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Thanks. I will check these out for my playlist tomorrow night.
This is from 2006, but I don't think we've attacked it.
From the Tom Reynolds book 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard'.
The Nirvana song 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die' was used as the inspiration of the le. It is a reference and is not part of the list.
The list:
1. 'The Christmas Song' - Newsong
2. 'The Shortest Story' - Harry Chapin
3. 'Honey' - Bobby Goldsboro
4. 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' - Bonnie Tyler
5. 'Seasons in the Sun' - Terry Jacks
6. 'DOA' - Bloodrock
7. 'Strange Fruit' - Billie Holiday
8. 'Hurt' - Nine Inch Nails
9. ' Sister Morphine' - Marianne Faithfull
10. 'People Who Died' - The Jim Carroll Band
11. 'One' - Metallica
12. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition 13. 'Brick' - Ben Folds Five
14. 'Comfortably Numb' - Pink Floyd
15. 'Maggie's Dream' - Don Williams
16. 'The Rose' - Bette Midler
17. 'The Freshmen' - The Verve Pipe
18. 'Prayers for Rain' - The Cure
19. 'Women's Prison' - Loretta Lynn
20. 'All By Myself' - Celine Dion
21. 'Tell Laura I Love Her' - Ray Peterson
22. 'The River' - Bruce Springsteen
23. 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond
24. 'My Immortal' - Evanescence
25. 'Sam Stone' - John Prine
26. 'In The Air Tonight' - Phil Collins
27. 'MacArthur Park' - Richard Harris
28. 'Round Here' - Counting Crows
29. 'I Will Always Love You' - Whitney Houston
30. 'The End' - The Doors
31. 'Last Kiss' - J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers
32. 'Mandy' - Barry Manilow
33. 'Don't Cry Out Loud' - Melissa Manchester
34. 'Goodbye to Love' - The Carpenters
35. 'Beth' - Kiss
36. 'At Seventeen' - Janis Ian
37. 'Let Her Cry' - Hootie & the Blowfish
38. 'Alone Again (Naturally)' - Gilbert O'Sullivan
39. 'It Must Be Him' - Vicki Carr
40. 'Without You' - Mariah Carey
41. 'Send in the Clowns' - Judy Collins
42. 'In the Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)' - Zager & Evans
43. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' - Gordon Lightfoot
44. 'Sylvia's Mother' - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
45. 'Indiana Wants Me' - R. Dean Taylor
46. 'Captain Jack' - Billy Joel
47. 'Lucky Man' - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
48. 'Landslide' - The Smashing Pumpkins
49. 'Teen Angel' - Mark Dinning
50. 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - Joy Division
51. 'Artificial Flowers' - Bobby Darin
52. 'Same Old Lang Syne' - Dan Fogelberg
Thanks. I will check these out for my playlist tomorrow night.
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2 covers on there.
You taking guesses? I say Celine Dion and Whitney Houston?!
good eye. that makes 3 then.
Also Smashing Pumpkins
, Closer should take up the first nine spots on that list. Ian Curtis did kill himself after cutting those tracks. At least "Love Will Tear Us Apart" had a good beat and you could dance to it.50. 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - Joy Division
shoulda been 4 covers because Johnny Cash's version curbstomps the original.
Where is "Join me (in death)" by Him?
Agreed. Reznor is never going to engender anything close to pathos.
I was thinking the same thing. And the video may be the most depressing 5 minutes ever recorded on tape.
When I was younger every time I heard a Vanilla Ice song I wanted to kill myself
Adam's song - blink 182
This list is bull . There is no Smiths/Morrissey on there. no list of doom and gloom is complete without the Moz.
Mad world - the version that played on Donnie Darko
agreed - another reason this list is bull .
Where the is "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum?
Another would be "My Friends" by The Red Hot Chile Peppers.
Any list without Mmbop is Dq'd
ok, not sure the song le, but Pearl Jam did a cover of this song "Oh where oh where can my baby be.......the Lord took her away from me....."
friggin horrible song (with a good 50s beat) that got a ton of airtime.
then what about that song that goes "when you comin home dad?" "I don't know when, but we'll get together then....."
yeesh. I can't stand that deadbeat dad song.
and then there's a depressing song about getting old that I barely recall because our elementary school teacher made us sing it in a performance:
"...and the seasons, they go round and round......yada yada......something about kids get old before you know it and this should make you feel old"
same with that stinking Butterfly Kisses song.
then there's this country song:
Sister's using rouge and clear complection soap.
Brother's wearin beads and he smokes alot of dope.
Mama is depressed barely makes a sound.
Daddy's got a girlfriend in another town.
Bob Dylan sings like a Rolling Stone.
Time marches on, time marches on.
Sister calls herself a sexy grandma.
Brother's on a diet for high cholesterol.
Mama's out of touch with reality.
Daddy's in the ground beneath the maple tree.
As the Angles sing an old Hank Williams song.
Time marches on, time marches on. Time marches on, time
marches on. Time marches on. Time marches on."
now I need a beer.
"total eclipse of the heart" hasn't been depressing since Old School came out, and also
crossroads from bone thugs and harmony always depresses the out of me
You gotta have Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey on there...
She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night
Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down its stall
In a blizzard he was lost
She ran calling Wildfire [x3]
By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
There's been a hoot-owl howling by my window now
For six nights in a row
She's coming for me, I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go
We'll be riding Wildfire [x3]
On Wildfire we're gonna ride
Gonna leave sodbustin' behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Riding Wildfire
Luckily, I haven't had the displeasure of hearing most of those. "Dance with the Devil" by Immortal Technique is pretty depressing.
That list covers a pretty broad time frame. I think a couple of glaring ommissions are "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman, and "Luka" by Suzanne Vega. Also there is a song Tim McGraw sings that is a letter from a soldier in Iraq delivered to his family after his death. Not sure of the name, maybe "If You're Reading This"?? Very depressing.
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