Most Depressing Song... Ever! vol. 1

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Heard Joy Division's 24 Hours on the radio today just as I was 'gettin ma heid the gither'.
Not a good start to a miserable day, thank Gawd it wasn't Monday!
Can anyone (dead)beat that?

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Torch, apparently.

Myself I'd go for Fleetwood Mac's "Over & Over" or Jacques Brel's "My Death".
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Chairman Bux wrote:Torch, apparently.

Myself I'd go for Fleetwood Mac's "Over & Over" or Jacques Brel's "My Death".
scott walker's version of "my death" is amazing :von:
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'amazing' is not depressing
24 Hours really made me feel like - What's The Point?

sorry, its a bad time for me
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i'd still try "my death" - or maybe not if you're already that way inclined :| :(
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Anything by S Club 7.
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CellThree wrote:Anything by S Club 7.
I was also thinking along those lines :notworthy:
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"Stolen and stealing" by Crime and The City Solution always makes me sad no matter how happy I am when I put the record on...
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chainsaw kittens- she's gone mad

grabs the heart and crushes it into a fine powder :(
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Can't remember the correct title but it's by Echo and the Bunnymen:

My Lifes the Disease...
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Something i can never have - NIN.

I cant listen to it without it getting the better of me and making me cry.

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Pink and Velvet by Berlin. Complete with Dave Gilmour guitar solo, so it also has the Floydian stamp of depression on it.

And Torch really is depressing.
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For purely personal reasons, I suppose, and a decidedly un-goff for the most part (thank fook) selection...

"Winter In July": by Bomb The Bass
"Listen": Tears For Fears
"The Eternal"/"Decades": Joy Division
"Poppies": Teardrop Explodes
"Doubts Even Here": New Order
Last two tracks off the Neph's Elyzium
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond"/"Wish You Were Here"/"Another Brick in the wall Pt 2": Pink Floyd

All of these guaranteed to get Lars moist-eyed and down at some point or other.

Oh, there are so many more, sentimental fool that I am...But these'll do in the 'Downer' stakes for now...

And, yeah, owt by bleedin' Pop Idol/Fame Academy 'stars' etc etc - just plain depressing. Which is much, MUCH worse... :evil:
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Lars Svensson wrote:"Listen": Tears For Fears
I'd forgotten about Listen, very moving.

I'd also like to add One of My Turns and Don't Leave Me Now by Pink Floyd.
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I agree with Lars' selection of 'The eternal'. Moves me every time.
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Red Sunsets wrote:'amazing' is not depressing
24 Hours really made me feel like - What's The Point?

sorry, its a bad time for me
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I'd steer well clear of Patsy Cline then, my friend. Mrs T loves it but that 'my man's run of with my best mate but I still love him' stuff depresses the hell out of me. And cheer up. We're still here.
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A couple that spring to mind are:

The Verve - History (In every kiss, you understand that living is for other men)

TSOM - Bury Me Deep - gets me every time
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Art Garfunkel - "Bright Eyes" (from Watership Down) :oops:
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Big Si wrote:Art Garfunkel - "Bright Eyes" (from Watership Down) :oops:
Ye Gods, the man's gotta point!! :notworthy:

This used to REALLY get to me when it first came out (and, ahem, now, as it happens...It doesn't actually take that much to get my lachrymal glands in full flow [oo-er] I've just learned self control...) My god how could I forget this one???? (seriously!)...

Depressing song for a depressing 'cartoon'....they don't mek 'em like thi used ter... ;D
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Big Si wrote:Art Garfunkel - "Bright Eyes" (from Watership Down) :oops:
Ya big softie!

just no one mention Bambi, awright!!!
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Bambi spent a quiet morning in my neighbors azaleas with his Father, a nice 6 point buck who just sat there.
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I said 'no one mention Bambi' <sobs uncontrollably>
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various bits of lyrics from The The's Soul Mining - esp. Uncertain Smile.
I wrote an A Level question answer about them...
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emilystrange wrote:various bits of lyrics from The The's Soul Mining - esp. Uncertain Smile.
I wrote an A Level question answer about them...
Always found all of that album strangely - ahem - uplifting meself, in an angsty angry sorta way...

Good call though E.S! An almost-forgotten gem, surely?!? :notworthy:
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