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Like the title says, what song, or piece of music, takes you somewhere dark, and makes you stop and think?

I'm playing Deftones - Secret Track right now on my show, and it is owning my heart. Seriously. Such elegance, such darkness. :eek:

Although Muse - Bliss is really the one that I find almost unpleasant, as the memories associated with that (depression, break-up of family, exam stress and failure) are still too raw. :(

Anyway, here's the music thread for all those people out there who prefer to explore the melancholy rather than the upbeat. :)

"Brilliant Disguise" by Bruce Springsteen. If you listen to the lyrics, the song is profoundly depressing.

I really like songs with sad lyrics but happy, upbeat tunes. "Here Comes My Baby" by the Tremeloes is another great example. Somehow, though, it doesn't work the other way; happy lyrics paired with somber, downbeat tunes just sounds stupid.

I'm playing Deftones - Secret Track right now on my show, and it is owning my heart. Seriously. Such elegance, such darkness. :eek: What album is that on? I don't recognise it...



For me, 'Hallelujah' by Jeff Buckley is depressing/sad as fuck!
Or, Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt' :( :(

Empty Room by Crowbar... now there's a fuckin dark song :eek:


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Leonard Cohen's "Take this waltz" yeah my head is full of Cohen today :p

Sonata Arctica - Last Drop Falls....reminds me of times and people that I don't wanna remember :( and Sting - Fields of Gold...

I am really more into upbeat style music, but anytime I feel like getting depressed, I listen to anything by Nirvana

Goodnight Saigon

by Billy Joel

Hm, I guess anything by Radiohead.

"What song brings you down?"

I avoid them like the plague, so it's difficult for me to remember the names. :D

What album is that on? I don't recognise it...
Well, it's not the Secret Track which has no name and isn't listed on the sleeve of one of their albums. It's actually called Pink Maggot, which appears to be a slower darker variation on Back to School. Heh, had to do a lot of reading just now to track the origins of that one down, never heard it before. But it owns.

Lyrics (http://www.lyricsdepot.com/deftones/pink-maggot.html)

Bob, by Primus always makes me depressed. Don't know why.

For me, 'Hallelujah' by Jeff Buckley is depressing/sad as fuck!
Or, Johnny Cash's version of 'Hurt' :( :(

Dude, I totally agree, those are the two songs I was going to mention. Except I prefer the version of hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright. His voice is so plaintive.

For me it is PANDA by Grace Jones of The Jefferson Airplane back in 1980?
True then, True Now.

Careful, but I think I'm about to try a joke...

"Don't Bring Me Down" by the ELO. Because it's wank.

AHAHAHAHA.

Anyway, I really don't have many songs like this. Someone mentioned two that I love: "Hallelujah" and "Hurt". They are melancholic in tone, I agree, but they don't personally depress me. An Amis once suggested that good literature is fundamentally incapable of depressing. We may weep at the anguished demise of Lear (or Dumbledore) but on some level, it's still uplifting to be part of a great literary moment.

I find that to be true of a lot of music. No matter how unrelentingly down the lyrics, or how many minor chords it uses (once more...), it's still - if it's any good - going to be enjoyable, even when its primary aim is to invoke sadness. I find this with a lot of Johnny Cash songs: he's singing about shitty degradations of the human soul, and yet you can't help but be enraptured at the way he does so.

So, for me, songs that get me into something of a blue mood include "Proof" by I Am Kloot, "The Pain Inside" by the Cosmic Rough Riders, "Lord Anthony" by Belle and Sebastien, and "Little Green" [from which the name] by Joni Mitchell. But songs that fundamentally depress me are those that I don't like.

Shihad - Envy (about the suicide of one of their friends)

SOAD - P.L.U.C.K (about the armenian genocide)


I guess they don't overly depress me, but they can do when I start properly thinking about the content.

Metallica- Sanitarium

Ozzy Osbourne- The Road to Nowhere

Alice in Chains- Dirt

Nirvana- Lake of Fire

Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun

Well, it's not the Secret Track which has no name and isn't listed on the sleeve of one of their albums. It's actually called Pink Maggot, which appears to be a slower darker variation on Back to School. Heh, had to do a lot of reading just now to track the origins of that one down, never heard it before. But it owns.


Yeah, that one was the original, before they added "Back to School" to widen their audience, they claim. The Secret Track on Adrenaline is "Fist," which is nice, but not really a fully developed song (there's like 4 intelligible words and some distortion, that's about it). Much better than the "extra" track on their next album, which was just, well.. annoying. :)

Well, I haven't picked up any pink maggot references, but it is beautiful.

marilyn manson's "narcissus narcosis"

Morrissey depresses me.
(Yeah, I know I am weird for listening to him).

Whatever you do, don't listen to "Without You" by Harry Nilsson immediately after a breakup with your significant other. That will really ruin your mood even worse. Likewise, I remember driving home after my girlfriend at the time had dumped me, feeling depressed, and had thought that maybe the radio might cheer me up. So I turned on the radio, and immediately it came on with "If You Leave Me Now" by Chicago. I didn't know for an instant whether to laugh or drive the car into the nearest bridge abutment......

hurt-johnny cash cover

"Sunrise, Sunset" by Bright Eyes

Any version of 'Turn, Turn, Turn'. I end up blubbering like a child.

Diary by Bread. I listened to that song going home from school after one of the worst days in my life... I cried for half an hour straight afterwards. Just the wrong song at the wrong time.

Not much else really achieves it, but Angie by the Rolling Stones, Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Neil Young and I Remember You by Skid Row are a couple more that can come close.

"Reflections of My Life" -- Marmalade

"Luka" -- Suzanne Vega

"So Far Away" -- Carole King

"In My Life" -- Beatles

"Another Day in Paradise" -- Phil Collins

"Watching the Wheels" -- John Lennon

"Blowin' in the Wind" -- Peter, Paul, and Mary

Mercury Rev - Dark Is Rising (painful memories)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (only if a certain person isn't with me when I listen to it)

I'm playing Deftones - Secret Track right now on my show, and it is owning my heart. Seriously. Such elegance, such darkness. :eek:
Deftones are good like that. Be Quiet and Drive being the one that does it for me (sort-of).
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt does it the best though. Always brings me a bit down.
Also some Blindspott (NZ band) stuff is somewhat depressing.

Deftones are good like that. Be Quiet and Drive being the one that does it for me (sort-of).
interesting that Passenger by Deftones is one of the songs that really gets me 'up' too. deftones are great :)

New American Classic- Taking Back Sunday
Your Revolution Is a Joke- FFAF

All acoustic but the vocals and lyrics are superbly appropriate

interesting that Passenger by Deftones is one of the songs that really gets me 'up' too. deftones are great :)
Yup. Deftones are fantastic. 7 Words is another good song from them.

A lot of Elliott Smith, especially from his eponymous second album: Christian Brothers scares the shit out of me. Then there's Angeles, my favourite song, on Either/Or, which has the ability to hurt me for a number of reasons.

Like the title says, what song, or piece of music, takes you somewhere dark, and makes you stop and think?

I'm playing Deftones - Secret Track right now on my show, and it is owning my heart. Seriously. Such elegance, such darkness. :eek:

Although Muse - Bliss is really the one that I find almost unpleasant, as the memories associated with that (depression, break-up of family, exam stress and failure) are still too raw. :(

Anyway, here's the music thread for all those people out there who prefer to explore the melancholy rather than the upbeat. :)Almost the entire Fallen album by Evanescence. Especially Tourniquet.

Alice in Chains- Dirt


That whole album is the most depressing thing ever....brilliant...but so hard to actually listen to unless i'm feeling really down.

Others...

Lots of Nirvana stuff....particularly from In Utero....though Lithium is a good example too. Actually...pretty much anything of theirs I can twist into making myself feel down.

Exit Music For a Film by Radiohead...

The End by the Doors....

No Quarter by Led Zeppelin....

Bodies by the Smashing Pumpkins..."Love is Suicide..."

Pretty much anything by the Cure....



Ugh, so many! I could go on.

I don't have much happy music.

Dude, I totally agree, those are the two songs I was going to mention. Except I prefer the version of hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright. His voice is so plaintive.


I prefer John Cale's version.

Johnny Cash knew pain, brother.

Faith No More "Take this bottle".

"Early Morning Rain" by Gordon Lightfoot.

However, If I was going to pick an album that makes the listener want to cut open thier wrists, it would have to be "The Final Cut" by Pink Floyd.

Musically brilliant, but so god damn depressing, I can rarely stand to listen to it.

For me, and I'm not sure why, Konstantine by Something Corporate does it.

interesting that Passenger by Deftones is one of the songs that really gets me 'up' too. deftones are great :)
Same here, actually. I like that one.

Same here, actually. I like that one.
I've been waiting for a week to find a thread suitable to hijack for this express purpose, TG - I just finished reading 'Excession' by Iain M. Banks, and I've been champing at the bit to ask if you derived your name from the Ship, Tactical Grace, or not.

Sorry to be hijackin', I'm filled to the brim with curiousity, though...

"I Love You" (from Barney & Friends), a song that is not only deeply depressing and distressing, but psychotic, abysmal, malodorous, insidious, and downright terrifying.

"I Love You" (from Barney & Friends), a song that is not only deeply depressing and distressing, but psychotic, abysmal, malodorous, insidious, and downright terrifying.

"I love you, you love me, Barney gave me H.I.V...."

boxcar racer - there is.

"I love you, you love me, Barney gave me H.I.V...."

ROFLMAO!!!!!! :D

Geez, Kanabia, you almost made me shit my pants! :p

anything i hear on the radio,


because it is manufactured product
with all the toxic side affects.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! :D

Geez, Kanabia, you almost made me shit my pants! :p

:D Proud to be of service.

I've been waiting for a week to find a thread suitable to hijack for this express purpose, TG - I just finished reading 'Excession' by Iain M. Banks, and I've been champing at the bit to ask if you derived your name from the Ship, Tactical Grace, or not.

Sorry to be hijackin', I'm filled to the brim with curiousity, though...
I am a fan of Iain M. Banks, and indeed I did. The name does have an elegant ring to it, and although that Mind played a minor role in the Interesting Times Gang, it was the voice of reason. All qualities I sought to embody. :)

A couple of interesting asides...

- A year ago there was a poster in General called Gray Area, I had a few words with him, but he did not stick around long.

- And the vast majority of people assume that the origin of the name is that IRL I am a female called Grace - to my constant amusement. :rolleyes:

Oh yeah, and bizarrely, Tactical Grace is also the name of a techno track.

anything i hear on the radio,


because it is manufactured product
with all the toxic side affects.

No, there's a difference between stuff specifically made for radio airplay and a cash return rather than any artistic merit (bad), but there is also plenty of good music that breaks into the mainstream and gets airplay because it is of outstanding quality. Whether or not something is played on radio has no bearing on its artistic quality whatsoever - both good and bad music is on there. (Though I would agree that the bias is quite towards the bad in recent times ;))

... indeed I did. The name does have an elegant ring to it, and although that Mind played a minor role in the Interesting Times Gang, it was the voice of reason.
Sorry, 'Mind', not 'Ship'. My bad.

Reading the exchanges between the various Minds in the Interesting Times Gang, I was reminded frequently of the exchanges between people here on NS.

I'd had half a (M)ind to start a new nation of "Peace Makes Plenty" after the Elencher Mind who broke through the Excession. But I still dig Dobbsworld too much to give up my post-count.

Oh yeah, and bizarrely, Tactical Grace is also the name of a techno track.
Why am I so completely unsurprised to hear that?

:D Proud to be of service.

Hey, if I do end up shitting my pants, you're cleaning it up!

*Hands Kanabia a mop and a bucket filled with water*

Hey, if I do end up shitting my pants, you're cleaning it up!

*Hands Kanabia a mop and a bucket filled with water*

Meh, just throw them in your next-door neighbours bin (or hang them on their clothes line) and buy a new pair.

like spinning plates- radiohead

life in a glass house- radiohead

I'm more up an uplifting songs guy, although 'Bleed like me' by Garbage does the trick, and to a lesser extent 'Gravity Grave' by the Verve

like spinning plates- radiohead

life in a glass house- radiohead

Heres another couple...

Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead

Pyramid Song - Radiohead

:)

Heres another couple...

Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead

Pyramid Song - Radiohead

:)

and another couple...

fake plastic trees - radiohead

motion picture soundtrack - radiohead

:)

and another couple...

fake plastic trees - radiohead

motion picture soundtrack - radiohead

:)

Haha...how about we end it by saying every Radiohead song? (minus the odd exception like...say, Electioneering)

Haha...how about we end it by saying every Radiohead song? (minus the odd exception like...say, Electioneering)

*radioheads back catalougue*

yeah, and also anything from pablo hunny.

oh and one more...lucky - radiohead.

now im done.

Wow, that's a tough one...

...Wait, no it isn't! Every fucking Good Charlotte song I've ever heard has made me want to bang my head on a sharp object and just fucking end it. Aaaaagh!

'My Immortal' by Evanescence.

I cry almost every time I hear it because it was playing during the funeral of a late friend of mine, and every time I hear that song I associate it with him....

'My Immortal' by Evanescence.

i agree with that also

Something in the way by Nirvana

Where did you sleep last nite (is that right?) by Nirvana

Dumb by Nirvana

Sing for absolution by Muse

Letting the cables sleep by Bush

Now we are free by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard

Just listening to this song now. It gets me down quite a bit. Not too bad usually but because things are going shit for me at the moment, gets me down lol.
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm

WASP - Hallowed Ground
TATU - Zachem Ja
Audio Slave - Shadow of the Sun
Pink Floyd - High Hopes

Give me that :( feeling.

The US national anthem as it reminds me of all the shit thats associated with the US.

"I love you, you love me, Barney gave me H.I.V...."

bloody hell, I haven't heard that one since primary school :D

Nine Inch Nails - "Something I Can Never Have"

(on a completely unrelated note, I get to see NIN live in Madison on Thursday :) )

Fear Factory - "A Therapy for Pain"

In Flames - "Bottled"

"Teen Angst (What the World Need Now)" by Cracker. Because the lyrics should be sung sarcastically, but aren't.

And various techno artists, like Bjork, Massive Attack, and Portishead. They bring me down, as in sleeeeeeeeeeeeeepy.