fett on 26/6/2010 at 15:10
Anything by Nick Fucking Cave. Makes me want to kill myself.
Tonamel on 26/6/2010 at 15:23
Bah. Google fails me yet again. Still, I think it's fair to say that Seress was not the happiest songwriter around.
Sulphur on 26/6/2010 at 16:50
Quote Posted by Queue
The best depressing songs are the ones that aren't intentionally "dark and depressing". Songs with all these oooooo dark-and-disturbing lyrics about kicking babies out of an unwed mother's snatch are just hack.
It's easy to write off sans context. In isolation, that song might look like 'oh woe betide, shit happens &c' but there's a lot more beneath the surface if you've heard everything that came before it and after. It's a story, and that's just a snippet.
Quote:
Johnny Cash's cover of
Hurt and Dire Straits's
Brothers In Arms.
Brothers in Arms never really worked for me, because it always sounded somewhat disingenuous coming from Knopfler's mouth as far as I was concerned. Johnny Cash, now he's in a different league altogether. I can admire his talent, but I still hate country with a goddamn passion, not least because when I was kid, my parents would never stop playing everything from Cash to Humperdinck every. fucking. day.
Harvester on 26/6/2010 at 17:13
dethtoll, if you have friends who often feel lonely and don't have many friends or lovers, this song might depress them.
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3c9N_QiYxM) Faithless - Why Go? From the melancholic Sunday 8 PM album, which I've always liked more than their more popular debut album Reverence.
Quote:
Don't go
I didn't know you'd be here, and I wasn't meant to come.
I'd be sitting watching TV if there was anything decent on,
if I'd missed the taxi or found nothing good to wear.
But for some uncertain reason, some strange uncertain reason,
this is how it all it all began.
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
If I made some coffee, would you sit and talk some more?
I know words are usually pointless when you've used them all before.
The way your smile fills the room --
Stay awhile. Kick off your shoes. Don't go. Please stay. --
It always happened this way.
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
(Why go?) Why go, (when you could stay awhile)?
The way your smile fills the room --
Stay awhile. What's there to lose? --
The way you laugh, when I say, Don't go. Please stay.
Why go? Why go, when you could stay awhile?
Why go? Why go, when you could stay awhile,
when you could stay with me tonight?
Not the most depressing lyrics imaginable, but coupled with the music, it might affect someone who longs for human company.
Another depressing song, to me, is this one, also by Faithless from the same album, with really haunted, desperate lyrics. It starts slow but gets really intense in the end. I'm not too sure about its meaning, but I think it's about a man driving himself crazy over his lost love now being with someone else.
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SCGZXBbOY) Faithless - Killer's Lullaby
Lyrics are kind of long, but I could provide them if you like this song or you could look them up yourself.
Brian T on 26/6/2010 at 17:38
Fuck My Shit Stinks by The Dayglo Abortions.
Sittin on the pot on Tuesday mornin
Readin bout the war in Lebanon
A car bomb killed 3 yankees in Rome
But I got a bigger problem and its closer to home
[Chorus:]
Oh fuck my shit stinks
Holy fuck'n moly my shit stinks
Argh fuck billy my shit stinks
Maybe there's something wrong with my diet
I had a case of beer and couple of tacos
You know I feel like Johnny Cash
Going down in that ring of burning fire
Well all my friends like heavy metal
But I've always been partial to polkas
While they're all playin their air guitars
I'm fartin along with the booming tubas.
Depressing because it made me laugh. :(
Risquit on 26/6/2010 at 20:50
How can anything be more depressing than a public suicide note? I'm speaking of Ian Curtis, and among the dark gems of Joy Division's catalog, nothing is more despairing than "24 Hours". Of course, you will need to listen the performance. Sooo sad.
So this is permanence
Love shattered pride
What once was innocence
turned on its side
A cloud hangs over me
marks every move
Deep in the memory
what once was love
Oh how I've realized
how I wanted time
Put into perspective
tried so hard to find
Just for one moment
I thought I'd found my way
Destiny unfolded
I watched it slip away
Excessive flash points
beyond all reach
Solitary demands for
all I'd like to keep
Let's take a ride out
see what we can find
Valueless collection of
hopes and past desires
I never realized
the lengths I'd have to go
All the darkest corners of
a sense I didn't know
Just for one moment
I heard somebody call
Looked beyond the day in hand
There's nothing there at all
Now that I've realized
how it's all gone wrong
Got to find some therapy
this treatment takes too long
Deep in the heart of
where sympathy held sway
Got to find my destiny
before it gets too late
Queue on 27/6/2010 at 03:26
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Brothers in Arms never really worked for me, because it always sounded somewhat disingenuous coming from Knopfler's mouth as far as I was concerned. Johnny Cash, now he's in a different league altogether. I can admire his talent, but I still hate country with a goddamn passion, not least because when I was kid, my parents would never stop playing everything from Cash to Humperdinck every. fucking. day.
Engelbert...now there was fucking
talent.
I know 'cause Ronco told me so.
Muzman on 27/6/2010 at 16:16
I don't really know about lyrics as such, but it's the combo with the music that generally has the biggest effect (as I'm sure we're all aware), so that's where' I'm going.
This one could really stop a party back in the day:
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBQGCI2hm0)
Andy Prieboy - Tomorrow Wendy
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clq01TXQR0s) Cash's version of 'Hurt' is nice and shredding. Something about the adding of decrepitude really does it.
Sure it's not the blackened end of music but Man, (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwugjyeSKx4) Fire and Rain is miserable as fuck. I just think no one has really noticed.
Same with (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlAwvz8uwc) No Rain
I remember the tale of one suicide guy who was a tough intelectual metal type, loved Tool and so on. What was playing on loop when he was found? Celine Dion (can't remember what tune, but it does have this afterlife twist to the lyrics. Pretty sure it wasn't Heart Will Go On though). Will they drag her skinny arse into court for enticing our youth to end it all? Will they hell.
Anyway, there's always no words at all.
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1s_0Nz2Ykc)
Matmos - For Felix and all the rats
