Help me find SAD/DEPRESSING SONGS!!!!!

[Cr@sh]

SAD SONGS: DEPRESSING SONGS: MISERABLE SONGS!!!!!

I have a mission, I absoultely love sad or depressing songs, the type of songs that make u cry, and I'd like to compile a list of all the sad songs i can possibaly find! To do this i'm gonna need some help, so thats why i'm here, if you have a/some sad songs to suggest, Please post them, I'd be glad to investigate. :) SO PLEASE POST ANY SAD/DEPRESSING SONGS HERE!!! Thankyou.

[Sentinel]

The song by Sheryl Crow from the X Files soundtrack is sad. Well, I haven't heard it in about 6 years, and I was going through a really rough time when I listened to it, but I thought it was depressing back then.

[snufeldin]

anything by radiohead or coldplay.

Coldplay is more sad, but slightly up lifting; Radiohead is wonderfully depressing. For radiohead I recommend anything on the cds: "the Bends" "Ok Computer" "Kid A" and "Amnesiac". Their new album is fabulous, however, slightly up lifting.

Probably the most depressing song might be "Motion Picture Soundtrack" (download the video... it really helps" or maybe "Street Spirit"; both of those are by radiohead

[metaljustice83]

just about anything by staind

[Doug McMullen]

Well, you probably mean downtempo sad songs... but there's also angry raving depressed... Ian Curtis of Joy Divsion killed himself (by hanging) in the family kitchen two days before the band's first american tour was to begin.

The whole album "Still" is amazing. This very lo-fi mono mp3 of Dead Souls, does not do justice to the song or to Curtis' voice... but even so, some of the power comes thru -- live, he was rawer yet.

[URL=http://joydivision.homestead.com/files/still-dead_souls.mp3]"Dead Souls" -- The Album "Still" Joy Division (with Ian Curtis) --

[Wyll_Watts]

ummm.. try Type O Negative's albums October Rust and World Comming Down.. just about all of the tracks on those two except for two or three are sad depressing (but perhaps a little tounge in cheek as well)..

if you're into the whole goth thing try out Theatre of Tragedy..

BUT! if you want the most sad, depressing, despair ridden music of all then I recommend old time bluegrass.. everyone in those old songs is being hanged, thrown in rivers, or generally killed by moonstruck lovers.. you know, all that happy stuff..

Wyll

[Cr@sh]

:D Well thx everyone thats posted so far, I'll make sure i check all those out, in the mean while,keep um coming!:D

[Wyll_Watts]

oh, I almost forgot.. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.. check out the album Murder Ballads...

Wyll

[snobleo]

Anything by Staind, and NIN. I dare you not to take your life after a full sitting by one of them.

Metallica's new album is depressing for other reasons. :p

[Oceano]

Old "The Cure", and some of the more gothic "Dead Can Dance" stuff.

For metal, "My Dying Bride" or the first "Cathedral" cd (It's so slow)

[Clive]

Rodriguez - "A most disgusting song"
(track 1 from the album "Live Fact")

Some truths in there about people that I'm sure a lot of folks here could relate to from playing a lot of different venues... pretty depressing tho...

Clive

[Abraham Lincoln]

Check out Woody Guthrie's "I ain't got no Home".

[george_menhorn]

Sad, you say? Try listening to some Nick Drake.

--
George

[Oceano]

Anything by them.
If you love sad/depressing music (I do), you will love them.

[Darkstar]

The NIN song "hurt" covered by Johnny Cash is very sad, check out the video( i saw it in mp4.com), it makes it even sadder.
Placebo also ealy gets me down, I can't listen through the album "without you i am nothing". For some reason I find Type 0 negative funny, not sad.:)

[Wyll_Watts]

on type o..

yeah, I agree.. alot of their music is very funny.. I think that's one of the things that makes them a great band and sets them apart.. there are a few tracks by them that I see as 'seriously' sad and depressing though..

while not really depressing I think some of Tools music would qualify as sad, or at least darkly reflective..

sadness and depression are such common states that there are thousands and thousands of artists writing such music.. thankfully there are some happy songs out there too..

Later,
Wyll

[Bongo Boy]

I'd say the old Leonard Cohen (from the late 60s or early 70s, at least). Plus, almost any Country & Western tunes listened to after say a 6-pack should do it.

I know I suggest this for most requests for music of any kind, and please don't try this at home, but try "Mandy" or "Danke Shein" after, say, a quad espresso or something similarly 'stimulating'. I think they will each prove suitably depressing, after you get thru the gut-wrenching nausea, of course.

[potshot]

Someone mentioned Nick Cave? He's one seriously depressed man. I saw him on an Australian show called "Club Buggery" (it's hard to explain if you don't get it), which was a comdey variety show.. And in the interview, he was as dark as can be, very morbid.

Another person I can think of who seems depressed is Mark Knopfler. Watching him in concert, he'll finish off a song, the crowd will be cheering and he looks like he's ready to go off stage and have a cry. Brothers in Arms is a sad song.

From Dream Theater, there's Space Dye Vest and Disappear. Along the same lines as Space Dye, a lot of Chromakey (Kevin Moore) is mellow and/or depressed. Then there's To Live Forever... that's a miserable song. Wait for Sleep, Learning to Live. A Change of Seasons too, in parts.

From TransAtlantic, there's Bridge Across Forever. It's on the album of the same name, but it's pretty much an individual Neal Morse song.

Fade to Black from Metallica. To Bid You Farewell by Opeth. A lot of Pain of Salvation is depressing, especially A Trace of Blood.

[EricV]

"My Immortal" - Evanescence
"Fade To Black" - Metallica ( try the Apocalyptica-version also )
"No Quarter" - Led Zeppelin
"Alone I Breathe" - Savatage ( at the same time, very uplifting )
A bunch of songs by K´s Choice

Gotta agree to "Space-Dye Vest"... I remember when I first heard it, winter of 94... it was cold & dark outside, snow all over the place, and that song definitely contributed to my melancholic mood back then...

"Through Her Eyes" and "Hollow Years"- Dream Theater
( again, both sad and uplifting... the chorus of "Hollow Years" still gives me goosebumps )

"Don´t Leave Me Now", "Hey You", "Is There Anybody Out There", "HIGH HOPES" by Pink Floyd

[Thorsten]

" I Love Rock´n Roll " in the Britney Spears version! Can it get more depressing then this...?

Other then that...I guess anything by The Cure! If you don´t feel like jumping off the cliff after one of their records you´re already dead...

Seriously..."Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness" by The Smashing Pumpkins is a very beautiful and sad album. Check it out!

TK

[billybenbob]

My favorite sad song is "Sad Lisa" by Cat Stevens.

It even has a sad title.

[Koala]

Chech out The Final Cut by Pink Floyd, most of the album is pretty sad but the title track is a true wrist slasher.

[Greg]

"Top Gun-theme" - Satriani (still makes me cry... You're the man, Satch! :D )

Seriously, what about "love bites" by Def Leppard?

[EricV]

The "Top Gun Anthem" is not by Joe Satriani, it´s by Steve Stevens & Harold Faltermeyer. And I agree, it´s very pretty.

"Love Bites"... I once watched some Def Leppard home-video, and on there was a live-version of it. At the end, the band started to jam a bit on the verse-chords. Collen and Campbell started playing some very cool solos, both emotional and melodic ( with some killer-licks thrown in in between ). I really got goosebumps from watching that...
Eric

[Greg]

Originally posted by EricV
The "Top Gun Anthem" is not by Joe Satriani, it´s by Steve Stevens & Harold Faltermeyer. And I agree, it´s very pretty. AAAARRGH!!! I've been living a lie!! :D
Oh well, life goes on...

[metaljustice83]

I hate it when that happens :( :(

[Greg]

I found this at a Q&A:

"Q: When was made the metal version of (Mission Impossible, Top Gun, etc) theme by Joe, and where can we find it?
A: That's just a hoax! I never recorded anything by that name... It's been reported that version floating around is actually by Dream Theater. *Joe also didn't play the Top Gun theme or Over The Rainbow that commonly get shared with his name on them. "

Gee, do I feel stupid... :rolleyes:

[metaljustice83]

just about anything by Alice in chains or jerry cantrell.....It just kinda smacked me in the face, I'm thinking what are some depressing bands, and I've got a jerry cantrell album playing, it was so obvious, and I didn't even notice.....dur dur dur

[Sentinel]

Actually, I've heard it was Eddie Van Halen who did the Top Gun song.

[RoMEo]

anything by david gray especially "this years love" and "the other side" i definetly know u will cry to one of them!!!

[DanF]

Fingerstyle acoustic stuff has always really talked to me. If you wanna try it check out for instance Jim Croce "These Dreams" and "New York's not my home" the melodies are so melancholy you'll be feeling it before he even starts singing.

-Dan

[EricV]

Don Henley - "New York Minute"... what a beautiful, melancholic song...
Eric

[potshot]

I think both Over the Rainbow and Mission Impossible were done by JP. Though I could be living a lie too :D

[RoMEo]

anything by davud gray is good he uses poetry as a form of singing its him and his guitar so his music is mainly acoustic like.:D :cool:

[flathead]

'The Living' by natalie merchant almost makes me suicidal

[RoMEo]

i would reccomend ''(its hard) letting you go'' by Bon Jovi one song that will make you cry

[Entropy]

If you're into very melodic, electronicly created music, Check out "Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space" by Spiritualized, off of an album of the same name. It's "trip" music by all rumor, but it doubles as slit-your-wrists to music.

R.E.M.'s "Try Not To Breathe" isn't overtly depressing or melancholy, but when you listen to the lyrics, it's a very depressing song.

"I will try not to breathe.
I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees.
These eyes are the eyes of the old, shiver and fold.

I will try not to breathe.
This decision is mine. I have lived a full life
and these are the eyes that I want you to remember. "

It's about an older man succumbing to the inevitable.

Silverchair's "Suicidal Dream" is a very angry-depressed song, apperently written by the lead singer when he was 16. It's rare for a 16-year-old to write so powerfully and succinctly about suicide without succumbing to the cliches. Very easy to identify with,
personally. What ever happened to them, by the way? Does anyone know if they're doing anything? They were way popular a few years back, and I haven't heard about them since.

along the Staind vein, Aaron Lewis, their lead singer, did an impromptu cover of Pearl Jam's "Black" on the 2002 (I believe) Family Values Tour. It is AMAZING. In my opinion, he puts pain and sorrow into the song that is somewhat lacking in the original, which is somewhat frustrating for me.

There is an amazing group called The Reindeer Section. They have a few melancholy songs, such as "Will You Please Be There For Me", "Your Sweet Voice" , and "Cold Water".

To go way back, Jewel's album Peices of You had some very powerfully sad songs, such as "Painters" and "Adrian".

Just my favorites to listen to when I'm in that mood, hope I've turned someone onto any of these songs.

[Cuno]

I saw someone else pointing out The Cure. Their 'Pornography' is one of their most depressing albums.

Other very good and saddening songs:
Correspondences by Tea Party
Cool Water by Talking Heads
Rain From Heaven by Sisterhood (Andrew Eldrig's first solo-sisters of mercy)


I used to be very much into depressive stuff in my teens (very original of me;) ), but I actually got stuck in some kind of depressive state, and that's not a good place to be stuck. Like it's fun to joke about being crazy, but less fun actually being it. Besides the danger of romantisising (not that I say you do that) moody music, I think it's a kind of cheap trick to always write that kind of stuff (like some groups do). Genuinely 'up' music is much more difficult to be honest about (honesty being the prime quality in music and life, imho). Guys like Steve Morse and Neil Peart never let themselves despair, and that makes them my heroes! :) (although at times, depression is a good thing too). Ramble ramble...

[Abraham Lincoln]

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[Guni]

Abraham Lincoln,

Please do not post messages like the above one on our forums. This is neither constructive nor beneficial to anyone.

Thanks,

Guni

[EricV]

In my "heavy rotation" this week:

Anthrax - We´ve Come For You All
Buckethead- Colma ( I don´t think I´ll ever grow tired of this one )
Demon Drive - Four Play
Paul Gilbert - Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
Ron Thal - Adventures Of Bumblefoot
Jewel- 0304
Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
Badlands - dto. ( What a killer-album. Jake E.Lee rules... "Rumblin´Train" always gives me goosebumps ! )

Eric

Comment: Sorry, I accidentially posted this in the wrong thread... this belongs into the "What Are You Listening To" thread, so just ignore it.

[DemonFire]

And all that could have been-NIN
H-Tool
Nearly ANYTHING by Alice in Chains

[Cr@sh]

Hello all that have posted in this thread, I haven't said anything in a while and the amount of posts is slowing down now, so i'd like to say a huge thanks to EVERYONE that posted a reply to the topic,
Cr@sh

[EricV]

Want some more ?

Van Halen - Once
Black Label Society- Bridge TO Cross, Just Killing Time
Pride & Glory - Fadin´ Away
Tribe Of Judah- Suddenly Sublime
Zakk Wylde- Sold My Soul
Metallica - One ( read the lyrics... )

Eric

[Slaindude]

I got what you want. The band is called lacrimas profundere and go get the songs : Without, Lastdance, adorer and somebody. (for adorer and somebody i suggest the version from the memorandum album, the newest version is ... crappy a bit.)

This band gives me depression everytime i listen to it. Some people classify this band as doom/rock
or gothic/rock cause sometimes the singer scream a bit, not too much but just enough to fit the mood of the song. But, most of the time he sings clean vocals and he's got the best depression voice i've ever heard. Unfortunately, their latest album wasnt very good. It sounded kinda happy but if you want depression get any songs on the memorandum album and burning a wish album.

Tell me what you think.

[MetalFlamingo]

I don't know if these have been posted already, I haven't read the whole topic. For metal-Fade to Black by Metallica and Tout le Monde by Megadeth, though Tout le monde is slightly uplifting at the end. Motorhead's "1916" is an awsome one along with "One more F**king time" are the most depressing songs ever. Radiohead songs are awsome to.

[DDTonFire]

Six Degrees of inner Turbulence by Dream Theater can be depressing enough cuz its about goin insane

Fade to Black is depressing its about suicide

Tears by Dream Theater is one of those songs that makes you sigh

So is the Rain Song by Zeppelin

[DDTonFire]

umm also a sad song is Please Dont ask by Genesis its a really soft but sad song

[The_Tool_Man462]

Hi everybody im new but i wanted to get posting right away anyways:

Metallica-Fade to Black
Nine Inch Nails-A Warm Place/The Great Below/Something I Can Never Have
Cold-Bleed
Alice In Chains-Down in A Hole
Disturbed-Darkness
Neurosis-The Tide
Pink Floyd-Welcome to the Machin/The Final Cut
Seether-Driven Under
Smashing Pumpkins-To Forgive/Disarm
Stone Temple Pilots-Creep

Hope that can help ya out man

[Sirnen]

Wonderful Topic

Here are the world's most depressive bands:

Akhenaton - Divine Symphonics Album
Das Ich - depressing industrial dark ware through their whole discography
Empyrium - especially 1st and 2nd release
Goethes Erben - early releases till Der Die Das
Lacrimosa - early releases till Elodia
Tristania - melancholic gothic metal before Evanescence grew CopyCat #1
Type O Negative - even further down the spiral

[salsainglesa]

does anyone here like PORTISHEAD?
they are one of my biggest influences i think, the singer BETH GIBBONS has an spectacular voice to make you cry, and the topics of thier songs are kinda existencial. Try the song 'ROADS' as a starter, from their first release, DUMMY.
Then listen to all the damn record!
If that does not get you completely down, try the second homonimous release... is has darker tone.
And finally, beth's solo album with rustin man. Gorgeous melodies in that album!

If you liked this, the try GOLDFRAPP debut album..

Tom waits is also pretty dramatic, he has a deep voice and interesting themes.

Elleni Mandell is kind of a mix between tom waits and a woman, lol, she has a style very much like his.

And of course, my favorite mexican singer girl, Hope Sandoval... She was on a band called MAzzy Star, and their three records are deliciously depresive. Her voice's soft and warm and makes a nice contrast with the music. She also has a solo album!

The soundtrack of the directorial debut of sofia copola, Virgin Suicides by AIR,
is also very nice to listen to with the lights turned out, some tunes are not that depresive, but they get you on a light sad mood.

Leonard Cohen is also a sad man.

Other sad bands: Dream city film club, PJ Harvey can be quite depressing too,
Try em!

And i have to agree with the video of Hurt, it is overwhelming.
If anyone likes this stuff please lemme know! i can talk about this for hoooours and hours!

Why did you satrted this thread ?

[salsainglesa]

Sea changue by beck is a sad acoustic album... i forgot that one...

I'll be back at this post, in can feel it.

[phantom]

hey salsa,
great avatar btw.. is that you? ;-)

i love goldfrapp as well, and from their newest album "black cherry" the title track is awesome and mysteriously depressive.

sven

[Sakkaku]

I've found the emotive melodies behind Cannibal Corpses 'Pounded to Dust' has always brought tears to my ears :p

[phantom]

actually i find slayers "mandatory suicide" quite depressing...

[Matze]

Nine Inch Nails:

-The Downward Spriral (listen to "Hurt")
-The Fragile

[musikluva]

evenessance "MY Imortal" Linkin Park " The END" Janet JAckson "The Velvet Rope" those songs make me depressed.

[salsainglesa]

lol... that me on a bad hair day! just before i get my guitar and play some madly slow licks

[JeremyB]

i write loads of em

[MSH1601]

Actually, I've heard it was Eddie Van Halen who did the Top Gun song.
I heard that too.

How about 'Talking old soldiers' by Elton John?
Gets me everytime wortheveryone getting a hold of if you haven't heard it yet.
From 'The tumbleweed collection' I think.

[MSH1601]

Oh, and Thunder did loads of meaningful material.

Some that stand out is Till the river runs dry, This forgotten town and Like a Satallite..

[Starsailor]

Nice call on the apocolyptica Eric. You heard nothing else matters by them?
Also something about Gilmour's phrasing during Comfortably Numb in the final solo just makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Particularly towards the end when he plays at around the 18th fret, bloody magic.
Nick Drake, as someone mentioned earlier, was a good answer. Didn't even think about him. It is, however, impossible to listen to his music loud.
Anyone consider Parisenne moonlight and Moonlight Sonata or even Paschendale by Iron Maiden?

Michael:p

[steelaxen]

How about things with a slower beat... With an actual sad mood, and sad lyrics too...

Like Gary Jules - Mad World
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

To me, the cure's beat is kinda upbeat (Love Song) but with sad lyrics and it just doesn't give me that knot in my throat... maybe it's to be ironic
That NIN - Hurt is really sad I like that one

Maybe "Seal - Kissed By A Rose / Kiss From A Rose" (not sure which it is)

Oh and, H.I.M. (His Infernal Majesty) - Gone With The Sin

I would like a list of really morbid/dark/depressing/sad type music too... There's my 2 cents.

[dark-riot]

some sad/depressing songs:
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Our Lady Peace - Thief
Poets of the Fall - Late Goodbye
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (not that sad or depressing)
Red House Painters - Have you forgotten?

thats all i could think of right now...

[kirk_wannabe]

I listened to these songs while going through a long depression. Very sad...trust me...get them. They'll make u cry if ur in the mood.

Pink Floyd - Nobody Home
- Comfortable Numb
and the song off dark side of the moon....its just a guy talking at the start, then i woman breaks out singing for the rest of the song..very sad.

Dream Theater version of Comfortably Numb is awesome....get that if u can, I recommend that over Floyds one.
Alice Cooper - Hell is Living Without You
- Might as well be on Mars
Rocky Horror Picture Show - Super Heroes
The Police - I'll be Watching You
Brooke Fraser - Better
Metallicas fade to black is good....however Sonica Artica version rips it...its done the way it should be done...believe me, get this one above all others.

[Francious70]

Have any of you heard,

"Letters From Home" by John Michael Montgomery?

Extremly touching song. Makes me tear up every time I hear it.

Paul

[MontgomeryGoo]

anything by westlife or busted or mcfly make me cry wretchedly and dejectedly

[blank_frackis]

a really sad goth folk song is Nations by Angels of Light


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[redmunk]

raining in baltimore, counting crows

[ubi_goth]

well i think.... marilyn manson-coma white
my song:
just another day
in another place
with another face
and i different personality
to hide the shame
to take the blame
for the blood red stream
and now i have the blade
ill paint blood in every shade
the pictures will be beautiful
the pictures will be great
the pictures will represent
every thing i hate
ill draw them with a razor
ill draw them in my vein
ill use the blood to take away my every little pain
i slash open my skin and tie it with a knife
to take away the pain and strife
that has always been in my life

[captaincrazy]

One of the best sad songs that i know is by Diamond Rio and it's a song called Your Gone. It will surely make you cry.

[MusicELG]

Hopefully they haven't already been mentioned, but these songs definitely bring me to tears:

"What Might Have Been" by Little Texas
"Fear" by Sarah McLachlan
"Best I Can" by The Chris Perez Band (Chris Perez is the late singer Selena's husband and he wrote this song for her after she was murdered---so so sad and touching)
"No More Drama" by Mary J. Blige (this brings all kinds of emotions out of you)

[bilbo__baggins]

The End by The Doors!

Also, Blues for Mama by J.J. Cale (To Tulsa and Back) - very sad but lovely song.

[lollypop719]

some more depressing songs

kittie-safe
counting crows-colorblind
slipknot-vermillion part 2

[Autumn Moon]

Some of these songs are really sad and very depressing.

'45'- Shinedown
'Beat Me'- Custom (Really only if you listen to the lyrics it's upbeat in the music though)
'Whiskey Lullaby' -Brad Paisley ft. Alison Kraus
'Jolene'- Mindy Smith (cover of Dolly Parton but don't just drop it cause its by Dolly!)
'Outside'- Staind
'The Man Behind Blue Eyes'- Limp Bizkit

[oreo]

the saddest songs ever are of course

gary jules - mad world
green day - time of your life
sarah mclaughlin - when she loved me
strange fruit - flame still burns
counting crows - raining in baltimore
counting crows - long december
counting crows - colour blind
counting crows - amy hit the atmosphere
dr.hook - sylvia's mother
cold play - the scientist
emilia - Big Big World
five for fighting - superman

[Mcbane]

pain of salvation are great for depressing songs, oblivion ocean, rope ends, trace of blood, pretty much any song off the perfect elements part1 and loads of others are good examples.

metallica - one
pantera - hollow
opeth - hope ends
theres loads of other 1's

[Gunnan]

Nirvana
B.B. King
George Winston and his albumns to do with seasons.
as for my emo friends, they get off on thrice, dashboard, and bright eyes.

[BornToShred]

Nirvana
Nirvana is pretty depressing. It always pisses me off so much that i wan't to smash the ****ing radio. :D

[suela]

"For my fallen angel" - My Dying Bride
"Lost Control" - Anathema

[MalignantX]

Songs that quickly comes to MY mind:

DAD (previously Disneyland After Dark) - It's after dark
Guns N' Roses - November rain
Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven
Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the cradle
Runrig - Loch Lomond

[heli-skier]

the shins - caring is creepy
gary jules - mad world
johnny cash (or NIN) - hurt
Ben Harper - Another lonely day
elliot smith - needle in the hay
james taylor - fire & rain
neil young - thrasher
eric clapton - lonely stranger
rolling stones - angie
NIN - something I can never have

[wonderdog]

Wow -- six whole pages and nobody mentioned Dylan's Blood on the Tracks with tracks like If You See Her, Say Hello, You're a Big Girl Now, or Simple Twist of Fate.

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, also by Dylan, is one of my favorite sad songs.

Several people mentioned Floyd's The Final Cut. Also check out Roger Waters's The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking.

[Factor]

These move me in a way, that if I'm already in an emotional mood and receptive for input, I'll break many tears...

Mozart - Requiem
Opeth - The Night and the Silent Water, and a couple of other songs from the Morningrise album.
Debussy - Arabesque no. 1 (especially the Isao Tomita rendering on the Snowflakes are dancing. Reminds me of my father)
Metallica - Fade to Black (so diverse, and so beautiful)
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn (first part)

Sometimes for me, the things that are beautiful and not inherently "sad" moves me the most.

Not any jazz up there yet. Though one of the songs offa Bright Size Life (Pat Metheny) might migrate there. Or even one from the Kind of Blue (Miles Davis).

[Rizla]

Sting made a few depressing songs

[robotochan543]

babe im gonna leave you by led zeppllin is a good moody song, and its not the kind of depressing that you just give up on, i like radiohead, but somtimes they can overdo the depressingness a bit. you wonder whats going on when they write those songs in their mansions rolling in their millions of pounds.

someone said dont think twice by bob dylan, i love that song, can you play it, coz that guitar work, whoosh, over my head, id love to be able to though.

[ViolinMaster]

Evanescence- Hello
Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata


Those are what I listen to when im feeling depressed.

[JailHouseRock]

Listen to some Europen gothic rock bands. Their music are pretty dark with depressing ambient. Most of their stuff are about love, heart break, suicide, etc.. Here's the band:

- Entwine
- To Die For
- HIM
- For My Pain
- Sentenced

Also listen to some ol' country songs from Hank William. Pretty sad and depressing.

[Barking Pumpkin]

Ayreon - Day Fifteen: Betrayal
Ayreon - My House On Mars
Ayreon - 2084
Mr. Bungle - Retrovertigo
Mortiis - Everyone Leaves

If you like Electronic music, get 'The Smell Of Rain' by Mortiis. The whole thing is depressing. If you're in to metal, anything from 'Dopethrone' by Electric Wizard, or anything by them. And 'Jerusalem' by Sleep. Both doom metal. Think Black Sabbath tuned down to like A with triple the distortion.

[wren]

i have to agree with george nick drake was oviously a very troubled man and the deepest part of his soul comes out in his music .i like to play a song of his called things behind the sun on my acoustic and i would also recommend one of his called fruit tree the name makes the song sound happy but if you listen to it you will find it couldnt be more sad its ironic that he written this song himself and later in his sort life committed suiside youll see why when you hear it .but my all time favourate sad song has got to be november rain by guns and roses .good luck finding new sad songs to play hope i was helpful love wren:)

[Ewen]

I've read all the posts (don't think I missed anything) and I can't believe no ones mentioned Loudon yet. I suffer from clinical depression and listening to this guy actually cheers me up, I know I'm not alone in the world when I here him. Check out stuff like 'Hard Day On The Planet', 'Your Mother and I' or 'One Man Guy' from the superb 'One Man Guy : Best of Loudon Wainwright 1982 - 1986'. Another truly inspired album is 'More Love Songs'.

[oRg]

These are the songs I find that are sad/depressing.

Black Label Society - Rust
Black Label Society - Just Killing Time (or anything else from Hangover Music, Book of Shadows, and Pride and Glory)
Yngwie Malmsteen - Air
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Nevermore - Tomorrow Turned into Yesterday
In Flames - Acoustic Medley
Joe Satriani - Sleep Walk (this makes me sleepy and depressed)
Counting Crowes - Long December
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Stone Temple Pilots - The Big Empty
Dream Theater - Vacant
Nightwish - Kuolema Tekke Taiteilijan
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Shadows Fall - Prelude to Disaster
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
Three Dog Night - One
The Moody Blues - Knights in White Satin
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Don McLean - American Pie
Buckethead - Padmasana
Buckethead - Sketches of Spain (for miles)
Buckethead - Colma
Buckethead - (pretty much anything off of Colma, and Electric Tears)
Joe Satriani - Starry Night

[mattblack850]

Haven't seen Neil Young's 'Needle and the damage done' mentioned,

Just think, go out as a band and play all these suggestions at a large venue and you could have the largest mass suicide on your hands!!!

[PhrygianX]

Mozart's Requiem is really lachrymose, especially during the 3rd movement. It's something like 14 minutes long, though, so the manics should turn it off somewhere in the middle before they end up killing themselves! :D

Beethoven's Funeral March is also very depressing.

"Ok, fine, listen to your sad-bastard music".

"I'm walkin' on sunshine, yeah-ha, and don't it feel good!". :confused:

[PhrygianX]

I don't know how I forgot "Dust in the Wind" by the all-mighty Prog. gods Kansas. That song is depressing but also really beautiful in its own way.

"I close my eyes
Only for a moment and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes a curiosity

Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind

Don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away and not another minute will your money buy

Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the Wind
Everything is dust in the wind."

*tear*

Not too upbeat, I'd say!

[oRg]

I forgot to add "The Sound of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Good song.

"Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.



In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
'Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools" said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls."
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence."

[IdViscous]

Anything Dax Riggs does... Acid Bath, Agents of Oblivion or Deadboy and the Elephantmen... Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley... ummmm Bjork

there's alot of good sad song there, i could never exaust with a list... therefore i will just name what comes to mind quickest.








Oh, 'H' by Tool




and i definately agree with any NiN suggestions

[syrian_vai]

nearly all of malmsteen's solos are really so melancholic , but

1- crying
2- like an angel
3- sorrow

are heart breaking !!!

its really strange that none of u mentioned Marty Friedman

1- Rio
2- The Realm of senses
3- farewell
4- night


What do u think ??

[EricV]

Black Label Society - Just Killing Time
That is such a great song... and the solo gives me the chills big time every time I hear it. Lots of emotion...

I would like to mention "I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel. Really sad song... it also appears in the "City Of Angels" movie, and fits well into the scene it appears in...

I would also like to mention both "Don´t Give Up" by Peter Gabriel and "Hollow Years" by DT, but those prolly aren´t appropiate cuz they have uplifting, "happier" parts and are not all-out sad / depressing IMO
Eric

[UKRuss]

I'm only gonna add a few as alot has already been covered:

Del Amitri - "Nothing Ever Happens"
Led Zeppelin - "In My Time of Dying"
The Disposable Disciples of Hiphoprisy - "Television"
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - "Almost Cut My Hair"
Massive Attack - "Protection"
LemonJelly - "Ramblin' Man"
Osric Tentacles - "Ajurvedic"
The Stone Roses - "Waterfall"

[oRg]

That is such a great song... and the solo gives me the chills big time every time I hear it. Lots of emotion...That's one of my most favorite solos of all time. He's one of my inspirations.

I totally forgot about Dream Theater. Their song "Vacant" of of Train fo Thought. I don't think anyone has mentioned this song. I also forgot to include Pantera's "Flood" and "Cemetary Gates".

[Gordon]

I just listened to Wonderful by Everclear and read the words. This song is up beat but has an amazing sadness to it.

Another one that I love it "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits. It is a modern take on the original with items from "West side story" mixed in.

One of the parts that get's me is the when Romeo is talking to Juliet and says "you promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin yeah, now you just say oh, Romeo, you know I used to have a scene with him"

I think it is a great line in that juliet can trivialize the most romantic love story bu summing it up in that way is chilling.

[js1000_lisboa]

hi there. great thread
here are my 2 cents:
The Call of Ktulu - Metallica ( it seems to me like a very sad song, though you may not think so, 'cause it's instrumental)
Evil Eye - Yngwie Malmsteen ( also an instrumental but a very depressing song IMHO)

[syrian_vai]

Still , i dont know guys , am i the only one who finds Marty Friedman the best sad-feelings-motivator of all times ???

i used to hang in ibm for a good time now ,

and no one ever tried to mention marty as one of the best guitarists of all times ....


Those of u who Worships Friedman's greatness and sad tone ....... Prove u are here !!!!

[sam6]

Marty Friedman the best sad-feelings-motivator of all times ??
!!!!
I heard alot about Marty's solos,can you give us some exmaples :D

[oRg]

Still , i dont know guys , am i the only one who finds Marty Friedman the best sad-feelings-motivator of all times ???
i used to hang in ibm for a good time now ,...
...Those of u who Worships Friedman's greatness and sad tone ....... Prove u are here !!!!Trust me I'm a big fan of Marty. I'm a huge fan of the half-picked/half-legato runs he does. Those kinds of licks take some time for me to get down perfectly. I'm the kind that once I get picking fast I build up too much momentum to slow down to a legato picking speed...lol. One of my favorite Marty solos is the solo from "Tornado of Souls" by Megadeth. For the most part I've only heard his stuff from Megadeth, Tourniquet, and Cacohpony. I heard a couple of his songs from his solo project but I can't quite remember what they sounded like. Not many people know that Marty Friedman was in a Christian Metal band...lol.

[syrian_vai]

well i guess that our Dear oRg gave u a very good example that best describes marty's soul

his solo on tornado of souls

its one of the GREATEST EVER , u do have a very good taste org , cuz few people got a chill on their spine when they listened to this solo , its ...................... the world


now , u can listen to his scenes , and true obsessions album , the man is a myth

i dont know why everyone talks abt vai , and satriani ( and gods they are )
but neglect this tremendous - i wont say guitarist - musician

his nots are just ............... celestial

[sam6]

i dont know why everyone talks abt vai , and satriani ( and gods they are )

good Question ,but your name has the answer :D

[lastridge]

Man, you guys no nothing about sad, depressing songs!

HERE IS THE ULTIMATE TOP 5 LIST!!!! Try them!!!

1. Mary McGlynn (A.K.A Melissa Williamson) - Letter (from the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack)

2. Fear Factory - Timelessness

3. VAST - Flames

4. Nightwish - Dead Boy's Poem

5. Stabbing Westward - Hopeless

Find these songs and get them! They are the BEST DEPRESSING SONGS you'll find!!!! I PROMISE!!!!

[mcphearson]

pieces by sum 41..its my fav song .. but its kinda sad if yu listen to the lyrics...another sad one..is nothing to lose by billy talent..and hope by faith evans and twista

[Gordon]

How about "Joan" by Butch Walker. Here are some of the lyrics:

Joan moved away to Colorado
said she found God and a boyfriend as well
one that won't hit her or make her feel shallow
There's a lot to learn from Joan.

Before I moved in Joan had a thing with the landlord
so she got to live there for free
now I'm not a genius but I figured out
There's alot to learn from Joan

After all this time you were waiting on the line
to stop at the place where they slowly misplaced your life
go get it right

I went to the closet to get dressed for work
when I spotted a box I had not seen before
with all kinds of letters that never got sent
to a guy in Colorado since 1994
and I know it's wrong
but I sat and opened in no certain order a letter or two
they talked about blisters and bruises of anger
and she got a handgun and learned how to shoot
and the last letter said that she had to get out
but I couldn't make out the rest of the note
from the blood stains all over the page of the letter

there's alot to learn
there's alot I learned about Joan

[Token]

I am also a big fan of depressing music. This is a list of some of my favorite songs that get me down. A lot of them depress me just because of the memories that are attached to them, but I think they are depressing either way.

Sarah McLachlan - In the Arms of the Angels
Alphaville - Forever Young
The Mars Volta - Televators
The Mars Volta - The Widow
The Album Leaf - On Your Way
Gary Jules - Mad World (I just heard this song, I agree that it is rather sad. Thanks for the suggestion)

Steve Nicks - Leather and Lace
Staind - Epiphany
Staind - So Far Away
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (One of my personal favorites)
Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
Silverchair - Suicidal Dreams
Silverchair - Tomorrow
Something Corporate - Konstantine
Alice In Chains - Don't Follow
Blues Travelers - Just Wait
Sting - Fields of Gold
Bruce Springstein - Streets of Philidelphea
Journey - Faithfully
Saliva - My Goodbyes
Norah Jones - Don't Know Why
Oasis - Don't Go Away
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Lo Pro - Thread
Thornley - Beautiful
Tim McGraw - Don't Take The Girl
Stone Sour - Bother
Lindsay Lohan - Something I Never Had

The Lindsay Lohan song is definately something that must have some sentimental attachment because it's not a very sad song yet I can't stand to keep living after hearing it. I've listened to it so much... way too much.

That's all I can think of right now but surely I'll think of more later. I always do.

[mattblack850]

[QUOTE=Token]Gary Jules - Mad World (I just heard this song, I agree that it is rather sad. Thanks for the suggestion)

[QUOTE]
Great song, but, if first heard as the 'Tears for Fears' version I wouldn't agree, don't get me wrong I enjoyed the T 4 F version when I was at school, but when I heard this re-mix I suddenly realised what this song COULD mean!! Try playing it acoustically and see what sort of a vibe you get from it then!!

[oRg]

I just finished listening to a Death cd I've had for some time now and it's called "The Sound of Perseverance" and I feel like such an *** for not putting this song down. It's called "Voice of the Soul" and I forgot how awesomely sad and depressing this song is. Listening to it just makes me think about life and death and about the tradgic death of Chuck Schuldiner. Who is IMHO one of the most underrated guitarists of our time. Very possibly the most underrated guitarist nd the sad thing is he's only well appreciated in the underground metal scene. For those of you who don't know what the song sounds like here's a powertab but I EXTREMELY recommend you go out and buy the album. Very good progressive metal and you won't regret it one bit.

[The Bash]

Maybe this has been mention, but the threads to big to look through :)
Transatlantic -Bridge Across Forever.

[myahya]

Don't know if these songs have been mentioned befo, i mean comeon guys its a long thread :D ... so here's my top10 most depressing songs list:

1. No Leaf Clover by Metallica
2. I Stay Away by Alice In Chains
3. Bottomed Out by Sepultura
4. Hurt by NIN
5. What Breaks A Heart by Joe Satriani
6. Nadia by Jeff Beck
7. Uninvited by Alanis Morissette (Ahhhhh... the way she sings...!!!!)
8. Understanding by Evanescence
9. Low Man's Lyric by Metallica
10. Coma White by Marilyn Manson

[papa lazarou]

tears in the rain - Joe Satriani

Lullaby - The Cure

small black flowers tht grow in the sky - manic street preachers
this is yesterday - manic street preachers

[delicious]

space dye vest is definately a sad song, the sound clips really creates the mood. disappear, finall free and six degrees of inner turbulance by Dream Theater are also quite sad and depressing.
few others worth mentioning
Pain of salvation
Opeth - damnation
theater of tradgedy
the mars volta - the widow
porcupine tree

[Schmaus]

Soundgarden!!!

Check out Boot Camp, Overfloater, 4th Of July, Holy Water Etc...

[papa lazarou]

hi guys,
try this book :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1438663,00.html



snippet :

Should rock be the province of optimists who impose their cheeriness on others, or be left to the constitutionally wretched? In his forthcoming book I Hate Myself and Want to Die: the 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard, American author Tom Reynolds is on the side of the miserable. Attempting to wrest control of music back from the feel-goodists, he claims that the best songs are those that sap the will to live, such as the Nirvana ditty from which the book takes its name

[mattblack850]

Along the same lines:-

Death Discs, An account of Fatality in the Popular Song. Alan Clayson.

http://www.greenapplebooks.com/cgi-bin/mergatroid/72292.html

It's quite an interesting read!!

[bok2]

knockin on heaven's doors - guns and roses

[Death (Chuck)]

NR.1 paganini violin sonata No 6
this is more than music, its purest sadness

NR.2 chopin - Ozean study op 25 no. 12
this opinion might not be shared be verybody, chopin is able to get with the same songs very different feelings, its up to u and your mude

chopin - Nocturnes
mozart - requiem, especially lacrimosa
mozart - don giovani
Jonny Cash - hurt
Agalloch - A celebration for the death of man
Agalloch - A desolation song
:D well mainly all agalloch stuff :D
Testament - Return to Serenity
Death - Voice of the soul
Scorpions - still loving u
Scorpions - holiday
all from Immortal, darkthrone, dark funeral

[Ragman]

MY DYING BRIDE. awesome doom metal songs very depressing

OPETH. lots of acoustic slow moody depressing songs/riffs

Devin Townsend - Planet Rain, Sister,.. and many others by him

Roger Waters - he has a bunch, sorry cant be specific too lazy

Bjork - yea...

Hypocrisy - Until The End

Enslaved - Reogenesis

Edge of Sanity - The Last Song (thats the name of the song) and the whole Crimson I and Crimson II albums.

thats all i got right now, but MY DYING BRIDE has to be the most depressing stuff ive ever heard.

A lot of what Death (Chuck) put in is brilliant stuff too.

[SE ´em all]

Nazareth - Love hurts ( What a song !! And the guitarists tone, especially during the solo ........ amazing )
Alanis Morissette - Uninvited
Buckethead - Electric tears
Kamelot - On the coldest winter night
Megadeth - A tout le monde
Metallica - Orion, One

[wires]

I decided to make a list of depressing songs, so this is what I've got so far.
James Blunt - No Bravery
James Blunt - Goodbye My lover
Athlete - Wires
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
Moulin Rouge Soundtrack - The Show Must Go On.
Snowpatrol - Run
Kasabian - Club Foot
Sugababes - Shape of my Heart
Sugababes - Stronger
Sugababes - Too lost in you
Green Day - Wake me up when September ends
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Savage Gardens - Truly Madly Deeply
REM - Everybody Hurts
Pink - Dear Diary
Pink - Don't Let me Get me
Pink - Family Portrait
Pink - Just like a pill

Sorry, if these aren't the sort of songs your into, but they're good for being depressed esp. No Bravery.

[JoliKoV]

Message in a Bottle by Sting


OMG here's a GREAT ONE

it's an instrumental and and almost made me cry because in the middle it breaks down with an amazing clean tone rythm and a solo... ...both solo are amazing


Metallica's To Live is to Die (written after bassist died Cliff Burton)

if you like that one then try their other instrumental

Orion

[wires]

OMG, I can't believe I forgot, Pink Floyd Comfortably numb the most angrily depressing song in the world.

Also anything by Linkin Park they are a bloody depressing band.

[Joe Pass Jr]

Anything by Steve Von Till, Including Neurosis and affiliated bands. Somewhat Political, and slightly cryptic most of the time. Lyrics aside, the tone of his voice and the slow (make you want to kill yourself) rhythms are depressing as hell.

Gotta love him though :)

[syan]

A lot of Rammstein's stuff has a sad sound to it. Off the top of my head I'd say Seemann, Klavier and Morgenstern would be worth checking out. I always thought Head Down off Soundgarden's Superunknown album was an awesome song that no one really paid any attention to. Jennifer by the Eurythmics. I'm trying to list stuff I don't think other people have mentioned yet. DoG and iOvNoW by ohGr. David Bowie's Low album. I might post some more later on - it's like, five in the morning here now.

[Strukkanurv]

I've Done It Again - Grace Jones
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Children's World - Maceo Parker
The Messiah Will Come Again - Roy Buchanan

[Lowthorpe]

NR.1 paganini violin sonata No 6
this is more than music, its purest sadness


Wow..

[Madaxeman]

Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" may seem like an odd choice for a depressing song. It's upbeat, but the lyrics...
It is depressing to me to see myself at the later part of my life realizing the best things I've done are behind me. The bitter-sweet warm sting of nostalgia, looking back at people who are gone, things and places gone or different than they used to be. What could be more depressing, and at the same time somehow satisfying?
It something you younger guys probably won't know about until about your 30's...maybe a little later. You'll look back and wonder where the last ten years of your life went! ...And soon you'll have nothing but memories of your glory days.

[Madaxeman]

OMG, I can't believe I forgot, Pink Floyd Comfortably numb the most angrily depressing song in the world.


hmmm....I always relate this song (as the lyrics suggest) to the pleasant sensation I get when catching a nice buzz. I think the atmosphere of the song captures this mood perfectly. The big lazy smile, and the euphoria spreading through you...I seem to think the Floyd must have experienced this sensation once or twice to capture it so perfectly!:cool:

[Ehvam]

Not your usual choice, but one person i find extremely good at eliciting deep emotions is Peter Gabriel. I know most people think Sledgehammer, but listen to "love to be loved" "the blood of eden" "washing of the water" "Mercy street" Listen to his Us and So and Up albums, you'll find a hell of alot to be depressed over. Another good one is Tom Waits- not his crazier stuff but songs like"the house were nobody lives" Depressing as all hell.
The thing about music is alot of the emotion you feel is situational. It all depends on what your mind associates the song to. So if you heard a happy song when you were in the dumps, you'll probably always associate the song with that feeling.

[Strukkanurv]

Also, Leonard Cohen (don't know if anyone mentioned him yet) & The Cure; More songs would include Mouthful Of Grass by Free (Kossoff was close to being the ultimate depressed guitarist) & Tea For One by Led Zep.

[Drif]

Try Eva Cassidy. She died at a young age but had some incredible pipes. "Autumn Leaves" is a sad beautiful song.

[tara_bara]

hey...dunno if anyones sed this or not (i didnt read the whole entire thing it was just tooo long!!) but theres a book called "I hate my self and want to die : the 52 most depressing songs you have ever heard"
its by Tom Reynolds or someone if your interested!!

[shani]

my sad song list

- Dream theater Answer lies within
- Dream theater Goodnight kiss (solo) :(
- Guns n roses Dont cry
- Guns n roses November rain
- SOAD lonely day from hypnotize

more will post soon ;)

[Shredmaniac]

I recently discovered Elbow, their album "Asleep In The Back" contains some of the most touching songs I've ever heard.

[sadness]

Feelin bad blues by Ry Cooder from the Crossroads soundtrack. May have been mentioned but I didnt read the entire thread.

[Graycee_Grey]

Not sure if you are still looking for sad songs, but here's my list:

Evanescence - "My Immortal"
Sheryl Crow - "The Difficult Kind"
Guns N Roses - "Estranged"
the Beatles - "The Long and Winding Road"
Led Zep - "Ten Years Gone"
REM - "Everybody hurts"
and, of course, I cannot forget this one
Neil Diamond/Barbara Streisand - "You don't bring me flowers"

[permadave]

Here's some depressing songs I like. Please be sure to take your Prozac before embarking on this sonic tour...

Porcupine Tree: "Don't Hate Me", "Russia on Ice"

Opeth: "In my time of need", "Weakness"

Pink Floyd: "Hey You", "Shine on you crazy diamond"

Beatles "All the Lonely People"

The Gathering "Saturnine" , "Shrink", "In Motion #1"

[Ghostly_Liege]

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this one before because I'm too lazy to go look at all ten pages... But if you want depressing: try Avril Lavigne's "Slipped Away" It's overwhelmingly depressing. And most can't even begin to understand how depressing it will be to those of you who've lost someone close to you. I can't even think of the lyrics without getting all teary-eyed. It's truly sad. She wrote it for her grandfather who passed away. Very very sad.

And I, too, have been listening to most of the depressing stuff that others have posted. I really agree with whoever said that radiohead is depressing. Well that's all

~Glenn Daniel Helsby 5/31/90 - 6/12/05~
May Angels lead you in

[mannny]

Radiohead basically writes the most depressing songs. the most depressing are probably "Motion Picture Soundtrack" "How I made My Millions" and "I Want None Of This"(which is very hard to find)

[kjmason]

My 2 cents
Sad songs:
Something,the Beatles, now that George is gone, it makes me sad.
4:58Am, Roger Waters
Addict, Fiona Apple
Wonderful tonight, Eric Clapton (I think this is pesonal subjectiveness)
The shortest story, Harry Chapin
Untitled(I hate myself and want to die), Nirvana
When the Tigers Broke free, Pink Floyd
Soma, the Smashing Pumpkins

[DudeFace]

Try listenting to the soundtrack to GLADIATOR. Sarah McLachlan has some pretty sad sounding music too. Try her song ANGEL.

[Charon]

Mantus are pretty sad. They were a Gothic band from Germany. They broke up just recently. Almost every song of them is very depressing. I suggest the following songs: Wir warten auf den Tod / Die letzten der Welt / Geliebter mein.

Evereve made an album called stormbirds. It was the last album the band made before the singer killed himself. The album is also quite depressing.

Die toten Hosen - Nur zu Besuch

[BMac]

I like this thread alot I've found some great songs reading it. So heres some songs I love when I want to hear depressing.

Cats in the cradle - Cat stevens
The End - The doors
Hurt - Nin/Johnny Cash
Seasons in the sun - Terry Jacks
Say it ain't so - Weezer
Perfect Day - The velvet underground
Most lonliest day of my life - System of the down
Moonlit sonata
One - Metalica
When I'm gone - Eminem
Far behind - candlebox

Some of those have kinda a fast pace but to me are depressing because of the subject matter.

[Anjie]

Adding to the neverending list:

Athlete-Wires
Madonna-Gone
Christina Aguilera- I'm Ok
Nina Simone-I Love You Porgy
Greenday- Wake Me Up When September Comes
Vanessa Carlton- Paradise

[RandyJ]

Anything from Evergrey

[FredrikD]

I agree with many suggestions.

I have two other candidates:

Elvis Costello, "I want you". Most people have been there, to want someone that you can't have and there are billions of songs written about it but Costello paints it so beutifully.

Elliot Smith, "Waltz #2 (XO).
"I'm never gonna know you now but I'm gonna love you anyhow".
It's sooo depressing...

[swee_tee2005]

Sarah McLachlan-Fallen
Staind-Epiphany
Alice In Chains-Nutshell
Coldplay-The Scientist
Gloomy Sunday (many people sing this old song)
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Oasis-Sad Song
Jimmy Eat World-Here you Me
Sevendust-Angel's Son
Bruce Springsteen-Streets of Philidelphia
Evanescene-Exodus

Some of these are probably repeats, but hey what can you do? These are some of my favs.

[KaiMgarth]

:( What about throwing copper - lightning crashes, verve pipe - freshmen, r.h.c.p. - under the bridge; scar tissue, and queen - bohemian rhapsody.
especially the last one. its about a kid who was given the death sentence.

[Nexion]

All of Explosions In the Sky's work. All of their songs are instrumental and very passionate and emotional. They can be seen as sad or uplifting, they kind of fit any situation you are in and boost it.

[leppard81]

Almost everything by Hogarth-era MARILLION. Some stuff is really hard to swallow (the Brave album) or somehow uplifiting, yet leaving you with a melancholic feeling (e.g. Afraid of sunlight album - that one belongs into EVERY record collection!!)

ALEX :)

[bodombitch_]

Anything by The Tea Party, Creed, or Staind. ( Not saying I enjoy them.. x.x; )
Nine Inch Nails has a lot of depressing and 'deep' songs. Especially off their newer albums.
Uhm, a few Evanescence songs really get to me.
'Since you've been gone.' - Theory of a Deadman.
But, the saddest song.. of all time..
'Nothing else matters.' - Apocalyptica.
It was a sad song as it was originally by Metallica.
HOWEVER.
Get rid of the vocals, and add the epic and deep sound of three cellos harmonizing.
And bam! There ya go. n.n;
Hope I was of help.

- Janelle.

[Princess JOA]

There's a few tracks that gets me down, but I can say Bella Morte 'Neverland' wins hands down. I always feel numb and isolated after I listen to this one, its sad this one. So sad...so so sad...sighhh. Life is sh*t

[Rocker3829]

Hey guys, I lurk on here a lot but i'm here to contribute to this great list. Some very good songs mentioned. I might mention some already mentioned because I don't think it is possible to remember all that were posted at once.



Breaking Benjamin - Breath
Submersed - Dripping
Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby
Evanescence - My Last Breath
Within Temptation - Memories(you gotta love the vocal range of the singer)
Limp Bizkit - Build a Bridge(Their is a good reason for this! Just check this song out, I could care less about this band but this song is good, its not typical LB)
Exit the Ride - Reach(Bill Peck's band)
Faktion - Maybe(awesome lead guitar lines in this song along with relationship problem lyrics)
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon(don't know why but their is just something about the guitar tones and melodies they have that get me everytime)
Kamelot - Abandoned
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Saliva - Storm(I believe these guys are very underrated and overlooked for their mainstream rap-rock early 00's sound, but this song is very well written)


Now to really show me as a US southerner(for you guys not in the US, another term is redneck)

Garth Brooks - The Dance(ever since he sang this song live at the 2001 NASCAR awards banquet for Dale Earnhardt I flat out shed a few tears everytime I hear this song)
Tim McGraw - Red Ragtop

[MightyMouse]

Felt I should reply since I've gone out and listened to most of the suggestions here. One truly great piece of pseudo-classical music is the theme from Schindler's List performed by Itzhak Perlman, an incredibly evocative piece.

[Padawan]

Check out the Neil Young unplugged album and "comes a time"! Neil Young is the best!

[Carvinite]

"Slow Motion"-Third Eye Blind.
"Down In a Hole"-Alice in Chains
"Rust"-Black Label Society
"Drive"-Incubus
"Again"-Lenny Kravits

[angelbaby_281]

there r so many different types of 'depressing' songs, its so hard to classify! I kinda just endd of a long-term crush and been listening to depressing (soppy actually) love songs that bring tears 2 my eyes....some of them include:
Mario Vazquez - Gallery
Seether ft. Amy Lee - Broken
Frankie J - Don't Want to try
Rihanna - Unfaithful
any boys II men songs will do
R Kelly and Celin Dion - I'm Your angel
3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Natalie - going crazy

but obviously, if your not love depressed, i recommend:
Jimmy Eat World - 23....(one of my favorites, its so beautiful), May Angels Lead You In
Lydia - December
Secondhand Serenade has some pretty depressing songs...
then the obviously depressing ones like NIN, staind, coldplay...but everyone's already listed those!

[angelbaby_281]

seether - the gift just blasted from my speakers......that is a pretty sad song :(

[NorthWriter]

I know this is an old thread, but here's some sad songs:

"Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie" by Sufjan Stevens
"Sunken Treasure" by Wilco (the Jeff Tweedy solo version is more poignant) "Trouble," "Sparks," "Warning Sign," by Coldplay
"A Ballad" by Kate Rusby
"Maybelle" by Ida
"Don't Get Sad" by Ida
"Are You Tired Of Me, Darling?" by the Carter Family
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" by Hank Williams
"Hurt" as performed by Johnny Cash (I cried when I saw the video)
"See The Sun" by Dido
"I Should Have Been Watching You" by Hayden
"Caroline, No" by the Beach Boys
"Another Lonely Day" by Ben Harper
"The Passenger" by the Kings of Convenience
"Transatlanticism" and "Brothers On A Hotel Bed" by Death Cab For Cutie

Odd how sometimes we have a craving for the melancholy...

[linymae]

"Runaway Love" by Ludacris - made me cry the first time I heard it
"Don't Take the Girl" by Tim Mcgraw - it sometimes makes me cry
"What Hurts the Most" by Rascal Flatts - it makes me cry most of the time
If one of these songs has already been posted, sorry.

[GicaEric]

here are some nice stuff from Eric Clapton:
Eric Clapton - Behind the Sun (short song, Arpeggio)
Eric Clapton - Old Love
Eric Clapton - River of Tears
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
EC - Broken Hearted
EC - Don't Let Me Be Lonley
EC - Holy Mother
EC - Edge of Darknes (Instrumental, cool)
EC - Let It Grow
EC - Son and Sylvia (Instrumental, great)
My favorits :D

-------------
Also check something from the Zeppelins: Stairway to Heaven, Since I've Been Loving You

[StreetWorm]

I'm sure someone's probably said this one by now, but it's been a while since I've read through this thread.

"Strange Fruit"- Billy Holliday, Nina Simone (countless others I'm sure)

This is one of those songs that no matter how many times you listen to it, and no matter what mood your in when you start listening to it, it just overwhelms you.

[bok2]

have you ever needed someone so bad - def leppard
how do you talk to an angel - the heights
every now and then - earth wind and fire
photographs and memories - jim croce
goodbye girl - david gates
dangggggggg im almost cryin.... im actually listening to my mp3 collection to see whats depressing T_T :(

[Carvinite]

Gary Jules- Mad World

Listen to it, it is one of those that just kind of consume you, it's a tears for fears cover, but jules just really makes the song.

[Carvinite]

http://www.myspace.com/garyjules

[LaughingSkull]

all my songs , it must be something with the skills ...:(

[Iogion]

Odd no one mentioned any Black/Doom metal, well here goes:
Life Is Pain - Bloody Melancholy
Beatrik - Requiem of December
Loss - Life Without Hope, Death Without Reason
Xasthur/Leviathan split cd
Asunder - Works Will Come Undone
All of these are either EP's or full-length releases, Great underground Black/Doom Metal most people have never heard of.
***EDIT***
Forgot to mention:
Lifelover - Pulver or Erotik

[hafftaplay]

"eyes of lucy jordan" marianne faithful

"a song for europe" roxy music

"hb2" roxy music

"broken hearts" living color

"nothingness" living color

"murder in the trailer park" cowboy junkies

"the wedding song" cowboy junkies

"the night that minnie timperley died" pulp

"delta rain" the blessing

[Renegade]

Remember When- Alan Jackson

[Red Shoes]

Try any album by Mazzy Star. Hope Sandoval's voice is beautiful and very very haunting. Downbeat stuff but really good if you're in the right mood

[ChrisJ]

"Strange Fruit" is such an overwelming song. It is about the linchings in the south years ago, when they hung the African Americans. Thus Strange Fruit. I'm depressed now because of this thread (T-T).

One of my songs is so depressing, they used it on a missing children report:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BUK13GAfCUI

-CJ

[Babsi]

Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" The Cure's "Lost"

[[x]Huffy[x]]

Anything by Nirvana, haha. Especially Heart-Shaped Box, or Lithium.




"The Noose" by A Perfect Circle is the one that sticks out most in my mind.

Also:
"Creep" by Radiohead.
"One Way In, No Way Out" by The Music.
"Getaway" by The Music.
Anything by Placebo.
"Fade To Black", "Nothing Else Matters" and "The Unforgiven" by Metallica.
"Coma White" by Marilyn Manson.
Erm..nearly all of Linkin Park's "Meteora" album..
"The End Of Heartache" by Killswitch Engage.
"Join Me In Death" by HIM.
in fact...any HIM stuff.:p
"In This River" by Black Label Society.
"Jonesing For Jones" by The Wildhearts.

[kcinor]

The Shins - A Comet Appears and The Past and the Pending. the lyrics to both are not that sad, but the music is.
The Get Up Kids - Overdue
The New Amsterdams - Watch the World Cave In
Portishead - Dummy (most of the album)

[LaughingSkull]

Nick Cave - Your Funeral ... My Trial,
Nick Cave - Sad Waters
Nick Cave - Mercy Seat
Nick Cave ... almost everything from early years

[Chudwick]

The Star-Spangled Banner (if you're British)

[Wintermute]

I can't believe no one has said, nothing else matters by Metallica.


Or maybe they did, but I don't wanna scroll through 13 pages.

[iainmac]

this is a bloody long thread so i've only read the last couple of pages but i noticed there is no elliot smith or nick drake!! two of the most haunting singer/songwriters of the last 40 years. If you haven't heard of either i suggest you go on youtube now. Just depressing as it is beautiful... probably because i know i will never be that talented.
Practically anything by these guys should be at the top of your list

[Chudwick]

If you speak French: Jacques Brel songs like Les Vieux, Jef, Ne me quite pas, Au suivant, chez ces gens-là and most anything else he wrote.

[LaughingSkull]

[QUOTE=Wintermute]I can't believe no one has said, nothing else matters by Metallica.[QUOTE]

Lyrics are actually happy/uplifting ....:)

[Wintermute]

Hmm... I hadn't heard it for a long time.

[Death (Chuck)]

This is the Nr. 1.......... cant be more sad.....

Zigeunerweisen op. 20 - sarasate

played by izthak perlman

check it out and cry....

[Padawan]

Death! Where the hell have you been? I thought we would meet at the Marty Friedman concert and you weren't there. I wondered if you're dead because I didn't get a message? Well, I'd be curious to know what happened :rolleyes:

anyway, the concert was awesome, got to shake his hand, chat a bit and got my t-shirt signed. :D

[Death (Chuck)]

I wrote u a short message. Sry

[alexisisonfire6]

hurt by johnny cash is a great song very sad, great lyrics
the arms of sorrow by killswitch engage is good
rough hands by alexisonfire
tearjerker by korn is very depressing i cried to it a couple times
nobodys home by avril lavigne
hurt by christina aguilera
better than me by hinder
dust in the wind by kansas
silence by blindside
runaway love by ludacris
broken home by pantera.. i think its depressing
broken by seether and fine again by seether
smile empty soul is an awsome band with many good depressing songs just download a bunch theyre all good
never too late by three days grace
gone forever by three days grace

hope those will help you, whenever im sad i listen to them theyre all great songs with kikass lyrics

peace

alexis

[joeyd929]

Do you know what you get if you play a sad country song backwards...?

You get your wife back, your dog back, your house back, your car back..

[All_¥our_Bass]

Modest Mussorgsky, Bydlo (7th movement of "Pictures At An Exhibition").

[Chino_rebel]

Radiohead. Anything by Radiohead.

Also, "Evert L. Pipkin" by Man Or Astro-Man? there's a good version of it on youtube.

[Ersabear]

Road - Portishead
Glory Box - Portishead
Drive - Incubus
No Bravery - James Blunt
Mad World - Gary Jules (and Tears for Fears)
Brick - Ben Folds Five
The Freshman - Verve Pipe
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash (Cash's cover is better)
Hurt (different song) - Christina Aguilera
Everytime - Britney Spears (believe it or not)
Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
A Man I'll Never Be - Boston
Fall of the Peacemakers - Molly Hatchet
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Breathe Me - Sia
Yesterday - The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Maybe Tomorrow - Stereophonics
Rinse - Vanessa Carlton
Twilight - Vanessa Carlton
Teardrop - Massive Attack
This Night - Black Lab
Ice - Sarah Mclachlan
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Smile - Olive
Something's Always Wrong - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Gold Dust - Tori Amos
Marianne - Tori Amos
Lust - Tori Amos
City of Angels (Verdi Cries) 10,000 Maniacs
The Thing About Love - Alicia Keyes
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
Perfect Day - Duran Duran (Trainspotting Soundtrack)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
Careless Whisper - Wham
California Dreamin' - The Mamas and the Papas
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits (Joan Baez does a nice cover of this one)
Milk and Honey - Nick Drake
Now We Are Free - Hans Zimmer (Gladiator Soundtrack)
Beth - Kiss
A Thousand Kisses Deep - Leonard Cohen
Ready for Love - India Aire
Try Not to Remember - Sheryl Crow
The Pretender - Foo Fighters
It's Been Awhile - Staind
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
There's No Way Outa Here - David Gilmour
Oasis - Don't Go Away
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
:(

[mia_ink]

you say you want sad depressing song but compared to the other posts thats not sad or depressing. what you need is the list of people i listen to whenever im a bad or down mood.

Michelle Featherstone
MoZella
Grace Potter and The Nocturnals
Kate Havnevik
Ray LaMontange
Cinematic Sunrise
Staind

and the all time depressing person...... james blunt lol

[joeyd929]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gejSEOnaYek

[ursassygurl]

i have a cd compilation of break-up songs some tracks on it are:

>> separate lives
>> if it makes you happy
>> dont say you love me

[Heimdell]

I have seen a lot of good songs posted on here so far, and quite a few of them I agree with...yet. I am 42 years old and I remember some great ones that haven't made the list so far;

1. Janis Ian - At Seventeen
2. Cat Stevens - Father (It's like he is pleading during his time of questioning his faith)
3. Cat Stevens - Where do the Children Play
4. Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa
5. Carol King - So Far Away
6. Janis Joplin - Get it While You Can
7. Bread - If (heck, most anything by them)
8. Aerosmith - You See Me Cryin
9. Al Green - I'm So Tired of Being Alone
10. Dolly Parton - Hard Candy Christmas
11. 10CC - I'm Not in Love
12. America - Right Before Your Eyes
13. Billy Joel - And So It Goes

Ahh..the list could go on and on...

[CoolWhip]

all my songs , it must be something with the skills ...:(
I feel the same way.

As to the original question... I'm racking my brains trying to think of just one.
Don't know if that's good or bad.

[sam6]

Catalyst :By Oceansize :Album Elfforesce @ 2003 :eek:

[sam6]

Janis Joplin - Get it While You Can
. 10CC - I'm Not in Love
. America - Right Before Your Eyes
...

10CC love 'em they sound so atmo in I'm not in love,And Janis Man ;) just love everything she did, America I Suggest :Horses without name :D

[lee_kim]

lot of sad song that i love
like:
what hurt the most
shadow
...

i like j rock too. so there are sad song , u should listen:
crucify my love + tears+ endless rain of X Japan