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emdiar 
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 Posted: February 11 2008 at 10:31 |
What you really need, is "Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life", and "Good Morning", by Daevid Allen. (Great Gongy folk, an incurably optimistic singer/songwriter). Then, all cheered up, as you inevitably shall be, go out and find a girl with more taste! Good luck  .
Edited by emdiar - February 11 2008 at 10:42
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Evans
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 11:05 |
 emdiar wrote:
What you really need, is "Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life", and "Good Morning", by Daevid Allen. (Great Gongy folk, an incurably optimistic singer/songwriter). Then, all cheered up, as you inevitably shall be, go out and find a girl with more taste! Good luck . |
Unfortunately, it is really hard to apreciate happy music when you are down, and a line like "now is the happiest time of your life" will only make you feel worse because you can't have as fun as you should. No, i say go Cohen. It is the only true way.
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A B Negative
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 11:21 |
When my friend was wallowing in self-pity he put Jennifer Rush's The Power of Love on repeat play. It was pretty depressing for everyone who witnessed it.
If it's cathartic prog you need, try The Final Cut. It's Pink Floyd's bleakest album.
Otherwise, try Zappa's Broken Hearts Are for Assholes, forget her and move on.
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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sean
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 18:18 |
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VdGG-Pawn Hearts
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- F# A# infinity
The Cure-Pornography, Disintegration
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Nothing new to add really, but that's what I listen to when I want something depressing.
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superprog
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Posted: February 11 2008 at 23:18 |
obvious top choice is Joy Division's Closer........post-punk bleakness personified.......
can't think of a single prog/Kraut album that is depressing though. they're either mad/weird, tripped/spaced or hilarious!!!
ahhh yes ok....Floyd's DSTOM......Time, what a song what lyrics.........thats depressing!!!
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The Wizard
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Posted: February 12 2008 at 10:02 |
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Joy Division. Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and the singles compilation Substance all essential, you must own them. Not only is it depressing but it's great music.
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piccione
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Posted: February 13 2008 at 13:47 |
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invisible touch by genesis. The first time I heard it I was very depressed and wanted to hurt Phil Collins.
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sean
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Posted: February 13 2008 at 17:27 |
piccione wrote:
invisible touch by genesis. The first time I heard it I was very depressed and wanted to hurt Phil Collins. |
See, I'd want to hurt him, but for other reasons... i can feel it, coming in the air tonight... 
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Tyaasem
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 07:41 |
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On the topic of Collins material, I'd have to say 'the roof is leaking' is the most depressing...
The A Perfect Circle track "Gravity" is pretty enveloping... in fact; the entire 13th Step quite a depressing shade of grey, but very beautifully constructed at the same time...
not prog at all - but the Testament track "return to serenity" puts me in a hole...
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rushfan4
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 08:35 |
I think King's X guitarist Ty Tabor's solo album "Safety" would be the perfect depressing album (is that an oxymoron). It was written shortly following his divorce. Most of the songs deal with either the depression or the anger caused by the divorce. Songs titles like "Missing Love", "Funeral" and "Anger" are quite appropriate.
The chorus from Missing Love "I'm Missing Love, Missing Love In My Life, Missing You, Missing You in my life, MIssing Love, Missing Love in My Life, Missing You".
The chorus from Funeral "But Lately My Life is a Funeral. Who'll Save Me? My Life's a Perpetual Funeral. My Life's A Funeral".
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 11:40 |
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IMO, the most depressing album of all time is either, F#A# (infinity) by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, OR
Dirt/Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains, particularly the later. It has some of the most depressive, self destructive, helpless lyrics ever written, sang to the saddest most minor keyed music ever played.
EDIT - actually anything by AiC really, listen to the songs,
Nutshell,
Frogs, possibly the best of the these for your purpose
Over Now
Rotten Apple
Dirt
Edited by keiser willhelm - February 14 2008 at 11:46
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Nuke
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 18:10 |
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I second the Alice In Chains.
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Evans
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 19:07 |
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I don't think anyone have mentioned this one, so i'll do it for them.
"The Boatman's Call" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a pretty dark and melancholy, but most of all beautiful and thoughtful album. Try the song "Into my Arms" (it's on youtube) and if you don't like it, you arguably have no pulse.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 20:04 |
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Might want to avoid Dirt, it might make you want to kill yourself
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sean
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 20:45 |
heyitsthatguy wrote:
Might want to avoid Dirt, it might make you want to kill yourself
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maybe that's why it was my favourite album and AIC was my favourite band for a while, I just have a natural inclination towards depressing music. I hadn't even thought of that when thinking of depressing albums, but now that I actually do think about it, AIC is really depressing and hopeless.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: February 14 2008 at 21:30 |
well, a lot of it really is the lament of a man who seemed like he wanted to die, and sadly, he got his wish 
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Ben2112
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Posted: February 15 2008 at 17:02 |
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Listening to any AIC, and in particular Dirt, is pretty eerie now in hindsight. I wonder if everyone in Layne's life--friends, family, etc.--saw the cry for help that especially that album seemed to be. I'll bet it's hard for them to listen to some AIC music in light of what became of Layne. But I'll agree, Alice In Chains, to me, represents some of the most genuinely bleak and hopeless music ever recorded, and I love it.
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sean
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Posted: February 15 2008 at 17:44 |
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: February 15 2008 at 19:03 |
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If anyone saw him in concert... man. He was a wreck a lot of the time. He was gaunt and pale, but that voice sends shivers down my spine to this day.
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sean
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Posted: February 15 2008 at 20:11 |
keiser willhelm wrote:
If anyone saw him in concert... man. He was a wreck a lot of the time. He was gaunt and pale, but that voice sends shivers down my spine to this day.
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I wish I had been able to see them when Layne was alive. Just on the records I get shivers from his voice too...so much agony to it, you couldn't help but feel it with him.
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