Most depressing songs

Doc · May 2011

I'm looking for stuff on the level of Radiohead's "How to Disappear Completely."

Genre doesn't matter too much. English language or instrumental, I guess.

Go!

Evil Multifarious · May 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kh09MuIfIU

Xaquin · May 2011

I don't like Radiohead (edit: so I don't know the song), but 'Sam Stone' by John Prine is about as depressing as you can get

theconductor221 · May 2011

I feel like Creep should be on here, by Radiohead.

godmode · May 2011

"Self Conclusion" by Spill Canvas
"Epiphany" by Staind
come immediately to mind.

Dritz · May 2011

The albums Hospital Music and Loser Anthems by Matthew Good are painfully depressing without skirting into the notorious 'emo' category.

Reznik · May 2011

Nine Inch Nails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GwX5x1cio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSkfTedVb0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmzzu3HqL4c

Matthew Good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRIkavVkJ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPW3dnxplDI

Bedlam · May 2011

Stars - Personal

The jist - A guy posts a personal add and a girl resoponds. They connect on the phone and agree to meet but he stands her up. Then reposts a similar add at the end.

B:L · May 2011

This was in an anime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

Frosty the Snow Plow · May 2011

If you like your depression in the bleak existential meaninglessness variety, the whole Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album and much of Flaming Lip's other work tweaks that.

Whacktose · May 2011

Cath, by death cab for cutie. Simple, brutal lyrics.

hatedinamerica · May 2011

In before more terrible suggestions....like Staind. :P

In randomish psuedo-alphabetical order:

(spoiler'd for long)

"I'm Bound to Pack It Up" The White Stripes

"How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died?" by Black Lips

"Thing Ain't Like They Used to Be" by The Black Keys

"She's Leaving Home" by The Beatles

the entire album 'Oh, Maria' by John Rae Fletcher

almost anything by Low

"I Saw Brown" by Black Moth Super Rainbow

"Iron Lemonade" by Black Moth Super Rainbow

"Hurricane" by Bob Dylan

"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" by Hank Williams

"In The Hole" by Hillstomp

"I Can Live Again" by Jason The Swamp

"Monkey & Bear" by Joanna Newsom

Johnny Cash

"We Shot It" by Monster (good luck finding these guys, they are super unknown and there a million other bands called monster)

"Gumption" by Mountains For Clouds

"Something In The Way" by Nirvana

about half the songs on Of Montreal's album 'The Gay Parade'

"Take Flight" by Ramona Cordova

"Betrayal Takes Two" by Richard Hell and The Voidoids

"Suffering Jukebox" by Silver Jews

the album 'Spiderland' by Slint

"Lucinda" by Tom Waits

the album 'Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?' by The Unicorns (this is an odd one, and a personal favorite of mine)

The Violent Femmes

"A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under" by Why?

That's what I came up with by scrolling briefly through my iPod. I'm sure I left out some real humdingers, but that's ok.

Bagginses · May 2011

Does it have to be intentionally depressing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

That's the most depressing thing I can find on short notice.

KillaWhale · May 2011

Depeche Mode's "One Caress" is pretty depressing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fphsbLtrDe8

As is Blind Guardian's "Fiddler on the Green"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGMx0YkeTFQ

godmode · May 2011

Reznik wrote: »

Nine Inch Nails

Oh yeah, I forgot: "Something I Can Never Have"

Reznik · May 2011

godmode wrote: »

Reznik wrote: »

Nine Inch Nails

Oh yeah, I forgot: "Something I Can Never Have"

Oh yeah! Derp, how could I forget that one.

I prefer the version on 'Still' to the original on Pretty Hate Machine. Actually, a lot of 'Still' is pretty depressing. Really nice piano stuff.

B:L · May 2011

This song was in a TV show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU5aTiJEGGk

schuss · May 2011

Pretty much most of Black Mirror by Arcade Fire, as well as Placebo (the band)

Kabitzy · May 2011

here are my go to sad songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1vxJb6MQ34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnzJBVg5uwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqQTODR3kR8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8XH3R95xE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9a2e2M4Ag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Mj3wKU-wg

RhalloTonny · May 2011

2 Albums, all the way through:

Beck – Sea Change
Summary: Beck’s girlfriend of 9 years cheated on him, so he got depressed and made an album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWe6bMVvTzk

Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Summary: Mark had his sister commit suicide in an insane asylum and his mom slowly die of cancer in the same year, so he got depressed and made an album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ecA5ez6is

tynic · May 2011

Josh Ritter's my current depressing song go-to dude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLBoBtszDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9XfFGIwXT8

Auntie Shibby · May 2011

Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dance/Crown of Thorns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0gnwtSEGI

Sevorak · May 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EzeW5KoPUI

TheSuperWoot · May 2011

Someone mentioned Stars Personal but I think basically every song on Set Yourself on Fire is pretty sad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnU4q2OQmRY

Dehumanized · May 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQ977u8Wuk

Cantido · May 2011

Not joking. Horrifying song about suicide.

joshofalltrades · May 2011

Fond Farewell - Elliott Smith

Dirt in the Ground - Tom Waits

Seriously, though, anything by Elliott Smith can be fantastically depressing. Even lots of his upbeat stuff.

Miss Misery

Waldo · May 2011

This whole album, really, but here's the most depressing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndCsaT3UlMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTZWXrVWtvg

vagrant_winds · May 2011

Dido - White Flag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-fWDrZSiZs

Elton John - This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsuHAn54wPs

Fuel - Shimmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZwSqX6J5hs

Almost the entire 808 & Hearbreak cd by Kanye West is depressing.
I'm not linking and H.I.M. at the music because at least a third of it is depressing and I don't want to pick any out.

Hurtdog · May 2011

people have committed suicide while Creep by Radiohead played in the background, like that one kid who hanged himself. Pretty depressing.

ceres · May 2011

Savatage - This Isn't What We Meant

Summer at Shatter Creek - Worlds Away

Siska · May 2011

Homicidal Psycho Love Song!

Doc · May 2011

Siska wrote: »

Homicidal Psycho Love Song!

And that's not even the darkest song on that album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXfNhHJRA9U

Decius · May 2011

These are the depressing songs that trend towards the top of my playlist. Lyrical content is similar to the OP song. Hope you enjoy...or well you get the picture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8hT3oDDf6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAOnUF8t20w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IqCfxgKZd8

And this one is just a good song by City and Colour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xiq0IiGilXE

Valaena · May 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWeagFLF9SY

downer · May 2011

Atleast joshofalltrades shared an Elliott Smith song.. because even some of his more upbeat songs can be depressing.. Here's a couple of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezerLW5jPwI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHDbCC0Ongs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPD-a1FjUtU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0gDHTUtnEY

Also, Ryan Adams..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM0mjukDGRw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dty4Jk0eERA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udkLvfp-Vco&feature=related

wakkawa · May 2011

Songs in which you climb into a warm bath slit your wrists and watch the water turn crimson as you slip out of consciousness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPeiAMmqUtc

Trillian · May 2011

This is a beautiful song, and pretty effing sad. I think this is easily the best breakup song ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0FyN72Phc

This is way more melancholy than the original
http://grooveshark.com/s/I+Will+Follow+You+Into+The+Dark/2gFoi9?src=5

This is great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4bvRamMiY4

Carnarvon · May 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoA7ZvUi3Y0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6cLsS--k6M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whplzcMp3P8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl-VCHzS1So

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l_JLctfxnw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA7uEW56rCE

Explicit lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLLk06FJ2wA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggxTtnKTMo

Page- · May 2011

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