Most Depressing Songs

What are the songs that can just make you break down on those gloomy days. Everyone knows which days Im talking about. The songs that just pierce your soul, and send that shiver down your spine.

The ones that do it for me are-

Tears in Heaven- Eric Clapton
He Stopped Loving Her Today- George Jones
I Hung My Head- Johnny Cash
Yesterday - Beatles
The Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Dust In The Wind - Kansas
Mad World- Gary Jules (From Donnie Darko)

and, the one that will make me tear up every time...

Puff the Magic Dragon- Peter, Paul and Mary

Well, that depends. I'm making a CD for my ex (by moving long story) but all the songs on there I listen to when depressed or something realted.

Eagle-Eyed Cherry: Save Tonight
Bryan Adams: Almost any song (Please Forgive Me is the most)
Coldplay: Clocks, Warning Sign, Yellow, Trouble, and some others
Eagles: Any song
Foo Fighters: Everlong (idk why though)
R.E.M.:Losing my Religion

others...but those come to mind

Smashing Pumpkins - To Forgive
Beck - Lonesome Tears
Elliot Smith - Needle In The Hay
At The Drive-In - Non-Zero Possibility

EDIT:
Beck - Guess I'm Doing Fine
Hurt - both Johnny Cash and Trent Reznor versions

EDIT 2:
Fuck, every song on Beck's Sea Change

"Seasons in the Sun" Terry Jacks (1974)

EDIT: Also want to add- "Last Kiss" most recently performed by Pearl Jam

This song doesn't really go but
listen to - Keren Ann - Nolita. It sounds gloomy to me....download it or something.......

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Slipknot - Vermillion Part 2
Brand New - The No Seatbelt Song
Cold - Wasted Years
Feeder - Yesterday Went To Soon
Marylin Manson - Dissasociative
KMFDM - Save Me
Mathew Good Band - The Rat Who Would Be King
Metallica - Fade To Black
Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied

Many other sad songs. However, I know about 50x as many awesome songs that make me happy :)

I obviously don't listen to such a wide variety of music as you guys, but I would have to say Fade to Black by Metallica breaks me down pretty good.

45-by shinedown. real depressing!

45-by shinedown. real depressing!


Very true, so isn't Burning Bright. I saw them Live :smokin: Awesome stuff, to bad they didn't play Burning Bright.

Amon Amarth - Ride for Vengance
Amon Amarth - And Soon the World will Cease to Be
At the Gates - Kingdom Gone
Amon Amarth - The Fate of Norns
some stuff by Dark Funeral
Empyrium - the blue mists of night
DImmu borgir - Mourning palace
Emperor - With Strength I burn
Some stuff by Insomnium
Some stuff by Marduk
Mayhem - You must fall
Ragnarok - It's war
some Windir
Satyricon - Mother North

Lots of black metal songs have some pretty depressing stuff - hell, most of the songs period will sound depressing to lots of people. But you learn to distinguish the especially depressing ones.

Cradle Of Filth - Thank God For The Suffering is pretty depressing :)

The only two i can think of now are Shinedown-45 and Slipknot Vermilion pt.2

Speaking of shinedown their version of simple man made me want to cry, then shoot myself, then slowly bleed to death, then shoot myself some more, start gouging out my eyes, rip off my ears, etc just because that might help me overcome the pain that reached my ears when I heard that song...that version of that song is the most depressing thing ive ever heard

Besides that...
Bright Eyes - Untitled (Lovers Turn Into Monsters)
Pearl Jam - Black
From Autumn To Ashes - Take her to the music store
Underoath - A message for adrienne
Avenged Sevenfold - I wont see you tonight (parts 1 and 2)
A Static Lullaby - Lipgloss and letdown

Im sure I can think of more but usually the sound of someone screaming at me cheers me up even if the lyrics are sad.

Puff the Magic Dragon- Peter, Paul and Mary

Actually, I do find this song pretty depressing. The singers even sound depressed.
One which has not yet been listed:

Frank Zappa - Idiot Bastard Son

Hmmm, thinking of Frank Zappa, Teenage Prostitute - should be depressing, but the vocals and instrumentals are so bizarre and entertaining, that you forget about the subject of the song.

-Freebird - Lynard Skynard
-Alkaline Trio - Enjoy Your Day
-From Autumn To Ashes - No Trivia
-From Autumn To Ashes - Autumns Monologue
-From Autumn To Ashes - Chloroform Perfume
-Kid Rock - Only God Knows Why
-Tommy Lee - Blue
-Hopesfall - Per Sempre Marciamo
-Poison The Well - Apathy Is A Cold Body
-Poison The Well - Meeting Again For The First Time
-Poison The Well - Sounds Like The End of the World
-The Beautiful Mistake - For A Friend
-Hopesfall - It Happens

Just a few...

Space Dye Vest - Dream Theater.

Not a good song when you're going through a breakup.

Schindler's List - Composed by John Williams. That's the only song that made me fail to hold the tears in...oh god...I'm...I'm going to....*crys*

Totally different genre then some of the music posted but

I Wish by R Kelly (even though hes a pervet/pedophile whatever, this song is just too damn good)

Totally different genre then some of the music posted but

I Wish by R Kelly (even though hes a pervet/pedophile whatever, this song is just too damn good)
That is a good song. Even though he is what he is, no one can knock how great of a talent he is.

country songs

country songs


Wow, you like hondas, and you like country? Your a rare specimen, lol.
Nothing against country, just most people that like Hondas like rap, it just a given.

Lol most people that like hondas like dance music ;)

And most people who drive jaguars listen to NPR and if you drive a bentley you must listen to classical music. Truck? gotta be country music! American muscle car drivers all listen to foghat. Shit its about time for me to get in my honda, put in my Avenged Sevenfold cd or maybe some Pantera and go down to the rap battle then to go dj a rave because I drive a honda. :bloated:

Teddy Bear and Teddy Bears last ride by Red Sovine. Tear jerker

Teddy Bear and Teddy Bears last ride by Red Sovine. Tear jerker

evanesence-the slow one that makes u want to kill urself, dont know the name.

Eh..I thought of another one.

Cold Acoustic by Crossfade. Way better IMHO then the regular version of cold. Download it, please?

At my ex-girlfriends dad's funeral they played He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones. What the really screwed up thing about it is that someone payed to have her father killed and they are the ones who had that song played at the funeral. Hell I even started crying when they played that song. Heck her mom went histerical when it started playing. Really the saddest application of a song I've ever seen.

staind-been a while

At my ex-girlfriends dad's funeral they played He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones. What the really screwed up thing about it is that someone payed to have her father killed and they are the ones who had that song played at the funeral. Hell I even started crying when they played that song. Heck her mom went histerical when it started playing. Really the saddest application of a song I've ever seen.
That's fucked up. I'm assuming those bastards are in jail now?

oh yeah! If they wasn't I'd be in jail for kicking their ass! (or at least attempting to)

u guys may nto agree, but i think the beginning of bohemian rhapsody by queen. i think the part that goes "...put a gun against his head, pull my tigger now hes dead..." now THAT sends shivers down my spine

any song by STAIND, make me wanna kill myself!

Gone Away by the Offspring can be pretty depressing depending on what mood you're in.

Most country music sends me into depresion. The reason I dont listen to it..

Alice in Chains-Rooster

This is a song about Vietnam,I think, and songs and stuff about war and dying and killing really get me down, but I love this song.

Dream Theater-Vacant

This is the most depressing song I have ever heard. You guys gotta listen to it.

For my own (and probably other people's) reasons, Cemetery Gates by Pantera

Dream Theater-Vacant

This is the most depressing song I have ever heard. You guys gotta listen to it.

What album is that off?

downloading now....

What album is that off?

downloading now....

Train Of Thought.

Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
The Doors - The End
Jefferson Airplane - somebody to love

the whole album Court of The King Crimson by King Crimson

No Lies, Just Love-Bright Eyes
Poison Oak-Bright Eyes
Remember To Breathe-Dashboard Confessional
Cinder And Smoke-Iron And Wine

pretty much anything by Conor Oberst(bright eyes) is well written and sad.

The Crying Game- Boy George.

I swear its music to slash your wrists by.
Actually, all his hit songs make you feel suicidal.

Yes, I'm back. What did I miss?

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
The most depressing!

Underoath- Cries of the Past
Seventdust- Angel's song
Killswitch Engage- almost any song
Much the Same- Father and Son
Some 12 stones stuff

I have alot of it. Alot of metal songs have EXTREMEly deep and powerful lyrics if you get past the screaming and growling

Cold-Wasted Years

More to come...I'm getting good at these depressing songs

I've got a bunch...

For some reason Don Mclean's American Pie always gets me though....

Lucky Boys Confusion- Arizona Stand, Slip, Do you miss me

Garth Brooks- Burning Bridges, What She's Doin Now

Silvertide- Heartstrung

Split Habit- The Lies Within

Weezer- The Damage in Your Heart

Darryl Worley- If something should happen

Those few are good and depressing....

Brad Paisley - I wish she'd stay

Evanescense - My Immortal

Stone Sour - Bother

Red Sovine was mentioned - If I hear ANY Red Sovine song, I want to down a cyanide pill.

Tyrease - How you gonna act like that

Garth Brooks - The dance

Audioslave - Like a stone

:1: on "Everybody Hurts", "It's been a while", and "Last Kiss" (Vedder sounds like he is actually going to start crying)

who the hell cares?

I can only think of one. This one makes everything else seem like bubblegum pop -- Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nail's Hurt. I can only listen to bits and pieces of that song its so depressing.

Garth Brooks - If Tomorrow Never Comes.

My mom and I were listening to the radio the day after my stepdad died (in his sleep) and that song just gets to me every time I hear it now.

J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers- Last Kiss

About the singer's girlfriend who dies in his arms after a car accident. I just listened to it and Im almost in tears.

J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers- Last Kiss

About the singer's girlfriend who dies in his arms after a car accident. I just listened to it and Im almost in tears.
I like Pearl Jam's version

EDIT: Audioslave - Like A Stone is another great choice

Patience by Guns 'N Roses.

depressing?
or just tear inducing?
nothing compares to you by sinead o'conner always brings a tear to my eyes, expecially when you see it's video.
something strangely powerful about the music, the tone and her voice.... and that hauntingly beautiful opening chord....
but that's not the same as depressing is it...?

bush: glycerine
bill whithers: ain't no sunshine
john lennon: imagine

a couple more but these are the obvious ones.

oh and how could i forget
the verve: the drugs don't work

Or how about Vermillion part 2 by Slipknot. I used to get drunk alone and cry when that song came on. I'm so sensitive.

I believe I mentioned that one. It is pretty sad.

the lyrics of 'HIM - Join me in Death' I guess.. :P not the song though IMO

Guns N Roses - Used to love her

That song reminds me of my ex g/f...

These verses just touch my heart...

I used to love her, mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, oo, yeah
But I had to kill her
I knew I'd miss her
So I had to keep her
She's buried right in my backyard
Oh yeah
Oo yeah
Whoa, oh yeah

I used to love her
But I had to kill her
I used to love her, mm, yeah
But I had to kill her
She bitched so much
She drove me nuts
And now I'm happier this way, yeah
Whoa, oh yeah

Im so not right...

Im so not right...

I have to agree. Funny though.

Pantera - 5 minutes alone.

Metal baby, metal.

^ ^ LoL. That's funny you should mention that song, Davo - I never paid much attention to the lyrics, but I've got the live version on 101 proof, and I always thought it was more-so "uplifting" :). I've listened to it on a couple occasions going to parties to get into a better mood.