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While we're here, you guys got any depressing songs suggestions?
Edit: Thank you for the suggestions. Listening to them all.
"As the Footsteps Die Out Forever" by Catch 22. Genre is ska punk. It's about the loss of a family member.
Not at all what I expected on this thread! What a pull
i was nope on the ska but that rules thanks
Hurt, the cover by Johnny Cash
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Rabbit in Your Headlights by Unkle
Something I Can Never Have, NIN
Literally any 16th century nocturne.
tv on the radio - blind
motion picture soundtrack - radiohead
entire discography of godspeed you black emperor but e.g. dead flag blues
pretty much anything grizzly bear did before 2007 but e.g. he hit me
Ben Howard - Esmerelda, anything from Portishead, Red House Painters, Sofa Surfers
Listened to Glory Box by Portishead. Seems way ahead of it's time for 94. Thanks for the suggestion
I'm not lighting a fuse with this, am I? O_O;
Anyway, Routine by Steven Wilson and Losing It by Rush are two big candidates. Remove all sharp objects from the immediate vicinity before you listen to them.
Actually, forget that. Songs about naval disasters (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, At the Harbor by Renaissance, The Wreck of the Hesperus by Procol Harum) are somber in tone but won't make you feel despondent afterward. They're like rye bread... a little rough and dark, but hearty and filling and ultimately cleansing in the end.
accch! you sound exactly like my dad. reciting every song ever.
Iron & Wine - “The Trapeze Swinger”
IYKYK
mountain goats, up the wolves
I'm going to need to google this to figure out which part if the song name and which part is the band.
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click on search, in firefox you can set it for google or ddg or others i guess
Further - VNV Nation
I would also submit the vocal version of Forsaken to this list.
Anything by Michael Buble.
This is art/prog/jazz rock molded to perfection:
https://youtu.be/hCU_lScCpAM?si=6q-LbBsj1imw008_
Check out this song by them but feel free to listen to their entire albums. Start with Land Animal, Say So, or You Know What They Mean if you like the above song.
The entirety of Let It Come Down by Spiritualized. It's an album all about the apathy, misery, bliss and beauty that accompanies heroin addiction. It's painfully beautiful music.
Speedy Ortiz - No below
The Beths in general for me lately. I like Expert in a Dying Field, Scilence in Golden, and Knees Deep. But their older stuff are great too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZbD_Yk3Ys&pp=ygUcdGhpcmQgZXllIGJsaW5kIHNsb3cgbW90aW9uIA%3D%3D
An Introduction To The Album by The Hotelier
The Myth is Real Let's Eat - Jello Biafra and Nomeansno
Eliot Smith - Either/Or
https://youtu.be/OADhKjNz8mI?si=NYLMFR14Ma0aSaj3
This album, but specifically the second song if you have to pick only one
https://open.spotify.com/album/4zyz5638QQykrPQcmpcrsa?si=PfRXD90GS2SdSLdGER94OQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4zyz5638QQykrPQcmpcrsa
spotify links don't travel far