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.
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 .
Yeah, beautiful song! Good taste Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! 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) Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! - 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.)
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.
Yeah, a little too depressing though. Beautiful melody but it makes you feel sad even if you're in a good mood.
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).
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....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! 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)
