Who sings the most depressing songs??

[fenderbender]

I've been out tonight at me local music club
between Christy Moore songs and Leonard Cohen songs -
I feel like jumping off a bridge---but there are no bridges near me 
only messing of course
but it begs the question -who sings the most depressing songs
and should they carry a health warning ?
All Christy Moore songs seem to have the same chord sequence
Amin-D-F-Emin oh yeh and the odd G or G7 thrown in 
Leonard Cohen songs -well 
they all seem to have at least 20 to 30 depressing verses and a choir.
what do you think?

[T.C. Elliott]

I did an open mic night a couple months ago and realized afterward I had four songs about death and one about tipping cows. *blink*

[IanR]

Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album is a bit bleak.

[Rata-tat-tat]

Billie Holliday for me... but I like it... when I feel like... well you know!!!!

[ODH]

who sings the most depressing songs?

For me that would be anyone that's a product of the Simon Cowell X Factor machine

Songs that explore and connect with the wider range of human experience I find uplifting and empowering. People say to me "I couldn't listen to Morrissey [read also Nick Cave and others], I'd slit my wrists": they have the opposite effect on me.

There are some songs that make me cry - Boys Next Door - Shivers (early Nick Cave), Pulp - She's Dead, Hot Chocolate - Emily (and the Sisters of Mercy cover)....

[Oldrottenhead]

i agree with Nick/odh.

 cohen/morrissey/cave all get tagged depressing when actually there is a helluva lot of humour in their songs. the band that most depresses me has gotta be black lace, with their clappy happy songs for morons.
agadoo indeed.

[Greeny]

I like depressing, dreary songs. People often cite The Smiths as a good example, but they do it with a gallows kind of humour that doesn't make their music depressing at all (for me, at least).

There are certain Radiohead songs that a pretty miserable. The 'rain down' bit of Paranoid Android is very dreary (and brilliant!). Leonard Cohen is qute miserable too.

People have different benchmarks of misery. My gf hates it when I start playing and singing Johnny Cash's 'Hurt', but I just find it moving and powerful... not depressing.

[Greeny]

Father Ted & Radiohead...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ot9pETh7U

[danieldesete]

Admin team, please ban fenderbender from the site for calling Leonard Cohen depressing ! 

"take this waltz" for example is a very cheerful song, if you are liberal enough to except the "shoulder where Death comes to cry", the"tree where the doves go to die", the "chair with a dead magazine In the cave at the tip of the lily In some hallways where love's never been", the"bar where the boys have stopped talking ... been sentenced to death by the blues"
this "this waltz With its very own breath of brandy and Death" always brings me joy and covers my arms with goosebumps !


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZzJAxfD-4


cheers
daniel

[steelguitar]

For me, the lyrics of Kurt Cobain are often depressing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--8NQMJnW0w
Jean-Sébastien