Depressing albums! ;_:
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- Do your find yourself obsessed in any way with depressing music? What albums or songs do you find particularly depressing? Why?
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Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Sunn O))) - Black One
Giles Corey - Giles Corey
Nirvana - In Utero
Brand New - Daisy
Björk - Vulnicura
Joy Division - Closer
Some of my personal favourite albums ever, all depressing
Tom Abraham this is a great list :)
Proper list here
Daisy doesn't get the recognition it deserves
where's my modest mouse tom?
Glow Pt.2 is my favorite out of those you named.
I recommend Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
I listened to a lot of The Smiths when I was feeling depressed. I successfully made myself felt worse.
Mother I can feel the soil falling over my headd
I always feel better when I listen to the smiths
the sadder you are the happier they make you. they only make me sad when i'm happy
+Merryn Hurley-Rawlins "good art comforts the disturbed, and disturbs the comfortable"
+Murakami R That song in particular is my one true love when i feel crappy.
Elliott Smith- Roman Candle
Elliott Smith- S/T
Elliott Smith- Either/or
Elliott Smith- XO
Elliott Smith- Figure 8
Elliott Smith- From a Basement...
Elliott Smith- New Moon
Check out is Grand Mal stuff. It's a collection of unreleased material if you haven't heard of it already. So so good. It's a tragedy none of those songs are officially out yet, especially Stickman.
You seem like you really need a hug
Elliot Smith is amazing
@@ColombianThunder suicide machine, first timer, see how things are hard, and you make it seem like nothing are all in that I think amd they are great
Crazy fucker from the grand mal is amazing. There is a studio version on youtube as well
Crywank's album "tomorrow is nearly yesterday" is a great album for dealing with depression
Been looking for crywank to be mentioned
@@Aceken23 same here
love that album btw
@@cciale that album is a gift from the gods
Crywank is a God
Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" has the most tangible melancholy set into music that I have ever known. Man, that record is just of a league of its own when it comes to emotional pureness.
All my life I’ve been looking for Fantano to just mention Nick Drake and I finally found a video of it 😅
@@AmeersJournal seriously i cant believe he hasnt made a classics review of it
Pharrell Williams- Happy. Makes me cry everytime
Cry about the state of music.
Same here :.(
I actually listened to that song during a traumatic part of my childhood with the hope of raising my feelings. It worked at the time, like a cage, in that it trapped the emotions. Whenever I listen back on that song I'm plunged in this awful state of mood. I never fail to forget
I'm laughing
Goddammit
Everywhere At The End Of Time - The Caretaker
Quite possibly the most devastating and crushing work of music ever made
PLEASE NONO I MADE A FULL EFORT TO FORGET THE ENTIRE ALBUM WHYYYY
@@user-ys1mb9ho2m forget. haha.
@@sean1419 its a masterpiece but I hate it with all my heart
@@sean1419 They will. We all will...
artists mentioned:
elliott smith
bright eyes
neutral milk hotel
the roots
phil ohcs
nick drake
bonnie “prince” billy ii
joy division
gris
sunn O)))
wolf eyes
suicide
swans
have a nice life
godspeed! you black emperor
simon joyner
nick cave
scott walker
patsy klein
tom waits
johnny cash
hank williams
I'm gay
You forgot eels
Tom Waits?
He forgot The caretaker
Where are the Eels mentioned??
i listen to 'depressing' music because it fills my chest with a familiar kind of weight i think. It just feels right because I'm used to that feeling. Also depressing music takes away the loneliness because you feel in a way connected to the artist through your feelings that they experience and express so perfectly for you
this is how if feel when I listen to kid cudi, or 808s & heartbreak by kanye
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The Antlers - Hospice
Cure - Disintegration
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Counting Crows - August & Everything After
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Billy Holiday - Billy Holiday Sings
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Eels - Electro-shock Blues
Lou Reed - Berlin
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here/The Final Cut
John Mitchell - Blue
Beck - Sea Change
Nico - The Marble Index
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Front Bottoms - My Grandma vs. Pneumonia
Eels- electroshock blues hit me hard
I mainly listen to hip hop but benji was inhumanely sad
SnowKid32 Surprised to see nico in there, nice.
SnowKid32 Berlin is a fantastic example, I think he wrote it after his wifes death not sure, its the best example of musical melancholy i can think of...
SnowKid32 Building Nothing Out Of Something or TIALDFSWNTTA was a way better pick for depressed Modest Mouse. Totally nailed Pink Floyd though.
Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies.
Especially the song "nutshell". Man.. it hits really hard and super close to the heart.
Masterpiece
love alice in chains
W
Top 5 song personally
Pink Moon is my favorite depressing album. I listened to it when I was stuck in a mental hospital
I also like King Crimson's Red a lot. It has a very melancholy feel, especially on Starless
Wow. Two great albums there. I would also mention "The Final Cut." Maybe even the song "Wish You Were Here." It's hauntingly depressing yet beautiful.
how does king crimson work anyway?
Brother, I have a really strong love for Nick Drake's album Pink Moon and was blessed to have been introduced to him at a very young and impressionable age. This album seems to resonate an intense emotionally lucid yet humble state within myself.
elliott smith is a god among men. he died way too young
I am as sad as Rick
"A god among men."
Just what I was thinking about
TheHalliday123456789 WOW, a reference about a reference.
elliot rodger is a god among men.
he died way too young
Also:
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Radiohead - Kid A
The National - High Violet
MONEY - The Shadow Of Heaven
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Portishead - Dummy
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate
Slint - Spiderland
(yeah, it's been a complicated road for me)
What a great range of depressing records. Especially Cohens Songs of Love and Hate. "I stepped Into an avalanche it covers up my soul", "your pain is no crudential here its just the shadow of my would" He is a fucking master of his kind.
+all of them milking with green fleshy flowers *shadow of my wound
Aside from motion picture soundtrack and how to dissappear completely, how is Kid A depressing?
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Caretaker's 6-staged work called 'Everywhere at the End of Time'. That shit goes beyond depressing, it is hauntingly scary. I listened to the first half an hour of the first stage, which I'd been told is the easiest to get through, and I could not go any further. The shit literally made me have trouble falling asleep because death and dementia (themes that are explored quite frequently) were so heavy on the mind.
Edit: I got through the first 3 stages 4 days ago. It was in one listen, and it just got even more dreadful. I also finished the first part of stage 4, and it...well, if you've listened, you know, but putting it lightly, it's really heavy dread.
Edit 2: Apparently there were mentions of EATEOT earlier in the year than what I had seen at the time since they had very few likes compared to now. Also I finished the thing around 2 weeks ago, the last 5 minutes were sad, and I recognized what they were meant to symbolize, but it was not enough to push me to the point of tears. (Thanks Mr Flibble for the reminder)
Edit 3: I have no idea why I did this, but I came back to EATEOT and listened another time. It's really unsettling still, but honestly, this time around, it lost its luster. Though it did reaffirm my belief that alzheimers should be a disease that can allow you to be eligible for Euthanasia, that suffering is something that we cannot comprehend, and we shouldn't let those that we love go through it.
As someone who listened to the entire length recently, the way that it replicates dementia is incredible. It feels like your listening to the audible deterioration of this in-universe character, and eventual death. Anyone who has heard the last 6 minutes will agree that there is a certain grief at the end of the album, and throughout the whole six hours you really start to think about the impact of dementia on people. Probably the most comments I've ever read on a youtube video
i listened to the whole thing just yesterday and i could not sleep at all last night. i cried at the final 5 minutes
Could you describe how the album sounds? I’d like to give it a listen
@@johnstamos75 It's a combination of ballroom music from the 20s-40s that becomes more and more distorted as you get further through it as your 'dementia' worsens and gets more severe. It's also really really long (clocks in at around 6 and a half hours I believe). I can't describe it super well, but that's a really shitty description of it. You'll understand once you listen.
John Stamos give it a listen, even the most elegant description from Kirby (the artist) wouldn’t even scratch the surface of what the album/work does to ones mind and body when listened to.
If possible I’d dedicate a day to listen, it’s 6.5 hours, broken down more or less to 6 1 ish hour long albums that build upon the last, until a finale that is a literal metaphor for death.
It’s free on TH-cam, the description has it broken down very well, with apt descriptions of each stage, and has some amazing artwork as well, although it does it rather unsettling by the end.
How to disappear completely by radiohead
Yes, thank you! That and Pyramid Song incite the most powerful melancholy feelings, for me at least.
Thomas Liebrecht Thhhhhat there.... that's not meee
The depression anthem
Dont leave me high.... dont leave me dryyyyyayayay I cry evy time...
it may be one of the prettiest songs ever written
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New is incredibly depressing, in my opinion.
Also, _Leaves Turn Inside of You_ by Unwound [the latter part of the album].
Tim Lundin the amount of times I've listened to that album is insane. Definitely one of my favorites
I agree very much so, a couple of songs in particular are actually very upsetting (in a good way) to listen to
Good call. That album hit me hard as well. Same with American Football's only album.
Tim Lundin
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New is incredibly depressing, in my opinion.
Skeleton tree - Nick Cave and The bad seeds
Sea change (in general) - Beck
★ - David Bowie
Amnesiac - Radiohead
I love those albums so much.
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Carissa's Weird - Songs About Leaving
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
The Cure - Pornography
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness
Low - I Could Live In Hope
Scott Walker - Tilt
+Anthony Fantano
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Tom Waits - Alice
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind
Dalek - Absence
Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Coil - The Ape of Naples
Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra - He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the
Corners of Our Rooms...
oh yeah, the cure. most depressing music ever!
As a huge Radiohead fan, AMSP doesn’t belong here with A Crow Looked At Me
Deathconsciousness left me feeling so broken jesus that shit was heavy
There is not enough The Cure in this video.
True, but people tend to think of singles like "Friday I'm in Love" when they think of The Cure. They are especially powerful on their first few albums.
Of course, sad or melancholic music usually isn't commercially successful, but I'm certain Anthony isn't somebody who only listens to singles and even on Wish there are plenty of heart-wrenching tracks.
BloodflowersAndHurricanes Yeah, Anthony wouldn't be a music nerd if he only listens to singles. But yeah, what you said is totally true, it normally isn't. I was lucky enough to stumble upon The Cure's sad songs.
do you guys have some recomendations for sad albums/singles of The Cure?
Pornography, Seventeen Seconds, Faith. Especially Pornography. (Songs like: A Forest, M, At Night, Seventeen Seconds, The Holy Hour, Other Voices, The Funeral Party, Faith, One Hundred Years, Siamese Twins, The Figurehead, A Strange Day, Cold, Pornography). They do all have this melancholic and dark feelings, with lyrics that can be cleary interpreted as sad and depressing. The first song on Pornography, One Hundred Years, starts with "It doesn't matter if we all die." :D
Hospice by The Antlers. That whole album tells this beautiful heartfelt story of a relationship falling apart. Listening to that album while reading the lyrics booklet was a huge emotional hit.
That album is gorgeous!
I LOVE THAT ALBUMM
I think what makes OK Computer by Radiohead such a depressing album is that it’s universal. The instrumentation, lyrics, production, and vocals are cold, disconnected, and isolated but also impassioned, powerful, and raw. The overarching message and theme of the record is that we constantly try to fill an emotional void in our lives with superficial and temporary thrills to indulge our senses until we inevitably return to the inescapable emptiness and mundanities of everyday adult life. It’s definitely a bleak portrayal of how we conduct ourselves and interact with one another, but still a very honest and real account of the human condition nonetheless
Ok Computer is a masterpiece. kind of eerie at times as well
Eerily prophetic
the caretaker - everywhere at the end of time, an empty bliss beyond this world
Have a nice life - Deathconcsiousnes
Slowdive - Pygmalion
the caretaker is the final boss of depression music
Stellar 3
Slowdive💞
ppl who listen to the caretaker are mouthbreathers. get more emotion from reading the wiki page for dementia and i dont have to listen to mid ambient music for 6 hours
@@freindmaker4473 you are not a funny boi for saying that statement
Slowdive- Souvlaki.
so purdy... would have been too good to be true if it got a mention here
I agree- while Just For a Day is a better album in my opinion, Souvlaki hits way harder emotionally and feels much more heartfelt and genuine.
Pygmalion is the more depressing Slowdive album.
do you really call any of slowdive's albums depressing? They are about beautiful melancholy, not depression.
Women Public Strain
Were u too depressed for a TRAN-SITION?!?!
nah, this is just an oldie before i started doing that. :-)
+theneedledrop I WAS A FAN OF FANTANO BEFORE THE TRANSITIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guatemalan Dude 69 Did you like it you hate it? Don't get mad don't be sad.
Guatemalan Dude 69 3:55 What's this band/album?
i would like to ask that as well
What album is it ?
Alice in chains, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley. Blind Melon are quite depressing too, if you look into the lyrics.
Alice In Chains self titled album is the most heart breaking album I ever heard.
Yes! Their self titled album figuratively punches me in the gut every time I hear it. Same with The Holy Bible by the Manic Street Preachers.
Almost anything from Alice in Chains has a depressing aspect to it, except for Facelift, Sap and a couple of songs from Dirt and the Self titled (Rooster and The Nothin' song)
Immigrato clandestino - I mean, here, a lot of people talk about their lyrics but I think that in Dirt, this sludgy music just slooows you down and buries you in a 70 minutes delicious agony;
while Jar of Flies has depressing lyrics but plain beautiful harmonies, quite light actually.
atrass toumay exactly.. the lyricism is kind of secondary when it comes to music to me so usually the instrumentation itself is the depressing part for me. This probably comes from my love for metal. However, Brand New is an example of music where the lyricism really gets to me
Jar of Flies- Alice in Chains
In Utero- Nirvana
Pornography- the Cure
Filth- Swans
Fiona Apple- The Idler Wheel...
Silver Mt. Zion- He has left us...
Opeth- Watershed
Literally any song by Sopor Aeternus is the most depressing song ever written.
I found Jar of flies to be the most uplifting of AiC, and it shows since it was made when Layne was recovering from drugs
Tudorgeable except he was not he checked out of rehab upwards to 10 times and at the time they recorded JoF they were kicked out of there house from not paying rent. so they lived at the studio
Filth is more aggressive than depressing, at least to my ears.
Soundtracks for the Blind is more depressing
I think Dirt and Tripod are a lot more depressing than Jar of Flies
Megamaniac610 in utero isn't so much depressing as it is painful know what I mean. You don't get sad you get more so angsty.
Hospice by The Antlers is a soul crusher
really surprised he didnt mention it
he hated that album he gave it like a 3
Really? That's sad.
ikk I love that album
Here's some underrated depressing music:
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Lucas Ferreira
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New is incredibly depressing, in my opinion.
Really? I'm not too familiar with Brand New's music so I'll check it out.
I dont think souvlaki is depressing at all
Have a nice life is life
immodium91 do you think so? i get a very melancholic vibe from it. somehow it entails a feeling of thoughtfulness and emptiness.
interesting how peoples opinions differ on this
The Cure - Disintegration
Townes van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song
Lou Reed - Berlin
Nirvana - In Utero
Cure-Disintegration is the first album I think I ever bought and I was only 10 I believe. Totally Awesome album..still one of my favs
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral is probably one of the most depressing albums I listen to on a regular basis. I'd listen to it less, but you just have to appreciate how clever it is as a concept. You can even listen to it to get you pumped up too. It's a weird mixture of feelings that it brings out. It also has some of NIN's best material.
+scaredypicker agreed, agreed, and agreed
Nirvana
+scaredypicker I'd like to mention The Hurting by Tears For Fears.
yeah, i was surprised it wasn't mentioned.
The Downward Spiral pretty much started my love for NIN, The Fragile has to be my second favorite NIN album.
Radiohead's Kid A is not only depressing, but also a spiritual journey.
really... no emotion with how to disappear completely
Easily my favorite album and favorite band of all time
A lot of people mention The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, but The Fragile is just as depressing really. Pretty Hate Machine more angry than depressing though
I think "Still" is probably Trent's most depressive material, not only due to the lyrics but also the melodies of the songs and the whole subdued, quiet sound and atmosphere
i agree. the downward spiral can get very angry at times. the fragile is just bleak throughout
The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time
Saw your comment on stage 3
@@Aceken23 as funny as this sounds I actually forgot I left a comment on stage 3
@@PLAGUE-KARM THE IRONY IN THIS STATEMENT HAHAHA
Elliott Smith and his music are so great, really happy to hear him mentioned when he always seems to be forgotten
Alice in Chains- Dirt. Easily one of the most depressing albums of all time, yet my favorite album ever.
It is rather depressing. I would have to say that their selftitled is even more depressing though.
Dirt is depressing but is has energetic songs. Self titled is just pure misery.
And Jar Of Flies. Every song in that EP holds so much emotional weight on it's own, minus the closer but to me it seems like a bit of "comic relief" after a heartwrenching listen.
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, Still,
Also Something I Can Never Have
Right Where It Belongs. It belongs DIRECTLY in my feels.
The downward spiral should have been in the video
YES. How could he forget that?! Damn
Trent's music is angsty and occasionally sad but I've never found it depressing.
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Nirvana - In Utero
Radiohead - OK Computer
Joy Division - Closer
City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm
Baths - Obsidian
Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
Luke Pickett
Tom Waits (Most of it but I would say Alice and Mule Variations)
Pompeii - Nothing Happens for a reason
*I could go on and on, but I think that's a good enough list*
One word to explain this phenomenon: Catharsis.
Radiohead
Radiohead. nuff said
Yeah, I'm pretty shocked he didn't mention them. And what about The Cure?
Yeah but I do agree with Anthony in the sense that Radiohead (to me) is always like some kind of "depression-vicarious-experience" imho
Yup
Radiohead is the most motivating and inspirational band of all time. I dont see in what way you might call them depressing
What about Matt Elliott?
He's the most underrated musician ever, all of his albums are filled with brilliance, love the way he twists european folk music, and his songs trilogy is like the most depressing thing ever.
My favourite album of his is the Howling Songs. That one is the best album I've ever sat through in my life.
Gotta mention his starter album which is the Drinking Songs ehich got me hooked on. Everything this man does is just perfect. Highly recommended, sadly he doesn't get the publicity he deserves but I hope I'll get some of you to try his music.
Slowdive's Souvlaki, can be a downer (in the best possible way) especially such songs like 'Mellon Yellow' and 'Dagger', Have A Nice Life's complete discography pretty much but more so on Deathconsiousness (Hunter & There Is No Food), Brian Eno's Apollo is a great album too if your in a depressive mood.
Love that album. I listened to it during a depressing time in my life but I don't think it's depressing. Maybe just a little sad.
+N.K. Revolution I was talking about slowdive btw
+N.K. Revolution what album are you referring to?
+N.K. Revolution Ah, undoubtably there are uplifting songs such as Alison and When The Sun Hits but the album as a whole to me is quite depressing but to each his own I suppose. If you haven't already seen the Pitchfork documentary then I'd highly recommend it, sort of adds to how depressing the atmosphere was, to me at least
GunRunner181 I love that documentary. That's what motivated me to listen to it a few days after it was uploaded. :D
I always thought that Sufjan Stevens made some of the most depressing music.
True, but optimism usually shines through there
Spencer Moore I agree, but it's also weirdly beautiful
Seriously people will casually play Casmir Pulaski Day like its such a nice, chill song when it's really incredibly bleak. Kinda like Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car'. They played that one everywhere.
I cannot agree more. Casimir Pulaski day and death with dignity get me every time.
Opeth, Slint, Slowdive, Portishead, RADIOHEAD, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Drake, Nirvana... yeah
I love Crywank, I recommend you these song if you're looking for something specially depressing, but 99% of them are, so you shoud probably check the rest of them out.
Leech Boy; You Couldnt Teach Me Integrity; Baby Self-absorbed; Waste; Its Ok, I Wouldn't Remember Me Either; Memento Mori; Hikikomori; Do you have PPE for self-esteem?; and my all time fav: Sad Song for a Guilty Sadist.
Yes, Im 7 years late. No, I don't care.
Crywank are underrated
"Everyone I love is gonna die, and I will die as well"
Jesus dude...
@@Rackune I think the title "Memento Mori" means "Remember that we're all gonna die", not exactly with those words but that's the idea.
Outgoing hikkikomori has nice Lofi that is actually good
The Antlers - Hospice
depressing? or an album about mourning?
Hospice is a beautifully sad album, but absolutely not depressing
zenscape87 I would say that it deals with areas of depression but doesn't full out go into the mindset of depression. I like a album that isn't just full sadness but majorly deals with it.
hellosqueakers
I would kind of argue that it doesn't completely "deal with it". In the last track he seems to move on from whole nightmare, but it comes back to him in haunting dreams - and this is one of the major appeals of the album for me, stating that mourning is such a complex process, dealing with anxiety, shame/blame for yourself and for the world. One of the best, heart wrecking albums i've ever heard, haven't had such an emotional listening for a while now.
Kasparas Varžinskas Hey man. I get what you are saying. Epilogue is one of my favorite tracks off that album. Acoustically and Lyrically. I can see it being a happy ending to a sad album but to me its a depressing listen. Thanks for new insight on the album.
The Glow Part 2 really bums me out
Was searching specially to see if anyone said this, the really climactic middle bit especially
Oh God yeah that's a powerful song
ActuallyIan headless horseman, the glow pt. 2, the mansion, i’ll not contain you, i felt your shape etc. are all beautiful bummers. and also i’ll not contain you is seriously one of the most beautiful songs to ever exist.
Songs like I Felt Your Shape and Samurai Sword almost balance it out for me, even if both can still be considered to be tinged with sadness. But yeah, I suppose ultimately I concur, it really is a beautifully sad album.
@@ttdmax5711 oh men, I think that too!!! I'll not contain you it's so fucking beautiful...
First Interpol album
Mostly any post-punk album. A very underrated and introspective genre!
Overhated, even, I would say.
@@josephancion2190 how exactly? I've never seen much bagging on post-punk (except maybe elitist punks or something)
@@luketuke02 Yeah, elitist punks most of the time, who feel it shouldn't be tagged as "punk".
@@josephancion2190 to be fair, I only recently discovered the name post-punk and I sometimes don't really see the link between punk and postpunk. I'm thinking of albums like BCNR - For the first time
You can definitely add Blackstar to this list now. Even though the sound isn't that depressing, the context is just so sad, you can't ignore it.
Have a Nice Life's "Deathconsciousness" has been on heavy rotation as of late.
I'm so glad you mentioned Elliott's strong sense of musicality and the fact that he didn't just make music for it to be depressing music.
Slint - Spiderland
Has destroyed me and I can't stop listen to this masterpiece.
It helped me get through suicidal thoughts and low social battery, honestly.
I listen to depressing music because I relate to it a lot. It seems to help me knowing that someone can be depressed and yet contribute something I percieve to be of great value. Particular themes can be especially beneficial to explore if they relate to someone. In my case, I've been listening to music about drug abuse, unrequited love and lack of commitment. Sometimes a well placed happy song is just the thing too, depressed or not. Right now because of my age and who I grew up with I find myself going back a lot of Fall Out Boy, Blink 182 and Green Day's older material again, partially for nostalgic reasons and partially because I still relate a great deal and have an even deeper appreciation for what in this case is fairly simple, yet catchy crunchy chuggy riffs and melodrama about girls and identity.
during my "phase" last year, i played earl sweatshirt a ton
same
Tim Chizzik your "phase".
*cough
I guess you didn't liked shit and you didn't go outside.
im really late to this but have u heard "solace" from earl? i believe it was after the passing of his grandmother. I replayed it for days.
Shabazziii Bam ayyyyyyy
1. The Antlers - Kettering
2. GY!BE - Storm
3. Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything
Every time I listen to these three songs I may actually cry.
I honestly find storm and at the bottom of everything to be very happy and uplifting, but happy in a teary eyed way
Hi How Are You - Daniel Johnston
I dont think any album makes me feel worse than this one
_Carrie & Lowell_. Fuck _me_, that album is depressing.
And if we're going to talk about individual songs, then "Headlights" by Eminem. I get a lump in my throat every time I hear it, and that _never_ happens with me.
It's funny that you say that, I just commented on his Planetarium video that Carrie and Lowell is my go to weeping album. I absolutely love it!
Magnolia Electric Co. perfectly sums up the feeling of the cold air drying up tears on your face. It’s such a harrowing album sonically and lyrically, especially Farewell Transmission. Love this album to death.
Always on my rotation. For me its Magnolia electric co - Songs: Ohia, Alice in chains self titled, Purple Mountains by David Berman , Warning - watching from a distance, Low - I could live in hope, degradation trip volumes 1&2 by Jerry cantrell
give a listen to jason molina’s solo album “let me go.” really raw and emotionally moving stuff, my personal favorite release of his
I don't believe it to be as depressing as the bands mentioned in the video, but I think Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, and Soundgarden do it for me.
Jimmy Eat Word-Clarity, Futures
Brand New- The Devil and God Are Raging Inside me
Weezer- Pinkerton
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU
Clarity always puts me in a good mood tho, I always vibe to it
Connor Mortifier yeah I've never thought of Clarity being a depressing album, brings back good memories
the downward spiral and the fragile by nine inch nails are pretty depressing
love em
Frightened Rabbit's The Midnight Organ Fight is the most sincere album about a breakup that I have found. Scott Hutchison is an amazing musician, songwriter and singer.
Nutshell by Alice In Chains
Most Alice In Chains songs pre-2000 have depressing lyrical content.
Nutshell is beautifully dark. Dirt is sludgy and ugly which in turn delivers the dark themes in a more depressing manner imo
Boring ass song.
@@anonymoususer2756 oh, how special u r sir.
Feeling This I fucking hate Alice In Chains. They make some of the most boring ass music I’ve ever heard. They have three good songs, Would?, Down In A Hole and Bleed The Freak. Everything else they’ve done is starving African baby grade garbage. Never understood why people love them so much.
808s and Heartbreak by Kanye West is a great album in this fashion.
Sindre Høllesli YES
Not very many people think this, probably, but I think "The Suburbs," by Arcade Fire is one of the most depressing albums I've ever heard.
Joy Division's Closer. That album is the epitome of depression. C'mon it's Ian Curtis' suicide note put into music! Closer is so dark, eerie, cold, and nihilistic in which it makes me cry every time I listen to it.
_The Holy Bible_ by the Manic Street Preachers, an album devoted almost exclusively to the darkest aspects of the human condition, is downright heartbreaking at times.
Agreed!
+Kurtis C. Oh god yeah, I remember the first time listened to that album, i had no idea who the manics were or what the album contained ... i spent about 4 weeks listening to it pretty much exclusively afterward, researching lyrics and backstory and even parts of history i wasn't to clear on.
That album for me is one of the most beautiful ive ever heard, the lyrics are just so raw,.
P.S I just realised why i love this particular type of "depressing music" lol i for hate love songs and breakup song. She is suffering is the closest thing on the album which actually is my least favorite song as it turns out.
I completely agree. It's a punch in the gut followed by a twisting of your brain and your entire worldly perspective.
My favourite album of all time, but The Intense Humming Of Evil is sometimes unlistenable because of how purely haunting it is. And 4st 7lbs is very harrowing as it's the most personal song Richey ever wrote. This Is Yesterday is a beautiful song though, a brief glimmer of light among the darkness.
Eh, more traumatic than depressing to me.
Flatsound!!!!!!! His whole discography is melancholic and I WHOLEHEARTEDLY recommend his music to you! To get into it, "sleep" is a great starter album, but I really like his 2017 release "i stayed up until sunrise but got to fall asleep to the sounds of birds singing"
"Perfect day" by Lou Reed has always deppresed the hell out of me....any song that has "happy" lyrics but with sad, somber music does that. "What a wonderful world" ny Louis Armstrong has a similar effect.
Speaking of nihilistic albums, lets not forget Kid A. The lyrics on that albums are haunting, but impossible to interpret; they're meaningless. Halfway through the album you realize you're trying to attribute themes or meanings to the songs that just aren't there. Kind of a depressing when something that inspires so much interest, turns out to be nothing but chaotic. C'est la vie. Great album.
Failure by Swans is an absolutely devastating song
Townes Van Zandt deserves more than a passing mention, the man embodied sadness. On that note, Jeff Buckley - perhaps 'depressing' isn't as good a term as 'haunting'. If you've never listened to the mostly-unreleased "Manic-Depressive Named Laughing Boy" by Modest Mouse, it is BOTH haunting and depressing, especially when you discover 'Isaac' means "laughing boy" in Hebrew and so the song is probably their most nakedly personal. The ominous reverberating metal 'clinking' of the guitar in the intro, the oppressive march of the instrumentation once it kicks into the song, and the shrill cries of "WHY'D YOU DO IT!?" directed at the protagonist of the song (and thus at Isaac Brock himself) in the chorus make it one of the most disturbing songs for me, lent this "snuff film" quality by the over-all audio quality which is post-Sad Sappy Sucker but pre-Long Drive. (That is to say, shitty)
But Townes didnt make depressing albums, just depressing singles. His albums were often mixed with more positive stuff.
Kid a is really depressing for me I think bc the sounds used give the album a really cold feel to it a lot of the lyrics can be seen as not so depressing but the sounds always give me chills like it sounds like how it feels to slowly pass away I guess it definitely has a melancholiac beauty to it
Kid A and Amnesiac both excel at making you feel trapped, scared, empty, and depressed, but Amnesiac is a little bit better at this; which is why it hasn't been received as well. Shame, it's a truly underrated album.
Kid A isn't really depressing so much as it induces existential dread. It makes me think about the future in a way that paralyzes me in absolute horror.
@@lamestudiosinc418 that existential dread is the depressing part imo
R.E.M.'s Automatic For The People is a pretty depressing album. It was actually the last album Kurt Cobain listened to before he committed suicide.
Beck - Sea Change
Radiohead - Kid A / In Rainbows / A Moon Shaped Pool
The National - High Violet / Trouble Will Find Me
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
The Smiths - The Smiths
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Joy Division - Closer
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Portishead - Dummy
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tom Waits - Closing Time
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Neil Young - Harvest / On The Beach
Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves / Benji
Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
Slint - Spiderland
Future Islands - In Evening Air
Deafheaven - Sunbather
Albums that I think are definitely worth mentioning here. And happens to be that all these albums are also perfect. Is it depressing to realize, that most of my personal favourites are depressing albums?
Sleep has his house - Current 93
Soft Black Stars - Current 93
Whole discography by Arco
Depression Cherry - Beach House
Stratosphere - Duster
The Disintegration Loops.
Elvis Depressedly is a good band if your into sad, calmish stuff
the scientist- Coldplay always gets me
Pink Floyd - the wall
Alice In Chains - dirt
i honestly find tripod works better, like, heaven and hell is always a go to when i'm depressed for sure, just the hook of that song,
It's gotta be most pop chart music, to me that's the most depressing sound I can hear.
LOL XDD
Crazy prayingmantis LMAO
Both Joy Division albums, Unknown Pleasures and especially the second album Closer is particularly tough on the heart
Hey theneedledrop, I know this is an old video, but I have something that might answer your question. Coming from a super emotional person (I feel each emotion extremely deeper and more intense, which is good and bad at times), when I am going through the days or times of depression (clinically diagnosed, not Mayo Clinic lmfoa), sometimes what helps is to listen to some really depressing music and allow myself to wallow in it, to really feel it with every part of my existence, that way it goes away quicker, kind of like crying when you just let it all out. But if I try to hide it or whatever, it prolongs it. It's like, I accept it, acknowledge it, allow myself to feel it, embrace it, and then in time, say good bye to it. And there are other reasons we like it too, like you said, to hear something relateable. Sometimes I like to pretend I'm in a movie when I'm riding my bike or something at night, envision a camera angle where it shows me riding my bike in slow motion, and depending on how I'm feeling that night, I'll put on some depressing music to add to the "movie scene", just like how you would see it in a movie, if that makes sense. Hope that helps!!
Giles Corey - Giles Corey
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Mgla - Exercises in Futility
Gris - Il Etait Une Forêt...
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
Any Jason Molina album
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt.2
Some of my go to depressing albums
alice in chains - nutshell
nine inch nails - downward spiral
hospice and benji are the most depressing albums at least to me
Benji is beautifully depressing, Sun Kil Moon is incredible!
THE ANTLERS : HOSPICE
LOW : I COULD LIVE IN HOPE
LA DISPUTE : SOMEWHERE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER BETWEEN VEGA AND ALTAIR
FLEET FOXES : HELPLESSNESS BLUES
BECK : SEA CHANGE
RADIOHEAD : KID A
SMASHING PUMPKINS : SIAMESE DREAM
COLDPLAY : A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD
LOW ROAR : LOW ROAR
TOM O'DELL : LONG WAY DOWN
Seems like you don't listen to the lyrics.
A lot of Alice In Chains stuff puts me there, going deep into they’re lyrics and albums you can feel the pain that Layne was going through, Jerry’s writing complimented by his vocals give songs like Don’t Follow or Down in a hole multiple meanings, then you’ve got songs like Dirt, Rain when I Die, Angry Chair and the like that are heavy but the pain behind all this rage is just saddening, and love hate love is mint
Been thinking about the questions asked at the start of the video. Lately I've been listening to The Antlers' album Hospice a-ddic-tive-ly. This comes at a time, let's call it a year, that's been pretty difficult personally. The idea of an album that tells the story of someone going through an emotionally abusive relationship, while simultaneously telling the analogous story of a hospice worker working with a difficult patient at the end of their life--well, I can't say it mirrors what I'm going through exactly, but there are certain things that really hit home. Hearing certain lines helps me is therapeutic, it helps me to process. People, I think, are attracted to lyrics that resonate with them and help them to process their own emotions. The harder it is to deal with the emotion, well, the more you might listen to the song. I think the circumstances of my life at this time have kind of colored the tone of the music I listen to, and indeed, my tracklists lately have been generally down-tempo or mid-tempo, if they are not as overtly depressing as this album. Wasn't always this way, but it's been a tough year and yes, I do think it affects the music I listen to. Maybe if you're thinking, why do I get requests for depressing albums, as opposed to albums that speak to any other emotion that people would be feeling; well, I'd think it's because you don't really look to music to "process" other emotions, but when you're depressed, anxious, or something of this sort, it's something you do actively.
How could you forget Slint's Spiderland?
lets not forget silverchair. made some of the most depressing music of all time
1. Grace - Jeff Buckley 2. The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New 3. Carrie & Lowell - Sufjan Stevens 4. Mean Everything to Nothing - Manchester Orchestra 5. Still - Nine Inch Nails 6. Not to Disappear - Daughter 7. Kintsugi - Death Cab for Cutie 8. Low Roar - Low Roar 9. Birthdays - Keaton Henson 10. Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre 11. Final Straw - Snow Patrol 12. The Bends - Radiohead 13. Ghost - Radical Face 14. Happy Songs for Happy People - Mogwai 15. Young Mountain - This Will Destroy You 16. Are You Alone? Majical Cloudz 17. Trouble Will Find Me - The National 18. Come to Where I'm From - Joseph Arthur 19. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 20. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
I was expecting a mention to Eels and Electro Shock Blues.
same
Burial - Untrue
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Well
I'm not surprised an album called "The Infinite Sadness" is depressing.
not to mention the melancholy/mellon collie pun
BURNOUTRS Not a pun, just word play.
guyinthecorner
thats literally the definition of a pun
like say I were to make a wrestling themed album and name it "In the Hall of Kogan" it would be a pun, or play on words of Hulk Hogan's name
FRICKING ok computer
Alexander MR bruh, paranóid Android, karma police, no surprises, Tell me those arent depressing as shit?
Alexander MR i always thought amnesiac was the most depressing rh album. It's very industrial and cold. Apathetic even
Have u even heard the songs. None of the songs in it are any way depressing. In lucky the protagonist is a superhero. In airbag thom is reborn and he thinks he is capable of achieving everything and anything in the world. How the fuck is that depressing
More-so the actual music itself, I would say. Paranoid Android being a strong example, before it goes crazy towards the end.
-How to disappear completely
-Pyramid Song
-You and Whose Army
-Last Flowers
-Wolf at the Door
-Street Spirit (Fade Out)
-True Love Waits
-In Limbo
I could name you more depressing tracks other than Ok Computer. Ok Computer is not that depressing, it's great but not melancholic like most tracks I mentioned. Amnesiac would've been a fitting album for the title.
Most depressing song I know is Louis Armstrongs What a Wonderful World. It sounds like a man who is dying and is gonna miss every little thing in life so much.... :( sad but beautiful at the same time
All of Modest Mouse's first 3 albums, especially This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About.
Definitely agree
Without a doubt
Dramamine, 3rd planet, cowboy Dan, bankrupt on selling, trailer trash, etc.
I'd say Building Nothing Out of Something is their best & most depressing record
Lonesome crowded west is amazing