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I need some good depressing music because life sucks sometimes, and right now is one of those times. Here's what I've got so far.

Ben Folds Five - Brick
Blink-182 - Adam's Song
The Verve Pipe - Freshmen
Relient K - Be My Escape
Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending

Please help me to be depressed with your own additions.

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a few songs from my 'blue' playlist

ben folds - evaporated

deftones - teenager

beck - i get lonesome (or the entire sea change album)

NIN - something i can never have/hurt

jim croce - new yorks not my home

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Elliott Smith - entire catalog, but specifically "A Fond Farewell" , "Twilight" , "Somebody That I Used To Know" , "Rose Parade"

Jeff Buckley - "Lover, You Should've Come Over"

Chroma Key - "Even The Waves" , "Undertow" , "Another Permanent Address" , "Astronaut Down"

Damien Rice - "9 Crimes" , "Accidental Babies" , "Cannonball"

The Magnetic Fields - "Love is Like a Bottle of Gin" (best lyrics ever perhaps)

Marillion - "Afraid of Sunlight" , "Beyond You" , "Sugar Mice" , "Born To Run"

Modest Mouse - "Lives"

Pink Floyd - "Paranoid Eyes" , "The Gunner's Dream"

Porcupine Tree - "Shesmovedon" , "Feel So Low" , "Russia On Ice" , most of their catalog

Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees" , "True Love Waits" , "Let Down" , "No Surprises"

Tom Waits - "Georgia Lee" , "Pony"

that ought to get you started

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paranoid eyes is a great pick. im gonna listen to that right now.

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Thanks for the additions. Downloading now, keep em coming if you have more suggestions.

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paranoid eyes is a great pick. im gonna listen to that right now.

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I think that's their best album, so underrated IMO

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I can't stress Beck's Sea Change enough to suit this kind of mood.

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a few more:


frou frou - let go

ben folds - my philosophy

bob dylan - tangled up in blue

DMB - cry freedom

david bowie - lady stardust (highly recomended)

elton john - rocketman

meat loaf - heaven can wait/objects in the rearview

michael jackson - man in the mirror

soul coughing - janine

norah jones - cold, cold heart

paul simon - still crazy after all these years/50 ways to leave your lover

pink floyd - time

smashing pumpkins - landslide/1979

sufjan stevens - john wayne gacy jr (Highly recommended)

beatles - blackbird/hey jude/let it be

third eye blind - god of wine/jumper

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duncan sheik - barely breathing

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Eliot Smith- Needle in the Hay


Gary Jules- Mad World

Radiohead- Karma Police

Johny Cash/NIN- Hurt (Cash just crushes this song)

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I need some good depressing music because life sucks sometimes, and right now is one of those times. Here's what I've got so far.

Ben Folds Five - Brick
Blink-182 - Adam's Song
The Verve Pipe - Freshmen
Relient K - Be My Escape
Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending

Please help me to be depressed with your own additions.

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Life sucks, so you want to listen to music that makes you feel worse, and sorry for yourself? Go away...

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Life sucks, so you want to listen to music that makes you feel worse, and sorry for yourself? Go away...

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Tons of people do this. Obviously others are sharing, so I must not be alone in listening to depressing music when I'm down. Deal with it.

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Life sucks, so you want to listen to music that makes you feel worse, and sorry for yourself? Go away...

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Tons of people do this. Obviously others are sharing, so I must not be alone in listening to depressing music when I'm down. Deal with it.

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Whenever I'm down I just turn on the Boondock Saints theme song and it cheers me right up. I suggest you do the same.

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy - I See a Darkness (the title track in particular-- Johnny Cash's version is great too, and speaking of, how did nobody mention "Hurt" yet?)

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beck - i get lonesome (or the entire sea change album)

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Agreed. "Lonesome Tears" is my pick from that album, BTW.

My "depressing" playlist, still a work in progress, also includes

Leonard Cohen - "Last Year's Man"
Bob Dylan - "If You See Her, Say Hello"
and for some reason, The Smiths - "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" (I think this is more melodramatic than outright depressing, though, but it's great when I'm in that mood)
I think a lot of stuff on Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska would fit the bill, too.

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Grandma, Croce is very good for this kind of thing. A lot of his songs seem to have a sort of, I dunno, aural glow or something, WTF, of implied loss about them. They felt lived in, suffered through, come out the other side of but with some sense of maturely juggled ache and refusal to turn away and bury feeling.

I'll nominate his "I've got a name." Whether one spiritually has a name or not, you'd think, shouldn't even be a question, should it? But in the only world we've got, it is. Grabbing one's triumphs or even ability to steadfastly continue even while acknowledging one's losses, bewilderment, and pain, strikes notes of individual struggle, fear, understanding, and relief.

Croce's songs often seem to be at odds with themselves. Even his very well done but seemingly straight forward songs about love like Time in a Bottle both seem to declare tremendous love and imply that its accomplishment might be impossible.

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Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush -- Don't Give Up.

Peter Gabriel -- actually quite a few

John Lennon -- Working Class Hero

John Lennon in the Beatles -- Julia

Paul McCartney in the Beatles -- Long and Winding Road

Rolling Stones -- Paint it Black

Talking Heads -- Once in a Lifetime, Born Under Punches

X - When Our Love Passed Out on the Couch

Paul Simon -- too much to count

Mike Oldfield -- Tubular Bells

Cat Stevens -- too many to mention; Miles from Nowhere, I'll make an exception for

Denise Williams - Let's Hear it for the Boy; very upbeat, but so unusual in being an upbeat song, especially for the time, by a woman about a man, that that thought in itself is jarring and a bummer

David Byrne -- Through the Cracks

David Byrne and Brian Eno -- Listening Wind; both depressing and uplifting at the same time

Otis Redding -- Sitting by the Dock of the Bay

Gang of Four -- I Love a Man in Uniform, and much else

Marvin Gaye -- a few greats

Interestingly, some very depressing songs are also perversely very energizing. It's simply the acknowledgement of their themes and their possible validity that seems depressing. But their honesty can be incredibly liberating and can make them feel like a huge blast of oxygen.

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Silverchair- Suicidal Dreams

Pearl Jam- Thumbing my Way

Beck- the entire Sea Change album, especially "Lonesome tears"

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I remember Sea Change being extremely depressing. I should get the album.

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I Will Follow You Into the Dark--Death Cab for Cutie

Somewhere Over The Rainbow--Israel Kamakawiwo's version

Don't Give Up--Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush

Eleanor Rigby--Beatles

Yesterday--Beatles

Major Tom--David Bowie

What's The Matter Here--10,000 Maniacs

I Love My Mom--The Roches

Hallelujah--k.d. lang's version

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I remember Sea Change being extremely depressing. I should get the album.

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The reason I love Sea Change so much is because while at first it is very melancholy and introspective, by the end it is an album about new beginnings, growth and moving on. It is a very complete album and as a whole I would go as far as to define it as inspiring.

Everything you said about Croce is spot on.

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Alice In Chains -- Down In A Hole

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Ashokan Farewell

I'm not sure who the ideal artist would be. Presumably, it would be Jay Ungar.

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the Cure. pretty much anything

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Counting Crows - Black and Blue, Holiday in Spain, Colorblind, Raining in Baltimore

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Thanks for the additions. Downloading now, keep em coming if you have more suggestions.

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I can't stress Beck's Sea Change enough to suit this kind of mood.

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It really is so good. I will join you in not being able to stress it enough.

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the Cure. pretty much anything

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Well, not ANYTHING, but an awful lot prior to Mr. Smith's being prescribed antidepressant medication.

Seriously--Faith, Seventeen Seconds, and Pornography are three gigantically great albums for this thread. There isn't a single track on any of the three that shouldn't be on this playlist.

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Off the top of my head:

The Pogues--A Pair of Brown Eyes

Tom Waits--The House Where Nobody Lives

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds--Are You The One (I've Been Waiting For)?

Lucinda Williams--Ventura

Nancy Griffin--Useless Desires

These are good selections.

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There can be only one correct answer to this question.
Glommy Sunday

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Tom Waits:
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Hold On
Invitation To The Blues
Looks Like I'm Up [censored] Creek Again
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me

Bob Dylan:
Idiot Wind
Positively 4th Street
Most Of The Time

Bruce Springsteen:
Used Cars
Nebraska
The River
Wreck On The Highway

Bright Eyes:
If Winter Ends
Padric My Prince
Lua

Boomtown Rats:
I Don't Like Mondays

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Joni Mitchell - Last Time I Saw Richard

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Simon & Garfunkel:
I am a Rock (It's a song that sounds upbeat but the lyrics aren't.)
A Most Peculiar Man

Maria McKee
Basically anything of her solo work.

I used to listen to more, but I stopped some years ago so it's hard for me to remember.

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Thanks for the additions. Downloading now, keep em coming if you have more suggestions.

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I can't stress Beck's Sea Change enough to suit this kind of mood.

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It really is so good. I will join you in not being able to stress it enough.

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the whole album is epic and imho easily his best work.

the song "lost cause" is an all time great for any genre.

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anything by Bright Eyes

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REM - Automatic for the People - whole album

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Relient K - Be My Escape

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Woah, somebody else who likes this song. Good choice.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZBOY6Mczk

komm susser todd (translation: come sweet death)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RDW_...ed&search=
ooh child by the stairsteps (this one can be really happy or really sad, whichever you want basically)

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ryan adams - come pick me up

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Ben Harper is pretty depressing

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Listen to Elliott Smith

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The Postal Service - Nothing Better