What is the most depressing song in rock history?

[madviking]

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Came here to post this.

 

[Kyriakos]

Running up the walls is quite miserable as well.

 

[Dachs]

Life in the Fast Lane is even worse in a personal context.

I used to never pay attention to the lyrics to that song, just memorized them and never thought about anything but the fast pace of the music, and then I wrote them down idly when I was taking notes in class and I was like holy crap this song is sad

 

[ComradeDavo]

The Burning Red by Machine Head.

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

 

[sophie]

I used to never pay attention to the lyrics to that song, just memorized them and never thought about anything but the fast pace of the music, and then I wrote them down idly when I was taking notes in class and I was like holy crap this song is sad

Dude, so many Eagles songs are like this.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Wow, half the stuff posted here are borderline happy songs. It also worth noting that teen-angsty songs are not depressive.

Kudos to those who posted: Johnny Cash's Hurt, Joy Division's Decades and Alice in Chains' Down in a Hole.

Some other song

Forever alone:

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A suicidal druggie's requiem

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The story of 2 childhood friends (one american and one american-born japanese) during WW2:

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They wanted to fight against the bad guys so they joined the army. Pearl Harbour happened so the american was sent to the Pacific and the jap to reeducation camp. The american dies on the islands; when the war ends the jap is freed from jail and is greeted by a racist society and eventually takes his own life. They meet up in the afterlife.

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[Communisto]

Good call on Solitude!!

 

[Yui108]

Hurt is pretty good, but I Hung My Head, also by Cash, has to take the cake.


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[Shadowbound]

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This song makes me think of drug addiction, and that makes me depressed. Also the music is kinda fruity.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I cant believe you didn't add these two

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I find riders on the storm more depressing

 

[madviking]

The End as depressing? Bull. It's about Morrison's trips/Oedipus complex.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

The End as depressing? Bull. It's about Morrison's trips/Oedipus complex.

This. And Riders of the Storm has been so overused in pop culture with remixes and "covers", that the only depressing thing about it is how much the original has been mocked.

 

[sophie]

Yesyesyesyesyes

 

[lordsurya08]

In an interview with USA Today in 2006, Tom Petty calls his own Room at the Top "one of the most depressing songs in rock history," adding that "If anything will make you want to kill yourself..."

So discuss this: What is the most depressing song in rock history?

Im gonna stay out of this thread or I'll get depressed myself. So don't get after me for quoting T.P. cause I won't be around to answer

I'm looking at Room of the Top lyrics and it doesn't seem to depressing at all. Seems more like a happy song. I guess I should just listen to it (if only I had my headphones )

 

[Quackers]

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[Love]

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[Huayna Capac357]

Two more songs by the writer of "Hurt."


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[Leifmk]

Hurt is pretty good, but I Hung My Head, also by Cash, has to take the cake.

Both of which are cover songs (originals by Nine Inch Nails and Sting, respectively), but the man in black pretty much made them both his own.

Speaking of black-dressed men, here's some Nick Cave for you:


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[classical_hero]

We could almost post the whole Nirvana catalogue here.

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[Atticus]

I don't find most Nirvana songs depressing per se. I kind of do find depressing how bland the other albums were compared to Nevermind, and the gloomy attitude that looks every year more and more freely chosen. But that choice of song is pretty spot on anyhow.

Here's another The Smiths song, actually it's right after I know it's over on their album Queen is dead, and it was really hard to choose which one of them is more depressing:

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This is Joose Keskitalo, I was going to listen his album some time ago, but had to stop on this track, because it was so depressing. Not understanding the lyrics won't probably hinder you from being depressed by it. I found only live version on youtube.

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