Depressing Songs!

[Meltingpot]

To Live Is To Die - Metallica

(actually I think it's a fantastic song but you wouldn't play it at a party).

 

[Winston Legthigh]

I never understand why people think Leonard Cohen is depressing - I find him incredibly uplifting.

Just listening to Sam Stone by John Prine, however, which is depressing as fuck.

 

[alsoknownas]

most smiths/moz stuff that gets labelled depressing isn't really. might be melancholy, but a lot of the time it's funny, as well as being hopeful and beautiful.

I agree with that. But - I Know It's Over is a bit genuinely depressing (and brilliant).

 

[editor]

From a Late Night Train: Blue Nile

 

[Voley]

most smiths/moz stuff that gets labelled depressing isn't really. might be melancholy, but a lot of the time it's funny, as well as being hopeful and beautiful.

And a lot of its total shite. Let's not forget that.

'There Is A Light' ... is the most toe-curlingly embarrassing song of all time.

 

[alsoknownas]

And a lot of its total shite. Let's not forget that.

'There Is A Light' ... is the most toe-curlingly embarrassing song of all time.

Ooooh, you wicked cynic!

 

[dodgepot]

And a lot of its total shite. Let's not forget that.

'There Is A Light' ... is the most toe-curlingly embarrassing song of all time.

pish.

 

[Silva]

Most things by Adrian Borland. Sense of Purpose is particularly heavy in that aspect.

 

[SpookyFrank]

To Live Is To Die - Metallica

Metallica songs are incredibly depressing. Whenever I hear one I can't help but ask myself; "what kind of dreadful world do we live in where it's possible to make such vast sums of money peddling godawful crap like this? Where is the justice when so many bands with real talent that haven't got Lars Ulrich in them are struggling to make ends meet while these comedy metal fucktards are raking it in? What's the fucking point of existence if it means I have to share a universe with music this bad?"

But then I just think of the day when I will get to smash Lars Ulrich's face in with a cricket bat and then set James Hetfield's twattish biker-wannabe beard on fire while I empty a revolver into the chest of the one who looks like Steve Buscemi and suddenly the depression goes away

 

[kalidarkone]

The thin air- Magzine
Permafrost- Magazine
Closer, especially 'Decades' -Joy Division
One Hundred years- The Cure (In fact the whole album -Pornography)
Harvest (The whole Album ) Neil Young

 

[Voley]

Ooooh, you wicked cynic!

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Worst lyric ever.

You know when your parents laugh at your music? Normally you get to feel all superior, thinking 'what would they fucking know about it?'

When my parents laughed at me for listening to this I agreed with them.

 

[El Jefe]

Metallica songs are incredibly depressing. Whenever I hear one I can't help but ask myself; "what kind of dreadful world do we live in where it's possible to make such vast sums of money peddling godawful crap like this? Where is the justice when so many bands with real talent that haven't got Lars Ulrich in them are struggling to make ends meet while these comedy metal fucktards are raking it in? What's the fucking point of existence if it means I have to share a universe with music this bad?"

But then I just think of the day when I will get to smash Lars Ulrich's face in with a cricket bat and then set James Hetfield's twattish biker-wannabe beard on fire while I empty a revolver into the chest of the one who looks like Steve Buscemi and suddenly the depression goes away

#


Absofuckinglutely

 

[Voley]

Harvest (The whole Album ) Neil Young

Really? I don't find that album depressing at all. Quite the opposite.

 

[alsoknownas]

Worst lyric ever.

You know when your parents laugh at your music? Normally you get to feel all superior, thinking 'what would they fucking know about it?'

When my parents laughed at me for listening to this I agreed with them.

Yeah well, what you and (with respect, etc.) your parents seem to have missed is that it's *supposed to be funny*. That's what Morrissey does subtley mixes humour with tragedy. So it is both a sincere lament, and a bit of a piss-take at the same time, like many of his best lyrics (example):-

'Sweetness, I was only joking when I said,
I'd like to smash every tooth in your head'

There was always a bit of Carry On in the mix with The Smiths .

 

[Red O]

Anything from Peej's White Chalk album

Absolutely, the darkest album I've heard since discovering In Utero, Rid of Me and The Holy Bible as a teenager. Almost every song on it concerns isolation, abandonment, regret, despair, lost love and death. Bought it a month ago and have still only listened to it twice, it's overwhelming.

Also, Passover and Twenty Four Hours by Joy Division are the true, genuine, undiluted expressions of someone one step from the exit.

 

[Voley]

*supposed to be funny*.

"Supposed" being the operative word.

It's not.

The alleged 'humour' in The Smiths has always been something that I found deeply naff. Sixth-form 'Oh-aren't-I-so-tewwibly-clever' in-jokes. Shite.

And I actually liked The Smiths. Went to see them and everything. But I can fully understand why telling people you like them often provokes gales of laughter.

It isn't because of Morrissey's 'subtle' humour, believe me.

 

[alsoknownas]

Makes me laugh. And smile. And (almost) weep. And dance around stupidly in my front room.
In fact liking The Smiths was never meant to be cool, they were like the antidote to all the po-faced music that was about at the time.

 

[Bakunin]

Try this one for size:


The Manics version is good, but the original is so much better.

And Leonard Cohen needs to go out, have a few brews and get laid or something.

 

[Rizzy]

I never understand why people think Leonard Cohen is depressing - I find him incredibly uplifting.

Likewise. I grew up listening to his music.



Colorblind - Counting Crows.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Metallica songs are incredibly depressing. Whenever I hear one I can't help but ask myself; "what kind of dreadful world do we live in where it's possible to make such vast sums of money peddling godawful crap like this? Where is the justice when so many bands with real talent that haven't got Lars Ulrich in them are struggling to make ends meet while these comedy metal fucktards are raking it in? What's the fucking point of existence if it means I have to share a universe with music this bad?"

But then I just think of the day when I will get to smash Lars Ulrich's face in with a cricket bat and then set James Hetfield's twattish biker-wannabe beard on fire while I empty a revolver into the chest of the one who looks like Steve Buscemi and suddenly the depression goes away

It means, you're poor, and they're rich.

 

[ohmyliver]

Gram parson's in my hour of darkness - about 3 good friends dieing.

 

[extra dry]

Depeche Mode
Black Celebration

waiting for the night to fall.

sometimes the music just depends on how you feel

 

[alsoknownas]

Nick Drake deserves an honourable mention - Black Eyed Dog perhaps?
I actually think the song is about depression. But who knows?

(not sure about the 'video')

Oh, from wiki:

The title was inspired by Winston Churchill's description of depression as a black dog

 

[rogue_lettuce]

The Queen Is Dead - Frank Turner. I have to struggle to maintain my composure when listening to or playing/singing that.

 

[idioteque]

The Queen Is Dead - Frank Turner. I have to struggle to maintain my composure when listening to or playing/singing that.

Frank Turner is awesome

 

[idioteque]

'Fire and Rain' and 'Enough to be On Your Way' by James Taylor, 'Old Man on the Farm' by Randy Newman, 'What Happens when the Heart Just Stops' by The Frames, 'Tiny Vessels' and 'What Sarah Said' by Death Cab for Cutie

Despressing songs ftw.

 

[rogue_lettuce]

Frank Turner is awesome

Ten points! There's one main thing that gets my goat about frank. This is the fact that I'm tempted, when I play gigs, to become a Frank Turner tribute act, by composing a setlist of entirely Frank Turner/Million Dead songs.

 

[lav-senior]

Yellow - Coldplay,

I love Coldplay but that song was too much for my taste.

No Bravery - James Blunt

Everybody Hurts - REM

 

[The Groke]

Yellow - Coldplay,

I love Coldplay but that song was too much for my taste.

No Bravery - James Blunt

These are a different kind of depressing from the OPs intent.

 

[rollinder]

Nick Drake deserves an honourable mention - Black Eyed Dog perhaps?

Parasite is pretty fucking grim lyrically - I can't liston to it because its far too triggering.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/nick+drake/parasite_20100350.html