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04-15-2007, 02:22 AM
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Most "Depressing" songs
What do you think are some of the most depressing songs? by depressing I mean the softer really melancholy stuff that usually contains the most depth both lyrically and vocally. oh and I looked through the past 7 pages of this board and couldn't find a thread like this one... surprisingly. I'll start.
Tool - H
Silverchair - Emotion Sickness
Sentenced - Killing Me Killing You
Sentenced - Bleed In My Arms
Radiohead - Creep
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Paradise Lost - Don't Belong
Paradise Lost - Forever Failure
NIN - Right Where It Belongs
NIN - Hurt
NIN - The Fragile
NIN - Even Deeper
NIN - In This Twilight
NIN - Eraser
Muse - Apocalypse Please
Muse - Sunburn
Muse - Muscle Museam
Muse - Blackout
Muse - Sing For Absolution
The Mars Volta - The Widow
The Mars Volta - Eriatarka
Manson - Coma White
Manson - Coma Black
Manson - Man That You Fear
Manson - Spade
Manson - A Place in The Dirt
Manson - Fundamentally Loathsome
Manson - The Speed of Pain
Korn - Trash
Emilie Autumn - La Folia
The Cruxshadows - Marilyn My Bitterness
The Cruxshadows - Here Comes The Rain Again
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Anathema - One Last Goodbye
Anathema - Forgotten Hope
The 69 Eyes - Ghost
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04-15-2007, 02:23 AM
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Oh and
Tool - Wings for Marie
Tool - 10,000 Days (wings Part 2)
Tool - Sober
Tool - Stinkfist
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04-15-2007, 02:37 AM
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I have never heard a depressing CXS song. Ever. Maybe Helen comes a little close, but even that song was more hopeful than sad.
Brand New Love by Deadsy is rather depressing.
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04-15-2007, 04:40 AM
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Pink Floyd - Goodbye, Cruel World
Sarah McLaughlan - Angels
Elvis Presley - Don't Cry Daddy (it makes me want to cry, at least)
quite a lot of shoegaze and dream pop
Uh - I usually prefer "hauntingly beautiful" to "depressive"...
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04-15-2007, 06:25 AM
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Pretty much anything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Black Heart Procession.
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04-15-2007, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by KontanKarite
Brand New Love by Deadsy is rather depressing.
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Thats actually a cover. I forget who it's originally by though. I'd say Flowing Glower is more depressing than Brand New Love.
Also alot of Clan of Xymox is damn depressing.
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04-15-2007, 10:58 AM
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The Smiths "How soon is now"
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04-15-2007, 12:07 PM
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Bauhaus' 'crowds' (if you look deep into the themes of the song) the Cure's "depressive" era *(I agree with Minyaliel, hauntingly beautiful songs better than depressing, a medical word)Other than that, I can't think of any major ones.
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04-15-2007, 12:14 PM
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"Flight of the Invisible Siamese Three-Year-Olds" by the Deadfly Ensemble is pretty depressing or perhaps hauntingly beautiful.
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04-15-2007, 12:20 PM
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Yeah Hauntingly Beautiful sounds a lot better, but I couldn't think of anything other than "depressing" when I started this thread, it didn't feel right, hence the "" marks in the title
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04-15-2007, 12:21 PM
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Again with a Lanthier related song, "Mr. Quilts Rotten Luck" by Cinema Strange. Not for how it sounds but for the lyrics:
"On a crooked, cobblestoned and ancient road I briskly strode when two men wearing bowler hats, curled moustaches, all in black, on a tandem bicycle went this way, that way till they fell beneath a coach-and-four.
When I was just six I was rather curious regarding paternity. Just who could my father be? I think he was skeletal. I think he knew mother, well, controversially.
Then some time much later on, during breakfast Aunt Yvonne choked upon a bacon rind. She sang backwards, nearly died. Then there was my friend from school whose dog turned rabid, mad and cruel, and ate his master up.
I would need more fingers than are given upon either hand to count up all the sea-choked screams, calcined whispers, rendered seams, pudgy-pretzled baby limbs, punctured lungs and altered hymns I’ve seen and heard today..."
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04-15-2007, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Haunted House
Thats actually a cover. I forget who it's originally by though. I'd say Flowing Glower is more depressing than Brand New Love.
Also alot of Clan of Xymox is damn depressing.
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Well yea, but Mr. Blue's voice was rather downing in its own right anyway.
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04-15-2007, 01:37 PM
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I have never heard a depressing CXS song.
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Try the song Even Angels Fall. It gets to me. Not as in I cry, but it's the saddest one of them to me.
For the most depressing songs, I have to look beyond gothic bands.
The most depressing song I have heard is Hello, by Lionel Richie. There You'll Be by Faith Hill is also a personal favorite of mine.
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04-15-2007, 02:14 PM
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The Way by Fastball.
I didn't really pay much attention to it back when it came out because I was all "pah, top 40 crap" but I finally caved in to it. It just dawned on me as I listened to the lyrics that it sounded pretty tragic, so I looked around on the net for the meaning... the song indeed has a very sad background.
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04-16-2007, 11:08 AM
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I have never heard a depressing CXS song. Ever. Maybe Helen comes a little close, but even that song was more hopeful than sad.
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When it comes to the Cruxshadows, the two songs I listed, MArilyn My Bitterness and Here Comes the Rain Again, don't *sound* depressing but I find the lyrics rather depressing, maybe it's just me.
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04-16-2007, 11:11 AM
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Also Anathema and some Type O NEgative, but when it comes to Type O Negative, sometimes they are too cheesy to be "hauntingly beautiful".
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04-20-2007, 11:36 AM
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katatonia - gone
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04-22-2007, 08:07 PM
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"I Won't Ever Be Happy Again" - Bright Eyes
I agree with you, Godslayer Jillian, "Hello" is pretty depressing.
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04-22-2007, 10:11 PM
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These songs, although quite beautiful, always turned me into a great big crybaby:
NIN - "Something I Can Never Have"
Cure - "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea"
Cure – “Just Like Heaven”
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Are You the One (That I've Been Waiting For)?"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Into My Arms"
Portishead - "It's a Fire"
Chris Isaak - "Forever Blue"
Chris Isaak – “Wicked Game”
Kristin Hersh - "Your Ghost"
Tori Amos - "Baker Baker"
Babes in Toyland - "Quiet Room"
Graeme Revell - "Return to the Grave"
Mazzy Star – “All Your Sisters”
Mazzy Star – “Fade Into You”
Yes, there are more...many, many more, but I'll save the rest of them for a sunny day.
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04-22-2007, 10:33 PM
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The Cure- Mint Car
Bleeding Through - What I Bleed Without You
Incubus- Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Machine Head- Days Turn Blue To Grey
36 Crazyfists - With Nothing Underneath
Ill Nino- What Comes Around
And when things with me and Ferret go wrong, i cant bring myself to listen to Tool- Stinkfist or Children of Bodom- Bodom After Midnight.
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04-22-2007, 10:44 PM
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Ugh. Not a lot of songs have that effect on me, but one does come to mind - Dilaudid (Postponed), by Velvet Acid Christ. It is... quite melancholy.
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04-22-2007, 11:02 PM
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Machine Head- Days Turn Blue To Grey
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"The Burning Red" also has a really 'depressing' sound to it.
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04-23-2007, 12:00 AM
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Envy songs, Joy Division - The Eternal.
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04-23-2007, 01:50 AM
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Billy Joel - You May Be Right
Iggy Pop - Cry For Love
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Voltaire - Hello Cruel World
Muse - unintended
Mudvayne - A world So Cold
KoRn - Tear Jerker
Dimmu Borgir - Perfection or Vanity
Cradle of filth - Nyphetamine Fix
I'm so glad that no one has mentioned any damn emo bands...
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04-23-2007, 02:29 AM
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I find The Herd's "I Was Only 19" especially haunting.
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