Depressing Music

[The AD]

Originally posted by tonghands
Joy Division

Excellent suggestion. Also the "Substance" compilation album. Check out the songs "Atmosphere" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

[Henry Rollins]

Swans

[yogachik]

Spain - Blue Moods of Spain
Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart, The Drunk

of course, no one is more depressing than Morrissey.

[frozenwater]

let me muscle in here: Specific depeche mode grab black celebration, definately there most dark work.

I like morrisey a lot viva hate is good, and of course the smiths are terrific. If you don't have The bomb by the smiths you are not truly depressed.

[Buster Highmen]

Originally posted by tonghands
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer

Strange, vibrant, depressing, brilliant. I've never heard anything quite like it. Closer was recorded a couple of weeks before the lead singer hung himself, and it sounds like it.

Still.

[drugged_monkey]

Originally posted by Walter Sobchak
Yo La Tengo, bunch of tracks on And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out and Summer Sun -- esp. "Tears Are In Your Eyes," "Night Falls Over Hoboken," and "Don't Have To Be so Sad."

I just recently picked up this album and It's a goody. A departure from the "speedy motorcycle corner of the world" but equally good.

And Sea Change rocks the house too. Good calls. I played Sea Change for funken while driving last winter and I think he was let down. His words were something like..."Beck's become a god damn folk singer."

[funkendrenchman]

Tears for Fears - "Mad World"

[snowsprite]

I agree w/ the Morrissey/ Smiths...but for some reason they make me want to hit them. So I have to classify them as depressing *and* rage-inducing.

Stone Temple Pilots "Sour girl" also bums me out a whole lot for some reason.

But Neil Young is the reigning king of depressing tunes. Listen to "Don't Let It Bring You Down" and you want to jump off a bridge...lol!

Sprite

[supercastor]

how come nobody cited the Tindersticks? "Tiny tears" anybody?

The smiths I agree, and Tom Waits of course. In another style, Geoffrey Oryema (almost all the "Exile" album) and Idir ("A vava inouva" album).

[The AD]

Originally posted by supercastor
how come nobody cited the Tindersticks? "Tiny tears" anybody?

I love the Tindersticks. Totally unlike anyone else. My favorite albums are their first self-titled album and Simple Pleasure.

I was just singing a Tindersticks song in the shower this morning! I do a pretty good Stuart Staples impression

[tuffy109]

already covered, but if Low, Red House Painters and Joy Division don't do it for you, you're screwed.

[yogachik]

speaking of Joy Division - I finally saw 24 Hour Party People on cable the other day. Has this been discussed already?

[The AD]

Originally posted by yogachik
speaking of Joy Division - I finally saw 24 Hour Party People on cable the other day. Has this been discussed already?

I think I mentioned it here, but I saw it a long time ago now. I thought it was excellent!

[tuffy109]

jude law may be playing ian curtis in a movie on the band

[slim]

- The Magnetic Fields (best slit your wrists depressing love songs ever... EVER.)

- Bedhead (and the new incarnation of Bedhead: The New Year)- like the Velvet Underground on qualudes and one of my favorite all time bands.

- Already mentioned here but Yo La Tengo is an amazing band with quite a few can't miss ablums. "Autumn Sweater" off of I can Hear the Heart Beating as One is a great tune of a master piece of an album.

- Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - They're the 2003 darlings on the indie scene but the album lives up to the hype.

-Not huge fans of these two bands but it's pretty depressing and big on noise: Mogwai and Arab Strap

If you don't mind heading into the forray of '60s-esque pop... early Belle and Sebastian is incredible (Tigersmilk, If You're Feeling Sinister, and Boy with the Arab Strap).

[tuffy109]

Originally posted by slim
and the new incarnation of Bedhead: The New Year

good? better? texas?

[slim]

Originally posted by tuffy109
good? better? texas?

The Kadane brothers moved to New York City and recruited some of the members of Codeine. I personally like New Year more than Bedhead... tighter and more focused but still has the gigantic 3-guitar landscapes that personified Bedhead. Slightly more uptempo then Bedhead but still very much a low speed band. I haven't gotten their new album yet, but Newness Ends is rarely out of my stereo.

[The AD]

Originally posted by slim
If you don't mind heading into the forray of '60s-esque pop... early Belle and Sebastian is incredible (Tigersmilk, If You're Feeling Sinister, and Boy with the Arab Strap).

I can't really say I find Belle & Sebastian very depressing.

[tuffy109]

Originally posted by slim
The Kadane brothers moved to New York City and recruited some of the members of Codeine.

i just dropped my sandwich.

holy fuck, why didn't i know about this?

[slim]

Originally posted by The AD
I can't really say I find Belle & Sebastian very depressing.

Dude it's totally depressed school boy meets depressed school girl for tea and cookies followed by awkward heavy petting followed by a journal entry pop music. At the very least it's melancholy.

[slim]

Originally posted by tuffy109
i just dropped my sandwich.

holy fuck, why didn't i know about this?

You spend too much time at TGR and not enough at Pitchforkmedia.

[The AD]

Originally posted by slim
Dude it's totally depressed school boy meets depressed school girl for tea and cookies followed by awkward heavy petting followed by a journal entry pop music. At the very least it's melancholy.

OK, I'll buy that description.

A couple good 1980's era Flying Nun label bands (New Zealand) to add to the list: Straitjacket Fits, The Verlaines, The Chills.

[tuffy109]

true.

there are too many indie rock websites.

[slim]

Originally posted by The AD
The Chills.

These guys rule.