Your favourite miserable songs
rick_chasey
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Nothing makes me feel better than a really good miserable/depressing/despairing song really hitting the mark.
So a thread to share your favourites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_Gg1xAHE4
Pyramid song - Radiohead. Stone cold A list classic.
So a thread to share your favourites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_Gg1xAHE4Pyramid song - Radiohead. Stone cold A list classic.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No
Great song and a tragic song.3 -
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REM Everybody Hurts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rOiW_xY-kc 1 -
Anything by the Rolling Stones certainly makes me miserable.0
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webboo said:
Anything by the Rolling Stones certainly makes me miserable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8
That is just shocking.
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Hallelujah, the Jeff Buckley version.2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner0
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Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
(not necessarily my favourite miserable song but one that sprang to mind)Wilier Izoard XP0 -
Bit niche, but Yellow Roses. The Ry Cooder version will have you driving off a bridge.0
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Think this is even more sofocuszing723 said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No
Great song and a tragic song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EdUjlawLJM
(not the Russ Abbott version)1 -
Pink did a superb cover of that on the piano room last week.orraloon said:
https://youtu.be/0-EF60neguk
Nothing Compares 2 U ~ Sinéad O'Connor version0 -
Some great choices on here. Depeche Mode are another band that can be relied on
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For something a bit different, although not my taste, Billie Holiday has some pretty depressing stuff.0
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Hurt, both versions, are pretty miserable. But the Johnny Cash one takes it by virtue of the rather poignant video I reckon.0
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Hurt by Nine Inch Nails (and also the Jonny Cash cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-bLdf8Bsw
Metallica do a pretty good line in this category
One (absolutely incredible live when I saw then a few years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlO3lZhDukU
Probably the one I listened to most with the lights out in my teenage pit was Fade To Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQnzs8wl6E
And for something more ballad like, Nothing Else Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTYIf2pkxzQ 1 -
Great minds!First.Aspect said:Hurt, both versions, are pretty miserable. But the Johnny Cash one takes it by virtue of the rather poignant video I reckon.
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This was an answer on Pop Master this morning (I don't think I'd heard of it before).rick_chasey said:Nothing makes me feel better than a really good miserable/depressing/despairing song really hitting the mark.
So a thread to share your favourites.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_Gg1xAHE4
Pyramid song - Radiohead. Stone cold A list classic.0 -
Bauhaus were the kings of miserable, but most of their stuff was brilliant. Check this one out....mind numbingly miserable....but great!
https://youtu.be/7yuFrrsXJQQ 1 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhdFe3evXpk
Good song, and there's the tragedy of war which is right miserable.0 -
Surprised Lou Reed or Velvet Underground hasn't come up yet. He'd make happy birthday sound miserable.
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Lou Reed and Velvet Underground are pretty miserable.0
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^ Brothers in Arms is another cracker and always reminds me of the series Civvies from the early 90s (which was also quite depressing!)0
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Perfect Day being a pretty blatant example.First.Aspect said:Surprised Lou Reed or Velvet Underground hasn't come up yet. He'd make happy birthday sound miserable.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3nVHZfRU4
Song about trains, need I say more.0 -
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I'll be surprised if anyone listens to this right through, but it's the most miserable thing: Purcell's Funeral Sentence 'In The Midst Of Life We Are In Death', written in 1694 for Queen Mary's funeral, and used just one year later for Purcell's own, at the age of 36.
It's really worth a listen though - hear how he uses some really discordant harmonies to heighten the pain & death... it's just the most extraordinary thing, even if it hasn't got a disco beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4iM_fzKUkk 0 -
Tears In Heaven probably deserves a mention here too.
Probably the most depressing song I’ve ever heard but not one I like is The Boy That Santa Claus Forgot. The first time I heard it I was waiting the uplifting happy ending (spoiler - it never comes!)0 -
Yes, remember seeing the J Cash video back in the day and going quiet...Pross said:
Great minds!First.Aspect said:Hurt, both versions, are pretty miserable. But the Johnny Cash one takes it by virtue of the rather poignant video I reckon.
https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI
Didn't his wife, seen in video, June Carter pass away about 3 months after the filming? And the man himself just a few months later?0 -
I put the whole of Berlin in there earlier.First.Aspect said:Surprised Lou Reed or Velvet Underground hasn't come up yet. He'd make happy birthday sound miserable.
Velvet Underground aren't particularly miserable.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU5bArEiA7U
https://youtu.be/1umEXpGHc0E
https://youtu.be/mE8rDUjTBDI
