Most depressing song...

[MacShreach]

Perhaps, 'Strange Fruit' as rendered by Billie Holiday.

Yes. I love Billie Holiday enormously but I really can't listen to that, it's too upsetting... And you remember it was a chart release....Wow, that took real guts.

On a lighter, or at least more vacuous note, anything by Morrissey or The Smiths. Anything at all, but that "Heaven Knows" is self-obsessed depression to the nth degree. I really wish he hadn't told me, and I really wish Morrissey didn't have any tune-writing talent--it's his ability to blend wrist-slitting lyrics with poppy little hooks that really offends me.

Leonard Cohen. My God, was it really that bad being him?

Actually I have a "depressing music" radar that keeps most of the shit at bay, just occasionally something really dire gets through and my memory actually registers it.

I have deliberately avoided mentioning C&W music, BTW.

[Nch22now]

Honey by Bobby Goldsboro

Seriously, go DL it so you can see why it's such a beautiful and at the same time, tragic song.

[Quinn]

There's been some great stuff mentioned here that I enjoy and easily makes my list: The Smiths, Morrissey, and Pink Floyd. For me, however, the most depressing stuff is Radiohead's "High and Dry," "There There," and "Climbing up the Walls." "Disintegration" and "Homesick" by The Cure would also have to be on my list.

-Quinn

[MacShreach]

Listen to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" album, and just put the fucking shotgun in your mouth. Jesus Christ. And people actually took acid and came down on cocaine while that stuff was playing? Talk about your "character-building experiences". Good God.

Yup. I actually listened to it again recently and decided it was at best a "20-year" album....ie it will be another 20 years before I make that mistake again.

Yet Meddle, Dark Side and Wish You Were Here all stand up well, of the post-Syd era.

[MacShreach]

RadioAktivity (SP?) by Kraftwerk. Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Oh dear.

[MacShreach]

Oh yeah. "In the Ghetto" by Elvis. Kerist Almighty what was that man thinking? An enormous talent, still one of the greatest white male rock singers EVER, and he released that?.....Jeez, it's depressing just thinking about it, never mind listening to it.

God I think I'd better get my Archies records out......

[francisfkudrow]

Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars"... that line about doing something or other "before we get too old"...

Depressing!

[ausbeachstyle]

Anything by fall out boy, I can't understand them and I get depressed lol

[MDinMD]

Who does that "Alone again, naturally..." song? Jeezuz Christ, put your head in a fucking oven already. That one is too much.

Gilbert O'Sullivan, Yes, that's one of my all-time most depressing songs.

As to "The Wall" - it's not one of my favorite Floyd albums, but it doesn't depress me at all. It certainly covers material that is a bummer,. but it just doesn't have that effect on me.

[MrsKellyPierce]

I will Love Again Lara Fabian
A lot of Celine Dion songs
some Kelly Clarkson
Let Him Fly - Jessica Simpson