Playlist of Depressing Music

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Perfect Day - Lou Reed

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Not sure how sad this song is... the heroin seems to make him pretty happy actually.

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I think its a pretty depressing song, regardless of the lyrics.


what kind of fool am I sung by Sammy Davis Jr. is realyl depressing.

[JackWhite]

Smashing Pumpkins-"Obscured" and "Soothe"

[JJSCOTT2]

I like the Pearl Jam version of "Last Kiss" and U2-One always does something for me.

[Spellmen]

Hurt by Cash is pretty depressing

[Bill Murphy]

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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 dunno about "best", but it's very likely the most underrated album by any major band.

The other major contender IMO would be Zooropa (note that Goat's Head Soup & Presence for example are no longer underrated).

It's not depressing, but I do find Zooropa quite wistful & melancholy. I'm aware I'm in the tiny minority who like the album.

Sally Simpson(movie version) & The Dirty Jobs by The Who are good, if uptempo, depressing songs IMO.

Speaking of uptempo-depressing, there's always Too Young To Fall In Love & When Will It Rain, if it's possible for that genre to be what OP is looking for.

Oooh, hope I'm the first to mention She's Leaving Home....

[Bill Murphy]

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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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[Bill Murphy]

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Simon & Garfunkel:
A Most Peculiar Man



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Make a nice back-to-back w/Biggie's Suicidal Thoughts.

[Lonhro]

Anything from Faith Hill's Cry album. Trust me. You'll either want to cry or kill yourself.

[wet work]

you might have to search a bit to find it but the song Rev. hicks Farewell is pretty damn depressinng. it was written by this missionary out west(pre civil war) somewhere while quite sick and thinking he was going to die. the song was to his wife. the version i'm most familiar with is sung by Doc Watson(i think) on the '61-'62 clarence ashley/doc watson folkways recordings. Great album altogether if you're into that kind of old time music.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

almost all of Sufjan - Greetings from Michigan