Your Suicidal Top 3?

[lecter]

What 3 songs do you think are the saddest, most depressing things anyone could listen to?

My own list would be along the lines of:

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

Tom Waits - Martha

Skeeter Davis - The End of the World


The theme of my 3 is common enough, it seems...what songs can you come up with that have a different reason to kill oneself?

[Helevitia]

The Final Cut (The song, but the entire CD is brutal) - Pink Floyd

That's all I can think of. I have others in mind, but they aren't quite the top 3.

[Helevitia]

and just to prove it:

"The Final Cut"

through the fish eyed lens of tear stained eyes
i can barely define the shape of this moment in time
and far from flying high in clear blue skies
i'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where i hide
if you negotiate the minefield in the drive
and beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes
and if you make it past the shotgun in the hall
dial the combination. open the priesthole
and if i'm in i'll tell you what's behind the wall
there's a kid who had a big hallucination
making love to girls in magazines
he wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith
could anybody love him
or is it just a crazy dream
and if i show you my dark side
will you still hold me tonight
and if i open my heart to you
and show you my weak side
what would you do
would you sell your story to rolling stone
would you take the children away
and leave me alone
and smile in reassurance
as you whisper down the phone
would you send me packing
or would you take me home
thought i oughta bare my naked feelings
thought i oughta tear the curtain down
i held the blade in trembling hands
prepared to make it but just then the phone rang
i never had the nerve to make the final cut

[xortam]

Oh please .. let us romanticize suicide.

[schmosef]

LOL! Xortam, you're on fire!

[Helevitia]

LMAO xortam

[xortam]

[KentCummings]

I don't know, but three songs when I felt bad that always made me feel worse:

"Waiting Around To Die" by Townes Van Zandt
"Bell Bottom Blues" by Eric Clapton
"Nobody Loves Me but My Mother" by B.B. King

The music to the last one isn't that depressing, but after the depth of "Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could me jivin' too." hits you, you realize how blue a man can be.

Of course "Don't Worry, Be Happy" always depressed the shit out of me too for some unknown reason, and I am a relatively cheery person.

[xortam]

The funny thing about "singing the blues" is that you feel better afterwards. I do like's the blues.

[KentCummings]

Oh I love 'em...even try to play 'em from time to time...but thinking about the possibility that even your own ma doesn't love you...that's blue!

[Jon P. Inghram]

The ads in this thread are depressing.

Whoa, after posting this they stopped being ads about suicide and depression!

Hmm... and they're back, odd... and very sad, it just makes me feel so down... *sigh*

[TransformX]

Sad music might be depressing. Bad music, especially if I can't avoid it, gets me suicidal.

[KvHagedorn]

The entire album Berlin by Lou Reed.

[Jon P. Inghram]

I'd say The Wall isn't exactly an uplifting album (or movie.)

[KvHagedorn]

Review for Berlin on Amazon..

When it was released, Berlin quickly gained notoriety as the ultimate bummer album of all time; so unrelentingly bleak, archly nihilistic and stark, that some concluded that this must be some kind of cruel joke, an exercise in extravagant bad taste, that Lou Reed was pulling at his fans' expense (that was before the release of Metal Machine Music the following year). Berlin is indeed all those things but also stands as one of the most honest and beautiful expressions of genuine human pathos. The subject matter here is not about love found or hoped for (or about groupies and life on the road for that matter) but about loss and the self-destruction that can happen in its wake.

That said.. it is a powerful album.. Reed's masterpiece imho.

The lyrics:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/lou-reed/