Depressing music

A thread dedicated to songs which you find depressing (and not necessarily in a bad way), or which evoke the melancholy feelings of depression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAriDxTeed8"]Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQ977u8Wuk"]BIG STAR - Holocaust - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOlgGUcWaE"]Lou Reed Caroline Says II (HQ) - YouTube

 

Anything by Depeche Mode or Coldplay

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ELnhjGw4Zs"]Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUCyjDOlnPU"]Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday - YouTube

hundreds of suicides have been linked to this song. more than any other, including the composer and the woman with whom he had been in a relationship, their break up inspired the song, and her suicide note (after the song had been released) consisted only of the song title. on that basis, it was banned on the BBC until 2002, apparently. (although they also banned the monster mash, so lets not give it much credence on the basis of that.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl3E7fMZxMo"]Johnny Thunders So Alone - YouTube

 

Is there anyone there who understands me?
Anyone at all?

The Chameleons' 1983 debut album, Script of the Bridge, is one of the best albums ever made... so atmospheric and melancholy. The guitars make this album what it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcEK6uTAezs"]The Chameleons - Monkeyland - YouTube

 

Sad.. but a powerful song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me85PztkYP0"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me85PztkYP0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFM7Ty1EEvs"]U2 - Bloody Sunday - YouTube

 

The whole album;
Celtic Frost - Monotheist

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWe4U2abgVM"]He was a friend of mine-Heath Ledger Memorial - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l_uDCNf0VE"]Emmylou Harris - A Love That Will Never Grow Old - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02QEH2UZ-a4"]Mary McBride - No One's Gonna Love You Like Me - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLjp6lufS5o"]I don't want to say goodbye-Teddy Thompson - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WuTNRoJMGU"]I will never let you go (Brokeback Mountain MV) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExxOhhkrfYk"]Tajemnica Brokeback Mountain Soundtrack - 08. No One's Gonna Love You Like Me - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc1SdL3_Xmg"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc1SdL3_Xmg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MummZBgO3Ek"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MummZBgO3Ek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk

 

I love her.

 

Back when my mom was single, raising us two girls, come home late drunk, and depressed, she used to play this loud in the middle of the night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZcA3kiaQb0"]ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER / THE FIFTH DIMENSION - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg-yYi8saZY"]nirvana-something in the way - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt5EHAqhR1c"]Ben Folds Five - Brick - YouTube

 

I'm not a big fan of taylor swift or country music but this song is very sad!!
It made me cry the first few times i heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2OF1S3iSI"]Taylor Swift - Ronan (Lyrics) - YouTube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeMNu65kJF8"]Elliott Smith - Miss Misery - YouTube

<3

 

This song evokes an array of feeling from within me which overall is very difficult to explain, but is primarily of sadness. Or rather, permeated with sadness. It's an 'enlightened' song performed by an 'enlightened' man, and it sings of eternity being aware of us, looking back and sighing, for some reason or another. When I listen to this album I feel like I begin to deconstruct my body and mind and enter into some state with widely extended boundaries, remaining conscious of how self-centered it is to expand my own consciousness, yet how undeniably crucial it becomes to do so. Childhood's end..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9LMbWaSs1Y"]Ash Ra Tempel - Ocean Of Tenderness - YouTube

 

As for sadness on a human level, this entire album is fairly bleak and depressing, Ceramic Hello's only release 'Absence of a Canary' from 1981. This album anticipates over 3 decades and counting worth of 'new sounds' and comparisons to many contemporary artists can be found within it, it was released mere months after John Foxx's 'Metamatic' and although it involves much of the New Romanticism fashionable at the time by association, it is something entirely different and truly had nothing with which to compare it. At times it sounds like what you might have expected had Kraftwerk and Africa Bambaataa gotten together in their prime, and yet it is melodic and rooted in hip-hop akin to what Black Moth Super Rainbow have been doing since the early 00's. To this day I've found nothing to come even close, and it remains an obscurity despite it's immense 'pop' appeal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDm2DWq2_F4"]Ceramic Hello - Gestures - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYgWFg_TFqo"]CERAMIC HELLO - Footsteps In The Fog (Mannequin Records) 1981 - YouTube

 

Beautiful song, but very sad and depressing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9y28uMEKlM"]Lori Perry - Up Against The Wind - YouTube