Radiohead Depressing?

Apparently some believe that it is. I would disagree but anyways, these are my top 5 songs that would be characterized as "depressing"

1. Street Spirit
2. Fake Plastic Trees
3. How To Disappear Completely
4. Exit Music
5. Paranoid Android

1. Exit Music
2. Everything in its right place
3. I will
4. Pyramid
5. Wolf at the door

for me it would be

1.- how to disappear completely
2.- pyramid song
3.- exit music
4.- all i need
5.- videotape

yes, radiohead is depressing ... that's part of why I ove them!! actually it's probably more melancholic and deep than depressing... but anyway

How to disappear completely
Exit music
fade out
paranoid android
nude
creep

Sail to the moon
Paranoid android
Exit music
Street Spirit

everyone of these song has a depressing color, but i really like it!

now, you could say Nirvana is depressing but why Radiohead…?!

Thom Yorke once said RH's music isn't meant to entertain — if you contrast happy with depressed then I think you should be worried about yourself

and btw, given Mr Yorke's lyrics, I can't see how Radiohead's songs could be about happiness (and consider that very few artistic endeavours are based around that) — but they're also not about being depressed

there certainly are deeper feelings than happiness — other than depression

feelings hard to put into words that are worth singing

but of course, when you're feeling down everything seems wrong, right?

jellyfish62 said:
Well, depression is happiness for deep people, isn't it?


That's very observant and smart of you to say that. A lot of people feel good listening to so-called "depressing" music because they feel it empathizes with them, or that it acts as a catharsis so they release their sadness.

It's like one of the Greek tragedies. You could say it's depressing because everybody dies in the end, but it also helps you feel better about your own problems, right?

Radiohead can be depressing, yes. They're certainly not "happy music". But sometimes I feel like it's just the feel of the music as opposed to depressiveness. Like someone else said, emotional and such. Especially with some songs on people's lists - sure they can be depressing to listen to, but if you listen to the lyrics it isn't always so. Street Spirit has some depressing lyrics, but I feel the overall message is a positive one. Pyramid Song as well. I mean, "there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt"? I agree wholeheartedly that it sounds pretty sad, but sometimes Radiohead songs needed to be inspected closer.

Also, I think 4 of those are the end of albums because that's how they seem to end albums - not necessarily depressing, but tranquil, slow, etc.

the only thing that could depress me about radiohead is how unbelievably f*cking talented they are and how I'm never going to be able to produce anything even close to that.

in other news, like spinning plates from the i might be wrong live album makes the top of my "depressing songs" list, whatever that means.

Theres only a few songs that i could actualy call depressing the gloaming is rele the only 1 and a few others.


1-motion picture soundtrack
2-exit music
3-the gloaming
4-we suck young blood
5-everything in its right place

i don't know. i didn't think of them that way before. but i'll do a list of the songs i found kinda depressing (?) (according to the lyrics. i guess)

1.Creep
2.Fake plastic trees
3.Exit music ( for a film )
4.Motion picture soundtrack
5.How I made my millions
6.No Surprises

:D.

1.pyramid song
2.life in a glasshouse
3.no surprises
4.exit music
5.how to dissapear completely
6.myxomatosis

Probably I'd say that Motion Picture Soundtrack, Pyramid Song and perhaps Videotape are depressive. Other songs are more enthusiastic with a depressive undertone, such as Fake Plastic Trees, Nude or How To Disappear Completely.