Inspired by my thread in P:M&M, which was insired by the funk I'm in today...

What are your favorite songs/artists to listen to when you're feeling blue? What drags you down deeper? What brings you back up?

For me, I've spent the day listening to the Cure and I'll be pulling out Otis Redding and probably the Smiths later.



But tomorrow will be a new day...

Pictures Of You-Cure
old rnb
Stay With Me-The Rose soundtrack
Beautiful Girls soundtrack
Afghan Whigs

One of THE most depressing albums ever...Promise by Sade.

rdhull said:

Every winter once there's snow on the ground one of my friends and I watch this movie together. I've got to remember to do that soon. Never picked up the soundtrack, but that sounds like a damn fine idea today.

What's the matter Carrie? What's got you down?

TRON said:

Just stupid boy trouble. I'll get over it in a day or two...

CarrieMpls said:

You've seen it too? This is my movie! Its so..so...seventies feeling. The director wanted that seventies Deer Hunter feel and he got it!R.I.P Ted Demme.The soundtrack is killin'! A now defunct group called Satchel has a song called Suffering ( in th e film as well) that is in the upper echealon of hurting songs by ANYONE. Plus it has the Afghan Whigs and Neil Diamond heh. Get this asap!

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As much as I love Vespertine it came out the day after my dad died,sometimes it makes me cry

Much love Pochacco

rdhull said:

You can never go wrong with Neil Diamond.

Is Beth included?

I'll have to go look for it today. Get me out of the house.

Yes, I love the stark-winter-70's-Deer Hunter thing. Very well done. And Natalie Portman is just adorable. Although the film takes place in New York it was filmed in Minnesota, and I'm always a sucker for hometown things.

Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach- Painted from Memory

Sting- Mercury Falling or The Soul Cages

Elton John- Blue Moves

and

Bjork- Vespertine

as always, I put in Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval to explore the depths of darkness

trouble is, that's only 4 records altogether! Can anyone recommend anything similar?

Donny Hathaway is the most depressing artist that I have heard. He committed suicide by jumping out of a window back in the early 80's. You can hear the pain that he was experiencing in his music. Donny Hathaway is Soul Music.

OOh! Just remembered. Portishead.

donnyenglish said:

Seriously?


Yes, but there are discrepancies about that by those who knew him. You never know what to believe.

CarrieMpls said:

Cool..Beth is included too btw. They shoud have a lot of used copies ..they did where I purchased mine.

rdhull said:

Beautiful Girls is one of my fave movies

Jeff Buckley "Grace"

Has anyone ever heard of the band Low?

Also John Coltrane does it for me.

JAMIESTARR said:

Bjork's Vespertine...a masterpiece...starkly beautiful and as emotionally exposed as any great Ingmar Bergman film.

Faith and Courage by Sinead...another very special album for me...spiritually uplifiting,liberating and tender.

Universal Mother by Sinead..."John,I love you i'm ever so fond of you..."

Tim Buckley...Happy/Sad...if your a Jeff Buckley fan,you owe it to yourself to discover his father's underrated body of work.

Kate Bush...The Hounds Of Love...last but certainly not least,I hold this album very close to my heart.It got me through quite a lot...

Sting--the lyrics to 'Fragile', especially: "perhaps this final act was meant to clinch a lifetime's argument that nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could. For all us born beneath an angry star lest we forget how fragile we are"

Sinead O'Connor--Thank You

David Gray--Say Hello Wave Goodbye

Elton John--Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Dido--All You Want

Anyone should listen to anything fro Islandic band Sigur Ros, perfect soundtrack to a depressing mood. Beautiful music and lyrics in a mix of Islandic- and the fantasy-language called Hopelandic!

Give it a try!

Cow Boy Junkies "Sweet Jane" ( sad & beautiful), from their first album "The Trinity Session"
This Mortal Coil "Song to the siren" ( beautiful too) , well all the album "It'll end in tears"
the underrated Kristin Hersh album "Hips and Makers" and sp the song "Your Ghost", duet with Michael Stipe
+ Chris Isaak albums: Heart Shaped World and Forever Blue
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I love depressing music. For example:

Red house painters - Katy Song

"quiet in the corner i've been falling through, without you what does my life amount to?"

Hank Williams -Alone and Forsaken

"alone and forsaken by fate and by man, oh god if you hear me please hold to my hand, oh please understand"

The Smiths - How soon is now

"there's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you. so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die"

Leadbelly - Goodnight Irene

"If Irene turns her back on me, I'm gonna take morphine and die"


and also:
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Lorraine Ellison - Stay with me
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I see a darkness

Here's a little prayer hoping we don't get sad and depressed. But if it happens anyway here are my picks.

Rainy Days And Mondays - The Carpenters
In The Darkest Place - Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello
When The Angels Fall - Sting
I Am I Said - Neil Diamond
Lonely - Janet Jackson
We Belong Together - Rickie Lee Jones
God Give Me Strength -Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello
Those Were The Days Of Our Lives - Queen
Goodbye To Love -The Carpenters
Why Should I Cry For You - Sting
Darkness - The Police
Living It Up - Rickie Lee Jones
Thank God It's Christmas - Queen
China - Tori Amos
I Need To Be In Love - The Carpenters
Believed You Were Lucky - Til Tuesday
Within The Sound Of My Voice - Linda Ronstadt
J is For Jules - Til Tuesday

Girl Bros has a lot of beautiful stuff on it also.

Staring At The Sun - Wendy And Lisa
Mother Of Pearl - Wendy And Lisa
Stay - Wendy And Lisa

Don't Cry - Seal

It's kind of sad listening to Nirvana Unplugged

The Dirt CD by Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

Blue By Joni Mitchell

Solo By Prince

Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid - Hall And Oates

Bad - U2

The "Older" CD By George Michael has some beautiful Stuff on it also.

***"Games People Play (They Just Can't Stop It)" The Spinners (1975)---This song always depresses me.The lyrics,the somber arrangement and the female vocal ("Nowhere to go,it's hopeless so,I guess I'll leave it alone") just makes me feel so blue.

***"Bluer Than Blue" Michael Johnson (1978)---My mother had this 45 when I was a kid,and it's really a sad,sad song with depressing lyrics ("Im Bluer than blue,sadder than sad,you're the only life this empty room has ever had...life without you is gonna be Bluer Than Blue").

***"They Long To Be (Close To You)" The Carpenters (1970?)---Lyrically,this is not a sad song at all.But for some reason,the arrangement sounds so sad to me.Hey! I should start a Carpenters thread...lol...

DavidEye said:

oh damn...

jnoel said:

cranshaw62 said:

you must have Pirates