depressing songs

[datalink7]

Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Harry Chapin - Cat's In the Cradle
Janice Ian - At Seventeen
The Beatles - Yesterday
Hendrix - Angel
John Lennon - Imagine
Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
Rolling Stones - Angie
Live - Lightning Crashes
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
R.E.M. - Loosing My Religion (along with a few other tunes)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Unchained Melody
Ben Folds Five - Brick
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
The Gufs - Smile
The Offspring - Gone Away

every breath you take, imagine, lightning crashes are not depressing songs.

I beg to differ. Every Breath You Take has a stalkerish, longing tone to it which is definitely depressing (and disturbing), Imagine is depressing because of the utopia it represents that is an impossibility to achieve, Lightning Crashes involves both death and birth, and does both solemnly

Oh yeah, and add a few different Ben Harper tunes to this list to flesh it out

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Numerous people have apparently committed suicide after listening to an old Hungarian song called "Gloomy Sunday", (Rezsô Seress, 1933).

You can hear a really good version of it in the movie Schindler's List (about 3 minutes into the movie, the song plays on the radio while Oskar Schindler gets dressed), or listen to modern versions of the song here. and here (Billy Holiday's version).

Good choice - they should have put that song on the soundtrack.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: datalink7
Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky

 

[gsaldivar]

Good choice - they should have put that song on the soundtrack.

I agree.

Check out the director's featurette on the Schindler's List DVD, at about 41 1/2 minutes there is a holocaust survivor who gives a FIRST HAND ACCOUNT of a drunk German officer putting a pistol to his head after requesting this song...

I was REALLY surprised to see that it didn't make the soundtrack. 🙁

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar

Good choice - they should have put that song on the soundtrack.

I agree.

Check out the director's featurette on the Schindler's List DVD, at about 41 1/2 minutes there is a holocaust survivor who gives a FIRST HAND ACCOUNT of a drunk German officer putting a pistol to his head after requesting this song...

I was REALLY surprised to see that it didn't make the soundtrack. 🙁

Ah, that's where I remember hearing about it from🙂

 

[TechnoKid]

Nocturne Opus 9 No. 2 by Fredric Chopin, kinda depressing if you will.

 

[BladeWalker]

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts