What's the most depressing song you've heard?

[Ornery]

This is sort of funny, or ironic, but Berlin and The Wall are a couple of my VERY favorite albums, yet my wife HATES them because they are too depressing. Hmmm, what does it all mean?

• BERLIN
  
  In Berlin by the wall
  You were five feet ten inches tall
  It was very nice
  Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice
  
  We were in a small café
  You could hear the guitars play
  It was very nice
  Oh honey it was paradise

 

[SWScorch]

Another vote for Tears in Heaven.

Dream Theater's Through Her Eyes is also pretty depressing, but only if you listen to the whole CD to understand the underlying plot.

Alice in Chains - Nutshell sounds pretty sad, although I must say I've never listened to the lyrics.

Acid Bath's Scream of the Butterfly is quite depressing as well.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Coldplay - Yellow

It was played during a special moment in my life and everytime I hear it I get depressed and want to cry

 

[Siva]

gary jules- mad world (its a cover)

plays at the end of donnie darko and it just fits that movie so well

 

[BlueApple]

Tear's in Heven
Cat's in the Cradle (more personal reasons)
In the Ghetto by Elvis (Not as much depressing, more somber)
Fade To Black

 

[luv2chill]

Well there are a few (and don't get me wrong I love all of these):

Bonnie Raitt "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Red House Painters "Have You Forgotten?"
The Verve "The Drugs Don't Work"
Jeff Buckley "Hallelujia" (Leonard Cohen cover)
Eva Cassidy "Fields of Gold" (Sting cover)
Ben Harper "Another Lonely Day"
Mazzy Star "Fade Into You"
Cat Stevens "Trouble"
Travis "Last Train"
Twarres "Stream"
Sarah McLachlan "Elsewhere"
George Winston "Thanksgiving"
and the whole "Pink Moon" album by Nick Drake

l2c

 

[schizoid]

I don't know about the most depressing, but here's my list: (a lot of good ones have been posted)

James - Say Something ("your silence is deafening"...anyone that's been in a relationship knows what that's like)

Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want ("see the luck I've had, could make a good man turn bad...")

Nin - Hurt (duh)

Counting Crows - Colorblind (might be my vote for #1)

Bush - In a Lonely Place (this is off the Crow - City of Angels soundtrack. It's probably the best Bush song ever made)

Bush - Letting the Cable Sleep (not quite like the previous song, but still good)

REM - Nightswimming (something about this song just makes me miss my childhood)

Mad Season - River of Deciet


People have had a lot of good suggestions. I'm sure there are many more. I'm all about "Theme CDs", so maybe I'll start one of these threads.

 

[Kadarin]

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
New Order - Ceremony
New Order - In a Lonely Place

And another vote for Tears In Heaven

 

[Jhill]

Metallica Fade to Black
Metallica One

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: lizium
Why is everyone posting heavy metal songs which in reality are not that depressing? Real emotion blues are far more powerfull if you want depression. Just listen to Unplugged by Nirvana, its all depressing. Nothing is more depressing that a man and his acousic... Robert Johnson, Leadbelly... makes me cry.

Indeed, my metal song is very uplifting and happy:


For My Fallen Angel

As I draw up my breath,
And silver fills my eyes.
I kiss her still,
For she will never rise.

On my weak body,
Lays her dying hand.
Through those meadows of Heaven,
Where we ran.

Like a thief in the night,
The wind blows so light.
It wars with my tears,
That won't dry for many years.

"Loves golden arrow
At her should have fled,
And not Deaths ebon dart
To strike her dead."


Everyone loves to see their loved ones die.

 

[Adrian Tung]

Don't really know the artist/title of the song, but whenever I hear it on radio it gets to me.

I believe it's one of the newer Aerosmith songs, the lead singer sings about him driving with his girlfriend, end up in a car crash, and the chorus goes off with something like "oh where oh where can my baby be......".

Pretty depressing song for me....


atwl

 

[Siddhartha]

"If we make through the winter"

A country and western song that after one hearing would have Buddha drinking cheap whiskey from the bottle.

 

[bmacd]

another vote for Aerosmith, "I don't want to miss a thing"
Sweetbox, "Everything's gonna be alright"
Our Lady Peace, "Are you Sad?"

-=bmacd=-

 

[lizium]

Originally posted by: Adrian Tung
Don't really know the artist/title of the song, but whenever I hear it on radio it gets to me.

I believe it's one of the newer Aerosmith songs, the lead singer sings about him driving with his girlfriend, end up in a car crash, and the chorus goes off with something like "oh where oh where can my baby be......".

Pretty depressing song for me....


atwl

Janies got a Gun?

 

[idNut]

Yeah, Joy Division all the way on a few:
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division - Day of the Lords
Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing

Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - Leaving Hope
Nine Inch Nails - The Becoming (Not for the music but lyrics but that would include every NIN song now wouldn't it?)

 

[Vadatajs]

Shiney happy people -REM

Michael stipe is the devil

 

[CraigRT]

probably something by radiohead

 

[Red Dawn]

The Wedding March

 

[yellowperil]

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
Radiohead - Creep or Thinking About You

 

[chasem]

nine inch nails- the downward spirl. the song not album (even though its the most depressing album)
and the remix is really bad too

 

[yobarman]

Deftones - Nightrider..... probably not the most depressing song, but once i was listening to it sitting alone on a lifeguard tower during dusk on the beach, with no one else around on the shore. It just made this question a lot of things.

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: Adrian Tung
Don't really know the artist/title of the song, but whenever I hear it on radio it gets to me.

I believe it's one of the newer Aerosmith songs, the lead singer sings about him driving with his girlfriend, end up in a car crash, and the chorus goes off with something like "oh where oh where can my baby be......".

Pretty depressing song for me....


atwl

I think you're thinking of "Last Kiss". It was orginally done by Frank Wilson and the Caveliers then it was covered by Pearl Jam.
The original is much much better IMHO.

Oh where oh where can my baby be.
The lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good.
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

That song?

 

[Adrian Tung]

Originally posted by: cRazYdood

Originally posted by: Adrian Tung
Don't really know the artist/title of the song, but whenever I hear it on radio it gets to me.

I believe it's one of the newer Aerosmith songs, the lead singer sings about him driving with his girlfriend, end up in a car crash, and the chorus goes off with something like "oh where oh where can my baby be......".

Pretty depressing song for me....


atwl

I think you're thinking of "Last Kiss". It was orginally done by Frank Wilson and the Caveliers then it was covered by Pearl Jam.
The original is much much better IMHO.

Oh where oh where can my baby be.
The lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good.
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

That song?

Oh yeah, that's it! I gotta remember this artist/title.... great song (but depressing).


atwl

 

[Timmeh]

Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

 

[Ipno]

Jeremy - Pearl Jam
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Sunday Morning, Coming Down - Johnny Cash


Those are probably my top 3.

"If we make it through the winter" ... did you mean "If we make it through december" from Merle Haggard? I've always thought of it as a song of hope if so, not terribly depressing.

If not, I've not heard of it, who sings it?