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  • #16
    My favorite depressing song ever is Randy Newman's "Old Man"; it can leave me in a fetal position for hours. The lyrics:

    Everyone has gone away
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
    No one cared enough to stay
    Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

    You must remember me old man
    I know that you can if you try
    So just open up your eyes, old man
    Look who's come to say goodbye

    The sun has left the sky, old man
    The birds have flown away
    And no one came to cry, old man
    Goodbye, old man, goodbye

    You want to stay, I know you do
    But it ain't no use to try
    'Cause I'll be here-and I'm just like you
    Goodbye, old man, goodbye

    Won't be no God to comfort you
    You taught me not to believe that lie
    You don't need anybody
    Nobody needs you
    Don't cry, old man, don't cry
    Everybody dies
    "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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    • #17
      Fetal? You mean foetal or fecal I assume.
      Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
      Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
      We've got both kinds

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      • #18
        Try anything from Jar of Flies or Sap by Alice in Chains.

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        • #19
          Both brilliant.
          Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
          Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
          We've got both kinds

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          • #20
            Mostly not instrumental though.

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            • #21
              how about Wish?


              So many stars were out there but none of them did fall
              I guess none wanted to carry the burden of it all
              A time to cry, so much time to cry, little time to say goodbye
              And I would tell you I'll be brave and you'd know that it's a lie
              And the days'll turn weeks and the weeks'll turn years and I'll know that you were wrong
              There's nothing at the rainbows end but just another song

              So close and yet so far away is the mask she wears today
              It seems the open hand is closing, some things shell never give away

              Thelena, wear the crown of golden thorns
              Thelena, nail your hands onto your kite

              No spotlight on your self-made cross but your eyes come shining through
              Is desire just temptation or do angels long too?

              Don't need wings to be an angel, just the wind to pull you up
              No strings, no wings, no songs to sing as we dance into the sun

              Thelena, wear the crown of golden thorns
              Thelena, nail your hands onto your kite

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              • #22
                or
                The leaves were falling early, the year fortune looked away
                Gold and green looked brighter then, gold seems grey today
                The hands of the clock never went my way, nothing ever did
                So in the arms of indifference is where I'm going to stay

                Set the burning sails (horizon)
                Time weighs more than gold (a heartbeat)
                More than shoulders can bear
                All the years aflame (we're yearning)
                Burnmarks never fade (though we are)
                Going nowhere fast

                Have I lost you for the first time, it won't be the last
                For I'll lose you everytime my dreams fall apart, to dust
                I may have questions, I may have answers but I sure don't have you
                No one shakes an empty hand, let alone embrace the man

                Set the burning sails (horizon)
                Time weighs more than gold (a heartbeat)
                More than shoulders can bear
                All the years aflame (we're yearning)
                Burnmarks never fade (though we are)
                Going nowhere fast

                Never walk away
                Never turn your back on me
                Never walk out on me

                Set the burning sails
                Time weighs more than gold
                More than shoulders can bear
                All the years aflame
                Burnmarks never fade
                Going nowhere fast

                Breathing barely audible while I watch you fighting sleep
                But somewhere in the empty land, wolves among the sheep
                And all the promises I've ever made seem to break at first touch
                But that was then and all we've had is shattered for ever

                Never walk away
                Never turn your back on me
                Never walk out on me



                OK enough pseudo gothic crap

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by orange
                  Linkin Park...

                  ...gets me depressed about the state of modern music.
                  you suck, I like them

                  To us, it is the BEAST.

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                  • #24
                    Eels- Electroshock Blues, not hard rock, and there are some instruemental moments on it, to boot.

                    The Eels also have this rare B-side called "Bad News", my god, now that song is a real killjoy.
                    http://monkspider.blogspot.com/

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                    • #25
                      Johnny Cash singing "Hurt" always brings me down.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by MikeH
                        Fetal? You mean foetal or fecal I assume.
                        Preferring "foetal" to "fetal" is just one more reason why you people no longer have an empire.
                        "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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                        • #27
                          best cheese


                          From the international artists Nick Cave can be pretty depressive too.

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                          • #28
                            proof:


                            The moon is in the gutter
                            And the stars wash down the sink
                            I am the king of the blues
                            I scape the clay off my shoes
                            And wade down the gutter and the moon
                            The moon blinds my eye with opal cataracts
                            As I cut through the saw-mills and the stacks,
                            Leaping over the gully where I would one day take Lucy
                            Then wash up my hands in the gutter and the moon.
                            Such a long way from home, just me and
                            The moon is in the gutter
                            All my plans are flushed down the drain
                            I wander lonely as a cloud
                            Over memories at her mound
                            Then lie down in the bitter gutter moon.


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                            • #29
                              of course nothings beats the greek songs. talking about torment... and in a subtle way not all front out crude like cave for example

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                              • #30
                                anything by Radiohead, Coldplay or Travis, why do you need depressing music?

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