[DavidMahler]

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Originally Posted by Hipstergarabe /img/forum/go_quote.gif Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (insert rimshot here) Other then that, The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee, or The Antlers - Hospice.

LOL

Nothing is sadder to me than Mahler's 9th symphony, but if we're talking actual albums........

From The Basement On The Hill by Elliott Smith
Closer by Joy Division
Pink Moon by Nick Drake
Unplugged In New York by Nirvana

anyone notice a trend amongst those albums? First one to name it gets my love for a day

 

[TheMarchingMule]

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Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif LOL Nothing is sadder to me than Mahler's 9th symphony, but if we're talking actual albums........ From The Basement On The Hill by Elliott Smith Closer by Joy Division Pink Moon by Nick Drake Unplugged In New York by Nirvana anyone notice a trend amongst those albums? First one to name it gets my love for a day

I'm going to to take a leap of faith here, since I aready know the fate of two of those bands/band members.

Suicide?

 

[DavidMahler]

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Originally Posted by TheMarchingMule /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm going to to take a leap of faith here, since I aready know the fate of two of those bands/band members. Suicide?

you're about three quarters of the way there.

 

[reorx]

Suicide AND the last albums they recorded before they died? I know Basment was released posthumously, while Kurt, Nick and Ian lived to see Unplugged, Pink Moon and Closer released.

oh, and i agree with all of them, and ill add Jeff Buckley - Grace to the mix

 

[jax]

I think reorx is the recipient of David's love for a day!

Here's a few more melancholic selections:

Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
Alexi Murdoch - Towards the Sun
Portishead - Dummy
William Fitzsimmons - The Sparrow and the Crow

And finally, not to take from the loving that reorx is rightfully due, here's another one for the list David provided:

Vic Chestnut - Skitter on Takeoff

 

[Laokid18]

Joy Division -Closer
Blonde Redhead - Misery is A Butterfly

 

[Hipstergarabe]

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From The Basement On The Hill by Elliott Smith Closer by Joy Division Pink Moon by Nick Drake Unplugged In New York by Nirvana

Easy, all released posthumously because the singers killed themselves.

And it does my heart good to see so much Joy Division on these lists.

 

[jax]

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Originally Posted by Hipstergarabe /img/forum/go_quote.gif Easy, all released posthumously because the singers killed themselves. And it does my heart good to see so much Joy Division on these lists.

Nope. Pink Moon was released in February 1972, two years before Nick Drake overdosed on antidepressants in November, 1974.

Nirvana: Unplugged, was released in 1984, 10 years before Cobain took his own life in 1994.

 

[Xuster]

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Originally Posted by LingLing1337 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Burial-Untrue can be pretty rough.

Interesting pick...I never really associate dubstep with profound feelings of sadness I guess...lol

Don't really have a whole album pick but my single track pick is "Mr. Lonely" -Akon =D

 

[SimD]

Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild (OST)

Not only because of Christopher McCandless' story but something about Vedder's voice triggers this emotional bomb inside me..

 

[gbacic]

A Society In Which No Tear Is Shed is Inconceivably Mediocre - Yonlu
If you read the story attached to the CD and listen to the lyrics you start to feel so hopeless. The album was written by a 16 year old in Brazil who was suicidal and wrote mostly about his despair. He actually did kill himself and his parents released the album in memory of him.

and (ironically) Smile - Beach Boys
The original recordings and the knowledge of Brian Wilsons inevitable descent into mental illness really make this one of the saddest albums ever.

 

[TheWuss]

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Originally Posted by jax /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nirvana: Unplugged, was released in 1984, 10 years before Cobain took his own life in 1994.

huh????? you need ta check yo fax, duuuude.

 

[DavidMahler]

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Originally Posted by reorx /img/forum/go_quote.gif Suicide AND the last albums they recorded before they died? I know Basment was released posthumously, while Kurt, Nick and Ian lived to see Unplugged, Pink Moon and Closer released. oh, and i agree with all of them, and ill add Jeff Buckley - Grace to the mix

It's true you have received my love for the day (too bad i slept late, but we still have about 3 good hours) .......I love Grace as well, it makes me blue, but Buckley's mentality was not as shattered as the 4 mentioned above. I mean, Closer feels like an epitaph to me.....while Basement feels like last words, the only thing is some other Elliott albums are just as bleak. Unplugged feels like it could have been intended as his last words, and Pink Moon, though released sometime before his death feels like he already knew that was going to be his last.

 

[ecclesand]

Arcane Rain Fell by Draconian. Makes me very melancholy....

 

[catachresis]

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Originally Posted by TheMarchingMule /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm going to to take a leap of faith here, since I aready know the fate of two of those bands/band members. Suicide?

It's either that, or they all got jerked around by Courtney Love.