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Have you heard the Sea Change album by Beck?

Absolutely gorgeous, but a complete downer. If you know what I mean.

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Depressing music... uh, Chris Vrenna rules on that XD
American Mc Gee's Alice's soundtrack is one of the gloomiest and saddest albums I've ever heard. Wonderful, but so saaad...
Also, Brian Eno's "by this river" is surely depressing...
But that album was cool - was it "Before and after science"?

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Been giving the topic some more thought...

Some gloomy tracks:
Sullen Girl - Fiona Apple
Don't Let it Bring You Down - Neil Young
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd (actually there's tons of Floyd stuff that is pretty despairing)
The Black Angel's Death Song - Velvet Underground
The End - Doors

What else?

Eels' Electro-shock Blues album.

Just about everything ever written by Leonard Cohen and Scott Walker.

And Before and After Science is an incredible album. I also rate the other Eno rock (as opposed to purely ambient) albums: Here Come the Warm Jets, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain and Another Day on Earth. Also that album that Eno did with the Velvets' John Cale called Wrong Way Up.

Question: do we listen to depressing music because it makes us feel better or because it makes us feel more depressed?

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How come I forgot a song like Ricochet, by Faith no more? The album is the wonderful King for a Day (one of my favourite albums ever!) and also "One of my lies" - Green Day, Kerplunk.

I don't know why do we feel the need to listen gloomy songs... I listen a lot of punk rock or such, but sometimes slow and sad musics relax me. Surprised

...okj I need to turn off Kerplunk now, "No one knows" is also more depressing than "one of my lies"... Crying or Very sad

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Sorry, been out of town for a few days...

To continue...

Look On Down from the Bridge - Mazzy Star
Wise Up - Aimee Mann
Judas Sings - Robyn Hitchcock
Permafrost - Magazine
Heaven - Talking Heads

I've never really thought The Smiths were depressing. Even that song Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now is pretty jaunty. LOL

The one exception is that Smiths album track (whose name I forget) about the Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, that has all the little children singing in the background (just to explain for any non-Brits reading this, Brady and Hindley were a pair of sickos in the 1960s who tortured and murdered children and then buried their bodies on the moors). Although I guess that one isn't so much depressing as kinda creepy.

Never heard Vincent Gallo's music. I have to say his movie The Brown Bunny depressed me. But not in a good way.

Scott Walker had lots of pop hits with the Walker Brothers (remember Make It Easy On Yourself and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More?). Then he went off and became a recluse and began issuing these REALLY odd albums. They started out kinda introspective and abrasive, then got increasingly doom-laden, atonal and utterly uncommercial. Apparently he's currently recording a new album with Elizabeth Frazer out of Cocteau Twins. The mind boggles...

I think if you like By This River you'll like pretty much all of Before and After Science. A lot of the songs (Julie With..., Spider and I, Through Hollow Lands) have the same sort of languid, drifting quality. The rockier stuff (Backwater, Here He Comes, No-one Receiving) is more upbeat, but full of his strange, nonsensical lyrics. There's even a tribute to Talking Heads called King's Lead Hat (worked it out yet?).

I find listening to depressing music kinda helps me work through things. If I'm feeling low, it's somehow reassuring to think that someone else has had the same sorts of experiences and can empathise with you. Or you can empathise with them.

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I've noticed that happens a lot with amazon.com these days...

Stuff is marked as "usually despatched within 24 hours" but, once you've checked out, the order sits in the "to be despatched soon" heap for days before it finally goes into the postal system. Rolling Eyes

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Donnie Darko Sound Track: Gary Jules - Mad World

Linkin Park - My December

Roxette - Spending My Time

Chicago - Look Away

Jewel - Foolish Games

Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue

The Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

R.E.M. - Sweetness Follows

R.E.M. - Nightswimming

R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

George Michael - One More Try

Gloria Estefan - Don't Wanna Lose You

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I'm Only Happy When It Rains by Garbage

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everybody has been burned - the byrds
unless - pale fountains
will she always be waiting - bluebells
hurt - nine inch nails
sorry i am - ani di franco
baby blue - badfinger
warning sign - cold play
everything remind me of her - elliott smith
downfall - matchbox 20
fade into you - mazzy star

Sad

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Have you seen this book...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1860746284/qid=1134696113/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-2613884-7462032

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This song by The Beatles was recorded before most of you were born.

Eleanor Rigby died in a church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father Mackenzie,wiping his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

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Everything by Alice in Chains, especially the album Dirt. Makes you wanna buy a gun and..... well, you know. And some Metallica, One, Fade to Black to name a few.

Cheers.

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I get depressed everytime I hear the radio here in Spain...oh my God, it's so bad...In some radios they repeat the slogan "save the music", they think (or they are very sadistic) that their music is good. Instead, I think that a better slogan would be: "Fry your brain".

Returning to the topic, I think that the old songs of Manson are too depressive. I agree with you in most of the songs, I would like to another three:

The Offspring - Amazed
Rammstein - Mutter
Héroes del Silencio (spanish group) - No más lágrimas (No more tears)

In response to Dave T question, I think that we hear depressing music when we are depressed and we want to get MORE depressed...yes, a little masochist...

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I've found some other songs listening to bad Religion ;__;

1000 memories and Struck a nerve are something uh? Confused

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to listen to songs of a depressing nature is totally natural and legitemitely human because someone had been there before and lets you know that this path can be traveled,though never without sacrifice...though let's be glad that depression is not despair.songs usually don't depress me...i usually do that myself when i torture myself...being honest with myself as well as you

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what a valiant and dynamic spirit...i am honored...but i don't need help...i am refering to a figurative context...such as when i see a beautiful woman and wonder i will ever be that lucky to have a woman like that at my side...though in truth...i usually let my silences answer for me...no...a cry for help is like this:HHHHEEEELLLLLLLLLP!

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Uh, why have all of don-juan-darko's messages turned into Very Happy

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