Most Depressing Song Ever

[Valo Nightstalker]

Charon - Sorrowsong
brings a tear to the eye when u first hear it

 

[Krilons Resa]

My Dying Bride - For My FAllen Angel
Anathema - One Last Goodbye
Khanate - Anything
Today is The Day - A lot off of Sadness Will Prevail

 

[ShadowOfFire]

Billy Joel kicks ass.

Goddamn right he does! Grew up with him and still love him.
I think Goodnight Saigon is a more depressing song than Piano Man, especially if you listen to the lyrics and stuff.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Sopor Aerturnus makes some weird depressing shit too.

 

[Life Sucks]

Metallica - Fade To Black
Life Of Agony - Other Side Of The River
Life Of Agony - My Eyes
Dismember - And So Is Life
Paradise Lost - Crying For Eternity
Sentenced - Everything Is Nothing

Most of these songs are about suicide.

 

[speed]

I have to agree with you on most all of your choices Bloodstained walls- I was going to say Khanate too, and for My Fallen Angel is very depressing.

I'd like to add Lasting Dose by Crowbar, and Crown of Sympathy by My Dying Bride.

 

[MetalHead666999]

Flaw - one more time, you could put this song on your funeral

 

[MardyAss]

Well...

There is an unofficial, "saddest song ever", I read an article about it recently, is called "Gloomy Sunday" by some Hungarian guy called Seress.

It was wrote in the 30's and is about the break up of a relationship, over the years many people have heard it and commited suicide as a result, even the singer of the song committed suicide.

It was banned in UK for a time for fear of mass suicides.

But scary shit, not metal of course, but an answer to your question.

You can read about it and other strange things at this link

http://www.bizarremag.com/ask/rock.php

IMO that song is not worthy of being 'saddest song ever', maybe back then, but not now. I hope that the Bjørk cover will be better.
Anyways, not THE saddest, but sad songs:

Joe Satriani - down, down, down

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone (I like the Metallica cover as well)

Opeth - To bid you farewell, credence, face of melinda, in my time of need, dirge for november

red hot chili peppers - Don't forget me, knock me down, my lovely man, I could've lied, under the bridge, tearjerker, my friends, scar tissue, venice queen etc. I'm a big RHCP fan

Jeff Buckley - Halleluja, Love You Should've come over

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Zaraza - everyday is a funeral

Jimi Hendrix - Axis:bold as love, the wind cries mary, castles made of sand, little wing

gordian knot - grace

pink floyd - shine on you crazy diamond, great gig in the sky, wish you were here, comfortly numb,

pearl jam - love boat captain, I am mine

mr bungle - retrovertigo, pink cigarette, sweet charity, after school special

aeon spoke - grace, emmanuel, yellowman, silence, sand & foam,

alice in chains - down in a hole, heaven besides you, angry chair

pantera - suicide note

kataklysm - bound in chains

cryptopsy - cold hate, warm blood (at least the solo)

martyr - realms of reverie

burzum - dunkelheit

faith no more - I started a joke, ashes to ashes, i'm easy, king for a day, zombie eaters, she loves me not, last cup of sorrow

village people - in the navy
meh...

 

[the alumnus]

the saddest piece of music that i've ever heard is chamber symphony opus 110a by shostakovich.

 

[Skippy]

Avril lavignes live performance of Chop Suey.
made ME want to slash my wrists anyway.
or hers...

 

[Utuk Xul]

Hard to pick some depressing songs, but some bands have written several or more "downers".

Anathema, Katatonia, Sentenced, My Dying Bride, and Shape of Despair.

 

[Edgecrusher]

"Funeral" by Ocean Machine/Devin Townsend
"Nobody's Here" by Devin Townsend
"Deadhead" by Devin Townsend

and of course

"Eulogy" by Tool

There's a band from around here called Thorns Of The Carrion that make some pretty dark and gloomy atmospheric music. I'm not sure if they're still around but I know that a few of the band members were in another band called Estuary of Calamity. (which I believe is now simply just Estuary)

 

[solarfall_]

Shape of Despair - "Quiet These Paintings Are"

Anything by that band is just so depressing , but great.

 

[Gizmo]

For My Fallen Angel by My Dying Bride definately.....

 

[MURAI]

Biohazard - Tears Of Blood

Biohazard - Crossed The Line

Crowbar - Time Heals Nothing
Every fucking song by them is depressing but this tops them all.

Nothingface - The Sick

Pantera - Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks
You all think Suicide Note Pt.1 by them is depressing? This song is morbidly depressing.

The Gathering - Saturnine
A very sad but also very beautiful song.

 

[Troops]

Fear Factory - Timelessness
Anathema - Most of their stuff really

I concur, plus some classical toons such as Beethoven and some piano sonatas. My memory for classical composer and piece is shit, but I'm sure you all know the types of music I'm on about.

 

[Burkhard]

As I haven´t heard all songs ever written (and as I never will because of lack of time), I can´t really say which is "the" saddest song ever, but there are quite a few sad songs which come to my mind:

Fear Of God - "Red To Grey"
Saint Vitus - "Dying Inside"
Fates Warning - "Epitaph"
Atrox - "Changeling"

Kari Bremnes (I think one could call her Norway´s "Queen of Melancholy".)
- "Erindring"
- "Børnene"
- "Dagen"
- "Københavnerkneipe"
- "Montreal"
- "Birds"
- "Sang til byen"
- "Syk pike"
- "I dine skap"
- "Månestein"
- "Sangen om ka ho Anna drømte om"
- "September"
- "Vals"
- "Anna Olsen"
- "Alle vet jo det"
- "Gikk du noen gang fri?"
- "Du endeløse natt - Ya Lel Ma Atwalak" (a duet with Rim Banna)
Kate Bush - "Hello Earth", "Under The Ivy", "The Song Of Solomon" and her cover version of "Candle In The Wind"
Dolores Keane - "Mary Clare Malloy"
Iris DeMent - "Acres of Corn"
Tom Russell & Iris DeMent - "Throwin´ Horseshoes At The Moon" and "Love Abides"
Lynni Treekrem - "Vond dag", "Ved Gjætle-bekken" and "Haust"
Lill Lindfors - "Mitt liv, min död och mitt öde" and "Ankomst till Hades"
Qntal - "Spiegelglas"
Kari Rueslåtten - "Forsaken" and "Dead"
The Third And The Mortal - "Death-Hymn"
Rita Eriksen - "Ung Åslaug"
Triakel - "Lejonbruden" and "En vacker vän"

Maybe some of the songs I mentioned are only melancholic and not "truly" sad, but where exactly do you draw the line?

 

[Colonial Boy]

Undertow by Pain Of Salvation's pretty depressing IMO.

 

[Life Sucks]

Bethlehem are pretty depressing. I need to find some of their CDs.

 

[Troops]

As I haven´t heard all songs ever written (and as I never will because of lack of time), I can´t really say which is "the" saddest song ever

Nit-picker...