What's your favorite DEPRESSING song?

[The Arrow]

I'm the type of guy that when I'm feeling down, I make it worse by listening to depressive music. I know... it doesn't make sense.

These days my favorite depressive song is WEAPON by Matthew Good. Talk about bringing me to an all new low.

Check out the WEAPON lyrics here:
http://www.lyricstop.com/w/weapon-matthewgoodband.html

Now for the question: when life sucks and you just want to break down...what's your fav down and out song to bring you there?

[NumberMSO52]

I'm a connesuer(sp) of depressing music. Here are some of my favorites...

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
the Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Motorhead - 1916
Nine inch Nails - Hurt
Les Savy Fav - Je T'aime
Thursday - Autobiography of a Nation

[paul calf]

this is how it feels-the inspiral carpets
the end-the doors
creep-radiohead
mad world -tears for fears

[bowieee]

Dress Rehearsal rag: Leanord Cohen
5 years: Bowie
Ashes to Ashes: Bowie
The band played Waltzing Matilda: The Pogues
The complete eelctroshock blues album by the eels
The complete Berlin album by: Lou Reed
Blue Valentine: Tom Waits
Sunday Morning coming down: Johnny Cash

[Psychocandy]

Jeez...i'm an authority on depressing music and, like Arrow, when i'm feeling a little bit down I tend to gravitate towards albums by some of the following masters of melancholy,

The Tindersticks - pretty much any of their albums qualify

The Jesus & Mary Chain - primarily their Darklands album

The Handsome Family - twisted, mournful country music

Beck - his recent Sea Change album is some of the finest heartbreak music i've ever heard

Radiohead - especially The Bends...their finest album to date

Joy Division - masterfully depressing music

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska, Tunnel Of Love, The Ghost Of Tom Joad especially are full of depressing songs but there are some splendid songs full of sadness and despair on pretty much all his albums

Gram Parsons - his GP and Grevious Angel albums are recent addition to my vast collection of sad music...the song $1000 Wedding is fucking heartbreaking

Ryan Adams - the title of his Heartbreaker album tells you everything you need to know about the kind of music it contains

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks is probably the best album ever written about what it's like to be stuck in a disintegrating relationship...it's Dylan's best album

Sparklehorse - an enormously underrated band who have written a plethora of sad songs

Eels - Electro Shock Blues is simply one of the most harrowing and beautiful collection of songs about coping with the grief of losing someone close to you i've ever heard...wonderful

The above are just a small selection. Most of my friends think that there's something mentally wrong with me as a result of my taste in music. Fuck 'em. :D

[BloodiedCelticVengeance]

Rather than a song, I'll submit one artist who has personified the "depressing" genre like none other: Morrissey.

The man takes it to a whole different level, and there are times his music seems like the only relevant thing to listen to.

I just purchased his DVD ~ Oy, Estaban ~ , and the images coupled with the lyrics are pure morose simpatico. The first two videos: Every Day Is Like Sunday , and Suedehead are masterpieces of depressing imagery.

His work with ~The Smiths~ is equally compelling.

I've never heard/seen anyone do it better.

[Morgana]

When I want to get depressed I listen to Alice in Chains, especially the Dirt album. Favorite depressing songs off of that:

Down in a Hole
Dirt
Them Bones
Rooster

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
Radiohead - especially The Bends...their finest album to date

Joy Division - masterfully depressing music

Gram Parsons - his GP and Grevious Angel albums are recent addition to my vast collection of sad music...the song $1000 Wedding is fucking heartbreaking

Some excellent suggestions there Psycho...I can't believe you actually mentioned Gram (he's currently in the "Song of the Week" thread if you want to go have a sneaky peak...;))

I'd also have to add...

The Smiths - Morrisey is the king when it comes to miserable music.
Scott Walker - Some of his stuff is so bloody stunning yet tragically poignant.
Lou Reed - Now "Berlin"...that is one depressing album.
Pulp - Just listen to songs such as "Little Girl (with blue eyes)"...sad sad stuff.

[BakeTheMooCow]

Elliot Smith - Needle In The Hay
Tori Amos - Me And A Gun
Coldplay - The Scientist
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras

and especially especially

The Cure - Pictures Of You
The Cure - Lullaby

********************

I hadn't heard a MGB song before but damn thats good. Thanks Arrow, I really like that song. I'm going to check out more from the group.

[Romero&Juliet]

the Smiths!! I've been on the BIGGEST Smiths kick lately.. Its gotten to the point where I have a freaking nervous breakdown every time I hear 'unlovable'..

honorable mentions.

Elevator bugs-The Gandharvas
From Four Till Late-Robert Johnson
~anything on Cohen's Songs From a Room..
The cure, any Blues, Joyyy Division (man, that'll do it!).

[bowieee]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
Jeez...i'm an authority on depressing music and, like Arrow, when i'm feeling a little bit down I tend to gravitate towards albums by some of the following masters of melancholy,

The Tindersticks - pretty much any of their albums qualify

The Jesus & Mary Chain - primarily their Darklands album

The Handsome Family - twisted, mournful country music

Beck - his recent Sea Change album is some of the finest heartbreak music i've ever heard

Radiohead - especially The Bends...their finest album to date

Joy Division - masterfully depressing music

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska, Tunnel Of Love, The Ghost Of Tom Joad especially are full of depressing songs but there are some splendid songs full of sadness and despair on pretty much all his albums

Gram Parsons - his GP and Grevious Angel albums are recent addition to my vast collection of sad music...the song $1000 Wedding is fucking heartbreaking

Ryan Adams - the title of his Heartbreaker album tells you everything you need to know about the kind of music it contains

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks is probably the best album ever written about what it's like to be stuck in a disintegrating relationship...it's Dylan's best album

Sparklehorse - an enormously underrated band who have written a plethora of sad songs

Eels - Electro Shock Blues is simply one of the most harrowing and beautiful collection of songs about coping with the grief of losing someone close to you i've ever heard...wonderful

The above are just a small selection. Most of my friends think that there's something mentally wrong with me as a result of my taste in music. Fuck 'em. :D

Nice calls psychocandy...

How could I forget the tindersticks Each album is an open invitation to depression? So Beautiful.

Bob Dylans Blood on The tracks is his masterpiece. The only album I own by the man.

Listening to that eels album has brought me to tears before. I mean he made a song out of his sisters suicide note. You don't get more depressing than that. Then throw in the songs about his mom fading away to cancer and you have a recipe for some of the saddest songs ever created.

[Psychocandy]

FUCK!!!!!!

How could I have failed to mention The Cure's Disintegration album. I'm fucking ashamed. It's their best album by far (and I like most of the rest of their albums). A masterpiece from start to finish. The song Disintegration is is one of the most intense i've ever heard. Every song is a masterpiece. Pure sadness and depair rendered as words and music. Can't believe I forgot it.

[BakeTheMooCow]

Originally posted by Psychocandy
FUCK!!!!!!

How could I have failed to mention The Cure's Disintegration album. I'm fucking ashamed. It's their best album by far (and I like most of the rest of their albums). A masterpiece from start to finish. The song Disintegration is is one of the most intense i've ever heard. Every song is a masterpiece. Pure sadness and depair rendered as words and music. Can't believe I forgot it.

YES!!!

That's what I've been saying for so long. I love you.

Its probably my favorite album of all time ~ particularly on a rainy day, its just bliss.

[BloodiedCelticVengeance]

Originally posted by bowieee
Bob Dylans Blood on The tracks is his masterpiece. The only album I own by the man.

Idiot Wind is a masterpiece, quite a jolting tune. I also wear out Lily, Rosemary and the Jack Of Hearts.

If you love Blood on the Tracks, then you must check out the album that followed it: Desire.

Some terrific cuts, and a very "down" mood permeates the entire disc. "Oh Sister" and "One More Cup of Coffee" resonate with sadness, and "Sara" is probably the truest (sad) love song I've ever heard.

[Psychocandy]

Originally posted by BloodiedCelticVengeance
Idiot Wind is a masterpiece, quite a jolting tune. I also wear out Lily, Rosemary and the Jack Of Hearts.

If you love Blood on the Tracks, then you must check out the album that followed it: Desire.

Some terrific cuts, and a very "down" mood permeates the entire disc. "Oh Sister" and "One More Cup of Coffee" resonate with sadness, and "Sara" is probably the truest (sad) love song I've ever heard.

Desire is my second favorite Bob Dylan album (closely followed by the Live At The Royal Albert Hall album). Isis is an rambling masterpiece while Sara is utterly devastating.

[CeMeTaRy_GaTeS]

Originally posted by Morgana
When I want to get depressed I listen to Alice in Chains, especially the Dirt album. Favorite depressing songs off of that:

Down in a Hole
Dirt
Them Bones
Rooster

Me too, I like all those songs, others I'd add are I stay Away and Over Now. Plus Nine Inch Nails is good for when depressed. Reptile, Burn, We're in this Together and Perfect Drug are my favorites of all the many depressing Nine Inch Nails songs.

[Mad Maggot]

almost everything by Silverchair

[paul calf]

how could i forget
girlfriend in a coma by the smiths
and sackville bythe inspiral carpets

[Grebdron]

Mad World was a great suggestion, as was The Cure.

But whenever I want to cry, I just have to listen to Cats in the Cradle. Every fucking time.

American Pie is right up there, too.

[Annie Hall]

Mad World-Gary Jules version

Don't Stand-The Police (I think it's a heartbreaking song...gotta listen to the lyrics)

Exit Music, How to Disappear Completely, Everything in its right Place and more-Radiohead

You Know You're Right-Nirvana

Name and Black Balloon-Goo Goo Dolls

Gloomy Sunday-Billie Holiday

Don't Leave the Light on Baby-Belle and Sebastian

Wish you were Here-Pink Floyd

Eleanor Rigby, Norweigan Wood, You've gotta hide your love away, and endless others- The Beatles

Sound of Silence- Simon and Garfunkel

Wise Up-Aimee Mann

Requiem for a Dream theme

Grace is Gone-Dave Matthews Band

One Headlight-The Wallflowers

Stephanie Says-The Velvet Underground

and most stuff by brilliant Elliot Smith.

...well...that's most of my favorite songs as well. See a trend? :)

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

At the moment when I think of my ex Ines I get depressed and listen to COLDPLAY "The Scientist"

[docholiday_13]

If you guys like Weapon by Matt Good, check out Apparitions and Strange Days by Matthew Good Band.

[MarieW]

I'd sometime like to listen to the 50's death songs. Tell Laura I love her and Teen Angel another depressing song I like is Seasons in the Sun.

[Strider]

I can only think of one... as of right now, my favorite "depressing" song is "In My Place" by Coldplay.

Strider

[The Arrow]

Originally posted by docholiday_13
If you guys like Weapon by Matt Good, check out Apparitions and Strange Days by Matthew Good Band.

Check on that! I've got all of MGB's albums and am impatiently waiting for Matthew Good's solo album to come out soon so I can get even more DEPRESSED! Man these guys rock!

[JustOneFix]

Good call on Matt Good everybody. The guy's an asshole but a talented one for sure. Apparitions was an athem for depression in MGB's heyday and now its live performance has gotten even more depressive because Good refuses to play it like a powermetal ballad. If you ask me, the old way is the way songs like that are meant to be played. Anyway, Canadian rock needs more cranky,witty, poignant, srtrikingly well-read, establishment-hating people like Mr Good.

Here's my fav depressing songs by Matt Good

Omissions of the omen
I miss new wave
The inescapable us
Symbolistic white walls
Prime time deliverance
So long Mrs Smith
Euphony
Suburbia

And here's more fav depressing songs by other artists
Disarm by Smashing pumpkins
Fascination street by The Cure
1963 by New Order
I could have lied by the Chilis

[heretic]

Originally posted by Mad Maggot
almost everything by Silverchair

Yay a silverchair fan!

anything by The Ataris, Something Corporate, RadioHead

coery tailor - Bother
Weezer - Butterfly

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by MarieW
another depressing song I like is Seasons in the Sun.

God, dammit!!:D I love that song. Good call, Marie.

Seasons in the Sun-Terry Jacks

Goodbye to you my trusted friend
We've known each other since we were nine or ten
Together we climbed hills and trees
Learned of love and A B C's
Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.

Goodbye my friend it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Think of me and I'll be there

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons
Out of time......

Goodbye Papa please pray for me
I was the black sheep of the family
You tried to teach me right from wrong
Too much wine and too much song
Wonder how I got along.

Goodbye Papa its hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
Little children everywhere
When you see them I'll be there.

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons
Have all gone.

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons
Have all gone.

Goodbye Michelle my little one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground.

Goodbye Michelle it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons
Have all gone

All our lives we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons
Out of time......

We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun

[Scarface King]

Everybody Hurts by REM is insanely sad. I wonder what they were thinking when they wrote it?:(

[docholiday_13]

Some good choices here. All of The Bends is depressing as hell (but still a kick ass album). Mad World is another good choice.

Ender by Finch is the most recent song to depress me (even though it positively rocks at the 3 minute point).

[Jess]

Originally posted by JustOneFix

Here's my fav depressing songs by Matt Good

Omissions of the omen
I miss new wave
The inescapable us
Symbolistic white walls
Prime time deliverance
So long Mrs Smith
Euphony
Suburbia
Matt Good has a thing for depressing songs because Prime Time Deliverance is the very best in the Matt Good depressing songs category. Seriously...just thinking about that damn song and the part about the girl in the pink bunny suit, hanging from the closet door. My fav part in that song is the "...headlights, morning glow..." part, though. Actually, the whole damn song's good so scrap everything I just said.

Change (In the House of Flies) by The Deftones is also really depressing, along side of One by Filter; If You Go Away by Emiliana Torrini; Living Without You by Harry Neilson; Between Angels and Insects by Papa Roach; Save Yourself by Sense Field; Epiphany by Staind; and Mourning by Tantric.
Those are basically all my favorite songs.

[SIREN30]

Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy. The song that used to 'tear me up' as a child and which still makes me deliciously depressed.

[DawnOfTheDead]

The Swans, "Failure"

Lou Reed, "Waves of Fear"

Velvet Underground, "The Gift" (Though it IS a beautiful tune)

Anything by Dead Can Dance

Nick Cave, "Henry Lee", "Where The Wild Roses Grow" (virtually anything off of Murder Ballads.... actually, virtually anything by Nick Cave)

DeRiCh

[BloodiedCelticVengeance]

Originally posted by DawnOfTheDead
Nick Cave, "Henry Lee", "Where The Wild Roses Grow" (virtually anything off of Murder Ballads.... actually, virtually anything by Nick Cave) DeRiCh


"The Boatman's Call" is INFINITELY more depressing and gloriously dour than "Murder Ballads".

I Love "Murder Ballads" to death... and I found it to be more of a lambaste and a piss take, rather than a "downer".
The two songs you mentioned are quite sad, but, it's balanced quite nicely with sick humor ("Curse of Milhaven"), mindfucking depravity ("Song of Joy"), rambling, Dylan-esque narrative ("O'Malley's Bar"), twisted bravado ("Stagger Lee")....

A cinematic adaptation of "Murder Ballads" is desperately needed... damn ... the possibilities, eh?

[Girlntereptid13]

ok... i know after i post this reply all my "plausibility" or "integrity" will vanish, but i'll do it anyway... while i agree with all the previous suggestions, i would have to add another band- The Cardigans. they had their 'one-hit wonder' back in '98 with 'lovefool' from 'william shakespeare's romeo and juliet'. that song is literally the worst of the cardigans, it's pretty inexcusable, but basically every song from 'emmerdale' and 'life' can drive you to the brink of suicide. ;) by the way, props for whoever mentioned billie holiday's 'gloomy sunday'.

p.s. i'll think of more later...no more sappy swedish bands next time, i promise!

:)

[bowieee]

Originally posted by BloodiedCelticVengeance
"The Boatman's Call" is INFINITELY more depressing and gloriously dour than "Murder Ballads".

I Love "Murder Ballads" to death... and I found it to be more of a lambaste and a piss take, rather than a "downer".
The two songs you mentioned are quite sad, but, it's balanced quite nicely with sick humor ("Curse of Milhaven"), mindfucking depravity ("Song of Joy"), rambling, Dylan-esque narrative ("O'Malley's Bar"), twisted bravado ("Stagger Lee")....

A cinematic adaptation of "Murder Ballads" is desperately needed... damn ... the possibilities, eh?

I second that one. The Boatmans call is so achingly beautiful and sad.

[XCoRyX]

New Order- True Faith
David Bowie- Something In The Air
The Theiving Magpie

[Dignan]

Elliot Smith- Needle in Hay
Weezer- Mykel and Carli

[DaN]

Originally posted by Morgana
When I want to get depressed I listen to Alice in Chains, especially the Dirt album. Favorite depressing songs off of that:

Down in a Hole
Dirt
Them Bones
Rooster


Damn straight! Alice in Chains is one of the greatest bands of all time. My favorites are the songs off of the EPs (SAP and JAR OF FLIES). Damn are they good. I could listen to them all the time. I love how they have this dark undertone to their songs. Unbeatable.

Also, in continuation to what BloodiedCelticVengeance was talking about, off the Bob Dylan album Desire, there's the Joey, 12 minute masterpiece. Also my favorite Dylan song is Romance in Durango. WOW.

[POLYDISTORTION]

1 - Perfect Blue Buildings - Counting Crows
2 - Driving Your Girlfriend Home - Morrissey
3 - Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
4 - Confortably Numb - Pink Floyd
5 - So Cruel - u2
6 - Letter to Elise - The Cure
7 - When The Body Speaks - Depeche Mode
8 - Jealous Guy - Roxy Music
9 - Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
10-Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
11-Black - Pearl Jam
12-These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen
13-The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - George Michael
14-Purple Rain - Prince
15-Love Song For a Vampire - Annie Lennox
16-Lightning Crashes - Live
17-Beloved Wife - Natalie Merchant
18-All I Need - Air
19-Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
20-Fade Into You - Mazzy Starr

[bankholdup]

Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle

[electriclite]

Ani DiFranco - Untouchable Face

Blind Melon - Soul One

Dave Matthews Band - Cry Freedom

Morrissey - Jack the Ripper

PJ Harvey & John Parrish - Civil War Correspondent

Morrissey - Well I Wonder

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

Neil Young - Philadelphia

Pete Yorn - Farmer vs. River

PJ Harvey - Memphis

The Police - Bed's Too Big Without You

Radiohead - Bullet Proof.... I Wish I Was

Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied

Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy

U2 - Love Comes Tumbling

U2 - Your Blue Room

[Jerk Shapiro]

For some reason ELEANOR RIGBY by The Beatles depresses me. Although it is one of my favorites.

[Dude]

Tears in Heaven: Clapton
Crying: Roy Orbison
In My Life: The Beatles
Yesterday: The Beatles
Yesterday When I was Young: Roy Clark
For the Good Times: ?
Until its Time for You to Go/Kentucky Rain & Suspicious Minds: Elvis Presley
Always on My Mind: Willie Nelson
I Will Always Love You: Whitney Houston
Unbreak my Heart: Toni Braxton
Annie Lenoxx: 17 Again & I Saved the World Today & Why
Sarah Maclachman: Angel
I'm so lonesome I could cry: Hank Williams & various artists
Marty Robbins: Honky Tonk Man & El Paso

[Annie Hall]

How about the most depressing song with lyrics in history?

Minstrel Boy

[thebloodfeaster]

Mercyful Fate - Melissa

or

Candlemass - At the Gallow's End

or

whoever sings that Mad Mad World song at the end of Donnie Darko

[Grebdron]

Originally posted by thebloodfeaster
whoever sings that Mad Mad World song at the end of Donnie Darko

Originally written and performed by Tears for Fears back in the 80's. Done by Gary Jules for DD.

[neco82]

Any song by STABBING WESTWARD.

Particularly their DARKEST DAYS album... whenever I want to get depressed, I turn off all the lights in my room, play the cd at full volume, and lay back with my eyes closed. Really helps to think.

[drunkndeath]

Originally posted by thebloodfeaster
Mercyful Fate - Melissa

or

Candlemass - At the Gallow's End

or

whoever sings that Mad Mad World song at the end of Donnie Darko ever heard October Tide? good depressing stuff.

[son_of_arrow]

Tragedy by Hayden is very sad and somber. Brings me back to those "death" days...:(

[scottish-movie-freak]

Porcelain- Moby

[HannibalGuy]

BUMP

My favorite depressing songs:

Hank Williams:

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Lost Highway
Your Cheatin' Heart
Nobody's Lonesome for Me
Crazy Heart
... I'm sure theres some more. Hank Sr. wrote a lot of depressing songs.

Sunday Morning Comming Down and Hurt by Johnny Cash. Cash's verson of Hurt will bring tears to yeor eyes.

So Sad by King Diamond is somewhat depressing.

[one_crow_sorrow]

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Gary Jules - Mad World
Pearl Jam - Black, Nothingman
Matthew Good Band - Suburbia, Omissions of the Omen

[Mike]

I might have to go with "Nothing Compares To You" by Sinead O'Connor.

[The Heart Collector]

Some I haven't seen mentioned which I like:

Sarah McLachlan - Prayer of St. Francis
Faith No More - Ricochet
Nevermore - Forever
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Mr. Bungle - Pink Cigarette
Opeth - Still Day Beneath The Sun
Opeth - Patters In The Ivy II
Pantera - Floods
QOTSA - Mosquito Song
Tool - Pushit
Everlast - Ends
Shellac - Prayer To God

[loserkid]

you guys were missing the most depressing song by the smiths

asleep on louder than bombs has to be the most depressing song I know

others are:

best deceptions, screaming infedelities, hands warm: dashboard confessional

mostly half of my emo collection....nice music to listen to when you break up with the one you thought you loved

[A.J. Hakari]

"Mad World" - Tears for Fears / Gary Jules
"The Most Depressing Song" (duh :p) - The Get Up Kids
"Everybody Hurts" - REM
"Between the Bars" - Elliott Smith

[Hucksta G]

Deftones - Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event
Pantera- Suicide Note Part 1
The Smashing Pumpkins - Stumbleine
Radiohead - How To Dissapear Completely
Pink Floyd - Don't Leave Me Now (most depressing song ever)

[EvilDeadGirl]

Hurt - NIN
Mad World - Gary Jules
Pictures of You - The Cure

Basically the entire Disintegration album by The Cure Some depressing yet excellent stuff.

[Cottonmouth]

"Town Without Pity" Gene Pitney
"Creep" Radiohead
"Possibly Maybe" (or almost anything else by) Bjork
"She's got you" (or anything else by) Patsy Cline
"Trouble" Coldplay
FIONA APPLE: ANYTHING BY HER

[Annie Hall]

Due to a series of rather unfortunate events, here are some of the top songs played by me lately...

Wise Up - Aimee Mann
Radio - Alkaline Trio
Glycerine - Bush
Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
Crush - The Cure
Eden - Hooverphonic
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Blue Flashing Light - Travis

Also, the Braveheart theme.

[Carrieattheprom]

Originally posted by bankholdup
Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle


I know that song by heart! That tells you how often my radio station plays it.

My song would have to be My Imortal. Close second would be Power of Goodbye by Madonna.

[MISFITS_Fiend]

A rare oldie:

Empty Rooms - Gary Moore

Gary Moore was one of the guitarists in the classic Irish band Thin Lizzy. He's a great guitar player, and this song will make you really feel the loneliness and isolation of someone leaving you.

"Tito, give me a tissue..."

[Maestro]

Lots of stuff on Evanescence's Fallen is depressing, particularly Hello and My Immortal.

Going back a bit: Janet Jackson's Living in a World They Didn't Make, and Pat Benatar's Hell is for Children.

Going back a bit more: Wildfire by what's his name... Michael Martin Murphey.

And if you want something historic: The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

Maestro

[darchangel]

"Castles made of Sand" by Jimi Hendrix


Death to Beth

~darchangel~

[Annie Hall]

Originally posted by MISFITS_Fiend
A rare oldie:

Empty Rooms - Gary Moore

Gary Moore was one of the guitarists in the classic Irish band Thin Lizzy. He's a great guitar player, and this song will make you really feel the loneliness and isolation of someone leaving you.

"Tito, give me a tissue..."

SO good! I'm glad someone else agrees on this one...

[CheekyShepherd]

"Right Here Waiting" - Richard Marx
"Colorblind" - Counting Crows
"If It Be Your Will" - Leonard Cohen
"Mad World" - Michael Andrews & Gary Jules
"Tears In Heaven" - Eric Clapton
"Behind Blue Eyes" - The Who
"Dead Babies" - Alice Cooper
"Only Women Bleed" - Alice Cooper
"I Don't Want To Talk About It" - Rod Stewart
"Tell Me There's No Heaven" - Chris Rea

[Batgirl1979]

La Cienga just smiled-Ryan Adams

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye-David Gray

Perfect Blue Buildings - Counting Crows

It can't rain all the time-Jane Siberry (Crow soundtrack)

Don't dream it's over-Crowded House

Love Hurts-Nazereth

The littlest hobo theme song(I am such a dork!)

Out of this world-Bush

Release-Tea Party

Everything-Lifehouse

This bitter pill-Dashboard confessional

Sappy-Nirvana
Oh me-Nirvana

[Raymond Babbit]

Radiohead- Creep
Weezer- Only In Dreams
The Who- Behind Blue Eyes
REM- So. Central Rain, the whole Automatic for the People album (very depressing, but in an optimistic way)
Rolling Stones- Paint It Black
Foo Fighters- February Stars
Nirvana- All Apologies
Pearl Jam- Black
Alice Cooper- I Never Cry
Violent Femmes- Kiss Off, Add It Up, Please Do Not Go (don't necessarily sound that depressing, but listen to the lyrics of these songs)

[killbillbaby]

My fave DEPRESSING song would have to be The Cure's " Pictures Of You". Whenever I listen to this song I remember all of the times that I have gotten my heart broken and have never been able to recover from it. This song just reminds me that I can still have these pictures of past boyfriends and all but no matter what happens I am never going to get that person back and it sucks royally to have to sit back and realize that. Plus currenty I am kind of feeling the same way about my current boyfriend.

[TheJadedGamer]

blink 182 - Adam's Song
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Almost of all The Cure's songs.

[Mr.HyDe807]

Blink 182: I miss you
Hootie and the blowfish: Let her cry
R.E.M: Everybody hurts
Hootie and the blowfish: Goodbye
Alien Ant Farm: Attitude
System of a Down: Streamline
System of a Down: Spiders

ill remember some more

[Squid Vicious]

Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
Alice in Chains - Rooster
Alice in Chains - Angry Chair
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Metallica - Fade to Black
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Breaking the Girl
REM - Everybody Hurts
Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
System of a Down - ATWA

[sAtAn666]

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd is my favourite song at the moment...also, anything by Radiohead is good too.

[Shiny Demon]

Let's see:

"Rust"- Black Label Society
"Hey You"- Pink Floyd
"Fell on Black Days"- Soundgarden
"Black"- Pearl Jam
"What You Are"- Audioslave
"Castles Made of Sand"- Jimi Hendrix
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"- The Beatles

That's all I can think of now

"be you angels?"

[Unicron]

Ben Folds Five - Brick

REM - Everybody Hurts

George - Breath In Now

Silverchair - Miss you Love

Pink - Just like a Pill

Portishead - Roads

Delta Goodrem - Not me Nor I

Evanescence - My Imortal

Spice Girls - Via Forever

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares To You

Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

Sarah Mclachlan - When She Loved Me

[spacemonkey]

Raining in Baltimore - Counting Crows from the album August and everything after

Motorcyle Drive by - Third Eye Blind from the album Third Eye Blind

Shane - Matchbox20 from the album Yourself or someone like you

Needle in the Hay - Elliot Smith from the Royal Tenenbaums Soundtrack

It just wont quit - Meatloaf from the album Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell

My Guitar Lies bleeding in my arms - Bon Jovi from the album These Days

Never is a Promise - Fiona Apple

[Haddonfield]

The Difference - Matchbox Twenty
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
Seeing Things - The Black Crowes
A Mistake - Fiona Apple
Time and Time Again - Counting Crows
Mad Season - Matchbox Twenty
Dirt - Phish
Decending - The Black Crowes

[Sigur509]

Albums.

Beck - Sea Change
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Elliot Smith - XO, Figure 8, Either Or(I am realy getting into this guys music, brillant albums)
Radiohead - The Bends
The Cure - Disintegration


All of these are great.

Songs:

Dave Matthews Band - Crash, Crush, #41
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie, Thirty Three, Landslide
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze, Under the Bridge
The Verve Pipe - Freshman
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Elliot Smith - Needle in the Hay
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes

All I can think of right now.

[Batgirl1979]

A place called home~Kim Richey
Honey and the moon~Joseph Arthur

[Indiana Sev]

A few off the top of my head...

Nothing Compare 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
For The Good Times - Ray Price
Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson
My Immortal - Evanescence
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan

Most of these were already mentioned except the second which is one of my all-time favorite songs.

[Tom Samborski]

Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen
Anthem - Leonard Cohen
Hurt - Johnny Cash/Nine Inch Nails

[The Heart Collector]

Well that was a sudden bump.


Anyway, some more besides those I posted earlier: (these are kinda depressing, kinda sappy)


Tom Waits - Dirt In The Ground
Ryan Adams - English Girls Approximately
Ryan Adams - In My Time Of Need
Ryan Adams - Call Me On Your Way Back Home
Ryan Adams - She Wants To Play Hearts
Jeff Buckley - You & I
Devendra Banhart - The Charles C. Leary
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness

[e_lateralus]

Vincent (a.k.a. Starry, Starry Night) - Don Mclein is a very good sad song.

[urs74]

Jerry Cantrell

My Song

Boggy Depot


Where the hell has Jerry Cantrell been we need another album from him!