Interesting thread.

One of the most depressing for me is Slide Away by Michael Hutchence, probably because it feels like he is foreshadowing his death/suicide.

Depends on what type of depressing you want, O Willow Waly from the movie "the innocents" is a downer on the style and sound, whereas for me the story within Billy Talent-White Sparrows is pretty depressing.

Kind of have to not have a gun near you for this one.

21st Century Schizoid Man.

I never found this song depressing! I always just found it beautiful. It brings back memories for me as well.

Now this is depressing! In an amazingly beautiful way.


Dream Letter - Tim Buckley - YouTube


I never found this song depressing either! It always made me feel something else, don't even have a word for the feeling though.

Really? There's just something about the bass and vocals specifically that just gives off this incredibly hopeless feeling to me.

It's more a feeling of...bewilderment, fascination, hopelessness even. But not in a bad way for me. Kind of like...a feeling of united human bewilderment with the strangeness of life or something like that, ignoring the lyrics of course that is always how it made me feel.

Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues

Another depressing one from Syd.


Syd Barrett - Opel - YouTube

Three Days Grace - Pain. I just remember listening to it at a point in my life when I was depressed.

You insulting my beloved TORI:D ?!? Everything thing this woman does is perfection!!!! :bowdown::bowdown:

Mad World - Gary Jules - YouTube

Made a playlist a little while ago of songs that really depress me. Yep, a whole playlist of it. Here's what I currently have of it, though I plan to add mroe songs on to it soon, probably:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...eature=mh_lolz

Lucinda Williams' "Blue"

Lucinda Williams "Blue" - YouTube

Again, depressing to many but beautiful to me

Scratch that, this is the most depressing song I have ever heard. And the most touching. The lyrics make it pretty clear what it is about I think.


I still see you as a baby, I do
Climbing onto the stage in front of the school
High strung
The cat got your tongue
The spotlight came out
You'd been strung
I followed the trail
when I heard that they found
you in the cowshed
I still see the insect filled jars in rows
The calculations and the diagrams, constellations
High strung
The cat got your tongue
The spotlight came out
You'd been hung
I followed the trail
when I heard that they found
You in the cowshed



Cowshed - Fionn Regan - YouTube

1. Some Things Last a long time ~ Daniel Johnston
2.I am a bird now ~Antony and The Johnsons
3.Between the Bars ~ Elliot Smith
4.Poison Oak~ Bright Eyes
5. Hallelujah~ Jeff Buckley cover version
6.Song to the Siren ~ This Mortal Coil
7.Honey ~ Torres
8. Atrocity Exhibition ~ Joy Division
9.Civilian ~Wye Oak
10. Lilac Wine ~ Jeff Buckley

EDIT: Also, I apologize for whoever made that video, with their awful spelling and grammar. I didnt even look at the video when I picked it.

#1 Nearer my God to Thee
#2 Streets of Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen
#3 Ben, Michael Jackson

But I have tons. I enjoy sad music.

I have a few things by Antony, but this tops all of his work by miles in my opinion. The poignancy in the verses is just arrestingly gorgeous.
I think it was you who got me into him in the first place too, with this song in fact!

Great thread topic and lots of cool posts, haven't heard a lot of these before! Most songs that suggest sadness (slow, dirgy, dissonant) usually don't make me feel sad; it's usually a song that conjures up sad memories. For instance, one of my friends that was killed at age 30 in a car accident. At her memorial, they played this song, which ruined the song for me:



I've also attended more than my share of funerals and memorial services--and because I've heard this so many times at the services, it makes me sad, in spite of it being a beautiful song:

skeletons~the yeah yeah yeahs
there is a light that never goes out~ the smiths
everday is like sunday~the smiths
breath on ~ portishead

Why won't you listen to that song?

Is that
made up?

:rofl:
:tramp:

You probably have no idea who Molly Meldrum is (he hosted Countdown music show here for many years) but I had no idea he had a cameo in that clip on accordion.

File that under facts you could have gone the rest of your life without ever caring. Ok back to depression...

New shit from Jason Isbell

I am stuck between these two.

Asleep - The Smiths
What's On Your Mind - Ball Park Music

Memory Of Light - Dave Hewson

Memory Of Light by Dave Hewson

The Rolling Stone's "Angie" gets to me too.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "The Ship Song" and "Into My Arms" will get me every single time.
More that make my personal boohoo list:
Love Will Save You- Swans
Pale Blue Eyes- The Velvet Underground
Complex- Gary Newman
New Dawn Fades- Joy Division
Here Comes A Regular- The Replacements
Strange Little Girl- The Stranglers
***et- Korn

That one gets me going.

Ohhh awesome! :D I love hearing that I've introduced people to new music. It makes me feel all bubbly inside. But enough of that, I'm here in this thread to spread sadness.

I rarely get depressed by good music but bad music is really depressing (example embedded below).

This song is a real favourite of mine. It sounds utterly hopeless and Jenn Ghetto sounds like she's on the verge of cracking up at any moment.

Won't tell a single soul that my soul's gone
It's hard to write this song
It's all a joke
It's all been wrote down by someone who's probably dead

Wake up by Mad Season

alkaline trio - trouble breathing. just depressing and dark type of lyrics but i enjoy it




third eye blind - the background. listenin to this after a breakup will cause you to need a whambulance and french cries

this was a very creative, insightful post. i'm pretty sure i just raised ten IQ points by reading your post.

anyway, there's something about this song...:

that's actually a really good song. If you wanted to post an example of bad music you picked poorly.