Kevin's Watch

To me depressing music is music with no soul, like commersial kind of crap, which don't mean that all commersial music is bad, absolutely not. And you can sing about death and the spirit of the music can lift you...but I think I know what you mean, music with a sad content or something...

Joy Division has made a few really "depressing " songs. For instance The Eternal and In a Lonely Place(recorded by New Order) with lyrics like "cord stretches tight and it breaks, how I wish you were here with me now". I just love JD, it's on my CD all the time now...they made quite an impact on me in the early 80's...Check them out!

And the Eighties, the only music I listen too from that decade is Joy Division and New Order, Echo&The Bunnymen, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music and maybe some more(for the moment), otherwise it's 60's, 70's, and 90's, the 80's are gone from my collection...

Depressing songs...Leonard Cohen always sound depressing(love it), Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead (their new album is great, and Paranoid Android must be one of the saddest songs ever recorded... Yeah I'd say that Radiohead is the most depressing band in the world, but I love them)...

kasten

Words cannot express how right you are kastenessen.

Well they probably could actually... I'm just trying to emphasize how right your reply is by saying that I cannot.



Forget this, I want a pie.

LOL Darth.

I would like to say I agree with every word you said, kasten, but I can't. I don't know a single one of those groups you have mentioned. Maybe because my musical mind deleted the 80s?

Aside from that, I agree with every word you said.

<<To me, Black was the high point of Pearl Jam's career. <Putting on the CD> icon_smile.gif>> BLASPHEMY!! PEARL JAM'S CAREER HAS BEEN ALL UPHILL!!

Joy wrote:LOL Darth.

Fist and Faith wrote:Seasons in the Sun, by Terry Jacks, has got to be the #1 depressing song!

Forgot this one! It is depressing...I have the single...

Joy wrote:

I don't know a single one of those groups you have mentioned. Maybe because my musical mind deleted the 80's?

My 80's is also deleted...aside from those groups!

Joy Division were one of the most influental new bands to occur in the late seventies. They came out of the punkscene in Manchester and developing fast, leaving punk behind, being part of the new wave, moving towards introspection and creating a new kind of music (some say depressing). At their peak and their coming US tour their singer, Ian Curtis killed himself, creating a myth that still has the power to catch people. Their second album(Closer) and new single(Love Will Tear Us Apart) were posthumously published(?) with covers looking like tombstones, didn't diminish their impact...New Order were formed by the other members of the band a year after and were pretty successful too....

Seen Donnie Darko? The song in the beginning of the movie is The Killing Moon. That is Echo&The Bunnymen at their peak!

kasten

kastenessen wrote:Joy Division were one of the most influental new bands to occur in the late seventies. They came out of the punkscene in Manchester and developing fast, leaving punk behind, being part of the new wave, moving towards introspection and creating a new kind of music (some say depressing).

I will have to hear this group.

Now I come to think of it, there were some pioneers in the late '80s, doing their thing despite disco and bubblegum. Kate Bush put out Hounds of Love in '85. Left me speechless for half an hour, the first time I heard that CD. A whole musical world opened up for me with that album.

Her Under Ice belongs on this thread. It's about a skater swept away to drown. Her voice claws the underside of the ice with its tonal quality.