Playlist Challenge

[curgoth]

Playlist Challenge time again;

Ten most depressing songs. Post your own ten here or in your own LJ.

1. The Swans, "God Damn The Sun"


2. Rasputina, "A Quitter"


3. Nine Inch Nails, "Hurt" (Depending on how old you are, Johnny Cash's version may pack a stronger punch)


4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "The Weeping Song"


5. Joy Division, "Love will Tear Us Apart"


6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Song of Joy"


7. Tom Waits, "And No One Knows I'm Gone"


8. VNV Nation, "Holding On"


9. The Smiths, "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"


10. Leonard Cohen, "Famous Blue Raincoat"

Some day I will get around to writing that post on religious imagery in VNV Nation songs.

Comments

[fr-defenestrato.livejournal.com]

I considered Barber's Adagio but thought it didn't really count since it's not a song. See (hear) also:

Chopin, Prélude in c, Op. 28, No. 20
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 (also in c), Op. 110
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique', Op. 74: IV. Finale – Adagio lamentoso
Weill, Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Ives, Psalm 67 – 'God be merciful unto us'

I never considered 'Time' (Dark Side being pretty much one big organic downer).

[funos.livejournal.com]

On second thought, both adagios don't count anyway: they are merely profoundly sad, not depressing as such.