Depressing songs (Page 2 of 2)

Estranged by Guns and Roses. About thinking of suicide. The song is depressing but the arrangement is fabulous.  Alice In Chains: The Killer Is Me from their Unplugged Album.

I think 95% of the songs I like to play and sing best are "depressing".  I guess because you can really FEEL the music in a sad song more than in a happy one.  When doing skype jams, I often have to search my songbook for something that at least SOUNDS upbeat, although usually it's still got a sad note to it.  One of my favorites to play/sing is "Killing me Softly"

I just came to smell the flowers   in someone's darkest hour. I don't even know the one they laid to rest. But anywhere theres a crowd and anywhere their crying loud. Just seems to be the place I like the best. Put Porter Waggoner's voice to that and you have a depressing song,

MB Rainbow and wonderfull world are two of the greatest songs out there,I do not feel depressed by them at all.

Hey Dino48,

I don't really feel depressed by that song . . . I feel . . . emotionally released. It's like there's something in the lyrics or melody that triggers an emotion or an emotional memory. My Mom's the same way. Last year we were watching a documentary on Animal Planet about sharks. And there was a mother shark giving birth to some shark pups, and one got kinda stuck so one of the divers helped by pulling the shark pup out. My mom burst into tears! She said it reminded her of when I was born, because the doctor had to use forceps to deliver me.

MB those two songs are extremely moving,If you someone is not getting an emotional tug of the heart from them,then they must be somewhat heartless. One of my sons had too have some help out with forceps at birth,he turned out fine.

I guess I play a lot of depressing tunes....  Or at least songs that most would consider depressing.  However there is only one song that really tears me up everytime I hear or play it. It's the only one that really gets me....   Turns my insides into knots and such, and that's "Wonderful" by Everclear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfgAbFY4CA&ob=av3e       There's just something about it... I really feel those kids pain. I can see my sister and I sitting on the doorsteps when we were little, me holding her hand telling her they'd quit fighting soon while we cried together thinking we were losing our family....  Not that we had a bad childhood at all, It was actually pretty great, but my parents fussed bad for a couple years when we were young and that was so scary for us as young children....  At that age family is everything... All you know and all that makes you feel safe and part of something in a world so much bigger than you... Seeing/thinking it's all falling apart is so tragic...   I listen to the song pretty often now (at least once a week) and it reminds me how important the little things are to our children and makes me want to be the best parent I can...

Oh crud man, I can't even hear that song without getting teary.
I'd forgotten about that one for a while...

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I did a gig last year where I was singing this song called "never alone" when this woman walked in and at first I didn't really notice her untill she  burst into tears and watched me finish the song in tears and man was it hard not to start crying myself, I was trying to keep composed through the rest of the song. Sometimes depressing songs are a good thing they reach out to other people. You never know.

A few weeks ago I was heading home from work and was listening to a local college station (91.3 WUNH)  and heard the most depressing series of quasi-folk-blues tunes by singers/bands I had never heard before and hope to never again.  I changed the channel in the middle of the third tune.  It was not only depressing lyrics, but, bad out of tune singing and playing that grated on my nerves.  If it was done for affect, it worked. 

There are a lot of tunes that I like/love that could be considered depressing.  Gordon Lightfoots "Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle", and I love "Don Quixote" for it's symbolism.  But, a lot of folk tunes play on tragedy for poetic reasons.  Judy Collins, "Pretty Polly" being one.

Excellent songs, beamer! I think my favorite is "Moonlight Drive." Very trippy.

There's something about lonesome
music, especially at night when you're up way too late guitar in hand. The dark edge of folk/bluesy stuff is what makes it cool, and there's an array to choose from. I like Dylan's angle of insatiable wander lust, and Cash's "Man in Black" character (carrying the darkness on his back).Some of my fav Iron and Wine songs are about death/dying, and the whole Bon Iver album (the first one) feels a little depressing to me, and yet I like it. It fun to play that kind of minor key stuff on guitar, it makes you feel cool and mysterious lol.

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