Depressing Music

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0pePKlYUWI[/youtube]

Better if I could find the words to say
Whenever I take a choice it turns away

I'm worn, tired of my mind
I'm worn out, thinking of why
I'm always so unsure

I battle my thoughts I find I can't explain
I've travelled so far but somehow feel the same

I'm worn, tired of my mind
I'm worn out, thinking of why
I'm always so unsure
I'm always so unsure

I'm worn, tired of my mind
I'm worn out, thinking of why
I'm always so unsure
I'm always so unsure

I'm always so unsure
I'm always so unsure
I'm always so unsure
I'm always so unsure

I am alive when I sleep
Why am I not in all that I got?
I can't find no one to blame

Stand, stand, damned one
Damned one
Damned one
Damned one

I am one
Damned
One

Where do I go?

I've just ordered a portishead album (self titled) but, I can't listen to the songs that are being posted as my workplace has blocked all kinds of video streaming etc, but as soon as I get a chance I'm gonna listen to it all, from what I've read it all sounds really interesting!

It depends what depresses you?

I find Joy Division elevating through it's gloom, likewise early Sonic Youth.

Sometimes Tchaikovsky can bring me down and at others raise me up?

peace j

One of the most morose pieces that I have ever heard...Arvo Part's Spiegel Im Spiegel
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8qg_0P9L6c[/youtube]

Another really depressing (but beautiful) piece music. Leopold Stokowski's transcrption of Bach's Komm Suser Tod. I apologize for the sound quality.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPyA2wSZY9I[/youtube]

Philosophical.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWQRaY0Tns[/youtube]

Modest Mouse - The Cold Part
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIgXWQUY-sw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHzMNRL4seY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGLMhcxcPc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgvQReyZC0I[/youtube]

(the pitch in the last one is screwed up unfortunately)

Damien Rice.

Elliot Smith is another good one.

I'm gonna second Nick Cave. There's an album he did, I think with Birthday Party, that competed strongly with Tom Waits' darker stuff for melancholy mood. I don't recall the album name (I never owned it, a roommate played it a lot) but it has songs called "Christina the Astonishing" and "Brenner, My Cup is Empty".

When I saw this topic, I was gonna suggest funeral doom. I've heard it described as "soundtrack to a suicide" at a few websites before.

Couple of my favorite songs in the subgenre, from a band called Ahab...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z3no2pJfrk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHVkJgwAXgE[/youtube]

It almost seems inappropriate to be listening to this at 11 am, or without a bottle of booze in arms reach.

If you prefer melancholy minimalism you should check out some Scandinavian dark ambient music. It's kind of confusing because a lot of the musicians are also in the black metal scene and some will mix the genres. However there's plenty of stuff that's pure ambient with no vocals or electric guitar.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvX7P6Fd4gs[/youtube]
Kinda childish I know, but that's only because the REAL song I wanted to post here wasn't on YouTube...

Joy Division's album "Closer" - this was basically Ian Curtis's musical suicide note, he killed himself not long afterward.

Portishead can be pretty melancholy too, but I prefer the first album ("Dummy") to the second (self titled).

An old 80's band called Japan. Their lead singers voice was mournful. Their music was good but very moody. When the band split up the lead singer David Sylvian even managed to make a solo album that was more depressing than any the group managed to do!