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    Posted: October 25 2019 at 23:51
Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Anything by the Archies
 

Sugar Sugar?
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Anything by the Archies
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Paternoster.Austrian band with one album from 1972.Band is on progarchives.Sounds like church music with very depressing lyrics, song by a guy who sounds like he is ready to slit his wrist and jump off a bridge at the same time.Brilliant stuff actually.
Shake & bake.
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It depends if you're more into Melancholic music or DESPERATE music. You'll find melancholy in Anekdoten and Landberk (prog).

If you like other types of music, post-rock and post-metal are worth a spin (dozens of names, try Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ or The Evpatoria Report Golevka for starters). In post-metal world, I highly, HIGHLY recommend Cult of Luna, especially the mammoth achievement named Somewhere Along the Highway (this is my gift for you! :D in case you haven't heard them already).

Other melancholic albums that come to mind:
Bon Iver (debut), Neil Young (After the Gold Rush), Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska), Sufjan Stevens (lots of weepy stuff)

If you want to venture into truly hopeless, black hole albums - or some extreme metal of doom/sludge breed - ask in PM please.
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The Shaggs. Then you can lose your sanity as well

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If we are going to turn this into a contest I think the winners(if we allow non prog)would be The Smiths, the Cure and Black Sabbath. For prog/prog related probably Pink Floyd or VDGG.
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Radiohead is a really good call.
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The darkest. weirdest and most depressing album I've ever heard is "Nature Unveiled" by Current 93, but I won't post it here because it's far too depressing. Smile
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Van der Graaf Generator
King Crimson (a little bit anyway especially S&BB and red)

Also, I don't think you can get much darker than the debut album(naive)by T.



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Helium Horse Fly's self-titled album:
 
 
 
 
 
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Grave New World by The Strawbs?
Or MAY I ROT-AH*SOB-T for suggesting it?
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Radiohead's "Kid A" album was so depressing that I gave it away to a charity shop. Smile
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Drake is a favourite of mine, as is Cohen, also "Sea Song" by Robert Wyatt.

As for more modern ones, that are both in PA, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails have made "bummer" music. Radiohead I would think would be pretty well-known for that.





By the way, I am a chronic depressive, and like to listen to sad music. I figure, if I'm going to be depressed, I might as well enjoy it.:) When deeply in the doldrums I don't really want people to try to cheer me up, and there's a part of me that does like to revel in it.

Edited by Logan - October 17 2019 at 11:40
Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I observed before. It can be much like that with music for me; immersed in experiencing the moment.
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I agree about Nick Drake. I've always found his music to be immensely depressing and I can't help being reminded that he took his own life at the tender age of 26. Unhappy
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Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Just listen to The Smiths and Leonard Cohen. Don't bother with prog.
 

This^ 
 stuff like Nick Drake 

Fully agree on the Nick Drake & Leonard Cohen

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Edited by MortSahlFan - October 17 2019 at 09:48
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

how about OPETH's "Damnation"?
or NORDAGUST's "In the Mist of Morning"
or pretty much anything by TENHI

yeah Nordic music for sure

The Scandinavians are well-known for their doom-laden angst because they have long winters and short summers. Tongue
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:


yeah Nordic music for sure


Anekdoten!
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