Post your favorite soul-crushing, depressing songs

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Thursday - Full Collapse - Understanding in a Car Crash

The band wrote the song about a friend they lose in a car crash. I saw them perform it live back in 2005 (I think) and it was amazing. You can feel the emotion in the song and how much it means to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ2ot19tAxA

Full Collapse is still one of my fav albums.

That's rough. The band I started off with, Woods of Ypres, had their singer die in a car accident and it ended the band. My friend that does a yearly metal festival out here in Portland, Oregon had them booked to play and everything. Then the singer died. Sucks.

Happy Birthday - Flipsyde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQG8v8kTGs

Man, that's pretty rough. Especially as I reach the age where I'm actually getting the really strong urge to have kids of my own.


Here's another song that I really dig. Pretty messed up lyrics, though.

Lupe Fiasco - Little Weapon


Evergrey - In Remembrance

This one is pretty sad, too. Vocalist is great IMO.


Nevermore - The Heart Collector

This is, in my opinion, one of the finest metal albums ever crafted. This song comes from the album "Dead Heart in a Dead World". I think it's a song even non-metal folks would enjoy (the vocals aren't harsh or anything and the guy has an awesome voice).

Nevermore to feel the pain
The heart collector sang
And I won't be feeling hollow for so long
Nevermore to feel the pain
The words fall out like fire
I'll believe when you can't believe anymore

That f***in' chorus, man. So damn good. Amazing guitar work, too.

[Meticode]

HOGNI - Under Streelights

[Meticode]

For anyone who doesn't totally hate Coldplay...

Coldplay - Gravity

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Oh man, how about this song?

Johnny Cash - Hurt

[DuMa]

Radiohead - Let Down

[travelingman]

Feel the Void - Jerry Cantrell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-34uwAZIjIs

[FatComputerNerd]

Joe Budden - "Broken Wings"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36IDQz1_Wx4

Joe Budden - "Whatever it takes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8k_QHYQvw

Joe Budden - "Black Cloud"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXpkqQZfkHw

Slaughterhouse - "Raindrops"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoVMmUHPEAg

Slaughterhouse - "Goodbye"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vg8IaRDBcc

Pretty much any Joe Budden song actually.

[FatComputerNerd]

And for a change of pace...

"The Ballad of Hollis Brown" by Bob Dylan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZszN4-jWWQ

The lyrics are seriously "soul-crushing".


"The Long Black Veil" By the Chieftains with Mick Jagger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYE-x0Yje98

Gets me every time. Such a sad song.

[Qwyjibo]

Yeasayer - Madder Red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n46Lp5_UZR0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh03i9Yl2KQ (Also, the official and VERY weird video with Kristen Bell)


John Lennon - Mother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEnc3RQE2lg


John Lennon - Working Class Hero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU


Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TRl92py07w
A song about the sexual exploitation of women. They even got Traci Lords to sing the chorus for the album version. A great song but with crushingly depressing lyrics.

[Bano114]

Death Cab for Cutie- I Will Follow You Into The Dark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHY1D0tKRA

Blink-182- Adams Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUsOK8Dlw7I

Nirvana- Where Did You Sleep Last Night (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaCzydWesVA

Korn- Alone I Break

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWWSAOqqiwI

[TylerOO]

rap music ftw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iewBu0JRyo

holy shit ive never heard that song. vince ****in kills it, i love it. repped

[Jailblazers7]

The Antlers - Kettering

[Beatlezz]

Brother Sparrow - Agnes Obel
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Angeles - Elliott Smith
Soup - Blind Melon
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Everybody Hurts- R.E.M
The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Asleep - The Smiths
Mad World - Gary Jules

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Nirvana- Where Did You Sleep Last Night (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaCzydWesVA

Damn, I haven't heard this song in ages.

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I was growing a little worried that people were becoming too happy on ISH. So now I have another set of tunes for ya'll.

Woods of Ypres - Finality

Really, if you only listen to one song I make in this post.. this should be it. This song gives me the chills. I've probably listened to it like 50 times in the past 2 days.

When we have all gone, to the silence of eternity...
To first be forgotten, and lost in, the records of the earth
Could I still miss you, then, in the time and space after life
When no one is searching anymore, and where we are nowhere to be found

We didn't spend our life together
and I will miss you forever

The choice was mine, To long for a time, that will never come
Though we leave the world apart, I, still went peacefully, quietly,
with you, still, firmly... in my heart.

I will wait forever. I wait...



Bonus: There are a couple cool covers of this song, here and here.


The Wounded - Smells Like Teen Spirit

A very slow and heavy cover of Nirvana's track from a doom/goth metal band.


Primordial - Gallows Hymn

Doom/black metal band that focuses mostly on historical events and times. Clean vocals make it a little easier to get into for people that dislike growls/screams/whatever.


[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1532AMY04]Agalloch - Black Lake Ni