I want to know your favourite depressing songs?

Question

I want to know what songs you think are depressing or like to listen to when depressed. It can be heavy metal, rock or acoustic just not typical stuff like radiohead. I Like Teargas by katatonia. Sistinas by Danzig and Lost Control by Anathema.

To you guys who put radiohead, you should all pretty much buy a helmet, If you had brains you'd be dangerous! I guess you should give yourselfs a pat on the back coz at least you can spell and type. Retards!

Answer 1

NEIL YOUNG

"Ambulance Blues"

Back in the old folky days
The air was magic when we played.
The riverboat was rockin'
in the rain
Midnight was the time
for the raid.

Oh, Isabela, proud Isabela,
They tore you down and
plowed you under.
You're only real
with your make-up on
How could I see you
and stay too long?

All along the Navajo Trail,
Burn-outs stub their toes
on garbage pails.
Waitresses are cryin'
in the rain
Will their boyfriends
pass this way again?

Oh, Mother Goose,
she's on the skids
Shoe ain't happy,
neither are the kids.
She needs someone
that she can scream at
And I'm such a heel
for makin' her feel so bad.

I guess I'll call it
sickness gone
It's hard to say
the meaning of this song.
An ambulance can only
go so fast
It's easy to get buried
in the past
When you try to make
a good thing last.

I saw today
in the entertainment section
There's room at the top
for private detection.
To Mom and Dad
this just doesn't matter,
But it's either that
or pay off the kidnapper.

So all you critics sit alone
You're no better than me
for what you've shown.
With your stomach pump and
your hook and ladder dreams
We could get together
for some scenes.

I never knew a man
could tell so many lies
He had a different story
for every set of eyes.
How can he remember
who he's talkin' to?
'Cause I know it ain't me,
and I hope it isn't you.

Well, I'm up in T.O.
keepin' jive alive,
And out on the corner
it's half past five.
But the subways are empty
And so are the cafes.

Except for the Farmer's Market
And I still can hear him say:
You're all just pissin'
in the wind
You don't know it but you are.

And there ain't nothin'
like a friend
Who can tell you
you're just pissin'
in the wind.

I never knew a man
could tell so many lies
He had a different story
for every set of eyes
How can he remember
who he's talking to?
Cause I know it ain't me,
and hope it isn't you

Answer 2

Pretty much anything by My Dying Bride (incredible depressive doom metal from England), especially:
For You, For My Fallen Angel, The Wreckage Of My Flesh, The Cry Of Mankind, The Light At The End Of The World, Sear Me III, Der Uberlebende, Like Gods Of The Sun.

I also love Candlemass' Solitude

Answer 3

Bright Eyes
Easy Lucky Free
Something Vague
A Perfect Sonnet
Poison Oak

The Dresden Dolls
Bad Habit
Night at the roses

Elliott Smith
Strung Out Again
Twilight

Morrissey
I have forgiven Jesus
Let Me kiss you

Metric
Too little too late

Iron and Wine
Promise what you will

Other stuff.

Answer 4

Hallelujah - by Leonard Cohen, but Jeff Buckley does a particularly heart wrenching version.
Sing Me to Sleep - by The Smiths
Hurt - by Johnny Cash
Goddamn Lonely Love - Drive-by Truckers

Answer 5

Vampires Curse by The Koffin Kats

great song

Answer 6

"Uninvited" - Alanis Morissette
"The End is Here", "Broken Wings" - Alter Bridge
"Fred Jones Pt. 2" - Ben Folds
"Rain" - Breaking Benjamin
"Amsterdam", "Everything's Not Lost" - Coldplay
"Wash Away Those Years" - Creed
"Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" - Don McLean
"Truce" - The Dresden Dolls
"My Immortal", "Hello", "Forgive Me" - Evanescence
"Vienna" - The Fray
"Mexico" - Incubus
"No Bravery" - James Blunt
"So Real" - Jeff Buckley
"Wild Horses" (acoustic bootleg) - Jewel
"Isolation" - John Lennon
"Let Me Fall" - Josh Groban
"Pretend You're Alive" - Lovedrug
"Can't Hold On" - Melee
"Mad World" - Gary Jules
"Blackout" - MUSE
"Don't Speak" - No Doubt
"Show Must Go On" - Queen
"Chop Suey", "Toxicity", "Roulette", "Streamline" - System of a Down

Answer 7

The Beatles, specifically the line "Once there was a way to get back home again." The whole song is sad, but that part really tears me up. Especially on days when I wish I could just go home, while standing in my own kitchen.

Answer 8

I don't know if these exactly depressing, but when I felt bad I used to listen to In my Darkest Hour by Megadeth, We Got the Right by Helloween, and Wasted Time by Skid Row.

Answer 9

Gackt - Emu for my Dear
Queen - Made in Heaven

-English Translation for Emu- for my Dear


The joy from my heart at our sudden meeting says

"Maybe it'll be over before I know it..." those forebodings scare me

And then I was gazing into your eyes

Without understanding anything



They're not forever changing, so how many phantoms,

Like memories and dreams, could you file away

And now I gazed into your eyes

Without changing anything



If I stretch out my hand, the smile I reach is fleeting

If I close my eyes, I want to hold

Your vanishing body once more in my arms

Because I can't forget that time, that place where we met...



Dancing in the breeze, your body

Was being enveloped in light



I was only watching you

I was forever gazing into your eyes

Even now I watch only you

Without changing anything



If I stretch out my hand, the smile I reach is pained

If I close my eyes, I want to hold

Your vanishing body once more in my dreams

Because I can't forget that time, that place where we met...


Because I can't forget...

Answer 10

November Rain and Patience by Guns N' Roses; they mix heavy metal and blues pretty nicely.