― Damian, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
FWIW: There's an interview online somewhere with Bernard Sumner that I listened to a while back and he mentions the album in passing - and pronounces it Closer (as in nearer).
― scott, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Just for less overlap I'll say Tonight's The Night.
― zacko, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I just wanted to point out that "closer" pronounced with a "z" is too a real word - anyone who works in sales or real estate can tell you that :)
― Ally, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1 Stop the closer/clozer discussion and answer the questn if you will.2 I love music and art really do. And art says to fuck boundaries. I love drinking too and you know what. That fucks the walls too. Ladies and gentlemen be universal o.k. dont get stucked at one band and one sort. I have spent quite a time noting the songs i didn't know and will spend more to download them and all but do you know why all that is for.. to find a piece music floating in the air cutting through the silhoutte of my heart without bleeding or noise.3 Finally...
Not all of them but I think one of the greatest music ever made and depressing too:
1 BEETHOVEN-MOONLIGHT SYMPH.2 SEZEN AKSU-HERSEYI YAK,BELALIM,VAZGECTIM (sure most of you don't know it. that is why i wrote them.go on. check them and find the lyrics if you can and try to understand. ý call these three songs the three full stops ...)3 PORTISHEAD-ROADS,SOUR TIMES, ONLY YOU (what an 'ohhh' she says.could be the best female singer too.)4 MASSIVE ATTACK-TEARDROP,ANGEL (teardrop on the fire)5 RADIOHEAD-KARMA POLICE6 NIGHTWISH-WALKING IN THE AIR7 MY DYING BRIDE-FOR MY FALLEN ANGEL8 DEEP PURPLE-SOLDIER OF FORTUNE9 THE GODFATHER THEME10 DREAM THEATER-SPACE DYE VEST
not all, not the very best but try the first five. trust,try...now please write some good stuff that i wouldn't want to listen three million times of three million times so that it loses its tunes.i would like to keep it.
sorry and thanxsssssssszszs. """"""""""""
― soothteller, Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Wichita Lineman-Glenn CampbellJohnny Cash-Sunday Morning Comin' DownStevie Wonder-You and IJames Taylor-Fire and RainGlenn Campbell-Gentle on My Mind
However, you really should read his personal commentary here to get the full flavor.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
I guess it's a single, not an album, but it's most depressing.
― jot eff pe, Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Karl Hendricks Trio have a disc called Some Girls Like Cigarettes which is as close to recorded suicide as it gets.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― arjun (arjun), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
...also, seriously, anything by Bob Dylan (is he the most overrated musician ever? I think so), anything by Leonard Cohen....
...but for GREAT albums that happen to be depressing:Nick Drake (can't think of the title but it's brilliant)Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen...The Smiths - The SmithsSinead O'Connor - Universal MotherPortishead - Dummy
― russ t, Thursday, 16 January 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Thursday, 16 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ian Johnson, Thursday, 16 January 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 16 January 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 16 January 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Really? I find most of the album heeeelarious; it's hard to take seriously what's so absurd. The very concept of a Kylie Minogue duet with Cave overshadows whatever emotional baggage the song would contain; the only really upsetting songs on the album, I think, are "Song of Joy" and "Henry Lee."
― Ian Johnson, Thursday, 16 January 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Most depressing? I suppose one could say UNKNOWN PLEASURES or something, but I find that too intriguing to be depressing.
I find desperate albums depressing, i.e. albums made by folks whose time has clearly come and gone, yet they keep struggling in abject futility against the cruel tides of time, fashion and changing tastes -- like Motley Crue's GENERATION SWINE or MC Hammer's FUNKY HEADHUNTER. You just want to sit them down and tell them to give it up.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 00:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Prude, Monday, 3 March 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― booyah, Monday, 1 September 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
first, I thought "author",just personae--then it's clearthat he's just LIKE that
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ben Dot, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link
None of Joy Division's output ever reached the depressing depths of "Cruise", and Mr. E, of The Eels, even on Electro Shock Blues, didn't touch "Meat Means Murder" and Arab Strap is sunshine and flowers next to the emotional sandpaper of "Vietnam Serenade".
― Charlie Chomsky, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:21 (twenty years ago) link
I´d say...THE REPLACEMENTS- LET IT BE. Without a doubt. It prompts me to cry, that motherf...
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:06 (twenty years ago) link
My favorite one of these ever: Theater of Tragedy, "Velvet Darkness They Fear", because it's so beautiful and melodic and gloomy but also the most aggressive thing I've EVER heard.
― sucka (sucka), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 05:25 (twenty years ago) link
Personal to dave q: eloborate on your pick above and I will grant one wish.
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:29 (twenty years ago) link
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― dave q, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:51 (twenty years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 07:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:07 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:58 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.ecmrecords.com/Images/cover/New_Series/1500/N1591g.gif
― krakow, Saturday, 13 December 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Xiu Xiu depresses me, but I think that's intentionally on Jamie Stewart's part. Also for some reason Return To Cookie Mountain never fails to put me in a foul mood. The first Sunset Rubdown album has a similar effect. There is a line in a song on the new Department of Eagles album that goes "Those nights you wandered online/You'll never get to relive them" or something like that, which gets to me. Also, hip hop songs about how good it used to be back in the day.
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 13 December 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mixmatters.com/hot/images/mobb_deep_blood_money.jpg
― passanchino XL (and what), Saturday, 13 December 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Which album is that, Siegbran?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 14 December 2008 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I sold Broken By Whispers by Trembling Blue Stars partly because I found it so depressing.
― Girlfriend, you've been scooped like ice cream (mehlt), Sunday, 14 December 2008 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
What, no one has ever sat through 'The Hunter' by Blondie?
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt, Sunday, 14 December 2008 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
dave bixby. ultimate downer record
― oscar, Sunday, 14 December 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
No mention of GY!BE, 'F# A# ∞', yet, eh?
I've felt that the first few tracks on Gang of Four's 'Solid Gold' were unrelentingly depressing, in that listless, defeated sort of way.
― Millsner, Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link
loveless- My Bloddy Valentine.
― tom, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (7 years ago) Bookmark
trolling ain't what it used to be
― country matters, Sunday, 14 December 2008 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm surprised no one mentioned Joni's Blue.
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 December 2008 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, let me respond to this in two parts.
Part one. FUCK YOU and the bow-legged, oft-felched, syphillitic donkey you call "Mama" that you limped in on.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, February 21, 2004 2:29 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
brooklyn we go hard
― merriweather passantino pavilion (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 14 December 2008 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qwerty/wire/images/itllendintears.jpg
― Creeztophair, Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
red apple falls
― ciderpress, Sunday, 14 December 2008 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link