I do this from time to time, cause i love to see what people put. If you list a song, please put the band or singer next to it. lets see what we get.

11/10/2006 10:22:24 PM

Mad World by Tears for Fears (or Gary Jules, I suppose)

/thread

11/10/2006 10:26:15 PM

i have no idea who it is or what the song title is but theres a song about a guy going to war and then a bullet finds him and he dies.

I think its about johnny or something. I heard it when I was 10 and it made me sad.

11/10/2006 10:26:55 PM

keep going folks, this isnt a contest for most depressing its a list of ALL depressing songs. i want a good list. i will name mine when im done figuring out what goes in it

11/10/2006 10:28:46 PM

"Custom Concern" by Modest Mouse and "They Tell Me" by Cat Power are some wristcuttin' good songs.

11/10/2006 10:35:33 PM

stan

11/10/2006 10:36:32 PM

good keep going

11/10/2006 10:41:04 PM

Anything off of I See a Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy.

That got mentioned in the country thread.

11/10/2006 10:46:19 PM

Peter Hammill - This Side Of The Looking Glass
Peter Gabriel - I Grieve

11/10/2006 11:19:04 PM

Come Sweet Death - Neon Genesis Evangelion soundtrack

11/10/2006 11:37:26 PM

Piano Man is pretty damn melancholy

11/11/2006 1:04:21 AM

^not so much as Goodnight, Saigon, also by Billy Joel

11/11/2006 1:08:19 AM

Ben Folds Five - Evaporated

11/11/2006 1:27:14 AM

Isolation - Joy Division

11/11/2006 1:28:51 AM

^^or Brick

11/11/2006 1:29:20 AM

All these replies and no Elliott Smith songs mentioned? I'm ashamed of you people.

Elliott Smith - Say Yes
Jude - I Do [aka one of the saddest songs in the universe]
Ben Folds Five - Mess
Ben Folds - Prison Food
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Born Secular
Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said
Ari Hest - Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
Travis Morrison - People Die

I have more, but I'm lazy.

11/11/2006 2:09:20 AM

Hurt- NIN

11/11/2006 2:10:18 AM

^^ Well, "Needle in the Hay" is depressing as shit, but that's more to do with The Royal Tenenbaums than the song itself.

11/11/2006 2:13:10 AM

^^^i've never thought of born secular as a depressing song. it's a great-ass song, but depressing? i don't know.

11/11/2006 2:42:04 AM

driving with the brakes on - del amitri

the mark kano / mike garrigan acoustic version just played

count me out - wes mcdonough
let me go - tonic (had an old girlfriend use this to break up with me)
rest stop - matchbox20
my heart - k's choice
cannonball - damien rice
the boy who blocked his own shot - brand new

meh
they may not be all that depressing but they all have memories attached to them for me

11/11/2006 3:10:06 AM

"colorblind" by counting crows deserves mention.

I absolutely love radiohead, and there are way too many songs to name that are depressing yet so fucking good.

"sullen girl" fiona apple

11/11/2006 3:18:33 AM

i love me some depressing songs.

radiohead - fake plastic trees
bright eyes - the center of the world
the arcade fire - cars and telephones
brand new - play crack the sky
jets to brazil - sea anemone
okkervil river - black sheep boy (the whole album)

xiu xiu also has a ton of depressing shit, but the standouts (in my opinion) are all from the album knife play: hives hives, i broke up, and especially tonite and today (what chu talkin bout)

11/11/2006 4:17:36 AM

Saosin cover of Pinback's "Penelope"...mostly for the sound of it

11/11/2006 5:05:57 AM

Pearl Jam's "Black" and "indifference"

11/11/2006 2:17:18 PM

Whiskeytown - "Strangers Almanac"

the whole album

and every elliot smith record

11/11/2006 2:25:10 PM

"john wayne gacy jr." ~ sufjan stevens

11/11/2006 2:26:02 PM

How to disappear completely, Radiohead

11/11/2006 2:39:30 PM

almost anything off of NIN's the downward spiral
vague by orgy

11/11/2006 2:42:34 PM

Creep by Radiohead

11/11/2006 5:12:52 PM

annie lennox's "why" always got me teary eyed

11/11/2006 5:16:29 PM

NIN - something i can never have

11/11/2006 7:17:40 PM

The Format - Tie the Rope



First one that came to mind, I'll think of more later.

11/11/2006 8:43:47 PM

good, give me more

11/11/2006 11:03:30 PM

most of the tracks from dirt

11/12/2006 12:18:29 AM

Mrs. Sullivan by Caroline's Spine - about the 5 brothers who died on when they were serving on the same ship that was sunk in WWII...kind of lame, but it gets to me having lost half a dozen friends in the war

11/12/2006 12:26:07 AM

Long Winters - Commander Thinks Aloud
Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintigrate
Sigur Ros - Vaka (find a live version for superdepressing)
GYBE! - Moya
Modest Mouse - Baby Blue Sedan

11/12/2006 9:21:55 AM

"nutshell" alice in chains

1/2/2007 11:00:06 PM

I can't believe nobody's mentioned Fade to Black by Metallica.

#1 in my book.

Also depressing is "How's it Gonna Be" by Third Eye Blind

1/2/2007 11:04:15 PM

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

1/2/2007 11:05:32 PM

"The Long Black Veil"

1/2/2007 11:06:30 PM

Quote :

"Anything off of I See a Darkness by Bonnie Prince Billy."

oh man

that is whiskey and loaded gun on the table music

1/2/2007 11:06:53 PM

Adam's Song - Blink182

yeah, it's Blink, but some guy committed suicide after listening to it for like 5 hours straight a few years ago, seriously

1/2/2007 11:07:48 PM

I might kill myself if I listened to Nickelback for five hours straight.

That doesn't mean Nickelback is depressing.

1/2/2007 11:09:49 PM

I admire your intelligence.

1/2/2007 11:14:30 PM

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Bob Dylan - Most of the Time
most any song by Doveman

1/2/2007 11:22:43 PM

I keep thinking of songs to mention here and realize I already posted them two months ago

1/2/2007 11:35:41 PM

Quote :

"Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve"

I don't think of that song as depressing at all. In fact I find it great at relieving stress and relaxing, the way the strings are going.

1/2/2007 11:40:26 PM

noir desir & manu chao - le vent nous portera

1/2/2007 11:44:54 PM

Hurt- Johnny Cash
Mad World- Gary Jules
The Dance- Garth Brooks

1/2/2007 11:55:49 PM

just go listen to mineral's end serenading album

or the gloria record miserere (sp)

or ihatemyself - less than nothing

Quote :

"60 watts, brighter than my future, an empty forty, fuller than my life, there must be more, sometimes i don't think so, maybe i'm right. maybe there's no such thing as a brighter side A sultry night stare at moons from rooftops, A broken engine, poisoned never dry, I pour my heart out to a god that doesn't listen, You said you'd save me. You said you'd love me always but you lied. And i can't dry my eyes and there is nothing left inside, one day. the day. the day that i said i, my heart inside was cold so that you didn't know, so all and you, you won't love me at all, the leaves come down, there is no sound, and if i fall would you notice at all? the thought of me repulses me, but you'd say you took me anyway, i am so alone on a corroded city rooftop, i saw you walking, you didn't say anything, you always told me that you'd never stop loving me, but you stopped before you started and now all i have is lies. What am i gonna be? Who am i gonna be? afraid, repressed, And now that i feel lost, Well i wish that you had grown while i bleed all alone, the falling rain is what is left for me We?re gonna be what's left for me what is there to learn? there is less than nothing, i thought you'd be. be there for me you weren't there. you weren't anywhere. You lied right to my face you broke my fucking heart, One day, one day you tore my heart apart. And i have nothing, And i am nothing, i?m piss, i?m shit, i am less than nothing "

1/2/2007 11:59:04 PM