Depressing songs

[krisholio14]

Great song

 

[krisholio14]

 

[krisholio14]

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[SA HAWK]

 

[Steinfreo]

 

[Geelong_Bisons_#36]

Surely Coldplay owns this thread.

Music to hang yourself by.

 

[bok_party]

Surely Coldplay owns this thread.

Music to hang yourself by.

Way sadder musicians to listen to......unless you mean you hate them so much.

 

[mellowyellow]

 

[Pee Tear Griffin]

Don't know if it's been posted but this song is pretty damn depressing.

 

[Juke]

 

[Bostonian]

Ian Curtis did depressing as well as anyone. Another +1 for Elliott Smith, one of my favourite musicians of all time.

That's Ian McCulloch singing Killing Moon.

 

[Bostonian]

Without You by Badfinger. Knowing the story of the band and what transpired with Tom after Pete left the world the lyrics of the song are truly sad, prophetic and depressing in regards to those talented men's bond.

 

[Bostonian]

This was a dark, depressing, ****ed up song too.

 

[danger_to_walker]

That's Ian McCulloch singing Killing Moon.

Never said it wasn't...

 

[Walter H White]

A lot of stuff by Radiohead but particularly Street Spirit (fade out). Probably the most disconcerting, depressing song I've ever listened to.



Here is what Thom Yorke said about it:

"'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers. It's biological catylysts. "It's core is a complete mystery to me. I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - 'Street Spirit' has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. "I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack. "Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening to. They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the f--king devil right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh. "The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that to long, I'd crack. "It's why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell everytime I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of it's meaning, like when you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging it's tail on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks my heart." "I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim it. It asks too much... I didn't write that song."

 

[mellowyellow]

 

[Ron The Bear]

 

[HARKER]

Beautiful delivery by John Wesley seals the deal.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[kfc1]

Sorry if already posted

 

[LukeHodge15]

Classic

Gunna use the lyric video on Youtube but u have to have the original

 

[mellowyellow]

 

[raskolnikov]

I love this song but * it's depressing.

 

[Cursed Cat]

Saw the thread title and 'Pale Blue Eyes' was literally the first song I thought of before opening the thread ...

agree that Big Star's 'Holocaust' is a compelling downer too, along with 'Kangaroo' from the same album ('Third/Sister Lovers')

Nick Drake's stuff is just so beautiful, but yeah, often brings on the melancholy mood ..