Playlist of Depressing Music

[MuresanForMVP]

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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...

[401k]

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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.

[MuresanForMVP]

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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.

[AceCR9]

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

[GrandmaStabone]

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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.