Surprised no one has mentioned Townes Van Zandt yet.
It doesn't get any bleaker than "Marie."
Surprised no one has mentioned Townes Van Zandt yet.
It doesn't get any bleaker than "Marie."
Mark Oliver Everett (The Eel) wrote so many very good songs that could be the saddest or most depressing song ever...
A very gifted writer!
anything off of Alice in Chains Live Unplugged. Just knowing how f***ing frail Layne Staley was, but he still muscled out the entire show and pulled it off great. It's awesome but also makes me real sad while listening to it.
that miley cyrus part in the usa or anything by pink
rakanishu wrote:
anything off of Alice in Chains Live Unplugged. Just knowing how f***ing frail Layne Staley was, but he still muscled out the entire show and pulled it off great. It's awesome but also makes me real sad while listening to it.
Good call. I thought of "Down in a Hole."
"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday.
One of Rod Stewart's early songs, "Jo's Lament," is pretty bleak.
Dear Mr. Jesus
Radiohead - Street Sense (Fade Out)
Thom Yorke disavows credit for writing this song because it is so bleak, and will only perform it near the end of a set because he says it takes so much out of him to do it.
Fixed:
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Shoebacca wrote:
Runaway Train, by Soul Asylum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtvqT_wMeYThis is like the best music video of its type ever.
Agreed.
lots of em out there... wrote:
I don't love you by My Chemical Romance
Another good one. From the same album, I would add Disenchanted.
Townes is the king of sad, and good music.
Also, Casmir Polaski Day by Sufjan Stevens...gets me every time
It Makes No Difference: The Band
Desolation Row: Bob Dylan
And for a more obscure song:
I've Been Riding on a Strange Wave: The Everybodyfields
Its not even close! The saddest song ever was "its so hard to say goodbye to yesterday". Not Boyz II Men, but the original one that was sung at Cochises' funeral in the movie Cooley High. That movie was made in the mid-70's and I still tear up if I watch it.
Cochise was played by Lawrence Hilton Jacobs(Freddie Boom Boom Washington).
"Mad World" popped into my head too when I read the thread title. Pearl Jam's "Black" is also pretty darn bleak.
Solitaire. (From the Queen and the King.)
'Tits On A Chicken' by Tom Keene