Most depressing/melancholic songs.

Johnny Cash - Hurt - is truly a sad song. It might be madly popular but it still hits the mark.

Leonard Cohen will most likely spring up but most of his songs are quite cheery in lots of ways. The exception being the "Death of a Ladies Man" which has huge Phil Spector sound but the most depression of Lenny's songs.

The CArdigans

sad yet extremely beautiful


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0as2GKhmuA

Wonderful thread. Just what I need today really
Here’s my favourite sad song:

Caroline Says II by Lou Reed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuHgjtAK_PE

Berlin is a raw album.

I’d Love To by Morrissey. (not on youtube)

Sound-A-Sleep by Blondie. As one of the youtube comments repeats “I want to go, I want to go, I want to go down…”. “I want to go down to sleep”, “listen to your heart beat too fast for sleep”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRxV0ayIcyc

Plainsong by The Cure ("And it's so cold like the cold if you were dead", "And it's all running out like it's the end of the world" you said) I could quote the whole song but I'll not. Beautiful lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZoYzne9Tpg


It does make sense that some make you feel better while others make you sad. I find that if I am in a bad way it does greatly help to listen and have a good cry. Sometimes it’s just necessary. There’s too many to list really but these would be firm favourites (feels a bit strange saying ‘favourite’ because I associate them with tough times in my life. Yet I love the songs. To have that power to pull you through. It’s incredible. Music is.).

(Dudess, This Woman’s Work – Kate Bush. Agree with that. I find her song ‘Under the Ivy’ heartbreaking too. I often find Kate at her best when it’s just herself and a piano rather than with guitar, bass and drums. I agree about I Know it’s Over also, tech77)