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The most depressing albums ever.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum ---In fact on the contrary I think it is uplifting in parts, what with ending it all on a sweet note like Raining In Darling. Will Oldham usually spice up some of the songs with humour(A King At Night, Hard Life, Beast for Thee etc.) which is one of the reasons I find him so interesting. The compelling thing is that it isn't all that depressing despite the subject matter.
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I always laugh a little when I'm listening to "Death to Everyone". It's because when I saw him play in Canberra years ago (supporting the Dirty Three) he stopped in the middle of the song to explain the chorus to the crowd: he asked if anyone knew what "hosing" was ("Death to Everyone is going to come/And it makes hosing much more fun") and when nobody answered, he explained: "A man hoses a woman". Everyone laughed, the song continued.
And while we're on the subject of Will Oldham's sense of humour, see also the way he adopts an Elmer Fudd accent to rhyme "void" with "word" ("woid") in "Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness", which to this day I maintain is a send-up of his reputation for bleak and depressing subject matter.
StrikeThePostman:
Praeserpium Machinarum:
--- Quote ---I always laugh a little when I'm listening to "Death to Everyone". It's because when I saw him play in Canberra years ago (supporting the Dirty Three) he stopped in the middle of the song to explain the chorus to the crowd: he asked if anyone knew what "hosing" was ("Death to Everyone is going to come/And it makes hosing much more fun") and when nobody answered, he explained: "A man hoses a woman". Everyone laughed, the song continued.
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I didn't know that, I thought that it refered to another meaning of "hose", namely to shot someone. And, in a way, I suppose I was right...
GuitarJunkie:
And not just because it was the straw that broke Ian Curtis' back. That is a thoroughly depressing but excellent album.
Pierre the Poet:
Well, as someone already mentioned, Nick Cave is an easy call, but I'll try an unusual album choice:
Yeah, "Kicking Against the Pricks" and "Murder Ballads" are more traditionally depressing. In fact, "Boatman's Call" is probably his quietest most comforting record. Still, coming right on the heals of the rage, insanity, and self-assertion of "Murder Ballads," I find the restrained melancholy of BC much more depressing (in an addictive sort of way). He just sounds so spent and broken. . .
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