depressing songs

[Mirelys]

Dave Matthews Band (esp. "Crush," "The Dreaming Tree," and "Dreams of Our Fathers"), Cake, Simon and Garfunkel, Switchfoot and Loreena McKennitt. Strange mix, lol.

 

[lonelypilgrim]

i love switchfoot!
a beautiful letdown is my favorite song of theirs

 

[Dizzy]

metallica - fade to black... over and over again... i pour my sadness into my guitar while the songs playing... sometimes it works, sometimes it makes it worse ('tis a very depressing song).

LOL!! I was going to say that for my 2nd post b4 I came across your post... It probably does'nt make ya feel any better listening to it, but it helps somewhat...
Great song though!!

 

[Infernal Freak]

hmm....I agree with you Nadrilj1985, that album by the Smashing Pumpkins is rather depressing!

fReAk

 

[traviscatholic12]

What are the songs you listen to when you are feeling depressed or really feeling down?

All American Rejects when I get in fight w/ my girlfriend, or when I break up. When I feel like **** in general, I listen to some Elvis. Some of his songs, like heartbreak hotel, in the ghetto, can't help falling in love with you, etc. are really theraputic. I also like to listen to country. When I'm angry, I throw on some Eminem. When I get mad or depressed, I don't listen to cheerful things, I like to sulk and vent, and then I feel much better.

 

[lonelypilgrim]

when i'm depressed; i don't always want to be cheered up, i want to just wallow in the sadness for a while; vent my frustration. Then move on.

 

[Fangtastic]

Lips of an Angel -Hinder. I cannot listen to this song at all.

 

[vanillaicecream]

So Close by Jon Mclaughlin
Skinny Love by Birdy
I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt

And pretty much all Yiruma's pieces except Maybe.

 

[TheApostleJohn]

The Smiths, specifically Asleep or I Know It's Over

Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division

Pretty much the entire Plastic Ono Band album, but specifically Mother

 

[Maka]

When I think of depressing songs this song comes to mind. A fine frenzy, Almost lover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1PqA6c5_Ic&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[keith99]

Dave Matthews Band (esp. "Crush," "The Dreaming Tree," and "Dreams of Our Fathers"), Cake, Simon and Garfunkel, Switchfoot and Loreena McKennitt. Strange mix, lol.

Simon and Garfunkel have so many depressing/sad songs.

Half the songs on their Debut Album, Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. are depressing. 'The Sun is Burning' is a Pearl Harbor job. (double meaning intended). It seems a sweet song about the sun making it way through the sky and people playing at the park. Until the 4th verse that is:

Now the sun has come to Earth
Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death
Death comes in a blinding flash
Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash
And the sun has come to Earth

Read more: Simon And Garfunkel - The Sun Is Burning Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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Sounds of Silence isn't much happier.

I'd throw in Ian Matthers for depressing songs. 'The Castle Far' is sad and the worst:

My prize not love but fame
And she for who the fight was won will never bear may name

Until then it is the story of a knight returning from battle on a lame horse to a place where they care about him. But the last couplet makes it cleat it was the corpse of a man who went to war to protect his live returning on his lame horse.

DO NOT listen to 'Please be My Friend' is depressed over a breakup. Well unless you want to hear a song about someone worse of than you are.

 

[Blue Wren]

Eleanor Rigby

 

[Goodbook]

Rainy Days and Mondays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmbT5XC-q0

 

[random person]

 

[random person]

Forgive all the images of wiccan women in the compilation video, but it has the best live version of Charlotte Sometimes (the song itself is based on a classic children's book of the same title):

Plot introduction

The story is centred on a girl called Charlotte, who, not long after starting at a boarding school, finds that she has mysteriously travelled back more than forty years. The teachers and other students call her "Clare", the girl in whose shoes Charlotte finds herself. Charlotte and Clare mysteriously exchange places each night, each one alternating between the years 1918 and Charlotte's time.[3] Although Charlotte and Clare never meet each other, they communicate with one another by writing notes in an old diary that looks like an exercise book. The girls are faced with the disconcerting scenario of finding out how to live each other's lives without being discovered.

The story is entirely written from Charlotte's point of view: Clare herself never appears in the narrative. As the story progresses, Charlotte becomes trapped in Clare's time. Charlotte struggles to maintain her own identity as Charlotte, whilst living Clare's life in Clare's time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Sometimes_(novel)

 

[random person]

Ian Curtis and Joy Division, a troubled artist who struggled with depression and epilepsy. The most of their lyrics were very personal and quite abstract. Dark and depressing but not altogether unpleasant and even beautiful if one is seeking their "depressing song" fix.

One commentor describes the song: The Day of the Lord' is a biblical term, regarding the final judgement before the second coming of Christ as mentioned in Revelations. The song itself is about reflecting on life and its meaning, the pain of regret as one comes towards the end. All the references are abstract, so as the listener reflecting on your own past, you are invited to insert your own personal experience.

Another commentor describes the song: The song is about drug use, and he was pointing out the senselessness of it by asking "where will it end?" Ian had seen lots of drug abuse in Manchester, and this is about what he saw.

 

[random person]

 

[random person]

How small the Captain Torres, how high the sea
Gale ten, engines failing, no quarter, no lee
They know when the wrong wave hits them, perdu, they're gone
They've played their share of poker, they know odds are long

La mer ne pardonne pas

Time yet for consolation, each makes one call
Signals came ship to shore, words plucked from the squall
His heart a deep deep ocean, his voice so small
So faint through all the static, five words, that's all

La mer ne pardonne pas

Do I count myself lucky, I was home the phone was ringing
What of others' wives who missed it, came home to red lights blinking?

How strange this world of wonder, ships sailing, planes flying,
Sound sent at speed of light, phone calls from young men dying
These walls bought and paid for by labour on board
Gone months to clothe and feed us, gone now forever more

La mer ne pardonne pas

 

[random person]

 

[Sketcher]