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  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Hallelujah - Buckley (just the way he sings it)

    I have to agree with this. Granted, I haven't heard all the songs listed in this thread, but this songs a killer.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • darthvedder88darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (not just the song)

    The whole album is depressing...
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Down In A Hole, specifically the Unplugged version. Watching that kills me.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,522
    LovetheJam wrote:
    My friends and I used to always go to midnight movies (mostly The Song Remains the Same) Anyway...I got to a point where I made it clear that I flat out refused to go to see The Wall anymore. Now that was a heavy damn movie.

    (oh....and we used to make fun of the Rocky Horror people....because we were, obviously, sooooo much cooler. ;) )
    yeah we used to go at least once a week to see the zepp movie midnight shows ....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    Fast Car by Tracy Chapman.

    Most songs from Morrissey/The Smiths.

    With that said these are good songs.
  • stateoflove79stateoflove79 Posts: 2,845
    AIC:
    Down In A Hole
    Nutshell

    Smashing Pumpkins:
    Soma
    This Time

    PJ:
    Black
    Nothingman
    Parting Ways
    Is it so wrong to think that love can keep us safe?
  • run_into_the_rainrun_into_the_rain Posts: 93
    I Listened to Nirvanas Something In The Way on my walk home yesterday. It was raining and cold and gray and that song did me in. I ended up in a pretty low mood



    7/02/06 Denver
    12/02/06 Honolulu
  • !!!!!! Posts: 28
    Cat Power - Metal Heart
    SIGNATURE :)
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I'm not sure about EVER, but 'Lucky', 'Climbing Up the Walls' or 'Tourist' by Radiohead must be contenders.

    Jeff Buckley's version of 'Hallelujah' (but then again, almost anything by Leonard Cohen would qualify).

    I don't find 'Hurt' by NIN depressing exactly. It's sad, sorrowful, but I don't see that as the same thing as depressing.

    I can't decide if I find Clapton's 'Tears in Heaven' depressing or just 'sad', but it is powerful either way.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • bryanfurybryanfury Posts: 461
    hurt- NIN
    those undecided, needn't have faith to be free
  • AndySlashAndySlash Posts: 3,263
    Nice to see some love (even if it's pointing out a depressing song) for Peter Gabriel's Up.

    Anyway..

    Portishead- Roads
    Alison Krauss & Union Station- It Doesn't Matter
    Beatles- Eleanor Rigby
    and any good bagpipe rendition of Amazing Grace.
  • korbykorby Posts: 298
    i am hearing it now. i feel like ending it all.

    wait, there is hope in it. nevermind. ill keep thumbing
    its ok
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Without any shadow of a doubt, this song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu-UkTv8tVk
  • BenzorBenzor Posts: 886
    gotta be Nutshell by Alice
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    love will tear us apart - joy division

    the needle and the damage done - neil young
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • boxwine_in_hellboxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    Fergieliscious.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    nutshell
    down in a hole
    river of deceit
    hurt
    all of Nirvana unplugged
    long road
    say hello 2 heaven
  • You'veGotRedOnYouYou'veGotRedOnYou Posts: 133
    Johnny Cash's cover of "If you could read my mind." So sad.
    "Strangers passing in the street, by chance two seperate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me."
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    bryanfury wrote:
    hurt- NIN

    I agree with you on the song but for some reason I like Johnny Cash singing it better. His voice is so deep and seems to add that much more pain to the song.
  • chimpatchimpat Posts: 590
    "Fated" - Matthew Good Band

    Awesome song, depressing....yet awesome.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=NezSFE72qXI
    "This is about as perfect a crowd as you can get. I hate to placate, I ain't placating...." - EV, 9/29/96


  • boxwine_in_hellboxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    "Crackle and Drag" by Paul Westerberg.

    Any song with the title referring to the sound a body bag makes is pretty depressing. Also the following lyrics are pretty heart wrenching.

    She stuffed some rags on the floor
    She closed the window
    She made a pillow
    On the oven door
    And as her baby slept
    She took a long deep breath
    Now they're zippin her up in a bag

    Fuck that's depressing, Okay I win.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • cornnifercornnifer Posts: 2,130
    i really hate Elvis, but i think "don't cry, daddy" fits well in this category.
    "When all your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse... better find yourself a place to level out."
  • goto_lgoto_l Posts: 1,189
    Strange Fruit-Billie Holiday

    end of discussion
    You men eat your dinner
    Eat your pork and beans
    I eat more chicken
    Than any man ever seen




  • cornnifercornnifer Posts: 2,130
    goto_l wrote:
    Strange Fruit-Billie Holiday

    end of discussion

    Haunting.
    "When all your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse... better find yourself a place to level out."
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Brainofdz wrote:
    Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees
    I have to agree with this one!
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • BlyssBlyss Posts: 166
    anything in the top 10 singles chart is pretty depressing...

    on a serious note though josh pyke and elliot smith manage to have this depressing sense of melancoly and I get teary whenever i listen to them, damien rice, ryan adams, but in a different good way (i know that makes no sense)
  • superdeluxesuperdeluxe Posts: 119
    Verve Pipe- Freshman. Pretty damn depressing.
    Smashing Pumpkins - For Martha. About Corgan's mom.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Without any shadow of a doubt, this song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu-UkTv8tVk

    you win... im on my way to the bathroom to hang myself now.
  • dirtyTdirtyT Posts: 3,620
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    I neglected to add Soma by the Pumpkins.

    PBM
    good call
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  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Love Hurts. 70s song, I don't know who sings it.
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