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For me it is sign of the times by harry styles.
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In your opinion what is the most depressing song you've listened to?
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Pacerfan142
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As in christmas songs being played in mid november?The first Christmas song of the year.
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"She's Leaving Home" by the Beatles actually makes me cry. Which is odd, as I've never experienced a family breakup or anything like that for it to be touching a raw nerve.
While just about everything by Radiohead can be a bit depressing, that's the only song I can think of that does that.
While just about everything by Radiohead can be a bit depressing, that's the only song I can think of that does that.
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Love Will Tear Us Apart. Not the original Joy Division version, which is a stunning memorial to love and loss, but Paul Young’s version which tries to be upbeat.
Yeah. Earlier than that sometimes.
I don’t mind them at Christmas though.
I’ll try and do this properly. Possibly Polly by Nirvana?
The tune Austria in any Version except the version that was produced by the Sex Pistols
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To put this in a short sentance the song is about a 14 year old girl who was wrapped (cant say the actual word) and tortured by a man called Gerald Friend who abducted her on her way home from a concert.
I upset someone on Twitter once when I said that Morrisey was the most depressing thing I'd ever heard.
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Which song by Morrisey though?
Most of those that I've heard!
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Maybe the person as much as the songs!
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What about the 1964 song “Terry” by Twinkle, about a boyfriend who was killed in a motorcycle accident!
Apparently, it reached number 4 in the charts.
Apparently, it reached number 4 in the charts.
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Road deaths appeared in a number of songs: Deadman’s Curve, Leader of the Pack and Tell Laura I Love Her for a start.
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To be serious, 'The Death of Emmott Till' by Bob Dylan has to be up there in view of its true content, though racists will disagree.
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I agree.
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I disagree, it's a very haunting tune, brilliantly performed.
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Two I can think of off the top of my head:
Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell (used as the primary leitmotif for the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream) & The Piano Echoes by UNKLE.
Another example based off of a real-life event is Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, commemorating the sinking of the eponymous Great Lakes bulk carrier in Lake Superior in the midst of a fierce storm in November 1975.
Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell (used as the primary leitmotif for the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream) & The Piano Echoes by UNKLE.
Most certainly. Tragic and sickening in equal measure.
Another example based off of a real-life event is Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, commemorating the sinking of the eponymous Great Lakes bulk carrier in Lake Superior in the midst of a fierce storm in November 1975.
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It certainly won't make you get up and dance, but I wouldn't say it was depressing. It was written as an anti-suicide song in response to the rise of grunge, and the rousing strings at the end seem hopeful, to me at least.
As per the question, I have two answers. First where the song itself is depressing because of the subject matter I have to go for the Manic Street Preachers with 4st 7lbs. Second is a song that is depressing in the sense that simply hearing it saps all my will to live because it's so bad: Wham's Club Tropicana.
Talk About The Passion by REM is also a bit heavy; especially if you watch the video. Good song though. Sad and even outright miserable songs can still be good and some have actually had a positive or comforting effect on me when I've not been feeling good myself.
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I would say anything by Leonard Cohen really....although he was an incredibly fine singer and songwriter in his own way.
However, probably THE most depressing song that I have ever heard is the dreadful dirge that is our current national anthem.
The National Anthem depends on the arrangement. The wobbly-stringed one that most gets used and the BBC and some ITV stations used at closedown back in the day, certainly is a dirge. I also hate those over the top live ones, usually with some wobbly-voiced woman, that gets sung at certain sporting occasions before the main event.
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