I’m making a compilation CD, and I need some suggestions.
I need some good, depressing songs that aren’t about love. I mean really depressing.
So far I have:
Street Spirit - Radiohead
Everybody Hurts - REM
The End - The Doors
All Apologies - Nirvana
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I think it’s gonna rain today - Tom Waits
Will the cirle be unbroken - NGDB
The first one that came to mind was “I Know It’s Over” by the Smiths.
‘Hard Time Killing Floor Blues’, Skip James, 1931.
The Beatles had some depressing ones - “She’s Leaving Home” and “Elenor Rigby” (sp?) come to mind.
Alanis Morisette’s Perfect always got me.
CSN and Y’s Four Dead In Ohio
“Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve
“Tears In Heaven” - Eric Clapton
“The Living Years” - Mike & the Mechanics
Blessed , Simon and Garfunkel
Dress Rehearsal Rag , Leonard Cohen
Joshua Gone Barbados , numerous covers
Desolation Row, Bob Dylan
Just Like Tom Thumb Blues , Bob Dylan
Brick by Ben Folds Five
“Father and Son” by Cat Stevens
Desperado by your choice of artists
Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father by Randy Newman
Percy’s Song by Bob Dylan
Forgot one:
Change by Keb’ Mo’
“Losing It” by Rush
Cat’s in the Cradle
Freiflug by Megaherz.
Just about any song from Joy Division’s albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer. “Day of the Lords” in particular caused me to have a horrible nightmare.
PiL’s songs “Phenagen” and “Under the House” from Flowers of Romance are disturbing and just…well…weird. The song “Swan Lake” from PiL’s second album is about the death of John Lydon’s mother and he claimed he would get tears in his eyes when he sang it in concert.
The depressing hit of my youth that I remember best is Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”.
“Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six” and “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” - the Pogues