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[Trollstormur]

A lot of the Burzum songs give me deep feelings of despair, anger and sadness.


probably not healthy.

[Inlander]

"I Don't Believe in the Sun" and especially "All My Little Words" by the Magnetic Fields ("You are a splendid butterfly/It is your wings that make you beautiful/And I could make you fly away/But I could never make you stay").

For sad with a tough of wry there's always George & Ira Gershwin - for instance: "But Not For Me" ("They're writing songs of love/But not for me".

The big mama of 'em all, though, would have to be "Heart Like a Wheel" by Kate & Anna McGarrigle:

Some say the heart is just like a wheel:
When you bend it, you can't mend it;
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean.

When harm is done no love can be won,
I know it happens frequently.
What I can't undertand - oh please god, hold my hand -
Is why it should have happened to me.

And it's only love, and it's only love
That can break a human being and turn him inside out,
That can break a human being and turn him inside out.

Some say the heart is just like a wheel:
When you bend it, you can't mend it;
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean.

Of course, that's just the songs about love.  I'll post again in the future for more wide-ranging misery.

[McTaggart]

I had a Bright Eyes/ Tom Waits/ Nick Cave/ A.C. Newman etc... mixtape around here somewhere not long ago.

[destructotroninator]

I'll second some Thursday, but not definitely not most of it. War All The Time gets me.

Couple Snow Patrol songs, but for the most part I think of them as a summer type band (which is funny, the band being named Snow Patrol and all).

Coldplay, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, and Sigur Ros. Then some specific songs, like Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck by The Blood Brothers, Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime by Beck, etc. And then just a couple songs for personal significance.

[Marauder]

Oh, also, thinking of it, Johnny Cash-Hurt.

Now that's emotion, bitches.

Couldn't agree more.

[Hector Gilbert]

Nine Inch Nails album/ep "Still".  i love that CD to death.  The instrumentals near the end is what gets to me the most, cuts me right to the core.

Yeah, agreed about the last couple of instrumental tracks.  Since you like that kind of thing, you should try an album by Current 93 called Soft Black Stars.  Pretty bleak songs with minimal arrangements mainly dependant on a single piano and David Tibet's raw spoken/shouted vocals.

Some other bleak albums:

Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Black Flag - Damaged
Slint - Spiderland
Burzum - Filosofem
Mogwai - Come On Die Young

I found the music of Jandek to be quite bleak as well, once I got used to it.

[DeathrockZombie]

Tangerine Dream is so good.


I also would like to add John Coltrane's "A gentler side of.." and My Dying Bride's "The Angel and the Dark River" album..


if you have a p2p program, DL Coltrane's "Alabama".

The most doomy thing I've ever heard.
~ B

[zekterellium]

yeah some thursday, yeah most elliot smith, and yeah nine inch nails. the last minute of thaw by converge features what have to be the most hurt, desperate vocals i have ever heard in my entire life. butterfly by weezer, i'm sure i heard it mentioned, is a sad, sad song. and i know it's shitty, of me, but 'you know yr right' by nirvana, being that kurt wrote it like a week before he killed himself. it's awful to listen to now.

[DeathrockZombie]

Personally, I think this whole Nirvana thing is a sham. He's probably swimming in royalties this very minute.

[zekterellium]

aww dude, not cool.

[KharBevNor]

Only awful to listen to if you're particularly sad that Kurt died.

Not that I'd wish death on anyone (well, not on most people) but jeez.