Most depressing song ever
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Judge_Mental
"One of my turns" by Pink Floyd
Day after day
Love turns grey
like the skin on a dying man.
But night after night,
we pretend its alright,
but I have grown older,
and you have grown colder,
and nothing is very much fun anymore!
Etc, etc,
By this time you have the gun at your temple!
A song about breakup and divorce.
As someone whos done the deed twice believe me, its accurate!!
Day after day
Love turns grey
like the skin on a dying man.
But night after night,
we pretend its alright,
but I have grown older,
and you have grown colder,
and nothing is very much fun anymore!
Etc, etc,
By this time you have the gun at your temple!
A song about breakup and divorce.
As someone whos done the deed twice believe me, its accurate!!
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I think the most depressing song ever is actually that one by the Fast Food Rockers, for several reasons:
1) It's unbearably shite
2) It provided free advertising to scummy grease merchants
3) The Fast Food Rockers themselves seemed like the most pathetic, begging-for-a-career dimwits I've ever seen - seeing one of them telling Simon Amstell that he firmly believed that record was their first step on the road to international stardom was like watching a puppy being kicked around by its master and then running back for more.
1) It's unbearably shite
2) It provided free advertising to scummy grease merchants
3) The Fast Food Rockers themselves seemed like the most pathetic, begging-for-a-career dimwits I've ever seen - seeing one of them telling Simon Amstell that he firmly believed that record was their first step on the road to international stardom was like watching a puppy being kicked around by its master and then running back for more.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
It's surely only a matter of time before the red light district beckons (for him, not you).
BadlyDrawnGirl
Piano Tuna
Keane - 'Bed Shaped'
Black Eyed Peas - 'Pump It'
Guns'n'Roses - 'One In A Million'
Buju Banton - 'Boom Bye Bye'
Anything by Westshite
Anything by Dildo
Anything by Corinne fucking Bailey fucking Rae
For a start.
Black Eyed Peas - 'Pump It'
Guns'n'Roses - 'One In A Million'
Buju Banton - 'Boom Bye Bye'
Anything by Westshite
Anything by Dildo
Anything by Corinne fucking Bailey fucking Rae
For a start.
I like depressing songs. The Eternal by Joy Division is their heaviest in this sense. Isolation, whilst lyrically sad is, IMO, one of their poppier ones.
'Do You Realise?' by Flaming Lips IS very sad but very lovely.
'Teardrops' by Massive Attack is not in the slightest bit depressing. It's lush. Liz Frazer could sing a shopping receipt and make it sound ethereal.
All Morrissey/Smiths songs are tounge in cheek and maudlin at worst. 'Everyday Is Like Sunday' is fucking brilliant.
To find something depressing because you don't like it is fair enough but in reality the emotion you feel is more like anger than sadness. Black Eyed Peas aren't depressing, they are annoying.
'Hedonism' by Skunk Anansie and 'Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine' by Beth Orton are very sad songs - but I like listening to them.
'Do You Realise?' by Flaming Lips IS very sad but very lovely.
'Teardrops' by Massive Attack is not in the slightest bit depressing. It's lush. Liz Frazer could sing a shopping receipt and make it sound ethereal.
All Morrissey/Smiths songs are tounge in cheek and maudlin at worst. 'Everyday Is Like Sunday' is fucking brilliant.
To find something depressing because you don't like it is fair enough but in reality the emotion you feel is more like anger than sadness. Black Eyed Peas aren't depressing, they are annoying.
'Hedonism' by Skunk Anansie and 'Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine' by Beth Orton are very sad songs - but I like listening to them.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Biffo said:
Actually that's not true - there are songs that have induced a real grey-out of worldwide humanloathing and made me genuinely fear for the worth of our species, such is their mindnumbing awfulness.
Biffo said:
No, they're both. And big runny shite, mustn't leave that one out.
And the winner IS
Paradise Estate
by The Television Personalities
Mrs. Brown wakes up every morning
She takes the milk from her doorstep
Puts on a pair of faded carpet slippers
And walks a painful mile to the launderette
Her husband Jack is slowly dying
Asbestos poisoning had riddled his insides
He got his pension six years early
When they took away his job they took away his pride
Mrs. Wilson sets her clock for seven
To see the children off to school
She can't afford to give them breakfast
Well not as a rule
Her husband Jack has run away
Gone with the barmaid from the Roses' Crown
Picks up her prescription every Friday
She's heading for her second nervous breakdown
Jennifer Lee is only seventeen
She had a baby when she was still at school
Her parents have disowned her
And the social service barely calls
The father was a boy she met at a party
Her sister Debbie's twenty-first
She can't remember his face or his name very well
Anyway he probably doesn't remember her
And every day's the same
On paradise estate
Because paradise came one day too late
We all live in little boxes
Boxes made of bricks
Boxes for unmarried mothers
Elderly and sick
Graffiti on the walls
Tells it all
"Gary loves July"
National Front slogans
"Jesus is coming"
"Kilroy was here"
But paradise came one day too late
On paradise estate
Paradise Estate
by The Television Personalities
Mrs. Brown wakes up every morning
She takes the milk from her doorstep
Puts on a pair of faded carpet slippers
And walks a painful mile to the launderette
Her husband Jack is slowly dying
Asbestos poisoning had riddled his insides
He got his pension six years early
When they took away his job they took away his pride
Mrs. Wilson sets her clock for seven
To see the children off to school
She can't afford to give them breakfast
Well not as a rule
Her husband Jack has run away
Gone with the barmaid from the Roses' Crown
Picks up her prescription every Friday
She's heading for her second nervous breakdown
Jennifer Lee is only seventeen
She had a baby when she was still at school
Her parents have disowned her
And the social service barely calls
The father was a boy she met at a party
Her sister Debbie's twenty-first
She can't remember his face or his name very well
Anyway he probably doesn't remember her
And every day's the same
On paradise estate
Because paradise came one day too late
We all live in little boxes
Boxes made of bricks
Boxes for unmarried mothers
Elderly and sick
Graffiti on the walls
Tells it all
"Gary loves July"
National Front slogans
"Jesus is coming"
"Kilroy was here"
But paradise came one day too late
On paradise estate
"I know we could be so happy (if we wanted to be)"
Post break up, half finished due to artist's unfortunate death. Sad really
Gymnopedies # 3 by Eric Satie if you're in the right (wrong) mood.
Post break up, half finished due to artist's unfortunate death. Sad really
Gymnopedies # 3 by Eric Satie if you're in the right (wrong) mood.
*Miss Daisy*
Suck a Big Hairy....
psycherelic said:Ones that have depressing connections for you personally don't count.
I'd say either
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Hurt by NIN
or Puff the magic dragon by peter, paul and mary (only just realised how sad that song is
Yep, I think its Hurt - Jonny cash is very poiniant,,, I seem to see my life in that song,, One of those songs that you think could've been specially written for you,,, Some horrible lads in school used to sing Puff the magic dragon when i walked past,, coz I smoked,,they really taunted me,,heh,,,One of the kids,, Wanted me to get him some puff few years later,,
I did,, and took a chunk off it(when there was mainly only solid about)
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I was going to suggest Cliff Richard in that context - by all accounts some of his early stuff will be out of copyright soon - whoopee !Poot said:
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scooter_uk
Vakmanschap is Meestersch
Caroline Says II - Lou Reed
Good Feeling - Violent Femmes
The Drugs Don't Work - Verve (vicariously depressing - friend lost father to cancer and bawled each time she heard it )
I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine - Beth Orton is a great song, poignant but not depressing......
Finding 'Night After Night' by The Sounds quite sad at the moment which is very strange!
Good Feeling - Violent Femmes
The Drugs Don't Work - Verve (vicariously depressing - friend lost father to cancer and bawled each time she heard it
)I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine - Beth Orton is a great song, poignant but not depressing......
Finding 'Night After Night' by The Sounds quite sad at the moment which is very strange!
Poot
My wife thinks I work too hard
gentlegreen said:I was going to suggest Cliff Richard in that context - by all accounts some of his early stuff will be out of copyright soon - whoopee !
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Yes, I believe he's campaigning for copyright laws to be changed so he can get royalties for 70 years like the songwriters.
70 years
That SEVENTY YEARS OF LIVING FUCKING DOLL!! So think on.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
don't know why, but these 3 70's moustache/cock rock ballots sprang to mind 
Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I’ve been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.
But I’m near the end and I just ain’t got the time
And I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home.
Come down on your own and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I’ve been waiting all these years.
Somebody holds the key.
Chorus
But I can’t find my way home.
But I can’t find my way home.
But I can’t find my way home.
But I can’t find my way home.
Still I can’t find my way home,
And I ain’t done nothing wrong,
But I can’t find my way home.
Laughing
The Guess Who
I should laugh, but I cry
Because your love has passed me by.
You took me by surprise.
You didn't realize
That I was waiting.
Time goes slowly,
But carries on.
And now the best years
Have come and gone.
You took me by surprise.
I didn't realize
That you were laughing.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
I go alone now
Calling your name
After losing
At the game.
You took me by surprise.
I didn't realize
That you were laughing
Time goes slowly,
But carries on.
And now the best years
Have come and gone.
You took me by surprise.
I didn't realize
That you were laughing.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
(by eric clapton)
Bell bottom blues, you made me cry.
I don’t want to lose this feeling.
And if I could choose a place to die
It would be in your arms.
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I’d gladly do it because
I don’t want to fade away.
Give me one more day, please.
I don’t want to fade away.
In your heart I want to stay.
It’s all wrong, but it’s all right.
The way that you treat me baby.
Once I was strong but I lost the fight.
You won’t find a better loser.
Chorus
Chorus
Bell bottom blues, don’t say goodbye.
I’m sure we’re gonna meet again,
And if we do, don’t you be surprised
If you find me with another lover.
Chorus
I don’t want to fade away.
Give me one more day please.
I don’t want to fade away.
In your heart I long to stay.
Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I’ve been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.
But I’m near the end and I just ain’t got the time
And I’m wasted and I can’t find my way home.
Come down on your own and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I’ve been waiting all these years.
Somebody holds the key.
Chorus
But I can’t find my way home.
But I can’t find my way home.
But I can’t find my way home.
But I can’t find my way home.
Still I can’t find my way home,
And I ain’t done nothing wrong,
But I can’t find my way home.
Laughing
The Guess Who
I should laugh, but I cry
Because your love has passed me by.
You took me by surprise.
You didn't realize
That I was waiting.
Time goes slowly,
But carries on.
And now the best years
Have come and gone.
You took me by surprise.
I didn't realize
That you were laughing.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
I go alone now
Calling your name
After losing
At the game.
You took me by surprise.
I didn't realize
That you were laughing
Time goes slowly,
But carries on.
And now the best years
Have come and gone.
You took me by surprise.
I didn't realize
That you were laughing.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
Laughing! The things you're doing to me.
Laughing! They're not the way it should be.
You took away everything I had.
You put the hurt on me.
(by eric clapton)
Bell bottom blues, you made me cry.
I don’t want to lose this feeling.
And if I could choose a place to die
It would be in your arms.
Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I’d gladly do it because
I don’t want to fade away.
Give me one more day, please.
I don’t want to fade away.
In your heart I want to stay.
It’s all wrong, but it’s all right.
The way that you treat me baby.
Once I was strong but I lost the fight.
You won’t find a better loser.
Chorus
Chorus
Bell bottom blues, don’t say goodbye.
I’m sure we’re gonna meet again,
And if we do, don’t you be surprised
If you find me with another lover.
Chorus
I don’t want to fade away.
Give me one more day please.
I don’t want to fade away.
In your heart I long to stay.
brahaminda
...of the Mind
I heard a happy hardcore version of my heart will go on working at a bar.
Made me realise the human race may not actually deserve to exist
More seriously the most obvious examples of depressing music (Joy Division, Smiths Nick Drake etc.) are the music i find keeps me going i those dark, Dark Hours.
And Hurt, well to sit down as you're dying and pour that onto tape, to have the courage to sing and mean that, i think speaks of a greatness of spirit and personal honesty we should all aspire to.
brahaminda
...of the Mind
Markyd said:
Somebody get me shotgun............
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