52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard
from the Tom Reynolds book 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die' 2006
The list: 1. 'The Christmas Song' - Newsong 2. 'The Shortest Story' - Harry Chapin 3. 'Honey' - Bobby Goldsboro 4. 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' - Bonnie Tyler 5. 'Seasons in the Sun' - Terry Jacks 6. 'DOA' - Bloodrock 7. 'Strange Fruit' - Billie Holiday 8. 'Hurt' - Nine Inch Nails 9. ' Sister Morphine' - Marianne Faithfull 10. 'People Who Died' - The Jim Carroll Band 11. 'One' - Metallica 12. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition 13. 'Brick' - Ben Folds Five 14. 'Comfortably Numb' - Pink Floyd 15. 'Maggie's Dream' - Don Williams 16. 'The Rose' - Bette Midler 17. 'The Freshmen' - The Verve Pipe 18. 'Prayers for Rain' - The Cure 19. 'Women's Prison' - Loretta Lynn 20. 'All By Myself' - Celine Dion 21. 'Tell Laura I Love Her' - Ray Peterson 22. 'The River' - Bruce Springsteen 23. 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond 24. 'My Immortal' - Evanescence 25. 'Sam Stone' - John Prine 26. 'In The Air Tonight' - Phil Collins 27. 'MacArthur Park' - Richard Harris 28. 'Round Here' - Counting Crows 29. 'I Will Always Love You' - Whitney Houston 30. 'The End' - The Doors 31. 'Last Kiss' - J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers 32. 'Mandy' - Barry Manilow 33. 'Don't Cry Out Loud' - Melissa Manchester 34. 'Goodbye to Love' - The Carpenters 35. 'Beth' - Kiss 36. 'At Seventeen' - Janis Ian 37. 'Let Her Cry' - Hootie & the Blowfish 38. 'Alone Again (Naturally)' - Gilbert O'Sullivan 39. 'It Must Be Him' - Vicki Carr 40. 'Without You' - Mariah Carey 41. 'Send in the Clowns' - Judy Collins 42. 'In the Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)' - Zager & Evans 43. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' - Gordon Lightfoot 44. 'Sylvia's Mother' - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show 45. 'Indiana Wants Me' - R. Dean Taylor 46. 'Captain Jack' - Billy Joel 47. 'Lucky Man' - Emerson, Lake & Palmer 48. 'Landslide' - The Smashing Pumpkins 49. 'Teen Angel' - Mark Dinning 50. 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - Joy Division 51. 'Artificial Flowers' - Bobby Darin 52. 'Same Old Lang Syne' - Dan Fogelberg
Missing: 6, 15, 21, 25, 31, 45
The Nirvana song 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die' was used as the inspiration of the title. It is a reference and is not part of the list.
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