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[CurseoftheGods]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fxGhyn2wW8

Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like To Die

 

[TheVampire]

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR8XH3R95xE

 

[Tashi]

Elvis Presley - Don't Cry Daddy

I couldn't listen to the whole song just now. I could only post it. :'(

 

[JLG-]

The Antlers - Wake

The Antlers - Epilogue

Slowdive - Dagger

 

[MetalGuardian]

Fade to Black is my personal favorite in this category

 

[Chaser]

The entirety of this album:

For example:
Mistress (piano version)
Katy Song

 

[benzy]

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata

Elliot Smith - angeles

 

[Snuggles]

Damien Jurado
"Tonight I Will Retire"

I love sad songs

Nick Drake
"Place to Be"

Jeff Buckley
"Lover, you should have come over"

3 straight doses of heartbreak and sadness

 

[ULTROS!]

Garbage - Drive You Home

 

[Monocle]

Johnny Cash - Hurt

O+S - Lonely Ghosts

 

[Negaiido]

Secret Garden - Song from a secret garden(played by Alexander Rybak)

 

[LOZLINK]

Atmosphere-Last to say
my favourite at the moment.

 

[DrM]

Warning - Bridges

Too bad that they do not play anymore, but singer continues with 40 Watt Sun.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Sarah McLachlan - Angel

I remember a fatal car crash video with this song. It was soo sad.

 

[Blablurn]

simon and garfunkel - bookends

 

[Snuggles]

Only the coldest of motherfuckers could shake these off:

"Bird on your Grave" - Marissa Nadler

"Between the Bars" - Elliott Smith

"Bird on the Wire" - Leonard Cohen

"Far, far away" - Wilco

"Spiegel im Spiegel'' - Arvo Part

 

[Kholdstare]

Flat of the Blade - Massive Attack


Lonely Soul - UNKLE Such an awesome song.

 

[brianjones]

the smiths - asleep

edit: i cant believe this got associated with sucker punch.. fuck zack snyder

 

[valentine71]

Gnarls Barkley-Just a Thought

Uploaded by SilasDirect on Feb 19, 2010

A musicvideo for Gnarls Barkleys 'Just a Thought' and a shortfilm if you want. We have been working with storyline and the editing in a unpredictable way in order to surprise the viewer and in order to tell a interesting story. We were 18 when we did it, and it is a school projekt.

Great video for a great song!

 

[Uchip]

My Favourite Foods are dead

 

[Chaser]

I definitely agree with the Elliott Smith suggestions.
One of my favorites:

The Biggest Lie

 

[TheGuardian]

Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

Gary Jules - Mad World

 

[Mush]

What I'd like played at my funeral:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vblNj75hUpM

 

[K.Sabot]

The Microphones - Solar System
Real recently fell in love (wallowed in depression) with this album.

The Antlers - Epilogue

Slowdive - Dagger

Oh man, I'm gonna relapse.

 

[Blimblim]

I don't think this song can be beat, considering Clapton is singing to his dead son (fell off a balcony):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscPOozwYA8

 

[brianjones]

Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like To Die

sopranos

best show

 

[CurseoftheGods]

sopranos

best show

That's where I heard it!

 

[Mr.Fresh]

Haha mines is a little different from the ones posted in here so far but its Trey Songz - Unfortunate.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

So Many Tears

 

[polg]

"Stay" - Hurts

/wrist

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Let Down by Radiohead. Most of OK Computer is eligible, along with Fake Plastic Trees.

 

[Chesskid1]

Jimmy Eat World - 23

 

[Toothpick]

Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event

 

[Puddles]

LOL at nothing by The Cure so far. They have so many songs about lost love that are absolutely devastating.

The Cure - Pictures of You

The Cure - To Wish Impossible Things

The Cure - Apart

The Cure - Bloodflowers

These songs can annihilate you if you have an ex who you still have feelings for.

This is probably the best all time lost-love song:

Elliot Smith - Everything Reminds Me of Her

 

[davidthemute]

Beach House - "Heart of Chambers"
Yup.

 

[Discotheque]

Blur - Death of a Party

 

[abunai]

No Feiner? c'mon GAF.

Thomas Feiner & Anywhen - Dinah & the Beautiful Blue

 

[Edmond Dantès]

The End - The Doors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBFhdeR9PE

Gollum's Song - Emiliana Torrini

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biGP2BXVsYI

 

[Spokeys]

Ween - Alone (This song is the story of my life waaaah)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piOIIlpO0-Y&feature=related

And also Demon Sweat by Ween always gets to me even though I've never had the chance to relate to the subject matter of the song ;___;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5MYq8p91g

 

[Wanace]

simon and garfunkel - bookends

Hell yeah, you know how to get a brother right depressed, mother fucker!

 

[TOP SHOTTA]

Celine Dion - Think Twice

Sarah McLachlan - I Love You

Sarah McLachlan - When She Loved Me

...that I Love You song is a heart ripper. They all are. But those are the three songs that will get me with NO problem.

Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is another that gets me but the pure mastery of that song often overwhelms the sadness in me.

The girls singing usually make me quicker to tears/mist. Of all of them, Think Twice gets the lifetime break-me-apart award, but I Love You is probably the best song of the three (the Jeff Buckley song is in another league). Just very powerful for me and in the right/wrong state those are the songs that can take me down a peg for sure. Without exception, they of course evoke feelings and memories related to me leaving some girl, or, getting dumped that one time that was worse that like 20 breakups combined because the girl did just about everything horrible you can imagine and I loved her.

 

[elwes]

Pretty much the thread that I was looking for right now. I don't know if everybody will find these songs depressing, but they are depressing for me. Prepare for the oncoming deluge.

Radiohead - True Love Waits

The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely

Brandi Carlile - The Story

The Beatles - Yesterday

Stars - One More Night

The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside

Okkervil River - So Come Back, I'm Waiting

Okkervil River - Do What You Gotta Do (Cover)

Simon and Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Head Boy Part 2

My Chemical Romance - Disenchanted

Mew - She Came Home for Christmas

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Paul Westerberg - Nowhere Man (Cover) :'(

Flaw - Only the Strong (Acoustic) <----straight up old school nu-metal highschool depression song

Feist - Let it Die

Explosions in the Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day

Colin Hay - Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

CCR - Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Cover)

Ben Folds - Fred Jones Pt2

Lykke Li - Unrequited Love

Mumford and Sons - After the Storm

Harvey Danger - Little Round Mirrors

No Use For a Name - Let it Slide

 

[Siyou]

Harvey Danger - Little Round Mirrors

wow.. came to post this... beaten! *high five*

 

[DiscoJer]

New Order - Regret

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

Duran Duran - Ordinary World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv89s

Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n16hgOn1lVI

Though the silly video sort of lessens the impact...

Faith No More - Ashes to Ashes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6oKhMPemjY

(Probably their best song, IMHO, and the video looks like something out of Silent Hill, almost...)

And basically everything by Joy Division...

 

[DontTouchMe]

I think I got this song from a previous thread on here but either way it's still great/terrible.
The Wind-Up Bird - This

 

[RJT]

Atmosphere-Last to say
my favourite at the moment.

This.

Atmosphere's depressing songs are amazing. "Pour me Another" is one of my favourites:

She don't listen so he don't speak no more
Nobody's winning 'cause neither is keeping score
Don't wanna think no more, just let me drink some more
Pour me another, cause I can still see the floor

Brother Ali - Rain Water

Granddad was in the twilight of his life
When he closed his eyes tight and opened his wrists wide
What make a 10th round fighter with a winning score
Decide he need to throw a towel fore the whistle blow
Maybe I'll never know
But I inherited his poetic soul so symbolisms yet to show

Eminem - Rock Bottom

Minimum wage got my adrenaline caged
Full of venom and rage
Especially when I'm engaged
And my daughter's down to her last diaper
That's got my ass hyper
I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

 

[Coen]

And basically everything by Joy Division...

Yes
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

 

[sanji_blue]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqOSCgc8xc
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes

 

[ganbareneopokekun]

Coldworld - Escape


also make a change... kill yourself - chapter 2

 

[Satyamdas]

Lots of good ones, but I'm surprised to see no Cat's in the Cradle.

Good depressing songs can give me a feeling of melancholy, but this one just fucking wrecks me every time.