What's the most depressive, hopeless sounding music you know of?
Third time i post this today
And End... - Between Light and Lies
An Atmo Black Metal Solo record, the guy killed himself a week after releasing it
>>63277042
Sweet, I'll check this out
I hope to one day release my magnum opus and exit the world shortly after
I don't know much but Leonard Cohen's work, especially his first and Songs of Love and Hate are depressing as fuck even though there are some lighter tracks on them too.
Try 'Nico' and 'Leonard Cohen'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUvouRjDlWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5JX4-zZbiY
Here's my top three:
Xasthur-Subliminal Genocide
Lycia- Cold
Giles Corey- Giles Corey
>>63277042
Also I'll listen to this
>>63276937
Field recordings of my life
>>63276937
Is that Gira in a cowboy hat crying? ;-;
>>63277536
god damn.........................
>>63277542
yeah it's the picture for Angels of Light on lastfm
NIN - Hurt
i would say giles corey but i have a feeling that there's probably some noise or dark ambient that captures that feeling in a much more raw form
>>63277542
Michael... had a hard life
>>63277523
>>63277732
>Giles Corey
lol...............
>>63277771
as a person with depression, it really hits the nail right on the head for me, but like i said, there's almost definitely something out there is a thousand times more soul crushing
>>63276937
Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lQvzykkgMw
one of my favorite albums for a while. I like emotional extremes when it comes to music, and this is the 'sad' extreme for me
the ending credits track in the revenant
>>63278321
My man
Vic Chesnutt is really underrated when it comes to sadcore
navicon torture technologies - all i want to hear is the sound of my own heart stopping
Some blind willie johnson is good for feels. This poor fucker died alone in his burned out house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNEPpmreGs8
Alice In Chains - Sap EP
>>63276937
Meme answer, but Soundtracks for the Blind fucks me up any time I listen to it.
>>63279285
>not s/t
cmon son
>>63276937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOnOFbDjPDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooe28zQ-FPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GnKAUIYrvE
>>63279321
>not Jar of Flies
First three Modest Mouse albums are literally apathy and depression of modern America incarnate.
>>63276937
this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dixxse4dpQ4
had a religiously sad experience to pic related
>>63276937
This shit is desolate.
>>63281506
Going to have to check this out
Sounds like he offed himself shortly after recording this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B92l_fNsyVc
>>63279147
Came here to say this
Fuck everyone who says Giles Corey in these threads
"Big Star - Holocaust" is a good un
Blue ft. Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
>>63283893
What's wrong with Giles Corey?
>>63276937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4
>>63277042
>>63277523
Great DSBM recs. Xasthur especially makes some really hopeless music.
beautifully depressing
>>63276937
https://youtu.be/cfR4OIDuvPc
>>63283961
surprised it took this many posts for a meme reply
https://youtu.be/ZbsQ0gxv9OM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZ6DoeimP4
>>63281506
I've listened to this album a few times before, but yesterday it really clicked with me, was kind of jaw dropping.
Pink Moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APGq7e0DZr0
This one, too. Something about the lyrics and they way they are delivered.
>>63284102
It's a pretty depressing song.
>>63276937
Try uaral my friend
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaxcCrde2QY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDpCiKBRHQ
The Cure - Pornography
>>63285108
And Disintegration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggxTtnKTMo
listen to all of this and read the lyrics
people who haven't heard it will probably dismiss it cuz "muh rap music" but the theme of the song and the last verse especially is fucking bleak
I'm not fucking around. This is the most detached, hopeless music i have ever heard.
>>63284191
my niGGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQBmbaPORbo
if you're not too hardcore for grunge this album is pretty top tier imo
plus layne was literally dying as a result of his heroin addiction, like losing teeth and shitting pants type shit, and everyone in the band knew it. so that's pretty brutal.
>>63277601
Agreed.
>>63283957
It's fake shit.
>>63276937
There's a song called "Sunday's Gloomy", I saw on an episode of QI where they said it was the most depressing song ever because the original composer killed himself and there was a newspaper article about how the song made people commit suicide all across europe
or something like that
how has nobody said ITAOTS yet? it's literally about someone falling in love with somebody that they know is dead, somebody that they can never save or help, or even meet.
>>63285825
Second that.
>>63285935
It's Gloomy Sunday, this board is full of teenagers, I swear.
>>63282340
where can i find this?
>>63284534
this is shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LxvZI9GClc
>>63285882
>>63283893
>>63277771
Thank god people are starting to understand
>>63277601
I'll be that guy and say Johnny Cash's version was way better/sadder. Trent Reznor said it himself, it's Cash's song.
>>63287446
Fucking teenagers can't discern real depression from melodramatic shit.
>sad depressive songs
>no country music
get on my level sons
https://youtu.be/UJCPnd3NDNs
>>63287516
Reznor's version was better, he was all messed up on drugs and at the end of his rope at the time, he wasn't just being edgy, which is what so many people are led to believe.
>>63287617
And when Cash covered Hurt he was told he would soon die of a neurological disease. Cash is cash. Watch his music video and tell me otherwise.
Nico.
>>63288033
Nico definitely
>no Daniel Johnston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQe25z3zHSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6VCF2qG2Gg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlhKXLhX7H8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qgXYvjVNvk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAKxjHOUu0
>>63288096
Forgot image
>>63288130
His music is horrible but it definitely fits the OP's description
>>63288162
>horrible
Nobody said he knows how to sing or even play guitar properly. It's more about the songwriting and the absolute emotional sincerity of the songs, rather than how well it conforms to regular music norms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_music
Also the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston is pretty much a must if you want to actually understand his albums, so maybe give it a try before judging.
>>63288414
I like him, along with other outsider music, I was listening to Retired Boxer earlier today. His music is mostly about aesthetic and not technical ability (which he lacks greatly in, which most other outside musicians have). Just listen to a live recording of him, he barely has any musical ability.
>>63288746
>outsider music
>he barely has any musical ability
what
That's not the point and it doesn't matter. Again, watch the film about him.
Planning For Burial, Xasthur, Woods of Desolation, Austere, Moss, maybe Thou & Sunn O)). Might be worth exploring some drone/noise stuff too, for example I really enjoy Plurals.
>>63288906
Outside musician doesn't mean bad musician.
It does matter, most of his songs are 2 horribly played chords. If he didn't have the backstory he does, nobody would care about him.
>>63276937
Normie reporting in. Probably April 8th from On Avery Island.
>>63289326
Follow-up on why. It's about a guy who has crippling loneliness and drudges through life. The guy in question is Henry Darger, who wrote an incredibly long (and good) novel while having basically no friends and working as a janitor. He also never released said novel, and hid it intentionally. Much like Jeff Mangum.
>>63289441
Interesting, where are you getting this from?
Mark E Smith's breakup song is pretty depressing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zTSvEpt_8
Pretty unlike other fall songs
>>63289253
I only said that in the outsider music "industry" the actual quality of the performance is of no importance, and not that it has to be bad. And of course without the backstory and lyrics he wouldn't be popular. That's like 90% of his act, but I don't see how that's a bad thing since that was the point of his work from the start.
I was saying that outsider art is an incredibly subjective field with very vague rules, so your criticism is basically invalid, especially when you're saying that one of the genre's most famous and well-regarded artists is "bad". Just say you don't like him instead, because the word "horrible" doesn't mean a thing when you're talking about things like these. You'd have to be as crazy as him to think that he's actually a good musician, but that's not what his music is about, so it doesn't matter.
I don't get what's so hard to understand. It's on the damn wiki.
electro-shock blues hasn't been said
>>63285704
This album is depressive, but IDK about crushing. Hopeless maybe.
>>63289165
YES PLANNING FOR BURIAL
>>63285356
This is kind of a meme, but it is sad nonetheless. Really fucked up
>>63289505
The song title is April 8th, which is the date the little girl Darger's work was based on was murdered. That, and also the fact the song mentions climbing up steps (Darger lived in an apartment) and also the mention of paintings, which Darger did a shit ton of. Jeff is also a big fan of outsider art, and Darger is a very popular outsider artist.
laughing at everyone posting metal under the man who did Public Castration Is A Good Idea
>>63279387
it said saddest.
Chelsea Wolfe - pain is beauty
>>63287516
It was "better" when Johnny Cash did it, but I don't think it was more "depressive"
>>63285517
>not scary monsters
come on man
>>63291181
oh shit, just realized that was a dead goat on the cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHgZOMQQTDA
Jandek - Interstellar Discussion
best I've heard
>>63278253
that whole album has gotten me through some dark times
>>63293589
i find white box requiem a lot more depressing honestly.
>>63285882
>>63287446
>>63287559
I'm glad a bunch of snotty kids on an imageboard apparently know enough about real depression to tell me what is and isn't fake based on someone's music
Hello
>>63293682
don't get upset, it's just a meme opinion by people who want to believe they're not pretentious
nobody could possibly think their version of depression is the only real one, right? no one is actually stuck that far up their own add right?
>>63293602
cool, I'll listen to it
I have clinical depression and it's much better now, but when I was going through the worst stage of my disease back in junior and part of seniorcollege (2005-2007) I went through this really strange phase where every song I listened to made me wanna cry. The song that made me the saddest during that period was California Love by Tupac. I still don't know exactly why it triggered that response in me. I think it was because it was an especially upbeat party song and it made me angry and pitifull to think that people were having fun without me. Just a really irrational way way of thinking, but that's mentally ill people for you. I still dislike the song because it brings back really awful memories.
the way jeff buckley puts his own spin on this song breaks my heart
https://youtu.be/NzIQquWxyK4
>>63293469
It's a horse senpai
>>63293787
nice. I had this playing during my first suicide attempt
>>63276937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HmIu-9_ayM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q4FkTm3Q40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKd8qIiHP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Z3SoRPbS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Jddoh3-JE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSOtmTocPCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWWCiZ0lLOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFHL76lIo7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMrBWwEMA7w
On a personal level the song A Song for our Grandfathers by Future islands has been hitting me hard ever since my grandma passed.
>>63294180
how do you fail at suicide more than once?
are you doing better?
>>63294259
>warning
my nigga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWStaRmuXzY
>>63294180
Are you better now anon?
>>63294400
Sometimes this song almost seems comically over the top to me other times it seems way too relatable
Townes Van Zandt - waiting around to die
Pre-Scar Sighted Leviathan
Crywank
>>63294400
For Swans, I find "feel happiness " to be the most depressing song.
The lyrics hit me one day and the feels were off the scale
>>63276937
F#A#infinity
It makes me want to lock the door and cover my head with a blanket
>>63294509
Same.
>>63283961
>tfw britney spears says loneliness is killing her
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>63294400
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeNc4tI5km8
>do you love me at all Michael?
Arvo part - In memoriam benjamin britten
Arvo part - fir alina?
Emery - from crib to coffin
>>63278253
What is this?
It's... kind of beautiful.
Jonestown massacre field recording is the most harrowing thing I've listened to.
Soundtracks for the Blind
>>63296979
The babies man.
http://youtu.be/OkookcrAnSE
Kiss Another Day Goodbye - David Kauffman & Eric Caboor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3SlXb5y7Q
and
No Future: Part One - Titus Andronicus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dMOjCMoJ0o
>>63294400
you can't escape the beast
koven - insect flick
>>63277523
>>63284011
familia
>>63296939
A Silver Mt. Zion
>>63293627
this
>>63276937
>>63296060
Kathleen and Nothin are a couple of other good songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8AzWznORRE
https://youtu.be/QTFM8ibGaxQ
>>63299379
You got good taste Anonymous.
>>63299566
I know ',:^)
>>63285356
I remember in my final term of college one of my room mates who was on the dole was listening to this while frying sausages in the morning kek
Nikkerdraak
>>63278253
Seconding this.
This is my main soundtrack when I'm in night bus...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWzHcS55rzQ
Yeah I'm gonna be that guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDgNbtHx9js
(that guy meaning that filthy spic trying to push local legendary music down the throat of an international audience which rightly doesn't give a shit about south american music)
>>63296871
"My Heart's in the Highland" is the most depressing Arvo for me
I think this is really good too, similar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRl3VQQ0GUA
>>63294116
looks goat
>>63293589
>>63293602
I Threw You Away is where it's at.
