Most depressing song?

[TomWaits]

Tom Waits

well now Mr Waits, some of your songs fit this category rather well.

Tom Trauberts Blues
A Soldiers things
I'm still here
November
Good old world
I could go on

Touché!

Shawn.

 

[blacklight]

To me the most genuinely depressing material is played on the radio every day.

Well, I know this is not what was meant, so I'd say Double Dare by Bauhaus. I always get a funny feeling when I listen to this track. Just simply brilliant.

 

[spzzzzkt]

without a doubt "Victim" from The Golden Palomino's dead inside cd.
perhaps more disturbing rather than straight depressing - it's a harrowing listen.

 

[Pano]

But nothing is equal to: Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony N° 14, Op. 135

Maybe I'm just sick, but I don't find Shostakovich N° 14 sad.
Powerful, disturbing, frightening, yes. But not sad. Well, unless you think about it. Then it's sad - but not the music itself.

Speaking of Russians and the “Great Patriotic War” did you ever see the film by Elem Klimov “Come and See.” ? “Idi i Smotri” . Now that is frightening - and in the end very, very sad. Strange stuff.

 

[XEAGLEKEEPER]

The last song played before your CD player craps out......

 

[roddyama]

"The End" - The Doors
"The Needle and the Damage Done" - Niel Young
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

 

[federico moreno]

...when the cd player craps out...

"The End" - The Doors

Yes, it´s a very solemn farewell for a faint laser...

"The Needle and the Damage Done" - Niel Young

My shure v15 has fifteen years old and the stylus isn´t in very good shape, you know...


"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

High end amplifiers and 4 0hms speakers don´t work as well as advertised...

I wish to add ¨Smoke on the Water¨ -darling, don´t leave your glass of Perrier over the amp, please...-
¨Money for Nothing¨ -those crappy kevlar reinforced, diamond plated cables...-
¨Stairway to Heaven¨ -keep on disconnecting that **** mains earth to avoid ground loops...-

Happy new year for everybody!!

 

[roddyama]

Re: ...when the cd player craps out...

"The Needle and the Damage Done" - Niel Young

My shure v15 has fifteen years old and the stylus isn´t in very good shape, you know...

LOL, Not that needle.

 

[XEAGLEKEEPER]

"Its raining again" Supertramp
When the mega-buck Class "A" amp sets off the firesprinklers.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Re: Re: ...when the cd player craps out...

Federico,

With all the seriousness around here, your humour is just what the doctor ordered.

 

[Hornlover]

And Laurie Anderson on 'Bright Red/Tightrope', especially the songs 'World Without End' and 'Tightrope'. Some very depressing images on an otherwise excellent album. Keyboard licks by Brian Eno give the perfect dark tone to this album.

 

[rick57]

The version of Hearbreak Hotel sung by Nico, with Kevin Ayers, John Cale & Eno, the live album July 1 1974.
The Gothic horror version, as compared to Elvis' wipped cream original.

 

[dfdye]

I couldn't find it mentioned, but if I could understand the words, I am convinced Yellow Ledbetter would be the winner.

 

[broodwich]

Walkin' on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves can be pretty depressing.

 

[infinia]

"Yacht Rock" (the smooth rock genre from 1976-1983) really bums me out man.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqOg6F9lak

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2UzvYg-Q7A

 

[rick57]

Nobody's mentioned Nick Cave yet. I'd name some tracks, but I'm I'm too down to pick one.

And some mid-late 70s Neil Young

 

[infinia]

I couldn't find it mentioned, but if I could understand the words, I am convinced Yellow Ledbetter would be the winner.

An Oxymoron as god as any I know"The Winner of most depressing song"?
No winners only more losers... hehehe

 

[bremen nacht]

Walkin' on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves can be pretty depressing.

Too right - bland happy clappy music always depresses me a lot more than Nick Cave, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Slipknot and the other usual suspects...

 

[celt]

I always go for *the rope* whenever I hear Celine Dion or Mariah Carey squeal...yodel...er...sing!

 

[bremen nacht]

Just about any song that features the truck driver's gear change does it to me - you can usually spot it coming from quite a distance. Honourable exception is My Generation.

http://www.gearchange.org/