Most depressing song ever

[BillyStubbsTears]

Fix you- coldplay
Dance with my father again- luther Vandross

Everything by Coldplay is depressing!

The very concept of Coldplay is depressing. Emotionally vacuous pap dressed up in middle class angst. With shit chords.

As someone once said, their music is both interesting and original.

Unfortunately, the interesting bits are not original and the original bits are not interesting.

[Colin C No.3]

The Sound of Silence, Simon & Garfunkel.

“Hello darkness my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again”………F**k off!

[idler]

Years ago when I had a part time job behind a bar in Bradford Vincent by Don McLean and Suicide is painless the mash theme were out together.  The number of times that they came on was soul destroying.

[Colin C No.3]

Not the most depressing, but the saddest pair of songs I know are Some Riot and Friend of Ours by Elbow. First one written to a mate who was drinking himself to death, the second one a desperately sad send off to him after he'd died.

Having lost a very close friend this year, Friend of Ours cracks me up every time.

It’s not only the lyrics, it’s that beautiful use of orchestral strings that Guy Garvin, Richard Ashcroft (both with & after The Verve) introduce into their pieces that make the song so much richer & evocative.

Elbow’s ‘Lippy Kids’ conjures up so much more as ‘a song’ not only because of the lyrics but also because of the ‘quiet’ percussion & brilliance of the keyboards. Worth a listen or better even a viewing via YouTube if you’re not familiar with the piece.

[BobG]

 Most things by Leonard Cohen and some things by the devastatingly talented Jacques Brel - who was the writer, and original performer, of Seasons in the Sun.

BobG

[Filo]

Fix you- coldplay
Dance with my father again- luther Vandross

Dance with my Father again was played at my Father in Laws funeral last month

[Ye-Aul-Tavern]

Anything from Radiohead's OK computer record.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Most things by Leonard Cohen and some things by the devastatingly talented Jacques Brel - who was the writer, and original performer, of Seasons in the Sun.

BobG

Jacques Brel was an utter genius, although I know his work best through Scott Walker's renditions of Mort Shuman's English translations.

Funeral Tango is a hilarious song, about Brel (who was dying of cancer) shouting abuse from beyond the grave to the attendees at his funeral.

"Sons of" is a hauntingly beautiful song about the hopes and fears of being a parent.

My favourite is Mathilde, which is just a riot.