What are the most depressing songs you have heard? For me it's Wake Up by Coheed and Cambria.
Depressing as in the lyrics are really sad or depressing as in this song makes you want to kill yourself?
Either way, "The Boys of Summer" done by pretty much anyone who has covered it.
Pain of Salvation - Vocari Dei
Agalloch - A Desolation Song
Porcupine Tree - The Start of Something Beautiful
Agalloch - "A Desolation Song" and "In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion"
Nevermore - "The Lotus Eaters"
Pantheist - "Don't Mourn"
Burzum - "Behold The Daughters Of The Firmament'"
Elysian Blaze - "Macabre Be Thy Blood"
Anathema - All of the Judgement album
Stabat Mater - "Above Him"
Antimatter - "Flowers" (acoustic version)
Evergrey - "Recreation Day"
You know what? Just about everything I listen to is pretty depressing stuff. Just take whatever ambient black metal, funeral doom, or whatever it is I listen to and just fill in the blanks. Anathema wins though.
Any of the Smashing pumpkins songs that arent quick and agressive. They remind me of badtimes in the past.
Which sucks, because i love them.:/
I agree with all of Shin-Ra's post (except the 1 band that I have never heard of) and would like to add Sadness and Hate by Wintersun.
Which band?
I had never heard of Stabat Mater. I'm relatively new to the metal scene having only really started caring about music a year ago, so this might be why.
It's cool, we all have to start somewhere. It's impressive that you've already found the artists I listed above in such a short time.
It's on the Crushing the Holy Trinity 3 cd, 6 way split with Deathspell Omega and other bands. Stabat Mater is Mikko's (of DsO, Clandestine Blaze, etc) funeral doom project. I'll post a link in the upload blog of a copy.
Lightning Crashes - LIVE
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
Last Kiss (Spanish) - Alci Acosta
"Lightning Crashes" is a song I'm pretty sure most of you have heard of. Someone dies and then someone lives because of it.
"Last Kiss" is a good one, too. The inspiration and making of the song came from a man in the 60s witnessing three teenage couples die in a car accident. The song doesn't talk about the three couples, but one couple where the woman dies. Pearl Jam did a cover. The Spanish version seemed so much more sad to me, so I like that one as well.
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The Last Scene - It's bittersweet instrumental.
I've written 3 poems to it.
In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion - Agalloch
Regret - Malice Mizer
Everyone Leaves - Mortiis
Oh man, Viimeiseen - Through Bloom-Blades by Tenhi. Like Vampiro said.
Katatonia - "In The White"
Cult of Luna - "Leave Me Here"
OSI - "Home Was Good"
Yasunori Mitsuda - "June Mermaid"
"Black" by Pearl Jam!
I love this song, but it's pretty sad.
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Anything by FallOut Boy... it's depressing that there can be so much suck in one band.
But really:
"A Different Kind of Pain" by Cold.
"Losing My Religion" by R.E.M./Graveworm (both versions)
"The Road to Devastation" by Kataklysm
There's other, better songs... but I can't remember them for some odd reason.
The cover of NIN "Hurt" by Jonny Cash. Hands down, most depressing song ever.
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Yeah, even the regular one was depressing, but that one is like...wow.
Nothing so far beats the Tenhi track I posted. But the Jonny Cash one comes fairly close.
The A Perfect Circle cover of "Imagine" is absolutely awful (and was my class song), and completely depressing. The original was perfectly fine.
A depressing song I like is "Ohne Dich" by Rammstein. It's sad, but sometimes I can identify.
A country song called "I'm Taken". I hate it with a passion.
Tim McGraw - Don't Take the Girl
This song has made me cry every time I've heard it since the very first time I heard it in 1995. It's so sad. I love it though.
Lips of an Angel by Hinder. It's because it reminds me of what I don't have and desperatly wish I did.
fantomas - twin peaks: fire walk with me
m83 - safe
johnny cash - hurt [NIN cover]
jane's addiction - three days
lovage - anger management
mew - eight flew over one was destroyed
muse - sing for absolution
portugal. the man - aka m80 the wolf
tomahawk - captian midnight
fin
I'd have to agree with Shin-Ra. Anathema is the most depressing band I know of. Beautiful, too. "One Last Goodbye" is such a great song.
I'll just name off as many as I can think of.
"Time to Break Up" by Blink-182.
"Daffodil Lament" by The Cranberries. It gets happy towards the end, but the start has a sad feeling to it.
"We Must Bury You" by Katatonia.
"Through Her Eyes" by Dream Theater.
"Timelessness" by Fear Factory.
"Cancer" by Filter. THE SAD TRUTH!
"Nausicaä · Requiem" by Joe Hisaishi. It just reminds me of the sadness of the film it was composed for (Valley of the Wind) and it has a very sad sound about it, too.
"Waste" by Staind.
"Cold Metal" by Ambeon.
"Realm of Darkness" by Darkwell.
"Exit New Year" by Julian Fane.
"Byttingen" by Lumsk. Probably my favorite Lumsk song.
"Car Chase Terror" by M83.
"Catherine Blake" and "My Wine in Silence" by My Dying Bride.
"Insignificant" by Nevermore.
"Kim" by Eminem.
"Heartattack In A Layby" and "Collapse The Light Into Earth" by Porcupine Tree.
"Untitled 1" and "Viðrar vel til loftárása" by Sigur Ros. The music videos really bring out the sadness.
"Don't Let Me Die Still Wondering" by Flogging Molly.
"Trauma" by Ayreon.
Theme from Armageddon. lol
Rascal Flatts - What Hurts the Most
I think it's because I can associate this song with a book I recently read that made me shed a few tears.
Face of Melinda by Opeth
Shelf In The Room by Days of the New
Ataris = massive phail for that, seriously. It's one of my favorite songs. :(
Christina Aguilera - Hurt
It doesn't really apply to me in a depressing way, but it makes my mom's friend Lisa sad, because it reminds her of her mother who recently passed away.
Is that a cover of the same Nine Inch Nails song? I don't know if it's not, because I don't listen to stuff like that.
I dunno if it is or not. I don't know many Nine Inch Nails songs.
Never mind, I'll look it up. It's probably something else.
EDIT: Nope, not the same, but I wasn't really expecting her to do such a cool song, anyway.