Music lovers, would like your opinions, please

[sirgog]

Rereading the OP, how did I forget 'Blow Up The Pokies'?

"Pokies" is a term for gambling slot machines in Australia, the song is about a gambling addiction tearing a family apart, from the point of view of a friend that's watching it happen and can't figure out how to intervene to help. The addict used to be a musician whose liveliehood was ruined when pokies replaced live entertainment at pubs in Australia over the 90s (at least in Victoria, other decades in other states).

[AZgreentea]

Good one. *added link*


Another one should've been one of my first choices:

Queen - Who wants to Live Forever?

Really? I find that song uplifting... When he hits the part where his voice starts rising, I want to go do something great in the world.

LOVE Freddy, I wish he was still around.

[Gizeh]

Lou Reed: Magic and Loss. The entire album, every single song, will pull you down.

[cdbd3rd]

Really? I find that song uplifting... When he hits the part where his voice starts rising, I want to go do something great in the world.

LOVE Freddy, I wish he was still around.

Not when one's Forever falls to yesterday.

...but I see what you're meaning.

[evilgardengnome]

How Will I Laugh Tomorrow... When I Can't Even Smile Today by Suicidal Tendencies
http://youtu.be/MngX53etUvc

Dallabnikufesin by Anthrax
http://youtu.be/lBzGc2mfeSw

[9Crows]

Terry Jacks...Seasons In The Sun

The Replacements ...Here Comes A Reguler

Metallica...One

The Beatles...Eleanor Rigby


just a few...

[Nuralanya]

Have to agree on 'Seasons in the Sun' and 'Who Wants to Live Forever'.

One of the more depressing songs I remember from years back is 'Tell Laura I Love Her', by (according to wikis) either Ray Peterson or Ricky Valance. And I have always found Acker Bilk's 'Stranger on the Shore' to be a very emotional piece.

And anything by Coldplay is liable to make you want to slash your wrists...

What is sad/depressing is, as someone else said, kind of dependent on the listener and their current mood. There are some songs that I love which, listened to at the wrong time, will make me cry very easily.

[Hobgoblin]

some more

ok one is a collection - anything by katy perry

annies song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkGS263lGsQ by john denver

last dance with mary jane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pHM-o2_Dkby tom petty

picture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKFx0...eature=relatedby kid rock and sheryl crow

hob

[sirgog]

Saddest music videoclip ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs9a9RRcKms

Song To Say Goodbye, Placebo.

[porq]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41GUfMwjRA

Noah Guthrie, the 18 year old kid that did that crazy cover for LMFAO's sexy and i know it few weeks ago. Kid has some serious pipes.

[fco-karatekid]

There is a fine line between Emo and country...

Yah only about 10% difference in gender chagrin, too.

[LordMond63]

"Hellhound On My Trail"- Robert Johnson

Make sure that the lights are on when you listen to this one.

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

"Cold Turkey" by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band

Bear in mind what he was going through when you listen to this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b-Cr9a6eVo

[Inferno346]

Here some good ones
Warning: if you hate dissonance you should probably stay away.

All of Scott Walker's The Drift is pretty depressing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuHfAqz3TFY

Penderecki can get depressing in a desolate sort of way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA

Comus, although I guess they are more insane than depressing... depressing if you are a sane person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHHZhIZOF44

Sunn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH6Re2fazVc

Honorable mentions to the genre depressive black metal, and many of black metal's marriages with harsh noise, and some of the darker corners of electronic music/industrial... which I don't really know enough about to make good recommendations.

Edit: Some more:
Anekdoten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FATWqlJFAk
Kayo Dot's album Coyote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_2bdmzxWjE
Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz1cIRqiyPY