If You Talk About My Lil Girl in a Song Again Im Gonna Kill You

THE LATE 1960s to mid-70s were a manic depressive fourth dimension period in music, populated past exultant highs and soul crushing lows.  The highs came in the course of disco and bubblegum pop via ABBA, The Bee Gees and their ilk.  The lows came in the grade of devastating testaments to inner sadness and existential rage.  Perhaps it was Vietnam, recreational heroin use, and an economy that was in the crapper that caused such a bang-up in depressing anthems.  Who knows?  What is known is that this fourth dimension menstruum was fertile footing for misery put to melody, and whittling them down to a list of 15 was a daunting task indeed, but here goes….

fifteen. "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen

Livin' lone
I think of all the friends I've known
Simply when I dial the telephone
Nobody's home

Information technology'due south not so much the lyrics every bit the morose delivery nether a melody lifted from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto  No. 2.  Carmen sounds then deeply depressed that you one-half expect to hear a gunshot at the end of the song.

14. "Diary" by Breadstuff

I institute her diary underneath a tree.
And started reading most me.
The words began stick and tears to flow.
Her meaning now was articulate to come across.
The beloved she'd waited for was someone else not me

Do not play this at a political party equally it will crusade long-term sorrow in the hearts of men and women alike.  The combination of sparse acoustic guitar and violin with Gates' downcast vocalization make for a rails utterly devoid of cheer.

13. "Seasons in the Dominicus" by Terry Jacks

Bye my friend it'due south hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the heaven
Now that jump is in the air
Pretty girls are everywhere
Call up of me and I'll be there

TJ removed the fleck almost the wife'southward infidelity when he adapted "Le Moribond" by Belgian Jacques Brel.  Still, these last words of a dying human are guaranteed to destroy any shred of happiness in you lot.

12. "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" by Elton John

It'due south lamentable (and then sad)
It's a lamentable, sad situation
And it's getting more and more cool.

This from the human being that brought y'all "I Call up I'thousand Gonna Kill Myself "which had much more than dire lyrics.  However, "Sorry" is a much more than depressing package.  If you are fifty-fifty feeling slightly listless and glum, don't listen to this song.  The levee volition pause, tears will flow.

11. "Rocky" past Dickey Lee

I was proud and satisfied, life had and so much to requite
Till the 24-hour interval they told me that she didn't take long to live
She said, "Rocky, I never had to die before, don't know if I can do it."
Now information technology'southward dorsum to two once more my picayune girl and I
Who looks so much like her sweetness mother, sometimes that makes me cry

I know it's a gimmicky song cleverly designed to pull at my heartstrings – but information technology works.  In that location'due south something about her utterance "I never had to die earlier, don't know if I can do information technology" that causes the floodgates to open every time.

10. "Suicide is Painless" by Johnny Mandel  and Mike Altman

The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say.

Of course, this was the theme music for Thousand*A*S*H* (1970) and later an instrumental version for the TV show.  The story goes that the film's director, Robert Altman, gave the task to his teenage son to write the lyrics for "the stupidest vocal ever written".  This beautifully nihilistic goldmine is what came out.  In context of the film, it'south ironic and silly; however, on its ain information technology becomes a haunting anti-paean of morbid apathy.

9. "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition

It'due south difficult to love a human being whose legs are bent and paralyzed,
And the wants and needs of a adult female your age really I realize,
Only it won't be long, I've heard them say, until I'm not around,
Oh Ruby, don't take your honey to town

Yous see, he was injured in 'Nam, and now his wife fulfills her sexual appetite downtown.  He's going to die soon anyway; can she not rein information technology in for just a little while longer?

8. "Reflections of My Life" by Marmalade

The world is
A bad place
A bad place
A terrible place to alive
Oh but I don't want to die …

The single should take come with a packet of MDMA crystals to counterbalance the onset of profound grief.

 7. "I've Gotta Go a Message to You" by The Bee Gees

Now I'chiliad crying merely deep down inside,
well I did information technology to him, now it's my turn to die.

Didn't I merely mention in the opening paragraph that The Bee Gees were responsible for some of the happiest music of the era?  Yet here they are with among the about depressing – a dichotomy, those Gibb boys.  This one is an autobiography of a man as he'due south readied for execution who murdered a guy for sleeping with his wife.  A far, far weep from "Y'all Should exist Dancing".

vi. "Cotton's Dream" by  Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.

Originally used for the unbelievably depressing film Bless Beasts and Children (1971), this instrumental is the perfect background music to slit your wrists to.  If you could bottle all the sadness of the world and then condense it into audio, this would be the outcome.  The melody would exist later used for the soap opera Young and the Restless and Nadia Comăneci'due south theme music for the '76 Olympics.  Nonetheless, information technology's ability to inspire suicide or lifelong melancholy is never more than acute than equally the incidental music for the '71 tear jerker.

5.  "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian

And those of u.s. with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Badly remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone

Other songs about lonely girls ("Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles, "A Rose for Emily" by The Zombies) are sorry, but don't cut to the marrow quite like this one.  Paul's after Lonely Girl hit "Another Day" will get out you lot feeling similarly hollow inside, only Ian'due south vocal volition forever be the zenith among devastating anthems for the unpopular.

iv. "Shannon" past Henry Gross

Shannon is gone
I hope she'south drifting out to sea
She always loved to swim away
Perchance she'll notice an island
With a shaded tree
Just like the one in our backyard

Information technology'southward a song near a dead dog (specifically, Beach Boy Carl Wilson'southward Irish gaelic Setter).  Many a 70s manlike male strained to fight back the tears when this came on the radio; but, it was a futile chore.  Permit the tears pelting down, 70s male person.  Let them launder the pain away.

iii. "Rainy Days and Mondays" by The Carpenters

Talkin' to myself and feelin' quondam
Sometimes I'd similar to quit
Nothin' e'er seems to fit
Hangin' around
Nothin' to do simply pout
Rainy days and Mondays always get me downward

Karen Carpenter could sing me "Happy Birthday" and I'd feel sad and solitary.  There was something virtually her vocalization and delivery that just sucked all the joy out of my soul.  Well, when yous combine that talent with particularly dreary lyrics, it'due south a friction match made in purgatory.

two. "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin

And equally I hung upward the phone, information technology occurred to me
He'd grown upwardly just similar me
My boy was merely like me

I didn't want to include this: it's too overplayed so clichéd.  Yet, when I was compiling this list I gave it another listen…. and it was similar Chuck Norris had scissor-kicked me squarely in the heart.  There'southward simply something about this father-and-son tale that causes me to erupt into convulsive tears.  And to exist truthful, information technology doesn't fifty-fifty really utilise to my life – yet there information technology is.  A weepy, sobby lilliputian song that has elicited misery for the past 40 years and is still going strong.

1. "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Merely as if to knock me downwards
Reality came effectually
And without so much, as a mere affect
Broke me into trivial pieces
Leaving me to incertitude
All about God in His mercy
For if He really does exist
Why did He desert me?

Simply in the 1970s could you take a song achieve Number One which amounts to a soul-shattering plea to the heavens for an understanding of human suffering.  Try and motion picture the imagery Gilbert conjures upwardly and your lesser lip will quiver, your eyes will crawling – information technology'due south just so gut-wrenchingly sad.

Now, if you lot'll excuse me, I need to put on some ABBA to restore any remnants of positivity left within my aching heart. "Dancing Queen" hither I come up.

Should y'all wish to go through some musical anguish and pain here's a spotify playlist for all the higher up. Skilful luck!

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