Depressing songs

[Jimmy1992]

Haven't listened to this song in the longest time.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Sparklehorse.

 

[Modified Dog]

Elvis Costello's I Want You is the rawest 'break up' song ever written.





There aren't many things in life more depressing than driving your crying girlfriend to the abortion clinic, both of you realising it's the beginning of the end and neither of you saying anything.

 

[Modified Dog]

Sorry if this has already been posted or it's too obvious, but Joy Division by definition is depressing and 'Atmosphere' probably takes the cake.





J Mascis knows how to write sad wistful tunes

 

[Modified Dog]

Beck's break up album "Sea Change" is the epitome of melancholy. Pick any song.

 

[Modified Dog]

Beautiful and depressing drone by Brian Jonestown Massacre

 

[Modified Dog]

Justin Broadrick's nihilistic masterpiece

Try not to lose yourself
I’m way past trying
I’m way past caring
I’m way past hoping

Try not to lose yourself
You’re always needing
You’re always hoping
Wash away your tears

 

[John]

 

[Lyttelton Ranger]

Great closing track on their second and final album "Closer"

 

[Ron The Bear]

Life's a winding highway, byway, do it my way blues
That never leads to answers
And metho is my friend
Yes, our love has one end
We'll be wed 'til death or blindness part
...
Lord, please repeat the question

 

[Schauermann]

Life's a winding highway, byway, do it my way blues
That never leads to answers
And metho is my friend
Yes, our love has one end
We'll be wed 'til death or blindness part
...
Lord, please repeat the question

Do they have more songs like this? Like it a lot, but everything else I find is different.

 

[Piss Poor]

Here is some depressing songs I love.
The Counting Crows- Perfect Blue Buildings


The Classic Crime- Who needs air.


Say Anything- Woe

 

[Fossie 32]

 

[Engimal]

 

[Ron The Bear]

Do they have more songs like this? Like it a lot, but everything else I find is different.

Nothing as brutal as that, but their blues-themed songs include Just How Many Times, One Long Day, Plaza, It Ain't Wrong, The Party's Over, Georgia (cover), Guilty (cover), Dresden (one of their best IMO). Moss does vocals on most of those.

Metho Blues was a demo, recorded before they had any official releases out.

 

[cortez]

Songs of love and hate...

 

[Schauermann]

Nothing as brutal as that, but their blues-themed songs include Just How Many Times, One Long Day, Plaza, It Ain't Wrong, The Party's Over, Georgia (cover), Guilty (cover), Dresden (one of their best IMO). Moss does vocals on most of those.

Metho Blues was a demo, recorded before they had any official releases out.

Ok, thanks, will give it a listen.

 

[saintal]

Listened to "Little Man" by the Pineapple Thief earlier today. One of the more sombre albums I've heard.

 

[ibd77]

 

[Bailey01]

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

 

[Juke]

 

[JimDocker]

Most things by Sun Kil Moon.

Jim Wise comes to mind and is representative of his stuff.



Spent the day with my dad and his old friend, Jim Wise.
He's on house arrest and he sits around inside.
We brought him food from Panera Bread, the snoring sun rolled out of bed.
He talked about his ninety Corvette, his warehouse job, and his knee replacement.

Jim Wise mercy killed his wife in a hospital at her bedside.
And he put the gun to his head and it jammed and he didn't die.
He went to trial all summer long and his eyes welled up when he told us about how much she loved the backyard garden and the budding rosebush.

She loved the garden, and its budding rosebush.
Spent the day with my dad, and his friend Jim Wise.

Spent the day with my dad and his old friend, Jim Wise.
He's got a big thick ankle bracelet and he can't go outside.
He's got a long white Amish man's beard and a catheter.
And he'll be headed to Mansfield prison by the end of the year for sure.

His shelves are sticky old ratty boards.
His albums are The Doors and Stevie Nicks. His kitchen cabinets are full of baked beans. His TV is sound, words flash across the screen and he stares off into dead air.

Jim Wise killed his wife out of love for her at her bedside.
And then he put the gun to his head but he failed at suicide.
His trial's coming up in the fall and he sighed when we stepped out and we left.
And I pointed out the pretty cardinal perched on the empty birdbath.

The bright red cardinal, the empty birdbath.
Spent today with my dad and his friend Jim Wise.

 

[Nostradumbass]

Anything by The Carpenters.

 

[HARKER]

You could post 50% of music in here. The only things worth writing about essentially boil down to joy and sadness. What a broad topic.

That's not what I understand the OP to be putting out.
Some tracks are real mood changers and you don't even know why.
No need to listen to lyrics or even listen to the track as the general tone alone may have someone calling put................"Turn that off. It's so depressing".



Try throwing this on at a party and see what happens

 

[off kilter]

Does anyone else have an obsession for depressing songs? Not necessarily sad songs but rather songs that have a depressing feel about them.

Here are a few examples of what I'm talking about:




If you know any more that fit this theme, please post them.

EDIT: After a bit of research, I found that this subgenre is known as 'shoegazing'.

How can you say Heroin is depressing? It is such a flux of sound which ebbs with emotion and crescendos with a lust of breath that makes life seem cloudy.

I listened to this song for the first time in 1985 when I was six. It has evolved since then as my most hated, loved and contrived song of all time. I still think it sucks a whole lot of factory trannies utensils, but hey who am I to say Andy was wrong?

Its Velvets, understand your music before posting.

Theres no depression bro.

Only love, humility and a s**t load of drugs.