Your favorite sad/depressing song?

[exile]

I was recently talking with a friend about songs we liked, and I suddenly realized not just that an awful lot of mine—perhaps most of them—are rather sad, even grim, but that very often, when I'm in a bleak kind of mood, I prefer to listen to this sort of music rather than anything cheerful or uplifting. I was curious whether other people found this to be true, and, for those of you who don't mind confiding this sort of thing, what your favorite depressing songs are. Anyone?

 

[terryl965]

Somebody done someoone wrong song, I just love that song

 

[Tames D]

Don't exactly know why but I get happily depressed listening to Springsteens 'Darkness on the edge of town'.

 

[exile]

Don't exactly know why but I get happily depressed listening to Springsteens 'Darkness on the edge of town'.

Exactly what I had in mind, QG—very good way to put it! Impossible to explain to someone who doesn't already know just what you're talking about, but there it is...

 

[MA-Caver]

Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train http://sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/...-Springsteen/572F8F864AB8122548256871000EDEDC
Pink Floyd - Mother
Heart - How Deep It Goes
Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me

There's more but I can't think of 'em right now.

 

[CoryKS]

Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements

 

[Topeng]

Pictures of You - The Cure
Brick - Ben Folds Five
Time of Your Life - GreenDay
Iris - Live
Don't Take the Girl - Tim McGraw

 

[Darksoul]

-There are so many but then again, I am a goth;-)

1. U2's October is a short piece, but very powerful.
2. Jewel's Foolish Games is very haunting to me.
3. Springsteen's Streets of Philidelphia is knowing loss.
4. Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever...yeah, that one hurts everytime.
5. U2/Johnny Cash's The Wanderer, kinda enduring sadness to me.
6. Peter Murphy's I Fall With Your Knife.
7. Covenant's Invisible and Silent.
8. Sisters of Mercy's 1969.

-Oh hell, I'm going to stop now, this is depressing. I do encourage everyone to look up any song here that you are unfamiliar with. You won't be dissapointed.

Andrew

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

Phew...a toughie.

3 top picks, in no order

Johnny Cash - Hurt
Genesis - Snowbound
Shadowfax - Lucky Mud

 

[Jai]

Brick is one of my favorites as well. Others are...
Haunted by Type O Negative
Hazard by Richard Marx
Endless Summer Nights by Richard Marx
Almost Paradise by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson

Those are a few. Of course my IPod has close to 5,000 songs on it and there is a steady mix of about everything on there.

 

[stone_dragone]

My Immortal - Evanessence
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Bui Doi - Miss Saigon
The Parting Glass - Irish Traditional

 

[Tez3]

My Immortal - Evanessence
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Bui Doi - Miss Saigon
The Parting Glass - Irish Traditional

Ah yes.

 

[Sukerkin]

It depends on what kind of depressed I am . If I'm 'angry' depressed (fighting back rather than giving in) then my cures could range within:

"It's Easy" - Boston
"Ladder in my tights" - Amy Studt
"Symphony #40" - Mozart

Quite a contrast, I admit :lol:.

If I'm mourning my (all too many) dead friends then I might tend towards:

"Don't fear the Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Bat Out of Hell" - Meatloaf
"Cloudburst Flight" - Tangerine Dream

If I'm fighting off what Irene has so aptly named The Circling Black Dog of Despair then it's the likes of Evanescene's first album or, oddly enough, Bach flute and harpsichord concerto's .

 

[FieldDiscipline]

Quite alot of Snow Patrol stuff. But then they're the soundtrack to the video in my sig link. Last years was Evanessence.

I cant hear it without wanting to throw up now.

Linkin park, What I've Done is good too. The common theme tends to be angry/sad with me though! Oh well.

I was listening to Pink Floyds the Wall album yesterday actually. Pure, telling, genius but very depressing too in its own way!

Good thread exile.

 

[Jade Tigress]

Wow. There's too many for me to name. Alot have already been mentioned. For me, alot of Matchbox 20 and also "Sorry" by Buck Cherry.

 

[harlan]

The Celts excel in this category...basically any Irish/Scottish ballad.

Really partial to 'Ashokan Farewell'.

http://home.comcast.net/~phillymela/civil/civilwar_ashokan.mp3

 

[Ahriman]

Nevermore: Cenotaph, All play dead, Forever, The lotus eaters, Insignificant, This godless endeavour, This sacrament, The hurting words
Slipknot: Vermilion, Gently, Skin ticket
Marilyn Manson: Cryptorchid, Last day on Earth, GodEatGod, In the shadow of the valley of death, Count to six and die


Tried to limit the number of songs to a minimal...

 

[Tez3]

The Celts excel in this category...basically any Irish/Scottish ballad.

Really partial to 'Ashokan Farewell'.

http://home.comcast.net/~phillymela/civil/civilwar_ashokan.mp3

Played by the Band of the Royal Marines of course! Excellent!

 

[exile]

I should probably mention my own—

there are quite a few (I'm giving away my dates here, I know): Bruce Hornsby's Mandolin Rain and The Road Not Taken, The Left Banque's Just Walk Away, Renee, Eric Clapton's Lead Me On... but for me, the all-time desolation favorite has to be the Eagles' Tequila Sunrise...

... and on the classical side, the Mozart Requiem, which is now inextricably linked in my mind to 9/11...

 

[ackks10]

wow!!! this will really tell about my age (i don't think the young people will know these) ok i have two,


1...alone again naturally..Gilbert O'Sullivan
2.. honey,[SIZE=-1] Bobby Goldsboro,


if these songs don't make you think about,well listen you will know what i mean.:wah:
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