Music Banter - Most depressing song you've ever heard?

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I have a few options for most depressing, and obviously each for different reasons:

This song is completely ethereal, yet so hopeless at the same time. I always imagine this song illustrating a story of attempting to save someone that you simply cannot:

Sigur Ros' "Saeglopur"

Once you've fully listened to and fathomed these lyrics, there isn't many things more depressing than a song about not only losing a child, but blaming yourself for it. So relevant:

Modest Mouse's "3rd Planet"

And after a pretty dark (ah, teenage angst) period in my life, this song is always what I resorted to playing alongside downing a bottle of wine:

Explosions in The Sky's "What do you go home to?"

Sorry, I cannot post links quite yet seeings that I am a new user. But I swear, each song hits you in some fashion.

^Definitely good choices! 3rd Planet is super depressing and I really like how they pair super dark lyrics with such upbeat happy sounding music. Seaglopur is also really sad sounding, but I think that Gong is way more depressing :3
And I actually don't think I've ever heard What Do You Go Home To, surprisingly. What album is it on?

Personally, this is one of the most depressing songs I've ever heard:

It's on the album, "Suddenly I miss everyone" which is my second favorite album of theirs :)

Jason Molina - It's Easier Now

Songs:ohia - Trouble Will Find You

A lot of his songs could go here really, most of it's quite bleak and sparse. I don't think there are many musicians who can do so much with so little. I'm so gutted he died.

Nico - Eulogy to Lenny Bruce

This song creeps me out a bit. Life just seems a bit hopeless whenever I listen to it. Good song though.

Pink Floyd - Time gets more depressing every passing year.

There are others like Smashing Pumpkins - Wound and The Everlasting Gaze that I find hard to listen to but that's more down to personal associations rather than the music itself.

"Lost Cause" by Beck.

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It was on Vevo if I remember well...

''The saddest song in the world''
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This is the saddest song...The song is the singer's story about losing his dog in the Georgia Strait ( The strait between Vancouver Island, and the mainland (Vancouver) )

Sings it as if it were about a woman sort of, but its a true story about his pooch.

Gone Away - The Offspring
Cough Syrup - Young the Giant
Only Time - Enya
The Unforgiving - Metallica

Nudozurdo: Dosis modernas ("Modern Doses", 2011).

"Si mi mente destruye ................................ If my mind destroys

todo lo que deseo, ................................ every wish I have,
si en tus labios siempre ................................ if in your lips always
hay algo mucho mejor, ................................ there is something much better,
si detrás de esa puerta están ................................ if behind that door they are
vendiendo oro negro, ................................ selling black gold,
lo quiero comprar ................................ I want to buy it
y sentir que su brillo ................................ and feel that its shine
se incrusta en mi piel. ................................ gets embedded in my skin.

Sube, mi amor, ................................ Come up, my love,
no hay nadie dentro. ................................ there's no one inside.
Sube, mi amor, ................................ Come up, my love,
a mi cerebro. ................................ to my brain.

Y qué quieres que haga ................................ What can I do,
si ya no me divierto, ................................ if I don't enjoy myself anymore,
si todos mis movimientos ................................ if all my moves
dicen que me detesto. ................................ say that I loathe myself.

Y qué quieres que haga ................................ What can I do,
si ya no puedo ................................ if I no longer
sentir lo que siento, ................................ feel what I feel,
si grito con fuerza mi nombre ................................ if I shout my name out loud
y apenas me puedo escuchar. ................................ but I can hardly hear myself.

Sube, mi amor, ................................ Come up, my love,
no hay nadie dentro. ................................ there's no one inside.
Sube, mi amor, ................................ Come up, my love,
a mi cerebro. ................................ to my brain.

Si mi mente destruye ................................ If my mind destroys
todo lo que deseo, ................................ every wish I have,
si en tus labios siempre ................................ if in your lips always
hay algo mucho mejor, ................................ there is something much better,
si detrás de esa puerta están ................................ if behind that door they are
vendiendo oro negro, ................................ selling black gold,
lo quiero probar ................................ I want to try it
y sentir que su brillo ................................ and feel that its shine
se incrusta en mi piel. ................................ gets embedded in my skin."

Billie Holiday- Strange Fruit

Chopin - Nocturne C sharp-minor Op. 20

Swans - Failure

"I'll be old and broken down
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
on failure"

I think the track says it all.

Gone Away by The Offspring

Cough Syrup by Young The Giant

Only Time by Enya

Still have to say ‘Tear In Heaven’ by Eric Clapton.

I honestly cannot believe I didn't post this. This is like one of my top five "I want to die" songs

also:

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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1343917)

that's actually a really good song.

No, it blows--honest.

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If you wanted to post an example of bad music you picked poorly.

If you wanted to post an example of having taste you f-ucking s-hit the bed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wJQkvSoOQ

Also...

Probably the most depressing album I have ever heard.

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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip (Post 1390249)

If you wanted to post an example of having taste you f-ucking s-hit the bed.

Ahahahahahahahahaha oh god im dying this great

anyway heres some depressing shiit

or anything mark kozelek is involved with. can you feel the tears?

FUCK

That catharsis near the end... and the build up. Definitely a bummer-feel kinda song.

or anything by Nick Drake.

Any Layne Staley-penned song is going to be depressing yet awesome. But I have to go with "Wake up" from Mad Season.

Mad Season - Wake up - YouTube

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Originally Posted by positiveaob (Post 1391241)

Any Layne Staley-penned song is going to be depressing yet awesome. But I have to go with "Wake up" from Mad Season.

Mad Season - Wake up - YouTube

Looking back a few pages, I think I posted this before. But this one has the link.

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Originally Posted by positiveaob (Post 1391241)

Any Layne Staley-penned song is going to be depressing yet awesome. But I have to go with "Wake up" from Mad Season.

Mad Season - Wake up - YouTube

I agree 100%, it used to make me want to cry. More than any song I've heard by Layne Staley. Miserably beautiful.

Don't know how this rates in the grand scheme of things, but this is still a pretty depressing song.

When we're already on the topic of Candlemass:

"Christmas reminds me i have nothing"

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Originally Posted by bob. (Post 1391682)

"Christmas reminds me i have nothing"

Way to kill the happiest celebration of the year. Win.

BUMP! :band:

The whole album is pretty damn depressing.

@Briks

For some reason the pace and the bassline of that song reminded me of this song which is also a little depressing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRn5D7tZFbQ

An obvious but appropriate choice: