Most depressing Album

[Scarlets]

Hi. I love depressing music. It doesn't depress me. It is the best kind of music around. The stuff that depresses me is stuff like Drum & Bass, Craig David, R&B, Will Youg Covers etc

I am into Nick Cave, 16 Horsepower, The Black Heart Procession etc

What I am asking is.......What really slow, melancholic, desparate, folorn, miserable music is there out there that I haven't discovered?

[Johnmof]

You haven't mentioned Leonard Cohen. There was a discussion about him here about three weeks ago. If you haven't got any of his stuff, suggest you try Songs of Leonard Cohen and Ten New Songs. There was a recent greatest hits compilation, a double CD called The Essential Leonard Cohen which contained some of the tracks from the two albums mentioned, plus a good few others, including my favourite, Waiting for the Miracle. Happy listening!

[Scarlets]

Yep. I like him. Its that sort of stuff I'm after. Thanks for the reply.

[Pies]

Anything by Simply Red makes me want to slash my wrists try them

[kelbillug]

You would  probably like a band called October Project.  Very melancholic.  You can find them on ebay or amazon.com.  Just a matter if they will post to the UK.  Falling Farther In is the CD I like best.  www.octoberproject.net

[Glossopswift]

Have a bash at Joy Division, even their songwriter found it all too much. I do like their stuff, though, and I�m chipper. Try Japan too, Mrs GS has a few albums of theirs and I find them a bit gloomy.

[Ward-Minter]

as john states Leonard Cohen. There is a song called "Dress Rehearsal Rag" on mis CD "Songs of Love and Hate".

Rumour has it that he played the song live at a 70's gig and somebody then committed suicide. He never played it again.

May I also suggest the latter parts of 2 David Bowie CD's  "Low" and "Heroes". They are the 'experimantal' stuff he did with Brian eno in the 70's. Creepy, moody, sad but quite beautiful.

Further Bowie collaborated with eno again in the brilliant 1995  "1 Outside". Its an album about murder for arts sake being investigated by a wannabe sadist detective. Amazing. "Hearts Filthy Lesson" (song 3) closed the movie 'Se7en'.

More recently try listening to Lou Reed's "The Raven". Get the extended 2cd version. Its a dark tale built around the life of Edgar A Poe. Lots of moody talk with Reed's NYC accent as dark as ever. sublime

[Starman 2112]

Listen to Mindbomb by The The, it says on the credits "To obtain maximum pleasure & effect from this album, please play very loud!, very late, very alone...& with the lights turned down very low!!"

[Chillum]

The Only Ones (album also called The Only Ones). Fantastically depressing. I can't find any online samplers other than on itunes. Especially wrist-slashing are Breaking Down, The Beast, It's the Truth and No Peace for the Wicked. The others ain't too jolly neither. Still some of my favourite tracks 27 years on.

[BergmanMan]

A bit obscure, but I would definitely recommend Arcana and Raison D'Etre. If you want to discover a whole catalogue of extremely dark, depressing music then check out some of the groups on the Cold Meat Industry record label, it does get very dark on there though so be warned!

[DiscoStu]

This may not be as dark and depressing as you are looking for, but Portishead have some fantastic miserable moments. One of my all time fave songs is 'Roads'. Gives me a hairs-on-back-of-neck feeling!

I'm totally with you on the depressing NOT being depressing though. I find Radiohead/Smiths/Portishead/etc... extremely UPlifting. Dark music is so interesting and, being a musician myself, I am astounded at how anyone can write stuff like that. Believe me, I've tried! And I just can't do it!  

[OBonio]

Mercury prize winner Anthony and the Johnsons

[milkybarkid]

elliot smith is depressing