The Ghost Song - The Doors

Riders On The Storm - The Doors

The End - The Doors

The Ghost Song - The Doors

Riders On The Storm - The Doors

The End - The Doors


I have to agree with you on these songs. The End is really gloomy but I do like Riders On The Storm even though it's gloomy too.I like Ray Manzarek's piano interlude.I was never a fan of The End.:)

I have to agree with you on these songs. The End is really gloomy but I do like Riders On The Storm even though it's gloomy too.I like Ray Manzarek's piano interlude.I was never a fan of The End.:)
several songs by the doors were based off Morrison's Drug addiction, and his belief and practice in the occult and taboo so its no wonder the doors music had a depressing sound.


break on through is another song based off of Morrison's belief in the occult, The Alabama Song talks about being addicted to Whiskey

Pretty much any death metal song where they scream instead of sing.

Pretty much any death metal song where they scream instead of sing.
Death metal is awesome. :rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock: But often, they DO have to growl in an intelligible way so I can hear about harvesting cadavers from the graveyard and cool stuff like that there. :D Not just Cookie Monster vocals.

I always switch off Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

For most disturbing, one I know of is Rammstein's 'Mein Teil' (My Part).

The song is based on the true story of Armin Meiwes, a German man who killed and ate a voluntary victim he met online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes




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I always switch off Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

Yeah- I guess I can see that. I actually really like that song, but the lyrics are definitely pretty depressing. Musically, it's a great '80s New Wave song though. (especially when coupled with "Where Did Our Love Go?")

As for disturbing song, I would probably list this one-

"John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw
(By the way, I have no idea about the footage for that video- I don't think it's actual footage of Gacy necessarily.)

(It's about the real life serial killer and yes- his life and evil deeds are quite disturbing. But even more disturbing is the point to the song right at the end- which is disturbing because I know it's so true- a point that is easy to forget when we want to point the finger and vilify others.
"In my best behavior- I'm really just like him. Look beneath the floorboards for the secrets I have hid."
This song brings across so well what The Bible says in Romans 3:23 - All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory. And as Psalms 14:3 and 53:3 tell us- there is no one righteous, no- not one. And as James 2:10 says- once we've broken any one part of the law, we're guilty of breaking all of it.
And all sin is equally bad and equally wrong. And of course, that is the real human condition that we are all born with- the problem of a sin nature that's been bred into our DNA ever since the fall of Adam and Eve.
But praise God- He has sent Jesus to die for all of our sins (past, present and future) and rise again to give us salvation from it- just as Romans 6:23 proclaims- the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. :) :cool: And it's free and available to all who will call upon His name and confess Jesus as Lord, believing that God raised Him from the dead- and we will be saved. (Romans 10:9):) :cool:

Turn The Page (Metallica and Bob Seger version) is kinda depressing from a Musicians point of view cause it talks about how "being on the road 365 24/7 eventually takes a toll on a Musician's body."

Country Death Song - Violent Femmes (It was inspired by a true story of a man in the 1800's who threw his daughter down a well, then hung himself in the barn.)

Those car crash/death/suicide songs from the 50's- 60's. :rolleyes:

Last Kiss
Teen Angel
Tell Laura I Love Her
Patches
Moody River
Honey puke:

Turn The Page (Metallica and Bob Seger version) is kinda depressing from a Musicians point of view cause it talks about how "being on the road 365 24/7 eventually takes a toll on a Musician's body."

I like Metallica's version of Turn The Page.:)

Probably anything by Marylin Manson.

Those car crash/death/suicide songs from the 50's- 60's. :rolleyes:

Last Kiss
Teen Angel
Tell Laura I Love Her
Patches
Moody River
Honey puke:

I know! "Deadman's Curve" too!

What was that other song in the 70's about the girl who got pregnant and her dad was going to shoot the boyfriend but she jumped in front of the boyfriend and the bullet hit her instead and the last words of the song are her singing "Daddy, please don't. It wasn't his fault. We're gonna get married....."

What WAS that song! Anyone remember?

"Dirt" by Alice In Chains is probably one of the darkest songs in the world.
It's a revealing song about the desire for suicide.

A disturbing or depressing song isn't necessarily a bad song.

Fly To the Angels by Slaughter

I know! "Deadman's Curve" too!

What was that other song in the 70's about the girl who got pregnant and her dad was going to shoot the boyfriend but she jumped in front of the boyfriend and the bullet hit her instead and the last words of the song are her singing "Daddy, please don't. It wasn't his fault. We're gonna get married....."

What WAS that song! Anyone remember?


Run Joey Run by David Geddes

Run Joey Run by David Geddes

One of the worst songs of the 70's. I thought "Seasons in the Sun" sucked but this piece of dreck is just as bad if not worse.

I know! "Deadman's Curve" too!

What was that other song in the 70's about the girl who got pregnant and her dad was going to shoot the boyfriend but she jumped in front of the boyfriend and the bullet hit her instead and the last words of the song are her singing "Daddy, please don't. It wasn't his fault. We're gonna get married....."

What WAS that song! Anyone remember?


"Run, Joey, Run" by David Geddes?

Here are some more cheery, uplifting tunes!:lol:


Leader Of The Pack-The Shangri-las

I Can Never Go Home Anymore - The Shangri-Las (about a runaway)

At Seventeen" by Janis Ian
Society's Child-Janis Ian

Timothy -The Buoys (about cannibalism):eek:

Sylvia's Mother -Dr. Hook

Blue Oyster Cult had a song off of their first album called "She's As Beautiful As a Foot", which is about some girl who a guy calls ugly, he bites into her face, and then the girl turns into a cow. It's very weird. But I likey.

Blue Oyster Cult had a song off of their first album called "She's As Beautiful As a Foot", which is about some girl who a guy calls ugly, he bites into her face, and then the girl turns into a cow. It's very weird. But I likey.


How romantic!:crazy: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I don't know what it was about the late 60s/and early-to-mid seventies, but there were a lot of depressing songs. Maybe it was what was happening socially and politically at the time.

Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan
Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold
I Started a Joke by The Bee Gees
Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy
In the Ghetto by Elvis Presley

And 1988's Close My Eyes Forever by Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne.

" Shannon" by Henry Gross this is sadder than any song mentioned so far!!!

Six Feet From The Edge by Creed

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this song might be more pop than rock but ive never been to me by charelne was a depressing piece of dreck

Alive- Pearl Jam is very disturbing

"Son", she said, "Have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your Daddy was nothin' but a
While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin'
Sorry you didn't see him, but i'm glad we talked"

(She's basically telling her son all those guys you thought were your dad were just guys I was making love to while your real dad was dying."

Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man's room
She said "i'm ready for you"
" I can't remember anything to this very day"
'Cept the look, the look
Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare."

(now she's lusting over her own son.)

Those car crash/death/suicide songs from the 50's- 60's. :rolleyes:

Last Kiss
Teen Angel
Tell Laura I Love Her
Patches
Moody River
Honey puke:

You forgot "Ebony Eyes" by the Everly Brothers - which is actually about a plane crash, but it's along the same lines of the songs you mentioned. My dad, who has always been a big fan of the Everlys going back to his childhood, even called that song a dog.

Run Joey Run by David Geddes

Thank you!

*goes to Youtube*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT2LGv-s3xQ

I can't believe no one's mentioned The Cure yet. It doesn't matter which song - they were pretty much all depressing. :eek: :lol:

Songs that are depressing or disturbing aren't necessarily bad. They invent genres. That was the whole point behind Black Sabbath. In the late 60's/early 70's, they began singing about things that no one ever touched and did it in such a dark way, they formed metal.

I can't believe no one's mentioned The Cure yet. It doesn't matter which song - they were pretty much all depressing. :eek: :lol:
I thought "Just Like Heaven" was a nice song, and "Close To Me" and "Love Cats" were cutesy.

Or is there just no escaping the sad sack "Shoegazing" Goth persona of Robert Smith?

^ I think it had a lot to do with the latter.

^ I think it had a lot to do with the latter.
:nod: :yeahthat

I remember a quote from SPIN magazine about another fellow droopy Brit performer, Morrissey, formerly of The Smiths who had his own rising solo career while maintaining a mopey persona as a celibate vegan. Someone wrote: "I think Morrissey should get laid and have a cheeseburger. In that order."

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And if you want to see something really depressing, the latest Rolling Stone has a picture of Robert Smith playing live--with gray hair, he's chubby and looks like someone's grandmother!!:eek: :lol:

And if you want to see something really depressing, the latest Rolling Stone has a picture of Robert Smith playing live--with gray hair, he's chubby and looks like someone's grandmother!!:eek: :lol:

Robert Smith is actually morphing into my grandmother...I'm convinced.

Robert Smith is actually morphing into my grandmother...I'm convinced.
:lol:

Is she about to sing, "Boys Don't Cry"? :happyface

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I remember a quote from SPIN magazine about another fellow droopy Brit performer, Morrissey, formerly of The Smiths who had his own rising solo career while maintaining a mopey persona as a celibate vegan. Someone wrote: "I think Morrissey should get laid and have a cheeseburger. In that order."

:lol:
Sound like something you'd hear from Mojo Nixon.

:lol: Is she about to sing, "Boys Don't Cry"? :happyface
:p :D I'm debating whether I should go see that or not.

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Is she about to sing, "Boys Don't Cry"? :happyface

If she is, we're all in trouble...she died in 2007.

If she is, we're all in trouble...she died in 2007.
:doh: :lol:

Sound like something you'd hear from Mojo Nixon.


:p :D I'm debating whether I should go see that or not.
:yeahthat: :lol:

:doh: :lol:

I wouldn't mind seeing her do a rendition of "Pictures of You" though...:lol: