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 Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:10 pm
I was on another board discussing the most depressing showtunes ever. So I thought I'd bring the discussion here, because I got a bit obsessed with it, made myself a playlists of all the songs, and started crying. Intense. Anyhow, here are the ones I came up with...
I don't know about THE most depressing song, but The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee is way up there for me. It probably made me cry more than any other song I've seen in a musical. Although, I have basically cried through every musical I have ever seen.
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Nothing from A Chorus Line
Still Hurting and Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You from L5Y
We Do Not Belong Together and Beautiful from Sunday in the Park with George
Come to Me from Les Miserables...ok, most anything from Les Miserables. Especially sung by Sophia Ragavales.
Goodbye Love from RENT
Wicked Witch of the East from Wicked
No More from Into the Woods
etc. I get really sad really easily.
So, what are those songs that for you just make you want to curl up and die?
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:57 pm
Deffinately On My Own from Les Mis....it just tears me apart. sad Also A New Life from Jekyll and Hyde.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:31 am
Without You from Rent, that song makes me cry.
As mentioned above, On My Own from Les Miserables, also I Dreamed A Dream.
Lily of the Field from The Color Purple
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:39 pm
Okay, here goes!
Basically anything from Les Mis. But most especially Own My Own, only because I've been in that position. A Little Fall of Rain makes me cry if sung correctly too, and if I've fallen in love with Eponine throughout the corse of the show.
RENT, probably Without You, Goodbye Love, and Halloween. And I'll Cover You- Reprise of course. But all for different reasons.
Spelling Bee, I agree, The I Love You song. I ADORE that song and I just want to hug Olive sad
Also, the song Nice from Lucky Stiff. This is kind of a weird song to thing of as sad, since there's some funny and sweet parts in it, but it always kind of makes me sad because it reminds me of a relationship with a very close friend.
Now That I've Seen Her from Miss Saigon always is like ahhh too.
The Finale to Godspell is good too, and By My Side. Both songs have made cry :/
There's a million more, but... we'll leave it at that.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:05 pm
thelovelyLIZ Okay, here goes! Basically anything from Les Mis. But most especially Own My Own, only because I've been in that position. A Little Fall of Rain makes me cry if sung correctly too, and if I've fallen in love with Eponine throughout the corse of the show. RENT, probably Without You, Goodbye Love, and Halloween. And I'll Cover You- Reprise of course. But all for different reasons. Spelling Bee, I agree, The I Love You song. I ADORE that song and I just want to hug Olive sad Also, the song Nice from Lucky Stiff. This is kind of a weird song to thing of as sad, since there's some funny and sweet parts in it, but it always kind of makes me sad because it reminds me of a relationship with a very close friend. Now That I've Seen Her from Miss Saigon always is like ahhh too. The Finale to Godspell is good too, and By My Side. Both songs have made cry :/ There's a million more, but... we'll leave it at that.
Definately agree with what you said about Les Mis. I think the reason I think of all the Fantine songs as the most depressing is mostly that I fell much more in love with Sophia Ragavales' Fantine than any other character in that production. Plus, she was looking directly at me during Come to Me (Fantine's Death) when she was singing to Cosette. Gah!
And I second the other RENT songs everyone has mentioned.
I adore Olive and The I Love You Song as well. I cried so much in that show. Other parts which made me cry a lot a lot were Leaf's I'm Not That Smart and the Reprise, and the point at which Marcy decides to get out of the bee. But those were more triumphant than depressing.
I know I'm forgetting a lot of songs. There have been so many times where I listen to a song, and a certain lyrics just hits me like an stone as absolutely crushing. The Last Five Years does that to me a lot. Pretty much every song.
Oh. Adding...
Home, from The Beauty and the Beast
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:42 pm
Halloween-Goodbye Love are sad songs yet for some reason they make me happy....I have no soul I guess.
Fine Fine Line-Avenue Q
Witch's Lament-Into the Woods
No Good Deed-Wicked
And others that were mentioned. But I love all these songs for their angstiness!
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:24 pm
In Les Mis, definatly The Second Attack, when Gavoroche dies. Also I Gave you My Music from POTO tends to make me cry. Then there's The Swamps of Home from Once Upon A Mattress. Not really tearjerking, but depressing nonetheless.
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:36 pm
I'm having trouble thinking of depressing songs that haven't already been mentioned, mainly because I prefer the upbeat songs over depressing ones or ballads, say. But one that does come to mind is Funny from City of Angels.
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:03 pm
Ariies thelovelyLIZ Okay, here goes! Basically anything from Les Mis. But most especially Own My Own, only because I've been in that position. A Little Fall of Rain makes me cry if sung correctly too, and if I've fallen in love with Eponine throughout the corse of the show. RENT, probably Without You, Goodbye Love, and Halloween. And I'll Cover You- Reprise of course. But all for different reasons. Spelling Bee, I agree, The I Love You song. I ADORE that song and I just want to hug Olive sad Also, the song Nice from Lucky Stiff. This is kind of a weird song to thing of as sad, since there's some funny and sweet parts in it, but it always kind of makes me sad because it reminds me of a relationship with a very close friend. Now That I've Seen Her from Miss Saigon always is like ahhh too. The Finale to Godspell is good too, and By My Side. Both songs have made cry :/ There's a million more, but... we'll leave it at that.
Definately agree with what you said about Les Mis. I think the reason I think of all the Fantine songs as the most depressing is mostly that I fell much more in love with Sophia Ragavales' Fantine than any other character in that production. Plus, she was looking directly at me during Come to Me (Fantine's Death) when she was singing to Cosette. Gah!
And I second the other RENT songs everyone has mentioned.
I adore Olive and The I Love You Song as well. I cried so much in that show. Other parts which made me cry a lot a lot were Leaf's I'm Not That Smart and the Reprise, and the point at which Marcy decides to get out of the bee. But those were more triumphant than depressing.
I know I'm forgetting a lot of songs. There have been so many times where I listen to a song, and a certain lyrics just hits me like an stone as absolutely crushing. The Last Five Years does that to me a lot. Pretty much every song.
Oh. Adding...
Home, from The Beauty and the BeastLeaf Coneybear is my favorite speller, so I love I'm Not That Smart and such =( When he got out I was like NOOOOO. As for Marcy... I was like YOU GO GIRL because even though she was failing she was 100% okay with that. And I really want The Last Five Years soundtrack... I've heard it was amazing.
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:56 pm
Bring Him Home from Les Mis always does it for me. but just to reiterate, anything from Les Mis can be a tear-jerker.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:40 pm
It's odd, but Wicked Little Town from Hedwig always manages to get me choked up.
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:07 pm
thelovelyLIZ Ariies thelovelyLIZ Okay, here goes! Basically anything from Les Mis. But most especially Own My Own, only because I've been in that position. A Little Fall of Rain makes me cry if sung correctly too, and if I've fallen in love with Eponine throughout the corse of the show. RENT, probably Without You, Goodbye Love, and Halloween. And I'll Cover You- Reprise of course. But all for different reasons. Spelling Bee, I agree, The I Love You song. I ADORE that song and I just want to hug Olive sad Also, the song Nice from Lucky Stiff. This is kind of a weird song to thing of as sad, since there's some funny and sweet parts in it, but it always kind of makes me sad because it reminds me of a relationship with a very close friend. Now That I've Seen Her from Miss Saigon always is like ahhh too. The Finale to Godspell is good too, and By My Side. Both songs have made cry :/ There's a million more, but... we'll leave it at that.
Definately agree with what you said about Les Mis. I think the reason I think of all the Fantine songs as the most depressing is mostly that I fell much more in love with Sophia Ragavales' Fantine than any other character in that production. Plus, she was looking directly at me during Come to Me (Fantine's Death) when she was singing to Cosette. Gah!
And I second the other RENT songs everyone has mentioned.
I adore Olive and The I Love You Song as well. I cried so much in that show. Other parts which made me cry a lot a lot were Leaf's I'm Not That Smart and the Reprise, and the point at which Marcy decides to get out of the bee. But those were more triumphant than depressing.
I know I'm forgetting a lot of songs. There have been so many times where I listen to a song, and a certain lyrics just hits me like an stone as absolutely crushing. The Last Five Years does that to me a lot. Pretty much every song.
Oh. Adding...
Home, from The Beauty and the BeastLeaf Coneybear is my favorite speller, so I love I'm Not That Smart and such =( When he got out I was like NOOOOO. As for Marcy... I was like YOU GO GIRL because even though she was failing she was 100% okay with that. And I really want The Last Five Years soundtrack... I've heard it was amazing.
Leaf and Olive were my favourites =) Although it had LOTS to do with the actors I saw (Boston (AKA San Francisco?) cast.) At first I really really wanted Leaf to win and all (and I wanted Leaf and Olive to get together! =P), but when his reprise rolled around I was just like AWWWW he's so amazing, and no one else could have just a great end, so it was awesome. I love the Marcy/Jesus scene so much XD "I knew you were asian!"
And you should DEFINATELY get the L5Y cast recording. One of my favourites. Jason Robert Brown, Sherie Rene Scott, and Norbert Leo Butz? You just don't get much better than that.
And new most depressing songs:
From Spring Awakening, Left Behind, Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind, and Those You've Known (I pretty much couldn't handle seeing this scene live last night. I'm choking up thinking about it.)
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:57 pm
RocknRollDragon Deffinately On My Own from Les Mis....it just tears me apart. sad Also A New Life from Jekyll and Hyde.
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:54 am
I cried during the I'll cover you reprise and Goodbye love.
I have performed goodbye love and still hurting during a presentation. I cried after I was done and I'm going to see the musical next month so I think I have to take some tissues with me.
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:35 am
I've actually made a tape of depressing songs from musicals. Here are some:
"Where Is Love?" from Oliver!
"The Joker" from The Roar of the Greasepaint and the Smell of the Crowd
"Where Am I Going?" from Sweet Charity
"Look Over There" (Reprise) by the son in La Cage aux Folles
"Down Once More/Masquerade/All I Ask Of You" (Reprise) by the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera (the only album that made me cry just listening to it)
"There's A Fine Fine Line" from Avenue Q
"Tell Me It's Not True" from Blood Brothers
"Lessen #8" from Sunday in the Park With George
"He Lives In You" and "Endless Night" from The Lion King
"Momma Look Sharp" from 1776
"Something Just Broke" from Assassins (Broadway production)
"Where Did That Little Dog Go?" from Snoopy (the musical)
"Hey, Girlie" from Two By Two
"If He Walked Into My Life" from Mame
"To Each His Dulcinea" and "Finale" ("The Impossible Dream") from Man of La Mancha
"Spring Awakening/Left Behind" from Spring Awakening
"Come To Me (Fantine's Death)", "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "A Little Fall of Rain," "The Second Attack (Gavroche's Death)", "On My Own," and the Finale (Valjean's Death) from Les Miserables
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