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The most depressing albums ever.
E. Spaceman:
The Saddest Album
Close to the above (though tommy may beg to differ)
pretty damn sad too.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: 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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That is a very depressing album. However I think it's depressing in a beautiful way, it's so skeletal and sparse. It's like Nick Cave solo, no Bad Seeds most of the time. I think 'Into My Arms' is one of the best songs he's ever written (bizarrely, it talks about not believing in an interventionist God or angels and yet its melody sounds exactly like a Christian song) and I also think that the glimmer of hope 'Far From Me' shows in the bit where he talks about 'a world where everybody fucks everybody else over' makes it all worth it.
books_out_loud:
american nightmare - background music
Pierre the Poet:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid ---
That is a very depressing album. However I think it's depressing in a beautiful way, it's so skeletal and sparse. It's like Nick Cave solo, no Bad Seeds most of the time. I think 'Into My Arms' is one of the best songs he's ever written (bizarrely, it talks about not believing in an interventionist God or angels and yet its melody sounds exactly like a Christian song) and I also think that the glimmer of hope 'Far From Me' shows in the bit where he talks about 'a world where everybody fucks everybody else over' makes it all worth it.
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Agreed. I've noticed too that a lot of the songs sound hymn-like or vaguely Christian, but that just makes a nice dissonance with the lyrics, some of which are as dark as any he's written ("where do we go now but nowhere" for instance). Also, the sparse piano arrangements sort of remind me of "Goldrush" era Neil Young. Great album. . .
Thrillho:
I don't just mean that they sound hymnal like 'There Is A Kingdom', I mean that 'Into My Arms' has a chorus melody EXACTLY like a chorus melody of a Christian song. I forget its name, but the lyric is 'this is my desire, oh Lord, this is my desire.' Cave might even have based it on that like he based a lot of Murder Ballads on traditional songs.
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