Depressing songs
 

PJ Harvey - "Is That All There Is"
NIN - "Hurt"
Peaches - "**** The Pain Away"
Gary Jules - "Mad World"
Dido - "Honestly OK"
The Distillers - "Sick of it All"
Grave Diggaz - "1 800 SUICIDE"
Placebo - "Every Me Every You"
Social Distortion - "Born to Lose"

Radiohead - Big Ideas

It's sad, but great.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Also by Radiohead - How I Made My Millions. Just Thom Yorke and a piano. Big Ideas is just him and an acoustic guitar, he played it at the concert I went to in December and it was amazing.

Neither song is on any album.

Midtown - Living In Spite (Acoustic)
Alien Ant Farm - Sarah Wynn
Alkaline Trio - Enjoy Your Day
Dispatch - Out Loud
Finch - Letters To You
The Get Up Kids - Out Of Reach
The New Amsterdams - Forever Leaving
The New Amsterdams - Goodbye
Sublime - Poolshark

That's all I can think of now.

Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film) is the most depressing song I've ever heard. Second place goes to Street Spirit (fade out) by them too.

Oh shit, how did I forget Exit Music?

Motion Picture Soundtrack is pretty sad too, even if it is gorgeous.

Yeah could apply to lots of Radiohead really :$ :heart:

Alkaline Trio - Sorry About That
Dashboard Confessional - Ghost of a Good Thing
Dashboard Confessional - The Best Deceptions
Dashboard Confessional - The Brilliant Dance
Dashboard Confessional - Again I Go Unnoticed
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
Postal Service - Nothing Better
Saves the Day - Hold
Saves the Day - I'm Sorry I'm Leaving
Saves the Day - Blindfolded
Saves the Day - Jodie
Saves the Day - Holly Hox, Forget Me Nots
Starting Line - A Goodnight's Sleep
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Weezer - Only In Dreams
Weezer - In The Garage (just sounds sad)
Weezer - Butterfly
Weezer - Across the Sea

I agree with most of the ones already said

Saves the Day - Nightengale
Damien Rice - Delicate
2Pac - Dear Mama
DMX - Slippin

I love "Mad World". It's actually a Michael Andrews song featuring Gary Jules, though.

It puts me in a very reflective mood. There is a flash cartoon series you should see. One of the episodes uses that song, and it just goes together with the art so well.

Thursday - War All The Time
Millencolin - The Ballad
Armor For Sleep - Frost and Front Steps
Senses Fail - Bloody Romance
No Use For A Name - Room 19
Boxcar Racer - There Is
Brand New - Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis
The Get Up Kids - Out Of Reach
Alkaline Trio - Sorry About That
Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love
Death Cab For Cutie - Tiny Vessels
Goldfinger - Free Me
Less Than Jake - History of a Boring Town (especially when you live in a boring town and can relate to like every word in the song... that's depressing)
Mad Caddies - Days Away
Reel Big Fish - Brand New Hero
Reel Big Fish - I'll Never Be
MxPx - GSF
No Use For A Name - Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?
NOFX - Whoops, I OD'd
Senses Fail - Stephen
The Ataris - The Last Song I Will Ever Write About A Girl
The Used - Poetic Tragedy
Unwritten Law - Before I Go

Hank Williams III- "Cecil Brown"
Conway Twitty- "I Don't Know a Thing about Love"
Black Label Society- "Time's Killing Me"

Pearl Jam - Black....live it gets to me more


I think Thom Yorke just kinda sings in that kinda depressing way and the band follows him with this melodic hypnotic tune. Most people immeadiately put Radiohead in the depressing category just because of how they sound.

My Dying Bride - My Wine In Silence

Most of their songs are pretty damn dreary and miserable, but this one's fairly minimalistic by their standards.

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i was gonna say black by pearl jam as well, along with indifference. all apologies by nirvana, and almost any early sabbath song (with ozzy) killing yourself to live and sabbath bloody sabbath come to mind immediantly. hurt by NIN is another good one allready mentioned.

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Smashing Pumpkins - To Sheila

Coldplay- The Scientist
Coldplay- Trouble
Evanescence- My Immortal (well, basically 100% of that album is depressing, but damn good)
Pink Floyd- Hey You
Pink Floyd- Is There Anybody Out There? (not really a song, it's an instrumental but damn is it depressing)
Pink Floyd- Vera/Bring the Boys Back Home
Metallica- One
Blink 182- Adam's Song

My Dying Bride - A Cruel taste of Winter.

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The Verve - The Drugs dont work

Flowing Tears - Lovesong For A Dead Child
Katatonia - Last Resort
The Kovenant - Stillborn Universe
Hypocrisy - Slippin' Away
Hypocrisy - Paled Empty Sphere
+ a lot of doom metal songs

I heard this song at my uncle's, and I had to excuse myself so I could go cry in the washroom.

Get Up Kids: Out of Reach
At the Drive In: Hourglass.

Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses

Death Cab For Cutie-Transatlanticism
Coldplay-Shiver
Ryan Adams-Wonderwall
Nada Surf-Inside Of Love
Hanson-Underneath
Demon Hunter-My Throat Is An Open Grave

Those songs would make me sad as well, but for all the wrong reasons. (IE. they suck)

Led Zeppelin- They way it is

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Radiohead - High And Dry

Coldplay- The Scientist
Coldplay-Trouble
Evanescence-My Immortal
Sarah McLauglan-Angel

I Love you,

Acoustic version = very sad, yet normal album version = very f'in good :y:

AFI - Morningstar. That song actually makes me feel like I could commit suicide at times.

INME - Firefly

Taking Back Sunday - Great Romances of the 20th century. If you've heard the demo version...that's way more emotional.

Blink 182 - Adams song

Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria

East 17 - Stay another day. (I don't care, I like that song! It makes me cry!)
Sinead O' Connor - Nothing compares 2 U

Brand New - Me vs Maradon vs Elvis
Brand New - The No Seatbelt Song
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
Straylight Run - For The Best
Incubus - I Miss You
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight
Three Days Grace - I Hate Everything About You
Aimee Mann - Wise Up
The Ataris - Saddest Song
Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry
American Hi Fi - Another Perfect Day
Biffy Clyro - 54
Counting Crows - Colourblind
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Funeral For A Friend - Juno
Funeral For A Friend - Red Is The New Black
Ultravox - Viena
Halo - Here I am
Halo - Perfectly Still

Jay-Z "You Must Love Me"
Jay-Z feat. Beanie Sigel "Where Have You Been"
Nas "What Goes Around"

Brand New-The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot
Avenged Sevenfold-I Won't See You Tonight
Jackson Browne-The Pretender
Something Corporate-Globes And Maps
Finch-Ender
Finch-What It Is To Burn
Evanescence-Hello
Frou Frou-Let Go

The Brand New song in particular, really wrecks me, 'cause it reminds of a personal situation.

R.E.M - Everybody hurts

The Verve - The drugs don't work

2Pac - Dear Mama

Staind - It's Been A While

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nah j/k. [/obvious joke]

Marilyn Manson - Coma Black: Eden Eye/The Apple of Discord
Marilyn Manson - Coma White
Marilyn Manson - In The Shadow of the Valley of death
Marilyn Manson - Lamb of God

Most Radiohead songs are depressing.

This brings up a question for me. Is a depressing song necessarily a bad song to anyone? I mean its hard for me to argue against the fact that Radiohead can be depressing....but at the same time I don't really think about that when I listen to songs. I don't really get depressed with songs. Except with (the obvious choice) Good Riddance by Green Day, but that's because my friend who died really loved that song.

Do some of you just not like listening to depressing songs at times?

Anything off Anathema's Alternative 4, album

That Straylight Run song is great. I just downloaded it. Thanks man. :y:

Edit: Dam, I downloaded a few more of thier songs and they're a really good band. My kind of music. Are they fairly new?

2pac - changes
dido - White Flag
third eye blind - jumper (i suppose it could make someone sad)
Bush - Glycerine

The Verve Pipe - The Freshman, great song, just fucking beautiful.

Cats in the cradle- by whoever sings it
Bilnk 182- Adams song
Everclear-everything is beautiful (not big on the band, but its about divorse)

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

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Most have been said...

Millencolin - The Ballad
Brand New - Me Vs Maradona Vs Elvis
Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love (well everything i have heard from him :()
Corey Taylor - Bother
Lagwagon - Angry Days
NOFX - Whoop's I O'd
Something Corporate - Konstantine (Mitch does it very well on the piano :'()

All for now..
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I agree with a lot of what people have said. Also:

James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Ballad of Curtis Lowe
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr. Bojangles
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
The Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Billy Joel - And So It Goes
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Five for Fighting - Superman
Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye
Josh Gorban - To Where you Are
Josh Gorban - My Confession
U2 - With or Without you
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

Alice In Chains - Nutshell

I win, most depressing song ever.

Evanescence - My Immortal

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<font color=969696>Stratovarius - Tears of Ice
Hypocrisy - Drained
Iced Earth - Melancholy
Death Angel - A Room With A View
Nevermore - Insignificant
St. Vitus - Dying Inside
Candlemass - A Sorcerer's Pledge
Anathema- One Last Goodbye
Tiamat - A Deeper Kind of Slumber
Hypocrisy - Until The End</font>

One of the few songs that actually does depress me. :y: