Depresse Welles? Jesse Unwelles? Anyway, I want to know what the most depressing ones are to you. I'm talking crawl into the tub and lay in the fetal position, only eat pieces of bread for a day despite having other food, day 5 unwashed hair levels of depressing. And I'm sharing mine, of course.

This Age:
I don't know why the Jackie hold my gun line makes me want to be blown up in a microwave and have the viscera whipped across a canvas like a Jackson Pollock painting, but it does.

Malaise:
A masterclass in wanting to be rent asunder. God gave his toughest battles to his weakest and most pathetic soldiers (me). Most of us don't even develop cute and sardonic wit about it. If you did, die.

River Valley Leper Colony:
A great song for people who've considered the logistics of throwing themselves down the stairs.

Anything But Me:
Do you feel like the only thing holding you together is the physical limitation of skin? Are you desperate for some kind of poetic awakening that gives meaning to the infinite groundhogs day parasite attached to such banal concepts as "having a job" and "don't want to cook but if I eat out again and get the same Uber Eats driver I'll set myself on fire"? You should have been a bird. A sparrow or!!! Perhaps!! an eagle.

John:
I've never personally had a close friend kill themselves, but I imagine it's a lot like waking up and discovering the skin that was peeled off the bottom of your feet yesterday is back, but you have a long day at the getting the skin peeled off the bottom of your feet factory ahead of you and have no more mental health days disguised as vacation days left to take. If I had a truck I might also drive it off a mountain. Stupendous stuff.

Shout out to Let It Be Me for climbing up on your own cross and nailing yourself to it. Jesus Christ. No it's fine, I can definitely handle another burden I've given myself. It's chill.

  • "I aint got none of my friends left" for me. It's lyrics are kinda haunting everytime I hear it to me

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    Man when he made that and Decatur back to back... agony.

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    A strike straight to the heart. He really caught the moment.

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    I find that song to be rather hopeful.

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  • The Poor.

    There’s a realness in his voice singing that one which feels lived in his own experiences vs. responding to events and people.

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    Came here for this one.

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  • Saddest Factory. Edit to add Desert TV and Jesus. Almost forgot about that one.

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  • Malaise, the original recording, is my absolute favorite. The vocals he does in that really make you feel it

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    It's definitely a ball kicker.

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    Are you referring to the YouTube/social media version, or something else?

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    Thanks for sharing!

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  • “hell” ending “hells welles” is the most depressing thing jesse has ever done, also “full moon midnight”

    the chorus from silent film death:

    When I was a boy

    I saw more than men could take

    And now I am a man

    And everything feels fake, so fake

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  • Grapes of Wrath always messes me up.

    Don't Go Giving Up is another.

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  • why don’t you love me and misery are two i would add

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  • River Valley Leper Colony. When I heard this for the first time I could feel my heart breaking. My #1 saddest song of all time. 

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    It was my #1 most played song this year. Just an absolute killer.

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  • Thank you for this!

    This Age River Valley Leper Colony No Destination Siddhartha John

    Honorable mentions.. Depression and Dumber. They both make laugh and weep simultaneously. Lol

    Edit: actual previous Jesse is another story if we're to get into that.. My choice is actually entirely Demonstrations I'm actually entirely grateful for @bleedthefreak

    Low ceilings is the star.

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  • "Witness me Starfarer"!

    I have never once listened to that song without been crying and shaking from beginning to the end. Without knowing why! I hardly understand the lyrics.

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    there's something truly transcendent about the cicadas 

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    I wish I heard them. Too bad I can't hear those highfrequeses.

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    Awh that is too bad. I know there are extensions for youtube that allow you to edit audio and pitch bend--perhaps you could turn the pitch way down so that you can get a sense of what the cicadas are adding/what they sound like? 

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    Thank You! Yes that might work! 🥰🤗

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    The chrome extension I use is called "Transpose ▲▼ pitch ▹ speed ▹ loop"

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    Thank You so much! 🥰😙

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  • See Arkansas! One of my favorites.

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  • I remember driving to the gym the first time I listened to/watched the video for John and it crushed me.

    Will the Computer Love the Sunset is another one that is so raw and depressing, albeit strangely sweet in a way. Like realizing how beautiful humanity is while it’s slipping away from us

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  • Starve Away - tears me up every time

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    Will the Computer Love the Sunset

    Saddest Factory

    puts me in my stupid white shoes every time

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  • War is a God, especially the last verse, but all its futility.

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  • Depression

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    I ain't a gambler, but I bet it don't get better.

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    See this one makes me laugh. It's uplifting, in a cynical way!

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    That's really the core of all of his music

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    There's so much truth in this one, I can only laugh along with him. I love this song.

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    what depresses me is how hard this one is to learn on guitar

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  • Don’t Go Giving Up.

    It’s gets me every time.

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  • Why Don't You Love Me

    Hands down. I can barely even listen to it. I really hope it's not one of his more autobiographical songs, because if there's truly some messed-up bitch out there who couldn't bring herself to love Jesse... To. Love. Jesse!! 😭😱😖 Well, I wanna find her, and... and....... ask her what the hell is her problem anyway 😤😠 (trying hard to refrain from violent imagery) 🫤

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    He's been married for a minute, so I think yer good

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  • John. I lost a friend to suicide. This song cuts me.

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    Real sorry to hear that, man.

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  • I concur with mostly all the ones already mentioned. Especially "Saddest Factory" (that guitar was weeping on that windy day), "Will the Computer Love the Sunset: words are stupid and absurd, so I ain't even gonna try to describe how much this one hit me(FUCK AI). It so far is the only tune Jesse sent out late at night. I'm thankful I was still awake for the Midnight special ✨️ "Witness me Star Farer" nothing weird about it ))((

    There are few more tunes not listed, that hit me in the lowly feels.

    Low Ceilings- "no feelings"

    Tired- " iiii iii iiii iiii iiiiiiiI'm tired man. Heavy like the metal in my mind 🫤

    Autumn 🍂 "When rhe golden rod fades and short are the days" split me wide open. That tune so beautifully encapsulates the feeling of the marvel of the fall and the misery knowing that darker days are ahead (seasonal depression yay!) Thank God for "Wild Onions"

    Desert TV and Jesus 📺 " cleanse my memory of every thought I ever had in my head"

    This and Not Some Other Way-- it is what it is friends

    No Destination 🏞 "whatever it is in me let die in me, and I'll be leaving"... "Rather be alone with all my doubting"

    Jesse's tunes have squeezed my soul more times in this lasr year and half, than any other artist has in my whole lifetime. Dude is something else. ⚡️💓🎶🧬📻🫠

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  • Good gracious, there's so many! Christmas '97 hits hard😭, especially the lines:

    I) used to trust you were perfect I was five years old, and showed it You asked me not to grow no older But I cried, I couldn't stop it no

    If I could coax you out of hiding Where you drink and you were pining Would you stand, and hold me close like When you're sober, you're radiant, shining

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  • DuPont & John

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  • See Arkansas.

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  • Were all gonna die

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  • "it ain't above love
    that fear is a comfort
    it fits like a glove"

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  • Good choices each and every one. For me, it's Gilgamesh. I'm not American, but I used to really love America, and it deeply saddens me to see what it has become and is becoming.

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  • Little late to this one but theirs quite a few in my book

    Friends

    That can’t be right

    And even Certain can get me feeling some types of ways. It’s hard to pick specifically “depressing” songs in my mind when a majority (of what I listen to) is more of that melancholy feeling, instead of that real depressed feeling

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  • Charile: I heard the laughing. I heard the glee. But it coulda been you. It coulda been me.

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  • Grapes of wrath is a no brainer, but the opening three seconds of DuPont are also enough to ruin my day no matter what, so it’s a contender too

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