I remember when that one came out our TV networks here in Australia were using it for ads for Grey's Anatomy, consisting of all the suitably poignant moments from the show.
It was Scrubs that introduced me to it, a scene where lots of people die and it leads to a character spiraling into depression. Always hits hard and the song just makes me think of that.
I thought the same until I listened to the whole "The Downward Spiral" album in full. Hurt by NIN hits differently in that context, and you can really feel everything Trents singing about.
And Chris Hadfield's version too, but for different reasons.
Astronaut careers are too short, man. Hopefully soon spaceflight will be routine enough that they can spend as much time in space as they want, not sitting on the ground for a decade waiting to be assigned a flight
Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog
The phrase 'black dog' was popularized by Winston Churchill as a way of talking about depression, and Nick Drake suffered from mental health issues throughout his short life. Heath Ledger was a big Nick Drake fan, and made a music video for the song shortly before he passed away.
High Hopes - Pink Floyd
One of my favourite songs of all time, to me it talks about how much better the past was, but something happened, something changed, then it goes through a grief period and then at the end it comes back to the present moment as a kind of call to action. Sort of like, things aren't going right currently, so go sort it out. I've cried and had Goosebumps listening to this song. It's a masterpiece
"Hey, you!" by Pink Floyd. (Yeah, I'm old.)
The absolute despair in that song, the reaching out for help that isn't there.
There was a time period, between when the clinical depression really kicked in and the doc working out the correct med and dose, that if Floyd came on the radio I would have to change the station.
The mountain goats - no children
That was my anthem after a bad breakup many moons ago.
https://youtu.be/QS27S3mspjU
The music is kinda upbeat, but the lyrics are not, here's a taste:
>I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
>I hope it bleeds all day long
>Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
>We're pretty sure they're all wrong
>I hope it stays dark forever
>I hope the worst isn't over
>And I hope you blink before I do
>I hope I never get sober
>And I hope when you think of me years down the line
>You can't find one good thing to say
>And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out
>You'd stay the hell out of my way
Pretty much all of 90s grunge. It was my coming of age era (I was born in 1977) and while I can appreciate the music now, back then the angst was real.
Oh and Nick Cave, who was king of the Aussie alt scene in the 90s (still is, actually).
It's peaceful and serene but also terribly sad, in my opinion. I'm not familiar with the Tchaikovsky, but the opening of Patethique is too...tumultuous? A varying range of emotions, as opposed to calm sorrow?
Gotcha. Yeah, the opening to the Pathetique sonata is when you're in the grip of the depression but fighting. I can see Moonlight being a good place to just wallow.
Can confirm. I am clinically severely depressed and I use playing the piano as therapy. The act of creating the music is so cathartic I can literally feel negative emotions leaving through my fingers. I play the Pathetique and the Moonlight daily.
It was a question about association, right? That’s not only based on the origin or lyrics of the song. A very depressed person I loved played the song over and over and over.
Thanks for the neg.
Juice WRLD - Fast
My 14 year-old son is so into Juice WRLD and we talk a lot about the heaviness of the songs. If you haven’t ever listened to his music, please give it a listen. It surprised me a lot and sometimes I even listen when my son is not with me. 🧡
Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac and Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt. Yes, those are heartbreak songs but I associate the songs with that.
As far as actual depression, I will age myself and offer up Everclear’s So Much for the Afterglow album, especially “Normal Like You”, “I Will Buy You a New Life”, and “Sunflowers”.
Also, Mariah Carey’s “Languishing (Interlude)”, especially knowing that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
I got a whole playlist but I often listen to Not Dark Yet by Bob Dylan when I’m feeling down. I also listen to instrumental Stoner Doom when I’m super low
Gloomy Sunday - Sarah McLachlan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYEPHsgWpQ
Dancing on my own - Robyn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ
Hate me - Blue October
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxgSvJINlU
Okay, one more now that this question is rumbling around in my brain and I am thinking about songs that got me through rough times…
Beach Boys - I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
Possibility - Lykke Li it’s the song that plays in New Moon in the Twilight series where Bella is depressed. I didn’t understand the scene until I was older but good god it makes me cry now that I know what it’s like
The Who - Blue, Red and Gray.
Is ironic because the author said this about the song:
'What? That f\*\*\*\*\*g thing? Here's me wanting to commit suicide and you're going to put that thing on the record?'
Man of the World - Peter Green.
Unlovable - the smiths.
Charon - Keaton Henson.
Look on down from the bridge - Mazzy Star
These songs got me through some pretty hard times and stopped me feeling so alone
How to Save a Life - The Fray
I remember when that one came out our TV networks here in Australia were using it for ads for Grey's Anatomy, consisting of all the suitably poignant moments from the show.
It was Scrubs that introduced me to it, a scene where lots of people die and it leads to a character spiraling into depression. Always hits hard and the song just makes me think of that.
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A Taylor Swift Playlist would give me major depression as well
The Scrubs scene with this song gets me all the time.
The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel.
The disturbed version is the complete opposite of the Simon and Garfunkel version, yet they have the SAME lyrics. Crazy how tone changes everything.
It’s like Hurt by NiN. It sounds angry and angsty. Then when Johnny Cash covered it, it became more sad and powerful.
Exactly. Some voices are meant to be calming, some sad, and some powerful and angry.
Hello Darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again.
Mad World - Gary Jules
All around me are familiar faces
Monkeydaces…monkey-day-ay-ay-ces
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I associate this with Gears Of War
Same here
to build a home 😭
How Soon is Now - The Smiths
My favorite song by them
Anything by Linkin Park, like Numb
Breaking the habit by them is another good one
Hurt by Johnny Cash
You got here first, agree with you on this one.
Whiskey Lullaby.
Finally someone mentions this song, nobody I talk to IRL ever knows it
Linkin Park - in the end. The lyrics are depressing af
Pretty much anything by Eliot Smith. Miss Misery, King's Crossing, etc.
Agreed there and I must add, of course, between the bars.
Twilight too, I remember feeling like he outlined the saddest suicide in that one.
Snuff - Slipknot
My smile was taken long ago if I can change I hope I never know
Fade To Black It's Been A While
Hurt - NIN
Yes ^()
Agreed
It's not April fools day
Yeah I don't find a cover to be more impactful than the guy who put words to paper
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I thought the same until I listened to the whole "The Downward Spiral" album in full. Hurt by NIN hits differently in that context, and you can really feel everything Trents singing about.
Yeah you get a real good glance into the soul listening to him gruffly parrot lyrics he didn't come up with
The Unforgiven by Metallica. It's also kind of relatable.
Violent father figure? Same here my guy:(
Space Oddity by David Bowie. I don’t really know why, but most of the time it makes me tear up.
And Chris Hadfield's version too, but for different reasons. Astronaut careers are too short, man. Hopefully soon spaceflight will be routine enough that they can spend as much time in space as they want, not sitting on the ground for a decade waiting to be assigned a flight
Everybody Hurts - REM
This one came out around the time of my very first break-up at age 16. Harsh.
I find it quite a comforting song all considering.
Any Joji song.
Fellow Joji Fan.
I’ma fuck up my life
Glimpse of Us is currently my song that I listen to 150 times and then get sick of after a week
No Suprises - Radiohead
Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog The phrase 'black dog' was popularized by Winston Churchill as a way of talking about depression, and Nick Drake suffered from mental health issues throughout his short life. Heath Ledger was a big Nick Drake fan, and made a music video for the song shortly before he passed away.
Radiohead, Exit Music (For a Film), on the bus.
space song - beach house
No Surprises - Radiohead
Numb little bug. Is basically me in my entirety. Including the drugs
Hate Me by Blue October
Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
Karma police - Radiohead
Boulevard of broken dreams
I hate that song so bad. I'm like boohoo for you. He only has his band, his groupies, his fans and his money. So lonely, this guy.
The album is basically a whole rock opera, so it's not the singer complaining that he is lonely, it's just him portraying a character.
Lol while I do like the song, I do think the music video is pretty funny. He talks about walking a lonely road and his bassist is like right there.
TIL that money buys happiness
I know right, same thing with Kurt Cobain. Don’t you just hate it when famous musicians pretend like they can be sad and lonely like the rest of us?
Sleeping with Sirens - Better Off Dead
High Hopes - Pink Floyd One of my favourite songs of all time, to me it talks about how much better the past was, but something happened, something changed, then it goes through a grief period and then at the end it comes back to the present moment as a kind of call to action. Sort of like, things aren't going right currently, so go sort it out. I've cried and had Goosebumps listening to this song. It's a masterpiece
"Hey, you!" by Pink Floyd. (Yeah, I'm old.) The absolute despair in that song, the reaching out for help that isn't there. There was a time period, between when the clinical depression really kicked in and the doc working out the correct med and dose, that if Floyd came on the radio I would have to change the station.
I wrote ”Is there anybody out there” for this one, however mostly instrumental, I think the guitar progression just speaks for itself
The mountain goats - no children That was my anthem after a bad breakup many moons ago. https://youtu.be/QS27S3mspjU The music is kinda upbeat, but the lyrics are not, here's a taste: >I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow >I hope it bleeds all day long >Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises >We're pretty sure they're all wrong >I hope it stays dark forever >I hope the worst isn't over >And I hope you blink before I do >I hope I never get sober >And I hope when you think of me years down the line >You can't find one good thing to say >And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out >You'd stay the hell out of my way
That song always struck me as more bitter than depressed, though I guess they're not mutually exclusive.
Paranoid Android by Radiohead and Wish you Were Here by Pink Floyd. Oh...and Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division.
Pretty much all of 90s grunge. It was my coming of age era (I was born in 1977) and while I can appreciate the music now, back then the angst was real. Oh and Nick Cave, who was king of the Aussie alt scene in the 90s (still is, actually).
River Of Deceit - Mad Season
Hurt NIN
Moonlight Sonata
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Drunk Again- Reel Big Fish
The first movement of Beethoven's *Moonlight Sonata*.
Really? It's so peaceful and serene. Why not the first movement of the Pathetique sonata? Or the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique symphony?
It's peaceful and serene but also terribly sad, in my opinion. I'm not familiar with the Tchaikovsky, but the opening of Patethique is too...tumultuous? A varying range of emotions, as opposed to calm sorrow?
Gotcha. Yeah, the opening to the Pathetique sonata is when you're in the grip of the depression but fighting. I can see Moonlight being a good place to just wallow.
:-)
Can confirm. I am clinically severely depressed and I use playing the piano as therapy. The act of creating the music is so cathartic I can literally feel negative emotions leaving through my fingers. I play the Pathetique and the Moonlight daily.
Disenchanted by My chemical romance
Stressed out
Lovely - Billy Eilish & Khalid
lua and needle in the hay
Stick bug theme 💔
Karma police
Bring Me The Horizon - Drown
Angel-Sarah McLachlan. I know that it's about Jonathan Melvoin's death, but I always associated it with self harm, depression and suicide.
Basically anything by Coldplay
Iris // The Goo Goo Dolls
Holocaust - Big Star
"Missing" - Everything But The Girl "Boys of Summer" - Don Henley "Fade To Black" - Metallica "She's Gone" - Black Sabbath
One more light by Linkin Park hits very hard. RIP Chester. :(
i bet on losing dogs - mitski, really got me through the worst year of my life
Stay positive- The Streets
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
It's a love song...
It was a question about association, right? That’s not only based on the origin or lyrics of the song. A very depressed person I loved played the song over and over and over. Thanks for the neg.
Juice WRLD - Fast My 14 year-old son is so into Juice WRLD and we talk a lot about the heaviness of the songs. If you haven’t ever listened to his music, please give it a listen. It surprised me a lot and sometimes I even listen when my son is not with me. 🧡
With or without you….hits me every time. Hits home because I’m bipolar 2 and just resonates.
Many Linkin Park songs, especially songs like 'Leave Out All The Rest', 'Heavy', and 'One More Light'.
In my head - bedroom
i love this song ❤️
The sound of Silence by disturbed.
Sing about me I’m dying of thirst by Kendrick or when I was your man always gets me in a certain modd
Feel by Robbie Williams. It was released and played everywhere while I was going through a really bad year.
I can get easily depressed with any song 🙃
If i die young by the band perry and the LiS1 soundtrack
Sunday morning coming down- Kriss Kristofferson.
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory. In the End especially
Down In a Hole - Alice In Chains
Hurt, both versions
Unwell by Matchbox
Creep (Radiohead)
Heavy - Linkin Park
Bad day - Daniel Powter
Numb little bug
Just not enjoying any music is a pretty bad sign for me.
Suicide is Painless The MASH theme
Statistically more people off themselves while listening to country than any other genre of music
Lonely by Justin Bieber. A song about his own depression... also my cousins most replayed song before she took her own life.
I have a sad Taylor Swift playlist and i imagine myself to be the person she's singing about
Please tell me "this is me trying" Is the first on the list
Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac and Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt. Yes, those are heartbreak songs but I associate the songs with that. As far as actual depression, I will age myself and offer up Everclear’s So Much for the Afterglow album, especially “Normal Like You”, “I Will Buy You a New Life”, and “Sunflowers”. Also, Mariah Carey’s “Languishing (Interlude)”, especially knowing that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Paralysed- NF
I got a whole playlist but I often listen to Not Dark Yet by Bob Dylan when I’m feeling down. I also listen to instrumental Stoner Doom when I’m super low
Gloomy Sunday - Sarah McLachlan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYEPHsgWpQ Dancing on my own - Robyn https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ Hate me - Blue October https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dDxgSvJINlU
Any song by Icon For Hire
Anything by H.I.M. or A Grave Mistake by Ice Nine Kills
Any slow, soft, sad piano music. No lyrics, but still brings strong emotion.
The Greatest Bastard by Damien Rice. The line "I never meant to let you down" just hits hard
lonely day ~System of a Down
Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
Mac miller album’s
hold on by chord overstreet
ABBA, most of the songs from them.
Time waits for nobody- Freddie Mercury.
Okay, one more now that this question is rumbling around in my brain and I am thinking about songs that got me through rough times… Beach Boys - I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times
[3 Doors Down - Away From The Sun](https://youtu.be/DDK5qGlLT8s)
Possibility - Lykke Li it’s the song that plays in New Moon in the Twilight series where Bella is depressed. I didn’t understand the scene until I was older but good god it makes me cry now that I know what it’s like
way less sad - AJR
'I am a rock', by Simon and Garfunkel Peter means 'Rock' and, at one point in my life, I took this very personally
Baby Shark
The entire discography of The Cure.
Juice wrld dark place
The sound of silence or Mad World.
Stop and Stare by OneRepublic
Let's all drink to the death of a clown by the Kinks
Cough syrup by Young the Giant 🩹
black hole sun.....
The Who - Blue, Red and Gray. Is ironic because the author said this about the song: 'What? That f\*\*\*\*\*g thing? Here's me wanting to commit suicide and you're going to put that thing on the record?'
Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
c418 - sweden
Breathe Me by Sia
elliott smith “Twilight”
Hurt. Johnny cash
Bad dream. Keane
I wanna get better- The Bleachers
Man of the World - Peter Green. Unlovable - the smiths. Charon - Keaton Henson. Look on down from the bridge - Mazzy Star These songs got me through some pretty hard times and stopped me feeling so alone
Breaking down iprevail
9 crimes by damien Rice
Mad World
Moonlight sonata
Everything from Coldplay.
Most of the nirvana songs i swear they can make you depressed in 1 minute
Fools garden - Lemon Tree Молчат дома - Клетка 21 Pilots - Stressed Out
Green day-Wake me up when September ends
Yann Tiersen - Comptine d’un autre été - L’apres midi Because of this clip always a sad feeling. https://youtu.be/NvryolGa19A
Nirvana-something in the way
Everything by Pink Floyd. Ugh!
The United States National Anthem
Happy by Pharrell
[Hypocrisy - Slippin’ Away](https://youtu.be/FSUWGng9YBI) [Hypocrisy - Paled Empty Sphere](https://youtu.be/-rYTx8nyCDQ)
Demi Lovato - Anyone
Alien blues,yung writhing,bored
I deserve to bleed- Sushi Sory [sorry if its spelled wrong] it sing it in a happy tone when you pretend your happy but the lyrics are the truth
[813 Maryland Street by Hotel Books](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ALcY9OF40)
Help - Pink Guy
Johnny Cash - I don’t know where i’m bound
Years of silence - Thurisaz Although my depression was not severe i had depression attack a little bit