REM - Everybody Hurts: Most Depressing Song of All Time?

[mushroom25]

http://www.telegraph....me.html#disqus_thread

the headline says "depressing", but the report suggests they really meant "sad", as in most likely to move the listener to tears.

the complete survey list is shown in the article - are they truly the songs that most move you to tears? or are they just depressing?

What would get your vote?

[cupid04]

The living years - Mike and the mechanics.

[mickrog]

The Living Years...Mike and the Mechanics

[Prudie]

Old Shep by Elvis makes me cry, most stuff by Leonard Cohen is depressing,

[cupid04]

If I could turnback the hands of time - R. Kelly.

[tiggerblue10]

What about Seasons in the Sun?

[rockyracoon]

The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve has me blubbing everytime I hear it.

[cupid04]

Two little boys - Rolf Harris.

[rockyracoon]

Just seen your one granny grump, my dad used to play Honey all the tme and it made me cry, then Freddie Starr one his own take on it and that's all I hear now.

[scrummyyummy]

For me it would be Luther Van Dross 'Dance with my Father', 'Tears in Heaven', "If Heaven Was Needing A Hero" by Jo Dee Messina (http://youtu.be/dV9GEC4ypEQ)
'Streets of London' and 'Puff the Magic Dragon' are a few I can think of so far.

[erin-x]

Folding Stars or Machines by Biffy Clyro

[askyourgran]

Seasons in the sun, dreary. Celine Dion My Heart will go on, to slit my wrists to, and Barbra Ann, I bl88dy hate that song.

[4getmenot]

scrummy mummy I had never heard of If Heaven Was Needing A Hero" by Jo Dee Messina so just checked it out on youtube, what a beautiful song. Now on my i-pod x

[starone]

Very old one - The Minstrel Boy and more modern Without You - Nilsson

[DaisyNonna]

'Bring Him Home' from Les Miserables. I hear the first bars and I cry. Wherever I am.
Lots of Leonard Cohen. Once worked with a few people and we took turns in providing LPs. Guess who got banned?

[boxtops]

There is a such a difference between sad songs, which make you reflective, and depressing music. I love Leonard Cohen but boy, is some of it miserable....

[RATTER15]

Not depressing but quite deep.

[Katie~77]

Gary Jules - Mad World puts me on a major downer.

[andy-hughes]

Interesting.

I know of no song or piece of music that I find 'depressing' at all, although loads of songs and instrumentals make me cry where ever i am - in the car, at home, what ever.

I don't think Leonard Cohen is depressing at all, he is wry and melancholy.

The first time I heard 'Tears In Heaven' was before it was released. Eric Clapton was on TV talking to Sue Lawley about the son he had just lost, and then he played the song live with an acoustic, and I howled!

I recall friends talking about Harvey Andrews supporting Focus on tour in the 1970's, and when he sang The Soldier, everyone in the hall was weeping by the end. When he returned, and everyone knew what he was going to sing, they cried as he started the song! Remember, the 'troubles' were at their height, and unemployment was rife, making an army career seem like a god options.

Isn't music fabulous - to connect us with our emmotions like that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NpaT5LDFgM

[andy-hughes]

And on a similar theme - I have had a good cry over these two, and I'm off to bed now xx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orjs0nTcICE&feature=related

[RATTER15]

This is very powerful if you can be bothered to listen to it.