What's your favorite depressing song?

[Bereta_Eder]

lots of greek melancholic songs.

[Kitschum]

I sympathize with the "I'm never in the mood for depressive music" crowd. It's just no good: when I'm happy I listen to happy music to confirm my happiness, and when I'm sad I listen to happy music to become happy again. Serotonin is not an objective meter for good music (or musical ability) but, for my own casual listening or dancing, it's it.

Anyway, to this subject I say Sade is very nice sometimes but depressive.

Cheers, (I mean that!)

[Al'Kimiya]

Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows - Time stands still... (... but stops for no-one)

[LaurenX2C]

Does anyone remember that counting crows song on Collective soul (or was that the name of the song or album?)where the rich guy is about to jump off the buidling????? Then decides to throw his money over?? That was sad. Pretty old. Like 1996 or 1997 I think.

[JohnIII]

Buck, depression is a medical condition. However, we're not talking about depression, we're talking about depressing songs, i.e. dismal, dreary, downbeat. I still think you're whimsically adding adjectives to depressing music that you really quite like to make it look like you're some super-well-adjusted guy.

[Mr. Oobir]

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All I know is that I love music. It is one of the few things in the world that is holy in its entirety. Therefore, I don't understand why it should matter whether a song was intended to be depressing or happy or anything else. It seems to be an artificial restriction to say that Song X with mood Y shouldn't be listened to while in mood Z. A song should be heard when the listener wants to hear it, nothing more!

That said, "depressing" music isn't usually what I like to hear. Light, happy music is more my style. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are good examples. However, if I feel the need, I can just as easily listen to The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" or Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely" and lose myself in the world of melancholy.

How many corny cliches can you find in the two paragraphs above? Make it a game!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I'd only wish. Unfortunately, there are many, many who claim to be creating Art and serious, heavy, "meaningful" music. Without exeption, all music made by clinically depressed people will fall into this cathegory, just litsen to Joy Division's "Closer" or Iggy Pop's "The Idiot".

None of those involved with the making of "Closer" were clinically depressed. Benard Sumner did suffer from depression, but that was 10 years later.

Ian Curtis certainly suffered psychological upheaval due to the sudden onset of epilepsy and his marital problems, but he was never clinically depressed.

[el freako]

When I'm feeling particularly down I like this:

Is it wrong to talk to myself?
Even when there's nobody else?
I'm just checking out
That i've not gone under the water
Thrown on the beach
Like a seal ready for slaughter

Can't you understand
That the way things were planned
It never worked out
So I just went crazy
I took to the drink
Like something says it's made me

I ain't got no excuse
And that's really the news
Got nothing else to say
But it's my way - it's always my way
I seem to be running away so often

I'll try anything once
And that's the way this should be
But it's always the same
And I'm caught up again in a habit
A habit that I just can't shake off
The way it always turned out

Can you understand
It's the way I choose to be
Everything seems so easy this way
But i'm going under fast
Slipping away
Am I so crazy?

It's 'Going Under' by Marillion

FYI I do suffer from depression (have done for 15 years now), SSRI's do help but only a bit.

[Adalbertus]

English Renaissance:
Come sable night (Ward)
Draw on sweet night (Wilbye)

Or as a conductor announced in a concert:
We'll sing "Three ravens" by Ravenscroft. The story is about a young lady who buries her lover in the woods. In the evening, she is dead herself. This song is flanked by two others who are even more depressing.

Anyway, great stuff.

[Solly]

You can't make do with just one.

Third Eye Blind - The Background
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Idlewild - The Bronze Medal
Pulp - Underwear
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
REM - Country Feedback
Juliana Theory - Infatuation
Juliana Theory - DJ
The Smiths - I Know It's Over

[drake]

Oh I totally forgot about it until now.....

-Misery- by Soul Asylum is great depressing fare.

"They say Misery Loves Company,
We could build a factory, and make Misery....
Frustrated Incorporated"

[Sten Sture]

I agree with 'the entire published works of Nick Drake...'

Replacements fav is Achin to be
Red House Painters Sundays and Holidays
Lloyd Cole Malcontent
Son Volt Ten Second News
Wilco Dash 7

but my all time fav down song is Elvis Costello's Good Year for the Roses

[Jaguar]

Metallica - Fade to Black
Blink 182 - Adam's Song
Eminem - Stan
U2 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Lifehouse - Breathing
Puff Daddy - I'll Be Missing You

[Kontiki]

Pretty much any of the Charlatans earlier work, but especially "Tremelo Song".

[LaurenX2C]

Originally posted by el freako
you said
FYI I do suffer from depression (have done for 15 years now), SSRI's do help but only a bit.

I have been through this. I can sympathize with you here. I took prozac since I was 13. My youngest brother was killed by a drunk driver. I think everyone in my house went on the stuff. We were all torn apart. Except I never got off mine seems to be chronic. Ive been on Prozac, Zoloft, Depakote, and Paxil. None have really helped. And the depakote mad me crazy.