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| Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 8:04 am)
Albums just generally dealing with and convey the feelings of sadness, loneliness, heartbreak, death, depression, that sort of thing.
Three albums come to mind for me that might put you on suicide watch.
Low - I Could Live in Hope
Joy Division - Closer
Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill
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beezylsu 
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 8:36 am to Progress)
My go to depressing album is Bonnie "Prince" Billy-I See A Darkness
I See A Darkness
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trillhog
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 8:38 am to Progress)
avvit brothers, the cd with the brooklyn song on it. 
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ChoupiqueSacalait
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 8:47 am to Progress)
Pink Floyd "The Final Cut"
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Baloo
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 8:52 am to ChoupiqueSacalait)
Elliot Smith's entire catalog.
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Shawn Spencer 
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 8:55 am to Progress)
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Beck - Sea Change
Both are great albums but very depressing
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The Seaward
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 9:58 am to Progress)
Was going to post Down Colorful Hill and I See a Darkness.
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buddhavista
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 10:35 am to Baloo)
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Elliot Smith's entire catalog.
this
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SUB
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 10:39 am to buddhavista)
Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
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Ash Wednesday is the debut studio album by singer songwriter Elvis Perkins, released on February 20, 2007, on XL Recordings. It is a chronologically sequenced album of songs written before (Tracks 1 to 6) and after (Tracks 7 to 11) the death of his mother, who died on 9/11. In a 2009 interview, Perkins states that the album "[has] been made out to be bleaker than it really is, [...] there were moments of hopefulness on Ash Wednesday too."[6]
Regarding the album's title, Perkins states that it:
refers to being left on Wednesday with nothing but ash, because [my mother] died on a Tuesday - being left with ash on September 12. That was also the day my father died, September 12 [1992, of complications from AIDS]. It first occurred to me on Ash Wednesday itself - my consciousness was largely ruled by having lost my mother six months previously.[7]
Eels - Electro Shock Blues
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Electro-Shock Blues was written largely in response to frontman Mark Oliver Everett's (more commonly known as E) sister's suicide and his mother's terminal lung cancer. Many of the songs deal with their decline, his response to loss, and coming to terms with suddenly becoming the only living member of his family (his father having died of a heart attack in 1982; Everett, then 19 years old, was the first to discover his body).
I love Electro-Shock Blues so much. It really is a masterpiece. Check it out if you haven't ever listened.
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TFTC
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 10:59 am to SUB)
Eels "Electro-Shock Blues"
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Electro-Shock Blues was written largely in response to frontman Mark Oliver Everett's (more commonly known as E) sister's suicide and his mother's terminal lung cancer. Many of the songs deal with their decline, his response to loss, and coming to terms with suddenly becoming the only living member of his family (his father having died of a heart attack in 1982; Everett, then 19 years old, was the first to discover his body).
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Kubricked
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 11:43 am to buddhavista)
Elliot Smith and Nick Drake are the suicide watch duo.
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TFTC
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 11:51 am to Kubricked)
Damien Jurado is, too...
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Kubricked
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 12:08 pm to TFTC)
Damien Rice as well.
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iluvdatiger
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 12:33 pm to Progress)
What about Counting Crows- August and everything after? I think there several downer songs on that album
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cigsmcgee 
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 12:55 pm to TFTC)
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Damien Jurado is, too...
brutal stuff. the only record of his i really listen to is "i break chairs," the only one that doesnt make me want to jump off a bridge.
lou reed - berlin
got this on a whim and the record store and while it was good, i think ive only listened to it once.
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The album is a tragic rock opera about a doomed couple, and addresses themes of drug use, depression, physical abuse, and suicide.
"The Kids" tells of Caroline having her children taken from her by the authorities, and features the sounds of children shouting for their mother.
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danman6336 
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 1:25 pm to iluvdatiger)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Joy Division - Closer
Are the three that pop in my head
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Cdawg 
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 2:07 pm to danman6336)
The Cure - Pornography & Disintergration
Joy Division - Closer
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Dire Wolf
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 3:01 pm to Progress)
morphine- The night
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BROffshoreTigerFan 
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 3:03 pm to Progress)
I second nick drake. Some early radiohead songs can really frick me up sometimes.
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Chet Manley 
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| re: Most depressing albums you've heard (Posted on 12/12/12 at 3:08 pm to BROffshoreTigerFan)
The Weeknd
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