Depressing Music

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Yea. I forgot about them. It figures they're from Seattle. It seems like most depressing bands are either from Seattle or from somewhere in England, both dark cloudy climates.

Speaking of Seattle, Carissas Wierd is a really depressing band from there. They're almost hard for me to listen to and I generally like depressing music.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7zHZrcHdxg[/youtube]

Was goth stuff like The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, & Evanescence mentioned here yet? Some of that stuff is very depressing. Especially Evanescence sometimes but that may be cuz of how I can relate to it. I could not listen to it at all when I was depressed because it made me want to hang myself to escape the excruciating pain


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo[/youtube]


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU3uImn45D0[/youtube]


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaKa-5wiyyc[/youtube]

jason molina - let me go, let me go, let me go.

This is the most depressing record i've heard so far. It's brilliant though.

other notable mentions : smog, low, fog, kath bloom

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C65wBW84Vs[/youtube]

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This is my own answer on this thread - its a yes and no, depending on what you'd consider depressing I guess or how you tend to look at, I guess 'darklight' or inspiration off of deeper soundscapes/ideas.

For me I tend to have a major draw toward very pensive and moody stuff, especially music that raises a very similar type of emotion as if you were listening to a national anthem but in a more ghostly/disembodied-from-the-source sort of way.

Also, admittedly, when I was a kid I was a huge nerd for archeology specials, thumbing through my parents National Geographic collection, and something that's welled up in my consciousness again from my mid-20's on are memories of those sort of dark/meditative/exotic types of images from places like South America, Afghanistan, Africa, the far East, and I tend to really fall for a lot of drum & bass/dubstep that plays off of that sort of mood/presence (a lot of producers seem to be feeling something similar and Sabre's Wandering Journal is a good example of something filled with that sort of mystique). I've wanted to go more in this direction as well with my own d&b production, in some ways I've dabbled with it but to really harness that kind of imagry, though admittedly to get it as full-flavored in that direction as I'd like will take a considerable amount more time with my sound engineering.

That is a beutiful peice of music. Every NIN song could be put in this topic, but I think I'll go for The Day The World Went Away for now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrgN4FuOGQ[/youtube]

That is a great album

Another is Skinny Puppy's Last Rights, particularly when you know where they lyrics were drawn from and the situation that brought it out.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAUKWV1g_Ss&feature=related[/youtube]
VIVISectVI has a few real nice ones as well.

What about parts of the Lolita soundtrack?

Like this one?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6HBSAv1WOE[/youtube]

This might not be the kind of 'depressing music' the previous posters have shown, but...it still does sound kind of melancholic, right? Should pass off nicely...well here it is anyway, Wes Montgomery.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbXrdm63OAA&feature=related[/youtube]

Wow, that's slick. Couldn't pause it to save my life.

I think the best way to put it is pensive? That's what a lot of jazz tends toward, sort of moody/reflective. I'm realizing I need to start getting a collection of old classic jazz, blues, and motown - lots of great stuff out there to feed inspiration.

Try Leonard Cohen.

As tech pointed out, I definitely feel the moodiness/reflectiveness. Even nostalgic, almost.

Yes! The best way to start would probably be by collecting Art Blakey, Horace Silver and maybe even some Mingus. Horace (The composer for Nica's Dream) has an album called 'Song for my Father' which contains a lot of similar stuff, should probably look for that album and head after the other two. Glenn Miller is good too, but not quite as introspective, though still jazz.

And to Synecdoche, it is most definitely nostalgic; it would be something you'd hear in a 40's restaurant during a rainy day. Picture hearing someone narrate your life story while drinking away a coffee. Very cool song, lots of key changes and chord extensions.

You'd probably both like this too:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeXOm49kE0&feature=related[/youtube]

I'd love to bandpass filter something like this and throw it in a dark/murky/minimal dnb track. Trouble is with this particular one - wrong bpm
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P5FZkqWBuU[/youtube]

I haven't checked through the songs. Doubles and I apologize.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8x7zRnhLc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Lt25juoi8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N939-xgTBrM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdsRRwiN3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaxIqCtMxf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2sdUJ5OIf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTCoLmK ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iSd0BDxm-A

Yeah, funny enough I thought the song would turn into dubstep around 0:31. Crazy stuff.

More;
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