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Subject: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: velvetoneo on 04/22/06 at 5:52 pm
For me...
Tori Amos
Aimee Mann
Liz Phair (her first album is, anyway)
Suzanne Vega
Joni Mitchell
Joy Division
The Smiths.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: whistledog on 04/22/06 at 5:59 pm
I don't know about bands, but songwise, I like "Last Kiss" by Wednesday, a very depressing and sad song
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/22/06 at 6:07 pm
You'll See-Madonna
I'll Remember-Madonna
Used to Be My Playground-Madonna
Wasted Time-The Eagles
A Little Fall of Rain-from Les Mis
Empty Chairs and Empty Tables-also from Les Mis
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone-Paula Cole
I know there is more but that is all I can think of right now.
Cat
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Foo Bar on 04/22/06 at 6:49 pm
Gotta be Sisters of Mercy for me.
For relationships, it was "Temple of Love". For current events for the past 20something years, it's been "Dominion/Mother Russia" and "Vision Thing".
For both - and where the Sisters really shone was when they blended the two to the degree that you couldn't tell the difference anymore - it was, and still is - "More".
"Some people get by with a litle understanding.
Some people get by with a whole lot more.
I don't know why you've gotta be so undemanding.
One thing I know...
I want more."
- As sung by every politician, of every party, to every electorate, since the dawn of time.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Dominic L. on 04/22/06 at 6:57 pm
I like almost any dark or depressing music. I listen to it all the time, usually beautiful... :\'(
Elliott Smith is very angry and can be depressing, especially when you know he kills himself later.
Echo and the Bunnymen's "What Are you Going to do with your Life?" album is depressing, but good!
Radiohead is a great despressing band at times...
Both They Might be Giants and The unicorns sound very happy and can be silly, but think about a lot of the lyrics!
Coldplay is usually...
Uhhh... Don't have my music with me, so I can't really say yet...
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/22/06 at 7:44 pm
Grandaddy, Black Heart Procession, some Magnetic Fields, and Daniel Johnston.. all very sad music.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Dominic L. on 04/22/06 at 7:59 pm
Eels
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/22/06 at 8:17 pm
Eels
Yeah, his music is either really annoyingly happy or really insanely sad.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Dominic L. on 04/22/06 at 8:21 pm
Yeah, his music is either really annoyingly happy or really insanely sad.
Heh... I dunno, I just like it!
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: MidKnightDarkness on 04/22/06 at 8:34 pm
Elliott Smith has a way of making me feel horribly depressed. Marah has some depressing songs, too.... at least they are to me.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Dominic L. on 04/22/06 at 8:42 pm
I think of Marah as a generally happy band, but they do have a dirgy song or seven.
Elliott Smith wouldn't be half as depressing if he hasn't died...
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/22/06 at 8:45 pm
Elliott Smith wouldn't be half as depressing if he hasn't died...
No, he'd still be depressing.. it's just that is has a more haunting quality because he's dead.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Dominic L. on 04/22/06 at 8:48 pm
No, he'd still be depressing.. it's just that is has a more haunting quality because he's dead.
I said half as depressing... still depressing, just not NEARLY as much as now... I mean, he made songs about dying and drugs, and you'd not think as much about it if it didn't really happen.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Trimac20 on 04/22/06 at 9:34 pm
Elliott Smith has to be one of the most emotionally expressive singer/songwriter's I've ever heard...one can tangibly feel the sense of angst when hearing his songs. Of course, his death might make some of his stuff harder to listen to (because alot of it was so personal), but he has that rarest of abilities to bare the human soul.
Another song-writer I immediately compare to Elliott is Nick Drake, who was also wracked by depression (not so much drug-use) and died early. He released three albums, but was not well known at all during his lifetime...he gained a cult-following pust-humously. Though ironically he gained semi-mainstream fame through a commercial...
I find Radiohead quite depressing at times; as well as Travis, Stone Roses even the Verve. Quite alot of 70s music was quite sombre or at least wistful in tone; Joni Mitchell, Don MacLean.etc.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: chaka on 04/23/06 at 5:26 am
Alice In Chains: Whale & Whasp (even if it's instrumental,it's mad) Nutshell, Down In A Hole
Mad Season: Long Gone Day, River Of Deceit, Wake Up
Pearl Jam: Release (!!!), Indifference, Sleight Of Hand, All Or None, Dead Man, Footsteps
Hole (believe it or not): I Think That I Would Die
there are plenty more bit I think that'll do.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: KKay on 04/23/06 at 9:40 am
Angelo Badalamenti
(did the David Lynch soundtracks)
always beautiful, always sad....well, after all, so much of it is Laura Palmer put to music.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/23/06 at 2:13 pm
Another song-writer I immediately compare to Elliott is Nick Drake, who was also wracked by depression (not so much drug-use) and died early. He released three albums, but was not well known at all during his lifetime...he gained a cult-following pust-humously. Though ironically he gained semi-mainstream fame through a commercial...
I find Radiohead quite depressing at times; as well as Travis, Stone Roses even the Verve. Quite alot of 70s music was quite sombre or at least wistful in tone; Joni Mitchell, Don MacLean.etc.
I've heard of Nick Drake.. don't much care for him, really. But he is sad, indeed.
Dude.. The Verve is uber-depressing.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: chaka on 04/23/06 at 2:44 pm
Dude.. The Verve is uber-depressing.
yeah that's true,their music screams melancholy..well I dunno if you can "scream" melancholy but whatever..
beautiful music it is.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Mr Tumnus on 04/23/06 at 2:56 pm
People keep saying THE SMITHS and MORRISSEY are depressing but I love them and find their music intelligently written and fantastic to listen to, witty at it's best.
LEONARD COHEN is a brilliant singer too but has the ability to depress the spirit - he's great.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Step-chan on 04/23/06 at 3:06 pm
Sappy- Nirvana(no surprise that I'd post them, there are actually a few that I can list from them)
Save it for a rainy day- The Jayhawks(this one isn't very depressing, just alittle sad)
Down in a hole- Alice In Chains(like Nirvana, could list more of them)
Seasons of wither- Aerosmith(not too depressing, just sad)
Only a memory- The Smithereens
It's hard to think of any others at the moment.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/23/06 at 3:31 pm
yeah that's true,their music screams melancholy..well I dunno if you can "scream" melancholy but whatever..
beautiful music it is.
You kinda softly sigh melancholy. ;D
People keep saying THE SMITHS and MORRISSEY are depressing but I love them and find their music intelligently written and fantastic to listen to, witty at it's best.
LEONARD COHEN is a brilliant singer too but has the ability to depress the spirit - he's great.
I'm a big fan of all 3 bands you mentioned here.. but Morrissey is one depressed mofo. He's unique in his sadness, though, because he does it almost in a sort of "Oh well, what are you gonna do?" sort of way.
There's nothing against depressing music.. some bands are actually good because they ARE so depressing (Black Heart Procession, Radiohead, Grandaddy, Etc.).
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Foo Bar on 04/23/06 at 3:38 pm
LEONARD COHEN is a brilliant singer too but has the ability to depress the spirit - he's great.
Dang. I forgot Cohen. I have a CD queued up for . "The Future" will be the first song I hear, and probably one of the last. I'll have a few happy minutes before the end.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: chaka on 04/23/06 at 3:42 pm
Friend Of A Friend by the Foo Fighters gets me down..but it's probably more sad than depressing.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Marian on 04/23/06 at 3:46 pm
Ebony Eyes by the Everly Brothers
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 04/23/06 at 6:40 pm
Creep - Radiohead
Bridge Over Trouble Water - Simon & Garfunkal (not depressing, but definetly sad sounding)
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/23/06 at 7:28 pm
Creep - Radiohead
That's one of the saddest songs I know.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Trimac20 on 04/23/06 at 8:17 pm
'The Drug's Don't Work' by the Verve is probably one of the saddest songs of the 90s.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/23/06 at 8:18 pm
'The Drug's Don't Work' by the Verve is probably one of the saddest songs of the 90s.
Dude, that song used to make me cry. That's why The Verve is one of the saddest bands for me.
Even "Sonnnet", which has happy lyrics and not very sad chords.. they somehow manage to make it overtly depressing.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Trimac20 on 04/23/06 at 8:56 pm
Travis' 'The Man Who' is one of the most depressing albums I've ever heard.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: JamieMcBain on 04/23/06 at 10:27 pm
I'm Not In Love by 10cc
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: JamieMcBain on 04/23/06 at 10:28 pm
For some reason, I find Karma Police by Radiohead, depressing.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: GoodRedShirt on 04/23/06 at 11:14 pm
Yeah, his music is either really annoyingly happy or really insanely sad.
I used to think "Mr E's Beautiful Blues" and "Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)" were happy songs...
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A fair bit of my music can be considered "depressing". Couldn't really only list a few.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: ultraviolet52 on 04/24/06 at 12:08 am
Travis' 'The Man Who' is one of the most depressing albums I've ever heard.
I have that album and it's definetly very melancholy.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Badfinger-fan on 04/24/06 at 1:56 am
Stay With Me - Bette Midler (soundtrack from The Rose) An excellent, yet depressing movie
Isn't It A Pity & All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
both beautifully written and performed, but depressing nonetheless,
and I love all 3
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Mr Tumnus on 04/24/06 at 9:00 am
I'm a big fan of all 3 bands you mentioned here.. but Morrissey is one depressed mofo. He's unique in his sadness, though, because he does it almost in a sort of "Oh well, what are you gonna do?" sort of way.
There's nothing against depressing music.. some bands are actually good because they ARE so depressing (Black Heart Procession, Radiohead, Grandaddy, Etc.).
MORRISSEY has always admitted to being very insular and moody, that's the way he is. It all adds to his uniqueness imo
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/24/06 at 2:13 pm
For some reason, I find Karma Police by Radiohead, depressing.
It depends.. I find that MORE depressing if I'm already sad.
I know people who can't take that song because it upsets them so much.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: velvetoneo on 04/24/06 at 2:54 pm
Yeah, "Karma Police" is pretty damn depressing...I was just listening to Aimee Mann...that's depressing, in a sort of rueful, bitter way.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Windbreaker05 on 04/24/06 at 3:36 pm
Not really depressing so much as semi-creepy, but I would submit "Karen" for this thread
The man who calls
And doesn't say nothing
Just called again
And didn't say nothing
Don't argue with him
He's tired of talking
Get out of the house Karen
Karen go home
Get out of the house Karen
It's time to go home
Get out of the house Karen
Karen go home
Get out of the house Karen
It's time to go home
The Johnsons need a night out
The baby needs a sitter
Everyone needs something
And now you need to go
Get out of the house Karen
Karen go home
Get out of the house Karen
It's time to go home
Get out of the house Karen
Karen go home
Get out of the house Karen
It's time to go home
Karen called the police
To get that man off the phone
The police called back and said Karen
Please go home
We traced the call to the phone upstairs
Karen please go home before he comes
Downstairs
Get out of the house Karen
Karen go home
Get out of the house Karen
Karen go home
Get out of the house Karen
Karen go home
Get out of the house Karen
Take the baby and go
Home
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Dominic L. on 04/24/06 at 7:24 pm
I'm Not In Love by 10cc
Is it possible for 10cc to make a depressing song??
I've got a couple of their albums, they're like... SUPER happy!
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Apricot on 04/24/06 at 7:55 pm
Is it possible for 10cc to make a depressing song??
I've got a couple of their albums, they're like... SUPER happy!
Haven't you heard "I'm Not In Love"?
Maybe I should send you Red Red Meat's cover.. it's really good.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: velvetoneo on 04/24/06 at 11:05 pm
Haven't you heard "I'm Not In Love"?
Maybe I should send you Red Red Meat's cover.. it's really good.
Tori Amos' cover is absolutely amazing.
Subject: Re: Admittedly Depressing Music You Like
Written By: Dominic L. on 04/24/06 at 11:43 pm
Haven't you heard "I'm Not In Love"?
Maybe I should send you Red Red Meat's cover.. it's really good.
I've only heard their early stuff and Deceptive Bends. is it a later song?