Slow depressing songs

[+ WmClarke]

I'm making a playlist for an upcoming session. My guy likes slow, depressing songs.

 

Any suggestions?

 

I could use any vocals from the last 100 years. Anything from Cry Me A River (by Julie London or Ella Fitzgerlad or both) to Run (by Nicole Scheringzer) or anything in between.

 

I usually go for uptempo depressing songs, so I don't have many ideas off the top of my head.

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

[+ WilliamM]

Peggy Lee was a master at singing slow, depressing songs. The album "If You Go" by Peggy Lee comes to mind immediately. As much as I like Ella and Julie London, Lee seems to go deeper emotionally (i.e. her song, "Is That All There is?" set the tone for the last season of "Mad Men.")

[+ WmClarke]

Never watched Mad Men and don't have any Peggy Lee songs--but that's about to change.

 

Thanks for the suggestion!

[AdamSmith]

[AdamSmith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjOoD94ucEQ

[+ Reisr30]

A couple of my favorite depressing songs are:

 

The same deep water as you - The Cure

Kingdom of the Rain - The The

[bigvalboy]

The Platters..."The Great Pretender"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyM8NVl4yBY

[bigvalboy]

And...."Harbor Lights"

 

 

That's it....

[+ jeezopete]

Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams" and "Crazy".

 

"I'll Cover You" (reprise) from Rent

 

Vikki Carr's "With Pen in Hand"

[+ Gar1eth]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZRCIrTgQc

 

Gman

[bigvalboy]

I saw Ella Fitzgerald at the Bowl some years back, and the banner out front simply said "ELLA"...My friend looked at me and said, "You know you've made it when they only have to use your first name" ....that always made me smile.

[AdamSmith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc

[+ Gar1eth]

This song always made me feel sad

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2wjI8aSroM

 

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

Peggy Lee was a master at singing slow, depressing songs. The album "If You Go" by Peggy Lee comes to mind immediately. As much as I like Ella and Julie, Lee seems to go deeper emotionally (i.e. her song, "Is That All There is?" set the tone for the last season of "Mad Men.")

 

 

'Julie' London?

 

Gman

[+ poolboy48220]

"The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys". Can't remember the band. That was playing on a trip up north after a long night of partying & no sleep, and I had to turn it off - it was putting me to sleep.

[BabyBoomer]

Who could ever forget "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro.

 

~ Boomer ~

[Lookin]

I'm making a playlist for an upcoming session. My guy likes slow, depressing songs.

 

Any suggestions?

 

http://eil.com/images/main/Edith-Piaf-Piaf-In-Her-Great-528605.jpg

 

Also, be sure and lock up the medicine cabinet. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

[bigvalboy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc

 

Brilliant...

[Boink]

From my personal playlist called 'Haunt':

Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee.

The Party's Over, especially the version by Shirley Bassey.

Dust In The Wind by Kansas

If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot

If I Could Reach You by The Fifth Dimension

Operator by Jim Croce

The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby

April Come She Will by Simon & Garfunkel

Babylon by David Gray

Second Avenue by Tim Moore or Art Garfunkel (may be the best song on this list!)

Superstar by The Carpenters

A Song For You, The Carpenters

Suzanne, Leonard Cohen

Born Under A Bad Sign, Richard Hawley

If I Were A Carpenter, Bobby Darin

Everything I Own, Bread

Long, Long Time, Linda Ronstadt

Send In The Clowns, Judy Collins

Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper (the slow version)

A Little Bit Of Everything, Dawes

We Just Disagree, Dave Mason

Please Come To Boston, Dave Loggins

Taxi, Harry Chapin

Silent All These Years, Tori Amos

Fire And Rain, James Taylor

Carefree Highway, Gordon Lightfoot

Oh Very Young, by Cat Stevens

Song For Guy, Elton John

Like A Sad Song by John Denver (yes, John Denver)

[MiamiLooker]

"Louise" sung by Bonnie Raitt

 

"Crying Time" sung by Ray Charles

 

"Pretty Polly" sung by Vandaveer

 

Or a different version, "Pretty Polly" sung by Judy Collins with Stephen Stills

 

"Am I Blue?" sung by Billie Holiday

[body2body]

"Glad to be Unhappy" by Rogers and Hart is beautifully interpreted by Frank Sinatra, and songs don't get any sadder, or more bittersweet.

[+ FreshFluff]

From my personal playlist called 'Haunt':

Dust In The Wind by Kansas

Operator by Jim Croce

The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby

April Come She Will by Simon & Garfunkel

 

Love it, especially the ones above. Also:

 

Leaves that are Green by Simon and Garfunkel

 

And........Alone by Heart. You can see it as depressing or as a description of that period of uncertainty and insecurity that precedes any good relationship.

[+ FreshFluff]

Rivers of Babylon by Don McLean, Mad Men version

[+ WmClarke]

Wow--lots of great suggestions! Keep 'em coming!

 

It looks like I will be listening to a lot of happy songs on the next few days. The original 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' is a real happy one, too.

 

And a humorous note: when I typed "Keep 'em coming" above, autocorrect kept changing the 'em' to 'me'--how nice that Autocorrect knows the ultimate goal here.

[bigvalboy]

Seven Spanish Angels...Willy Nelson and Ray Charles