Music: Bleak, dark, desperate and hopeless

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited December 2006 in Other Music
What are some good records that deal with the feelings expressed above. I am especially looking for music dealing with feelings of longing.

To start off, an example being Nick Drake's classic Pink Moon which expresses all those feelings. Very powerful record
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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    10,000 days captures that feeling for me.
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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    The Doors. The End. :)
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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Beck's Sea Change. Beautifully agonizing from start to finish.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • ramspam
    ramspam Posts: 130
    Disintegration- The Cure
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  • lucylespian
    lucylespian Posts: 2,403
    Cold Gin , Tim Curry, don't know what album
    MAgnolia , JJ Cale, off Naturally, beautiful song
    Black , of course, but you knew that.
    Music is not a competetion.
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    Joy Division.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    What are some good records that deal with the feelings expressed above. I am especially looking for music dealing with feelings of longing.

    To start off, an example being Nick Drake's classic Pink Moon which expresses all those feelings. Very powerful record
    The man ones for me would be:

    Dirt by Alice in chains. My favourite record of all time. Bleak is the only word for it.

    The Downward Spiral by Nine inch nails. Just so depressing and claustrophobic.

    Closer by Joy Division

    The Holy Bible by Manic Street Preachers. Listen to 4st 7lb. If you don't feel some sort of emotion then you are dead.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Pink Floyd's The Wall and/or (to a lesser extent) Dark Side of the Moon.
    NIN- Downward Spiral
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  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    What are some good records that deal with the feelings expressed above. I am especially looking for music dealing with feelings of longing.

    To start off, an example being Nick Drake's classic Pink Moon which expresses all those feelings. Very powerful record
    Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom,,,bleak but beautiful

    as said joy division though its not much related to ,longing
  • BetterRadio
    BetterRadio Posts: 189
    Swervedriver-Duel


    Great grunge-like sound. Very bleak.
    They're gonna tell you where to walk
    When to smile and just what to say
    They say have your own fun...

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  • greenmosquito22
    greenmosquito22 Posts: 79
    It's not exactly rock, but Chris Isaaks' Forever Blue is pretty much non-stop heartbreak. Some of the songs are actually a bit upbeat, but the tone of the album is pretty bleak.
    "If you love someone... set them free. If someone loves you, don't fuck it up." - Ed
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    It doesn't get bleaker than this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk4qPlVzr68
  • Shawn Smith Collective
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    Sophia's first two albums: Fixed Water and The Infinite Circle

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    anything by elliott smith... but especially "from a basement on the hill"
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    several of red house painters/mark kozelek/sun kil moon songs are in this vein...not a particular album...but, you can read the lyrics and figure it out...
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  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    bonnie 'prince' billy - i see a darkness

    one of the most beautiful/sad records ever made.
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  • AxlUlrich
    AxlUlrich Posts: 12,652
    gotta agree with Beck's Sea Change
    would add NIN's Still EP and Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion in the list too.
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Tool - Lateralus

    Radiohead - Kid A, Hail To The Theif

    Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Most of it, but especially "Murder Ballads" I think.

    Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (sweet relief for the soul), and the rest of their work to a lesser extent.

    The Cure - Disintegration (***probably the most suited album for depression ever made***)

    Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning

    Neil Young - After The Goldrush

    Alice in Chains - Dirt, Unplugged, Jar Of Flies

    Modest Mouse - At least half of every album they've made, I suggest the middle of "Moon and Antartica" and "Lonesome Crowded West"

    Beck - Sea Change (****** GORGEOUS, enlightening record******)

    PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?

    NIN in general

    Jeff Buckley - Grace (so so so so so beautiful)
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  • Evensolo05
    Evensolo05 Posts: 118
    Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
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  • alobar
    alobar Posts: 310
    StoneG82 wrote:
    bonnie 'prince' billy - i see a darkness

    one of the most beautiful/sad records ever made.


    yep. This is the one.
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