Whats the most depressing song you've ever heard?

[Johan]

How about Pantera's Cemetary Gates then?

The reverend he turned to me
Without a tear in his eyes
It's nothing new for him to see
I didn't ask him why
I will remember
The love our souls had
Sworn to make
Now I watch the falling rain
All my mind can see
Now is your face

Well I guess
You took my youth
I gave it all away
Like the birth of a
New found joy
This love would end in rage
And when she died
I couldn't cry
The pride within my soul
You left me incomplete
All alone as the
Memories now unfold

Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the
Cemetary gates

Sometimes when I'm alone
I wonder aloud
If you're watching over me
Some place far aboud
I must reverse my life
I can't live in the past
Then set my soul free
Belong to me at last
Through all those
Complex years
I thought I was alone
I didn't care to look around
And make this world my own
And when she died
I should've cried and spared myself some pain...
Left me incomplete
All alone as the memories still remain

Believe the word
I will unlock my door
And pass the
Cemetary gates

 

[Duvall]

"A Little Rain Never Hurt No One" by Tom Waits, lately.
"Hurt" is up there.
And due to inevitable personal association, the acoustic part of "Godhead's Lament" is also up there.
"To Bid You Farewell" also works pretty well for me-it builds to an emotional climax and then releases it ever so slowly until the end, which is one of the purest moments in Opeth, IMO.
And finally, "3 Libras" by A Perfect Circle. I know a good number of people who have this opinion, but again, it's most likely due to association within one's life...


"She was 15 years old
and she'd never seen the ocean.
she climbed into a van with a vagabond
and the last thing that she said was
'I love you mom'
And a little rain never hurt no one"

...I think we need more depressed smileys because of this thread.

 

[Hellion]

Mmm yeah Quietworld by Katatonia is pretty gloomy.
Radiohead...Exit Music and The Tourist get my vote.
Nothing Compares 2 U, by Sinead o Connor.

 

[Anthony]

Mine are:
Spleen----------------------------------EVEREVE
A Winternight Depression----------EVEREVE
Symphonaire Infernus...------------My Dying Bride
The Songless Bird--------------------My Dying Bride
Day--------------------------------------Katatonia
Sunset Of Age-------------------------ANATHEMA

 

[Windom Pearl]

Cemetary Gates is a very, very sad piece of art, but I've always thought in the end it's about surviving and moving on. And about Nine Inch Nails..."Something I can never have" is the second best love related lyric I've read. DT's "Lethe" is of course the number one. More depressing than "Hurt" , but sharing pretty much the same style, is in my opinion "The Great Below."

----
staring at the sea
will she come?
is there hope for me
after all is said and done
anything at any price
all of this for you
all the spoils of a wasted life
all of this for you
all the world has closed her eyes
tried faith all worn and thin
for all we could have done
and all that could have been

ocean pulls me close
and whispers in my ear
the destiny i've chose
all becoming clear
the currents have their say
the time is drawing near
washes me away
makes me disappear

i descend from grace
in arms of undertow
i will take my place
in the great below

i can still feel you
even so far away
---

Shouldn't grown up men be singing about wifebeating and drinking beer instead of thiskinda shit....?

 

[Autumn Rust]

Wisdome Pearl,
YEAH man! The great below is my fave on that album.... so very emotional. Trent makes some really fucking great music no doubt (yeah I've been a NIN freak for ages if you can't tell already he heheh)... and those lyrics from the great below really got to me... cause I really could relate to them... (cause of a love very far away now).... <damn my heart still feels sooo sunken deep in my chest.. sigh> No shit.... I"m kinda embarassed to say this but I swear I fucking nearly cried.. lol... 'nearly'.. LOL... ; )
those words though... 'I can still feel you, even so far away'... They rule! I love that kinda romantic shit even though I'm a guy <I'm just a fucked up Cancerian.. lol>.

And I like Opeth too for the same reason.. their music has to be one of the most emotionally striking that I've heard from a LOT of bands over the years.. they don't dwell in 'evil' sounds or some other single emotion like a lot of bands... That is so fucking limiting and stunting. When you get bands emotinal as Opeth or NIN or whatever. thats when you know a band is really prog. (and yes I reguard NIN to be prog.. when they first came out in the late 80's that kinda sound was pretty much a big step into a new genre.. a very typically prog move)

 

[raecoil]

Maybe 'Imprisoned in flesh' by Cathedral.

 

[MetalManCPA]

I KNOW this answer is quite wierd on this messagboard:

Oh Father - Madonna

In all honesty, I haven't really found a metal song "depressing". Deep, dark, morbid, maniacal, crazy, loud, fast - this is metal to me. I am a true metalhead, and have been for a long time, so if I can't find a depressing metal song, I'm either correct or blind.

 

[benny]

I am also a big NIN fan, but has anyone heard what Trent is up to these days? Is NIN gonna release another album?

 

[Gdc]

METALMANCPA

Maybe this will help,...listen to this:
Evoken,Esoteric,Skepticism,Shape of Despair,
Bethlehem (older work)

Cheers

 

[Confessor]

Pink Floyd - The entire Wish You Were Here album and the song Hey You
My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Opeth - Epilogue
Metallica - Fade To Black and Welcome Home
Nine Inch Nails - The Great Below and A Warm Place

so thats all !

 

[Autumn Rust]

Hi winter-frost!

Well Trent has released 'Things Falling Apart' after 'Fragile' (notice how every name is such a depresso case?). And its got some new tracks, some remixes, and some old unreleased stuff like the track called 'metal' etc. Very cool.

He's also made a track for a movie.... forgot which one though.