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.