Depressing music.

[Darwins_Folly]

Not really music, but it's always struck a nerve.

 

[Stormwaltz]

How can this thread exist without mentioning The Cure's "Disintegration?"

The whole album, but particularly the second side.

 

[Madaxeman101]

Coheed have a habit of making songs with depressing lyrics sound quite upbeat

I think the prime example would be Three Evils.

A lovely song about torture and suicide Gravemakers and Gunslingers is another good example.

 

[Liam Barrett]

I don't know what it is about this song in particular, but it always makes me feel a little melancholy...

 

[NightRavenGSA]

well I'd say Hurt by Johnny Cash, but that's been done.... well lets see...
Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
Suicide is Painless (forgot who sang it but the marilyn manson cover was horrid)
I'll Walk by Bucky Covington
Here Comes Goodbye and What Hurts the Most by Rascal Flatts
Big Yellow Taxi (take your pick of artist)

I think that's enough for now

 

[Evaheist666]

Anything by Iron & wine or Ray Lamontagne gets me.

 

[unicron44]

Coheed have a habit of making songs with depressing lyrics sound quite upbeat

I think the prime example would be Three Evils.

A lovely song about torture and suicide Gravemakers and Gunslingers is another good example.

"Baby be my lover, don't want to pull that trigger." Also I'm pretty sure it's the only Coheed song to say ************.

In Three Evils when he says pull the trigger/the nightmare stops, a robot is being tortured in the comics says the same thing.

 

[Crabid]

When I listen to Rebecca Black I want to die... I think that's about as depressing as music gets for me.


Also, black metal tends to be about battle, strength and the joys of living a life devoid of emotion, I wouldn't exactly call it depressing.


What about something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJF9yfuExCU

A nice song about losing a child and being too distraught to keep on living and giving up the chance of reaching Valhalla...

 

[Madaxeman101]

Coheed have a habit of making songs with depressing lyrics sound quite upbeat

I think the prime example would be Three Evils.

A lovely song about torture and suicide Gravemakers and Gunslingers is another good example.

"Baby be my lover, don't want to pull that trigger." Also I'm pretty sure it's the only Coheed song to say ************.

In Three Evils when he says pull the trigger/the nightmare stops, a robot is being tortured in the comics says the same thing.

Yea sizer gets captured tortured and chopped up in three evils

 

[Azumanga79]

Bright Eyes - its cool, we can still be friends

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMHcT-TqJw[/youtube]

Hmm, the video won't work, check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSMHcT-TqJw

 

[unicron44]

Coheed have a habit of making songs with depressing lyrics sound quite upbeat

I think the prime example would be Three Evils.

A lovely song about torture and suicide Gravemakers and Gunslingers is another good example.

"Baby be my lover, don't want to pull that trigger." Also I'm pretty sure it's the only Coheed song to say ************.

In Three Evils when he says pull the trigger/the nightmare stops, a robot is being tortured in the comics says the same thing.

Yea sizer gets captured tortured and chopped up in three evils

Then Claudio finds him in Godder Damm and fixes him up. He takes him to fight the Red Army and that's where I left off I'm a little behind on Amory Wars. I'm glad you know about this because every time I try to talk about it I always get questioning stares.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Pretty much any Modest Mouse song, well... except Float On.

Pretty much what I was gonna say. And all Modest Mouse is known for is Float On. I stopped listening to "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" because it depressed me too much. And that album has float on in it.

 

[natster43]

The theme for Dead Island. Here is the trailer.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

It's easy to find depressing stuff by Rise Against.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Let's face it, the whole game was depressing.

 

[Kenbo Slice]

This song is so bad it's depressing

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Here's a nice upbeat tune for you.

Not very sad or depressing, huh?

How about now?

 

[jaoblia]

Look up Starless by King Crimson, beautifully depressing song.

 

[IBlackKiteI]

Given To Fly - Pearl Jam

You find Given to Fly depressing? I always find that song really uplifting. There's someone out to do nothing but good and spread love, and even when he gets attacked for that, "Well fuckers, he still stands". Is there a particular reason why it has the opposite effect for you?

Mainly the lines "sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky, a human being that was given to fly" and "the love he recieves is the love that he didn't save," (I think that's what he says) and what is said during the chorus.
I'm not saying that your wrong, but from that my personal interperation of the song is it seems something like a person close to the man of the song dies and he feels he could have prevented it, and as he tries to spread good across the world as a sort of way to atone he's stabbed by someone and dies, hence the lines "spot in the sky" and "he's flying" possibly symbolising him dying and going to heaven, and now he can no longer directly make the world better because he's now just a 'human being Given To Fly'.
Basically a man does good deeds, is killed because of it, and is ultimately forgotten.

It's probably not the 'correct' interperation, but it's a great song regardless.

 

[TheJesus89]

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