Depressing Music

[Bereta_Eder]

I dontknow why you need it. that's why I dont particularly listen to greek music. it grasps your heart and squizes it untill you weep. its not all dance music you know.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by paiktis22
I dontknow why you need it. that's why I dont particularly listen to greek music. it grasps your heart and squizes it untill you weep. its not all dance music you know.

I agree but I like whatever type of music, guitar, classical whatever to be uplifting. If I want depressing iv'e got over a dozen news channels to choose from.

[Bereta_Eder]

same here

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by reds4ever


I agree but I like whatever type of music, guitar, classical whatever to be uplifting. If I want depressing iv'e got over a dozen news channels to choose from.

Hear, hear!

Back when I was a zit-faced teen wallowing in the typical teenage angst over nothing, I listened to depressing music all the time (no one's mentioned Pink Floyd yet, but that was my favorite source); it was an external confirmation of my stupid adolescent belief that the world was a sh!thole and most people were too stupid to even notice.

Now I'm 40, the promise of my youth is spent, and life seems to have far, far too few years left in it; I'll be damned if I'll spend even one minute deliberately listening to music that makes me feel bad.

Rufus puts on Frank Sinatra's Songs for Swingin' Lovers and begins to feel very good indeed...

[Jac de Molay]

anything by Radiohead, Coldplay or Travis, why do you need depressing music?

I radiohead and coldplay. Coldplay's the only good band Ive heard in the past 2 years, as far as I'm concerned.

Anything by the Cowboy Junkies is definitely depressing. I would recommend The trinity sessions . It was recorded in an old church, and has an echoey dreamy sound to go along with the melancholy music.

[Jack the Bodiless]

Holst, Planets Suite: Saturn, bringer of Old Age.

[uggabugga]

side 2 of black flag's 'my war'

[Boris Godunov]

Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneaus by Purcell
The soundtrack to Schindler's List by John Williams
The Lacrymosa from Mozart's Requiem

[devilmunchkin]

radiohead
nin
marilyn manson (well..he's an all the time band)
"brick" by ben folds five
Raindrop Prelude by Chopin
and the Edward SCissorhands soundtrack composed by Danny Elfman

[Agathon]

Mahler's 6th Symphony "The Tragic". Starts gloomy and ends in death.

[Boris Godunov]

The opening of Mahler's 6th is more martial than gloomy, I think.

Holst, Planets Suite: Saturn, bringer of Old Age.

You think that's depressing? Hmm, I never thought of it as such. Ponderous and mysterious, yes, but not depressing.

Ooh! Ooh! Another good one: the Adagio from Bruckner's 8th Symphony. More ethereal than depressing, but it's quite beautiful. Come to think of it, the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th is also extremely beautiful, though not dour.

The Scherzo from Bruckner's Symphony No. 0 is somewhat jaunty, but dark nonetheless.

[Bosh]

nothing's more depressing than Emocore, try:
Thrice
Thursday
From Autumn to Ashes

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by monkspider
Eels- Electroshock Blues, not hard rock, and there are some instruemental moments on it, to boot.

That's what I was going to recommend. E wrote the album after his mom died of cancer and his sister committed suicide, so it can get a bit heavy at times.

[self biased]

Originally posted by gunkulator
Johnny Cash singing "Hurt" always brings me down.

i was going to say the same thing... Down's "where i'm going" is also good for the trick...

[SpencerH]

Tanita Tikaram "Twist In My Sobriety"

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