Depressing albums
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Topic: Depressing albums
Posted By: dreamtheater91
Subject: Depressing albums
Date Posted: February 06 2008 at 22:56
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I am in a situation where I like this girl a lot, but she doesnt like me. I need some albums that reflect these feelings. They dont have to be progressive at all, just quiet, and depressing like some singer/songwriter thing possibly. Thanks ------------- Moments wasted Isolated Time Escaping Endless Sacrifice As Far as I could tell theres nothing more I need and still i ask my self can this be everything TRAPPED INSIDE THIS OCTAVARIUM! |
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 06 2008 at 23:14
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Depressing, eh? Ever hear of a band called Radiohead? Go with Kid A. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 06 2008 at 23:54
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Can't go wrong with Pain of Salvation's Remedy Lane and Perfect Element Pt. 1. Fish-era Marillion is good for relationship troubles, IMO, but Brave is depressing too, ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 00:01
Yes. Can't do better than that.
VDGG come close though. Another great band that has written songs that fit exactly what I feel. Perhaps H To He...or Still Life tp begin.
Peter Hammill also fits the bill. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
stonebeard wrote:Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 00:06
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I agree with the Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane recommendation. That's about the best you can do. If I may say a select few songs, Dream Theater - "Space-Dye Vest" U2 - "One" Queen - "Too Much Love Can Kill You" Porcupine Tree - "Trains" ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 05:40
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Skip the singer/songwriter style, go with:
Univers Zero - Heresie
Shub Niggurath - Les Morts Vont Vite
Present - Triskaidekaphobie
Fantômas - Delerium Cordia
and of course, Scott Walker's two latest!
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 07:54
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"Over" by Peter Hammill is THE album for you, though it looks at a relationship from its end, while yours has not even started. but the general feeling is pretty much the same
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 08:10
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One band:
Anathema
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Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 08:34
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You need Leonard Cohen. Badly. Also, "collapse the light into earth" by Porcupine tree and "La Rossa" by VDGG. But really, you should get some Leonard Cohen. Especially "Songs of Love and Hate", it is dark. Dark. Not even Bj's dark chamber prog recommendations can measure up to the darkness of Leonard Cohen when he really gets down to it. ------------- 
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 09:16
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bands and albums:
Pain of Salvation- Remedy Lane, The Perfect Element Pt. 1 (to a lesser extent)
a lot of Awake by Dream Theater deals with similar feelings though you're probably familiar with it by now
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Van der Graaf Generator- Pawn Hearts
Opeth- Blackwater Park ------------- 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 09:44
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Fates Warning- A Pleasent Shade of Grey Anathema- Judgement Opeth- Still Life, Blackwater Park Pink Floyd- Wish you Were Here ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 10:50
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Both CDs by Blackfield should do well as a shoulder to cry on. Lotsa stuff about relationships along with excellent music and vocals. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 11:04
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if you wanna try post-rock (might be a stretch), f#a#infinity is one of the most desolate albums ever recorded. In fact, Godspeed You! Black Emperor (with the exception of parts on Lift your Skinny Fists) is a pretty bleak band across the board. -------------
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Posted By: cynthiasmallet
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 11:27
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Nick Cave-And No More Shall We Part
Marillion-Misplaced Childhood Pink Floyd-The Wall ------------- Would you like to watch TV, or get between the sheets, or contemplate the silent freeway, would you like something to eat? |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 11:29
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The ultimate song for me is: Megadeth - In my Darkest hour
It's metal, but pretty calm (except the wild&fast ending)
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 11:33
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Mono's album You Are There is just what you need. |
Posted By: Speesh
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 13:37
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Lots of PTree/Radiohead/Pineapple Thief I guess. Though my personal preference would have to be Paatos' Timeloss. There's just something about that one. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 14:11
Don't forget Disconnected. It might be their darkest album. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Nuke
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 14:21
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pelican - australasia Completly instrumental metal, and it depresses the hell out of me for some reason. Lots of repetition, minor chords, ect. Edit: NIN - The Downward Spiral. That was my preteen angst album, and it still kicks me. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Seabury">  
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 14:45
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Blackfield would do some really good things for you.
Anatema's Alternative 4 and Judgement can bring you to tears if you connect with it. Porcupine Tree's Lightbulb Sun is their most melancholic out of the whole catalogue. The ultimate will definately be 'Remedy Lane' by Pain of Salvation, one of the most emotional albums of all time. |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 15:00
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I think though i still love it Showbiz by Muse exspecially the title track. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/cozfunkel/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 15:07
| you should try Slowdive albums specially "Souvlaki" . Also you could hear My bloddy valentine`s Loveless |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 15:15
well perhaps the lyrics express that, but Over is overall a bea-u-ti-ful album, doesn't depress me - and I'm not saying it couldn't be some disturbing, sad, dramatic or cold pieces in there, I just mean it doesn't make me depressed. ------------- 
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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 15:21
| I'll be more specific with Blackfield. The track 'Someday' is good for you. |
Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 16:49
| Brothers In Arms/Love Over Gold - Dire Straits have some amazingly bleak moments, though those are interspersed with uplifting tunes. Perhaps some of Ulver's post-rock efforts would be worth checking out. The Doors can be pretty depressing for more than one reason. |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 00:05
| Porcupine Tree's latest album, Pink Floyd's Animals, anything from Fish-era Marillion, Opeth - Damnation, eh . . . Fallout Boy? |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 00:16
both these struck me as happy  maybe I wasn't paying enough attention to the lyrics  good albums though-------------
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 00:25
Even though sounds unhealthy in your situation, try some Cat Stevens.
Tea for the Tillerman: Songs like Sad Lisa or hard Headed Woman will really bring you down
Now if you are really a masochist, go with Lady Darvanville, from the album Mona Bone Jakon, you can't get anything more depressive.
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: EnglishAssassin
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 07:02
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I think Fish (with Marillion or solo) has to be prog rock's number one choice for songs about crappy relationships. Long Cold Day, springs particularly to mind. Otherwise you could try the Cure, and cheer yourself up afterwards by laughing at Bob Smith's haircut. |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 07:33
Yes, specially the album Pronography and Disintegration.
Don't you dare make fun of Robert's hair.
  Blackmore's Night's Now and Then is also for you.Read the lyrics and weep.  -------------
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Posted By: EnglishAssassin
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 11:27
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Sorry, I'll leave Bob and his personal ozone layer hole alone. |
Posted By: ian picken
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 11:31
| The Cure "Disintergration" is one of those albums that is dark but gorgeous. |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 16:55
yes
agreed
"Homesick" =  >
Fish - "Cliche" A Silver Mt Zion - "Ring them Bells", "Mountains Made of Steam", "God Bless our Dead Marines" maudlin of the Well - interludes, "Geography", "Sleep is a Curse" Krobak (I AM serious now!) - "They're all shot this winter" Anekdoten - "A Sky's about to Rain" Yndi Halda Johnnytwentythree The Smiths Talk Talk eh dude, I simply listed my favourite songs here that's because my whole last year was dedicated to broken love affair  and still lasts f**k 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 16:54
| Linkin Park. Pink Floyd's The Wall or The Final Cut. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 17:25
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I forgot earlier.... Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People, which culminates in the most cathartic release of sound and emotion besides Godspeed/side-projects. Speaking of.... Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#oo, Slow Riot to New Zero Kanada (Thee) Silver Mt Zion (Memorial Orchestra (and Tra La La Band)) - lots of stuff ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 10 2008 at 17:43
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All you need is one song on repeat: Van der Graaf Generator - Lost That's my break-up song. -------------   
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Posted By: bundy
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 06:57
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Definitely Leonard Cohen
also any of Nick Drake's albums.
As for Fish era marillion, I would suggest Clutching at Straws or Script... ------------- They who know do not speak! They who talk do not know! |
Posted By: Raimondo
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 09:26
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Depressing? - get a listen to Leonard Cohen's first album. If the lyrics don't get you the monotone voice will!
Or some of Jackson Browne's earlier stuff - Album 'The Pretender'.
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Posted By: Raimondo
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 10:05
| You've got to consider L.A. Woman by The Doors, with tracks like 'The End' - featured in Apocolypse Now how can it be beaten? Lyrics like "I've been down so very damn long, that it looks like up for me......" well worth a listen. Also contains 'Riders On The Storm so worth it for that alone.Seriously though this album should be in everyone's collection, a true classic. |
Posted By: Charterhouser
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 10:23
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If you unterstood italian, I'd higly suggest you to listen albums like Tutti morimmo a stento or Storia di un impiegato by Fabrizio De André (the GENIUS among italian most glorious songwriters, truly a poet)...
but I'll stick to english...
-Happy Sad by Tim Buckley
-Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen (it's the only one I can reccomend you by him since it's the only one I've got
)-Five leaves left by Nick Drake
-Blood on the tracks by Bob Dylan
I guess this are quite good for your situation... ------------- I spent my hatred everyplace, on every work, on every face, someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace...- Teachers, Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: emdiar
Date 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  . ------------- Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact. |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 11:05
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Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 11:21
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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. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: sean
Date 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. |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 23:18
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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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Posted By: The Wizard
Date 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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Posted By: piccione
Date Posted: February 13 2008 at 13:47
| invisible touch by genesis. The first time I heard it I was very depressed and wanted to hurt Phil Collins. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: February 13 2008 at 17:27
See, I'd want to hurt him, but for other reasons... i can feel it, coming in the air tonight...  |
Posted By: Tyaasem
Date 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... ------------- "the inertia of our existence is clear..." www.myspace.com/tyaasem |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 14 2008 at 08:35
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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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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date 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 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Nuke
Date Posted: February 14 2008 at 18:10
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I second the Alice In Chains. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Seabury">
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Posted By: Evans
Date 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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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date 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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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: February 14 2008 at 20:45
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. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 14 2008 at 21:30
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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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Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 17:02
| 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. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 17:44
I'll second the |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date 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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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 20:11
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. |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: February 15 2008 at 21:41
| Katatonia is pretty depressing. |
Posted By: Nuke
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 12:04
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here, I'll try to put a list together (In no particular order): 1. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies 2. Alice in Chains - Dirt 3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral 4. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss 5. Pelican - Australasia All five of these albums make me feel like crap. Enjoy ;) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Seabury">
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 12:16
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Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger or Superunknown, Alice in Chains's Dirt, Nirvana's Nevermind, Pearl Jam's Ten. Okay all grunge movement.
Mika?
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 14:31
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^ ^ ha ha ha ha Mika is just about the happiest person alive. Try listening to the song "Love Today" and NOT smile. i dare you. i tripple DOG dare you.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 14:37
| haha |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: February 16 2008 at 18:50
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Another great depressing CD im listening to right now that is incredibly dark is Ulver's Perdition City. love this CD.
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Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 11:52
yes i was just about to mention this band, as mnay pople forgot about them. ulver's newest, "Shadows of the Sun", may just be the most depressing album I've ever heard. Definitely one of them. ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 16:27
That CD woke me up today!  hadnt listened to it in a little while but i have it on again right now and definitely agree with the description, although the most depressing album has to go to Dirt. no topping that. Wow , i think i like Ulver. A lot. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 17:49
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TALK TALK - Laughing Stock
BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN - Out of Season |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 17:50
Shadows of the Sun is the physical embodiment of sad -------------
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Posted By: Wallium
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 21:30
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It's not quite spot-on, but Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree has some really depressing lyrics.
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 22:06
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^depressing in what way? In a certain sense they do make me want to cause physical harm to myself...
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 22:10
| I assume 1313 has been mentioned ..and A History of Madness |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 22:23
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Heresie is darker than 1313, in my opinion, David. If you want darker than that though, try Shub-Niggurath's Les Morts Vont Vite, or even their self-titled. -------------
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 22:45
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I see L.A. Woman, that's good. "Love Her Madly," "Been Down So Long," "Cars Hiss Past My Window," "Hyacinth House," "Riders on the Storm," all shall suffice. The Wall also fits the pattern, Floyd at their best and most depressing.
But no one's mentioned Minstrel! Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery is all real downbeat (it's about Ian divorcing his wife), and it helped me through some tough times.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 22:49
that's heresy!  I guess I was thinking depressing rather than dark, same diff I guess |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 23:12
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Well Shub-Niggurath are both, so I guess it beats Univers Zero easily. Don't forget Present either, of course. -------------
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Posted By: Firdous e Bareen
Date Posted: February 19 2008 at 00:04
Yep, you need some Anathema. I'd also recommend The Butterfly Effect, and their Imago album. They sound a bit like Dredge ... not prog rock, but still good. ------------- 
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Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: February 19 2008 at 15:18
I agree. I love it. Although I love others more. Still. I love it. Highly recommended for those who want depressing music. Another recommendation would be Pink Floyd's "Echoes"...not the rest of the album so much, but when I used to get depressed a lot "Echoes" was a track I spun very regularly. ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: Barla
Date Posted: February 19 2008 at 16:02
Not a fan of depressing music myself, but I can tell Burzum's Filosofem is a great and very depressing album (and atmospheric too!):
 I highly recommend that one!
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Posted By: sean
Date Posted: February 19 2008 at 16:23
That's probably the best example of "ambient black metal" i've heard. i agree that it's great. |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 11:06
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Peter Hammill - Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night. ------------- 
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 22:28
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With all these recommendations this dude is seriously gonna think about killing himself. Shouldn't he try happier moody songs? At least your gonna notice it's gonna make you feel a little better even though it still hurts.
------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 22:32
Eh these suggestions aren't just for "that guy"...I, and many other people who have posted here like depressing music as well, and here's a thread for them to look in! At any rate, I doubt this guy'll get but a very few (probably the first few) of the suggestions mentioned. the others I think were more for the sake of the thread. At any rate, I listen to LOADS of depressing music (hardly anything but) and I'm perfectly content...so who knows? Also, when I AM depressed, happy music just makes it worse. I need something introspective and darker to soothe me--something to relate to, not wish for. But that's my take: Yes is the worst possible band to listen to when depressed in my experience, Ulver and Radiohead are two of the best. But who knows for sure? Everyone's wires are arranged quite differently. EDIT: Also, Nice avatar d00d. ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 22:46
Good point, I was just making a suggestion to make this guy feel "better". But just like you said everyone's wires are arranged differently. But even I listen to depressing music all the time (well not all the time, but most of the time) and even my favorite bands come from this background so I guess it's up to how the persons wires are arranged. And thanks. ------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 22:52
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^^^Yeah...
I'm not sure why, but I definitely tend to go in for "depressing" music waaaay more than other types of music. It just gives me more breathing room, more room to think, and to expand...to introspect and whatnot. I just enjoy it more. Not to say I don't like happier music, I just don't "prefer" it I'd say. ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 22:53
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WHO'S THAT GUY?
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 22:58
^^^Who are you?
Well I dunno. But I'd have to agree it does give you the space to think which is a good thing unless you think of the wrongs things . But hey it's just life. ------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: Figglesnout
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 23:17
hehe. maybe you are referring to two people.
maybe not though. i could be saying nonsensical things. ------------- I'm a reasonable man, get off my case |
Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 07:28
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bah!...he is just trying to call attention..(not to be taken seriously) ------------- "I've walked on water, run through fire, can't seem to feel it anymore. It was me, waiting for me..." |
Posted By: Anaon
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 08:07
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Still Life by Perry Blake (acoustic trip hop) Alternative 4 by Anathema From the Choirgirl Hotel by Tori Amos Out of Myself by Riverside I am a Bird now by Antony and the Johnsons (this one is really really sad) And for someting heavier, I'd say any album from My Dying Bride ;) ------------- My music: http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://spleenarcana.bandcamp.com/ My blog: http://groovesandmemories.com/" rel="nofollow - http://groovesandmemories.com/ |
Posted By: CryoftheCarrots
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 20:57
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The ultimate depressing album has to be Berlin by Lou Reed. His best mind you. ------------- "There is a lot in this world to be tense and intense about" MJK |
Posted By: Jack-in-the-Green
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 04:13
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Tool - 10,000 Days
especially "10,000 Days" and "Wings for Marie"... ------------- Sorry if i have spelling mistakes, english is not my mother tongue. 
http://www.last.fm/user/grumfossil |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 04:15
| almost anything by Robert Wyatt? |