some albums make you happy while others make you depressed , here are my top 3 depressing albums

1. pink floyd -the wall
2 neil young - harvest
3 the carpenters -gold greatest hits

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Urban Hymns - The Verve (especially 'The Drugs Don't Work').
Pablo Honey - Radiohead (though it's still a very good album, recorded before they disappeared up their collective back sides).

Berlin - Lou Reed

Who was it sang Road to Hell? Was it Chris Rea? If so, I played that album once & vowed never again, made me feel almost suicidal!

Mastodon- Blood Mountain.

1) Puressence - Only Forever
2) Gary Moore - Ballads and Blues
3) Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

The Manics - "The Holy Bible" for me

In fact, it makes me so sad I simply can't listen to it. All I can hear is Richey's pain and distress

StarSparkle

Without a doubt:

Leonard Cohen: Songs from a room. :|

Eastenders cast does Karaoke to the classics!

HA HA HA! BOOM BOOM! :lol:

I'm sorry, I've just been watching Basil Brush!

James Blunt

Rod Stewarts - love songs


i would like to happy slap them both!

Most of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds stuff, i still like him though.

Anything by the cure or radiohead ....... music to slit your wrists to :(

Travis The Man Who
Unbelievebly ****.

Tim Pare Trans Siberian Express - all break up songs about him and his girlfriend. I think he's got a great voice, he's a lovely bloke and I wish him well but in his own admission, a full listen to his record and you feel like shooting yourself.
Stereophonics, 'You gotta go there to come back' is mainly about Kelly's break up with his girlfriend and is quite difficult to listen to as a whole work if you really listen to the lyrics. Everything but the girl 'Idlewild' is the same, all about breaking out of Hull and moving to london.

Some Radiohead and Smiths I find difficult to listen to as a whole album...but i love them.


If you are thinking of crap stuff - yeah I'm in the James Blunt is a .... gang.

Most of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds stuff, i still like him though.

Wow me too. You mean there are 2 Nick Cave fans in the same city. Everyone else i play it too says it makes their ears bleed.

Wow me too. You mean there are 2 Nick Cave fans in the same city. Everyone else i play it too says it makes their ears bleed.

I love Nick Cave, and I know about 10 other people that do. He's more popular than you might think.

As for depressing albums, I did hear RudeBox by Robbie Williams and it wasn't just bad, it sounded like the man was really desperate and had run out of ideas. Quite saddening to hear.

'o' by Damien Rice is very very sad, but its soooo beautiful that I can't help loving it!

Also about 50% of songs on Snow Patrol's albums are very sad :(

Oh and does anyone have albums by JJ72? Another beautiully sounding band, that I think sing like they're really wailing!

Disintegration by the cure.
Makes me cry every time.

Anything from American Music Club before and including Mercury. ME cheered up a bit after that one.

Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey. Most of the album is (relatively) upbeat, but 'Hardly Getting Over It' is so depressing that it overpowers the rest of the songs.

Manics Holy Bible and Nirvana's In Utero are pratically suicide notes.

Any of the early 90's slow yank bands, in particular:

Codeine - Barely Real
Slint - Spiderland
Red House Painters - Ocean Beach

Plus last but not least () by Sigur Ros.


BTW Harvest depressing? Never in a million years!

Pornography by the Cure is pretty much unremmiting bleakitude all the way through.

Black Sheets of Rain by Bob Mould ain't no skip through the park either


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You mean there are 2 Nick Cave fans in the same city

Make that 3 :)

Nick Cave is the tops (or is that the bottoms?). Incidentally the Grinderman album is splendid in its splendidness.

Anyways, back to depressing music...

1. The Future - Leonard Cohen
2. Wicked Game - Chris Isaacs
3. The Wall - Pink Floyd

...actually I don't find the above depressing at all, I find depressing music cheers me up no end.

Oh, how could I forget 'No One Care' by Sinatra. About as cheery as getting home to find your dog dead at the bottom of the stairs.

It would have to be Closer by Joy Division

The release was delayed because the lead singer hanged himself.

anything by westlife...

Make that 3 :)
Four :) . 'Nobody's Baby Now' is sublime.

Four :) . 'Nobody's Baby Now' is sublime.

Why has no one counted me? Do I not qualify?!! :-)

Number five right here, and my favourite songs are into my arms and red right hand. I also like Mercy Seat, but preferred Johnny Cash's cover to be honest.

Oh, Cash's cover of Hurt - there's a depressing song.

Most of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds stuff, i still like him though.

Really loud Birthday Party is good if your in a bad mood.
I agree about Pornagraphy by The Cure, but I think it's good to listen to Leonard Cohen if your feeling sad and maudlin.

The Jazz Butcher brings back really bad memories from the mid 80's

Radiohead are pretty gloomy as are Depeche Mode.

The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - Pornography
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division - Closer
Misery Loves Co - Not Like Them
Type O Negative - October Rust
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands

Muclusky - The difference between me and you is that i'm not on fire
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
EBTG - Walking Wounded
Tricky - Blow Back

Any cd by Leonard Cohen
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Kasabian first cd

Michael Buble and Sarah Mclachlan.

Love em though

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Berlin - Lou Reed

Without a doubt - you took the words off the tip of my keyboard. A devastatingly bleak record - but one that I love to wallow in from time to time. One of my favourites in fact.

31 post (including two by meself!) and no 'This is Hardcore' by 'Pulp'. Which although brilliant, is an absolute downer.

Grace by Jeff Buckley = Beautiful but depressing

I suppose stuff like 'Songs of Love and Hate' by Leanard Cohen is rather depressing but it's so good I feel rather elated after listening to it.

In contrast I remember calling on a girl I fancied for the first time and finding her listening to a Craig David album really depressed me.

I'm another one here who loves Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & never really foudn them depressing. I also don't really understand people who find the Smiths depressing sure they've got a few downbeat tracks but also lots of bright jangly pop songs.

I'd add 'Blood on the Tracks' by Bob Dylan. Lovely album... but kinda depressing/bitter sweet in that the songs reflect a break up with his partner at the time.