[Lumient]

Also maybe Nick Drake, especially Five Leaves Left. Not necessarily depressing, just a little melancholic.

 

[AndrewB]

Nick Cave and the Badseeds dark and depressing

 

[BlackSol]

Abyssic Hate - Suicidal Emotions

Any of the three albums in Tearstained's "suicide trilogy"

 

[FalconP]

Two painfully depressive albums are Fashionably Late by Linda Thompson (the raspy voice, the lyrics of inescapable fate, of imagined salvations and real losses -- they coalesce into a crystal that radiates negative energy), and A Secret Live by Marianne Faithful (where she is helped by Angelo Badalamenti, the Baron of Darkness in film music)

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Darkwood is an excellent mood album, and so is River by Darling and Bjornstad.

 

[nickknutson]

Counting Crows - August and Everything After

 

[Jubei]

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Originally Posted by Gatticus /img/forum/go_quote.gif Joy Division - Closer The Cure - Pornography

Second the above. Very depressing stuff indeed.

 

[Comfy]

Here's another one that dwells in very dark parts of the mind:

Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains

 

[robm321]

Beck - Sea Change

 

[nin3th]

The most awesome and most depressing yet redeeming:

Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral

 

[Relayer71]

Alice In Chain's Dirt.

One of the darkest most depressing albums I own (everything else would be more melancholy than really depressing).

 

[scompton]

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Because it's so bad

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Originally Posted by FalconP /img/forum/go_quote.gif Two painfully depressive albums are Fashionably Late by Linda Thompson (the raspy voice, the lyrics of inescapable fate, of imagined salvations and real losses -- they coalesce into a crystal that radiates negative energy), and A Secret Live by Marianne Faithful (where she is helped by Angelo Badalamenti, the Baron of Darkness in film music)

Years ago, a friend had a Richard and Linda Thompson album that they put out while their marriage was falling apart. It sounded great, but full of bitter, depressing songs. Can't remember the name of the album.

 

[eduj]

Swans-Children Of God

 

[c0mfortably_numb]

Nick Drake - Pink moon

Beck - Sea Change

Elliot Smith - Figure 8

Embrace - Out of Nothing

 

[terriblepaulz]

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pretty much the entire Joy Division oeuvre.

While I know "Love Reign O'er Me" is supposed to be the redemptive moment at the end of the rock opera, The Who's Quadrophenia always leaves me with a bleak misanthropic feeling. Same with Tommy. Methinks Mr. Townshend has some demons.

 

[joe]

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x2, but it can also be a positive album for me, depending on the day.

I'd like to also add Hayden - Everything I long for. There's a lot of depressing imagery in that disc.