Topic: damn... the saddest songs (Read 8275 times)

gary_duncan · « **on:** 17 Aug 2007, 19:51 »

what songs do you listen to when you want to be depressed?? I am going to start it off with a couple of classics "bang bang" - Nancy Sinatra and Nick Cave's "people a'int no good'

Ben yayayayayayayay · « **Reply #1 on:** 17 Aug 2007, 21:03 »

I don't want to be depressed

sean~ · « **Reply #2 on:** 17 Aug 2007, 21:54 »

The Beach Boys.

Those happy tunes just get my eyes-a-flowin'.

Ernest · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 08:16 »

I think we should hunt and kill everyone who starts a thread for the next week.

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 11:03 »

It isn't too great to want to be depressed. But to indulge, try listening to some Joy Division.
I think I posted in the other sad song thread too. Check that out. I probably still agree with myself.

Thrillho · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 12:17 »

I wouldn't pick 'People Ain't No Good.' Heck I wouldn't even pick that song from that album, I'd take 'Into My Arms' or better yet 'Far From Me,' because that's my favourite song of his.

mfpole · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 15:50 »

I say the Pokerap. Its depressing because you know you never will actually catch 'em all.

Thrillho · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 17:03 »

Did you just reference SM:TV live? Because if you did, you have my eternal love.

Pikachu, Pikachu, Piggidy-Piggidy-Pikachu!

Johnny C · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 17:47 »

KvP · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 18:15 »

Not sure how I feel about the new Okkervil River album. That one was good, though.

mfpole · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 19:12 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 18 Aug 2007, 17:03

Did you just reference SM:TV live? Because if you did, you have my eternal love.

Umm... no.
It is very sad though when you never can catch some pokemon or evolve some because of lack of link cable/friend.

Kai · « **Reply #11 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 21:54 »

Ishotdanieljohnston · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 22:13 »

Quote from: Kai on 18 Aug 2007, 21:54

Hell yeah.

Ernest · « **Reply #13 on:** 18 Aug 2007, 22:22 »

Guys,

Thrillho · « **Reply #14 on:** 19 Aug 2007, 06:55 »

Quote from: mfpole on 18 Aug 2007, 19:12

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 18 Aug 2007, 17:03
Did you just reference SM:TV live? Because if you did, you have my eternal love.

Umm... no.
It is very sad though when you never can catch some pokemon or evolve some because of lack of link cable/friend.

Then what 'pokerap' were you referring to?

Johnny C · « **Reply #15 on:** 19 Aug 2007, 08:39 »

This one.

Anna Banana · « **Reply #16 on:** 19 Aug 2007, 09:20 »

Garbage-Bleed Like Me

Tehz · « **Reply #17 on:** 19 Aug 2007, 09:34 »

The album Druqks - Aphex Twin works really well for me.

Lots of it is just really mellow piano music (a bit of a departure from his normal material, but it's still good, so I don't care) that really helps me think in times of depression. Just listen to the tracks Avril 14th or Nanou 2 and you'll see what I mean.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 Aug 2007, 09:36 »

Quote from: mfpole on 18 Aug 2007, 19:12

It is very sad though when you never can catch some pokemon or evolve some because of lack of link cable/friend.

I caught them all (All the proper ones anyway). SUCKS TO BE YOU.

pentaen · « **Reply #19 on:** 20 Aug 2007, 11:07 »

its a sad sad world by daniel johnston

Emaline · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 Aug 2007, 11:15 »

Spinless · « **Reply #21 on:** 21 Aug 2007, 05:39 »

Cage-Ballad of Worms

I've never actually heard the song all the way through, but I read the lyrics from time to time because they make me want to die.

Quote

[Woman singing x4]
I'm feeling down, touch me

What kind of God is this?
Gave me the hottest bitch
Then took the life from her chest and left a pile of shit
Sloppy with a fork, so Chris gotta feed her
To numb to cum, sometimes she piss while I eat her
I tell her, keep her head up
Even though I gotta hold it up for her
and she seizure when she try and get up
I know I'm perking her
But can't stop what's hurting her
No sleep with her screaming all night, I'm thinking of murking her
Her parents paid for the coffin and left state
After signing the contract, do not resuscitate
Yellin' for mommy
I dip in the morphine to calm me
I'm known in town as the creep that's into zombies

[Chorus: woman singing x2]
I can't get that sound you make out of my head
I can't even figure out what's making it

Stare in her eyes to look past horror
Morphine tolerated, I'm out coppin' horse tranq for her
Like I won't have to go through hell again
Her skin is like saran wrap, barely hangin' from her skeleton
With each one of her ribs defined
My crib's designed
To keep the light out cause she can't lift the blinds
Drifting behind, I'll be outta friends soon
Nobody visits the guy that keeps the body in his bedroom
She's barely alive and taking life from me
With no appetite but the meningitis is still hungry
Wants to make love
But I had to substitute it with holding hands while we take drugs

[Chorus]

She's cold as a corpse
And still holding The Source
Up in the air like: "One day the cover is yours"
Took the IV out her wrist
Tried to give me a kiss
Before I tasted her lips, she dislocated her hips
Started shaking
Couldn't feed her no medication
To scared to beat on her chest in fear It'd cave in
Death waved again and each time leaves her
In a coma, for a week, to wake up to more seizures
But this time ain't like the rest
I can see right through her chest
And see her heart ain't got no fuckin beats left
Then a voluptuous ghost falls from a host
Looking like she did in High School then fades when I get close

[Chorus]

[Woman singing x4]
I'm feeling down, touch me

MlKE · « **Reply #22 on:** 21 Aug 2007, 06:37 »

"the saddest songs"

that title made me start singing dashboard confessional's "screaming infidelities" in my head.

i learned how to play it, and all the lyrics, because a girl in my band a few years back, absolutely despised the song, so i played it for her.

also, it's a kind of sad song.

SpellC · « **Reply #23 on:** 22 Aug 2007, 19:58 »

Sufjan Stevens has some great mellow stuff. Moreso on Michigan than Illinois. Songs like Romulus and Holland. Seven Swans has some good ones too - That Dress Looks Nice, To Be Alone With You, etc.

But my favorite Sufjan mellow song is actually off a compilation CD, Opie's Funeral Song. Sendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/file/1vpx7r Really sad - about a kid named Opie who he knew in 7th grade. He died in a car crash. I think that's how the story goes, anyhow. He's told it at live shows, apparently.

Enjoy. Or brood :-p.

Pitoni · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 Aug 2007, 08:09 »

You just wanna kill yourself with songs, than listen to Hurt performed by Jhonny Cash...

Spinless · « **Reply #25 on:** 25 Aug 2007, 19:30 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjhaRHOB2Uo

I just found these on youtube, they're two of the single saddest and most moving songs I've ever heard. One is about an old girlfriend dying, and the other about feeling inadequate but then starting to feel good about yourself. They're so meaningful and beautiful.

non-navigator · « **Reply #26 on:** 25 Aug 2007, 22:34 »

I'm partial to listening to the new National album myself, Squalor Victoria in particular.

flamingtangerine · « **Reply #27 on:** 30 Aug 2007, 08:54 »

i don't know why but i always listen to "Christmas time is here" when i'm sad.
Also "The Greatest" by Cat Power, "Safe" by M83, "Daughters of the Soho Riots" by The National (good choice non-navigator) and quite a few tracks from the Amelie soundtrack. But my absolute favourite sad song is "It's Not Easy Being Green" by Kermit the frog.

edit: argh i forgot the entire Meadowlands album by The Wrens.

supertankguy · « **Reply #28 on:** 30 Aug 2007, 09:21 »

The last 2 Brand New albums were depression central.

Mnementh · « **Reply #29 on:** 30 Aug 2007, 09:33 »

I'm disappointed that neither thread had an Elton John reference in the title.

Benemon · « **Reply #30 on:** 30 Aug 2007, 17:14 »

Cheer Up (You Miserable F*ck) By David Ford

Legend. The man is as adept with a Boss RC-20 as he is with his songwriting.

3Z3VH · « **Reply #31 on:** 30 Aug 2007, 17:51 »

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works - Vol 2

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Author Topic: damn... the saddest songs (Read 8275 times)

gary_duncan

sean~

Anna Banana

Spinless

MlKE

SpellC

Spinless

non-navigator

Mnementh

Benemon