Most Depressing Cinema/Music/Etc?

[Tanis]

Maybe a game that was 'emo bate'.
A movie that got you in the feels.
Some book that got you to shed a tear.
Or a song that got you feeling sad.

Share 'em!
Johnny Cash: Hurt

While I'm a big NIN fan, JC just does it better in this cover.


captha:
perfect world

Why yes, Solve Media, that too is a a depressing song!!

 

[Barbas]

Probably the song 'The Scientist' by Coldplay. It was edited into a video of aircraft crashes on YouTube. Appropriately sorrowful and poignant...

Oh Christ, I'm so depressed. I'm going to bed, I can't face it any more - is this a normal response to Coldplay?

 

[RJ 17]

OOOO! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Dibs on Obvious Answer is Obvious!!!

Spoiler: Behold, one of the most depressing songs ever composed:

You knew it was going to be this.

Seriously, you can mute the audio to ANY video of a happy, merry event and play this song over the background and it'll immediately turn it into one of the saddest videos you've ever seen.

No, really, give that a try. It's fun!

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

Nice thread, I have a love of depressing music myself.

Spoiler: Listen at your own risk :D WARNING: LONG LIST

One of my faves, I am just filled with so much when listening to this song.
This one has it all, please just listen through to the end, it's a fantastic journey.

Spoiler: Neurosis

My favorite band had two really depressing albums released called "A Sun that Never Sets" and "The Eye of Every Storm" that really take you drag you through with emotion. I recomeend both of those albums to you. Here's a couple samples.

Very sad and depressing song, great lyrics and instrumentation. This whole album may be worth a listen from you. "Opeth - Damnation"
Wonderful atmosphere and you can totally feel the pain.

Spoiler: Katatonia

These guys used to make some of the most depressing rock around not so much anymore but their albums "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" and "Discouraged Ones" used to be my go to albums when I was depressed.

The atmosphere and pain in his voice is so strong.
Same goes for this one (same singer also!)
I can't help but cry a little on this one if I'm in the right (or wrong) mood.
MJK's vocals just hit so hard on this one.
More goodies.
Classic depressing song.

 

[Nouw]

Spoiler: So I am about an hour and a half into St. Matthews Passion, an oratorio by Bach, and so far it has been pretty much standard stuff. Nothing particularly moving but still pleasant to listen to. Another section finishes and I expect more of the same but then this beauty comes on. Upon listening to the full oratorio I guarantee you will know which part I'm talking about. This is without a doubt one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever listened to.

 

[Spambot 3000]

heck yeah whenever my dumb parents send me to be without dessert I always play In the End by Linkin Park man that song really touches me in the enveloping torment of my darkened soul

Seriously though, I don't watch, play or listen to much depressing stuff (I'm still mentally preparing myself to watch Watership Down). I guess I have a couple of songs that qualify:

Spoiler

 

[FPLOON]

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days

Spoiler: Semi-ending spoiler

For those that don't really understand how sad this scene is... Xion is not only dead, but will forever be forgotten by everyone she has ever made contact with, including Roxas, who only had two actual friends to talk to throughout the entire game and just lost one of them because he had to basically kill her before she killed him a scene beforehand...

Gorillaz

Spoiler: One of my all-time favorite bands with a sad, kinda underrated song

Granted, there is a bit of "hope" somewhere in this piece of music, but I digress... It's really reflective to me...

I can't think of anything else that's either sad or depressing... except maybe most horror-centered anime series that really take themselves seriously like Another, I guess... (I still need to finish up Blue Gender, though... Man, is the concept depressing...)

 

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, I'm going to put this here:

Spoiler

More points for enthusiasm than anything.

 

[Elfgore]

The Road has got to be one of the most depressing movies I have ever watched. It shows one of the best examples of a post-apocalypse by showing people fall into banditry and cannibalism and not being a wasteland. The main character always tries to keep two bullets at all times. One to kill himself and one to kill his son. My parents and I made the bad choice of watching this movie early in the day. The rest of that day was just depressing.

A band called Alesana is writing a three album story about a man and his wife. It starts with him killing his wife, he goes insane and kills others, a man called The Thespian is pulling all the strings, his wife is alive, he doesn't realize this is him slowly going into insanity and none of this happened, He is killed by his wife who is worried for her own well being. The next album starts with him being chased by something, realizing his wife is alive, and then she is dragged to hell after he killed her. Really depressing albums but the music is great.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I find this intensely uplifting.

 

[Wedgetail122]

If you want something that truly kicks you in the gut and has a massively depressing nature then I recommend the ending to the film, "The Mist" which has a much more soul crushing conclusion than the original novel.

Spoiler

basically, this guy and his kid along with the few sane characters we have developed an attachment to escape from peril at the hands of their fellow man when filled in a world of inter-dimensional terror, however they run out of fuel and are forced to pull over on the side of the road. They opt to commit suicide lest be devoured and killed (or much much worse) by the beings around them. They have enough bullets for all but one of them, the father. He carries out the ghastly deed, begging for those monsters to kill him and end his suffering, only for the mist to peel away as a US Military Task Force rolls past annihilating the once terrifying creatures with brutal efficiency. They were only a few minutes away from rescue, and the entire time they thought they were escaping, they were traveling away from rescue. He killed his son and his companions for nothing.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Half the episodes of the 1980's Astroboy. An awful lot of times Astroboy has to watch someone go off and die so that everyone else can escape. And the usual stand in for racism, excepting the hero on the receiving end is a little kid.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Lilja-4-Ever

Go watch that, and enjoy the rest of your day.

Saban's The Adventures of Pinocchio wasn't too shy in making you feel like shit either.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

This certainly qualifies I think.

 

[Teoes]

Nice thread, I have a love of depressing music myself.

Spoiler: Listen at your own risk :D WARNING: LONG LIST

One of my faves, I am just filled with so much when listening to this song.
This one has it all, please just listen through to the end, it's a fantastic journey.

Spoiler: Neurosis

My favorite band had two really depressing albums released called "A Sun that Never Sets" and "The Eye of Every Storm" that really take you drag you through with emotion. I recomeend both of those albums to you. Here's a couple samples.

Very sad and depressing song, great lyrics and instrumentation. This whole album may be worth a listen from you. "Opeth - Damnation"
Wonderful atmosphere and you can totally feel the pain.

Spoiler: Katatonia

These guys used to make some of the most depressing rock around not so much anymore but their albums "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" and "Discouraged Ones" used to be my go to albums when I was depressed.

The atmosphere and pain in his voice is so strong.
Same goes for this one (same singer also!)
I can't help but cry a little on this one if I'm in the right (or wrong) mood.
MJK's vocals just hit so hard on this one.
More goodies.
Classic depressing song.

Fantastic list and instant Add to Friends for being a Neurosis/Cult of Luna/Opeth fan! I'll continue a bit; although I'm at work so don't have sound on this PC to check the quality of the videos.
Major props to a band like CoL for using a banjo in their music like this. Somewhere along the Highway is a fabulous album about loneliness.

Next up a track from Opeth's third album My Arms, Your Hearse. Opeth's first concept album, following a story (here copy-pasted from Wikipedia to save time):

Spoiler: album details

"The album concerns a character who dies and becomes a ghost. The narrative on the ghost's existence revolves around the woman he loved. Frustration and suspicion make the character restless as he watches his loved one after his death, his soul in constant turmoil as he does not believe that she genuinely grieved his passing. Though his ghost's actual presence remains undetected, she feels a great sadness, and remains unwilling to accept his death."

Each song bleeds into the next, with the last word or phrase of each song being the title of the next. The album also follows a seasonal theme, moving from spring, through summer and autumn, into winter.

From nearing the end of the album, two songs:


Opeth at near their heaviest, into Opeth at near their most gentle; the story continues.

 

[Trinab]

Seriously? No-one has brought this one up? Huh, well, guess I can. The song I play when I want to feel pretty down.

 

[Silvanus]

For films, I'd have to say Grave of the Fireflies. Fantastic film, but... one watch was enough.

For songs, try;

 

[Matilda Ward]

Just curious as to what inspired this forum of sadness? Was it the death of Nelson Mandela?
Also in response to your question, one of the saddest songs that I have ever heard would be 'the bed song' by Amanda Palmer and the source of my melancholy resides in this link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sW4dwXXX7Q

As well as that scene of 'barefoot Gen'; one that will bring me to tears if I dare post it on a popular game forum, however you may experience this morbidity through the power of the internet if you wish to search.

 

[Deadlywere]

You people think you have truly sad song? Then you have never listened to this: