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A list about the most depressing bands/artists ever (pt 2)

Criteria: My list, my rules. As always. The artist/band has to have two albums from which songs can be picked (off as a minimum). The songs can't be the only depressing song on a happy album (i.e Where is the Love on Elephunk by The Black Eyed Peas , possibly their only good song.) To block that the album needs a minimum of two depressy songs on it, but a max of four or half of 'A rush of blood to the head' will have to be listed. I'm not going to justify why the songs are depressing,I'll just find youtube links.

The list

30. Keane - Slow, mournful and piano-y. Occasionally angry yet somehow still slow and mournful.
Album 1 : Hopes and Fears

Reference Tracks:

(a) We Might as Well Be Strangers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82n2b4Mk8Zc


(b)She Has No Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG40MBNyexU&feature=related

(c) Bedshaped

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRjfP2EJsw&feature=related

(d) This Is the Last Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdzD5C-1vvg

Album 2: Under The Iron Sea

Reference Tracks

(a) A Bad Dream

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

(b) Nothing in My Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b51aXDwCqI

(c)Try Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uGdrPMfKYc

29. Elton John

Album 1: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Reference Tracks

(a) Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAhpIjazFN0

(b) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grc2rYZOWc8&feature=related


Album 2: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Reference Tracks

(a) Better Off Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bffP1d8jsM

(b) Someone Saved My Life Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia-s7rY175k

Album 3: Blue Moves

Reference Tracks

(a) Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2e4NlnLr28

(b) If There's A God in Heaven (what's He Waiting For?)

-

Album 5: Breaking Hearts

Reference Tracks

(a) Sad Songs Say So Much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH276U5PiGQ

(b) Burning Buildings

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Single : Candle in the Wind 1997

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


28. Belle And Sebastian



Album 1: The Boy With The Arab Strap

Reference Tracks:

(a) It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBVtXWHFhfg

(b) Is It Wicked Not To Care

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Kr_RJVUHA&feature=related

Album 2 : Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant

Reference Tracks:

(a) I Fought In A War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbpVULqIorA

(b) The Wrong Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG7JviIqf4E


27. Roy Orbison

Album 1: Lonely And Blue

Reference Tracks:

(a) Only The Lonely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOPah8Kby90

(b) Come Back to Me (my Love)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0NLFZNiKkw

Album 2: Crying

Reference Tracks:

(a) Crying

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAiJ3qQRvio

(b) Loneliness

-

Album 3: There Is Only One Roy Orbison

Reference tracks:

(a) Ride Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjeO60gH7A

(b) I'm In a Blue Blue Mood

-



Album 4: Cry Softly Lonely One

Reference Tracks

(a) Just Let Me Make Believe

-


(b) Cry Softly Lonely One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuDyhtOAsWA



26. Iron & Wine

Album 1: Our Endless Numbered Days

Reference Tracks

(a) Naked As We Came

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XXD20DhV4c

(b)Love and Some Verses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EFiopuzJMs

(c) Free Until They Cut Me Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rogop4J9KhU

Album 2: The Shepherd's Dog

Reference Tracks

(a) Innocent Bones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0TQ9KvUSnU

(b)Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIEiekJpGM






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