Most depressing song?

[ballmode]

Ben Folds - Luckiest

 

[Hammerman]

Terry Jacks.... Seasons In The Sun If you know the song, you know that this is it.

 

[Hammerman]

Oops, it all blended in together. 'Seasons In The Sun'

 

[Quasmo]

Originally posted by: yobarman
Gary Jules - Mad World

agreed. Movie to back it up

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: ballmode
Ben Folds - Luckiest

Good choice! "Don't change your plans for me" is another one.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Ben Folds Five - Brick
That's a pretty sad one.

very depressing song.

i vote for:

Sarah Mclachlan - Angel
Sarah Mclachlan - Do What You Have to Do

 

[SZLiao214]

How do you get that lonely - Blaine Larsen

 

[junkerman123]

imo its no contest

Radiohead - Music for a Film

if I were to kill myself, it would be to that song.

There is another radiohead song too, which is also awful depressing, can't remember the title tho.

 

[QED]

"I'm So Ronery" -- Kim Jong Ill
"Hurt"-- Johnny Cash
Everything on "August and Everything After"-- The Counting Crows
"Have You Seen Her"-- The Chi-Lites

 

[DougK62]

Cats in the Cradle.....obviously.

 

[BHeemsoth]

Cats in the Cradle. Whiskey Lullaby, What Hurts the Most, and Hurt are all very depressing songs.

Sadly I have listened to 3 out of 4 of those on my ipod this morning.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: DougK62
Cats in the Cradle.....obviously.

For real, I'm surpised it took this long to get mentioned. That song is so depressing that I change the radio station whenever it comes on.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: DougK62
Cats in the Cradle.....obviously.

For real, I'm surpised it took this long to get mentioned. That song is so depressing that I change the radio station whenever it comes on.

Wow... I actually don't find that song depressing at all. :-\

 

[jonessoda]

In my collection, a tie between The Decemberists - Odalisque and The Killers - Mr. Brightside. Mr. Brightside because I can identify with it, and Odalisque because it's... well... depressing.

 

[KillyKillall]

"Down In A Hole" - Alice in Chains

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

You guys are pikers! Many of the songs mentioned in this thread aren't even remotely depressing IMO.

For me, it's the Australian folksong, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda," originally written by Eric Bogle but most notably (at least for me) performed by the Pogues. It's the tale of a WWI soldier whose legs are blown off at Gallipoli:

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 two 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?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: DougK62
Cats in the Cradle.....obviously.

For real, I'm surpised it took this long to get mentioned. That song is so depressing that I change the radio station whenever it comes on.

Wow... I actually don't find that song depressing at all. :-\

It's essentially my father and I's theme song, so it's depressing for me. I still like it, though.

 

[Hammerman]

Wow...no has ever heard Seasons In The Sun?????

 

[allies]

Originally posted by: datalink7
Another Lonely Day by Ben Harper
Late for the Sky by Jackson Browne
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton

Agreed. Don't think I've heard the Jackson Browne.

 

[Tab]

What's the one song by Everlast?...

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886
Cats in the Cradle. Whiskey Lullaby, What Hurts the Most, and Hurt are all very depressing songs.

Sadly I have listened to 3 out of 4 of those on my ipod this morning.

Hmmm... Im used to Whiskey Lullaby, but Hurt gets me down. Still think that Cats in the Cradle is depressing

 

[Toastedlightly]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: BlinderBomber

Originally posted by: DougK62
Cats in the Cradle.....obviously.

For real, I'm surpised it took this long to get mentioned. That song is so depressing that I change the radio station whenever it comes on.

Wow... I actually don't find that song depressing at all. :-\

It's essentially my father and I's theme song, so it's depressing for me. I still like it, though.

Heh, my dad and I used to sing it in the car when it came one (and still do). I think he likes it because it is the way he grew up, but he has made a point to change. I like it, but it is depressing.

 

[mpitts]

Walk Away by Ben Harper
Anna Begins by Counting Crows
Goodbye by Hootie and the Blowfish

Those are all pretty depressing.

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: allies

Originally posted by: datalink7
Another Lonely Day by Ben Harper
Late for the Sky by Jackson Browne
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton

Agreed. Don't think I've heard the Jackson Browne.

The Jackson Browne song has maybe the saddest verse of any song.

Looking hard into your eyes
there was nobody I'd ever known
such and empty suprise
to feel so alone.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea (unplugged)