Music as negative as it gets

There are feel good movies, feel good songs, and other forms of entertainment designed to bring about feelings of goodness, contentment or even, bliss. However, there are also musical moments in which a tortured artist wishes to share his/her pain and/or a very bleak sense of the world or of just basic existence. This can sometimes be quite beautifully done, as in, for example, some of the music of Nick Drake. Drake was a genius, and even though he fell into a state of psychic disintegration toward the end of his life, with this reflected in his music (particularly the LP Pink Moon), his music remained largely generous toward the listener.

In the mid to late 1980s, one trend in post-punk and industrial music was toward a kind of loud, noisy abrasiveness, as in the music of such performers as The Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Foetus (James George Thirlwell), Killdozer, the Cows, Pussy Galore,The Swans, Live Skull and various others. This music was truly an underground phenomon, resulting in extreme, atonal music which was really theatrical, often used to accompany a type of confrontational performance art. Also influential for such groups were such pioneering acts as Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, Public Image, Ltd. and Flipper.

Here, too, is a sampling of clips for music that explores sadness, isolation and other negative emotional extremes.

Jandek (live) Real Wild
Jandek (video) The Glade
Lou Reed Berlin
Voivod Insect
Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows
Joy Division She's Lost Control
Flipper Ever and The way of the world

and a song by a fairly mainstream rock act, the Who The Real Me but one which addresses a sense of onself as emotionally unstable.

Also relevant; a short film Waking to Berlin

Here, too, are some songs that wallow in self-pitying, self-loathing (or at least self-depreciation), or self-objectification. Yes, some of these are shamelessly manipulative of the heartstrings; that's probably what made them such classic hits.

"Lovesick Blues" - Hank Williams
"Crying" - a remake by Roy Orbison with KD Laing
"It's My Party" - Leslie Gore or Bryan Ferry
"What kind of fool am I?" - This torchy showtune has been widely covered, but here it gets sung by Anthony Warlow, who I had never heard of prior to this search; apparently he is a star of such shows as Phantom of the Opera.
"I'm a loser"- The Beatles (hard to feel sorry for them over all the screaming girls)
"Baby's in black" - The Beatles
"In my room" - The Beach Boys
"I wanna be your dog" - The Stooges (a more recent version of this band)
"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" - Linda Ronstadt or Warren Zevon
"You and me against the world"- Helen Reddy
"Rainy days and mondays" - the Carpenters
"At Seventeen"- Janis Ian
"53rd and 3rd" - The Ramones
"Pinhead" - The Ramones
"Pretty Vacant"- The Sex Pistols
"Seventeen" - The Sex Pistols
"Boredom" - The Buzzcocks
"Who Said" - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
"Life Stinks" - Pere Ubu
"55 Times the Pain" - Husker Du
"I Felt Like a Gringo" - The Minutemen
"Milk it" - Nirvana
"Rape me" - Nirvana
"Deformography" - Marilyn Manson