THDevil
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I just stumbled upon this. The other 9 choices are interesting as well.
http://listverse.com/music/top-10-most-depressing-rock-songs/
http://listverse.com/music/top-10-most-depressing-rock-songs/
Top 10 most depressing songs. How Soon is Now #1?
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Interesting, but any list that doesn't have "Love Will Tear Us Apart" at #1 should be considered incomplete.
Agreed. And Hallelujah is about the ecstacy of sex, and the absence of it.
Peter
PregnantForTheLastTime
Hideous trait.
Love Will Tear Us Apart isn't depressing. It's brutally honest.
Actually, I don't find any of these depressing. I find Britney Spears depressing. But that's just me.
Is there a difference?
Come to think of it, JD's "Atmosphere" could outrank "LWTUA" on the depresso-meter.
Other depressing songs:
"Mother" - John Lennon
"The End" - The Beatles
"River" - Joni Mitchell
"The Magdalene Laundries" - Joni Mitchell
"Another Lonely Christmas" - Prince
"Bees" - Laura Cantrell
"Knowing Me, Knowing You" - ABBA
Just about anything off of The Cure's Faith, Pornography, or Bloodflowers
"Apart" - The Cure
"A Letter to Elise" - The Cure
"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" - The Pogues
"The Ghosts of Overdoses" - Damien Dempsey
"Hey Jupiter" - Tori Amos
"Playboy Mommy" - Tori Amos
"My Special Child" - Sinead O'Connor
"The Last Day of Our Acquaintance" - Sinead O'Connor
Hmm, come to think of it, I'm just listing my favorite songs here.
meat_is_murder19
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What about eric claptons tears in heaven very sad song.Who the hell makes these lists
It's sad, but that sad? I've only heard it in cover versions (Elvis Costello, Sinead, bazillions of others). How about Loretta Lynn's "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home"?
Yes, let's do talk about ABBA (ABBA thread, anyone?). I still vote for my pick, but yours takes a close second.
Somebody with little depth or breadth of listening experience.
MsChievous
Hand Frink
"The Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. Maybe it has to do with being a daddys girl.
Worm
Taste the diffidence
Joy Division could occupy at least 4-5 of the top spots. I laugh at the notion that "How Soon Is Now?" is depressing, but I think Joy Division's music could reasonably be called that-- although in my opinion nothing beautiful can be depressing.
Here are my candidates:
"Isolation" ("Mother I tried please believe me/I'm doing the best that I can/I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through/I'm ashamed of the person I am")
"Decades" ("Weary inside, now our heart's lost forever/Can't replace the fear, or the thrill of the chase/Each ritual showed up the door for our wanderings/Open and shut, then slammed in our face.")
"New Dawn Fades" ("It was me/Waiting for me/Hoping for something more/It was me/Seeing me this time/Hoping for something else.")
"Twenty Four Hours" ("Let's take a ride out, see what we can find,/A valueless collection of hopes and past desires.")
Here are my candidates:
"Isolation" ("Mother I tried please believe me/I'm doing the best that I can/I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through/I'm ashamed of the person I am")
"Decades" ("Weary inside, now our heart's lost forever/Can't replace the fear, or the thrill of the chase/Each ritual showed up the door for our wanderings/Open and shut, then slammed in our face.")
"New Dawn Fades" ("It was me/Waiting for me/Hoping for something more/It was me/Seeing me this time/Hoping for something else.")
"Twenty Four Hours" ("Let's take a ride out, see what we can find,/A valueless collection of hopes and past desires.")
Amy
from the Ice Age to the dole age
I could think of many more depressing Smiths songs than 'How Soon Is Now?' , that song makes me laugh even. Nowhere close to songs like "That Joke..", "I Know It's Over", "Back to the Old House", "Well I wonder", "Asleep", "Please Please Please..", "Last Night I Dreamt.." and on and on.
'Strange Fruit' tears me up also.
'Strange Fruit' tears me up also.
The live half of Still has all those, and more (esp. "A Means to and End"), and listening to it is like staring into the black abyss--from halfway down.
Strange Fruit was covered by Siouxsie, right? That's the only version I know.
Nothing to feel guilty about. They're one of the greats.
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bogdana
Finer Things Club Prez
Or "Torn between two lovers" lolol
snapyou
Humdee,dumdee,homocide
The song was made famous by Holiday although written by a Hungarian,Rezső Seress .
It's a source of many urban myths that it contributed to the number of suicides.
More likely it was just very astute marketing.
Although,weirdly enough,both Seress and his girlfriend committed suicide.
Apparently Billie Holiday's Gloomy Sunday is the song that pushes must people over the edge....literally.
NRitH, if we are talking ABBA, it has to be The Winner Takes It All (a personal favourite, I'm ashamed to admit)
Gloomy Sunday has a history of bringing bad luck to those who cover it. I first heard it via The Associates version.
Peter
Are you purposely trying to upset me?
Not this time.
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for that link, Peter. All I know is that when I hear it on Elvis Costello's Trust CD, I feel like throwing it out the window.
"How Soon is Now?" most depressing song? I'm with you guys, there are so many more songs that surpass it in gloominess.
How about "Seasick, Yet Still Docked"? The only bright side of this song is the title.
"My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye, you must be such a fool to pass me by." Ah, that gets me everytime.
Or "Last Night Maudlin Street", it's one big depression fest.
Not to leave Smiths era stuff out, "Meat is Murder" scares the hell out of me, I can't listen to it.
How about "Seasick, Yet Still Docked"? The only bright side of this song is the title.
"My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye, you must be such a fool to pass me by." Ah, that gets me everytime.
Or "Last Night Maudlin Street", it's one big depression fest.
Not to leave Smiths era stuff out, "Meat is Murder" scares the hell out of me, I can't listen to it.
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