What songs make you feel depressed?

[SuperNova221]

All in the title really. By depressed I don't mean suicidal and clinically depressed, been there, done that, not fun. I mean depressed more in a slightly sad, bit of a down mood way. I love it when songs can have an actual influence on me, and it's much easier to see a negative effect than something positive. I love the fact that music can have that impact on me in such a way. So I'd like to find some more.

So what songs do this for you? I'll start with Hotel California by The Eagles. The overall aethsthetic of the music just seems to work really well.

 

[New Troll]

Spoiler: Cat's in the Cradle.

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

By depressed I don't mean suicidal and clinically depressed

Damn, I have a really good one for that.

If you want to hear it anyway it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYk3wmHpzqk

Hmm songs that make me just normal sad...

I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie is sad but not depressing despite the name.

 

[blankedboy]

Bird Wild Web.

(except not really, i just couldn't think of any depressing songs so i shared this)

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Hip Hop Rap. It depresses me that people still make it. I reeeeaaaally don't like that stuff.

 

[SuperNova221]

By depressed I don't mean suicidal and clinically depressed

Damn, I have a really good one for that.

If you want to hear it anyway it's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYk3wmHpzqk

Hmm songs that make me just normal sad...

I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie is sad but not depressing despite the name.

Damn, the first one. Damn. That's all I can think of to say really. was good though, in it's own way. Second one didn't really impact me much though.

 

[SuperNova221]

Hip Hop Rap. It depresses me that people still make it. I reeeeaaaally don't like that stuff.

Not exactly what I was looking for.

 

[Nouw]

Little Motel by Modest Mouse. Beautiful song.

Hip Hop Rap. It depresses me that people still make it. I reeeeaaaally don't like that stuff.

Wait what? A genre of music that you don't like depresses you? Is it inferior or something? You post as if it's 'bad.'

 

[HassEsser]

Red Hot Chili Pepper's By The Way and Stadium Arcadium albums, A Perfect Circle's first two albums, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger and Superunknown albums and Tool's song "jimmy" all depress me quite a lot. The albums as a whole are downing in that they generally reveal to me how short and awful life is an can be, while jimmy tells a story that is gut wrenching if you really try and see what Maynard is trying to say. I tend to avoid paying attention to the lyircs to these songs when I hear them because they just make me sad and I don't want to feel that way.

 

[Kargathia]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/312933 [The Sound of Silence] - The Sound of Silence, especially in either this video, or when it was used in Watchmen.

 

[SilentCom]

I can't really think of any depressing songs that I would listen to unless I was in a clinically depressed state. I know quite a few, but I don't want to post them because I might get depressed...

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Spoiler: Cat's in the Cradle.

+1 for Cat's in the Cradle. -2 for Ugly Kid Joe.

Now, if you would have said Harry "Gapin'" Chapin, I would have given a +10. Chapin sings that song with such heart I can't help but tear up about it.

Here's a live Chapin Cut

 

[richd213]

When a blind man cries - deep purple

 

[killergoat86]

Definitely Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton, written after the death of his four year old son.

 

[Mauso88]

I listen to City & Colour when I'm down, helps to get all the bad stuff out. If I had to pick specific one, Death Of Me hands down.

 

[liquidsolid]

Me & My *****- The Notorious B.I.G

Don't be fooled by the title, it's a rather sad song. The beat has a hypnotic and melancholic sound to it. The lyrics aren't so bad until the last verse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rueScMSnRP4

 

[Heretic95]

Cat's in the Cradle is always a good one for getting yourself depressed (though I prefer the original Harry Chapin version as well). Other good songs for this purpose as far as I'm concerned are Mad World (Gary Jules), Pinch Me (Barenaked Ladies), This Song For You and Lonely Sky (Chris DeBurgh), The Chemical Worker's Song (Great Big Sea), Nobody Home (Pink Floyd), and Creep (Radiohead)

 

[Aesir23]

I'd have to say Mad World by Gary Jules and Run by Snow Patrol are the ones that generally make me feel sad at the very least.

 

[Lightning Delight]

Outloud by Dispatch. I don't know what it is about that song, but it just gets me. But it makes me kind of.... happy, too, you know? Happy and hopeful. I don't really know how to explain it.