So, whats your favorite depressing song?:)

"Mexico" - Incubus

"Beautiful world" - Rage against the machine

"Over and Over" - Morcheeba

"My angel" - Massive Attack

"Good Riddence" - Green day

"Scientist" - Coldplay

"In my place" - Coldplay

"Trouble" - Coldplay

"Bang Bang" - Kill Bill soundtrack

"Council of Elrond" - LOTR Soundtrack.

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 - Funeral March

TAPS

Ben Folds Five- Brick.

Coldplay- A Warning Sign.

Weezer- Only in Dreams.

Incubus- Mexico(Amen Sarge, Amen)

RadioHead- Fake Plastic Trees






Lots more to.....

*Sarge, We are the two biggest Incubus fans*

"Give me a Amen to that" :cool:

Some depressing songs, in random order:

"Kiss Me Hello" - Tommy Shaw
"Reach For the Bottle" - Tommy Shaw
"Safety" - Floater
"Bottle" - Floater
"Possum's Funeral" - Floater
"When They Ring the Golden Bells" - Natalie Merchant
"Twist in My Sobriety" - Tanita Tikaram
"I'm Going Home" - Tanita Tikaram
"If I Go Away" - Savatage
"Small Dark Movie" - Greg Brown
"Empty Garden" - Elton John
"Jamie Across the Water" - Boiled in Lead
"Release" - Pearl Jam
"Pray Your Gods" - Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Before You Were Born" - Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Tomorrow, Wendy" - Concrete Blonde
"Walking in the Woods" - The Pursuit of Happiness
"On Earth As It Is In Heaven" - Ennio Morricone
"Ave Maria Guarani" - Ennio Morrcone
"All Night Thing" - Temple of the Dog
"Say Hello 2 Heaven" - Temple of the Dog
"Come On Now Inside" - Izzy Stradlin & Ju Ju Hounds
"Marx and Engels" - Belle & Sebastian
"You Made Me Forget My Dreams" - Belle & Sebastian

Just a few as I wander through my library. On the flip-side, of course, is the idea of catharsis songs; Savatage's "Heal My Soul" and "Believe", for instance; Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time"; Duran Duran's "Ordinary World"; Jane Siberry's "It Can't Rain All the Time"; Peter Gabriel's "Secret World"; Twisted Sister's "I Believe In You"; &c, &c. But those are for another topic.

Oh...Tiassa good call, I forgot Pearl Jam.

Pearl Jam- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town.

*Essential*

I know of the most depressing song of all time. And its never been released.

<url src="http://www.angelfire.com/nb/vermona22/longtimesunshine.mp3">Weezer -- Longtime Sunshine</url>

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/vermona22/longtimesunshine.mp3
(Mods -- as a demo that the band released, this mp3 is completely *legal*)

Nice addicting melody.

exit music [for a film] - radiohead
gone for good - morphine
needle in the hay - elliot smith
something i can never have - nine inch nails
sober - tool
i hate myself and want to die - nirvana
lovesong - the cure
creep - radiohead
wicked game - chris isaak
indifference - pearl jam
moonlight sonata - ludwig van beethoven
wish you were here - pink floyd

Nine Inch Nails- Hurt

Originally posted by Xerxes
I know of those most depressing song of all time. And its never been released.

<url src="http://www.angelfire.com/nb/vermona22/longtimesunshine.mp3">Weezer -- Longtime Sunshine</url>

http://www.angelfire.com/nb/vermona22/longtimesunshine.mp3
(Mods -- as a demo that the band released, this mp3 is completely *legal*)

It has an addicting and sort of annoying melody.



Just Downloaded it......Awesome, I love it. Everyone should download it.

OOhhhh Guyute! Thanks for making this topic ^^"
I could definitely sit back and download some of these songs
for my kick back leisure.
I'll go get my cup of hot tea, turn up my speakers.....listen.
Now all I need is someone's shoulder to cry on when I play them.
(sniff) I'm going to have to steal yours, Guyute!

Oh geezs...:o;) :p

Well, Your Welcome.

Add to the list though...




RadioHead- Kid A

New Dawn Fades - Joy Division

One - Harry Nilsson

These Days - Nico

The Stranger Song - Leonard Cohen

Fox in the Snow - Belle & Sebastian

Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell - The Flaming Lips

Perfect Day - Lou Reed

The Asphalt World - Suede


...anyway, that's all I can think of for the moment.

Being Alone Together - David and David

Kingdom of Rain - The The with Sinead O'Connor

The Sinking Feeling - The The


All my books lay on the table
Waitin' to unfold
I sit and stare at my reflection
While the darkness chills my bones
My head fills like a junk shop
In desperate need of repair
The path of least resistance leads to the
Garbage heap of despair
I think I'd better get back in bed

I'm just a symptom of the moral decay
That's gnawing at the heart of the country
(x2)

You can't destroy your problems
By destroying yourself
Death is not the answer
For your soul may burn in hell
My memory my fond deceiver
Is turning all my past into pain
While I'm being raped by progress
Tomorrow's world is here to stay
They wouldn't have it any other way

I'm just a symptom of the moral decay
That's gnawing at the heart of the country.

Creep- Radiohead.
Then there are occasional hits that have managed to make me sad or endorse a sadness that was already there, but I don't recall their names.

Stop - Pink Floyd
Jugband Blues - Pink Floyd

That's all I can remember.

Where to start....where to start.

The Samples - Nothing lasts for long
-Stillwater
-The Streets in the rain
The Gufs - Smile
DMB - Grace is gone
-Say goodbye
- Seek up
- The Dreaming Tree
NIN - Something I can never have
Radiohead - Creep
-High & Dry
-Bends
Weezer - Sweater song
Toad the wet sproket - Windmills
-Crowing
BF5 - Evaporated
-Brick
Counting Crows - August & Everything After

To name a few :(

:m:

I'll come back and add more in later, but i just had to put this one up.

Kom susser todd.
I don't know who it's by, but you have to hear it. We have decided it is officially one of the most depressing songs known to mankind. The strange thing is that the music isn't really all that depressing sounding. Its kinda poppy, almost slightly upbeat. But, if you pay attention to the lyrics, its one of those songs that you wind up listening to over and over again. After about an hour you are left with this feeling...like you just wan tot die, but that wouldn't fix anythign either. LIke everythign is completely pointless. You have to hear it.

Amazing Grace is but another that comes to mind.

My all-time favorite depressing song:

Beck's classic: "I'm a Loser Baby so why don't you kill me"

"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
butane in my veins so i'm out to cut the junkie
with the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables
dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
kill the headlights and put it in neutral
stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
baby's in Reno with the vitamin D
got a couple of couches sleep on the love seat
someone keeps sayin' I'm insane to complain
about a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
don't believe everything that you breathe
you get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
so shave your face with some mace in the dark
savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park
(yo cut it)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
(double-barrel buckshot)
Soy un perdedor
i'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare
banned all the music with a phony gas chamber
'cuz one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
one's got on the pole shove the other in a bag
with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose job
the daytime crap with the folksinger slop
he hung himself with a guitar string
slap the turkey neck and it's hangin' on a pigeon wing
you can't write if you can't relate
trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
and my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
who's chokin' on the splinters
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
(get crazy with the cheeze whiz)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
(drive-by body pierce)
(yo bring it on down)
soooooooyy....
(I'm a driver I'm a winner things are gonna change I can feel it)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
[repeat]
(Sprechen sie Deutches, baby)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby so why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm sayin'?)

Favorite part:

things are gonna change I can feel it!

'Venus' from 'The Planets' by Gustav Holst. Well, at least, it starts out depressing...

Loser never seemed depressing to me, more comical.

Oh -- and

Our Lady Peace -- 4 am

The song gets ghey after you've heard it twice.

Originally posted by Guyute

*Sarge, We are the two biggest Incubus fans*

"Give me a Amen to that" :cool:

WAIT A SECOND! HOLD THE PHONE!

Neb and I have already taken that title hands down....even though we have never seen a show in our lives:rolleyes:, we would still travel across our country to see them live and in color. Hell he even wants the incubus fish car *drool*.

Giving In — <i>Adema</i>
My Immortal — <i>Evanescence</i>
Lost in the Darkness — <i>Jekyll & Hyde (Broadway)</i>
It's On! — <i>Korn</i>
Tourniquet — <i>Mariyln Manson</i>
One — <i>Metallica</i>
World So Cold — <i>Mudvayne</i>
One Song Glory — <i>Rent (Broadway)</i>
Adia — <i>Sarah McLachlan</i>
Underneath Your Clothes — <i>Shakira</i>
Everything Ends — <i>Slipknot</i>
Daphne Descends — <i>Smashing Pumpkins</i>
Detached — <i>Spineshank</i>
Waking Up Beside You — <i>Stabbing Westward</i>
Yesterday — <i>Stereomud</i>
This Time — <i>Stone Sour</i>
I — <i>Taproot</i>

Testify, I beg to differ. My love was stated since the day I have been here.:D


Tonight Tonight- Smashing Pumpkins

Whoa Pragmathen, those bands are freakin brutal. And I mean BROOOTAL. You are so KVLT! \m/

You probably worship Jesus too.

This Time Imperfect - AFI
Polly - Nirvana
End - Another Society
Hurt - NIN

Let's see, depressing songs:

Burzum- Det Som Engang Var: the ultimate ambient black metal epic. A lush archaic melody plays against a wall of static guitar, followed by a violent outburst of ear shattering screams. The voice is both horrific and mournful, as if the singer himself were crying for a spiritual holocaust in some time before our time. A painful narration about the death of Norse culture at the hands of Christians.

Emperor- Towards The Pantheon: A simply dank and downright cold musical landscape is constructed by the genius that is Emperor. Perfectly capturing some romantic vision of a dark past, the band guides the listener through a damned but majestic journey through the mind.

Immortal- Sun No Longer Rises: Your blood will freeze in your veins as Immortal guides their victims through moody warped guitar riffs that are barely listenible in the cloud of drums.

Gorguts- Nostalgia: As nihilistic in composition as the subject matter, Gorguts presents a post-moral vision of the universe, playing their primal music out in ultra-technical jazz-like compositions. It doesn't really depress me, but the fatalism behind it is a bit defeating.

Evanescence -
People buy this shit and think that it's deep. This is depressing.

Originally posted by Xev
Evanescence -
People buy this shit and think that it's deep. This is depressing.






Amen:o

Testify, I beg to differ. My love was stated since the day I have been here.

Did you come here this year? I checked your stats and it says your registered in 03...I'm pretty confident in saying that my love for Incubus goes far beyond this single year.

I gotta laugh! (what else should I do?) The easy way out is to take offense and get all defensive and shit.

I'm a Matrix junkie—despite all reason I still love the series. A song from Evanescence just hit me in a way that related to the movie and I latched onto it internally.

It's like watching a commercial and being really pissed off that the commercial touches you in an emotional way because it's so obviously contrived to do just that. But I still think about that commercial (whatever) from time to time 'Excuse me, there's something in my eye!' and so I'm linked irrevocably with that damn ad. Same with music. If it causes emotions to well up inside, I'm as good as dead for going out and listening to it.

Yeah, tons of other sheeple listen to it as well; doesn't stop me, even though tons of other people think it should. Someone says it's shit and another non-conformist chimes in. 'Course it'd be easy saying something they're into is shit and about as subtle as a brick in the face, but then I wouldn't understand the connection it has with them.

Thanks <b>and200x</b>! My music is quite brootal. About Jesus ... Did the name tag clue you in or something?

Sounds like same old tired leftism: "I'm not a sheeple, I'm different, I don't fit in yo, I'm part of the OTHER crowd. I shop at Hot Topic, because it is a store for rebels and TrVe metal heads. Don't judge other people's tastes, because accepting everyone and everything is the brutal thing to do." Yawn.

Originally posted by testify
WAIT A SECOND! HOLD THE PHONE!

Neb and I have already taken that title hands down....even though we have never seen a show in our lives:rolleyes:, we would still travel across our country to see them live and in color. Hell he even wants the incubus fish car *drool*.

This doesn't prove jack squat. I believe me and Guyute need to have a bloody battle to settle this with you...your partner is missing. Outside of school at 3....


BTW i have heard their shows are pretty cheap....in ticket sales that is.

I'm game.

and2kx, your thinking is as outmoded as your moniker. That's the thing. I'm not saying I'm not a sheeple, I'm saying in this respect that I <i>am</i>. I <i>do</i> fit in. I <i>am</i> one of the crowd.

<i>Yawn</i>??? Now you get it. You're a sheeple just like me. Two peas in a pod! People conform just as much to non-conformity as they do with the 'crowd'.

That's the great thing about people like you (and you're really everywhere no matter how much you may tell yourself differently when you look in the mirror) every way, but your way, is the wrong/leftist/brvtal way. But the truly great thing is that this, in reality, <b>includes</b> your way of thinking.

And where do you hang out if it's not Hot Topic? Playing pocket pool online? 'Hey everyone, take a gander at me. See how I'm <i>not</i> stepping foot into Hot Topic? I'm so kewl.'

God, man, you're probably one of those people that's watched Seinfeld or Simpsons and laughed. Oh wait, so's everyone else.

Yeah, Nebula doesn't even HAVE to be here... I can take you both on myself!

"You don't want to see me mad!"... *HULKS UP*... grrrrrr

That's the great thing about people like you (and you're really everywhere no matter how much you may tell yourself differently when you look in the mirror) every way, but your way, is the wrong/leftist/brvtal way. But the truly great thing is that this, in reality, includes your way of thinking.

Nature favors competition, not conformity. Of course I am a sheep, we all are at some point. Did I say I wasn't? From your selection of words, you come off sounding like an egalitarian.

Shatter - London After Midnight.

Best depressive song in existance. :D

I realize I already said Harry Nilsson, but "without you" has my vote for most (and most effectively) depressing song of all time.

It might not depressing but i think other wise.....
"My Decemeber" By Linkin Park. It has a blues type of rythem.



P.S. This is 700 th post. Yipe

The Pyramid Song- Radiohead
Tears in Heaven- Eric Clapton (especially knowing the
circumstances)

Actually, Radiohead has alot of them for me, I just don't know the names. Depressing Radiohead is the best Radiohead.

Brandon

Originally posted by Brandon432003
Actually, Radiohead has alot of them for me, I just don't know the names. Depressing Radiohead is the best Radiohead. depressing radiohead =

fake plastic trees
high and dry
in limbo
how to disappear completely
climbing up the walls
subterranean homesick alien
no surprises
scatterbrain
we suck young blood
the gloaming
i might be wrong
knives out
morning bell
you and whose army?

ANY RADIOHEAD IS THE BEST RADIOHEAD! :eek:

depressing lyrics? No, I haven't found any...... but depressing compositions rule my Winamp.....

Only one song for me:

So much sea between us - Procol Harum

let him who fears his hollow
stand up and make a speach.
for him perhaps and emperors throne
If he could only speak.

But it's realy the organ line that brings me to tears. :(

Radiohead is depressing.

So is Coldplay.

And Ben Folds Five.

depressing no one has mentioned yet


Tomorrow Never Comes by BHTTM

She says, "I just might leave tomorrow."
He says, "Tomorrow never comes."
So we'll just learn to love our sorrow.
I'll love you tender as your sleeping.
I'll love you bitter through the day.

What does Bart Simpson have to say about this thread?


Ah, making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel.

:D

When the levee breaks - Led Zeppelin

here are some that come to mind


indian summer 'angry son'
the bled 'red wedding'
the saddest landscape 'the sixth golden ticket'
a day's refrain 'screaming lessons' and 'we grow numb'
xiu xiu 'hives'
jawbreaker 'accident prone'
circle takes the square 'our need to bleed'

so many more, but if you get a chance download those.

Korn- Faggot......
Korn- Daddy.............

Intense Lyrics....

For when you feel hardcore......


-Guyute

Bent - Swollen

Unless i'm blind nobody mentioned Nic Cave, the "i've been contemplating suicide" song...dun think its actually called that though :P

Nick Cave = poeple just ain't no good
Johnny Cash cover of =hurt

TRAVIS

wind cries mary-jimi hendrix
Hey Joe-jimi

It may surprise you young sprouts to know that there was depressing music before Goth and Industrial Rock.

Absolutely anything by Hank Williams, for starters!

Songs about the sad, mad state of the world are depressing, but there's still nothing that beats a broken heart for sheer downness.

"Long, Long Time," by Linda Ronstadt. "I Fall to Pieces," by Patsy Cline.

To pick one that's not about broken hearts that hasn't gotten a lot of attention so you might not know about it, there's Aimee Mann's tune, "Jacob Marley's Chain." A nice depressing look at the world.

Some of the Classic Rock that's always on the air is really downbeat. Have you ever really listened to the lyrics to "Hotel California"? "Stairway to Heaven" is not exactly upbeat pop either. Or back to the sixties, Kris Kristofferson was the king of depression: "Me and Bobby McGee," which is really an allegory about the sixties coming to an end, not just losing a girlfriend, and "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," an ode to a really bad day that never ever ends because the world sucks.

Hey, don't knock Evanescence! I don't know that I agree with the observation that people think they're deep. People think they're depressing, and that's what this thread is about.

And if you're up for (down for?) a symphonic-length oeuvre of depression, check out Richard Strauss's "Metamorphoses." We went to a live performance of it in L.A., where audiences are notoriously rude and noisy and clap in all the wrong places. When the piece came to an end there was absolute silence for several minutes. Six thousand people just sat there stunned.

The most depressing songs are:
Mad World - Gary Jules
Drive - Incubus
Strawberry Gashes - Jack off Jill
One More Suicide - Marcy Playground
Creep - Radiohead
Every you Every me - Placebo
Colourblind - Counting Crows
A World So Cold - Mudvayne
4 am - Our Lady Peace
and finally...
Not An Addict - K's Choice\

Agree, disagree....I'm right ;)

"Cat in the Cradle" - Harry Chapman (???)
No other song can touch this tearjerker....
"Something In the Way"- Nirvana

The Schindler's List theme is sad ...

"Yes I am" by Radiohead.

hmmmmm are we talkin depression here or 'tearjerkers'?

Lament - Ultravox
Russians - Sting
Crying - Roy Orbison
I Fall To Pieces - Patsy Cline
Make Believe - Conway Twitty
The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash

Most of the songs I would have said have already been posted except for Nirvana - "Lake of Fire".

"My Immortal"- Evanesence

Song makes my mom cry every time she hears it.

dam i hate evanescence

Im Sorry-Evergrey

Recreation Day-Evergrey

Masterplan-Evergrey

Dark-Deep-Heavy-Soft-Melodic-Voclas with emotion=Awesome

Depressing songs? Well, I got a lot of them, the most depressing are the songs from Sentenced I suppose. I will just post one song then:

2. Noose

[music: Tenkula & Sentenced, lyrics: Lopakka]

No way out of your misery
Alone in pain and agony
Lay depressed and hollow
One thought in your mind
-No Tomorrow

And then you had made up your mind
and thought it was your time
You left this world without shedding a tear
without hope, without fear

So you thought you'd just put your head
into the Noose and let it all go...and so you did
Oh yeah, you did

Now you come haunting every night
Calling my name until I...
wake up feeling this sorrow
One thought in my mind
- I will follow

I'll drink the booze to depress myself
then I take the rope and express myself
I'll leave this world without shedding a tear
without hope, without fear

Yeah, I think I'll put my head
into the Noose and let it all go...and so I will
Oh yeah, I will

I'll take the rope, just like you
and wherever you are, I'll be too

I think I'll just put my head
into the Noose and let it all go...and so I will
Oh yeah, I will

(Sentenced, album: Down)


Most of their songs are like that

Terry Jacks - Seasons in the sun

sad, but not depressing, this version is slighly altered to make it warmer, the original is in French by a Belgium artis saying the last goodbye.

Waterloo Sunset - Many people committed suicde listening to this song.

Waterloo Sunset - Many people committed suicde listening to this song. Who is that song by? When I googled it, it came up with multiple bands.

The Kinks.

Hey, i just was gonna give you a little of my songs i have in my library, sorry if some are repeated...

Kid Rock- Only God Knows Why
Filter- Take a picture
Hoobastank- The Reason
Metallica- Fade To Black- probably one of the most depressing songs i have ever listened to
RadioHead- Creep, Street Spirit( fade out)
Gary Jules- Mad World
Nirvana- Heart Shaped Box, About A Girl, Something in the way, Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Linkin Park- My December
Pearl Jam- Jeremy- especially the music video, you'll view the song a little differant if you watch teh music video then listen, my mouth dropped at the end of it
Bush- Glycerine
The Mash TV Theme- Suicide is Painless
The Theme from Requiem For A Dream- Lux Atterna<-- (or something like that) especially if you've seen the movie you'll understand the strength in the song
Paul McCartney- Let It Be
John Lennon- Imagine
DMX- Slippin
NIN- Hurt, Downward Spiral (the song) Where is Everybody<-- (listen to the lyrics)
Phish- Dirt
Silverchair- Ana's Song, I Miss You Love
Bob Dylan- Knock Knock On Heaven's Door
Limp Bizkit- Behind Blue Eyes
Evanescence- My Immortal <-- beautiful song and , Hello, Solitude
Adema- Betrayed Me
Puff Daddy- I'll Be Missing You
Blink 182- Adam's Song, Story of a Lonely Guy, I Miss You
Eric Clapton- Tears In Heaven
Coldplay- Trouble, Yellow
Mariah Carey- Hero, Shudder
Simon & Garfunkel- The Sound of Silence
Dream Theater- Hollow Years
Alice in Chains- NutShell
the alan parsons project- Dont Let It Show
Garbage- Cup Of Coffee

If your really in a pissed off mood, P.O.D- Anything Right, awesome song!
and any Linkin Park song can be either depressing or angry depending on the shit you've been through, especially if you just broke up with someone. But these are just some from my mp3 collection

Aimee Mann: Jacob Marley's Chain
Alice Cooper: The Quiet Room
Maria McKee: Only Once
Roxy Music: Dance Away
Joan Osborne: Pensacola
Sisters of Mercy: This Corrosion
Alison Moyet: She Keeps Whispering Your Name
Linkin Park: In the End
Fairport Convention: One More Chance
Hank Williams: I Can't Help It if I'm Still in Love with You
Toni Childs: I've Got to Go Now
Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall
Judy Collins: Both Sides Now
AC/DC: The Night Prowler
Sade: Sally
U2: Pride in the Name of Love

"Ride On" by AC/DC is a damn fine song, but the ultimate depressing song has to be Johnny Cash's cover of "hurt."

(first post)

Was searching google for sad songs and found you guys, thought id share.

Bright Eyes - Something Vague
Counting Crows - Long December & Colorblind
Gary Jules - Mad World (donnie darko soundtrack)**
Nirvana - Oh Me
Beatles - Yesterday
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

** that one is definately the most depressing, a great cover song.

-nick

The Last Samurai theme song.....I like that alot...

No one has said anything by Evanescence, have they? *grimaces*

My faves are;
Black Sheep - Sneaker Pimps (actually, nearly all their songs)
The Grave - Don McLean
With or Without You - U2

the theme songs of Titanic and Schindler's List are very depressing too

"Shiver" by Coldplay

For some odd reason I find the piano part in Final Fantasy VI (yes, the old SNES game) to be rather poignant. I am a coniseur of much classical music, but for some reason I find this particular videogame to have one of the sadder songs on the earth. For something so minimal it carries so much weight.

No one has said anything by Evanescence, have they?Oh yes. They're on here at least twice. If the topic were "favorite depressing album" instead of "song," I'd certainly have put Evanescence up near the top of my list, alongside almost any album by Hank Williams, Sandy Denny, and the original Black Sabbath.

For some odd reason I find the piano part in Final Fantasy VI (yes, the old SNES game) to be rather poignant. I am a coniseur of much classical music, but for some reason I find this particular videogame to have one of the sadder songs on the earth. For something so minimal it carries so much weight.


If were on video game songs, then I gotta go with VII and VIII theme songs. Aeris song is very depressing considering she got killed.

If were on video game songs, then I gotta go with VII and VIII theme songs. Aeris song is very depressing considering she got killed.

That whole game is depressing. It is a very engrossing experience and its almost sad that I was that obsessed with a bunch of blips on TV screen. Excellent game.

Untitled Track 4 - Sigur Ros, on ()

"Happy Phantom" by Tori Amos

it's the saddest happy song I've ever heard, I love it. It really messes with your emotions, the contrast between the song's tone and the lyrics is extreme. Kinda like watching a murder to the tune of circus music.

pearl jam last kiss...

pay att to the lyrics

All of the Sap EP by Alice in Chains, especially, "You've Got Me Wrong," and most all of American IV: The Man Comes Around and Achtung Baby. Oh, and all of Wish You Were Here.

Also ...

A Perfect Circle - "The Package"
A Perfect Circle - "Diary of a Lovesong"
Atmosphere - "Tears for the Sheep"
Atmosphere - "If I Was Santa Claus"
Eminem - "Rock Bottom"
Guns n' Roses - "Civil War"
Iced Earth - "Melancholy (Holy Martyr)"
Iced Earth - "Watching Over Me"
Metallica - "Orion"
Metallica - "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"
nine inch nails - "down in it"
Tool - "Intolerance"
Tool - "Sober"
Tool - "Hooker with a Penis"
U2 - "Peace on Earth"

In order from best to least best:

Air - Playground Love

Natalie Merchant: "Frozen Charlotte"
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The Tindersticks: "Marbles"
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New Order: "Morning Sun (True Faith)"
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The Smiths: "I know it's over" (but The Smiths had many depressing songs)
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Nick Cave: "Green Eyes"
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Björk: "Play Dead"
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"Happy Phantom" by Tori Amos

it's the saddest happy song I've ever heard, I love it. It really messes with your emotions, the contrast between the song's tone and the lyrics is extreme. Kinda like watching a murder to the tune of circus music.

Yes, Tori Amos just has the touch for depressing songs and bizzare effects.
From Little Earthquakes, I'll add "Me and a gun" -- just the voice, no instruments, horrible, as if it happened right there, everytime you hear the song. This song is the most painfully depressing I know.

Lightning crashes - Live

wash away those years- creed

better man - pearl jam

Science - cold play

Debt, "Kom Susser Tod" might mean "Come, Sweet Death" in German or something else ... but that doesn't even look Latin.

Yeah, "Komm Süsser Tod" is german, and your translation is correct.

More depressing songs:

Rhapsody - Echos of Tragedy
In Extremo - Unter dem Meer

the theme of Road to Perdition

Debt, "Kom Susser Tod" might mean "Come, Sweet Death" in German or something else ... but that doesn't even look Latin.


German, Latin; what's the difference? *cuts StarOfEight off* Yeah, it doesn't matter.

StarOfEight, you also think that Civil War is depressing? I know a few people that disagree becuase the song is "too fast". I always tell them to pay attention to the lyrics.


Here's some depressing songs, I know that I will most likely repeat some:

Guns n' Roses-
November Rain
Estranged

Collective Soul-World I know

Yoko Kanno-Blue (It's on Cowboy Bebop's last episode, it's the closing theme)

Sara Brightman-Eden

Led Zeppelin-
Stairway to Heaven
All of my love

Radiohead takes the cake for having the most depressing songs. What's even better is that they always change thier sound, so it's also more unique. Here's my huge Radiohead list by album:

Pablo Honey-
Creep (obvious)

The Bends-
High and Dry
Fake Plastic Trees
Bulletproof... I wish I was
Street Spirit (fade out)

OK Computer-
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Exit Music (For A Film)
Let Down
Karma Police
Lucky
The Tourist

Kid A-
How to Disappear Completely

Amnesiac-
Pyramid Song
Knives out
I might be wrong
hunting bears

Hail to the thief-
Sail to the moon

When you hear the begining of Paranoid Android, it sounds like one of the most depressing song you've ever heard... then the song changes tempo, and you realize that the lyrics don't make sense. :p It's still one of my favorite songs, it just could've been a lot more depressing. :(

From "Hail to the thief" I'll add "Wolf at the door."

Gawd, Rh just have the touch for depressing songs.

Not real depressing as such, but good company when you are:
Everybody hurts - REM
Behind blue eyes - Limp Bizkit
Fragile - Sting

Oh, and the Soundtrack for Red Violin... now that's depressing.

... don't throw your hand ... no, no, no, you're not alone ... so hold on, hold on ...

Nah, I never thought "Everybody hurts" to be a depressing song. It is one of those "buck up" songs, like Natalie Merchant's "Life is sweet".
I usually cry when I hear them, but I also stop crying at the end of the song. Now, there's a productive approach to sadness!

:) I love songs that are able to "contain" an emotion like that. They're like sponges soaking up what's been spilled... ooh, I feel a poem coming on.

-From "Hail to the thief" I'll add "Wolf at the door."-

After giving it a little more listening, you're right. I never realized that it sounded so depressing. I kinda neglected songs from Hail to the thief, I don't think that the album is as good as previous ones.

Sound of Silence...What can be more depressing than a silent sound?

In the End(linkin park), Everybody hurts(REM), nothing compares to you(the video with sinead o'connor), outside(staind), its been a while(staind), im sure theres more.

anyone herd something for kate's monsters?

"im hanging upside from the overpass, waiting to discover something about the world.
i couldnt get with the program and i couldnt lission to them, it was like trying to think in reverse
and i dont want to sigh into apathy and i dont want to die in captivity but these monsters follow me around, hunt me down, try to wipe me out"
ect

StarOfEight, you also think that Civil War is depressing? I know a few people that disagree becuase the song is "too fast". I always tell them to pay attention to the lyrics.

Definitely.

And of course, any GN'R song is kinda depressing by default, even "Paradise City," since Axel's done nothing but become an increasingly pathetic self-parody. He ranks with Jackson has one of the all-time greatest wastes of talent.

German, Latin; what's the difference? *cuts StarOfEight off* Yeah, it doesn't matter.

Hah!

"Suicide is Painless"

heh.

Superman - Five for Fighting... playing now

I can't stand to fly / I'm not that naive / men weren't meant to ride / with clouds between their knees...

"Dress Rehearsal Rag"
Leonard Cohen

"Just take a look at your body now,
there's nothing much to save
and a bitter voice in the mirror cries,
"Hey, Prince, you need a shave."
Now if you can manage to get
your trembling fingers to behave,
why don't you try unwrapping
a stainless steel razor blade?"

Morcheeba - howling

joan armatrading - the weakness in me

Anything by Celine Dion. :o

madder rose - waiting for engines

it would have to be alex parks:cry various pantera songs radiohead :creep britney spears : everytime evanescence:my immortalundefined=Arial]undefined[/FONT]

You know what, Red Red Wine by Tony Tribe. People say ska cant do emotions, cant do depressing, but this one sure does. Shows what fools they are.

Steve Vai - For the love of god.

Nirvana - Heart shaped box.

"The Warmth"

deftones - change

Tool - Schism.

Has anyone here ever listened to Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone? its a great depressing song about a lost love and how he still thinks about her and dreams about her.. awesome song.. I suggest listening while reading the lyrics.. Also.. while we are on Zeppelin, you should do the same with Since I've Been Loving you - more bluesy than anything.. but plenty depressing.. awesome stuff.. purely and enjoyably awesome..

--- Mojo

"The Most Depressing Song"-Get up kids

Enya's Anywhere Is.

Okay, the song itself is waaaaayyy off depressing, but the lyrics (which contain some 'being lost' notions) suit me well as a lost..........

saturday night by the misfits
even if you hate them download the song its a great song

I have phases of being addicted to depressing or chillout music and I've found the best ones for me are.......

Everytime - Britney Spears
When Day Turns Into Night - Busted
Strange & Beautiful - Aqualung
** Passenger Seat - Death Cab For Cutie **
** Consequence - The Notwist **
Always - Zug Izland
** By Your Side - Sade **
My Immortal - Evanescence
Songbird - Eva Cassidy
I Miss You - Blink 182
Breathe Easy - Blue
Dice - Finlay Quaye ft. William Orbit & Beth Orton

** = Definitely worth downloading!!!

NB - Not all these are strictly depressing cos the lyrics are quite positive but since I'm single I have my "hating couples" days so these type of songs depress me and also the background music is slow and good for chilling out and thinking.

Loving this thread, I'm always on the hunt for random music especially depressing songs and I've found some great songs thanks to everyone who's posted so thanks!! :D

i jst looked thru the last 3 pages...and no one has said
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Also..
Will You - P.O.D
Blurry - Puddle of Mudd

There is an old song by Van Halen, "Jump". And then a band, I don't know the name, re-did it, with acousitc guitars and a drooly voice.
It's more sarcastic than depressing, actually, but it points out the actual fake optimism in the original well.

I think my favorite depressing song is a NIN cover done by johnny cash...I think the name of it is "Hurt". When ever I hear it I just want to take a bottle of cheap whiskey and drink myself to death.

:m: :m: :p

Led Zeppelin - All My Love
I'm Gonna Crawl

"Something Blue" by the Deadly Nightshade, a three-woman band with a militant feminist outlook, ca. 1973.

Here it is: the day that I'm a woman, so I'm told.
The day I give myself away, to have and to hold.
I will soon be wearing all the things I've gathered here
In hopes they'll bring me happiness through the coming years.

Something old: this wedding ring my mother gave to me.
Something new: this pretty dress for all my friends to see.
A borrowed handkerchief to dry the tears that come down from my eyes.
Yes, I've got everything, you see: the "something blue" is me.

I got Eminem's new album the first day it came out.
When I listened to that Hailey Jade song (Mocking Bird), tears really did stream down my cheeks.
Like when he says:

I know things might be hard for you....but what you cryin' about? You got me...."

.....I can see your sad when you laugh when you sigh deep inside you wanna cry I'm not there Daddies with you in your prayers no more nightmares wipe them tears.......

I remember back one year when Daddy had no money Mommie wrapped the Christmas presents up and stuck 'em under the tree cause Daddy couldn't buy 'em, I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night Cryin'

i must add to the list:

within temptation - its the fear
36 crazyfists - slit wrist theory
DJ tiesto - Adiago for strings

The Leaving Song and the Leaving Song Pt.II by AFI

Wow, This is an old thread. Thanks everyone for all the input! Keep it coming.


-Guyute

Hurt by NIN (never heard Jhonney cash cover, heard its good though)

Wow, what a great list. I've always been fond of songs that have a great story behind them or just set the mood as depressing. Here are some of my favorites, I apologize for repeats.

Gary Jules - Mad World (Indeed, very sad.)
Steve Vai - Frank (Amazing), Dead Heads, Whispering A Prayer
Amazing Grace (With Bagpipes)
The Mars Volta - Televators, The Widow
Something Corporate - Konstantine, Cavanaugh Park (A lot of there stuff is calm and sad)
Alice In Chains - Don't Follow
Alphaville - Forever Young
Bad Company - Bad Company
Binocular - Maybe You're Gone (It's at the end of The Girl Next Door)
Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses
Brad Paisely and Allison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby
Bruce Springstein - Phillidelphea (The movie was so good)
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
No Vacancy - Heal Me, I'm Heart Sick (On School of Rock)
Dispatch - Elias
Edwin McCain - I'll Be (Acoustic version is the best)
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (Kill Bill Soundtrack)
Bob Dylan - Blowing In The Wind
Tim McGraw - Don't Take The Girl
Sting - Fields of Gold
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah, Lover You Should've Come Over
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Oasis - Sad Song, Don't Look Back In Anger, Don't Go Away, Stop Crying Your Heart Out
The Wallflowers - Into The Mystic, I Started A Joke
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home, Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here
Silverchair - Tomorrow, Suicidal Dreams
Staind - So Far Away, Epiphany
The Scorpions - Still Loving You
Sarah McLachlan - Angel
Jem - 24 (A song about someone commiting suicide in 24 hours)
Ozzy - Dreamer, Mama I'm Coming Home, Road to Nowhere, Changes, If I Close My Eyes Forever (With Lita Ford)
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Lindsay Lohan - Something I Never Had

saddest song ever!!! = "lately" by stevie wonder, the guy is blind but he still sees it coming...

also the Deathcab for cutie song from the photo album, with the lyric about standing in line for their thanksgiving dinner... ouch. I think it is called 'styrofoam plates'. EDIT - (more great lyrics from deathcab, here is an mp3 from their webpage http://www.barsuk.com/web.cgi?dcfc&dcfcdiscography
MP3 here - http://music.barsuk.com/DCFC_MovieScriptEnding.mp3

also there is a Beck song off of the 'suburbia' soundtrack, that he plays on the piano. That is my favorite Beck song. One of the lyrics - "your disappointment is a feather in your cap". lyrics to that song - http://www.beck.com/diskobox/song.php?id=00088

Albums-
Quailman mentioned jeff buckley "grace"
also, from bruce springsteen "the ghost of tom joad"

Also.. while we are on Zeppelin,
Listen to Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You

Jimi hendrix - bold as love

Incubus - sick sad, little world (solo only)

Rage against the machine - beautiful world

Steve vai - Feathers, I know you're there.

Macy gray - sweet baby (sad in a good way)

Hero official soundtrack - longing

Amelie soundtrack - le moulin

Red Hot Chilli peppers - porcelain.

Jeff Buckley does have some sad stuff. I don't listen to a lot of it, but what I do listen to I like very much.

Here are a few more I forgot to mention.

Thornley - Beautiful
Smile Empty Soul - Sillhouettes
Slipknot - Vermilion Part 2 (Beautiful song)
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes (They did a great job with this, I like it more than The Who)
Tommy Lee - Hold Me Down, Blue, Ashamed (I, personally, was surprised at how great of a CD Never A Dull Moment really was.)


I am listening to The Scorpions - Still Loving You and I get reminded of the trip I took to Washington DC with my class last summer. On the way home I listened to this song on repeat all night. I didn't want to sleep on the bus so I listened to music, but I got hooked on this song. I think I probably listened to it about 50 times that night. Another song that reminds me of that trip is Comfortably Numb. When I went on family vacations, we'd always drive home over night and my dad would listen to a lot of Pink Floyd. Comfortably Numb reminds me a lot of those times. Great memories.

placebo - bitter end
P.O.D - satellite
blindspott - nil by mouth
breaking benjamin - next to nothing
clan of xymox - sing a song
def lepard - deliver me
doubledrive - imprint
deftones - digital bath
guns n roses - dont cry
HIM - soul on fire
killswitch engage - rose of sharyn
lostprophets - sway

Max Payne 2 theme music. One sad violin ballad.

sing me to sleep- smiths
last goodbye- jeff buckley

"The Man Who Couldn't Cry" -Johnny Cash

Of course, what happens to this poor son of a bitch in the song is so depressing that I laugh every time I hear it, so maybe it doesn't count. I would have nominated the Man in Black's "Delia", but the first time I heard it I was more like "Dude, that's totally fucked," rather than depressed.

Forty Foot Echo - Brand New Day (A song about seconds chances)
CKY - Close But Far
Fuel - Million Miles
Crash Test Dummies - Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
RA - On My Side
Saliva - Famous Monsters, Greater Than Less Than
Pink Floyd - Mother
Ozzy - Ghost Behind My Eyes
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Staind - Zoe Jane
Boston - Living For You
Drowning Pool - Tear Away

Clocks - Coldplay
Don't Panic - Coldplay
Momentum - Aimee Mann
Cute Without the E (Cut from the Team) - Taking Back Sunday
Lonely Day - Phantom Planet
America - Simon and Garfunkel
The Lucky One - Allison Krauss
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Thanks that was fun - Barenaked Ladies
What a Good Boy - Barenaked Ladies
Demon - Guster
Fa Fa Song - Guster
Adam's Song - Blink 182
Stay Together for the Kids - Blink 182
I Miss You - Blink 182
Lay Down Burden - Brian Wilson
Glasgow Love Theme (Love Actually) - Craig Armstrong
A Movie Script Ending - Death Cab for Cutie
Screaming Infidelities - Dashboard Confessional
White Flag - Dido
Needle in the Hay - Elliott Smith
I Heard You - Good Charlotte
Blackbird - the Beatles

That's like .005% of my favorite depressing songs but I didn't want to take up too much room as this is my first post :)

Needle in the Hay is a very good song. I didn't like it the first time I heard it but I woke up and it was playing and I dig it through the roof.

The Decemberists - A Cautionary Song
The Decemberists - Clementine.

I can't remember if I already posted those or not...

muse - smothered hope

Stereophonics - Billy Daveys Daughter, Coldplay - The Scientist, Yellowcard - Only One, Papa Roach - Last Resort

Deep Purple - When a Blind Man Cries

Jim Croce:
-operator
-age
-photographs and memories

bet nobody posted them already =]

Godsmack - Serenity

Goodbye to You - Michelle Branch

Yeah, I can be a pansy sometimes. So what? Fuck you.

lol......Clark Gable-The Postal Service

Nine inch nails – leaving hope
Nine inch nails – and all that could have been (still version)
Nine inch nails OR johnny cash - hurt
Stabbing westward – goodbye
Gary jules - mad world
Our lady peace – 4 AM
Radiohead – Fake plastic trees
Beatles - yesterday

Goodbye to You - Michelle Branch

Yeah, I can be a pansy sometimes. So what? Fuck you.Hey, nobody gets as down and depressing as many of these lightweight girl singers. I love Aimee Mann's shortie, "Jacob Marley's Chain."

Well today a friend told me this sorry tale
As he stood there trembling and turning pale.
He said, "Each day's harder to get on the scale,
Sort of like Jacob Marley's chain."

Now it's not that life is such a vale of tears.
It's just full of thoughts that act as souvenirs
Of those tiny blunders made in yesteryears
That comprise Jacob Marley's chain.

- Well I had a little metaphor to state my case.
- It encompassed the condition of the human race.
- But to my dismay it left without a trace,
- All except for the sound of Jacob Marley's chain.

Now there's no more story left for me to tell,
So I think I'll just be heading straight for Hell,
Where there's a snowball's chance that the personnel
Will have to carry Jacob Marley's chain.

Hope -- R.E.M.
Hurt -- NIN
Treading Water -- Nada Surf
Moonlight Sonata -- Ludwig van

I can't remember all of what has been posted, so I'll post what I don't think has been said yet.

Averi - For Better Or Worse
John Lennon - Imagine
Good Charlotte - Hold On (I don't like GC at all, but this song is decent, very emo though)
Hootie and the Blowfish - Let Her Cry
Tantric - Astounded
The Album Leaf - On Your Way
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Tonic - You Wanted More
Tonic - If You Could Only See
The Wallflowers - I Started A Joke
Pennywise - Stand By Me
The Temptations - Stand By Me
Mr.Mister - Broken Wings
Foo Fighters - Times Like These (Acoustic)
Extreme - More Than Words

My Immortal - Evanescence

Guns N' Roses - November Rain

"When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same

'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain...."

Oooh, November Rain is a good one.

Another good one that I was just listening to is AFI - The Leaving Song.

The vocals are so beautiful. It reminds me of Close Yet Far by CKY (which is graet too) only it's more soothing.

Richard Strauss: Metamorphoses. This is entirely instrumental, written for a strangely configured small orchestra. All strings, but each instrument plays a solo part. Strauss was a "traditional" composer, there's no backbeat or saxophones here, but this is not "classical" music.

It was his eulogy to Germany, written at the end of WWII. Strauss loved Germany but came to despise what it became under the Nazis. He recognized that the loss of the war -- although appropriate -- meant that the Germany he knew was dead.

I once saw this piece performed live. It ends rather quietly. A long time passed before anyone in the audience made a sound. We were all sitting there with pained expressions.

Yup, this is really depressing music.

November Rain
Everybody Hurts
The Fast Food Song
Suteki Da Ne

among others...

unchained melody ( gosh , thats deperessin )

Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Gary Jules - Mad World
Moby - Why Does My Heart (Feel So Bad)
Stone Sour - Bother

just to name a few, my list is endless really

I HATE depressing songs and my worst has to be 'God is watching us' by Bette Midler followed by that theme from the Titanic .

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

Yeah, beautiful song! Good taste ;)

Someone might have mentioned Eva Cassidy already (sorry - haven't checked the entire thread), but her interpretation of Fields of Gold is simply divine.

Coldplay have a number of beautifully poignant songs as well! As do Live.

I listen to lots of sombre classical music as well: Mozart's Requiem anyone? - slightly macabre I guess. Or Palestrina's Canticum Canticorum Salomonis (a musical interpretation of Solomon's The Song of Songs) :confused: - didn't think so! Despite the aversion that some people might feel in relation to the lyrical content, there is a transcendental element in the music.

(I'll have to come back this later - there are so many beautiful songs out there.)

Blur-Coffee and TV

Personally, I like to divide my depressing music into categories.

Heartache:

Konstantine - Something Corporate
Blackbird - The Beatles
Epiphany - Staind
Last Train - Lostprophets
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
Come Around - Rhett Miller

And to that list you can pretty much add anything off of "From Here to Infirmary" by The Alkaline Trio.

Death:

Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

Hopelessness:

Suicide is Painless - Johnny Mandel
Mad World - Gary Jules
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Requiem - Mozart
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

Family:

Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
Emotioneless - Good Charolette (Yeah, I know, but honestly, I don't think I've heard a song that described so perfectly my own relationship with my father)

Addiction:

Not an Addict - K's Choice
Turn Around - Bonnie Tyler

And that good ol', "The Whole World Sucks" category:

Sunday Blood Sunday - Either U2's version, or the version by Evergreen Terrace
Heaven is Falling - The one good song the Ataris ever did; which shouldn't come as a surprise, since it was a Bad Religion cover

And in the "Sad but Hopeful" category:

You're Not Alone - Nobuo Uematsu
Hold on Hope - Guided by Voices

Sweetness Follows- R.E.M.
Pyramid Song- Radiohead
Cave- Muse
Free to Go- Folk Implosion
Sad Peter Pan- Smashing Pumpkins
Leslie Anne Levine- Decemberists
Bad Diary Days & Bad Things to Such Good People- Pedro the Lion
Trailer Trash- Modest Mouse

The winner of most depressing song: Hurt, which appears 9 times (once per pages, it seems). Creep and Fake Plastic Trees have 4 apiece, and Radiohead is the agreed upon "most depressing band."

come to daddy - Aphex Twin
thirty three - The smashing pumpkins
heavy heart - You am I
hero of the day - Metallica
denial works for me - Tism > >( go aussie !, ya flammin mongrels)
comfortably numb - Pink Floyd

...and the best song for depression would have to be .....

>>> Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

1979 by the Smashing Pumpkins has this intense, wistful vibe to it. Not quite depression, just nostalgia. If you're into that nostalgic "I love/hate my teenage years" check out Nada Surf, especially their album, Let Go.

Moonlight Sonata, a definite classic.

Metallica's Turn the Page.
The music video is pretty sad.

Angel - Sarah McLachlan



Yeah, a little too depressing though. Beautiful melody but it makes you feel sad even if you're in a good mood.

"Your Beautiful Soul" By: Jesse Mcartney

I'm not sure about depressing, but Artie Shaw's "Nightmare" makes me want to shoot myself, or else him (if he was still alive).

Yeah, a little too depressing though. Beautiful melody but it makes you feel sad even if you're in a good mood.

Not to mention, it was the song they played at my grandfather's funeral. How's that for depressing?

There is one song I didn't mention, for fear of horrible ridicule, but for some reason the final song from The Phantom of the Opera always gets me. Yeah, it's over the top, but at the end, when the phantom is singing quietly to himself then looks up pathetically and tells Christine he loves her... I always get choked up at that point.

Of course, that's probably a personal thing.

Quite honestly, I don't think anything was more depressing than Hurt. I haven't been able to hear the NIN version yet, but somehow I can't imagine it being better than Cash's.

Not checked out the whole thread but I'm sure I'm not the first to mention The Smiths

Anything of theirs would qualify I guess.

"What do we get for our trouble and pain?
Just a rented room in Whalley Range"

"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now"

and my personal Fave..

"She wants it now and she will not wait
but she's too rough and I'm too delicate"

Ect ect....:(
Dee Cee

Powderfinger - whatever makes you happy
Staind - been awhile
Nirvana - jesus dont want me for a sunbeam (unplugged)
Bush - comedown (acoustic)
Eric Clapton - tears in heaven
Bruce Springsteen - downbound train

and yeah, at the risk of sounding like a broken record,

NIN - hurt (havent heard Cash's version)

Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird. Never realized how sad this song really is.
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.

Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie
War on Drugs - Barenaked Ladies
Paint the Silence - South
Table for Glasses - Jimmy Eat World
Godless - the Dandy Warhols

All of these have been on repeat when I'm feeling sad... :)

Here is an unexaustive list of my favorite depressing sad songs

1. Ani Difranco - Napoleon (6:24)
2. Aphex Twin - [08] Cat 00897-Aa (4:05)
3. Aphex Twin - Girl - Boy Song (4:47)
4. Aphex Twin - Avril 14Th (2:05)
5. Aphex Twin - Petiatil Cx Htdui (2:11)
6. Aphex Twin - Nanou 2 (3:25)
7. Aphex Twin - Gavin Bryars - Raising The Titanic (8:42)
8. Apocalyptica - Fade to Black (4:59)
9. Apocalyptica - Nothing Else Matters (4:43)
10. Apocalyptica - One (5:44)
11. Apocalyptica - Beyond Time (3:59)
12. arab strap - The Long Sea (7:09)
13. Arab Strap - Haunt Me (5:40)
14. Arab Strap - Turbulence (8:12)
15. Archive - Again (2:00)
16. Archive - Hate (3:43)
17. The Beatles - Yesterday (2:04)
18. Beck - Asshole (2:32)
19. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (6:10)
20. Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day (3:45)
21. Ben Harper - Please Me Like You Want To (4:58)
22. Ben Harper - God Fearing Man (11:51)
23. Ben Harper - Alone (4:01)
24. Björk - Play Dead (3:55)
25. Bjork - Possibly Maybe (5:07)
26. Björk - Jóga (5:03)
27. Björk - Bjork [Quiet Fireworks] - 06 - So Broken (3:44)
28. Björk - Bjork [Quiet Fireworks] - 13 - Charlene (4:47)
29. Björk - Bjork - 03 - I've Seen It All (5:18)
30. Bjork - Scatterheart (6:39)
31. Björk - Heirloom (5:11)
32. Björk - Unison (6:51)
33. boards of canada - turquoise hexagon sun (5:12)
34. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Waiting In Vain (4:15)
35. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Pimpers Paradise (3:27)
36. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Forever Loving Jah (3:53)
37. Bonobo - bonobo - animal magic - 02 - sleepy seven (5:22)
38. Bonobo - bonobo - animal magic - 06 - the plug (5:18)
39. Bonobo - bonobo - animal magic - 10 - silver (6:33)
40. Bonobo - pilote - turtle (bonobo mix) (5:10)
41. Bonobo - bonobo - the sicilian (4:23)
42. Bonobo - bonobo - magicman (4:38)
43. Bonobo - 08 - Nothing Owed (6:16)
44. Brian Eno - By This River (3:04)
45. Buckethead - Padmasana (11:36)
46. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club - 01 - Chan Chan (4:18)
47. Cake - Never Gonna Give You Up (4:02)
48. Cake - Friend Is A Four Letter Word (3:22)
49. Calexico - Dub Latina (2:21)
50. Cat Stevens - Wild World (3:20)
51. Chemical Brothers - Asleep from day (4:46)
52. Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (6:27)
53. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (4:47)
54. Counting Crows - Sullivan Street (4:27)
55. Cranberries - Dreams (4:32)
56. The Cranberries - Ode To My Family (4:30)
57. The Cranberries - Disappointment (4:14)
58. Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (3:55)
59. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Almost Cut My Hair (8:52)
60. The Cure - Siamese Twins (5:29)
61. The Cure - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (4:53)
62. The Cure - Love Song (3:30)
63. The Cure - Lullaby (4:12)
64. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You (9:22)
65. The Cure - Homesick (7:09)
66. The Cure - Apart (6:38)
67. The Cure - Trust (5:33)
68. The Cure - Bare (7:54)
69. The Cure - Out of this world (6:43)
70. The Cure - The last day of the summer (5:35)
71. The Cure - There is no if... (3:42)
72. The Cure - Cut Here (acoustic) (4:13)
73. The Cure - Fear Of Ghosts (6:51)
74. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (3:13)
75. Death in Vegas - I Spy (4:58)
76. Death in Vegas - Diving Horses (5:11)
77. Deep Purple - Child In The Tim (12:25)
78. Deftones - Digital Bath (4:15)
79. Deftones - Change (In The House Of Flies) (5:01)
80. depeche mode - waiting for the night (6:09)
81. DJ Food - The Crow (0:40)
82. DJ Gregory - Elle (11:57)
83. DJ Shadow - Stem (3:47)
84. Dj Shadow - Building steam with a grain of salt (6:42)
85. Dj Shadow - Midnight in a perfect world (5:02)
86. DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2) (13:56)
87. DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3) (5:14)
88. Dj Shadow - In tune on time - 08 - lonely soul (2:53)
89. Dj Shadow - In tune on time - 12 - stem/long stem (3:25)
90. Dj Shadow - In tune on time - 20 - blood on the motorway******rabbit in headlights remix (10:00)
91. The Doors - Indian Summer (2:36)
92. The Doors - A Feast Of Friends (2:10)
93. The Doors - Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor (4:39)
94. The Doors - Orange County Suite (5:42)
95. The Eagles - Hotel California (6:31)
96. The Eagles - New Kid in Town (5:04)
97. Eminem - Rock Bottom (3:34)
98. Eminem - Stan (6:45)
99. Ennio Morricone - As A Judgement (3:06)
100. Ennio Morricone - Man With A Harmonica (3:29)
101. Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy Of Gold (3:23)
102. Ennio Morricone - The Trio (7:14)
103. Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven (4:36)
104. Everything But The Girl - Missing (4:05)
105. Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay (9:05)
106. Genesis - The Musical Box (3:20)
107. Genesis - The Cinema Show (11:06)
108. Genesis - Aisle Of Plenty (1:35)
109. God Speed You Black Emperor - (symbol, symbol, some kind of squiggle) (17:45)
110. God Speed You Black Emporor - East Hastings (17:49)
111. God Speed You Black Emporor - Providence (28:58)
112. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Storm (22:32)
113. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Static (22:36)
114. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Sleep (23:17)
115. Greyboy - Bath Music (4:24)
116. Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry (Original) (4:44)
117. Guns N' Roses - Estranged (9:23)
118. James Brown - It's A Man's Man's Man's World (2:47)
119. Jamiroquai - Everyday (4:28)
120. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Summertime (4:01)
121. Jean Leloup - Fashion Victim (4:13)
122. Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul (4:01)
123. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (4:01)
124. Jimi Hendrix - Pali Gap (5:08)
125. Joe Satriani - Always With You, Always With M (3:22)
126. Joe Satriani - Midnight (1:42)
127. Joe Satriani - The Forgotten (Part Two) (5:08)
128. Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream - Joe S (5:59)
129. John Lennon - Imagine (3:05)
130. John Lennon - Watching The Wheels (3:33)
131. John Lennon - Love (3:23)
132. John Lennon - Working Class Hero (3:51)
133. John Lennon - God (3:15)
134. johnny cash - hurt (3:38)
135. Joy Division - Atmosphere (4:10)
136. King Crimson - Epitaph - March For No Reason - Tomorrow And Tomorrow (8:43)
137. King Crimson - Moonchild - The Dream - The Illusion (12:13)
138. King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon (7:58)
139. King Crimson - Book Of Saturday (2:58)
140. King Crimson - Exiles (7:42)
141. King Crimson - Fallen Angel (6:04)
142. King Crimson - The Night Watch (4:41)
143. Kruder & Dorfmeister - gone (7:50)
144. Kruder & Dorfmeister - black baby (6:19)
145. Lamb - Gabriel (4:20)
146. Lauryn Hill - Mr. Intentional (6:59)
147. Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (6:40)
148. Led Zeppelin - Tangerine (2:57)
149. Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (7:23)
150. Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song (7:39)
151. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (7:59)
152. Led Zeppelin - No Quarter (7:00)
153. Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone (6:32)
154. Led Zeppelin - All My Love (5:51)
155. Les Colocs - Dehors novembre (En hommage à Dédé Fortin) (6:02)
156. Les Cowboys Fringants - Mon Chum Rémi (4:00)
157. Liquid Tension Experiment - Freedom of Speech (9:19)
158. Live - The Dam At Otter Creek (4:43)
159. Live - I Alone (3:50)
160. Live - Lightning Crashes (5:25)
161. Looper - Back to the Treehouse (2:05)
162. Lou Reed - Perfect Day (3:45)
163. Marilyn Manson - Tourniquet (4:30)
164. Marilyn Manson - Minute Of Decay (4:45)
165. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (3:16)
166. Massive Attack - Protection (7:50)
167. Massive Attack - Better Things (4:17)
168. Massive Attack - Angel (6:22)
169. Massive Attack - Teardrop (5:32)
170. Massive Attack - Black Milk (6:23)
171. Metallica - Master of Puppets (8:35)
172. Metallica - Orion (8:22)
173. Metallica - To Live Is to Die (2:39)
174. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (6:28)
175. Ministry - The Fall (4:54)
176. Moby - Porcelain (4:01)
177. Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (4:24)
178. Moby - Down Slow (1:34)
179. Moby - Everloving (3:25)
180. Moby - Inside (4:48)
181. Moby - The Sky Is Broken (4:18)
182. Modest Mouse - Interstate 8 (4:39)
183. Modest Mouse - Dramamine (5:41)
184. Modest Mouse - Cowboy Dan (6:16)
185. Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash (5:48)
186. Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling (2:54)
187. Modest Mouse - Baby Blue Sedan (4:04)
188. Modest Mouse - Broke (3:19)
189. Modest Mouse - Sleepwalkin' (3:23)
190. Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet (4:02)
191. Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything (4:24)
192. Modest Mouse - The Cold Part (5:04)
193. Modest Mouse - Alone Down There (2:26)
194. Modest Mouse - Float On (3:28)
195. Mogwai - Yes! I am a long way from home (5:55)
196. Mogwai - Katrien (5:24)
197. Morcheeba - What New York Couples Fight About (feat. Kurt Wagner) (6:17)
198. Muse - Escape (3:31)
199. Muse - Recess (3:37)
200. Muse - Hyper Chondriac Music (5:31)
201. Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have (5:54)
202. Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place (3:22)
203. Nine Inch Nails - Eraser (4:53)
204. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (6:14)
205. Nine Inch Nails - The Frail (1:54)
206. Nine Inch Nails - La Mer (4:37)
207. Nine Inch Nails - The Mark Has Been Made (5:17)
208. Nine Inch Nails - The Day The World Went Away (Quiet Version) (6:19)
209. Nine Inch Nails - Piggy (4:51)
210. Nine Inch Nails - Adrift and at Peace (2:52)
211. Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box (4:41)
212. Nirvana - You Know You're Right (3:40)
213. Our Lady Peace - 4 am (4:17)
214. Pantera - Cemetery Gates (7:02)
215. Pantera - The Sleep (5:47)
216. Pantera - This love (6:32)
217. Pantera - Hollow (5:48)
218. Pantera - Planet Caravan (4:03)
219. Pantera - 10's (4:50)
220. Pantera - Suicide Note, Pt. 1 (4:44)
221. Pantera - Floods (6:59)
222. Peace Orchestra - Shining (5:01)
223. Pearl Jam - Black (5:43)
224. Pearl Jam - Indifference (5:02)
225. Pearl Jam - Wishlist (3:28)
226. Pearl Jam - Last Kiss (3:17)
227. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi (3:30)
228. Philip Glass - Prophecies (8:11)
229. Philip Glass - Opening (6:27)
230. Philip Glass - Metamorphosis one (5:41)
231. Philip Glass - Evening song (4:10)
232. Philip Glass - closing (5:54)
233. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite (23:39)
234. Pink Floyd - Echoes (23:28)
235. Pink Floyd - Speak To Me/Breathe (4:00)
236. Pink Floyd - Time (7:06)
237. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) (13:39)
238. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (5:34)
239. Pink Floyd - Hey You (4:41)
240. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (6:24)
241. Pink Floyd - One of the Few (1:26)
242. Pink Floyd - The Gunners Dream (5:04)
243. Pink Floyd - Two Suns in the Sunset (5:17)
244. Pixies - Where Is My Mind (3:53)
245. Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven (2:57)
246. Pixies - Hey (3:31)
247. Pixies - Gouge Away (2:45)
248. The Police - Every Breath You Take (4:14)
249. Portishead - Raods (5:03)
250. Portishead - Them from to Kill a Dead Man (4:24)
251. Portishead - Undenied (4:24)
252. Portishead - Elysium (5:56)
253. Portishead - Western Eyes (3:59)
254. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (5:20)
255. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (4:28)
256. Radiohead - Creep (3:55)
257. Radiohead - Blow Out (4:40)
258. Radiohead - High And Dry (4:17)
259. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (4:50)
260. Radiohead - Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was (3:28)
261. Radiohead - Paranoid Android (6:23)
262. Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film) (4:24)
263. Radiohead - Karma Police (4:21)
264. Radiohead - A Wolf At The Door (It Girl. Rag Doll) (3:23)
265. Ramasutra - The Story of O (4:42)
266. Ramasutra - Daisy (7:05)
267. Ramasutra - Low (2:58)
268. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge (4:24)
269. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Porcelain (2:43)
270. The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (5:44)
271. Santana - Samba Pa Ti (4:47)
272. Sigur Ros - Njosnavelin (Nothing Song) (8:07)
273. Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar (10:04)
274. Silverchair - Suicidal Dream (3:12)
275. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (5:10)
276. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence (3:05)
277. Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm (3:17)
278. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma (6:39)
279. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (2:52)
280. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (4:25)
281. Smashing Pumpkins - Blank Page (4:58)
282. Sneaker Pimps - Johnny (4:12)
283. Sneaker Pimps - Velvet Divorce (4:15)
284. Sneaker Pimps - Low Five (4:35)
285. Sneaker Pimps - Lightning Field (4:12)
286. Sneaker Pimps - Destroying Angel (4:26)
287. Sneaker Pimps - Flowers and Silence (5:47)
288. Sneaker Pimps - Black Sheep (4:00)
289. Sneaker Pimps - Grazes (6:43)
290. Soulfly - Soulfly (4:48)
291. Soulfly - Soulfly II (6:06)
292. Soulfly - Tree Of Pain (1:10)
293. Soulfly - Soulfly III (5:00)
294. Soulfly - Soulfly IV (6:05)
295. Various Artists - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone (7:32)
296. Various Artists - Bob Dylan - You Belong To Me (3:11)
297. Various Artists - AOS - History Repeats Itself (2:24)
298. Various Artists - Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon (3:12)
299. Various Artists - Juliette Lewis - Hardly Wait (3:21)
300. Various Artists - Smashing Pumpkins - Eye (4:51)
301. Soundtracks - Movies - Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (2:39)
302. Soundtracks - Movies - Luis Enrique Bacalov - The Grand Duel - (Parte Prima) (3:23)
303. Soundtracks - Movies - Zamfir - The Lonely Shepherd (4:20)
304. Malcolm McLaren - About Her (4:50)
305. Rob D. - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Mix) (7:26)
306. The Kronos Quartet - Summer: Summer Overture (2:35)
307. Violent Femmes - Color Me Once (4:09)
308. Soundtrack - Blur - Sing (6:01)
309. Various Artists - Sweetness Follows - R.E.M. (4:19)
310. Steve Vai - For The Love Of God (6:02)
311. Steve Vai - Feathers (5:10)
312. Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Little Wing (6:48)
313. Stone Temple Pilots - Creep (5:33)
314. Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty (4:54)
315. Sublime - Santeria (3:05)
316. Sublime - Had A Dat (3:31)
317. System Of A Down - ATWA (2:57)
318. System Of A Down - Roulette (3:23)
319. Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture OP.49 (15:30)
320. The Tea Party - Drawing Down The Moon (5:25)
321. The Tea Party - Emerald (4:49)
322. The Tea Party - Aftermath (5:43)
323. Telepopmusik - Breathe (4:37)
324. Telepopmusik - Smile (3:56)
325. Telepopmusik - Trishika (5:56)
326. Telepopmusik - L'Incertitude d'Heisenberg (Lab 7) (5:48)
327. Tool - Sober (5:06)
328. Tool - H (6:07)
329. Tool - The Patient (7:13)
330. Tool - Parabola (6:04)
331. Tosca - Suzuki (6:04)
332. Tosca - Busenfreund (5:16)
333. Tricky - Overcome (4:29)
334. Tricky - Hell Is Around the Corner (3:47)
335. Unkle - U.N.K.L.E. - Unreal (5:10)
336. Unkle - U.N.K.L.E. - Lonely Soul (8:56)
337. Unkle - U.N.K.L.E. - Rabbit In Your Headlights (6:20)
338. U2 - In God's Country (2:56)
339. U2 - Bad (6:00)
340. Underworld - Jumbo (6:57)
341. The Velvet Underground - Heroin (7:11)
342. The Velvet Underground - Sad Song (3:33)
343. Vivaldi - Winter (8:37)
344. Weezer - Only In Dreams (7:59)
345. Wyclef Jean - 911 f. Mary J. Blige (4:21)
346. Wyclef Jean - Apocalypse (3:49)
347. Wyclef Jean - Gone Til November (3:27)
348. Wyclef Jean - Gunpowder (4:24)
349. Yann Tiersen - La Valse d'Amélie (2:18)
350. Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'un autre eté: l'après midi (2:22)

Mad World by Gary Jules

Akira Yamaoka - The room
Sigur Ros - Njosnjavelin
Type O negative - Evrything Dies
Vangelis - Ask the Mountains +most of the El Greco album.

Submerced - Hollow

It's a sweet tune, from the Elektra soundtrack, as well as their CD. It sounds so cool when it's loud.

Nobody - Johnny Cash

Ok......here it goes. I love my good wholesome depressing music so this is my list. It has some songs that have I picked up from this forum (thanks) and some of my own.

My songs........ (if you haven't heard them get them)
My Favorite is St. James Infirmary. So dark and good. But They are all sooo good.

Lucinda Williams - American Dream
Tom Waits - Dirt in The Ground
Louis Armstrong - St. James infirmary
Johnny Cash - Delia's Gone
Mary Gauthier - Walk Through the Fire
Tom Waits - Falling Down
Modest Mouse - Shit Luck
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Portrait Of A Man
Ben Harper - the Drugs Dont Work
Ween - Spinal Meningitis
Ray Charles - Born to Lose
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes
Johnny Cash/Nick Cave - I'm So lonesome I Could Cry

My fav songs that I agree with that have been posted already

Gary Jules - Mad World (I think this one is a winner.....lots of votes for this one)
Nick Cave - People Just ain't No Good
Ben Harper - Just Another Lonely Day
Billy Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
Weezer - Longtime Sunshine
Johnny Cash - Hurt

Wow Dionysos666 that is one huge list.

Blink 182 - "Adam's Song"

[First Verse]
I never thought I'd die alone
I laughed the loudest who'd have known
I traced the cord back to the wall
No wonder it was never plugged in at all
I took my time, I hurried up
The choice was mine, I didn't think enough
I'm to depressed, to go on
You'll be sorry when im gone

[Pre-Chorus]
I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get out

[Chorus]
Side the world was wide, too late to try
The tour was over we'd survived
I couldn't wait til I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

[Second Verse]
I never thought I'd die alone I
Another six months I'll be unknown
Give all my things to all my friends
You'll never step foot in my room again
You'll close it off, board it up
Remember the time that I spilled the cup
Of apple juice, in the hall
Please tell mom this is not her fault

[Pre-Chorus]
I never conquered, rarely came
16 just held such better days
Days when I still felt alive
We couldn't wait to get out

[Chorus]
Side the world was wide, too late to try
the tour was over we'd survived
I couldn't wait til I got home
To pass the time in my room alone

[Hold for Interlude]

[Final Pre-Chorus]
I never conquered, rarely came
Tomorrow holds such better days
Days when I can still feel alive
When I can't wait to get out

[Final Chorus]
Side the world is wide, the time goes by
The tour is over I'd survived
I can't wait, til i get home
To pass the time in my room alone

[Edit]
Metallica - One
Korn - Alone I Break
[Edit2]
MudVayne - World So Cold

Lennon/McCartney

Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie, writing the words
of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near
Look at him working, darning his socks
in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby, died in the church
and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt
from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Bush- Glycerine
Mazzy Star- Fade into You
[edit]
I think Pedro the Lion's cover of Fade into You is better, as the acoustic guitar feels more substantial.

not much gets me depressed,but theres few songs that can really grip me..such as
garden of Gethsemane from the musical Jesus Christ superstar
and
Hurt- sung by Johnny Cash,
and
better place to be -Harry Chapin

A song written by a New Yorker, after strolling through the remains of the 1939 World's Fair in 1989.

Fifty Years after the Fair
by Aimee Mann

Fifty years after the Fair,
The picture that I have is so clear.
Underneath the clouds in the air,
Rose the Trylon and the Perisphere.
That for me was the finest of scenes:
A perfect world across the river in Queens.

Fifty years after the Fair,
I drink from a different cup.
It does no good to compare,
For nothing ever measures up.
I guess just for a second we thought
That all good things would rise to the top.

- How beautiful it was: "tomorrow."
- We'll never have a day of sorrow.
- We got through the '30's, but our belts were tight.
- We conceived of a future with no hope in sight.
- We've got decades ahead of us to get it right,
- I swear. Fifty years after the Fair.

Fifty years after the Fair,
I live in Tomorrow Town.
Even on a wing and a prayer,
The future never came around.
It hurts to even think of those days.
The damage we do by the hopes that we raise.

- Repeat bridge.

Edguy - Sands of time

"Do you feel the sands of time
Runnin' low to break the line
First we learn to fly, then we learn to cry
Later in the evening we will die"

Guster - Either Way

"You were almost kind, you were almost true
Don't let me see that other side of you
You have learned in time that you must be cruel
I'll have to wait to get the best of you"

Not really depressing, but it's a very thoughtful song, and it makes me feel very sad when I think about it.

Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings
Prokofiev act IV Romeo & Juliet (Juliet's Death)

Down with the Sickness by Disturbed
Witness by Sarah McLachlan
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a wonderful world by Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole

Hello by Evanescence

Playground school bell rings again
Rain clouds come to play again
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello, I'm your mind giving you someone to talk to
Hello

If I smile and don't believe
Soon I know I'll wake from this dream
Don't try to fix me I'm not broken
Hello I'm the lie living for you so you can hide
Don't cry

Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping
Hello, I'm still here
All that's left of yesterday

i miss you-blink 182
behind blue eyes-limp bizkit
so far away-staind
runnin-no doubt

No Confidence Man - by Elliot Smith

For my tastes, this is about as wonderfully depressive as they come.

Its a very heavy song which, with only one note will make quiet.

For the kind of depressive song one can enjoy in the shower, I choose "Baby Britan", also by Elliot Smith. :p

Frank Black - Dog In The Sand
The Decemberists - California One Youth and Beauty Brigade
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit
Neutral Milk Hotel - Naomi
Sparta - Glasshouse Tarot
Sparta - Breaking the Broken
Sparta - Air
Mirah - Cold Cold Water
Thrice - Stare At The Sun (Acoustic)
Sister Hazel - Champaigne High

Champaigne High inspires me in a depressing way.

"I Never Will Marry" by Kristin Hersh

One day as I rambled down by the seashore
The wind it did whistle and the water did roar
I heard a young girl make a pitiful sound
As she closed her pretty blue eyes
In the water to drown
I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife
I will live single all the day's of my life
The shells in the ocean will be my deathbed
The fish in deep water swim over my head
My love's gone and left me
He's the one I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him anymore
She plunged her dear body in the water so deep
She closed her pretty blue eyes in the water to sleep
I never will marry, I'll be no man's wife
I will live single all the day's of my life
The shells in the ocean will be my deathbed
The fish in deep water swim over my head

"Gloomy Sunday" by Billie Holiday

Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coaches
Sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldn’t they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy sunday

Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and i
Have decided to end it all
Soon there’ll be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that I’m glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death I’m caressin’ you
With the last breath of my soul
I’ll be blessin’ you

Gloomy sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is tellin’ you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy sunday

"St. James Infirmary"

I went down to St. James Infirmary
I saw my baby there
She was stretched out on a long white table
So cold, so sweet, so fair

Let her go, let her go, God bless her
Wherever she may be
She can look this wide world over
But she'll never find another sweet man like me

When I die bury me in straight lace shows
A box back coat and a Stetson hat
Put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain
So the boys'll know that I died standing pat

Let her go, let her go, God bless her
Wherever she may be
She can look this wide world over
But she'll never find another sweet man like me

Against Me! Pints of Guinness make you strong

Skindive - No More Good Guys
Placebo - My Sweet Prince
Placebo - The Crawl
Placebo - Centrefolds
Placebo - I Know
Placebo - Leni
Placebo - In the Cold Light of the Morning
Placebo - Broken Promise
Ani DiFranco - Grey
Songs:Ohia - Coxcomb Red
Radiohead - Talk Show Host
Portishead - Mourning Air
The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood
Slipknot - Danger - Keep Away
Slipknot - Circle
Bj&#246;rk - Human Behaviour
Moby - At Least We Tried
Cat Power - Werewolf
The Rasmus - Funeral Song
Josh Groban - Remember
Josh Groban - Let Me Fall
A-Ha - Crying in the Rain

I don't remember seeing these songs in this forum .. but in my opinion they really deserve to be mentioned.

I

Pink Floyd's <i>Yet Another Movie</i> or <i>Sorrow</i> on their album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason".

"I'm Not in Love" Fleetwood Mac
"We've Only Just Begun" The Carpenters (Actually written as a bank commercial in California, it still makes me choke up.)
"Daniel" Elton John
"Only the Lonely" The Motels
"Life in a Northern Town" (I don't know the artist:( )
Theme from "Fargo."

Wilco- Radio Cure
Neutral Milk Hotel- Naomi
The Blood Brothers- Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck
Elliott Smith- Between the Bars
Elliott Smith- King's Crossing
Smashing Pumpkins- Sad Peter Pan
Iron & Wine- Cinder and Smoke
Minus the Bear- Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse
Modest Mouse- Grey Ice Water
Murder by Death- I'm Afraid of Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe
Radiohead- Karma Police
Silversun Pickups- Kissing Families
Silversun Pickups- Booksmart Devil

The whole double album Disintegration by The Cure...

" You Can Run But We'll Find You " by Matchbook Romance is quite depressing as well ...

Oh ... and one more song by Placebo " Song to Say Goodbye " ( the video is really depressing)
Hmmm ... actually ... there's something about the song called " Drink You Pretty" that ... well it just makes me think.

As a big fan of System of a Down I must say that their songs " Aerials " and " Spiders" are kind of depressing ... Look at " Aerials " video if you haven't seen it yet. I felt so sorry for the boy who was in it. And his face ... It just keeps haunting me for some reason. I saw it everywhere I looked afterwards ... and sometimes I still do if I think about that song or listen to it :p And I just remembered more songs :p Here they are :

Serj Tankian - Charades
Serj Tankian - Bird of Paradise ( Gone )
Serart - Leave Melody Counting Fear
Alicia Keys - Fallin' ( I don't know why actually but this song has a power to make me cry everytime I listen to it. Maybe it's her voice's fault ... I don't know)
Korn - Coming Undone ( The best song by them, the best video by them ... just the best :p The melody isn't sad or anything ... but the words ... )
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down ( Johnny has been mentioned a lot here ... but I didn't see this one ... )
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Eels - I Need Some Sleep
Eels - I'm Going to Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart
Gorillaz - El Ma&#241;ana
Gorillaz feat. D12 - 911 ( I don't know ... maybe it's just me but the refrain just bumms me out for some reason ... )
Gorillaz - Every Planet We Reach is Dead
Gorillaz - All Alone
Gorillaz - Starshine
Massive Attack - Danny the Dog

Slovak RSO - Intermezzo
Katherine Jenkins - Time To Say Goodbye
John Williams - Schindlers List Theme
Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Coldplay - Trouble

Hello ... me again here :p I found two more songs ... Both of them are by Songs:Ohia and they are called " No Limits on the Words " and " Lioness "
So if you're interested check them out :p

Hi

Kroll has this in his list but its worth rementioning cos it is depressing

The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Its well good though

A couple of other smiths tunes could be up there too.

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take acre
zak

"Billy, don't be a hero! Don't be a fool with your life!
"Billy, don't be a hero! Come back and make me your wife!"
And as Billy started to go, she said, "Keep your pretty head low!"
"Billy, don't be a hero! Come back to me!"
Gets me every time :(

And Pearl Jam, although I'm sure it's been mentioned...


Oh where oh were could my baby be?
The lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

Hi

Kroll has this in his list but its worth rementioning cos it is depressing

The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Its well good though

A couple of other smiths tunes could be up there too.

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take acre
zak

Hey, you know I'm actually a girl ... but I'm glad that you agree with me anyway :D

Hey, you know I'm actually a girl ... but I'm glad that you agree with me anyway :D

Apologies for that Kroll, happy posting on sciforums, and please be aware of the big bad B.... M..


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zak

I don't know about depressing songs but I know my fav happy song. "Land down under" by Men at work.

Captain Jack by Billy Joel

I Don't like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

And then there's my favorite author of depressing songs, Warren Zevon :
Play it All Night Long

"Daddy's doing sister Sally, Grandma's dying of cancer now, the cattle all have Brucelosis, we'll get thru somehow..."
Desperados under the Eaves

And if California slides into the ocean, like the mystics and statistics say it will; I predict this motel will be standing, until I pay my bill...
I'll Sleep when I'm Dead

"I got a 38 special, up on the shelf, if I start acting stupid, I'll shoot myself, then I'll sleep when I'm dead..."
Ain't That Pretty at All

" I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve Museum. Take a good running start, and hurle myself against the wall. Cause I'd rather feel bad than feel nothing at all...."
Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

I lay my head on the railroad tracks, and wait for the double E. The railroad don't run no more, poor, poor pitiful me....

Old Shep


With hands that were trembling
I picked up my gun
And aimed it at shep`s faithful head
I just couldn`t do it
I wanted to run
I wish they would shoot me instead

Pick the song (no cheating!)


I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and...

"Drive" by The Cars is another good blue tune.

Ode to my Family - Cranberries

Check out Alice Cooper's album, "From the Inside." I was told he made it after being committed to a mental institution. (Don't know if it was voluntary.) Bernie Taupin is credited with the lyrics. There is some really insightful stuff in there and it's all depressing.

Patti Smith's "Radio Ethiopia" album is pretty down too.

Check out Alice Cooper's album, "From the Inside." I was told he made it after being committed to a mental institution. (Don't know if it was voluntary.) Bernie Taupin is credited with the lyrics. There is some really insightful stuff in there and it's all depressing.

Patti Smith's "Radio Ethiopia" album is pretty down too.

"Somebody...let me out of here"
They're coming to take me away..ha, ha hee,hee, ho, ho.
No wait... was that Zappa?
I can't remember.
Maybe it was both, that makes sense somehow.

Yeah, scary for sure especialy when you've almost been there....recovering from a critical head injury.

But my all time saddest is Harry Chapin's "Cats in the craddle"
Since becoming a parent it's even more depressing.
They grow up so fast, while you're so busy.

"They're Coming to Take Me Away" was done by Napoleon XIV in 1966 and became a staple of Dr. Demento. The lyrics are posted on all the usual lyrics websites and "Somebody let me out of here" does not appear to be part of this song. The words are unfortunately not unique enough to Google successfully.

My favorite depressing music is-- anything from the album "Songs from the Big Chair" by Tears for Fears

"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"
by Eric Bogle
Commemorating the Australians who fought during the Battle of Galipoli during World War I


Now when I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of the rover.
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback,
Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.
Then in 1915, my country said, "Son,
It's time you stop ramblin', there's work to be done."
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun,
And they marched me away to the war.

And the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As the ship pulled away from the quay,
And amidst all the cheers, the flag waving, and tears,
We sailed off for Gallipoli.

And how well I remember that terrible day,
How our blood stained the sand and the water;
And of how in that hell that they call Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.
Johnny Turk, he was waitin', he primed himself well;
He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shell --
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell,
Nearly blew us right back to Australia.

But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
When we stopped to bury our slain,
Well, we buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs,
Then we started all over again.
And those that were left, well, we tried to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire.
And for ten weary weeks I kept myself alive
Though around me the corpses piled higher.
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head,
And when I woke up in me hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead --
Never knew there was worse things than dying.

For I'll go no more "Waltzing Matilda,"
All around the green bush far and free --
To hump tents and pegs, a man needs both legs,
No more "Waltzing Matilda" for me.

So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed,
And they shipped us back home to Australia.
The armless, the legless, the blind, the insane,
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.
And as our ship sailed into Circular Quay,
I looked at the place where me legs used to be,
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me,
To grieve, to mourn and to pity.

But the band played "Waltzing Matilda,"
As they carried us down the gangway,
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared,
Then they turned all their faces away.

And so now every April, I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me.
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march,
Reviving old dreams of past glory,
And the old men march slowly, all bones stiff and sore,
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask "What are they marching for?"
And I ask meself the same question.

But the band plays "Waltzing Matilda,"
And the old men still answer the call,
But as year follows year, more old men disappear
Someday, no one will march there at all.

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda.
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard as they march by the billabong,
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda with me?

Skeeter Davis - End of the World

Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't love me any more

Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when I lost your love

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything's the same as it was
I can't understand, no, I can't understand
How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you said goodbye

Irish Traditional - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (the basis for When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again)

While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy, hurroo, hurroo
While goin' the road to sweet Athy
A stick in me hand and a drop in me eye
A doleful damsel I heard cry,
Johnny I hardly knew ye.


With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and drums and guns, hurroo, hurroo
With your drums and guns and drums and guns
The enemy nearly slew ye
Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer
Johnny I hardly knew ye.

Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your eyes that were so mild
When my heart you so beguiled
Why did ye run from me and the child
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run
When you went for to carry a gun
Indeed your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home, hurroo, hurroo
I'm happy for to see ye home
All from the island of Sulloon
So low in flesh, so high in bone
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.

Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg, hurroo, hurroo
Ye haven't an arm, ye haven't a leg
Ye're an armless, boneless, chickenless egg
Ye'll have to put with a bowl out to beg
Oh Johnny I hardly knew ye.

They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again, hurroo, hurroo
They're rolling out the guns again
But they never will take our sons again
No they never will take our sons again
Johnny I'm swearing to ye.

Irish Traditional - Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (the basis for When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again)

Good one... or should I say, bummer... ?

Another Eric Bogle tune-

"Green Fields of France/No Man's Land"

Well, how do you do Private William McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for awhile neath the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done

And I see by your gravestone, you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen sixteen
Well I hope you died quickly, I hope you died clean
Or poor Willy Mcbride, was it slow and obscene?

Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they bugles carry you over as they lowered you down?
And did the band play 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in nineteen-sixteen
In that faithful heart are you always nineteen?

Or are you a stranger without a name?
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane
In an old photograph, torn and tattered, and stained.
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.

Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they bugles carry you over as they lowered you down?
And did the band play 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

Well the sun's shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
There's no gas, no barb wire, there's no guns firing now

But here in this graveyard that's still no-man's land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
The whole generation was butchered and damned

Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they bugles carry you over as they lowered you down?
And did the band play 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

And I can't help but wonder young Willy McBride
Do those that lie here know why that they died?
And did they really believe you when you told them the cause
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?

Well the suffering, and the sorrow, the glory of pain
The killing and dying they were all done in vain
For young Willy McBride it's all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again...

Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they bugles carry you over as they lowered you down?
And did the band play 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?

Nirvana-Heart-Shaped Box
Stream of passion-Open your eyes
Slipknot-Vermillion pt 2
Lacuna Coil-Ti live is to hide
Lacuna Coil-Daylight Dancer:(

Radiohead: 'Let Down'

Hello People

How about this one

"The drugs dont work" by "the verve"

has anyone mentioned this one?????


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zak

Good choice, Zak.

I'll go for Gomez - Make No Sound but it's subject to change :)

Sounds a bit Pearl Jam-esque.

If you are truly depressed you don't give a rat ass about songs, any song.

Depression varies in severity. You're talking about serious clinical depression. Besides these aren't 'songs for the depressed'. They're 'depressing songs'.

Karma Police -- Radiohead

Most depressing song ive ever heard...
Blaine Larson- How do you get that lonely

Heres the lyrics to that song too.......



It was just another story printed on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score
It said he was only eighteen, a boy about my age
They found him face down on his bedroom floor

There'll be services on Friday at the Lawrence Funeral Home
Then out on Mooresville highway, they'll lay him 'neath a stone...

How do you get that lonely, how do you hurt that bad
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty, you want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely... and nobody knows

Did his girlfriend break up with him, did he buy or steal that gun?
Did he lose a fight with drugs or alcohol?
Did his Mom and Daddy forget to say I love you son?
Did no one see the writing on the wall?

I'm not blamin' anybody, we all do the best we can
I know hindsight's 20/20, but I still don't understand...

How do you get that lonely, how do you hurt that bad
To make you make the call, that havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had
How do you feel so empty, you want to let it all go
How do you get that lonely... and nobody knows

It was just another story printed on the second page
Underneath the Tiger's football score...

These days... but a pretty good song

welcome to the jungle- Axel rose

Welcome To The Jungle-Axl Rose(Actually its by GnR) It's on the "best song" poll too. This one now has the distinction of being on both threads.

At Seventeen by Janis Ian.

At Seventeen by Janis Ian.Although many of her songs during that phase of her life were depressing, that's the best. I got to see Janis in concert once, a very good live performer.

Have you heard her comeback album, "Breaking Silence"? Apparently she was not off somewhere taking Xanax. "Guess You Had to Be There," "What about the Love," those are some really down tunes, worthy of her legacy.

Although many of her songs during that phase of her life were depressing, that's the best. I got to see Janis in concert once, a very good live performer.

Have you heard her comeback album, "Breaking Silence"? Apparently she was not off somewhere taking Xanax. "Guess You Had to Be There," "What about the Love," those are some really down tunes, worthy of her legacy.I always thought Janis was Carly Simon when it was on the radio in my childhood. I loved "What About the Love."

Radiohead - Just (you do it to yourself)

I always thought Janis was Carly Simon when it was on the radio in my childhood.Carly was a little Sprite of Happiness compared to Janis. :)

Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain"

Across The Sky - Broken World
Cold - Cure My Tragedy
Demon Hunter - My Heartstrings Come Undone
Everclear - Father of Mine
Linkin Park - In The End
Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright
Pillar - Rewind
Staind - Right Here
Staple - Gavels From Gun Barrels
The Hippos - Wasting My Life
Thousand Foot Krutch - 1.This Is A Call, 2.Last Words

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head.

Up above-Cyne