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Ever since I was a teenager, I listened to music when I was feeling down. Remember my obsession with ABBA a few months ago?  Sometimes, I’m in the mood for some hard rock to lift me out of the doldrums, and sometimes I just look for the most depressing song possible in order to feel MORE miserable. Once you hit bottom, you can laugh, and start your way up the ladder again.
Do any of you have any really depressing songs that you just LOVE? Songs about broken hearts, suicides, and cars going off the edges of mountains?Â
For my money, this old song (Blue Magic’s Side Show (1974)) is one of the saddest love songs I’ve ever heard. It also makes me think about how we post about our lives on blogs for others to read — like a sideshow.  Read the downer lyrics! Â
Hurry, hurry, step right up
See the side show in town for only fifty cents
Step right up hurry, hurry, before the show begins, my friends
Stand in line, get your ticket, I hope you will attend
It’ll only cost you fifty cents to see
What life has done to those like you and me
See the man with the broken heart, you’ll see that he is sad, he hurts so bad (so bad, so bad)
See the girl who has lost the only love she ever had
There’s got to be no sadder show to see
No doubt about it, satisfaction’s guaranteed
So let the sideshow begin
Hurry, hurry, step right up on in
Can’t afford to pass it by
Guaranteed to make you cry
Let the sideshow begin (hurry, hurry)
Hurry, hurry, step right on in
Can’t afford to pass it by
Guaranteed to make you cry
See the man who’s been cryin’ for a million years, so many tears (so many tears)
See the girl who’s collected broken hearts for souvenirs
It’s more exciting than a one man band
The saddest little show in all the land
So let the side show begin (hurry, hurry)
Hurry, hurry, step right up on in
Can’t afford to pass it by
Guaranteed to make you cry
Let the sideshow begin
Hurry, hurry, step right on in
Can’t afford to pass it by
Guaranteed to make you cry
So let the sideshow begin (hurry, hurry)
Hurry, hurry, step right on in
Can’t afford to pass it by
Guaranteed to make you cry
Fortunately, after I listened to the song a few times, it made me laugh hysterically. Who the hell sits down and writes such a depressing song?!Â
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I remember that song!
I think Pink Floyd takes the cake for depressing, though. I wouldn’t even risk listening to it if I were feeling depressed already.
The Smiths “I Know It’s Over” is my Blue Magic’s Side Show.
Holy crap, I can’t believe how depressing it is!
You know, I never found Pink Floyd depressing. Maybe because I never could understand the lyrics, or people were always smoking pot around me. Which is a good depressing Pink Floyd song?
Thanks, pants. Good choice with The Smiths — but still not depressing enough to take the award.
I love I Know it’s Over by the Smiths. (The Name of the Game by Abba isn’t exactly cheerful is it?).
Ok, all of Nick Cave’s No More Shall We Part.
Gomez, We haven’t turned around
Don’t Speak by No Doubt
The River, Bruce Springsteen (I’m old school)
I love the song but it’s so sad, Famous Blue Raincoat — original version
ooooooooh… and Black by Pearl Jam.
Famous Blue Raincoat — too poetic to be really depressing. More sad in a wistful way.
Pearl Jam’s “Black” coming in a close second. That depressed me.
now i’m depressed too.
sigh.
Brooklyn Bridge – The Worst That Could Happen. I freaking love that song, and it’s so sad!
Sizzle, wait until we get up to “American Pie” and the “day the music died.” Then, you’ll really be depressed.
Bre — don’t know that one. Going to check it right now to see if it passes the “misery test.”
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles) is definitely my favorite depressing song.
I love Eleanor Rigby. Beatles songs are way too melodic to depress me.
Bre — Doo Wop doesn’t make me sad. And their shirts make me chuckle.
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Actually, that last song made me laugh a lot, totally ruining my miserable mood. Please, I’m asking for depressing songs only.
Bre, you must be a very happy person if that is a sad song for you! (or maybe I’m too cynical and think it is probably better that he didn’t marry that girl anyway)
As much as I love her, most songs by Sarah McLachlan are pretty depressing.
There are two songs that are the “Beaches” of the music world for me. Something about them twists my gut every time. They are: In A Lifetime by Clannad & Bono… and This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush.
OK, it didn’t take the HTML… How did you all get the videos in there??
Clannad & Bono
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2N8w_Cy9Qz0
Kate Bush
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hm901CXujEg
I listen to The Moody Blues whenever I’m feeling particularly melancholy. They never help much, but they do remind me of my dad, and I like that.
(Can I be “The Mermaid”?)
I have always loved “Side Show.”
My sophomore year of college, I made a mix tape for studying purposes. My roommates quickly started referring to it as the “depressing music mix.” Why? Because when you’re single, it can be thoroughly depressing to hear songs about people who are so in love.
Not all of them are happy in love songs though. Some of them are of the begging variety — “If You Want Me to Stay” by Sly and the Family Stone, “You Ought to Be with Me” by Al Green, “Moondance” by Van Morrison.
In high school the song that always got me was Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind.”
Oh, and The Smiths? Some of my happiest memories involve their songs.
Aimee — This is an interesting exercise for me because music is pretty personal. Your choices don’t work for me at all! Maybe I need to have male singers singing to feel the pain. Clannad is too Irish/New Agey/ethereral for my taste.
I really like Kate Bush, but — this is going to make me sound like a typical guy — but I find her really hot, so I think less about the sad song and what she looks like naked. Sorry.
Kerrianne — I once thought a cassette tape of the Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” was sending me secret messages.
“.. when red is gray, and yellow white, but we choose what is right….”
I think this might be a good choice for a sad song, but I’m having trouble figuring out if there is some hopefulness in the song, which undercuts the sadness. I mean he does say “I love you” a hundred times while the London Symphony Orchestra plays in the background.
One of my top depressing favs is You don’t Bring me Flowers – Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand. Painfully depressing! JP/deb
JanePoe — You Don’t Bring Me Flowers is a perfect example of a song that probably speaks more to a woman than a man. Believe me, if that was the song that touched me the most, I would never tell a soul!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cG7_jheC8A&feature=related
Irina — I changed my mind. Eleanor Rigby IS depressing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boc7rnhkLAk
ha ha Neil!
OK, this is cheesy but I think This Woman’s Work REALLY gets me because of the movie She’s Having A Baby… they play that song at the danger moment of almost losing the baby. And that movie came out when I didn’t even WANT a baby. At ALL. Must be something to all those female hormones after all.
I am gonna look through my iTunes tomorrow and see if I have any more for ya.
Your post reminded me of one of the worst job tasks I ever had, while working for a radio syndicator. They had me transcribing 100 songs from each of the formats they programmed. Actually, that was kind of fun — until I got to the Country songs, which were mostly about my wife has left me, my health is bad, I’ve lost my job and my home and I’m crying in my beer. By the end of that, I was super depressed.
“Will to Love” by Neil Young
What Was It Like by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Hurt by Johnny Cash
And the Counting Crows break my heart in a dozen different ways, but Speedway from This Desert Life album is the ultimate emotional trainwreck.
Aimee — Yes, but remember, I’m a man. I’m not going to be crying over songs about flowers or babies. It should be love lost, she “done him wrong,” she married another man, his momma is sick, his team lost the big game — you know stuff like that.
Donna — I don’t know too much about country music. Hey, Southern/Texan bloggers — surely there must be several really depressing country songs…
V-grrrl — I was never crazy about the Counting Crows. Sorry.
But, holy crap. I think you are winning now. I forgot about this Johnny Cash song. This one is going to be very very hard to beat on the depression meter! I think this even goes further than I want to go…
Even more depressing, in a bad way, is William Shatner singing Frank Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GAjK64VZg&feature=related
I know I’m pretty much writing to my own comments, but hey, I’m having fun. You HAVE to watch that William Shatner video. It is so funny that I forgot all about being depressed.
this one from amy grant always makes me sad. i couldn’t find a clip, but here is a link to the lyrics.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/amy+grant/cry+a+river_20007630.html
ok…country…
raining you by brad paisley
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/paisley-brad/rainin-you-16144.html
i never knew lonely by vince gill
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/gill-vince/i-never-knew-lonely-6170.html
when we were still in love by trisha yearwood
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/yearwood-trisha/when-we-were-still-in-love-9933.html
not sure how depressing these are to anyone else…i like them because they make me sad. which is depressing!
Albinoni’s Adagio in G often expresses things for me that my inner drama queen can’t find words for. The slower the better, and strings only. I once had a cello centric version that was almost 13 minutes long. Pathos with a capitol “P”
Satie’s Gymnepodie #4 is like musical valium for me when I’m stressed and anxious.
The Shatner is priceless.
Neil, my acupuncturist who is also my therapist (apparently) says that it’s best to absolutely wallow when you’re feeling down. I’m taking his advice. My wallowing songs are many but I always come back to these:
Verdi Cries, Natalie Merchant. I feel like I’m the man in 119, taking his tea alone.
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues Nina Simone… I haven’t got the strength to get up and take another shot…
Chelsea Hotel I need you, I don’t need you…
You can tell my mood by the songs at the top of my blog entries…
I’m pitchin’ my song here…confirming when feeling sorry for myself, hey, my own dog doo ain’t so deep –
1) The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia http://www.preterhuman.net/texts/lyrics_and_music_related/unsorted_lyrics/night_the_lights_went_out_in_georgia.txt
2 bonus points to be had for that fact it was performed by Vicki Lawrence and the fact that her husband wrote the song.
3rd bonus point for this performance of – http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=21918814
It’s a jazz song.
I listen to it in the tub.
Ummm… something about watching the man she loves get married….
Damn. I’m helpful.
suicide is painless – i think once you sit listening to that song without springing up to turn it off, you know you have the blues.
I remember “Side Show”!! Janis Ian’s “At 17” made me want to jump off of a bridge. It so captured my teenage angst.
Finally! I can contribute something!
Failure by the Swans
(http://www.lyricsdepot.com/swans/failure.html)
“Me and Bobby McGee” by Janis Joplin is the most depressing song for me – but there’s a personal reason for that. I can see how someone might find the song uplifting.
Puff the Magic Dragon.
“Miss Misery” by Elliott Smith. I never thought that song could get more depressing. Until he killed himself.
so you want me to vote for you as “best humor blog” while making me want to slash my wrists?
a weirdly depressing but brilliant (and overlooked) song is “oh candy” by cheap trick. you think it’s just another girlfriend song, but it’s about a friend killing himself. when robin zander sings candy worked so hard
at doing what he thought was right
it really really don’t mean a thing
it reminds me of my late father, who had his share of failure despite his best efforts. i get all teary every time.
and “oh candy” can be seen here.
this really was a great post, neil, now that i think about it.
I second Johnny Cash “Hurt” above but also give “Mad World” by Roland Orzabal a shot.
Stevie Wonder..All In Love Is Fair
Pink Floyd… Wish You Were Here
Patsy Kline…Crazy
Bonnie Raitt…I can’t Make You Love Me
I could go on..and on…and on….
Oh Yeah…Billie Holiday… Good Morning Heart Ache….
This is truly embarrassing, but I listen to teen pop “downer” ballads because they’re so unbelievably dumb and pouty that they invariably make me realize how silly I’m being, and pull me out of my bad mood.
I have a whole playlist that I tap into when I need to “wallow”.
And when I need a pick-up? Disco, babY!
one that always got me, were the Beatles; yesterday.
brian mcknight: one last cry.
there was a whole list of them 🙂
but i’m kinda happy now so its all hermans hermits and the duprees for me. sorry!
My only hard and fast rule during an episode is to step away from the Patsy Cline. That girl is gonna kill somebody one day.
Sleep while I Drive, Melissa Etheridge.
Jeez, SAJ — This is the first thing I read this morning. The Lyrics to Failure by the Swans. But I didn’t like the song too much… too monotone for me. And still not as evocative as Johnny Cash singing “Hurt.” I hope you’re not listening to this while you do your latest cheery art project with the happy animals!
I, I’ve been lonely
And I, I’ve been blind
And I,. I’ve learned nothing
So my hands are firmly tied
To the sinking leadweight
of failure
I’ve worked hard all my life
Money slips through my hands
My face in the mirror tells me
It’s no surprise that I’m
Pushing the stone up the hill
of failure
They tempt me with violence
They punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my
life that’s nothing but unreal
Except on the goddamned slaveship
of failure
I’ll drown here trying
to get up for some air
But each time I think I breathe
I’m laid on with a double share
of the punishing burden
of failure
I don’t deserve to be down here
But I’ll never leave
And I’ve learned one thing
You can’t escape the beast
In the null and void pit
of failure
When I get my hands on some money
I’ll kiss it’s green skin
And I’ll ask it’s dirty face
“Where the hell have you been?”
“I am the fuel that fires the engine
of failure.”
I’ll be old and broken down
I’ll forget who and where I am
I’ll be senile or forgotten
But I’ll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
on failure
I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn’t weep
But that certainly held in
The mechanical moans of a dying man
Who was a failure
My back hurts me when I bend
Because I carry a load
My brain hurts me like a knife-hole
Because I’ve yet to be shown
How to pull myself out from
The sucking quicksand
of failure
Some people live in hell
Many bastards succeed
But I. I’ve learned nothing
I can’t even elegantly bleed
Out the poison blood
of failure
Good morning!!
There’s a lot to be said for depressing songs – sometimes they enable you to voice a pain you haven’t begun to articulate yet, but sometimes they also make you feel like slicing your veins open. Now, would you – and your readers – care to give us a hand with the blog book we are working on by submitting something by Feb 29th please? Pretty please? And make it funny, to redress the balance…
Ariel, I forgot to mention this… let me put it in the sidebar! We do need some humor in the world.
I think Beck’s “Sea Change” (aka his break-up album) is really depressing. Here’s the lyrics to one song, “Guess I’m Doing Fine”
There’s a blue bird at my window
I can’t hear the songs he sings
All the jewels in heaven
They don’t look the same to me
I just wade the tides that turned
Till I learn to leave the past behind
It’s only lies that I’m living
It’s only tears that I’m crying
It’s only you that I’m losing
Guess I’m doing fine
All the battlements are empty
And the moon is laying low
Yellow roses in the graveyard
Got no time to watch them grow
Now I bade a friend farewell
I can do whatever pleases me
It’s only lies that I’m living
It’s only tears that I’m crying
It’s only you that I’m losing
Guess I’m doing fine
Press my face up to the window
To see how warm it is inside
See the things that I’ve been missing
Missing all this time
It’s only lies that I’m living
It’s only tears that I’m crying
It’s only you that I’m losing
Guess I’m doing fine
I like some of the other songs better but those lyrics seem fitting. The whole album is sad.
Soooo weird. I was just going to say that Beck’s Sea Changes album is the most depressing album of all time. I can only listen to it when I’m depressed, and it really came in handy when you just been dumped.
I’ve always loved “The Head and the Heart” by Chris DeBurgh. I can’t even get past the first line in that video, though. Wow.
180/360 — Wasn’t Beck’s first hit Loser?
“I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me.”
Fun guy.
Karl — I never heard that song before. I’m checking it out. Isn’t he the “Lady in Red” guy?
Thanks, Margalit!
It’s not sad, but very cute. I do that too.
(via Ze Frank)
Songs that make me cry every time–Ancient: Peggy Lee, “Is That All There Is?” Even when I was a little kid I became despondent. Neil Young: “Sugar Mountain” and “The Needle and the Damage Done.” Joni Mitchell, “The Circle Game”–I was in a store a while ago and had to leave because it was on their radio and I started blubbering. “I00 Years” and “Superman” by John Ondrasek, Five for Fighting. “Sunrise, Sunset.” But I have happy ones, too– “I’m Gonna Be/500 Miles” by The Proclaimers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tNylJr7Z4
And anything by They Might Be Giants makes me smile.
“Things” by Paul Westerberg kills me every single time. I can’t even think about it without getting weepy.
He wrote it about the end of his marriage. 🙁
Heather — Things by Paul Westerberg has too much of a “good beat,” like Dick Clark might have said, and it undercuts the weepiness for me. But good song. Just not the saddest.
My MOTHER called — you know, the one who was interviewed by the New Yorker. I thought she was worried about me. But, no. She just wanted to play along and offer her saddest song — the one that makes her cry!
You’ll Never Walk Alone from “Carousel”
I loved that song when I was a kid.
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy division is one of my favorite self-indulgent sad songs.
That is a great song, Churlita.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNMbuygEju8
Have you heard the Cure’s version? They are sadder, IMO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szua7uP6agY&feature=related
But no tears. I think Johnny Cash is going to be hard to beat.
i don’t recall ever crying over a lost love song, the two that always make me well up are claptons tears in heaven and the feed the world/do they know it’s christmas song.
i’m totally crushing this bleeding song (http://www.leona-lewis.net/lyrics/)right now, it makes me think of you and sophia when i hear it. why can’t love be enough?
Better Safe — Nice song —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ctIC65PV0
But I shouldn’t have watched the music video. I was laughing at all the cliches! If I substituted us for Leona Lewis and her dopey “boyfriend” in the video —
There’s Neilochka standing in the middle of Times Square with the traffic passing by.
There’s Sophia wearing a $500 jacket standing in an elevator for ten minuites.
See Neil packing up everything into a tiny shoulder bag.
See Sophia, with a lot of cleavage, looking out the window of a cab.
See Neil buying tickets to some Greyhound-type bus (yeah, right!)
See Sophia hugging a pillow in her glamorous apartment.
See Neilochka getting on that smelly bus.
See Sophia standing in the middle of Times Square.
See Neil returning to Times Square, but she is GONE.
To be fair, it’s actually Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails that wrote and first perfomed “Hurt.” So, he should get the credit. But, agreeably, it’s far more poignant with Johnny singing it.
“Cat’s in the Cradle” is cheesy, but that song always brings me down.
I think the lyrics to “Bohemian Rhapsody” are bum inducing.
And as a Deadhead, I have to throw in “Looks Like Rain.”
Bohemian Rhapsody? Yeah, I guess the lyrics are depressing, but no one ever cries to that — I hope.
Maybe a better choice is “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats, 1979.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POl4vFp-5os
Oddly, this is cheering me up.
Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” — “We went down to the courthouse/And the judge put it all to rest/No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle/No flowers, no wedding dress.”
Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” — “Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling/Tell me baby, where did I go wrong?”
Radiohead’s “No Surprises” — “I’ll take a quiet life/A handshake, some carbon monoxide.”
Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” — “It’s been too hard living, but I’m afraid to die.”
David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” — “Tell my wife I love her very much.”
Carly Simon’s “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be.” — “Their children hate them for the things they’re not/They hate themselves for what they are.”
Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” — You go back to her/And I go back to black.”
This is a good and sad one! I am making it #2 after Johnny Cash. Evanescence with My Immortal
Radiohead’s ‘How To Disappear Completely’
Or
Only You by Portishead
Neil. Cheater. You Googled the saddest songs. I went to the same site but I refused to pick any of those songs because I wanted to be original. Ahem.
Well, that was so cheery I will go right over to vote for you for Best Humor Blog. Where is Brenda when you need her?
I just remembered on that always gets me… but remember it also says personal things to me as well… but:
She Cried by Toad The Wet Sprocket
Solitaire, such a fateful game
She turns her cards and writes her name on the napkin
Mow she turns another card
She dreams about the house and romance
He promised but won’t deliver
She waits alone
With dried out hopes
And dormant phone
She waits for years
And fantasies melt
New ones appear
But they won’t help
And again she catches him
Eye pulls away with light too dim
She calls his name and runs around
But he was faster
All alone in a bad part of town
She waits again
With dried out hopes
And things made for him
A little ride, a little fun was all
He held her tight, got tired and then let go
The strain on her heart
She believed a lying blackheart
Painted with promises
Then he left her on the floor
With only the mirror to curse
“should’ve known better”
But how she cried…
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=157288872&id=157288690&s=143441
OK, sitting with my iTunes now. Clearly I have issues that I can’t let this go.
All Cried Out – Alison Moyet
Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Taillights Fade – Buffalo Tom
Hard To Say I’m Sorry – Chicago (yes, it’s in my iTunes, that’s depressing in itself)
Silent House – Crowded House (written for Paul Hester, the band member who killed himself)
Somebody – Depeche Mode
No Bravery – James Blunt (written about his time in military in Kosovo)
Where’ve You Been – Kathy Mattea (I cry like a baby every damn time)
A Bad Dream – Keane (also about war)
Nobody’s Child – Maria McKee
Broken Man – Paul Young
Jezebel – Sade
Gravity – Sara Bareilles
every Smiths song ever recorded
Children’s Crusade – Sting
Woman In Chains – Tears for Fears
Aimee, your iTunes is one depressing place.
Oh, and Heather. Sure I cheated. When you are down in the dumps, morality goes out the window!
One site chose Michael Jackson’s “Ben” as a truly depressing song because it is a love song to a rat.
I’m a sucker for a good sad song.
George Jones – He Stopped Loving Her Today
Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up
Billy Bragg & Wilco – At My Window Sad and Lonely
Joan Armatrading – The Weakness In Me
Lucero – It Get’s The Worst At Night
Richard Buckner – This Is Where
Oh My God, I have a sickness. I have to stop.
OK – the instrumental “Crush of Love” by Joe Satriani. I still get weepy just thinking about it. I was in an incredibly painful unrequited love type of relationship when I first heard the song (of course the guy gave it to me to listen to, but not for the obvious reasons – he was really oblivious). It just seemed to BE just what I was feeling at the time, no words needed.
Also “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” off Madonna’s first album. (It may be a cover.)
“You abandoned me
Love don’t live here anymore…”
Now for sheer depressing mood, but not necessarily related to love-life issues, try “Fly on the Windscreen” by Depeche Mode.
“Death is everywhere
There are flies on the windscreen
For a start
Reminding us
We could be torn apart
Tonight
Death is everywhere
There are lambs for the slaughter
Waiting to die
And I can sense
The hours slipping by
Tonight
Come here
Kiss me
Now
Come here
Kiss me
Now
Death is everywhere
The more I look
The more I see
The more I feel
A sense of urgency
Tonight
Come here
Touch me
Kiss me
Touch me
Now
Touch me
Touch me
There are flies on the windscreen
There are lambs for the slaughter
There are flies on the windscreen”
I can’t believe no one mentioned this song. It’s not my real go-to depressing song, it’s just the absolutely most depressing lyrics to the point that you just have to laugh.
And I gotta say, when it comes to a downer, V-grrrl’s pick, while good and depressing, is nothing compared to this version:
Someone mentioned Paul Westerberg, and i got to jonesin’ for some of that and the replacements. Watching those videos on you tube somehow brought this up as similar…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddIq7p-nAVQ&feature=related
My Girl from Chilliwack as performed by John Candy, Rick Moranis and Eugene Levy. If it was just the lyrics it would be a sad song.
Hey, why didn’t the embedding work? Trying again, with links:
I can’t believe no one mentioned this song. It’s not my real-life go-to depressing song, it’s just the absolutely most depressing lyrics to the point that you just have to laugh.
And I gotta say, when it comes to a downer, V-grrrl’s pick, while good and depressing, is nothing compared to this version.
DAMMIT. …this version!
Anyway, in recent years, I’ve used these as my real go-to songs a lot:
Elton John’s “I Want Love”
And Stars’ Your Ex-Lover is Dead
Over the long-term, I’d say Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” and especially “The Final Cut” as well as The Cure’s “Pictures of You” have been high on the list at different points.
HTML hates me today. So sorry!
I Want Love
Miss Syl — After seeing “My Girl” sung on SCTV, I’m not in a bad mood anymore. That was FANTASTIC!
What Did I Have That I Don’t Have? from On a Clear Day You Can see Forever
hey citizen of the month, thanks for your pimping of our blook….
I remember having a similar reaction while reading the lyrics to Jimi Hendrix’s “Castles Made of Sand”… especially the part where the crippled girl is moved to stand for the first time as a golden ship comes her way– and then it just passes her by! Such a depressing song.
Hey Neil come over to Humanyms for the 5th Blogversary tomorrow!
After last night, a horrible night, I had to come back here and check out all the music….
I can’t read all the previous comments right now, so I don’t know if this was mentioned. But I’ll just leave you with a song I love, but find so very sad:
“The Living Years – Mike & The Mechanics”
late as usual…the song your mom loves, is the one Jerry Lewis sings at the end of the telethon…now i’m totally depressed.
I forgot to mention “The Long and Winding Road.” When I was a kid I woke up to that one morning on my clock-radio, and as I walked to school I couldn’t get it out of my mind. When I got to school some people were waiting for me to tell me my best friend had died. That was 38 (!yes!) years ago, but if I hear it on the car radio I still have to pull over and cry. “Don’t leave me waiting here/Lead me to your door.”
Don’t mind! The music is sad, but wonderful. It is just an opinion. No matter what, you can laugh or you enjoy it! I’d rather prefer the second choice!
Blue Magic wonders many with this music…
Denis