music! lol
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Old 21-01-2012, 00:44
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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
It's the same with me really. When we discuss/listen to music together, we usually end up joking around about it or whatever, but when I go and listen to some of the songs later on, it's like, really not that funny.

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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Old 21-01-2012, 01:16
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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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Old 21-01-2012, 02:00
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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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Old 21-01-2012, 11:19
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Tindersticks - No More Affairs
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Old 21-01-2012, 12:34
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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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