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So,what is your nominee for the most depressing album in the world ever?I don't really mean the ones that leave you with no hope in music whatsoever.Bearing in mind that Leonard Cohen's Greatest Hits was voted most depressing ever a few years ago,I'm just wondering if people will name the usual suspects. I'm nominating the rollercoaster album by the Red House Painters...it would send me into miserable headspins for days,and recently I was still contemplating buying it again.

― Damian, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

loveless- My Bloddy Valentine.

― tom, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Any Arab Strap album

― Nick, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Agreed with Nick. More specifically, 'The Week Never Starts Round Here' gets my vote for most depressing Arab Strap album.

I think AIC's 'Dirt' is the most depressing album without depressing me, in that I don't get affected but still find it depressing. Can I make less sense?

Nirvana's cover of 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night', especially the part at the end where Kurt agonizes over the words "...I'll shiveeeeeeeeeeeeer...the whole...night...through" always floors me.

― alex in montreal, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

what Nick said. and Low - Long Division, and Berlin (cliche i know)

― gareth, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Eels - electro shock blues. That man sounds like he been through the mill and is pretty hard going in places, but lifts at end with a truly redemptive song in Last stop this town.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Berlin.

― JM, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nico - chelsea girls & big star - third/sister lovers

― fritz, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

CLOSER by Joy Division. Becasue they weren't Goth.

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(1) CLOSER by Joy Division, quite obviously (incidentally, I've read that it's to be pronounced cloZer -- as in something that provides closure -- rather than "closer" as in nearer in proximity. Makes a bit more sense that way, at least).

(2) THE MARBLE INDEX by Nico

(3) DISINTEGRATION by the Cure. I was tempted to say PORNOGRAPHY, but that album's more abstract to these ears. DISINTEGRATOIN is a more personally depressing record, being that it singularly documents a failed/failing relationship.

― alex in nyc, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm going to say the next Limp Bizkit album--not only did MTV call them the "future of music" or something during the MTV20 thang, but rumor has it they're going to cover "Waiting Room." So that's pretty fuckin' depressing.

― adam, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hmm, clozer, that s interesting. I always imagined it like closer to the darkness or somthing, closer to death

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nick Drake - Pink Moon and Idaho - Year after Year. Both are very sad but very melodious at the same time. Beautifully sad. I love both of them madly.

Whereas Nico's Marble Index is oppressingly depressive. Very dark, a haunting voice. I can hardly sit through the whole album. It is like watching someone suffering. Unbearable. And it has got this death touch. Nico's voice sounds so cold so mechanic. On the other hand it is pure desperation.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Outside that Blink 182 album or the latest from 'N-Sync, here's one small vote for "The Trinity Sessions" by Cowboy Junkies.

― X. Y. Zedd, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I fear that going around calling it 'Clozer' will result in odd looks, or at least a tiresome 'Well, I'm saying it that way because...' routine that it will look like I'm asking for. Much like HOOgaarden and MOGE synthesisers.

― Nick, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Are y'all differentiating between "sad" and "depressing"? Sad feels good to me, whereas something depressing seems like it should be avoided. I think of Pink Moon as very sad but not depressing. Knowing it is out there lifts my spirits.

― Mark, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Calling is "clozer" does get you weird looks, trust me. Then you have to explain it. Then you get labelled pretentious freak. It's not worth it, just call it the wrong word and be done with it.

I second what Mark said. I think that albums like Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space and The Holy Bible and Closer are sad albums, but none of them depress me. I can't think of any album I actually think is depressing for its content (except in the context of "It depresses me that this awful album somehow got the money to be made" or something similar).

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Swans - The Burning World.

― RW, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well, early Swans surely won't bring any smiles. "I'm nothing, I'm Nobody. Glory! Glory! Glory!" I'd say the Cop/Greed/Holy Money/Young God double cd reissue. I couldn't imagine anyone listening to more than 15 minutes of that...and I like the Swans!!!

― James Annett, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

listening to Pink Moon gives me a comfortable feeling. Of course that doesn't make the music itself any less sad, especially since it was Nick's last work.

― turner, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

*votes for Black Heart Procession* *votes for Cat power*

― turner, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The first Tindersticks album. While it does share moments of joy and sadness, it also shares an unsettling darkness that could bring my already "down-in-the-dumps" mood even further spriraling downwards. So I just don't listen to them while driving or while operating heavy machinery.

― JC, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jandek. Hands down. Followed by the Palace Music album.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If you mean "Days In The Wake," that's always made me feel good, although I won't say why.

My vote goes to The Dead C's "Baseheart." Something about that song...brrr...I dunno why, but those leaden chords just leave me unnerved and miserable for hours.

― Jess, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Limp Bizkit covering "Waiting Room"??? That's GREAT! Do you realize how much money that would make Dischord? Assuming they're liscencing their songs. (It'll still pale in comparison to the version by Atom & His Package.)

Most brilliantly depressing album = Slint's _Spiderland_. And it covers all shades of depression - the suffering of a social pariah, mortality, existential confusion, gothic horror. It always struck me as being dramatic without being theatrical (unlike stuff like Arab Strap, which is great, in moderation).

Mark Eitzel's _Caught in a Trap..._ is pretty good in this regard, too. "XMas Lights Spin" never fails to make me sigh and fall into a considered stupor.

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'OK Computer'. I literally, physically cannot listen to it all the way through, it just puts me in a bad mood. I also find Trembling Blue Star's 'Her Handwriting' to be a lot of hard work. I just think: 'for fucks sake stop MOPING! Jeezus!'. The relentless pitiful whining really gets me down, and in the end I just get angry with the record.

I think I would nominate 'Unknown Pleasures' over 'Closer' actually. The lyrics - "I guess that dreams always end / they don't rise up, just descend" - are about as low and bereft of hope as you can get. The sound of a defeated soul.

I like it, it's good.

Is there any record of Ian Cutis explaining the pronounciation of Closer? I mean, 'clozer' = not actually a word and sounds silly. And the term 'closure' is an Americanism with which the band were probably not familiar with in 1980.

Plus, 'Closer' does make more sense. It evokes a feeling of claustrophobia and suffocation - "I feel it closing in" - of the walls, the world closing in and around. Closer to the grave.

― DavidM, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I wish I could cite the article wherein I read that bit about it being Closer (as in something that closes) versus Closer (as in nearer). If I'm not completely mistaken, it was an article with Peter Hook circa the re-release of SUBSTANCE. In any event, I'm not making it up...trust me. I do agree with Ally et al., however. Going around calling it that will only get you middle-fingers from non-zealous fans (and not wholly-unwarrantedly). Still, supposedly, that pronunciation was the band's intention. Whatever.

― alex in nyc, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I first heard the CLOZER/CLOESSSER argt before IC died: admittedly from a JD fan so besotted his branes had come entirely adrift. (He eventually decided it was CLOESSSER because the record sounded more like what they had always wanted to sound like...) A lot of the music so far mentioned is only depressing because later on something awful happened to the singer: the guitar on Pink Moon and the OTHER JD-ers on Closer aren't doing anything depressing. Closer is merely pretty. Swans are funny.

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

He's pretty obvious, but I'm gonna say Nick Cave's The Boatman's Call. Just relentless, and the only song that's not about a failed relationship is about having faith in God. Uggh. Why he's considered such a brilliant lyricist, I have no idea. I know 16 year olds who write better poetry than he does. Plus he steals outright from Lolita, Flannery O'connor, etc.

― tha chzza, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't listen to much sad music, but I find Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon depressing because the lyrics hit home.

― Lyra, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Scott Walker comp Fire Escape in the Sky makes me very sad, more so than Nick Drake or Joy Division. I can't remember the last time I listened to Joy Division, I have the records from when I was in high school. I wouldn't get rid of Fire Escape.. but it has the ability to drag me down emotionally if I'm heading that way already.

― Lesley Higgins, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ROAD You can say the sun is shining if you really want to I can see the moon and it seems so clear You can take the road that takes you to the stars now I can take the road that I'll see me through

I love this song but if there is a depressive song it is this one. And it was only consequent that he killed himself. Otherwise this song would have been rubbish. Similar with Ian Curtis. I think if you listen carefully and let the music come close to you you feel that this guy is not joking. Both of them were dead serious and their suicides were no accident. And the music does not become less (or more) convincing just because they killed themselves.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Codeine's "The White Birch", as I remember it, comes close.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yes, slint, they make me want to kill myself. i'd vote for anything by simon joyner.

― keith, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If I would have been paying less attention to work maybe I could have been the first one to say it, but I will repeat it because really there's no contest. Berlin wins, hands down.

― Miranda, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, but when those kids start crying you gotta laugh, don't you? Especially when you know that Reed made them cry for real by telling them their mum had died. Seriously, I'm not a kiddie-torturing sadist or anything, but it is funny.

― Nick, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Berlin is only depressing if you can take it seriously and put up with Reed at his most beatnik-bleak, i.e. if you concentrate on it. But I find it hard to take it very seriously so it doesn't depress me - or maybe I just can't relate to the 'characters'.

As Mark suggests, context is important. But a record which fills a room with sad sounds whatever you the listener put in is still surely more 'depressing' than a record where you have to be listening attentively to the lyrics to get the misery.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A Q magazine feature on The Most Miserable Albums Of All Time also indicated that it was pronounced Clozer,which is what I call it,but I still feel self-conscious saying it. The White Birch is pretty grim,but it at least offers the glimmer of hope at the end with Smoking Room,which always seems so much faster than the rest of the album.I thought the second Idaho album was more grim than the first,but I love them anyway.

― Damian, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Re: Closer vs Clozer.

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

Closer is a better and subtler name than Clozer. But it's not a terribly subtle album.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rickie Lee Jones, 'Pop Pop'

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I would have picked Electro-shock Blues, though I think the kicker is PS: You Rock My World.

Just for less overlap I'll say Tonight's The Night.

― zacko, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Re: Closer/Clozer

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

one year passes...

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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 POLICE
6 NIGHTWISH-WALKING IN THE AIR
7 MY DYING BRIDE-FOR MY FALLEN ANGEL
8 DEEP PURPLE-SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
9 THE GODFATHER THEME
10 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

Alejandro Escovedo's got lotsa real downer songs, but his latest, A Man Under the Influence, is like 90% bummer, 10% summer ("Castanets" being the only real rocker on the platter).

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

any Red House Painters album has got to be on this list.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Futurism 2.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Here are Dean (or is it Gene, I get them confused) Ween's picks for the "5 songs that have always just reduced me to a little girly-man no matter how many times I've heard them":

Wichita Lineman-Glenn Campbell
Johnny Cash-Sunday Morning Comin' Down
Stevie Wonder-You and I
James Taylor-Fire and Rain
Glenn 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

Oops, that's the wrong link. Try this.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Current 93 : I Have a Special Plan for This World

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

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Oh god okay THE most depressing record I know (CD Ep) = "Trace" by Demarnia Lloyd. It's also goddamn brilliant.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:31 (twenty years ago) link

Skip James 'Devil Got My Woman'

― dave q, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

(ie the title event seems to be the only GOOD thing that ever happened to him - the rest is not upbeat, however)

― dave q, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link

Blood on the Tracks, Pornography, Closer

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:51 (twenty years ago) link

Anything by MY DYING BRIDE

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 07:37 (twenty years ago) link

The entire 1980-82 trilogy by The Cure, with "Pornography" possibly the most depressive of all.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:07 (twenty years ago) link

Lots of votes for Univers Zero's 1313 being one of them bleakest records ever made in the omniverse, I've seen. The record itself I haven't heard.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

Swans, The Burning World. "God Damn the Sun" is possibly the most hopeless song I've ever heard.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

Hats - ambushed by expected emotion?

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

(I fear I'm turning into some sort of caricature of myself but all I have been listening to recently is the Blue Nile. A vast majority of the music I love I hardly ever talk about on ILM. See 'tracks for Nick Southall to download' thread for pointers.)

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

I said it before, and I'll say it again....

The Funky Headhunter by MC Hammer.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

Throwing Muses eponymous debut.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

I find The burning World undepressing - my fave songs on it are Saved and The River That Runs With Love Will Not Run Dry - granted the songs and the title lyrics aren't straightforward in relation to each other but still, those songs give me comfort. I Remember Who You Are is pretty devastating though! Failure off Swans' White Light From the Mouth of Infinity is depressing - okay yeah maybe that album gets a strong nomination - "Love will save you, but it won't save me"...

also, as I was reminded by someone else playing him this morning: Loren Connors.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

Swans are indeed deeply nondepressing -- cathartic isn't the right word either, necessarily. Exultant, yes -- but exultant in minor key.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

Air, The Virgin Suicides.

Really like it. Can't listen to it anymore. And my absence-of-hatred-at-best feeling about the movie is 25% Dunst, 75% this sound track, so go figure.

Still can't listen to it. Like doing bad, um ... lithium ... or something ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:10 (twenty years ago) link

Smog, The Doctor Came at Dawn..

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:48 (twenty years ago) link

How the fuck can anybody hate an album with a lyric as cool as, "And with an ashtray as big as a fucking really big brick, I split his skull in half"???

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 September 2003 04:17 (twenty years ago) link

Yes! The Murder Ballads is a fucking riot. And that may be my favorite line on it. ("The Curse of Millhaven" and his wacky version of "Stagger Lee" also crack me up.)

Not depressing at all.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

I think Faith is really depressing because by the end of that album he knows now that the only Faith he can have is in himself. Pornography is far more of a rallying cry (it sounds good live too).

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link

Nick Drake - Time of No Reply. 4 songs recorded when he was at his worst, could barely speak. Listening to it makes me cry.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 5 September 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

i still miss you by arab strap and track 6 off bogdan's my love i love. both bring me down like a lead balloon.

― chicken tonight (chicken tonight), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:01 (twenty years ago) link

I just got Slint's Spiderland and the Red House Painters' rollercoaster album yesterday. I second both of them; I've been extremely miserable (and awed) since listening to them.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 September 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

I always found the very existance of a Wide Boy Awake record to be intensly depressing.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Saturday, 6 September 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

Anything by Mecca Normal and especially the song "Fan Of Sparks", which is both depressing and obscenely painful.

― Etienne (Etienne), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

Sophia "fixed water"

― Bruno- (Bruno-), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

cat power - myra lee
modest mouse - sad sappy sucker
mogwai - happy songs for happy people
bright eyes - fevers and mirrors

― tiffany, Saturday, 21 February 2004 05:36 (twenty years ago) link

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 --
-- Alex in NYC (vassifer@earthlink.net), January 17th, 2003.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:10 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, Colin....and?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago) link

Wasn't your favorite album of 2003 by Killing Joke?

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:26 (twenty 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.

Part two. Killing Joke's 2003 album had no business being as good as it turned out to be (thanks in great part to the production of Andy Gill, the reintroduction of Raven to the fold, some dicey world events and the injection of youthful energy that was Dave Grohl), thus it bucked the odds and does not adhere to the stipulations of desperation I layed out in the quote of mine you cited.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 21 February 2004 08:29 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

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), Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:11 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
OH MY GOD ALEX THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE NAME OF THAT HAMMER ALBUM.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:34 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

this exchange ALONE made this thread classic :-)

― Eisbär (Eisbaer), Saturday, 13 December 2008 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link

There was a compilation album out recently of songs from adverts. I've not listened to it, but I can't conceive conceptually a more depressing album.

― rjberry, Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/garzweiler2/R-562902-1139674160.jpg

― Siegbran, Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.com/Part-Summa/dp/B00005MNCL/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1229201465&sr=1-2

Arvo Pärt - Part: Summa

All of it is really sad and depressing. Of course, it's probably my favorite classical release ever.

― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2002/Dec02/Part_Summa_Jarvi_45501.jpg

― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link

Paavo Järvi is a master on this.

― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 13 December 2008 20:54 (fifteen 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

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