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Title: Most depressing songs
Post by: Selkie on October 20, 2009, 04:38:50 AM
What songs do you consider most depressing, or do you listen to while depressed (lots of people do this, including me, it actually helps more than happy music to make me feel better)

Mine are...

Gone too Soon - Michael Jackson

Love Dog - TV On the Radio

Dosed - RHCP

El Manana - Gorillaz

With Twilight as My Guide - Mars Volta

Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Minus; on October 19, 2009, 08:42:17 PM
Want depressing? Listen to mad world by gary jules.
Song from donnie darko.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Mando Pandango on October 19, 2009, 08:42:42 PM
I don't know about depressing, but "My Hero" by Foo Fighters gives me a bigger emotional reaction than any other song I can think of. Beautiful.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Commander Fuckass on October 19, 2009, 09:11:54 PM
"Kristy are you doing ok?"-The Offspring
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Boogus Epirus Aurelius on October 19, 2009, 09:18:38 PM
I dont know. Depressing is different from sad. Maybe you meant sad right?
Then there's different types of sad.
Like reflective sad. Or introspective sad. Or sad sad.

There's the generics
Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah.
Wicked game by chris Isaak.
Blah blah.

Haha, this always kills me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocKE_hy6jxI&feature=related[/youtube]

And nothing beats roy's crescendo.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9AwR0awVQ[/youtube]

Actually, same with blue bayou. He's a winner.




Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Andria on October 19, 2009, 09:25:09 PM
The entire Hospice album from The Antlers. It is one of the most depressing albums I have ever heard
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: sans culottes on October 20, 2009, 06:06:03 AM
Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album. It's so sad.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Samus Aran on October 20, 2009, 06:08:41 AM
Quote from: Echo on October 19, 2009, 09:25:09 PM
The entire Hospice album from The Antlers. It is one of the most depressing albums I have ever heard


Yes. Especially "Bear" and "Epilogue."
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: YPrrrr on October 20, 2009, 09:09:20 AM
Green Fields of France - Dropkick Murphys
Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
The Funeral - Band of Horses
Jezebel - Iron & Wine; Don't know if it's even supposed to be sad, but I usually only listen to it when in that mood
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: FAMY2 on October 20, 2009, 09:49:56 AM
Ain't no sunshine - Bill Withers.

A Day Without Rain - Enya
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: mouse parade on October 20, 2009, 12:31:25 PM
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSMLx44DqFc[/youtube]

saddood;
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Daddy on October 20, 2009, 01:13:12 PM
Portishead and:
Quote from: Echo on October 19, 2009, 09:25:09 PM
The entire Hospice album from The Antlers. It is one of the most depressing albums I have ever heard
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: The artist formally known on October 20, 2009, 02:02:18 PM
Stop Swimming by Porcupine Tree
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: ?????? on October 20, 2009, 03:03:01 PM
I have not found that Hospice album depressing.

Also Portishead and some ambient. (Amiina, Riceboy, etc.)
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: YPrrrr on October 20, 2009, 04:46:45 PM
Quote from: Freud and His Friend:Jung on October 20, 2009, 03:03:01 PM
I have not found that Hospice album depressing.

I listened to it and didn't find it all that sad either
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Gin on October 20, 2009, 04:51:15 PM
Miserable at Best by Mayday Parade is fairly depressing
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: C.Mongler on October 20, 2009, 05:20:31 PM
Asleep by The Smiths

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Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on October 20, 2009, 09:19:58 PM
Anything, and I mean anything, ever recorded in studio by the Arcade Fire. I have heard their albums, EPs, live sets, demos, covers, and all, nearly 200 cuts, and I have heard nothing that was moderately happy...maybe the christmas EP, but that wasn't really them. Funeral is just god in that respect.

Ma Fleur - The Cinematic Orchestra
Throne... - Le Loup.
For Emma ,Forever Ago - Bon Iver
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: snorkel on October 20, 2009, 09:21:42 PM
el manana - gorillaz
lucky - radiohead
caramel - blur
everything by bon iver

can't think of others right now
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Daddy on October 20, 2009, 09:39:56 PM
lol sigur ros
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on October 20, 2009, 09:41:11 PM
Quote from: Ensign Halibar on October 20, 2009, 09:39:56 PM
lol sigur ros


Of course.

also:

Selmasongs - Bjork

although it only evolves into SADDEST ALBUM EVER when you have the DVD item obtained by letting your Dancer in the Dark grow into SADDEST MOVIE EVER.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Boogus Epirus Aurelius on October 20, 2009, 09:54:41 PM
Quote from: Alyssa the Glowing Sole on October 20, 2009, 09:19:58 PM
Anything, and I mean anything, ever recorded in studio by the Arcade Fire. I have heard their albums, EPs, live sets, demos, covers, and all, nearly 200 cuts, and I have heard nothing that was moderately happy...maybe the christmas EP, but that wasn't really them. Funeral is just god in that respect.




Arcade fire's more optimistic sad, though. Maybe melancholy's a better word.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Skylark on October 20, 2009, 09:55:39 PM
werewolf by cocorosie
the walnut whales version of peach, plum, pear
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: strongbad on October 20, 2009, 10:17:41 PM
Quote from: YPR on October 20, 2009, 09:09:20 AM
The Funeral - Band of Horses

Agree. This song always gets me.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Hiro on October 20, 2009, 10:21:49 PM
Quote from: GUOB on October 20, 2009, 10:17:41 PM
Agree. This song always gets me.
that song is awesome
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: spaceman on October 20, 2009, 10:46:34 PM
Space Lion by the Seatbelts.

It is simultaneously sad and happy as fuck at the same time.

It's awesome.  :3
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: Sam on October 21, 2009, 01:26:36 AM
i'm trying to think of my breakup sngs, but they're all more angry than sad.

the only one that's coming to mind is naked as we came by... iron & wine? i think?

it's not a depressing song at all though. don't listen to me.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: FAMY2 on October 21, 2009, 04:40:15 AM
Mozart Requiem. I suppose the reason the song was wrote only adds to the sadness. saddood;
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: YPrrrr on October 21, 2009, 07:43:35 AM
New Slang by the Shins

and like that other guy said, Mad World
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: The Hand That Fisted Everyone on October 21, 2009, 08:45:54 AM
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead

it doesn't depress me, but when I am depressed I listen to it.

practically any love song nowadays.
Title: Re: Most depressing songs
Post by: the shortest route to the sea on October 21, 2009, 03:54:34 PM
Quote from: fluxus on October 20, 2009, 10:46:34 PM
Space Lion by the Seatbelts.

It is simultaneously sad and happy as Shitman the Barbarian at the same time.

It's awesome.  :3


Partly by association. Blue gets me the same way, I cried at the end.  :3

Arcade Fire...man, what gets me about them is that they put everything on the table right there. All of their feelings of displacement and pain and loss and frustration and melancholy and short, brilliant hope all mix together. Maybe sad is less accurate, but their music certainly recognizes a tragic aspect in the world.