Looking for depressing songs [merged]
05-06-04 | 04:46 PM
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For all you wrist slitting needs...
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
K's Choice - Already There (hidden track at the end of All on the album Alomst Happy)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (and pretty much everything else she did. Absolutely haunting voice filled with pain and despair)
Promise - Tracy Chapman
Kim Richey - Gravity
Eva Cassidy - Somewhere over the Rainbow
Alison Krauss - Ghost in This House
And to me the most depressing I have ever heard.
Alison Krauss - New Favorite
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
K's Choice - Already There (hidden track at the end of All on the album Alomst Happy)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (and pretty much everything else she did. Absolutely haunting voice filled with pain and despair)
Promise - Tracy Chapman
Kim Richey - Gravity
Eva Cassidy - Somewhere over the Rainbow
Alison Krauss - Ghost in This House
And to me the most depressing I have ever heard.
Alison Krauss - New Favorite
05-07-04 | 01:20 AM
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Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
"The Living Years" - Mike & the Mechanics
"Visions of Johanna" (Biograph version) - Bob Dylan
A lot of classical music is quietly melancholy.
05-07-04 | 02:05 AM
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Originally posted by lostatmidnight
put any Mazzy Star album on and let Hope and David make you cry and blot out your pain with gin.
put any Mazzy Star album on and let Hope and David make you cry and blot out your pain with gin.
I also like Nirvana and Portishead...
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05-08-04 | 01:37 AM
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annie lennox-why (snl version)
ben folds five-brick
round here-counting crows (12 minute live version from paris 94)
the replacements-unsatisfied
counting crows-color blind
counting crows-speedway
counting crows-raining in baltimore
counting crows-black and blue
john mayer-victoria
lifehouse-everything
ryan adams-sylvia plath
tracy chapman-fast car
i tried to stay away from the songs about breaking up and just go with sad, slow, depressing in general kind of songs. if you want songs about lost love and all that kind of depressing stuff then i can add to the list.
ben folds five-brick
round here-counting crows (12 minute live version from paris 94)
the replacements-unsatisfied
counting crows-color blind
counting crows-speedway
counting crows-raining in baltimore
counting crows-black and blue
john mayer-victoria
lifehouse-everything
ryan adams-sylvia plath
tracy chapman-fast car
i tried to stay away from the songs about breaking up and just go with sad, slow, depressing in general kind of songs. if you want songs about lost love and all that kind of depressing stuff then i can add to the list.
05-08-04 | 11:11 PM
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Wrens - Hopeless
Wilco - Ashes of the American Flag
Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness
Whiskeytown - Houses on the Hill
Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Ryan Adams - The Shadowlands
Red House Painters - Have you Forgotten
Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Patty Griffin - Long Road
Neko Case - I Wish I was the Moon
My Morning Jacket - Phone Went West
Iron and Wine - Promising Light
Handsome Family - Lie Down
Grandaddy - The Warming Sun
The Eels - Dead of Winter
The Eels - The Medication is Wearing Off
Ed Harcourt - Those Crimson Tears
Dwight Yoakam - Two Doors Down
Dixie Chicks - Home
Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens
Counting Crows - a Long December
Counting Crows - Goodnight Elisabeth
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Remember the Mountain Bed
Beth Orton - This One's Gonna Bruise
Beth Nielsen Chapman - Sand and Water
Ben Folds Five - Don't Change your Plans
Barenaked Ladies - Break Your Heart
That's probably enough from me.
Wrens - Hopeless
Wilco - Ashes of the American Flag
Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness
Whiskeytown - Houses on the Hill
Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
Ryan Adams - The Shadowlands
Red House Painters - Have you Forgotten
Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Patty Griffin - Long Road
Neko Case - I Wish I was the Moon
My Morning Jacket - Phone Went West
Iron and Wine - Promising Light
Handsome Family - Lie Down
Grandaddy - The Warming Sun
The Eels - Dead of Winter
The Eels - The Medication is Wearing Off
Ed Harcourt - Those Crimson Tears
Dwight Yoakam - Two Doors Down
Dixie Chicks - Home
Del Amitri - Nothing Ever Happens
Counting Crows - a Long December
Counting Crows - Goodnight Elisabeth
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Remember the Mountain Bed
Beth Orton - This One's Gonna Bruise
Beth Nielsen Chapman - Sand and Water
Ben Folds Five - Don't Change your Plans
Barenaked Ladies - Break Your Heart
That's probably enough from me.
Penny Lane, are we twins? Oh and Remember the Mountain Bed is one of my all time favorite songs.
I will also go with Uncle Tupelo's Lilli Schull. You would not know how many times I have cried listening to that song. Simple song, but completely powerful.
Edited to throw in a vote for Whiskeytown's Dancing With The Women At The Bar
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05-09-04 | 05:33 AM
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A few of my favorites were already mentioned, but here are some more.
Evanescence - Hello
Evanescence - Field of Dreams
Beatles - She's Leaving Home
Joydrop - Cocoon (This song always gets me... Probably the most depressing on the list for me.)
Garbage - Soldier Through This
Lennon Murphy - Thank You
Jack Off Jill - Vivica
Aimee Allen - Wasting My Youth & A Little Happiness (These might be very hard to come across, but well worth it)
Linkin Park - My December
Incubus - Warning
Mary Hopkin - Those Were the Days
That's more than enough from me... I personally prefer heavier/faster depressing songs, but most of the above fall in line with that slow, melodic "Mad World" vibe.
Evanescence - Hello
Evanescence - Field of Dreams
Beatles - She's Leaving Home
Joydrop - Cocoon (This song always gets me... Probably the most depressing on the list for me.)
Garbage - Soldier Through This
Lennon Murphy - Thank You
Jack Off Jill - Vivica
Aimee Allen - Wasting My Youth & A Little Happiness (These might be very hard to come across, but well worth it)
Linkin Park - My December
Incubus - Warning
Mary Hopkin - Those Were the Days
That's more than enough from me... I personally prefer heavier/faster depressing songs, but most of the above fall in line with that slow, melodic "Mad World" vibe.
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05-10-04 | 02:06 AM
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I'm looking for depressing songs
why do you want to be depressed anyway? Being depressed is boring, listen to The Darkness.
05-10-04 | 12:44 PM
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Elvis Costello - I want to Vanish
Richard/Linda Thompson - Withered and Died
Richard/Linda Thompson - Did She Jump or Was she Pushed
Richard Thompson - I Misunderstood
Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood
Richard/Linda Thompson - Withered and Died
Richard/Linda Thompson - Did She Jump or Was she Pushed
Richard Thompson - I Misunderstood
Peter Gabriel - Here Comes the Flood
05-10-04 | 01:55 PM
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A few unmentioned songs
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay(instantly takes me back to
in The Royal Tenebaums)
Great Big Sea - Time Brings
Radiohead - How to Dissapear Completely
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
Moxy Fruvous - The Drinking Song
Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace (end of Buffy:TVS season 2)
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
Rebekah del Rio - Llorando (crying)
Tom Waits - Time
Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
Radiohead - True Love Waits
Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay(instantly takes me back to
Spoiler:
Great Big Sea - Time Brings
Radiohead - How to Dissapear Completely
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever
Moxy Fruvous - The Drinking Song
Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace (end of Buffy:TVS season 2)
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
Rebekah del Rio - Llorando (crying)
Tom Waits - Time
Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
05-10-04 | 02:51 PM
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galaxie 500
godspeed you! black emperor
sufjan stevens-greetings from michigan album
joy division
east river pipe-gasoline age (the song 'astrofarm' is fantastic...)
morphine
dinosaur jr-going home (another great song)
the spinners-i'll be around
pink floyd (of course)
galaxie 500
godspeed you! black emperor
sufjan stevens-greetings from michigan album
joy division
east river pipe-gasoline age (the song 'astrofarm' is fantastic...)
morphine
dinosaur jr-going home (another great song)
the spinners-i'll be around
pink floyd (of course)
05-10-04 | 05:44 PM
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Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter (Dakota Mix)
Tori Amos - 1,000 Oceans
Portishead - Dummy
Mazzy Star - Fade into You
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libra's
A Perfect Circle - The Stranger
Nine Inch Nails - The Great Below
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never Have
Nine Inch Nails - And All that Could Have Been
Depeche Mode - Little 15
Incubus - Mexico
Opeth - In My Time of Need
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Opeth - A Fair Judgement
Veruca Salt - Somebody (Depeche Mode Cover)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Every Shining Time
Tool - H
Tool - You Lied
The Eels- Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor
The Eels - The Medication is Wearing Off
The Eels - Electro Shock Blues
The Eels - Dead of Winter
REM - Everbody Hurts
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
Evanesene - My Immortal
Stabbing Westward - Waking Up Beside You
Moist - Low, Low, Low
David Usher - St. Lawerence River
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
REM - Strange Currencies
Linkin Park - My December
Nancy Santira - Bang, Bang
John Lennon - Imagine
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Sarah Bettens - All this Past
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo- The Crawl
Placebo - My Sweet Prince
Lisa Germano - From a Shell
Better than Ezra - The Killer Inside
Black Lab- Ten Million Years
Black Lab - Gates of the Country
Fiona Apple - I Know
The Mars Volta - Televators
Modest Mouse - Interstate 8
Modest Mouse - Broke
My Dying Bride - My Hope, My Destroyer
My Dying Bride - Two Winters Only
Radiohead - No Surprises
Give me time and I'll come up with more.
Tori Amos - 1,000 Oceans
Portishead - Dummy
Mazzy Star - Fade into You
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libra's
A Perfect Circle - The Stranger
Nine Inch Nails - The Great Below
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Nine Inch Nails - Something I can never Have
Nine Inch Nails - And All that Could Have Been
Depeche Mode - Little 15
Incubus - Mexico
Opeth - In My Time of Need
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Opeth - A Fair Judgement
Veruca Salt - Somebody (Depeche Mode Cover)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Every Shining Time
Tool - H
Tool - You Lied
The Eels- Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor
The Eels - The Medication is Wearing Off
The Eels - Electro Shock Blues
The Eels - Dead of Winter
REM - Everbody Hurts
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
Evanesene - My Immortal
Stabbing Westward - Waking Up Beside You
Moist - Low, Low, Low
David Usher - St. Lawerence River
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
REM - Strange Currencies
Linkin Park - My December
Nancy Santira - Bang, Bang
John Lennon - Imagine
The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
Sarah Bettens - All this Past
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo- The Crawl
Placebo - My Sweet Prince
Lisa Germano - From a Shell
Better than Ezra - The Killer Inside
Black Lab- Ten Million Years
Black Lab - Gates of the Country
Fiona Apple - I Know
The Mars Volta - Televators
Modest Mouse - Interstate 8
Modest Mouse - Broke
My Dying Bride - My Hope, My Destroyer
My Dying Bride - Two Winters Only
Radiohead - No Surprises
Give me time and I'll come up with more.
06-09-04 | 09:42 AM
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i know this thread is old but since no one mentioned Black Heart Procession, i will. especially the first CD. beautiful sad stuff. check out the song "in a tin flask" at least, you cant go wrong.
06-09-04 | 02:39 PM
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The Pogues -- Waltzing Matilda