surely the suggested tracks are the last thing you want to play to the clinically depressed. It's bound to send at least some of them over the edge.
I reckon you want stuff like 'shiny happy people' to cheer them up about. Hell, or even 'the birdie song' much more likely to release them from their melancholic malaise than some of the stuff being suggested here.
Gloomy Sunday - Sung by (among others) Billie Holliday, written by Rezsoe Seres
This song is so depressing, it was banned in Hungary - the birthplace of its author - where it was blamed for a sharp increase in suicides. In America, the English version was also banned by some radio stations and nightclubs.
And, for anyone who doesn't know this song, here's some background to what is probably the most depressing song ever written:
New York Times, January 1968:
Budapest, January 13. Rezsoe Seres, whose dirge-like song hit, "Gloomy Sunday" was blamed for touching off a wave of suicides during the nineteen-thirties, has ended his own life as a suicide it was learned today.
Authorities disclosed today that Mr. Seres jumped from a window of his small apartment here last Sunday, shortly after his 69th birthday.
Mr. Seres complained that the success of "Gloomy Sunday" actually increased his unhappiness, because he knew he would never be able to write a second hit.
Point Blank - Bruce Springsteen (The most depressing song ever). Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday Nobody loves you when you are down and out - John Lennon 4 Lb, 7st - Manic Street Preachers Where did you sleep last night? - Leadbelly (Nirvana cover version is pretty good too)
The whole of "Spike" by Elvis Costello. Even the track "Veronica", which on the surface is pretty upbeat, concerns itself with his grandmothers slide into senile dementia.
A Scottish guy who I used to work with and who was a connusieur of this dark sort of stuff always felt a band called Arab Strap were the masters of the genre.
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The Drowners - Suede
Anything by Radiohead
I used to think that the lyrics were 'Suicide is Dangerous' until recently.
so-so suicide - finger eleven
hand of doom - black sabbath
cries in vain - bullet for my valentine
death - judas priest
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Love Lies Bleeding Elton John
Rock and Roll Suicide David Bowie
Bitter and Twisted The Who
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
Anything by Joy Divison and Papa Roache's Last Resort was some shite nu-metal teenage melodromatic sucide/attention seeking thing.
Edit: Otherside by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers is very depressing as well.
I reckon you want stuff like 'shiny happy people' to cheer them up about. Hell, or even 'the birdie song' much more likely to release them from their melancholic malaise than some of the stuff being suggested here.
In My Hour Of Darkness - Gram Parsons
This song is so depressing, it was banned in Hungary - the birthplace of its author - where it was blamed for a sharp increase in suicides. In America, the English version was also banned by some radio stations and nightclubs.
And, for anyone who doesn't know this song, here's some background to what is probably the most depressing song ever written:
New York Times, January 1968:
a pain that im used to
DEPECHE MODE .
(The most depressing song ever).
Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday
Nobody loves you when you are down and out - John Lennon
4 Lb, 7st - Manic Street Preachers
Where did you sleep last night? - Leadbelly (Nirvana cover version is pretty good too)
A Scottish guy who I used to work with and who was a connusieur of this dark sort of stuff always felt a band called Arab Strap were the masters of the genre.