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Makes me think I'm going to die, so what the hell :)
A few:
Homeward Bound - Simon&G
Will you still love me tomorrow - Carole King
By the time I get to Phoenix - Glen Campbell
Lucille - Kenny Rogers
In My Life - Judy collins version ( not Beatles)
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
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"To Do Is To Be" Socrates
"To Be Is To Do" Plato
"Do Be Do Be Do" Sinatra
Samuel Barber: "Adagio for Strings"
John Williams: Theme music for "Schindler's List"
Pink Floyd: Manic-depressive music all over "The Wall" album
"Seasons in the Sun"
"Alone Again, Naturally"
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
Well, there is always Mahler's Symphony No. 6, especially the last movement with the hammerblows of fate.
Lou Reed's Rock and Roll Animal is a real downer for me. It always makes me feel lonely, and I'm not usually prone to such negative feelings, especially not around music.
what mwhitmore said . Op. 111 does it for me.
- Strange Fruit, Billie holiday
- Concerto de Aranujez, Rodrigo [especially if you know the story behind the piece]
- Black and Blue, Louis Armstrong
- We are miners, Cowboy Junkies
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Depression is as legitimate a human emotion to express musically as happiness. By the end of the third movement, I have lost all hope. Until...that ringing c-major triad that opens the fourth movement. And I discover that, amid tragedy, there is not only hope, but triumph. That's why this is greatest piece of music ever written.
Much of Neil Young's early works. John Prine's first album. Ray Lynch's No Blue Thing.
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The most depressing masterpiece I've owned.
Tchaikovsky's Pathetique sounds positively chipper in comparison. Pettersson's most famous work is his Symphony No. 7.
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Mostly, I just find certain unconsidered threads depressing.
i wasn't allowed to play eric satie-gymnopedies or the soundtrack from king kong (1976). king kong woke her from sleep and she made me turn it off.
...regards...tr
If your asking what venue of music depresses, I'd have to say Farm and Barn for me, cowboys drawly singing to there heifers and such.
... is any music you don't want to be listening to, at any given moment.
"He was one of those men who live in poverty so that their lines of questioning may continue." - John Steinbeck
The last movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony
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I doubt that most people would want to listen to truly depressing music at all, or at least not very often. A few people might find ego reinforcement within truly depressing things but those are the people and things that most of us try to stay away from.
"He was one of those men who live in poverty so that their lines of questioning may continue." - John Steinbeck
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There's a certain nobility in the suffering expressed at the end of the Pathétique Symphony IMHO.
OTOH, I always remember the article in Stereo Review (back in the 60's I think), the "Guide to Party Conversation about Classical Music", which had ready-made phrases you could say - even if you didn't know anything about the subject. For Tchaikovsky, it was: "Tchaikovsky? Ah yes - such marvelous self pity!". ;-)
. . . "that's a sad, sad song!" ;-)
The utter hopelessness and despair of the end of that movement is unlike anything else I know of in music. And yet, it's not just hopelessness and despair: there's a beauty to it that attracts repeated listenings (if you can take it emotionally).
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