So I’ve always noticed when I’m as down as I can get, I find comfort is music that most people find super depressing all the way to unbearably depressing. Like slit-your-wrists depressing. Songs you’d expect to find someone hanging from a noose in their home on repeat to. These kinds of songs bring comfort because they make me feel like, ok, I’m not so alone with this shit.
And for context, really happy songs just seem the saddest, most devastating songs that there are, because you don’t have that, you don’t have that happiness, love, support, that glimmer of light everyone’s so happy about you know?
So gimme the saddest songs you can think of. I’m wearing Joy Division out.
Some other music/songs I’ve been listening to: Ren - Hi Ren (and some others of his), Elliott Smith, Micah P. Hinson, Portishead, Swans, Lykke Li - I Never Learn, Interpol, Chelsea Wolfe, Elton John - Rocketman, Matt Elliott, Savages - Adore
Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. Turns out childhood cancer makes for a beautifully gut-wrenching song.
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
“Sometimes It Snows in April” by Prince
Give the album A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie a listen if you haven’t heard it yet.
I have been preparing my entire life for this moment!
Daughter - Shallows
Placebo - Follow The Cops Back Home
Lanterns on the Lake - Another Tale From Another English Town
Amanda Palmer - Trout Heart Replica
Joni Mitchell - The Magdelene Laundries (cw: abuse - if you’re not looking for that sad try Come in From The Cold)
Secret Machines - 1000 Seconds
Silversun Pickups - Circadian Rhythm
Mogwai - Killing All The Flies
Porcupine Tree - Heart Attack in a Layby
Death Cab For Cutie - What Sarah Said
Iron & Wine - Passing Afternoon
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
Tusks - Dissolve
The Flaming Lips - Mr Ambulance Driver
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Manchester Orchestra - I Know How To Speak
The Midnight - Brooklyn (not to be confused with “Brooklyn. Friday. Love” which is the exact opposite end of the emotional spectrum)
Dance with the Devil by Immortal Technique. A song about an up-and-coming gangster being tricked into raping and killing his own mother. It’s the most brutal, soul-crushing song I’ve ever heard.
Lots of good stuff in this thread. This one immediately sprung to mind
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Heard the Friends theme song in minor?
I’d never really listened to the song before, but was struck with how melancholic the lyrics are.
The album Hospice by the Antlers.
I’ll just steal from wikipedia: Set in New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, which the second track is named after, Hospice tells the story of a relationship between a hospice worker and a female patient suffering from terminal bone cancer, their ensuing romance, and their slow downward spiral as a result of the woman’s traumas, fears, and disease. The story of her deterioration also serves as a metaphor for an abusive relationship. Frontman Peter Silberman has been reluctant to divulge explicit details regarding the meaning of the record, and the extent to which it is autobiographical.
Love it.
Leviathan - At the door of the tenth sub-level of suicide
Here, try some doom black metal
You should look into Eels. “Electro shock blues” is so sad and it starts with a down note on “Elizabeth on the bathroom floor”.
The Cure - The Same Deep Water as You
Or just listen to Disintegration all the way through
The entire album The Final Cut by Pink Floyd
Yesterday When I Was Young (Roy Clark version, Glenn Campbell did this one too)
Tom Waits - Soldier’s Things or Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis, or just throw on any Waits album and you’ll find something unbearably sad among the bangers. Same with Nick Cave
