Good list but I would add:

Bon Jovi's These Days album. That is the most upbeat yet seriously depressing album ever made.

Almost all of the music is completely upbeat and rocking, but the lyrics will make you want to take the fast way to cutting yourself: a lawn mower with switchblades attached to the already present blades.

Needs more Lou Reed (anything from "Berlin") Nick Drake and Joy Division

but Billie Holiday was a nice touch. Nothing is more gut-wretching than Billie

Needs "Gloomy Sunday" (aka: The Hungarian Suicide Song)

HappyHarryHardOn: Needs more Lou Reed (anything from "Berlin") Nick Drake and Joy Division

I thought it was odd that they chose one of Lou Reed's more upbeatish songs. Joy Division's Closer album is probably the most depressing album ever.

Where is the Cure?

mad world was done by tears for fear
taps? really?

FeedTheCollapse: HappyHarryHardOn: Needs more Lou Reed (anything from "Berlin") Nick Drake and Joy Division

I thought it was odd that they chose one of Lou Reed's more upbeatish songs. Joy Division's Closer album is probably the most depressing album ever.

Yeah, "perfect day" is a freaking football cheer compared to "Berlin", the perfect album to slit your wrist to, along with Joy Division's "Closer." Especially ever since I read the lyrics. Before I bought the boxset I had no idea what he was mumbling about but when I read the lyrics to songs like "Isolation" It kind of freaked me out a bit

"Tonight's the night" - Neil Young

almost anything by AIC in "Dirt".

Down in a hole.
Dirt (especially this one. jeez.)

I hate taps

sentex: Where is the Cure?

Indeed; I feel like sobbing just because Robert Smith has been left off this list.

Hm, I was expecting to hate this list. Sigur Ros, Mad World, Hurt, Hallelujah... actually, it's a pretty good list.

I thought something from the Spice Girls would have made the list

The fact this list fails to precisely match my own ... depresses me.

DOn't get me started or I'll go all Tom Waits on your ass; then you'll be sorry, and I'll be up all damn night til the goddam whiskey's gone.fark! I have work tomorrow.

Tom Waits: Ruby's Arms


Some Runners Up:

Tom Waits: Tom Traubert's Blues
Cocteau Twins: Song to the Sirens
Tom Waits: San Diego Serenade
Tom Waits: I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
Tom Waits: Martha

..Also, "Frankie Teardrop" can't be beat:

Poor Frankie.

She was afraid of boats.

RIP

We demand a recount! (pops)

List is missing something...Oh yeah.


Charlie Musselwhite, Christo Redemptor

Definitely agree with Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt".

But THIS amazingly depressing song from Gilbert O'Sullivan was left off the list, so I'm going to have to assign a FAIL.

What a downer.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "Song of Joy", the lead off track of his very moody and depressing album "Murder Ballads" trumps everything here.

Have mercy on me, sir
Allow me to impose on you
I have no place to stay
And my bones are cold right through
I will tell you a story
Of a man and his family
And I swear that it is true

Ten years ago I met a girl named Joy
She was a sweet and happy thing
Her eyes were bright blue jewels
And we were married in the spring
I had no idea what happiness a little love could bring
Or what life had in store
But all things move toward their end
On that you can be sure

La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la

Then one morning I awoke to find her weeping
And for many days to follow
She grew so sad and lonely
Became Joy in only name
Within her breast there launched an unnamed sorrow
And a dark and grim force set sail
Farewell happy fields
Where joy forever dwells
Hail horrors hail

Was it an act of contrition or some awful premonition
As if she saw into the heart of her final blood-soaked night
Those lunatic eyes, that hungry kitchen knife
Ah, I see, sir, that I have you attention!
Well, could it be?
How often I've asked that question
Well, then in quick succession
We had babies, one, two, three

We called them Hilda, Hattie and Holly
They were their mother's children
Their eyes were bright blue jewels
And they were quiet as a mouse
There was no laughter in the house
No, not from Hilda, Hattie or Holly
"No wonder," people said, "poor mother Joy's so melancholy"
Well, one night there came a visitor to our little home
I was visiting a sick friend
I was a doctor then
Joy and the girls were on their own

La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la

Joy had been bound with electrical tape
In her mouth a gag
She'd been stabbed repeatedly
And stuffed into a sleeping bag
In their very cots my girls were robbed of their lives
Method of murder much the same as my wife's
Method of murder much the same as my wife's
It was midnight when I arrived home
Said to the police on the telephone
Someone's taken four innocent lives

They never caught the man
He's still on the loose
It seems he has done many many more
Quotes John Milton on the walls in the victim's blood
The police are investigating at tremendous cost
In my house he wrote, "Red right hand"
That, I'm told, is from Paradise Lost
The wind round here gets wicked cold
But my story is nearly told
I fear the morning will bring quite a frost

So I've left my home
I drift from land to land
I am upon your step and you are a family man
Outside the vultures wheel
The wolves howl, the serpents hiss
And to extend this small favour, friend
Would be the sum of earthly bliss
Do you reckon me a friend?
The sun to me is dark
And silent as the moon
Do you, sir, have a room?
Are you beckoning me in?

La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la

Sinto: I thought something from the Spice Girls would have made the list

That reminded me of "Never Ever" by All Saints. Oy. High school.

/wrist

The most depressing song I know? "Accidental Babies" by Damien Rice. These songs might make you squirt some in the present, but listening to that song is like contracting cancer of the hope. Do not listen to it if you've ever been in love.

Seasons in the sun

11. "Yesterday" - The Beatles

Here Comes The Sun...

American Pie...

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me...

Dammit, that chick from 24 is on Conan and now I'm all distracted...

Burzum (new window)
That is all

The most depressing song to me is anything on top 40 radio at this moment.

Kind of Like Spitting- I've Realized That Things Aren't Really Good or Bad, at Least It's...

Would be my pick.

Songs by Nick Drake/Elliot Smith/Brad Nowell are depressing because they all died young.

hellbilly: The most depressing song to me is anything on top 40 radio in the last 25 years.

Joy Division "Atmosphere"
Cure "Pictures of you"
Gary Numan "Jo the Waiter"
John Hiatt "Take it down"
Frank Sinatra "I'll get along without you very well"
Cowboy Junkies "Sun comes up, it's Tuesday morning" and "Cheap is the way I feel"

Well they damn sure nailed number one. God...that one shouldn't even be on this list, it is a melody by itself.

Pretty solid list, although I'm not sure I'd put Sigur Ros - 1 as super depressing. It certainly makes you get quiet, I guess I'd call it more a beautiful melancholy. I agree that some Elliot Smith would sadden up the list a bit. There are a lot to choose from, but I might go with Pitseleh.

/loves me some Sigur Ros
//seen them twice
///choreographing a fireworks show to some of there more upbeat songs
////also had a serious Elliot Smith phase
//dont think I'll get to see him play :(

Holocaust - Big Star.

Seriously.

Tonight's the Night (entire Album)
PJ Harvey's entire musical output.
Elliot Smith's entire musical output.

There are a lot of Manic Street Preacher songs to choose from, but the one that leaps to mind instantly is a song from 1994's The Holy Bible, called "4st 7lbs".

(girl speaking)
I'm too much to die
I'm not enough to stay alive
I'm sitting in the middle, waiting

--

Days since I last pissed
Cheeks sunken and despaired
So gorgeous sunk to six stone
Lose my only remaining home

See my third rib appear
A week later all my flesh disappears
Stretching taut, cling-film on bone
I'm getting better

Karen says I've reached my target weight
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake
Problem is diet's not a big enough word
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity

Stomach collapsed at five
Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
Naked and lovely and 5st. 2
May I bud and never flower

My vision's getting blurred
But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
My hands are trembling stalks
And I can feel my breasts are sinking

Mother tries to choke me with roast beef
And sits savouring her sole Ryvita
That's the way you're built my father said
But I can change, my cocoon shedding

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity

Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat
All things I like looking at
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life

I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me

Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
This discipline's so rare, so please applaud
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so

Yeah 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel

Can't remember the name, but; last song, side 2, Peter Gabriels 2nd solo album. Depressing? And how!

Lipspinach: Can't remember the name, but; last song, side 2, Peter Gabriels 2nd solo album. Depressing? And how!

Home, Sweet Home?

Many of those aren't even depressing, let alone Top 11 material. And they missed an obvious one - "Vesti la Giubba" from Pagliacci.

Please Don't Ask.

/happy birthday phil

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones

Yeah I know it's country but damn it's the most depressing thing i've ever heard.

#10: epic fail! At least give Tears for Fears credit for writing the song even if the Gary Jules version is more depressing in the delivery.

I would've gone with "Last Caress." That song has always depreesed the shiat out of me. (But then again, what does not?)

Lipspinach: Can't remember the name, but; last song, side 2, Peter Gabriels 2nd solo album. Depressing? And how!

Go to the third album and try the end of "Family Snapshot" on for size.

Eleanor Rigby- The Beatles

Don't Let It Bring You Down- Neil Young

Time Of No Reply- Nick Drake

Urge For Going- Joni Mitchell

Perfect Circle- REM

Easy As Sin- Everything But The Girl

And then, he reached for the vodka.

Almost anything from Rob Lamothe's album "Wishing Well Motel", I'd warrant.

"Lake of Fire" by Nirvana. (Apparently I'm all grunge on this.) It's more depressing because the guy singing it actually blew his brains out.

Wrong_Intentions: I would've gone with "Last Caress." That song has always depreesed the shiat out of me. (But then again, what does not?)

Did I actually say "what does not" or is that a filter I didn't know about?

"A Better Place To Be" - Harry Chapin

Needle in the Hay, Pretty Mary K. (New Moon version), Taking a fall, I'm Doing O.K. - Elliott Smith

Devil's Arcade- Bruce Springsteen

Song for Adam - Jackson Browne

Dress Blues- Jason Isbell

Two Daughter's and a Beautiful Wife - Drive-By Truckers...
The saddest song I've heard in years, first time I heard it and found out what it was about I cried... it's about Bryan Harvey who gets to heaven, and is confused because his daughters and wife are already there...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Richmond_spree_murders

When he reached the gates of heaven
He didn't understand
He knew that folks were coming over
Or was it all a dream?
Was it all a crazy dream?

He saw them playing there before him
What were they doing there?
It felt like home, It must be alright
Or is it just a dream?
Is it just a crazy dream?

Memories replay before him
All the tiny moments of his life
Laying round in bed on a Saturday morning
Two daughters and a wife
Two daughters and a beautiful wife

Meanwhile on Earth his friends came over
Shocked and horrified
Dolls and flowers at the storefront
Everybody cried
Everybody cried and cried

Is there vengeance up in heaven?
Are those things left behind?
Maybe everyday is Saturday morning
Two daughters and a wife
Two daughters and a beautiful wife
Two daughters and a beautiful wife

Hmmmm... no Nine Inch Nails yet ?

How about "The Bottom" from the album "The Downward spiral"...

'BANG... A whole lifetime of farking things up... fixed... In one determined flash...'

Sinto: I thought something from the Spice Girls would have made the list

Viva Forever always gets to me.

Oh and don't forget Ozzy's "Suicide Solution" and Priest's "Better by you, Better by me" as we all know they both drive people to suicide through subliminal messages.

/Actually the former could legitimately be counted, subliminal messages or not.

No "Bird on a Wire"? No "Tonight I Feel So Far Away From Home"? No Elliott Smith? Shenanigans!

Ooh! Ooh! Rocketman!