What's your favorite depressing song? - Page 2

Boris Godunov · August 16, 2002, 17:00

Quote:

Originally posted by MrFun
"My Heart Will Go On"

*Slaps MrFun silly*

Ramo · August 16, 2002, 17:01

Quote:

"My Heart Will Go On"

You frighten me.

redbaron · August 16, 2002, 17:07

The End of The Rainbow by Richard Thompson
(Anyone who can have a compilation titled "Doom & Gloom From the Tomb" has to be worth considering).

I feel for you, you little horror
Safe at your mother’s breast
No lucky break for you around the corner
‘Cos your father is a bully
And he thinks that you’re a pest
And your sister, she’s no better than a whore

Life seems so rosy in the cradle
but I’ll be a friend, I’ll tell you what’s in store
There’s nothing at the end of the rainbow
There’s nothing to grow up for anymore

Tycoons and barrow boys will rob you
And throw you on the side
And all because they love themselves sincerely
And the man holds a bread-knife
Up to your throat, is four feet wide
And he’s anxious just to show you what it’s for

Your mother works so hard to make you happy
But take a look outside the nursery door
There’s nothing at the end of the rainbow
There’s nothing to grow up for anymore

All the sad and empty faces
That pass you on the street
All running in their sleep, all in a dream
Every loving handshake
Is just another man to beat
How your heart aches just to cut him to the core

Life seems so rosy in the cradle
but I’ll be a friend, I’ll tell you what’s in store
There’s nothing at the end of the rainbow
There’s nothing to grow up for anymore

JohnIII · August 16, 2002, 17:18

What kind of depressing? The Crying of Lot G is a good depressing song, but it's hardly applicable to all situations.

loinburger · August 16, 2002, 20:40

John3: I was thinking more of generally depressing songs, although situation-specific depressing songs that are usually just melancholy are fine. "Take me out to the ballgame" doesn't count as a depressing song, regardless of how many times the Cubs have lost the pennant.

monolith94 · August 16, 2002, 20:58

"Wish You Where Here" - Pink Floyd

Seneca · August 16, 2002, 21:47

The whole of Lou Reed's Berlin is thoroughly unsuitable party music.

Six Thousand Year Old Man · August 16, 2002, 21:52

Almost anything by the Smiths.. especially 'How Soon is Now?' and 'Reel around the Fountain'

There are lots of others, but I'm in a fairly good mood now and I don't want to kill it by thinking up depressing songs.

*End Is Forever* · August 16, 2002, 21:53

I've been listening to "The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most" by Dashboard Confessional, and it's brilliant. Though I must second Laz's choice of the Replacements - he put that on my "Pollute Your Ears" CD and it's absolutely fantastic.

Wraith · August 16, 2002, 22:50

Forgot to mention this earlier, but a lot of the stuff by the Eels. Their entire album Electro-Shock Blues for instance.

Wraith
"No use making more people. People die."
-- Jim Nightshade ("Something Wicked this Way Comes")

Koyaanisqatsi · August 16, 2002, 22:50

From my fiancee:
The Unforgiven & Fade to Black-- Metallica
Illusion -- Creed
Lots of Pink Floyd and Three Doors Down

Why she's depressed has nothing to do with me, of course....

And I think Three Doors Down makes one depressed more than is something to listen to when you're already there.

The only really depressing song I can think of is 'Patches'..nothing else comes close to it. The old one. Not the Jimmy Eat World one.

Tis I · August 16, 2002, 23:47

Staind 'outside'

tandeetaylor · August 17, 2002, 00:00

Yes It Is by the Beatles--- well, the version on the Anthology... I think it's just John with his guitar....

Oh and maybe In My Life...

Jon Shafer · August 17, 2002, 00:53

Blink 182 - Adam's Song.

Sirotnikov · August 17, 2002, 01:08

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Super Heroes

Brad:
I've done a lot; God knows I've tried
To find the truth. I've even lied.
But all I know is down inside

All:
I'm bleeding...

Janet:
And super heroes come to feast
To taste the flesh not yet deceased.
And all I know ... is still the beast

All:
Is feeding...

Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh,
Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh
Oooh, oooh, aaah, aaah.

Narrator:
And crawling on the planet's face
Some insects called the human race...
Lost in time
And lost in space
And meaning.

All:
Meaning.

It's a beautiful song and together with some events, it made me rethink my life and be in a very very gloomy mood for some 3 days.

And I'm almost never in a gloomy mood, especially as deep.

loinburger · August 17, 2002, 01:30

That's when you need to bust out a copy of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or maybe Kentucky Fried Movie. And a six-pack. And three people to trounce at Spades or Euchre. (Works for me, at any rate.)

Ned · August 17, 2002, 01:49

Memory

Mr. Oobir · August 17, 2002, 03:02

I would say "Adagio for Strings" by Barber, but I can't figure out if I feel sad or ecstatic after listening to it. It is a sad song without sadness, like a funeral without any grieving (or someting like that

).

Otherwise, it is a tie between three different songs (played in this order):

"Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
"Prisoners of Fate" by Yasunori Mitsuda (from Chrono Cross Sdtk.)
"Fire & Rain" by James Taylor

Listening to these songs one after another is a great way to put myself down...

Mr. Oobir · August 17, 2002, 03:05

double post

Bugs ****ing Bunny · August 17, 2002, 03:07

Gilbert O'Sullivan wrote a song called "Clare". The Clare he wrote the song about is a friend of mine.

MrFun · August 17, 2002, 03:18

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Originally posted by Boris Godunov

*Slaps MrFun silly*

Hey, you're slapping the guy who has watched Titanic five times. Twice in the theater, and three times on video over a period of three years.

So I really like that song, and it strikes a chord with my feelings at the right time; you can kiss my pretty ass, Boris and Ramo.

Boris Godunov · August 17, 2002, 03:21

5 times? That's 15 hours of your life you will never get back.

The only thing depressing about that song is that it was written and actually won an Oscar... bleargh!

Bugs ****ing Bunny · August 17, 2002, 03:24

Fun always fast-forwards the first 2 hours and heads straight for the "Leonardo in wet shirt" hour at the end.

MrFun · August 17, 2002, 03:27

Yuck -- Leo is a skinny little twink; nothing like the type of guys that I go for.
I go for beefy, fit men.

Boris Godunov · August 17, 2002, 03:36

I would just fast forward to where he dies.

Mr. President · August 17, 2002, 03:48

Lyin' Eyes (The Eagles) and Adam's Song (Blink 182).

Mr. Oobir · August 17, 2002, 03:54

Quote:

Originally posted by Ron Jeremy
Gilbert O'Sullivan wrote a song called "Clare". The Clare he wrote the song about is a friend of mine.

Small world...

I heard that song before. It sounded a lot like Alone Again, only a lot more cheerful.

Mr. Oobir · August 17, 2002, 03:55

I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned "Gloomy Sunday." That's the quintessential suicide theme.

Buck Birdseed · August 17, 2002, 07:02

I think litsening to depressive music is sick. It's like deriving entertainment from watching people die from tubercolosis or something, revelling in and deriving pleasure from another person's fatal disease.

Now, slightly melancholic and manically self-destructive songs I'm well up on. Happy, decadent songs with slight melancholic undertones along the lines of The Paragons' "On The Beach" are among my favourite types of songs...

Sava · August 17, 2002, 08:13

God Bless America