Depressing songs

Another Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg

Yesterday

Eleanor Rigby is brilliant, Paul did good.

Ring Around The Rosie. It's about the Bubonic Plague.

Hey Jude

George Michael's cover of "Tonight"

[quote] Ring Around The Rosie. It's about the Bubonic Plague.

[quote] The origin of the song is unknown, and there is no evidence supporting the popular 20th-century interpretation linking it to the Great Plague or earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England.

Pop songs do not depress me, Miss Fairy Sprinkle.

Fire and Rain by James Taylor. Fucking buzz kill.

Really, anything used for an [italic]In Memoriam[/italic] montage.

Most folks are aware of their big hit "Alone" off this cd but here is another great 1 =

"Wait For An Answer' is also depressing on the cd (& in real life) =

Depressing & scary =

Dolly's smiling in the pic below but the song is anything but...

Joey - Concrete Blonde

River by Joni Mitchell. It's beautiful though, so all is not lost.

Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children)

When I See You Again...

Blue Velvet

Crazy

Is That All There Is

Welcome to the Boomtown

Strange Fruit

Fade Into You

Every Day is Like Sunday

Pretty in Pink

Don't Explain

Mad About the Boy

Nowhere Man

The Last Day of Our Acquaintance

All You Zombies

Fly High Michelle

Joey

Desperado

Boys of Summer

Song of the Siren

Send in the Clowns

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Anything to do with Julee Cruise/Twin Peaks

The Second Time...

Sheryl Crow's "Wildflower"

R2 I'll raise you Yesterday and go all in with She's Leaving Home

You turned your back on me when I needed you...

The End Of Love - Jane Wiedlin

100 Years Of Solitude - Jane Wiedlin

Guardian Angel - Jane Wiedlin

No One Compares to U

Hold An Old Friend's Hand - Tiffany

R28, I struggle to think of one song by O'Conner that was not depressing.

A laugh riot, she was not.

Here In My Heart - Tiffany

Could've Been - Tiffany

Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You - Stevie Nicks

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Quiet Desperation...

Watercolors In The Rain - Roxette

You Don't Understand Me - Roxette

I'm Sorry - Roxette

Windows - Missing Persons

Surrender Your Heart - Missing Persons

We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - Missing Persons

It's Everything But Partytime = The Go-Go's

World's Away = The Go-Go's

I remember that day

Wind pushing birds around

Trees crashing against the window of a ghost hotel

Silly Love Songs

"The Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday though brilliant and poignant. More haunting than depressing actually.

Everything in the 70s that wasn’t disco sounded like “rainy day crying by the window” songs to me as a kid. McArthur Park definitely made my lip quiver. I don’t know why because I was too young to really understand it. Its sound is just mournful. Plus I was a little fattie and the idea of a perfectly good cake ruined by rain depressed the hell out of me. I quite literally remember thinking as a kid - surly there must be one piece left.

Another 70s song for your ass. I can’t believe almost 50 responses and no Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chaplin? Who isn’t depressed by generational neglect?

R28

Nothing* Compares to U

R30

It was written by Prince (granted, she phase it famous).

This Time it's Goodbye by Perry Blake

A classic - Exposé - Come Go with Me

Oops, wrong thread - sorry!

Bette Midler's version of Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today."

I don't know why, but this song makes me sad as fuck.

Seasons in the Motherfuckin' Sun.

[italic]Goodbye to you my trusted friend

We've known each other since we were nine or ten

Together we've climbed hills and trees

Learned of love and ABC's

Skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.

Goodbye my friend it's hard to die

When all the birds are singing in the sky...[/italic]

Puff the magic dragon depressed me as a kid. Hate it.

Just about anything by Pink Floyd.

Voices Carry, by ‘Til Tuesday

Alone Again, Naturally.

Fuck. How many drunken suicide attempts did that song cause?

Of course, Peggy Lee's IS THAT ALL THERE IS?

The theme to "Family Affair," the most depressing sitcom ever made.

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