Make a list of some songs that you listen to when you're in the mood for depressing / dark / sad songs that will draw an emotion out of you like you want to be sick, or something was taken from you.

 

 

I hope that makes sense...

 

 

 

e.g. Every time I hear "Gone" by M83...

 

 

I think of the hardest times in my current relationship, always when I thought she was going to leave... The title is where I make the assumption, but the sound itself plays on me. There's one point in the song when it sounds like a scream is being drawn from someone. Slowly it rises in amplitude and resonance. At the climax, this sound, a scream overpowers all the others. I hear myself screaming at the pain of watching her walk away, helpless, lost in Las Vegas for the first time. That was a messed up time. She was almost gone. And after that, the simple notes played on a keyboard resemble the simple, lost feeling of being alone.

Well, whatever Alice in Chains song I listen to it gets me depressed, but "Down in a Hole" is the darkest one to me. "Creep" of Stone Temple Pilots puts me down too and "Everyday is exactly the same" of Nine Inch Nails makes me wanna stay stuck in my bed!

 

Hah, I listened to these songs during my whole adolescence and now I'm avoiding them cuz they REALLY get me down and make me feel like cr*p.

I am a HUGE fan of dark music. Its basically mood music, and I love it. The most obvious choices are music from The Cure, The Smiths/Morrissey, and Depeche Mode. The post above me had some good suggestions. Alice in Chains (Down in a Hole is a great choice), NIN, Tool, and some Stone Temple Pilots fit the bill. Sometimes artists that you don't associate with dark music come out with some pretty heavy stuff. I'll have to look through my library and come up with a list.

dark music.. mainly PINK FLOYD did a very good dark vibes.. example of their songs

 

- sourceful of secrets

- come in number 51, your time is up

- careful with that axe, eugene

- one of these days

- set of controls for the heart of the sun

- echoes

 

Echo and the Bunnymen did a good dark album on Crocodiles.

Radiohead on These are my twisted words & paranoid android..

not to forget The Raveonettes, the got the dark vibes in certain songs on each albums.

 

there are a lot to mention..

The Horrors

The xx

The National

Interpol

 

most post punk bands tend to be rather "dark"

Gloomy Sunday in every different cover. You should try Bjork's or Billie Holiday's.

Coldplay (a few notables, but you know them I am sure!)

Foo Fighters - Stranger Things Have Happened // & assorted others

U2 - Unforgettable Fire

Kansas - Dust in the Wind

Andrew Bird - Dark Matter

Moody Blues - Gypsy

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Something's Always Wrong

Jethro Tull - Farm on the Freeway

Sting - If I Ever Loose My Faith in You

Deep Purple - Fire in The Sky

Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning

Enya (most are positive emotional, but some are deep, moody songs - if you like Celtic music)

 

I'm not sure what qualifies as "dark" songs - it depends if you want to feel apocalyptic, justifiable rage at the machine, frustration about relationships, a sense of personal loss, or some ancient mood of deep and mysterious nature...

yep Jethro Tull and Bjork are quite dark..

 

I reckon Portishead also.. must not forget Genesis.

 

I think each band got their dark vibes. when i listen to Travis - The Man Who, i could feel the dark side of the album at the beginning on As You Are...

 

now im listen to Exit music - Radiohead. ha... this is dark!!!

Enya (most are positive emotional, but some are deep, moody songs - if you like Celtic music)

 

Teehee...

 

*points to my avatar*

(somehow I want a smiley of sipping a cup of tea with its pinky sticking out... nvm, a drank alcohol last night and espresso this morning, and I haven't slept at all)

You could throw Joy Division and AFI into the mix.

how bout the jonas brothers???? hahahaha!!!

Coldplay- The Scientist

 

this one is a given. Its like the Fix You of AROBTH, except... Fix You usually makes me STOP crying, its like a band aid, theres hope and its beautiful. But the Scientist..... oh man.... theres no promise of hope, no comfort at the end... just sad from beginning to end.

 

 

 

Possibility - Lykke Li

THIS DAMN SONG...... really sad, its whats playing over and over when Im in a stupor.

 

Radiohead- most of their songs. They are far more depressing than Coldplay in my opinion.

Notable mention to How to Disappear Completely, No Surprises and Fake Plastic Trees.

 

Concrete Walls - Fever Ray

I know this song is suposed to be about her baby keeping her up at night but when I place the lyrics in context with my own life its about something terrible and completely different.

 

The Funeral - Band of Horses

Its called The Funeral..... nuff said.

 

Never Too Late - Three Days Grace

A song about fighting off the temptations of suicide. ....yah.

 

Unintended - Muse

Sad as hell.

 

FIN.

I agree with miloboy7, definitely Portishead!

I've Seen It All - Bjork and Thom Yorke

 

It's actually about approaching blindness but it has suicidal subtext.

Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel

I nearly only listen to dark/melancholic music, so it's quite hard to listen to even darker music. (FYI: listening to Joy Division makes me happy)

 

Um, so I guess Portishead, Tom Waits, The Cure, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sigur Ros's untitled album and Nick Cave can be considered dark? And Johnny Cash' last two albums are almost disturbing because you can hear he's dying. IDK. I generally don't like happy music.

 

The most depressing album I've ever heard is Hospice by The Antlers. Sometimes that album is a bit too dark/depressing for me. Same goes for Exit Music and Let Down by Radiohead.

 

I've Seen It All - Bjork and Thom Yorke

 

It's actually about approaching blindness but it has suicidal subtext.

 

I love that song! :nice:

Pretty much all of Pink Floyd's The Final Cut

 

also Exit Music (For a Film), the ending of Paranoid Android, Myxomatosis by Radiohead

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwgT-7z7-_8]YouTube - Girl Anachronism (The Dresden Dolls) ORIGINAL version[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9GtVdFAsW8]YouTube - Mona Mur - My Man[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMkEt8WjLxI]YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROnXv7Z7v28]YouTube - Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love '92[/ame]

 

Darkest:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6usrphVK6A]YouTube - The Birthday Party- Ho-Ho[/ame]

The Holy Bible and parts of Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers

The Devil Is In The Details - Boards Of Canada (maybe more just scary than actually dark!)

Yeah Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers is a damn dark album.

 

Sigur Ros too....

 

I was imagined David Bowie - Space Oddity (Space rock + Psychedelic = Dark)

Midlake has a lot depressions in their songs because they are mainly influenced by Jethro Tull and Radiohead.

I don't know if it's considered dark but i can hardly listen to The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve without feeling really depressed.