Depressing Music

Peyton Manning

What songs get you down, or bring a tear to the eye when u hear them? Could be personal reasons too. Here are some depressing songs that I like to listen to...

• Goo Goo Dolls - Name
• Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
• Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
• Mogwai - Take Me Somewhere Nice
• Gary Jules - Mad World
• Ben Folds Five - Brick
• Feeder - Just The Way Im Feeling
• Snow Patrol - Run
• Nas - Dance
• 2pac - My Block
• Athlete - Wires

Loads more I cant think of at the moment. Add on to this...

Davei141

Matthew Good - While we were hunting rabits, tripoli, I miss new wave.
Radiohead - Let down.
Smashing pumpkins - Perfect.
Johnny Cash - Hurt, the wanderer.
Dave matthews Band - Crash into me (just sounds so great)
Pixies - Where is my Mind
Pantera - Floods solo

I wouldnt really say any of the songs depress me, but they provoke an emotional response i guess.

Oobie

The Cure - Lovesong

meditraitor

Nick drake- way to blue
glen cambel - witchita lineman
Portishead - dummy
The cranberries- to many songs
Leonard cohen -
Pink Floyd- the wall

themire

Radiohead : Fake Plastic Trees/Exit Music for a Film
REM : Nightswimming
Jon Brion : Row (from eternal sunshine of the spotless mind)
Mark Knopfler : All that Matters
Death Cab for Cutie : I'll follow you into the dark
Sigur Ros : Glosoli, Hoppipolla, others
Elbow : Grace under Pressure
The Streets : Wouldn't Have it any other way
Coldplay : Fix You

I find these kind of songs more uplifting than depressing.

PiE

65daysofstatic - 'Radio Protector'
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'They Don't Sleep Anymore on the Beach...'
This Empty Flow - 'One Song About Solitude'
Smashing Pumpkins - 'Set the Ray to Jerry'
Smashing Pumpkins - 'Medellia of the Gray Skies'
Cure - 'Lovesong'
Cure - 'Disintegration'

redmosquito

Temple of the Dog - Say Hello 2 Heaven
(one of my favourite songs of all time, makes me choke up a lot of times!)

Garret

Decades by Joy Division would be my nomination.

Cracking tune

MrJones

Smashing pumpkins tonight tonight.

Oobie

Also Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins.

MrJones

ya disarm. actually alot of SP music is nostalgic. 1979 leaves a lump in my throat. the whole of the adore album is very depressing(but class).

Oobie

Now I'm thinking of loads more songs that are so good I want to cry!! Better write them down and then post rather than posting as I think of them!

Tar.Aldarion

There are hundreds if not thousands that I listen too, Belle&Seb are sneakishly depressing with the cheery music.

Rollo Tamasi

Garret wrote:

Decades by Joy Division would be my nomination.

Cracking tune

tune

- Consideration by Reef
- that is all

Boo-yah

1. Eels - Elizabeth on the bathroom floor
2. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

Both songs are from the truly magnificent 'Electro-Shock Blues' album. The first song is about E's (Eels frontman) sister's first attempt at suicide (she would later succeed). The second song is written using some of the stuff she wrote while she was in an institution undergoing electro-shock therapy.

Tomohawk

Nick Cave - Into your Arms
Husker Du - No Promises Have I Made
Husker Du - Too Far Down
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes
The Smiths - Back To The Old House

Karler-C

Most songs off Neutral Milk hotel - Aeroplane over the Sea are quite depressing and melancholy, but in a good way.

arctic lemur

Heaven knows i'm miserable now- the smiths

Really anything by radiohead or the smiths

Dudess

The Smiths - Suffer Little Children
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Ride - Vapour Trail
Joy Division - Isolation (may sound pretty upbeat but the lyrics are devastating)
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)
Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

iFight

Hurt- Johnny Cash
I Will Follow You Into The Dark and A Lack of Colour- DCFC
Most by Pedro the Lion

That's about it;)

doriansmith

In Every Sunflower - Bellx1
Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley

Creamy Goodness

mykel and carli - weezer

written about the same two people as jimmy eat world's "Hear you me"

in fact "hear you me" is a lyric from mykel and carli.

(they were two sisters who followed weezer's every concert in their early - and best - days), they died on route to a weezer show when their car lost control.

melekalikimaka

you are my sunshine

Nina_Angelica

almost anything by elbow...especially 'powder blue' and 'newborn'.

'easy to please' - coldplay: makes me weepy too (in a nice kind of way).

JustCoz

Exit music by radiohead, hallejuliah by Jeff Buckley

delta_bravo

radiohead - pyramid song

padi89

Most songs by elliot smith but i love em all.

MrJones

nirvana - something in the way -unplugged in NY.

giveth

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Clannad - Theme from Harrys Game
Bobby McFerrin - Circlesong six
Any version of Adiemus, eg Karl Jenkins
Bruce Sprinstseen - I'm on Fire
Bruce Sprinstseen - Downbound Train
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Greenday - Time of your life
Eric Clapton - Wonderful tonight
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Power Of Love
Sigur Ros - Glosoli, and others
Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere over the rainbow
Michael Stipe & Kirsten Hersh - Your Ghost
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Stained - Outside
Waterboys - Stolen Child
Radiohead - StreetSpirit
Cooper Temple Clause - The same mistakes
HIM - Join me
A lot of Damien Rice
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Snow Patrol - Set the fire to the third bar
U2 - With or without you

I could go on for another few pages, but yee might think I'm suicidal or something....

Ruu_Old

delta_bravo wrote:

radiohead - pyramid song

Is that the one that was on the episode of Father Ted where he helps out the younger priest from jumping off the building? If so then yes, that one

Bodhidharma

Boo-yah wrote:

1. Eels - Elizabeth on the bathroom floor
2. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues

Both songs are from the truly magnificent 'Electro-Shock Blues' album. The first song is about E's (Eels frontman) sister's first attempt at suicide (she would later succeed). The second song is written using some of the stuff she wrote while she was in an institution undergoing electro-shock therapy.

Yeh i agree. Both very sad songs.

"I'm not ok" - Such a simple lyric but so powerful.

E is a genius. At the same time though he can be the most uplifting.
" Climbing To the Moon" makes death feel like a triumph.

JustCoz

Ruu wrote:

Is that the one that was on the episode of Father Ted where he helps out the younger priest from jumping off the building? If so then yes, that one

No thats Exit Music(for a film). thats the one I picked, it's so sad but I love it

parasite

Tom Waits - Whistle down the wind

Garret

JustCoz wrote:

No thats Exit Music(for a film). thats the one I picked, it's so sad but I love it

I'm pretty sure it was Creep

smackbunnybaby

the song in father ted was definitely exit music for a film and is very worthy of being mentioned.

from the edge of the deep green sea - the cure.
crestfallen by the smashing pumpkins
pristina - faith no more (last song on album of the year)

jimbredin

Johnny Cash.......I Hung My Head
Blur...................No Distance Left To Run
The Smiths.........I know its over

Boo-yah

Bodhidharma wrote:

E is a genius. At the same time though he can be the most uplifting.
" Climbing To the Moon" makes death feel like a triumph.

He is a genius and an underrated song writer. 'Climbing To The Moon' is probably my favourite Eels song. The "watch as the sky closes in" part of the song is fantastic.

JC 2K3

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

The Johnny Cash cover was sad rather than depressing(arguablely better, but NIN's original was definately more depressing).

A lot of NIN's stuff it very depressing actually...

Down in a Hole and Rooster by Alice in Chains, another band with some pretty depressing songs...

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Ministry - The Fall
Joy Division - Decades
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing
Skinny Puppy - Circustance
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls
Nine Inch Nails - The Great Below
Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady
Wolf Eyes - Rotten Tropics

Ilac

Sparrow - Smashing Pumpkins
Winterlong - Smashing Pumpkins
Big Ideas (aka Nude) - Radiohead
How to Disappear Completely (and Never Be Found) - Radiohead
Everything I Said - The Cranberries
Sad Professor - REM
Nothingman - Pearl Jam
Hurt - NIN
Lucky - Radiohead

Metacortex

This Mortal Coil - Song to the siren

If sorrow was a song, this is it. I've never ever come across a more depressing song. ever.
Its really good though

Peyton Manning

Some new ones I thought of:

Bird York - In The Deep (this is such a breath taking song. Its the closing music for the film Crash, and simply leaves me stunned every time I hear it. If theres any song you download tonight, make sure its this)
Goo Goo Dolls - Become
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Nancy Wilson - 60B (elizabethtown theme)
Helen Stellar - This Time Around
Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me U
Sufjan Steves - John Wayne Macy Jr.
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Nirvana - Something in the Way

Irish Wolf

"Speed on The M9" - Malcolm Middleton.

Actually both Malchie's albums... start to finish on a loop for a week

shatners basoon

Nick Drake - River Man (Brad Mehldau does a lovely version of it too)

Ruu_Old

The Verve-Drugs dont work

dave101

the foookn entire leonard cohen cd collection man hes sooo depresinnnnn.

brothahj

any Dire Straits can get to me
James Tayor - Fire and Rain is the single most depressing song I think I have ever heard, especially after hearing the backstory to when he wrote it etc. I can't even imagine going through what he went through when he was writing that song.



Listen to Fire And Rain (LP Version) by James Taylor : http://www.napster.com/player/tracks/15862353

Dudess

shatners basoon wrote:

Nick Drake - River Man

Absolute genius of a song.

AOR

shiny happy people - Rem

Originally i was gonna take the piss with this one but it is, in a strange sort of way, dont you think?

Dudess

brothahj wrote:

any Dire Straits can get to me
James Tayor - Fire and Rain

Brothers in Arms and Romeo and Juliet are indeed very sad.

Yep. Agree with you on Fire and Rain. True story too apparently.

Manchegan

Dudess wrote:

Agree with you on Fire and Rain. True story too apparently.

Nope

My turn: The Carny, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

The three dwarves peering from their wagon's hind
Moses says to Noah, "We shoulda dugga deepa one"
Their grizzled faces like dying moons
Still dirty from the digging done