I think etheir Hello by evanescence or nobodys home by avril


I :heart: depressing things

In The Living Years by Mike & The Mechanics is one that's always depressed me. I can't listen to it without crying. Another depressing song is Hit 'Em Up, by 2PAC. That song is so hate filled, that it's depressing.

It's a country song, and believe me I'm not country song lover, But I heard this song at a family get together, and it's called Whisky Lullaby. Although I don't like country music I love that song LOL

I know it's kinda contradicting

"Mother" by John Lennon

Are we talking about songs that are so sad they make you feel good, or songs
so depressing they leave this heavy feeling in the pit of your stomach?

"Pennyroyal Tea" by Nirvana is just so damn depressing I refuse to listen to it.
I think everyone knows what pennyroyal tea is, and why he's singing about it.

Loads of Nirvana songs always depress me (although I keep on listening to them). One prime example would be "Dumb".

"Mother" by Pink Floyd always makes me cry too.

Another song that's guaranteed to bring tears is "Tears In Heaven" by Eric Clapton.

Here Without You-3 Doors Down.Everytime I hear it,I think of Eddie Guerrero since that was song played in his life tribute and burst into tears sometimes:crying:

mama said - metallica (i've never heard the whole thing though because i start crying after the first few lines and turn it off; i'm sure it wouldn't make me as sad if i didn't relate to it though)
a toute le monde - megadeth
in my darkest hour - megadeth
stairway to heaven - led zeppelin
suicide note part 1 - pantera
breathe no more - evanescence
bleeding me - metallica
nothing else matters - metallica

that's all i can think of..i have a list of depressing songs somewhere that i intend to illegally burn onto cd. i listened to pantera's "cemetery gates" a lot too last year after my friend died.

yesterday by paul mccartney

Dust in the Wind by Kansas.

"Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton
"Angel" by Sarah McLachlan (though I love it don't get me wrong, big fan of Sarah's!)
"What's Love Got To Do With It" by Tina Turner (a friend of mine died in a car accident in 2000 and when we were little I heard him singing that in the shower, I always think of that when I hear it)

The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis

"The End"- The Doors
"I hurt Myself" (Not Sure If Thats The title)- Johnny Cash

"You Make Me Feel Brand New" by The Stylistics. Never liked that song, it was too melodramatic and sappy. puke:

Cream's "Deserted Cities of the Heart":

There was a song my mom always talked about being sad, Ebony Eyes by the Everly Brothers. It's about a guy about to get married wating for his fiance's plane to come in, but it crashes as she dies. There seem to be alot of depessing songs like that in the early 60's.

Teen Angel - Mark Dinning

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=15863

The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics.

I don't know why, and the lyrics don't even have much of a relevance to me directly, but I CANNOT listen to this song without coming to tears. Only song that has this effect.

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=15863

The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics.

I don't know why, and the lyrics don't even have much of a relevance to me directly, but I CANNOT listen to this song without coming to tears. Only song that has this effect.Wouldn't there be a difference between a good "tearjerker" song and a depressing song that is painful and unbearable to listen to? "The Living Years" sounds like a good song with lyrics that bring about a good, tearful emotion, what it's supposed to do, while a lot of other songs are rather maudlin and morbid.

I think the most depressing song for me is Uncle Albert By Paul McCartney. The whole song is depressing it just sounds so sad and there singing about being sorry to there uncle about not doing anything all day. I mean even the music video is depressing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQadhVz1qqU

Wouldn't there be a difference between a good "tearjerker" song and a depressing song that is painful and unbearable to listen to?

To me there's no difference - if a song brings about tears, then it's depressing. That simple.

She Talks To Angels - Black Crowes
I Will Never Be The Same - Melissa Etheridge
The Show Must Go On - Queen (Freddie's Swan song)

Hotel California - Eagles

not sure why.

The Christmas Shoes - I forget the artist.

HONEY by Bobby Goldsburrow :barf: :barf: :barf: A horribly depressing song about a man mourning his late, addleminded wife, so horribly depressing (and just plain BAD), it makes Terry Jack's song SEASONS IN THE SUN (about a man about to die from some horrible disease) seem like a laugh-fest, by comparison!!!!!!!

^ Mikey, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees did a solo recording in 1970 (?) that was very similar, both lyrically and musically, to Honey. It's called I'll Kiss Your Memory, and I have it at home on the Tales From The Brothers Gibb 4-CD box set. It's not much better than Honey or Seasons In The Sun. Man, those ARE depressing songs, aren't they??

I took this book out of the library and recommend it to any pop music lover - here's a review I found on popmatters.com:

I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard
by Tom Reynolds

There is a certain kind of pop song that seems specifically designed to send the conscientious listener into screaming purple fits of despair. Everyone who listens to pop music can identify a few songs that stick out in their memory as being totally, incongruously bad, so bad as to be overwhelmingly depressing. The idea is not that pop music can’t be melancholy or sad, but that most pop songwriters don’t really know how to do this very well, and quite often the fruit of their attempts at emotional relevancy rot on the vine. There is no shortage of sad songs that overshoot the mark entirely, creating a kind of feverishly putrescent, morbidly depressing effect that can easily overcome the unwary listener.

It is to these songs that Tom Reynolds has dedicated the present volume. Sometimes a song is so overwhelmingly misconceived that it becomes laughably so. Thankfully, Reynolds has categorized these car-crashes for the curious reader, even going so far as to begin with literal car crashes, or rather, that horrid classic rock sub-genre devoted to forlorn love and twisted metal. ("Tell Laura I Love Her” serves as an excellent example—has there ever been a stupider ode to teenage death?) Other categories are similarly self-explanatory. “I Hate Myself and Want To Die” deals with a few wrist-slittingly depressing examples of suicidal angst (Karen Carpenter, unsurprisingly). “I’m Trying To Be Profound and Touching, But Really Suck At It” is, also unsurprisingly, a pretty fat category, with appearances by Kiss ("Beth"), “MacArthur Park” (singled out for the Richard Harris version, but really, any one will do), and especially Bette Midler’s “The Rose”. Is there a human being alive who does not freeze in mortal terror at the maudlin sound of those first plunked piano keys?

For the most part, Reynolds serves as an admirable tour guide through his murderers’ row of craptastically depressing tunes. In addition to merely mocking the tracks in question, he also educates the reader as to their provenance, an exercise that feels slightly akin to reading biographical sketches of the scientists who first identified anthrax (not the band). He is also remarkably even-handed in his denunciations: iconic artists like Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, and the Doors come in for as much of a thrashing as perennial punching bags like Gilbert O’Sullivan, Phil Collins, and Celine Dion. (If you’re interested, Springsteen got dinged for “The River”, Floyd for “Comfortably Numb”, and the Doors for—what else?—“The End”.) There is a noticeable absence of any Beatles’ tracks, however, which is somewhat suspicious considering that I personally have petit mal seizures every time “The Long And Winding Road” comes on the radio. The Rolling Stones are mentioned but only in passing, as Reynolds focuses on Marianne Faithful’s version of “Sister Morphine” at the expense of the Stones’ slightly less depressing interpretation. Also, hip-hop and R&B go entirely unmentioned—surely he could have thrown in a token mention of Master P’s “I Miss My Homies”?

If I have one complaint with the book, it is that Reynolds’ sure grasp of musical minutiae and keen satiric sense completely fails when he discusses those groups who specialize in intentionally glum music. I didn’t mind him giving the business to Metallica’s “One”, because those guys are famously humorless and that song is humorless to the point of self-parody. But his criticisms of bands like the Cure, Joy Division and Nine Inch Nails seems, frankly, pedantic. It’s common knowledge that the Cure write a lot of depressing music, but Reynolds seems constitutionally unable to understand the merits of a dour group—he seems totally unaware of the fact that the Cure are not humorless, and that their most depressing music is always balanced by delightful excursions into cheeky pop ("The Love Cats"). Maybe he just finds something inherently silly in the notion of dark and gloomy music. Certainly, while I will not disagree with the notion that Johnny Cash delivered an absolutely devastating cover of “Hurt”, I think that it’s simply false and needlessly inflammatory to assert that, in his words, Trent Reznor’s original “chomps the rusty bar”. Anyone who saw Reznor perform the song on last year’s Hurricane Katrina telethon—or anyone who has ever seen the song performed live as the centerpiece of a Nine Inch Nails show—can attest to the fact that the man who wrote the song certainly knows how to sing it.

Perhaps Reynolds should simply have stuck with a certain era—he is strongest when discussing the pop detritus of the ‘60s and ‘70s, not so much as the years advance and artists begin to explore depressing themes as a matter of course. A great deal of the fun of pop satire of this sort comes from the sensation that the author and the audience are both in on the same joke, but in discussing acts like the Cure, Reynolds proves that he really doesn’t get the joke at all. Which is a shame, because the majority of the book is well-written and consistently witty.

There are many 'downers' out there but the award goes, as far as I'm concerned, to Zager and Evans' In the Year 2525--If depression is what you're after, this song'll do it in about three minutes flat!

Down in a hole-Alice in chains
Sappy-Nirvana
Everybody hurts-REM
Hallelujah-Jeff buckley
Last kiss-Pearl jam
Creep-Radiohead
I could have lied-RHCP
Every song Elliot smith has made.

There are many 'downers' out there but the award goes, as far as I'm concerned, to Zager and Evans' In the Year 2525--If depression is what you're after, this song'll do it in about three minutes flat!
Oh yeah, that is a good one, that song creeped me right out.....and still does!

And there's that classic tearjerker Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers :barf: (There was a time from Buddy Holly's death until the Beatles saved R&R [temporarily] where depressing songs about death were ALL the rage!)

There are many 'downers' out there but the award goes, as far as I'm concerned, to Zager and Evans' In the Year 2525--If depression is what you're after, this song'll do it in about three minutes flat!
That song is mentioned in the book I posted about earlier. So is Last Kiss and Teen Angel.

Here's another creepy, downright depressing song: Ebony Eyes by the Everly Brothers. *shudders* My dad said he thinks that one is a dog, even though he is an Everly fan.