Need to get depressed fast? Come to this thread, we will get you fixed up right quick!

[Drummodino]

I don't listen to a lot of sad music. However Coldplay's Fix You and The Scientist are personal favourites.

 

[Tips_of_Fingers]

It's called The Saddest Song, so it must be!!!

Spoiler: Streetlight Manifesto - The Saddest Song

Ok, seriously now:

Spoiler: GlassJaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence

Although these songs don't make me sad, I can see how they might make other people sad:

Spoiler: NOFX - Whoops I OD'd

Spoiler: NOFX - Doornails

Even if you can't be arsed to listen to any of the other songs, I recommend you at least give the next one a go, it's so emotional.

Spoiler: NOFX My Orphan Year (acoustic)

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And now for something a little different, but heart-wrenchingly sad:

Spoiler: Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes (Watership Down version)

 

[Shinsei-J]

o god donnie, why must you go.*sob*

Always gets to me.

Anywho "A Glow" by Okkervil River

 

[RangerDruid]

I'm not much of a Halo fan but the soundtrack is one of the few good things to come out of it. I know this is in the off topic section and that game relates stuff doesn't really belong here, but I don't much listen to radio/tv music, not my thing, etc..

 

[klipton]

I learned yesterday that though listening to smooth jazz is nice, it can make you depressed after listening for more than three hours working on a project in a computer lab.

Anyway, I rather like Sad Song by Paul Williams. And here is my favorite version of it, the one he sang on the Muppet Show~

OH MY GOD! that guy appeared in dexter´s lab, i didn´t know he was real.

OT:

 

[tzimize]

How many of you just remembered that Futurama episode with Fry's dog, I wonder?

Eh, the one with the dog never got to me like it did with other people, so that song doesn't really do it for me. The episode with Fry's brother, on the other hand, that is a different story altogether...

Oh man...now I'm sad.

OT:
Off topic: Why the FUCK does the escapist forum treat my wanting to mark text in a post as me wanting to move text around?!?!! Its driving me into a fucking nerd rage!!!

 

[shado_temple]

This may be unconventional compared to the other songs mentioned here, but this bit right here always tears me up:

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[Dr Pussymagnet]

If you've seen the Scrubs finale you know what song I'm talking about.

 

[viranimus]

LOLWHUT?

Seriously, the world is a fuckered up place to begin with and there is no shortage of overly emotive and depressive people to fill that void, so what purpose is there to try to bring out sadness and depression? While depression and sadness are completely normal emotions, neither are anything that should be encouraged and unduly perpetuated.

so.

and cheer up.

Cause its not so bad.

Have a nice day.

 

[Lilani]

OH MY GOD! that guy appeared in dexter´s lab, i didn´t know he was real.

OT: -snip-

Yup, he was :3 And you want to know what's funny? On that episode of Dexter's Lab he played a piano teacher. In real life, Paul Williams can't play the piano. He did the same thing in the first Muppet movie, too--he played the piano player at a bar but they could never show his hands playing

 

[viranimus]

LOLWHUT?



Sometimes being sad and hurt can do a person good. If you have never felt sadness, then you are incapable of empathy and therefore can't relate to other human beings and their problems. A lot of the world's problems come from the fact that the priviledged few people who are in a position to help others have forgotten how to empathize, all because they live in a tiny little world where everything is bright and happy. The world is neither a sad or happy place, it's all we've got and that is why you have to cherish all of it. Not just the pretty parts but the worn parts too.

/shrug. While they may be natural emotions, they are emotions for the weak willed. One should instinctively understand that without the sour the sweet isnt as sweet. Being depressed is languishing in that fact which is completely ineffectual. Simply understanding its nature is enough.

Any form of sadness or depression should ALWAYS be trumped by the ideologies of "Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" and "Discontent is the first step of progress of any man or nation". To let it get any further than that is to defeat the purpose and giving oneself an excuse for wallowing in failure.

Just my opinion, though sadly very few people (and not nearly enough) are capable of living that sort of existence. Cheer up kids, cause your sadness is useless and unproductive. If your sad, you need to get to work on fixing that.

 

[the Dept of Science]

LOLWHUT?



Sometimes being sad and hurt can do a person good. If you have never felt sadness, then you are incapable of empathy and therefore can't relate to other human beings and their problems. A lot of the world's problems come from the fact that the priviledged few people who are in a position to help others have forgotten how to empathize, all because they live in a tiny little world where everything is bright and happy. The world is neither a sad or happy place, it's all we've got and that is why you have to cherish all of it. Not just the pretty parts but the worn parts too.

/shrug. While they may be natural emotions, they are emotions for the weak willed. One should instinctively understand that without the sour the sweet isnt as sweet. Being depressed is languishing in that fact which is completely ineffectual. Simply understanding its nature is enough.

Any form of sadness or depression should ALWAYS be trumped by the ideologies of "Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" and "Discontent is the first step of progress of any man or nation". To let it get any further than that is to defeat the purpose and giving oneself an excuse for wallowing in failure.

Just my opinion, though sadly very few people (and not nearly enough) are capable of living that sort of existence. Cheer up kids, cause your sadness is useless and unproductive. If your sad, you need to get to work on fixing that.

If sadness had no useful value then we would have evolved out of it. I appreciate that merely by virtue of something being part of our natures, it doesn't mean its always good. Pretty much every bad human trait is the result of a good one backfiring.
The purpose of sad art isn't to make us sad. Firstly, it can make us care about something. We generally want to reduce the amount of suffering in the world. I can understand that there is lots of bad things in the world, but motivation isn't a purely rational thing, we generally need to feel something before we want to fix it.
Secondly, sad art makes sad people happier. We all have had the experience of being in a bad mood then meeting some obnoxiously happy person. They don't improve our mood, they worsen it. Having someone that understands us makes us feel better, someone that can express what we are feeling.

Wallowing in depression is obviously not a good thing, but I don't agree that "sadness is just for the weak willed" or whatever you said.

 

[lacktheknack]

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I suppose context makes it worse... this plays over http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/exposure/screenshot_defcon.jpg

Here, have more of the soundtrack.

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Have a nice day.

 

[smithy_2045]

I don't want anyone to kill themselves, so I won't link to it, but Pearl Jam's Black gets to me.

I was thinking Jeremy

Jeremy isn't quite as depressing. Both fantastic songs though.

 

[lionrwal]

The Dead Island trailer always gets to me.

 

[badpun]

Here's a few:

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Good bye Cruel world by Pink Floyd, its on The Wall... It's essentially a suicide note in a song...

Spoiler: Lyrics...

Goodbye cruel world,
I'm leaving you today,
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Goodbye all you people,
There's nothing you can say,
To make me change my mind, goodbye.

 

[Yokai]

I present to you...the only song that has ever made me cry.