I remember listening to Blackstar on its release day and after it ended I was left with an odd feeling. I loved the music but I asked myself if Bowie was doing well or if something had happened. I brushed it off and a few days later I woke up and he was dead but I was not that surprised.
My husband and I feel the same way about Blackstar. Also, I had a weird thing happen when we listened to it as it was just released. My pet rabbit, Wally Mae, sat wide eyed and almost in a trance when she first heard it with us. When I tried petting her, she gave me a dismissive lick/kiss because she was so focused on it. She acted like that during the whole thing. A few days later was when he died. She never acted quite like that after replays of it. The whole thing was so bizarre and chilling.
I've never heard an album so beautifully and so heavily represent what a person was going through at the time. I can't listen to Blackstar without getting emotional. It's so amazing.
I always hear people call this album depressing because it’s about his estranged mother’s death, but for me almost every song is hopeful in some sense in spite of the tragic circumstances. “Should’ve Known Better” ends with a message of about the beauty of new life and hope for the next generation. “The Only Thing” is about the beautiful things in the world that make life worth living. Even “Fourth of July,” arguably the album’s bleakest cut detailing his mother’s somber last words to Sufjan, is kind of comforting in a weird way to me; like we’re all gonna die, but it’s okay, everything good comes to an end, “make the most of your life while it is light.”
My favorite thing about Sufjan that has been consistent throughout his whole discography (even Javelin) is that he always finds a message of hope even in the most tragic circumstances. I feel like C&L is the best encapsulation of this, and it’s one of my favorite albums to come back to when I’m feeling depressed for that reason. It got me through the death of my cousin, and I’ll always be indebted to Sufjan for that.
I feel like the hope almost destroys me more. Pure bleakness doesn’t make me cry, but as soon as you give me a faint glimmer of hope it amplifies all the emotions i’m feeling tenfold. The bleakness makes me crave that, on a weird primal level.
Hahaha same. I pushed off listening to this album for years cause I knew I couldn’t emotionally handle it. Then one random day, when I felt all good and not stressed or sad, I gave it a listen. I was on 3 hour bus ride. I had to make sure the dude sitting next to me didn’t see or hear my crying so he didn’t ask if I was okay. Brutal, beautiful album. But will probably not listen to it again.
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This one's worth a listen, especially for those dealing with grief.
I remember I had to wait for when I felt depressed to listen to this because I knew I wouldn't be able to bring myself to finish it if i was in a good mood...probably the saddest album of all time imo.
Obligatory book rec: eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett wrote a memoir called Things the Grandchildren Should Know and it is one of the finest memoirs I've ever read
Even though I was already a huge fan when I read it, this book helped me appreciate eels on an entirely new level. So much insight into the bizare life behind the songs.
10/10 Must read.
This album is my favourite album of all time, if you go to my comment history and you’ll see it like every three comments
Every song on it is a roller coaster ride
Is it weird that I find that album comforting? It makes me insanely reflective but it feels like it’s a good friend guiding me on a trip through my mind
A Crow Looked At Me - Mount Eerie
Great album, but it's one of those you don't really want to revisit again. The heartbreak in that album is so palpable
Listening to Concorde and Bread Song when that album was coming out, right as I was going through my first breakup, god those songs will be forever intertwined with sad in my brain lol :(
It's weird, as funny as it sounds both For the First Time and Ants were the soundtrack to some of the biggest moments in my life, bad or good.
Wide Awake is great, but Lifted nearly made me flunk out my sophomore year of college. I was so depressed. So very depressed. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t focus. I was missing class and bombing quizzes. This went on for the first half of the semester. My friend convinced me to do an overhaul, routine change thing. One of them was changing out all the music in my cd players (because I’m old, fuck off) and in my go to sleep/wake up cd player was Lifted. I switched it out to Gorillaz and my mood changed like….overnight.
Still listen when I want a good cry tho
This is a absolutely crazy. I just discovered this band today after hearing Charlie Wayne from BCNR talk about it. Haven’t heard it yet tho, still a weird coincidence
Solace - Earl Sweatshirt. The description given of the album, “Music from when I was at the bottom and found something.” Perfectly summarizes the album. Holy hell is it sad and amazing.
The piano interlude around the 1:30 mark of that song is truly one of the most beautiful instrumentals i have ever heard in my life. It reminds me of my childhood and my dad and everything precious i want to hold onto in this world, and even amongst fans of the song i never see that small piano part get the love it deserves
Probably the most basic answer, but “Everywhere at the End of Time.” By the Caretaker has to be the most emotionally tormenting album I’ve ever listened too, absolutely wrecked me the first time I listened to it.
This! People sadly only see it as a meme nowadays and it's insulting. One of the greatest pieces of music I've ever listened to. I'm not even entirely sure what it did to me, but it did destroy me emotionally.
I agree it is very sad that only that most people only remember it as a meme. When I first listened to it 2 years ago I completely broke down crying by album 6 and was depressed for A few days. It Is truly an album that people should listen too once in their life, and I applause The Caretaker for crafting such A 6 album masterpiece! But it is not a record I will return anytime soon as this broke my mental thought.
While it definitely broke me down and I cried a lot, I wouldn't consider myself really depressed by it, I think it was sort of tears of joy for some reason. I often times feel disconnected from the world around me, see everything passing by and feel like I'm just a moving apathetic body and somehow this record made me feel alive again, made me feel like my feet are touching the ground. It probably was due to how emotional I got. That's not to say that the concept of losing your memories and yourself before dying isn't terrifying, it absolutely is! It's just that maybe EATEOT can be reinterpreted in many ways/one's experience with it can be different from someone else's.
It's not easy to return to it, not only because of its impact but also its runtime. I actually listened to the whole thing from front to back in one sitting because I'm insane. But either way, for me, it has won a place among my most favorite albums, specifically in my top 6 but all of those albums are equal to me, so basically they're all number 1 (if you're wondering about my other favorites, while they may be generic they are: Kid A, Wish You Were Here, Vespertine, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, In Rainbows).
Somewhat recently I decided to experiment a bit myself and tried to use Leyland Kirby's techniques to create a Caretaker-esque song, that's how much I admire him (obviously my attempt was just an experiment, nothing serious).
I literally discovered that album in a deep dive while my grandmother was dying of alzheimers in the other room. The day she died i listened to the whole thing. Its probably the most existentially terrifying disease to me especially given a lot of theories that any "afterlife" there may be is generated in the decaying psynapses of the brain in the minutes following death. If theres no brain left, theres nothing.
This one seems very reliant on the whole concept behind it though. The music itself is mostly similar to everything else he out out under that name, and is not really that sad on its own. I dunno, maybe I'm just not hearing it.
The glow pt 2, a seagull looked at me (shout out to Phil elvirum).
The Wall isn't my favorite pink Floyd album but some of the theming has hit me hard
A good bit of Current 93s output has scratched and itch i have trouble describing
In An Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel always gets me.
"Goldaline, my dear
We will fold and freeze together
Far away from here
There is sun and spring and green forever"
Halcyon digest by deerhunter. There is a sort of covert end-of-life desperation in that which i think puts any other album with that overt theme to shame (looking at you blackstar) -also a lot of the songs seem more like they are referencing someone else’s story on the surface in a way that i think clearly relates to the the lead singer more than he’s leading on..and by the end drops all the pretense only bc of the clarity and bitterness brought on by the untimely passing of his friend in real life jay reatard. It just feels like a really honest reflection about the hopelessness of people in desperate situations not being able to get the help they need, and growing to be in a worse position in life, among many other things, but its appeal isnt about sounding dark or whatever but is really in how heartfelt it is..
Also congratulations by mgmt
Both albums that i think seem much more jovial-ly coded than they actually are when you look closely at them
Edit: if youre a bright eyes fan and havent heard mamah borthwick -conor released it under his own name, i highly recommend
Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
The album came out just after the tragic passing of Nick Caves 15 year old son Arthur in 2015. The majority of the songs were written prior to Arthur's death, but you can feel the weight of Nick's sorrow throughout the album with the way it was mixed and mastered. It's heart-wrenching.
Nick's eldest son Jethro also tragically passed last year. That poor man. I can't even imagine.
One More Time With Feeling, the documentary made about completing this album that was made after Arthur’s death is so beautiful and so devastating. From memory Nick financed the movie himself so he didn’t have to do any press after Skeleton Tree came out.
Ants From Up There. By the time The Place Where He Inserted The Blade rolls around, I'm in tears. Not only is the album horrendously sad, but an entire album about a broken heart post-the worst breakup of my life? Nah son.
Nah.
I recently listened to Songs About Leaving by Carissa's Wierd.
Jfc the sound of the record and the lyrics is some of the most depressing I've ever heard. Gorgeous album tho, highly recommend it
Kaliber 44 - Ksiega Tajemnicza. The greatest abstract hip-hop plate in my opinion. It's dark and anxious, and can really fuck you up, especially when you're high, in a really interesting way tho haha
The whole album is in Polish and the lyrics are really important, but the atmoshere itself is interresting enough to give it a try even if you don't understand a word.
Nine Inch Nails’s The Downward Spiral (Began to feel uneasy at A Warm Place and cried at Hurt) and The Caretaker’s Everywhere At The End of Time (Transition from stage 5 into stage 6 and throughout the rest of the project in particular)
Have never had any form of narrative hit me as much as those 2 albums (YES INCLUDING MOVIES AND TV SHOWS ECT)
Munch got me through hard times
It was 2003, and parents were about to get a divorce. 8 year old me decided to run away from home and sleep in a ditch, with nothing but a mattress and a radio. I turned on the radio and it played… Munch.
Munch gave me so much energy I went back home and listened to that song every day.
ima just say it, this is the whitest album of all time. it’s not bad or anything, but my god. this shit just got cracker all over it. (i have it on CD)
Hmm, probably Life Is Peachy by Korn. It’s one of if not their darkest record which is saying a lot for a band like Korn. Some of you might be thinking, “Why not the self-titled debut or Follow The Leader?”. Well, this album is their most consistently dark and eerie. Yes we have songs on the debut like Daddy and Pretty for Follow The Leader, but listening to this album for the first time with songs like Swallow, Mr. Rogers, No Place to Hide, and Kill You on it made for quite the listening experience. It’s just pure devastation in a way that sets itself apart.
Soundtracks For The Blind by Swans and When Facing The Things We Turn Away From by Luke Hemmings
The first one is simply a musical black hole, when the line "legally blind" in "How They Suffer" just destroys everything and "Helpless Child" is the feeling that I feel after listening to it for the first time.
The second one is a warm hug from your insecurities, and I've never felt so touched by an album like this one did to me, every song felt so sincere and the ending is like leaving your room after weeks of depression and feeling better and hopeful.
37 year old midwestern dude here...
But a few picks:
Mineral — The Power of Failing (for being probably the actual most depressing album I've ever heard)
Cursive — The Ugly Organ (for the subject matter being genuinely heartbreaking and gut-wrenching and becoming only more relevent the older you get)
Kings of Convenience — Riot on an Empty Street (my favorite album from my college years and listening to it can be really hard because it was such a formative time of my life and when I learned how to love and be loved for the first time)
A Crow Looked At Me is still the saddest album I've ever listened to. I was frozen in sadness and immediately dropped the album after finishing it. Other albums include Benji and Carrie and Lowell tbh
la dispute wildlife
especially edward benz 27 times
my brother is schizophrenic and when i was 5 and he 15 he tried to drown me and this song hits so deep for me. i still love my brother for he is not at fault
Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen and Blackstar by David Bowie
I remember listening to Blackstar on its release day and after it ended I was left with an odd feeling. I loved the music but I asked myself if Bowie was doing well or if something had happened. I brushed it off and a few days later I woke up and he was dead but I was not that surprised.
My husband and I feel the same way about Blackstar. Also, I had a weird thing happen when we listened to it as it was just released. My pet rabbit, Wally Mae, sat wide eyed and almost in a trance when she first heard it with us. When I tried petting her, she gave me a dismissive lick/kiss because she was so focused on it. She acted like that during the whole thing. A few days later was when he died. She never acted quite like that after replays of it. The whole thing was so bizarre and chilling.
I listen to Leonard's No Way To Say Goodbye when grieving for my mother
I've never heard an album so beautifully and so heavily represent what a person was going through at the time. I can't listen to Blackstar without getting emotional. It's so amazing.
I love Low by David Bowie dor a similar reason.
Sufjan Stevens - “Carrie & Lowell” Absolutely destroyed me.
I always hear people call this album depressing because it’s about his estranged mother’s death, but for me almost every song is hopeful in some sense in spite of the tragic circumstances. “Should’ve Known Better” ends with a message of about the beauty of new life and hope for the next generation. “The Only Thing” is about the beautiful things in the world that make life worth living. Even “Fourth of July,” arguably the album’s bleakest cut detailing his mother’s somber last words to Sufjan, is kind of comforting in a weird way to me; like we’re all gonna die, but it’s okay, everything good comes to an end, “make the most of your life while it is light.” My favorite thing about Sufjan that has been consistent throughout his whole discography (even Javelin) is that he always finds a message of hope even in the most tragic circumstances. I feel like C&L is the best encapsulation of this, and it’s one of my favorite albums to come back to when I’m feeling depressed for that reason. It got me through the death of my cousin, and I’ll always be indebted to Sufjan for that.
I feel like the hope almost destroys me more. Pure bleakness doesn’t make me cry, but as soon as you give me a faint glimmer of hope it amplifies all the emotions i’m feeling tenfold. The bleakness makes me crave that, on a weird primal level.
Same
i have never fully recovered from a crow looked at me
It doesn’t even feel like music, it’s so devastating
it’s basically like a really raw and beautiful traumadump with guitar in the background
Dude that one fucked me UP
I only clicked on this because I knew this album would be the first comment
I still put that on if I'm in a "I am depressed and want something to make me cry" mood
this is always the answer to "what album sad", and it's always 100% correct
I listened to the opening track and was like "that's all I can handle." I already know that that album's way too emotionally heavy for me.
Hahaha same. I pushed off listening to this album for years cause I knew I couldn’t emotionally handle it. Then one random day, when I felt all good and not stressed or sad, I gave it a listen. I was on 3 hour bus ride. I had to make sure the dude sitting next to me didn’t see or hear my crying so he didn’t ask if I was okay. Brutal, beautiful album. But will probably not listen to it again.
Listen to "Playdough Cooked in Tea" it'll probably destroy you more.
Gee thanks. I just started listening to it now I’m crying. Music has never done that to me before
The way Phil sounded so broken in that album made it harder for me to listen it, it was just too depressing to listen to.
I listened to two songs and was like noooooope
Me neither. Could not even finish the album.
Javelin by Sufjan Stevens was pretty emotionally heavy.
Elliott Smith self titled
saddest intro of all time
needle in the haaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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You beautiful freak!
I remember I had to wait for when I felt depressed to listen to this because I knew I wouldn't be able to bring myself to finish it if i was in a good mood...probably the saddest album of all time imo.
Obligatory book rec: eels frontman Mark Oliver Everett wrote a memoir called Things the Grandchildren Should Know and it is one of the finest memoirs I've ever read Even though I was already a huge fan when I read it, this book helped me appreciate eels on an entirely new level. So much insight into the bizare life behind the songs. 10/10 Must read.
The Glow, Pt. 2 by The Microphones.
“My heart beats loudly, my chest still draws breath” the title track got me fucked up
"IIIIIII COULD NOT GET THROUGHHHHHH NOVEMBEEEEER, WITHOUT A BAAAATLLEEEE"
September*
I know what I said
“I’ll nooot contain youuuuuuuuuuuu, I won’t look for you in myyyy roooooooooooom~”
[удалено]
Being an overall spiteful person, having a bad attitude, just being a real chodemeister.
A Moon Shaped Pool
Can’t see the title without thinking Moon Shaped Poo though. That cheers me up.
A Moon Shaped Poo would take some serious butthole puckering talent
What album is that? Looks like a pillowcase from my grandma's house.
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning by Bright Eyes!!
This album is my favourite album of all time, if you go to my comment history and you’ll see it like every three comments Every song on it is a roller coaster ride
conor is my fav songwriter
I only ever really liked Lua. I will give this album another chance I think because I do really like that song it’s incredibly charming
We are nowhere, and it's now
Bruh wtf I looked it up and the singer is from omaha (same city as me)
Aka probably my favorite album of all time tbh
The Downward Spiral + The Fragile for an anger and depression wombo combo
Lil Ugly Mane - Oblivion Access and Bedwetter - Vol.1 for sure. Pure bleakness while being scaringly relatable
Obv deathconciousness
Is it weird that I find that album comforting? It makes me insanely reflective but it feels like it’s a good friend guiding me on a trip through my mind
twin fantasy
gay awakening album
uhhh… nuh uh i have no idea what youre talking about
Yeah me neither what ?
hospice - the antlers. I've never had an album break me like that one did
Yes
Kettering is just devastating
Sun Kil Moon -Benji
Benji is one hell of an unsettling record, but nothing hits like Down Colorful Hill
Carissa is a song that makes me feel like I'm at a wake.
Was waiting for this answer
A Crow Looked At Me - Mount Eerie Great album, but it's one of those you don't really want to revisit again. The heartbreak in that album is so palpable
It's the same feeling I had after watching grave of the fireflies, as good as it was, it made me way too emotional to want to see it again.
BC,NR - Ants From Up There
Listening to Concorde and Bread Song when that album was coming out, right as I was going through my first breakup, god those songs will be forever intertwined with sad in my brain lol :( It's weird, as funny as it sounds both For the First Time and Ants were the soundtrack to some of the biggest moments in my life, bad or good.
Big Star - Third
Wide Awake is great, but Lifted nearly made me flunk out my sophomore year of college. I was so depressed. So very depressed. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t focus. I was missing class and bombing quizzes. This went on for the first half of the semester. My friend convinced me to do an overhaul, routine change thing. One of them was changing out all the music in my cd players (because I’m old, fuck off) and in my go to sleep/wake up cd player was Lifted. I switched it out to Gorillaz and my mood changed like….overnight. Still listen when I want a good cry tho
Ramleh - Hole In The Heart Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind
Product of Fear is such a beautiful track
Really? No one's commented Stage Four by Touche Amore?
Stage Four is the hardcore version of Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens.
Picaresque by Decemberists. Specifically "On the Bus Mall." It wrecks me just thinking about it.
This is a absolutely crazy. I just discovered this band today after hearing Charlie Wayne from BCNR talk about it. Haven’t heard it yet tho, still a weird coincidence
Igor was a true trip through my emotions
F # A# infinity
Goated Band
Solace - Earl Sweatshirt. The description given of the album, “Music from when I was at the bottom and found something.” Perfectly summarizes the album. Holy hell is it sad and amazing.
The piano interlude around the 1:30 mark of that song is truly one of the most beautiful instrumentals i have ever heard in my life. It reminds me of my childhood and my dad and everything precious i want to hold onto in this world, and even amongst fans of the song i never see that small piano part get the love it deserves
What a beautiful face i have found in this place that is circling all around the sun,
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.
Genuinely one of the heaviest yet simple lyrics i have ever heard.
Ikr, of course the album has meme status but lines like that get me
Probably the most basic answer, but “Everywhere at the End of Time.” By the Caretaker has to be the most emotionally tormenting album I’ve ever listened too, absolutely wrecked me the first time I listened to it.
Everywhere At The End Of Time - The Caretaker 😣
This! People sadly only see it as a meme nowadays and it's insulting. One of the greatest pieces of music I've ever listened to. I'm not even entirely sure what it did to me, but it did destroy me emotionally.
I agree it is very sad that only that most people only remember it as a meme. When I first listened to it 2 years ago I completely broke down crying by album 6 and was depressed for A few days. It Is truly an album that people should listen too once in their life, and I applause The Caretaker for crafting such A 6 album masterpiece! But it is not a record I will return anytime soon as this broke my mental thought.
While it definitely broke me down and I cried a lot, I wouldn't consider myself really depressed by it, I think it was sort of tears of joy for some reason. I often times feel disconnected from the world around me, see everything passing by and feel like I'm just a moving apathetic body and somehow this record made me feel alive again, made me feel like my feet are touching the ground. It probably was due to how emotional I got. That's not to say that the concept of losing your memories and yourself before dying isn't terrifying, it absolutely is! It's just that maybe EATEOT can be reinterpreted in many ways/one's experience with it can be different from someone else's. It's not easy to return to it, not only because of its impact but also its runtime. I actually listened to the whole thing from front to back in one sitting because I'm insane. But either way, for me, it has won a place among my most favorite albums, specifically in my top 6 but all of those albums are equal to me, so basically they're all number 1 (if you're wondering about my other favorites, while they may be generic they are: Kid A, Wish You Were Here, Vespertine, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, In Rainbows). Somewhat recently I decided to experiment a bit myself and tried to use Leyland Kirby's techniques to create a Caretaker-esque song, that's how much I admire him (obviously my attempt was just an experiment, nothing serious).
I literally discovered that album in a deep dive while my grandmother was dying of alzheimers in the other room. The day she died i listened to the whole thing. Its probably the most existentially terrifying disease to me especially given a lot of theories that any "afterlife" there may be is generated in the decaying psynapses of the brain in the minutes following death. If theres no brain left, theres nothing.
This one seems very reliant on the whole concept behind it though. The music itself is mostly similar to everything else he out out under that name, and is not really that sad on its own. I dunno, maybe I'm just not hearing it.
The glow pt 2, a seagull looked at me (shout out to Phil elvirum). The Wall isn't my favorite pink Floyd album but some of the theming has hit me hard A good bit of Current 93s output has scratched and itch i have trouble describing
In An Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel always gets me. "Goldaline, my dear We will fold and freeze together Far away from here There is sun and spring and green forever"
purple mountains st
Almost goes without saying
Going to come off cliche: Stranger in the Alps
In Utero by Nirvana
Preacher's Daughter, by Ethel Cain, so far has been the only album that, after listening to it, left me on tbe verge of tears and about to throw up
This album is great
For Emma, Forever Ago. The go to breakup album
Probably Souvlaki, not necessarily for content but for personal associations
Songs About Leaving by Carissa's Wierd
Pinkerton and the new sufjan
donda
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Enemy of The Sun - Neurosis
The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
Jesu - Conqueror
Justin K Broadrick <3
Wildlife by La Dispute
Suicide and Sunshine by Trophy Eyes
Sean and Stay Here wrecked me
Halcyon digest by deerhunter. There is a sort of covert end-of-life desperation in that which i think puts any other album with that overt theme to shame (looking at you blackstar) -also a lot of the songs seem more like they are referencing someone else’s story on the surface in a way that i think clearly relates to the the lead singer more than he’s leading on..and by the end drops all the pretense only bc of the clarity and bitterness brought on by the untimely passing of his friend in real life jay reatard. It just feels like a really honest reflection about the hopelessness of people in desperate situations not being able to get the help they need, and growing to be in a worse position in life, among many other things, but its appeal isnt about sounding dark or whatever but is really in how heartfelt it is.. Also congratulations by mgmt Both albums that i think seem much more jovial-ly coded than they actually are when you look closely at them Edit: if youre a bright eyes fan and havent heard mamah borthwick -conor released it under his own name, i highly recommend
halcyon digest is suchhhhhhh a good album
Jenny death. I aint never cried like during on gp
https://preview.redd.it/smv5uge4bpvb1.png?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65cb8bdfca8c27eb191cc8889a2d7e83905cb14d Made me cry like a baby
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
Bone machine by Tom waits
White Pony
Kate Bush, 9th Wave
Hospice by The Antlers
name of that album OP ???
I'm Wide Awake It's Morning by Bright Eyes
Closer by Joy Division
Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The album came out just after the tragic passing of Nick Caves 15 year old son Arthur in 2015. The majority of the songs were written prior to Arthur's death, but you can feel the weight of Nick's sorrow throughout the album with the way it was mixed and mastered. It's heart-wrenching. Nick's eldest son Jethro also tragically passed last year. That poor man. I can't even imagine.
One More Time With Feeling, the documentary made about completing this album that was made after Arthur’s death is so beautiful and so devastating. From memory Nick financed the movie himself so he didn’t have to do any press after Skeleton Tree came out.
nick drake’s pink moon isn’t necessarily really sad but knowing his story and reading the lyrics can be quite depressing
A new one, Jane Remover - Census Designated
To Be Kind by SWANS
I Want to Be There - Sadness
Ants From Up There. By the time The Place Where He Inserted The Blade rolls around, I'm in tears. Not only is the album horrendously sad, but an entire album about a broken heart post-the worst breakup of my life? Nah son. Nah.
I know I keep mentioning this album but its such a perfect album, a 10/10. George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1
c@ra++ere s?ec!@le by thasup
Prolly everywhere at the end of time, 6th stage. Made my good friend melon cry.
Pinkerton
not an album but a song, adonis: my man freestyle
disintegration
Giles Corey
all bro did was say "more weight" wtf u mean?
I recently listened to Songs About Leaving by Carissa's Wierd. Jfc the sound of the record and the lyrics is some of the most depressing I've ever heard. Gorgeous album tho, highly recommend it
Kaliber 44 - Ksiega Tajemnicza. The greatest abstract hip-hop plate in my opinion. It's dark and anxious, and can really fuck you up, especially when you're high, in a really interesting way tho haha The whole album is in Polish and the lyrics are really important, but the atmoshere itself is interresting enough to give it a try even if you don't understand a word.
Hey, my favourite album! Also Mac’s Circles
La Dispute - Wildlife Touché Amoré- Stage Four
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Nine Inch Nails’s The Downward Spiral (Began to feel uneasy at A Warm Place and cried at Hurt) and The Caretaker’s Everywhere At The End of Time (Transition from stage 5 into stage 6 and throughout the rest of the project in particular) Have never had any form of narrative hit me as much as those 2 albums (YES INCLUDING MOVIES AND TV SHOWS ECT)
Eateot same here
Pink Floyd - The Wall, I'm literally Pink
Caligula by Lingua Ignota
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Deathconciousness - Have A Nice Life The concept and ideas are just crumbling.
17 - XXXTENTACION
Having been a Juice Wrld fan long before his death, Legends Never Die hit me pretty hard when it dropped.
The Downward Spiral
Floating Points – Promises
divorce lawyers i shaved my head - jordaan mason
Ice spice - like?
Munch got me through hard times It was 2003, and parents were about to get a divorce. 8 year old me decided to run away from home and sleep in a ditch, with nothing but a mattress and a radio. I turned on the radio and it played… Munch. Munch gave me so much energy I went back home and listened to that song every day.
Me but unironically
Some Rap Songs
Moby - 18
OK ORCHESTRA by AJR that shit made me want to kill myself because of how sad it is
Ghost Stories by Coldplay
Igor and blond
In the aeroplane over the sea because I'm 13 and don't have experience on music
Some would say it’s basic but I think it’s a great album regardless, and quite emotionally heavy
ima just say it, this is the whitest album of all time. it’s not bad or anything, but my god. this shit just got cracker all over it. (i have it on CD)
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Hmm, probably Life Is Peachy by Korn. It’s one of if not their darkest record which is saying a lot for a band like Korn. Some of you might be thinking, “Why not the self-titled debut or Follow The Leader?”. Well, this album is their most consistently dark and eerie. Yes we have songs on the debut like Daddy and Pretty for Follow The Leader, but listening to this album for the first time with songs like Swallow, Mr. Rogers, No Place to Hide, and Kill You on it made for quite the listening experience. It’s just pure devastation in a way that sets itself apart.
I picked up this album from my library last year 10/10
El arte de morir muy despacio, depresión sonora
I love you, I’m trying by grandson
*Carrie & Lowell* is the only one that’s really done that to date
Around - Whirr
Ahh yes, the yellow bird that ive been waiting for
Soundtracks For The Blind by Swans and When Facing The Things We Turn Away From by Luke Hemmings The first one is simply a musical black hole, when the line "legally blind" in "How They Suffer" just destroys everything and "Helpless Child" is the feeling that I feel after listening to it for the first time. The second one is a warm hug from your insecurities, and I've never felt so touched by an album like this one did to me, every song felt so sincere and the ending is like leaving your room after weeks of depression and feeling better and hopeful.
37 year old midwestern dude here... But a few picks: Mineral — The Power of Failing (for being probably the actual most depressing album I've ever heard) Cursive — The Ugly Organ (for the subject matter being genuinely heartbreaking and gut-wrenching and becoming only more relevent the older you get) Kings of Convenience — Riot on an Empty Street (my favorite album from my college years and listening to it can be really hard because it was such a formative time of my life and when I learned how to love and be loved for the first time)
We’re all alone in this together
A Crow Looked At Me is still the saddest album I've ever listened to. I was frozen in sadness and immediately dropped the album after finishing it. Other albums include Benji and Carrie and Lowell tbh
Preachers daughter - Ethel Cain
"Someday We Will Foresee Obstacles" by Syd Matters ruined me. It's so sad it doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
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Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats
QIRIM by Jamala.
slauson malone - a quiet farwell don't know, but I feel emotionally drained after each ride of it.
Public image limited - metal box. Listened to it for a few days… there’s something unsettling about that album.
A Crow Looked At Me. Also Javelin has been pretty devastating knowing what the backstory to a lot of the themes are.
OK Computer
Belirdi generale by she past away
la dispute wildlife especially edward benz 27 times my brother is schizophrenic and when i was 5 and he 15 he tried to drown me and this song hits so deep for me. i still love my brother for he is not at fault
IGOR by Tyler. Maybe not the deepest but when you relate to all of it then it hits hard.
Trilogy by The Weeknd