We have all heard them, and while some people choose to listen to them some people just cant. Whether or not it is personal reasons or just because the song is depressing we choose not to. What songs do you find depressing and have trouble listening to? And do you feel music has a fairly large role in your life?
For me it's gotta be:
Hurt-The Johnny Cash version is the most depressing version, especially if you watch the video with him and his wife. Just to see him still plucking away and hitting the key on that piano just, well, hurts. The Trent Renzor version is also pretty depressing, with the images of war and death. I have trouble listening to them for whatever reason.
Mad Mad World-Tears for Fears, another song thats just kinda depressing the way they play on the sad, repetitiveness of life and society.
Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd. I am a huge Floyd fan, but I still have trouble with this song, one reason is kinda personal but the other is just because of what the entire thing means.
For me, I find music has a pretty big part of my moods. When I listen to my metal (Huge Marilyn Manson fan, also enjoy Slipknot and other similar bands) I just want to get out and do things, whether it's ride, work out or just work. When I listen to easy stuff (eg: Californication is a song I like to sit and chill to, or pretty much any song by The Who) I just wanna sit and relax, or just chill in the garage and do a few things on my bikes.
gnr rocker
04-05-07, 01:07 AM
the song '' I won't back down'' by tom petty, i watched barnyard and nowthe song makes me cry
callumrides
04-05-07, 01:24 AM
hey there delilah - plain white tees
i'll be missing you - ?
the truth about heaven - armor for sleep
face down - red jumpsuit appartatus
i had another really good one but i forgot it.
eightdip
04-05-07, 03:24 AM
Gary Jules-Mad world
The tears for fears version is not as depressing
studot
04-05-07, 04:13 AM
the tear for fear version is amazing
nothing really matters - sick puppies
East Hill
04-05-07, 04:23 AM
This is a fascinating question. I don't really listen to anything I find depressing, as I find it tends to increase any depression I may have.
On the other hand, I grew up listening to classical music (my father's favourite music), and a great deal of it was actually something that one might listen to in church--masses/requiems, that sort of thing.
When my father died, I listened to that music for hours on end. It actually made me feel better.
Odd. I do like listening to music, but I actually listen to music--it's never just a background noise to me. I have to really concentrate on the sound. Perhaps it's the way I was raised. I learned to play violin (briefly) and clarinet. My husband does not 'hear' music the same way I do. He can't take the notes apart or the sound apart and listen to just one instrument or voice, nor can he hear the way the chords come together and blend. He doesn't really enjoy music for that reason.
East Hill
mude
04-05-07, 05:06 AM
pretty much anything by lucero i find depressing
same with that song "you've got it bad"
for me its not really the lyrics but like, its how i've felt/the situation im in when i listen to the song for the first few times, then after that everytime i listen to it i feel like i felt in that situation
KinetikBiker
04-05-07, 06:02 AM
pretty much anything by lucero i find depressing
same with that song "you've got it bad"
for me its not really the lyrics but like, its how i've felt/the situation im in when i listen to the song for the first few times, then after that everytime i listen to it i feel like i felt in that situation
I kinda agree yo.
Lucero isn't all depressing. Download "Anjalee" or "Tears don't matter much" they are upbeat and happy.
mude
04-05-07, 06:09 AM
tears dont matter much is upbeat and happy?
obviously we're not talking about the same lucero
KinetikBiker
04-05-07, 06:14 AM
tears dont matter much is upbeat and happy?
obviously we're not talking about the same lucero
I said a bit more...
"Anjalee" is happy, along with 'Shes just that kinda girl"
ivegotabike
04-05-07, 08:36 AM
Vincent Black Lightening by Richard Thompson
Rain by Cunnylinguists
Lighthouse Tale by Nickle Creek
Sam Stone by John Prine
God is Gonna Cut You Down by Johnny Cash
The Needle and the Dammage Done by Neil Young
those are all quite sad
tmowery18
04-05-07, 08:47 AM
Dreamer-Ozzy Ozbourne is kinda sad to me i dont know why
ken cummings
04-05-07, 08:59 AM
Depressing music?
Tibetan Funeral Music; sounds like bass, warped Alpenhorns
"Deteriorata"
"DOA" by BloodRock. Actually banned by the FCC because of the sound of the ambulance siren on the soundtrack was causing accidents.
new_dharma
04-05-07, 10:34 AM
"Black" by Pearl Jam (from Ten)...reminds me of a lost-love!
FitRider 921
04-05-07, 10:51 AM
I really don't listen to depressing music, but if I had to say something, some of the songs from Funeral For A Friend.
mx_599
04-05-07, 12:25 PM
there are depressing songs?
you mean like the ones that sing about sexy and tractors in the same verse?
mx_599
04-05-07, 12:27 PM
Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd. I am a huge Floyd fan, but I still have trouble with this song, one reason is kinda personal but the other is just because of what the entire thing means.
what does it mean?
mx_599
04-05-07, 12:29 PM
i just realized, the bmx forum is cool because we're exonerated from having to post in FOO
:D
East Hill
04-05-07, 12:39 PM
i just realized, the bmx forum is cool because we're exonerated from having to post in FOO
:D
That is absolutely correct.
East Hill
MadMan2k
04-05-07, 01:28 PM
SS/FG is never on topic either. At least, they weren't last time I checked, maybe that changed.
new_dharma
04-05-07, 10:58 PM
^^^^^^^^^^
not always on topic
MadMan2k
04-05-07, 11:24 PM
Speaking of Pink Floyd... The Wall is amazing. Could be the best album ever, at least one of the best.
gnr rocker
04-05-07, 11:39 PM
new depressing song: " i will follow you into the dark" death cab for cutie
gnr rocker
04-05-07, 11:45 PM
also see "the boys of summer" the eagles version, not the ataris
wethepeople
04-06-07, 12:17 AM
Speaking of Pink Floyd... The Wall is amazing. Could be the best album ever, at least one of the best.
Indeed, it's what got me hooked on Floyd in the first place. Go to Youtube and check out some of the video's.