Depressing songs
 

What songs make you feel depressed, sad or can deflate a happy mood quickly?

1. Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
2. Bob Dylan - don't think twice , it's alright

The original version of "Without You" by Badfinger. What makes it more tragic is that the band members killed themselves or went nuts! Now the song is stolen by that mad chick Mariah Carey where alot of its poignancy has been lost.

Lou Reed's "A Perfect Day". The tone is sad in the beginning. Just as the lyrics become promising and upbeat the tone changes back to the gloomy warning "You're gonna reap what you sew". Creepy!!!

U2's "Exit" vividly describes a person contemplating suicide.

"The Ode to Billy Joe" Macallister who jumped off the Tallahassy Bridge.

"I'll sail this ship alone" Beautiful South. Sad throughout ends distressingly and abruptly with "...if I set myself on fire, would you come running back?"

The Nick Cave & Kylie number "The Wild Rose" is quite spooky, sad and depressing. His love and possibly contempt for his Eliza Day is so intense that he grabs a rock and smashes her to death by the riverside where they just had a romantic interlude.

Sting's "Children's Crusade" and "Russians":p

Dan Hill wrote too many to list...
Love Has No Pride- Linda Ronstadt
Is That All there Is?- Peggy Lee
17-Janis- Ian (sp?)
Alone Again, Naturally-
Funny Girl -Barbara

I could name 50 more off the top of my head.
Did everyone else go through periods where the majority of music you listened to was sad songs? (like after a breakup or such)

spender - i think god can explain
joydrop - sometimes wanna die

Don't think twice is an awesome song!

You know how people make thir SO's cds, well the last one I put that song as first (I made it pissed off one day just before we split up), recommended if you ever want to make a cd that will get to 'em


I concur with the Lou Reed of VU down for "Perfect Day"
but also all boy band songs depress me because of the state and direction of music's future.

My sad song is "I Just Called to Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder circa 1984. It was on the radio ALL THE TIME while I was being brutally dumped by my first "real boyfriend". Funny, I don't give a hoot where that guy is today or what he's up to, but I still can't stand to listen to that song!!!

PS This is the first time I've told anyone this; GC is so cathartic ;)

Any song by Barbra Streisand will make me wan't to jump out of a window. Also with Celine Dion.

Not too many people know this song, but "Black Muddy River" by the Grateful Dead. It's Jerry Garcia singing, it's just tremendously depressing. Download/listen to it, let me know what you think. It's an awsome song, and I'm not even a Dead fan, but it's depressing as anything.

The Wedding Song
 

I know that lots of people have it at their weddings, but I think the song, esp. the draggy-ness (yes, I know it's not a real word, lol.)

Sounds more like a funeral dirge.:(

Agreeing with Justamom ... Seventeen by Janis Ian is the ultimate teenage bummer song. Pretty well sums up the bad parts of the teenage experience.

To go back to the roots of rock and roll as they say on the radio,
Teen Angel by Mark Dinning and Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson.

Speaking of dirges, another song few have heard is Requiem for the Masses by the Association.

I'll be thinking of more, I'm sure -- another one that just popped into my head is Long, Long Time by Linda Ronstadt.

How about Peter, Paul and Mary's, Leavin on a Jet Plane, written by John Denver.

OK, enough showing of my age.

Oops...Donna by Richie Valens.

Lots of songs, that were okay before have become very depressing since Sept. 11:

The Eagles - New York Minute ("In a New York Minute, everything can change...In a New York Minute, things can look so strange...")
Those lyrics have been haunting me since then.

Neil Diamond - September Morning - Yeah, the song itself isn't depressing, but the title alone gets to me.

R.E.M. - Its the End Of the World - 'nuff said on that one :(

There is one song that should get more exposure due to its total awesomeness. They Might Be Giants - New York City. They did it in concert here in BR a few weeks ago. The lyrics are so wonderful: "Everyone is my friend, in New York City, and everything is so beautiful when you're young and pretty. The streets are paved with diamonds and there's just so much to see, but the best thing about New York City is you and me"

They closed with that song. A great tribute from two guys from NYC. :)

well, in line with juniorgrrl, I'd have to say that "Tuesday's Gone" is depressing when thought about with respect to 11 Sept.

What about R.E.M's everybody hurts? Thats depressing too.

That song makes me cry pretty much every time I hear it..
also...at the end "Box of Rain", the line that goes 'such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there" makes me cry too, because it reminds me so much of Jerry..

I don't know why, but "Had a Bad Day Again" by Fuel and "You Won't Be Mine" by Matchbox Twenty. Both are depressing as hell...

What's this "Don't Think Twice" song?