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« on: 04 Apr 2005, 17:19 »

MUDS.  Massively, Utterly Depressing Songs.  Basically, it all started when I wanted to just listen to a bunch of songs that described the way I felt.  I don't know if this will be labeled as emo crap, and I don't really give a fark.  

The one thing I tried to stay away from was being genre-specific, but most of them fell in to Alternative.  Oh, well.  Here are a few I put on my first MUDS CD.  I'm reworking the next one as we speak (or type, or whatever).

Hootie & the Blowfish- Let Her Cry
Verve Pipe- The Freshman
Ben Folds- Brick
Pearl Jam- Jeremy




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« Reply #1 on: 04 Apr 2005, 17:31 »

The entirety of "August and Everything After" by Counting Crows.  Lovely songs - but god, that must be one of the most depressing albums ever recorded.  I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to it in years 'cause I know it's just going to bum me out every time.
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« Reply #2 on: 04 Apr 2005, 17:37 »

top 5:

My Dying Bride-The Crown of Sympathy

'I'd fallen before, but it never hurt like this.
Don't leave me here to crawl through the mire.
I'm without fault before the throne of god.
Take from me the Crown of Sympathy!'

Candlemass-Solitude

'Hate is my only friend
Pain is my father
Torment is delight to me
Death is my sanctuary
I seek it with pleasure
Please let me die in solitude...'

Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows-Hades "Pluton"


'I sensed the wretched spectres of the drowned
Staring across from some distant shore,
and in my sadness I drew closer,
to condole and somewhat to implore ...

I am like the doubtful kiss of a corpse
or maybe the kiss of an ancient stone.
Yes, it's like kissing some marble statue
that has neither warmth nor life of its own....'

:Of the Wand and the Moon: - Here's to Misery (A Toast)


'Like the spear of Longinus
The loneliness cuts in my heart
Will I ever find my solace?
Will I ever find clarity?
I know my pain shall last
And yours will surely pass
And all dreams shall be
Emptiness and misery'

Sisters of Mercy - Bury me Deep

'Unsung
Unsaid
Not borrowed, broken and torn
On the bed tomorrow, mourning
Before you sleep
Bury me deep'

A short list. I have a MASSIVE playlist of depressing music, for wallowing or for pretending to be a glumbunny when I'm really all smiles and (black) rainbows.
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« Reply #3 on: 04 Apr 2005, 19:31 »

My entire music collection consists of MUDS...
So here's a few choice ones:

Bright Eyes - No Lies, Just Love
Lately I've  been feeling like I don't belong, like the ground's not mine to walk upon...
So I prefer to be remembered as a smiling face, not this fucking wreck that's taken it's place
So please forgive what I have done, no you can;t stay mad at the setting sun, 'cause we all get tired, I mean eventually, there is nothing left to do but sleep


Seriously, how can you not feel mildly suicidal when listening to that?
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Azure Ray - November
Elliott Smith - Between the Bars
Trespassers William - Different Stars
Interpol - untitled
The Arcade Fire - In the Backseat
Josh Rouse - Sad Eyes
The Smiths - I know it's over
Delays - Stay where you are
Mazzy Star - Fade into You
Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia - Heliotrope
Radiohead - exit music for a film
The Doors - The End
Her Space Holiday - Lydia

And pretty much anything off the Hate album by delgados.
And Brick (ben folds) seconded!
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« Reply #4 on: 04 Apr 2005, 21:16 »

ani difranco - sick of me
nine inch nails - and all that could have been
ben harper - another lonely day & walk away
radiohead - like spinning plates, how to disappear completely.. ok, lots of radiohead songs.
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« Reply #5 on: 04 Apr 2005, 23:22 »

Mutli User Dungeons??? Oh, nevermind.
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« Reply #6 on: 05 Apr 2005, 01:51 »

Couple of my ones:

Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Pearl jam - Last Kiss
Placebo - Blue American
Muse - Unintended
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (particularly the video)
Strawbs - Hangman and the Papist (Classic 70's rock...friggin sad song)
King Crimon - I talk to the wind
John Lennon - Imagine (Yes..I've been hearing the APC version)

Will post more if I think of them
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« Reply #7 on: 05 Apr 2005, 05:28 »

Nearly all of Interpol's songs are depressing, take PDA or NYC( where he sings "I had seven faces/but I knew which one to wear/and I sick of spending these lonely nights/training myself not to care") and tell me if you are not ready to kill yourself by then.
As mentioned Radiohead is also depressing/extremely pessimistic, with Wolf at the Door and the Gloaming etc.
there is a awesome danish band called Kitty Wu, who despite the name actually is a dark and ominous rockband*, who at times makes you believe that there is no hope at all. As with Interpol, it as good as all their songs that are like that fx. Eva Braun, rule nr. 9 and Customer etc.
You can hear some of it at their website http://www.kittywu.com/

* without screaming or being loud for loud's sake
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« Reply #8 on: 05 Apr 2005, 18:51 »

Yeah, Stone Temple Pilots - Creep is depressing.  So is Pearl Jam's Black.  I prefer the Live version with Aaron Lewis singing.  

I try to usually get songs that are slower in tempo, and as few instruments as possible.  I like it when the band/singer let's his voice tell you what's     f-ed up in his/her life.  

Evanescence - My Immortal
Don't like the song much, but it's pretty damn depressing.
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« Reply #9 on: 05 Apr 2005, 19:03 »

The Smiths, Asleep
Joy Division, New Dawn Fades
Anathema, Underworld
Radiohead, How To Disappear Completely (I actually cannot listen to this if I'm even slightly upset because it completely destroys my mood)
Porcupine tree, Stop Swimming (music to kill yourself to)
Katatonia, Chrome is the very definition of 'bleak'

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My Dying Bride-The Crown of Sympathy


Good call! Although I guess you could nominate a lot of their material, really... all of the Sear Me songs are quite sad (especially MCMXCIII).

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« Reply #10 on: 05 Apr 2005, 19:08 »

Every song Good Charlotte has ever recorded makes me want to kill myself.
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« Reply #11 on: 05 Apr 2005, 19:16 »

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Every song Good Charlotte has ever recorded makes me want to kill myself.


seconded!!
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« Reply #12 on: 05 Apr 2005, 21:08 »

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The entirety of "August and Everything After" by Counting Crows.  Lovely songs - but god, that must be one of the most depressing albums ever recorded.  I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to it in years 'cause I know it's just going to bum me out every time.


that is one of my all time favorite albums.
their latest stuff is not very good, but i can't blame them... i can't imagine the emotional drain of continuing to make albums like AaEA of RtS...
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« Reply #13 on: 05 Apr 2005, 21:18 »

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my thoughts exactly.
wondering at first what it was doing in the music forum.
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« Reply #14 on: 07 Apr 2005, 07:58 »

I just remembered Janis Ian's "At Seventeen

I LEARNED THE TRUTH AT SEVENTEEN
THAT LOVE WAS MEANT FOR BEAUTY QUEENS
AND HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WITH CLEAR SKINNED SMILES
WHO MARRIED YOUNG AND THEN RETIRED
THE VALENTINES I NEVER KNEW
THE FRIDAY NIGHT CHARADES OF YOUTH
WERE SPENT ON ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL
AT SEVENTEEN I LEARNED THE TRUTH

AND THOSE OF US WITH RAVAGED FACES
LACKING IN THE SOCIAL GRACES
DESPERATELY REMAINED AT HOME
INVENTING LOVERS ON THE PHONE
WHO CALLED TO SAY - COME DANCE WITH ME
AND MURMURED VAGUE OBSCENITIES
IT ISN'T ALL IT SEEMS AT SEVENTEEN

A BROWN EYED GIRL IN HAND ME DOWNS
WHOSE NAME I NEVER COULD PRONOUNCE
SAID - PITY PLEASE THE ONES WHO SERVE
THEY ONLY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE
THE RICH RELATIONED HOMETOWN QUEEN
MARRIES INTO WHAT SHE NEEDS
WITH A GUARANTEE OF COMPANY
AND HAVEN FOR THE ELDERLY

SO REMEMBER THOSE WHO WIN THE GAME
LOSE THE LOVE THEY SOUGHT TO GAIN
IN DEBENTURES OF QUALITY AND DUBIOUS INTEGRITY
THEIR SMALL-TOWN EYES WILL GAPE AT YOU
IN DULL SURPRISE WHEN PAYMENT DUE
EXCEEDS ACCOUNTS RECEIVED AT SEVENTEEN

TO THOSE OF US WHO KNEW THE PAIN
OF VALENTINES THAT NEVER CAME
AND THOSE WHOSE NAMES WERE NEVER CALLED
WHEN CHOOSING SIDES FOR BASKETBALL
IT WAS LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
THE WORLD WAS YOUNGER THAN TODAY
WHEN DREAMS WERE ALL THEY GAVE FOR FREE
TO UGLY DUCKLING GIRLS LIKE ME

WE ALL PLAY THE GAME, AND WHEN WE DARE
WE CHEAT OURSELVES AT SOLITAIRE
INVENTING LOVERS ON THE PHONE
REPENTING OTHER LIVES UNKNOWN
THAT CALL AND SAY - COME ON, DANCE WITH ME
AND MURMUR VAGUE OBSCENITIES
AT UGLY GIRLS LIKE ME, AT SEVENTEEN


Talk about depressing.

I also remember Homer Simpson's version when he gives up beer for a month.  


"When I was 17,
I drank some very good beer.
I drank some very good beer
I purchased with a fake ID
My name was Brian McGee
I stayed up listening to Queen
When I was 17.
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« Reply #15 on: 07 Apr 2005, 08:01 »

Anyone heard Xiu Xiu's cover of Fast Car? Now there is one of the saddest songs I've heard in a long time.
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« Reply #16 on: 07 Apr 2005, 08:50 »

I've not hear Xiu Xiu's version, but is it of the Tracy Chapman song?
That kills me, it's one of the best songs ever written, and her voice is amazing..
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« Reply #17 on: 07 Apr 2005, 09:33 »

Yes it is a cover of the Tracy Chapman song, and I agree, the original is terrific. Something about a gay man singing a raw version of it just gets me though. You have to hear it.
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« Reply #18 on: 07 Apr 2005, 10:03 »

I'm on the hunt for it as of now - I have a special place in my heart for Xiu Xiu!
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« Reply #19 on: 07 Apr 2005, 11:21 »

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

By far the most depressing album ever...
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« Reply #20 on: 07 Apr 2005, 12:21 »

depending on the mood,

bright eyes - first day of my life (off of i'm wide awake, it's morning)

can be either incredibly smile-inducing or make you cry.

ben folds - the luckiest, fred jones pt II
cat stevens - father and son
johnny cash - green, green grass of home
bloc party - this modern love
the good life - inmates
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« Reply #21 on: 07 Apr 2005, 17:51 »

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depending on the mood,

bright eyes - first day of my life (off of i'm wide awake, it's morning)

can be either incredibly smile-inducing or make you cry.

ben folds - the luckiest, fred jones pt II
cat stevens - father and son
johnny cash - green, green grass of home
bloc party - this modern love
the good life - inmates


Seriously! First Day Of My Life depresses the hell out of me as I'm a bitter singleton, and the video (with all the cute couples) kind of wound  me up...
Luckiest has a similar effect on me.

And I love Inmates, it's one of my current self indulgent favourites...
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« Reply #22 on: 08 Apr 2005, 08:27 »

Opeth - Damnation. Listening to this album always makes me feel so damn apathetic it's depressing. Or vice versa.

Holy shit, I need to find my copy of it, just to see how melancholy it and a bottle of vodka can make me feel.
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« Reply #23 on: 09 Apr 2005, 10:59 »

let's see...there's a list here, somewhere.

cold floor and spoke by i, parasire. so stunning.
gloomy sunday by various people over time.  the one everybody mentions on lists like these.
bleed by tapping the vein.  a little obvious, but the voice destroys me.
end of an era by monstrum sepsis.  instrumental.
no closure by piano magic.  just go listen.  i have no words for how sad this song is.
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« Reply #24 on: 09 Apr 2005, 12:20 »

Johnny Cash - Hurt
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Snow Patrol - Run
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« Reply #25 on: 09 Apr 2005, 13:48 »

The Roots - Return to InnocenceLost = most depressing song ever.
And not in a 'oh I'm so Emo, no-one likes me' kind of way. Not that I'm dissing.
It's a spoken word poem done by Ursula Rucker, over joy-sucking ambience. And in case you can't be bothered to find it, here are the life-affirming lyrics. Just feel the happy rolling off them.

Muffled sound of fist on flesh
Blows to chest
No breath
Air gasps
You ain’t nothing but white trash, bitch!
With each hit, each kick, each...broken rib
Crack, crack!
Bones are crying
Mommy’s crying and bleeding
And pleading
And then...
Daddy wants to fuck
Dick hard, swelled with power rush
And as if all that wasn’t enough
Mommy’s seven months heavy with birth
As...daddy grunts and cursed drunk nothings in her bloodied ear

(singing softly)
First...lullaby
First...son...will...ever...hear
And never forget

Mommy almost bled to death when she have him...finally
She’d already lost...three
Uterus-bruised, shredded, and weak
>from being daily beat
And friday nights were the worse and...
Daddy never came with flowers
Instead he spent hours at some corner spot
With some bar pop named cookie
Putting his thing down
Soiling mommy’s sheets with...
Sweet...talk shit,
Cookie’s cheap lipstick,
Hair grease, sperm, and jezebel juice

To hell with the good news that...
He was a father for the first time
His thirst for wine and women
Clouded his vision...
No warm welcome for mother and son
Just...
The rank smell of ass-crack, funk, and cum
But mommy’s prayerful strength-her best defense
She...burned the dirty linens
Made a fresh bed
Laid sleeping first son down
And never made a sound
As she purged her scourge
With birth-blood and quiet tears
Watching as her fears and love and sacrifice
Lie there in his soft skin and new life
Breathing, dreaming, fresh from god’s eye
Mommy’s little survivor
Like...her

Mommy called crazy and scorned
’cuz she two more born
One boy soon after
The girl much later and...
Although they were both sung the same lullabies of hate
Her...first son, the first one
Whose...womb-world was profaned
Came of age playing street games
With stewie, rezzie, and little brother
’till his heart start to wither
In pain and shame
Blamed mom for the wrong she let daddy do to her
And him...
Let...sins of the father cause his innocence to wander
Found out amongst thieves
Chose to squander his dreams
Stopped believing in himself
Become prodigal with his life
Make impossible shit right with...
Gang-ties, crime, lies
Erase wise, woeful words of mother
Replaced them with absurdities of others
Who had also lost their way

Played a different kind of street game now
First son plunged deep
Speak street-family vows
Espouse no causes but his own
See, he couldn’t protect mommy’s neck from daddy’s grasp
Or...protect mommy’s ass from daddy’s wrath
Couldn’t shield her ears from...
Daddy’s foul-mouthed, liquor-breath jeers
His only defense-served be confidence
Brown bottles housed his swift descent
Phones called cops on block frequent for his shenanigans
Now...daddy and him twins in addiction
Driven to false-hearted heavens and friends
By liquefied demons
Had become what he despised from conception ’til end
Destined for a demise
Survived nine lives of staying high
Conning, jewelry-pawning, arrests, theft
Womanizing...only for money, never for sex
Bullet in chest, baseball bat to the head
Left for dead
So, eyes wide and glassy
Speech...slowed and slurred
Lips twitched with caked-up codeine candy
And mouth corners one december 24th
Mr. hide and false friend
Took final ride to suburban supplier
Shots were fired by the gray man
With shaky hand
But not shaky enough to miss...
Hit...lost boy in back
So-called friend runs for door
Leaves first son blood-born
Lying alone in blood on cold floor

Death was the cause of...
Returning to innocence lost...

Baby ’sis awake for dawn on christmas morn
To mommy’s sobs and shakes
Daddy’s silhouettes of regret
All past, omitted, and absolved by lost
As they clung to each other
Knowing...
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« Reply #26 on: 09 Apr 2005, 14:09 »

Building on my previous post, I have to say that the most depressing album ever is My Dying Bride's 'Turn Loose the Swans'. Aaron Stainthorpe, their singer, has an amazing emotional range: Self-loathing, despair, anguish, existential rage, forlorness, etc. The album is loosely conceptual, about a poets despair upon the death of his lover. It includes plenty of anguished railing against God, poetic imagery that would make most emo groups slit their wrists in envy and uses the soul-searing power of the violin to utterly deadly effect.
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« Reply #27 on: 09 Apr 2005, 14:25 »

Alkaline Trio - Sorry About That/Enjoy Your Day
Hayden - Bad As They Seem
Elliot Smith - Twilight
Interpol - NYC
Radiohead - Exit Music
Jawbreaker - Jet Black
Mogwai - Take Me Somewhere Nice
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Splin - Vihoda Net (russian for "there's no exit")
WILCO

Those are sad, but I've only got my laptop music, so there are plenty more that I cant think of rigth now.
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« Reply #28 on: 10 Apr 2005, 03:31 »

a perfect circle´s version of "imagine". that ones been said before. i have never heard anything more depressing. The original version, i always thought, was quite uplifting, but this version is the most sad thing ever. And even more if you watch the video.
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« Reply #29 on: 10 Apr 2005, 09:21 »

A bunch of Tom Waits songs.

A few Cursive songs.

A Silver Mt. Zion too.

And that's about it for me.
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« Reply #30 on: 10 Apr 2005, 09:33 »

pretty much everything by Stabbing Westward, and selected Evanescence and Revis songs.
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« Reply #31 on: 10 Apr 2005, 10:43 »

crowded house - together alone

there are songs that remind me of shitty times, but arent that depressing in themselves
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« Reply #32 on: 10 Apr 2005, 10:49 »

Eleanor Rigby, She's Leaving Home, She Said She Said, Fool On The Hill, Yesterday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, For No One, Hello Goodbye, Lady Madonna, I'm Only Sleeping and A Day In The Life. All Beatles songs.
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« Reply #33 on: 10 Apr 2005, 11:07 »

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Interpol - NYC
WILCO

I always thought "Hands Away" was sadder.

Also Wilco wins this thread, or at least ties with NIN or something.
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