/mu/, what's the saddest album ever made?
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>>64690785
Jackson C. Frank is such a sad case, man. I can see myself turning out the same way, but without the talent.
Townes Van Zandt, listen and weep into a bottle of vodka, or water if you're sensible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hrfjSaW8TQ
Rip Skye
I met brann and the rest of mastodon
>>64690341
>>64690341 (OP)
>>64691950
hahaha this is a fucking meme bro. Not even that good, the guy even uses bandcamp lmao.
>>64691950
Ye boi
>>64694298
>meme
>bro
>lmao
Kill yourself
tie between nick drake's pink moon and alice in chains' jar of flies
>>64690341
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K02aiv7jrEs
>>64691950
nope
>>64694298
nothing wrong with bandcamp
>>64696376
>>64691950
>>>tumblr
>>64690341
Crack the Skye kicks ass but I doubt it's a contender for saddest album, OP.
>>64690341
How about some meme albums like rollercoaster, the white birch or star is just a sun?
>>64697518
>meme
Fuck off
Doesn't get much more forlorn than this.
>a white ship sails on a black sea
>takes my love from me
>and it takes so long
>but then I understand
>i understand.
>>64697552
didn't this suck though?
Carrie & Lowell.
>>64696892
OP here, I'm inclined to think it is, but I am very personally attached to CtS.
I had listened through it a couple of times and thought it was a great album. After one of my closest friends committed suicide however, I listened to it nearly non-stop for a week. I later read up on the whole deal about the album really being about the suicide of Brann's sister Skye, and how he was found trying to dig her out of her grave and all that, and it clicked with me. The lyrics and the story of the paraplegic boy astral traveling to the Czar weren't supposed to make sense; like the compositions, they are abstract thoughts meant to convey those sometimes hysteric feelings of despair from after a loved one has committed suicide.
Listening to it still brings me to tears, the last two songs being downright heartbreaking.
I have gotten some good responses in this thread, though, and I wouldn't be too surprised if there were much sadder stuff out there, but I have yet to hear something as immersive and sad as Crack the Skye yet.
>>64697983
I honestly think that it's the best pop punk album from the last 10 years
Soupy voice is so full of emotion
And I wanted to be brave it's a lyrical masterpiece
The whole album it's really fucking good
>>64698110
cool I've listened to and mostly liked all their other albums so guess I need to check it out
>>64697997
It evokes a huge range of emotions, though it's sad and heartfelt I wouldn't call it the saddest.
Pic is to me the most immersive album when it comes to not being happy. To the extent of being so sad that it has turned from sad into disturbing. OP I can see why the sadness of losing someone to suicide can be damn sad, but to have music that does it from the perspective of the one who committed such an act goes to a whole new level.
>>64696903
I think it has to be this. The album itself is depressing enough and makes you feel as if you are drowning. But the back story to it, honestly makes it even more depressing.
pic related is a fair nomination though.
>>64698242
I agree. This album, to me, involves so much self-loathing as to no longer see oneself as human. It is very draining.
If you like female singers, this one takes the cake of sadness, disappointment and heartache that occurs in life, especially after the loss of a girlfriend, just skip the song "Zombie" because it's annoying as fuck
>>64698768
what is the back story? I love this album, can't believe there was one without me knowing about it
>>64698898
>it's a "A song is bad if it's very popular" episode
>>64698898
it's mostly just generic pop rock
>>64698947
It's not a long story, but it seems that the guitarist who also does vocals got an arm injury that resulted in him not being able to ever play guitar again, and killed himself in 2008. Weighing Souls with Sand seems to be his "swan song".
>>64696853
this isn't sad, though, I find it extremely uplifting with shades of melancholy
ultimately it's hopeful though, I think
>>64698898
I'm Irish and Zombie hits me hard as fuck
maybe you have to be Irish to appreciate the lyrics I dunno
>>64699236
it's a good song he's just being contrarian
>>64697997
pretty sad but also really joyful, easy one of my favourited abums from the last years
>>64698242
Anger is a little more fitting.
>>64699660
>filename
Also, agreed. This album is amazingly beautiful.
>>64690341
>dude my dead sister is a bear now lmao
Feelgaze
>>64696376
definitely getting feels with this album, holy shit
>>64699688
Nah, the way he talks about pain, or how helpless the second half of a Screw is, or I'll Do Anything For You, or all of Coward. Anger's definitely there, but it's the ultimate helplessness within the submission of early Swans that reigns supreme.
>>64697552
i'm honestly fucking embarrassed by how often i listen to this album. so good
>>64698949
it's not a bad song because it's popular, it just doesn't fit the album's mood, and it's a shame that Zombie gets played the most on FM crap radio because it's angst-y grunge worthy alternative 90's rock, there are far better songs on "No need to argue", than the infamous annoying ZOMBIE
>>64699394
the lyrics are all fine and good, but the vocals are not aesthetically pleasing on the ears.
>>64699394
I'm not being contrarian, everyone in the whole fucking world can love that song all they want, I can do without it, I find it very boring
>>64703564
>vocals
>aesthetically pleasing
>>64703839
great regurgitation on your part, I'm impressed
i find this album quite soul crushing desu
>>64703904
thank you
>>64696903
once i read le backstory i cry everytiem
>>64703839
who wants to listen to someone wailing on going Zombie ie ie ie ie ie ie ie ie ie forever and ever, it's a childish and stupid song, that I'm sure the lead singer Dolores hates it to this very day....their biggest hit, is a crap song, it's like Blur being known for "Song 2" aka the woo hoo song, it has to be dumb as fuck for people to like it, dumb it down for the masses
>>64703990
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting
>>64701916
Maybe the Stranger and Titan, but the rest of the album is pretty uplifting IMO
>>64698242
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY
>>64690341
certainly not that one
Always fucks me up. The Kursk usually hits me the hardest.
