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

Oh and

Tool - Wings for Marie
Tool - 10,000 Days (wings Part 2)
Tool - Sober
Tool - Stinkfist

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.

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"...

Pretty much anything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Black Heart Procession.

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.

The Smiths "How soon is now"

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.

"Flight of the Invisible Siamese Three-Year-Olds" by the Deadfly Ensemble is pretty depressing or perhaps hauntingly beautiful.

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

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..."

Well yea, but Mr. Blue's voice was rather downing in its own right anyway.

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.

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.

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.

Also Anathema and some Type O NEgative, but when it comes to Type O Negative, sometimes they are too cheesy to be "hauntingly beautiful".

katatonia - gone

"I Won't Ever Be Happy Again" - Bright Eyes

I agree with you, Godslayer Jillian, "Hello" is pretty depressing.

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.

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.

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.

"The Burning Red" also has a really 'depressing' sound to it.

Envy songs, Joy Division - The Eternal.

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...

I find The Herd's "I Was Only 19" especially haunting.

Didn't we already have a thread on this?

"Delilah"--Dresden Dolls
"Treasure"--The Cure

"Free and Green" by David Kincaid
"Lowlands of Holland" by Natalie Merchant and the Chieftains
"Penelope's Song" and "The Highwayman"- Loreena McKennitt
"Downeaster 'Alexa'"- Billy Joel
"Travelin' Soldier"- the Dixie Chicks
"This Year's Love"- David Gray
"Candy"- Iggy Pop and Kate Pierson
"Superman's Song"- Crash test Dummies (OK, it's depressing to me)
"Hide Your Love Away" and "Imagine"- John Lennon
"I am going to the West"- Connie Dover
"Love Song for a Vampire"- Annie Lennox
"Kathelen"- John Bartley


Green Fields of France
Grace

Strangely enough that song has alot of happy memories for me.

Dimmu Borgir- Heavenly perverse is another song that makes me sad...

Well, MCR does suck so bad that it's depressing.

(I'm assuming you're using the incorrect emo label, so..)

I forgot to add - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "The Ship Song". I don't know why; it's a general mood thing. It's a beautiful song.

The most depressing song for me is When it all falls apart from the veronicas, I get deadly quiet everytime I hear it (nice way to shut me up) but the song has it's own long whiney story for me I won't bother you with. Then I think Cup of coffe from garbage is a bit depressing.

"Desperate Times"- Killswitch Engage.

It's depressing and romantic at the same time. (At least I think so.)

For my fallen angel - My dying bride. Just the band name is depressing, I like them though.

Sacrifice- Lisa gerrad

I am stretched on your grave - Dead can dance ( originally King and O' Donnovan ) " For with you in the cold grave I cannot sleepwalk... " Brendan Perry seriously masters this song, His voice is perfect for it.

Sad theme for a marriage- Lacrimas Profundere.

Did you hear Concrete Blonde's cover? It's.. very different

As in the first, second or (I guess you have to call it that..) third wave?

Whatever wave, I'll post some, just in spite ;).

Seven from Sunny Day Real Estate's debute album "Diary" is quite depressing in the sense (Don't shoot me, this is before they went mainstream with the much more pop-like albums that followed this release). Second wave of "emo" (the Indie Rock period).
Texas Is The Reason - Back And To The Left is also a winner.
Hmm... Moss Icon from the "first wave" also got some deep/depresing songs.

Ah, definately MDB, most of the Doom-death, Funeral-doom and the artists inbetween incorporate a more gloomy sound into their music.

i think that the most depressing song, is me screaming loudly at the pleasure I get while getting boned by 3 guys.... pretty depressing. no wonder i turned to the goth lifestyle...

"Gloomy Sunday", originally written by Rezso Seress of Hungary, and performed by many artists over the years, probably most famously by Billie Holiday.

I have Sarah McLachlan's performance of it on my mp3 player. It's pretty damned depressing.

"...Only Sleep" and "Go Away" are both VERY depressing songs by the Cruxshadows. The first is about someone who has died, and the one left behind is pretending that she is only sleeping; and the second is about someone sending her lover away because she doesn't love him anymore.

Rogue can sound very mournful when he wants to.

It's official. Troll or not- I hate you. Even Bloopie has more charming responses than you.

I agree. All the charm and class of dog excrement on the sidewalk, as is true with most Trolls.

It's pop, but I just heard Pink's "Dear Mister President". I love that little scamp- and it's a solid song, simply put but it is a perspective that some people do not see.

She should tour with teh Dixie Chicks. I'd pay to see that.

I am thinking of : Evereve - Autumn Leaves

Diary of Dreams - The Valley

Diary of Dreams - The Valley

Deep down in this river
I'm sure I'd be free
I know i would shiver
and surely could not see a thing
but maybe all that matters not
I might even remember what i forgot
the reason of it
and of it all
the rise and yes for sure
also the fall
Let go of me my friend
You do not understand
This pain I'm going through
Its only because, because of you.

So dark is my light
My demons were so right to leave me here
So painful my fight
As every night when I lay down to sleep
I listen to my heart
expecting it, to stop it's beating
But every moment on wakes up the sadness in me once again
You see now how it ends
I lay it in your hands
Take care of it my friend
In case you, understand

So dark is my light
My demons were so right to leave me here
So painful my fight
As every night when I lay down to sleep
I listen to my heart
expecting it, to stop it's beating
But every moment on wakes up the sadness in me once again.

...Typed it out myself as I couldn't get any of the links in google to open for me to copy and past.

Edit: By the way is there a certain number of posts required for a user to have a signature?

One hundred years- The Cure
It starts with:

" It doesnt matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
going home time
a story on the radio....
something small falls out of your mouth
and we laugh!
a prayer for something better
a prayer
for something better"

Of all the Radiohead songs, it'd have to be Street Spirit (Fade Out) as the most depressing....

The most depressing song I've ever listened to is gotta be " My Immortal By EvaneScence " and " Breath No More by EvaneScence 2 " ..

Legions by Antimatter.
Stony and grey is the whore
And long are the days in the morgue
Where God is a wall
Where God is a wall to look upon

Legions and hordes
The seas have been torn
And buildings remain where they fall
And I solemnly walk
Through legions and hordes
A dark mass of infidel

Long is the howl at the end
A cry from the tail echoing
And fools reverberate
And fools reverberate and carry on...

Legions and hordes
The seas have been torn
And buildings remain where they fall
And I solemnly walk
Through legions and hordes

What have they done to themselves?
Look what they've done to themselves.

What have they done to themselves?
Look what they've done to themselves.

If you don't learn to leave this thing alone
You'll never get to see the sun again
You won't come out on top
The seed is sown

If you don't learn to leave this thing alone
You'll never get to see the sun again
You won't come out on top
The seed is sown, the seed is sown...

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Most of their songs are very depressing.

I also found this piece of work

Mr White - Antimatter
I'm supposed to talk to you
don't even know where to start
don't want to stand with the setting sun
Tell me does it really show?

I'll promise you anything
Place your hand over your heart
don't want to fool myself anymore
Think nobody else will ever know

Mr. White up all night
Hiding in my room
Mr. White so uptight
Black shapes of doom

Could never show you how I feel
Even so I didn't care
it's only that inside
I'm so tired
So tired of being all alone

Now the hours are breathing
Gone like tears in yesterday's rain
I remember voices telling me
Secrets of mind-changing reality

Mr. White up all night
Hiding in my room
Mr. White so uptight
Black shapes of doom

Mr. White up all night
Always likes to sing
Mr. White so uptight
Even knows my name

"Old Hat" by Frank the Baptist makes me feel sadly nostalgic, but at the same time hopeful for the future.

Susan Enan-Bring on the wonder
Billy Talent-nothing to lose
Rob Doughan-furious angel
My dying bride-roads(im not sure is this their original song)
Gary jules-mad world
....