…cause blood would really mess up your Ipod.
I occasionally enjoy a good session of depressing music. It’s like a good soap opera for the ear, and it really has nothing to do with my actual mood or situation.
So, in my Wrist-slashing Playlist I have what I considered the two must fricking depressing songs, ever: Ne Me Quittes Pas and Ojala (by Silvio Rodriguez).
Which songs top your list of tasteful, even beautiful yet very depressing songs?
Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”. Heartrending stuff.
Elliot Smith’s *Needle in the Hay * is one of the most beautifully depressing songs I’ve ever heard.
And…Darren Hayes is totally my guilty pleasure, but A Conversation with God is my favorite depressing song ever. It’s like the sick and twisted version of Jesus Take the Wheel.
I wouldn’t slit my wrists over anything I own right now, but “The Grey Havens” from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack and “You Will Be My Ain True Love” from Cold Mountain are usually good for a nice, long, cathartic bawl.
Practically everything recorded by Joy Division, for starters. This is a band whose lead singer committed suicide on the cusp of a breakthrough tour of the U.S., and when you listen to their music, you might wonder how he managed to survive as long as he did.
Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains.
“Something I Can Never Have,” “The Great Below,” and “Lights In The Sky” by Nine Inch Nails
“Where Does Love Go When It Dies?” by Def Leppard
“Bridge Over Troubled Water”-Simon & Garfunkel
“Loch Tay Boat Song” by various artists, but I’m most fond of the Silly Wizard version
“If I were a Blackbird” also by Silly Wizard
“The Queen and the Soldier” by Suzanne Vega
Most songs by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, especially Sue.
“Darkness on the Edge of Town” by Bruce Springsteen
“Madman Across the Water” by Elton John
“Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” by same
“Sacrifice” by same
“Love and Anger” by Kate Bush
“Red Rain” by Peter Gabriel
Damn, would a kind mod fix that typo on the title?
::grumble, grumble::
Very early Cure, especially Pornography.
That’s the spirit. I just bought that piece. Will get wine tomorrow to drown some nonexistent sorrows. I only drink a glass at most, so it’s a good thing my sorrows can’t swim.
On the Classical side of things, there ain’t nothing more suicidal (some think literally) than Tchaikovsky’s Symphony #6 (“Pathetique”), last movement.
For classical music there’s Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder. (Songs on the death of Children.) You don’t even have to hear the music to be depressed.
The Doors, “People Are Strange.”
Also, there’s this really weird, haunting song played in the end of an episode of “Sopranos,” called “Ninna Ninna.” It’s not really sad lyrically but it sounds disturbing. So I’d include it. The episode it plays in is called “Second Coming.”
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
or, of course, Johnny Cash’s version.
S^G
Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap.
There’s something about it that just makes you want to, well, slash your wrists.
My friend introduced me to what I consider the most depressing song I’ve ever heard:
30KFT by Assemblage 23
Man it’s even hard for me to just read the lyrics. 
Would you believe I actually have TWO playlists for this kind of song?
Some of the highlights—in little order:
•A Prayer—Madeline Peyroux
•I Am Stretched on Your Grave—Dead Can Dance
•Death is Not the End—Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (YMMV—this one always cheers me up. For all the wrong reasons, granted…)
•Hope Has a Place—Enya
•Llorando—Rebekah del Rio
•Farewell—Apocalyptica
•This White Circle—Grey de Lisle (Katy Allen also works)
•Song for Ten—Neil Hannon
•Gortoz a Ran-J’attends—Danez Prigent & Lisa Gerrard (from the Black Hawk Down soundtrack. Yeah.)
•I Fall to Pieces—Patsy Cline (How much of Patsy Cline’s music DOESN’T make one want to drink themselves to death?)
•Prospero’s Speech—Loreena McKennit
•Leaning on Jesus/Rosin the Bow—(from the Wild Bill soundtrack)
•It’s So Easy Not to Try—The Return of the King (the OLD one) soundtrack
•It Won’t Rain All the Time—Jane Silberry
•Love Farewell—The Music of Sharpe (soundtrack)
•He’s My Friend—Alan Silvestri (How’s THAT for obscure?)
•Me And My Charms—Kristin Hersh
•If I Didn’t Care—The Ink Spots
•Olim Lacus Colueram—Carmina Burana
•Porcelain—Moby
•Somewhere—Within Temptation
•Un Bel Di Vedremo—from Madama Butterfly (Helps to listen to this one in a dark room.
•Richard Cory—Simon & Garfunkel
•He Stopped Loving Her Today—George Jones
•When She Loved Me—Sarah Mclachlan
•We Have All the Time in the World—John Barry
•Wise Up—Aimee Mann
•Who Wants to Live Forever?—(Various. I’ve ever found a version by Seal)