Which is the better Depression Music?

[Taverner]

[tXr]

1. Woody Guthrie n/t.

[Taverner]

2. He gives me hope

Hope that it won't always be like this

Hope that we shall overcome

Bauhaus and Joy Division slap me in the face with the ice water that is reality

[Withywindle]

16. Bauhaus really aren't even that depressing.

Their music just isn't that sad. It's really about ... well, 20s art cinema, gothic parties, Symbolist literature, Artaud, vampires, weird sex....I'm an old-school Goth, and I'm a huge fan, but I never heard a really downbeat thing in there. I actually listened to them to lift me up when I felt depressed, and they often did, because their themes were so much lighter than I was feeling, while their music was still appropriately dark-sounding. (As a depressive kid--sunny, upbeat music was an insult to injury. It never helped. It just made me feel more alone. Dark-toned stuff like metal and post-punk made me feel safer because it matched my head.)

Joy Division, now, they really WERE about all the negative turns a human psyche can take. Sadly, taken to a logical conclusion by Ian Curtis, when he was so young and right on the edge of international success. So the "goth mystique" there is really so dodgy--because, yes, if you had to pick the 20 GREATEST ROCK SONGS THAT REALLY CAPTURE DESPAIR, at least 6 of them would have been written by him. But he wrote them so well, and their work is so beautiful, and so *accurate* to what depression really feels like--except that he was still articulate in the very months leading up to his suicide. That in itself is an amazing feat.

[rug]

3. Al Jolson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4yT0KAMyo

[mockmonkey]

4. Talk Talk

I mean I assume it's depressing. If I could ever figure out what the lyrics are.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. other - Red House Painters....or, Low.

[Taverner]

6. Low the band or Low the Bowie album

Both are pretty depressing

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Low the band. they are REALLY depressing (but I love them!)

[Taverner]

8. Both are awesome

But I, and I didn't say this earlier, am talking about the origins of Depression Rock

I shoulda been more clear

[Brickbat]

9. Holla for my homeboys!

[taterguy]

10. The Ramones

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. I think your record is scratched. n/t

[Odin2005]

12. Big Band, DUH!!!

Oh wait, you meant the mental disorder, not the time period! :dunce:

[slay]

13. The Smiths

easily.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owyNxZsz1hE

[fizzgig]

14. i just put on disintegration

[EastTennesseeDem]

15. Other: Interpol

Which, admittedly, owes A LOT to Joy Division.

[freshwest]

17. Well, this video and music might be depressing to some, but not me...

The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0&ob=av2e

The world is a vampire, sent to drain
secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
and what do I get, for my pain
betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
even though I know-I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

now I'm naked, nothing but an animal
but can you fake it, for just one more show
and what do you want, I want change
and what have you got
when you feel the same
even though I know-I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

tell me I'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
jesus was an only son yeah
tell me I'm the chosen one
jesus was an only son for you

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

tell me I'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
jesus was an only son for you

and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved

[Mendocino]

18. Tonights the Night

People let me tell you

It sent a chill up and down my spine

When I picked up the telephone

And learned that he died

Down on the mainline


Neil Young

[distantearlywarning]

19. The Smiths.

[hifiguy]

20. Joy Division's "Closer" is the grimmest recording I have

ever heard. Hearing that Ian Curtis committed suicide shortly after finishing that record didn't surprise me in the least. The lyrics practically read like a suicide note. "Decades" and "The Eternal" are shockingly brilliant but utterly doom-laden. It's also a very beautiful record.

And I own around 6,000 LPs and CDs.

[EastTennesseeDem]

21. "The Eternal"

The most terrifying aspect of Ian Curtis' death is "The Eternal." It sounds like it was sung from beyond the grave. Amazing song, amazing album, but it gives me the chills.

[Tom Ripley]

22. Berlin by youknowwho

[zanana1]

23. Leonard Cohen. Every time. nt

[cemaphonic]

24. John Hardy Was a Desparate Little Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p20HiszkKIo

yeah, yeah, different Depression.