Vibracobra wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:57 pm Pornography has to be. Seventeen seconds and Faith almost sound to me like the Beach boys in comparison.

With Pornography I'm just like let a motherfucker breathe for fuck's sake. With Seventeen Seconds and Faith I can stew in it.

1914! by Campingsex has an oppressive pornography-esque atmosphere but not as suffocating. "Und Sie Alle" is my cemetery gate blues.

rsmurphy wrote:

Vibracobra wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:57 pm Pornography has to be. Seventeen seconds and Faith almost sound to me like the Beach boys in comparison.

With Pornography I'm just like let a motherfucker breathe for fuck's sake. With Seventeen Seconds and Faith I can stew in it.

1914! by Campingsex has an oppressive pornography-esque atmosphere but not as suffocating. "Und Sie Alle" is my cemetery gate blues.

rsmurphy wrote:

Vibracobra wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:57 pm Pornography has to be. Seventeen seconds and Faith almost sound to me like the Beach boys in comparison.

With Pornography I'm just like let a motherfucker breathe for fuck's sake. With Seventeen Seconds and Faith I can stew in it.

1914! by Campingsex has an oppressive pornography-esque atmosphere but not as suffocating. "Und Sie Alle" is my cemetery gate blues.

It's also much noisier, infinitely loonier, and way more energetic than that Cure album. Thus making it way more my speed.

While I dig a lot of heavy downer albums—Swans' Cop, Mana Mana's Totuus Palaa, Kousokuya's 1st, and No Trend's Too Many Humans or (especially) A Dozen Dead Roses come to mind—they don't quite seem debilitated enough to qualify as "depressing," you know? Something about them seems more powerful and bleak than just glum. Eye of the beholder, I guess.

I don't actually find Pornography to be depressing as a listen. It has this majestic beauty that's oddly uplifting. Hell, I don't find most "depressing" music to actually be so.

jfv wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:21 am
I'd say that the most depressing album I know and own from front to back is Joy Division's Closer, with "Isolation" being the only song on that album that is remotely uplifting.

I thought of this one too.

Orthodox Easter wrote:It's also much noisier, infinitely loonier, and way more energetic than that Cure album. Thus making it way more my speed.

Agreed on all fronts. I love Pornography. J'adore Pornographie. Thing is a bit of a slog to get through tho, which is its blackened charm.

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I find the music of Diamanda Galás more harrowing than depressive, but covers albums like The Singer, All the Way, and the spirit of her overall musicianship is bleak.

losthighway wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:01 pm

jfv wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:21 am
I'd say that the most depressing album I know and own from front to back is Joy Division's Closer, with "Isolation" being the only song on that album that is remotely uplifting.

I thought of this one too.

Yeah, kind of an obvious one. Unknown Pleasures wouldn’t make this list for me (too much upbeat stuff remaining from Warsaw), but New Order’s first album Movement is almost as depressing as Closer.

Man, it's like some of you just got in the game the other day.





That's before you even account for that Dallas won't be here to make another album that where the focus is elsewhere.

It's literally a record I can hardly even stand to listen to.

zircona1 wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:13 am A Crow Looked At Me. I haven't heard the whole album, but I listened to the first couple of songs and, wow, it was depressing.

Was going to post this. I’ll put it on periodically when I need a good cry.

"The End Is Near" by The New Year if only just for the song "18"

jfv wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:45 pm

losthighway wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:01 pm

jfv wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:21 am
I'd say that the most depressing album I know and own from front to back is Joy Division's Closer, with "Isolation" being the only song on that album that is remotely uplifting.

I thought of this one too.

Yeah, kind of an obvious one. Unknown Pleasures wouldn’t make this list for me (too much upbeat stuff remaining from Warsaw), but New Order’s first album Movement is almost as depressing as Closer.

Closer is one of my favorite records, definitely depressing but majesty to it as well.

I like the Cure, but I don't like Pornography. It's like a cartoon version of Closer to me.

Pink Moon might be the "winner" for me.