superdupersang 4,238 Posted March 20, 2007 sometimes you just wanna wallow in doom, gloom, and general sonic saddness. all you need is a slighlty middle aged white man strumming out his soul on a guitar so wadaya listen to? anything by songs:ohio, but especailly soul. smashing pumpkins the meloncholy something or other david grey ( i know its sad cliched middle england shit but whatever) the spanish mexican guy on the sony bravia advert with the balls 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
artificialsky 208,774 Posted March 20, 2007 Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues Bright Eyes - It's cool, we can still be friends Cursive - The Radiator Hums Christian Death - Romeo's Distress The Pixies - Where is my Mind? Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
superdupersang 4,238 Posted March 20, 2007 the fight club OST inroduced me to the delights of the suicide folk that is the Pixes. also fast car by tracy chapman. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RAISED BY WOLVES 33,327 Posted March 20, 2007 Leonard Cohen- Famous Blue Raincoat 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cultpop 0217 22,448 Posted March 20, 2007 the shins first album. "forever blue" chris isaak. the whole album is about heartache. alot of alkaline trio stuff. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denimdestroyedmylife 1,666,991 Posted March 20, 2007 leonard cohen's first two records jim o'rourke: halfway to a threeway catpower covers record miles davis: in a silent way; kind of blue 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lil brown brother 282,672 Posted March 20, 2007 sigur ros..... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sybaritical 684,396 Posted March 20, 2007 the spanish mexican guy on the sony bravia advert with the balls That's Jose Gonzalez and he's Swedish. NIck Drake does it for me - especially tracks like "Things behind the sun" on the Pink moon LP. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denimdestroyedmylife 1,666,991 Posted March 20, 2007 ^ oh good call on nick drake 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cheapmuthafukr 2,355,888 Posted March 20, 2007 nina simone: blackbird, strange fruit(i like it better than billie holidays version) jets to brazil: sea anemone rolling stones: paint it black 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mass 1,358,639 Posted March 20, 2007 all about nick drake's cover of milk and honey, although the original by jackson c frank is way better! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cultpop 0217 22,448 Posted March 20, 2007 miles davis: in a silent way; kind of blue miles always makes me kinda sad. sigur ros..... yep NIck Drake does it for me - especially tracks like "Things behind the sun" on the Pink moon LP. uh huh nina simone: blackbird, strange fruit(i like it better than billie holidays version)rolling stones: paint it black i look into my heart and see its painted black. strange fruit is downright horrifying actually. and as far as female jazz vocalists sarah vaughn is good for a downer. alot of smiths, radiohead, and travis too. im depressed right now. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FootlooseSF 56 Posted March 20, 2007 Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denimdestroyedmylife 1,666,991 Posted March 20, 2007 bonnie billy----master & everyone 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sybaritical 684,396 Posted March 20, 2007 ^ ahha! what about Papa M ? David Pajo crooning " It was something like a wall came between us/ that stopped you going down on my penis" has just gotta to be up there. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denimdestroyedmylife 1,666,991 Posted March 20, 2007 ^ i hate that line! though i like pajo enough 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
superdupersang 4,238 Posted March 20, 2007 would have repped you all you miserable insufferables. but i ran out. rep to all those above me from tomorrow!! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doctorgnar 14,863 Posted March 20, 2007 "Oh Comely" Neutral Milk Hotel And other stuff from "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". Moreso after hearing that Mangum's inspiration for the record was Anne Frank. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ordo 2,246,001 Posted March 20, 2007 Iron & Wine - pretty much anything by him 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dhasux 63 Posted March 20, 2007 i'm bored, and don't want to study, so i went through my iTunes....here are some bands/artists that will make you want to kill yourself..... asterisks next to the really good stuff. *damien rice *joshua radin david gray alexi murdoch joseph arthur aqualung ben harper *bright eyes *cary brothers *dallas green death cab for cutie emiliana torrini *foy vance guster *iron and wine jeff buckley *jimmy eat world *joe purdy jose gonzalez leonard cohen *pilate rogue wave rufus wainwright ryan adams the shins sigur ros **sleeping at last the spill canvas **strays don't sleep *red house painters...especially "have you forogetten" *toad the wet sprocket - windmills 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denimdestroyedmylife 1,666,991 Posted March 20, 2007 slowdive ...... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scoleo 324 Posted March 20, 2007 arab strapp mojave 3 red house painters black box recorder jeff buckley mazzy star 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tisswat 20,571 Posted March 20, 2007 Jeff Buckley - Grace 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
isoform 2,473 Posted March 20, 2007 no one here listens to elliott smith or is he too obvious of a suggestion...? EDIT: CMF mentioned strange fruit (as sung by Billie Holiday) and that song is forever connected to sam cooke's a change is gonna come in my mind, and those are two very heavy songs... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kauflust 3,768 Posted March 21, 2007 pink moon, nick drake razor love, neil young johnny cash cover of nin's hurt some early smashing pumpkins 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
insomaniac 6,363 Posted March 21, 2007 +ocean rain album / echo and the bunnymen +landslide / smashing pumkins +aozora / the blue hearts +trouble loves me / morrissey +crazy / patsy cline +candy says / velvet underground then i listen to the reign in blood album and everything feels better. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
american_hearts 523,909 Posted March 21, 2007 starflyer 59: silver, gold and fell in love at 22 ep. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bruised 879,826 Posted March 21, 2007 peter bjorn and John: young folks ? i like this one right now also lazy eye by silver sun pickups echo and the bunny men: the killing moon 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
machineo 15 Posted March 21, 2007 all already mentioned, so just to reaffirm elliot smith bright eyes radiohead pumpkins m. ward car power cursive 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Analyst 4,341 Posted March 21, 2007 Vangelis - Blade Runner BluesBright Eyes - It's cool, we can still be friends Cursive - The Radiator Hums Christian Death - Romeo's Distress The Pixies - Where is my Mind? Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings Good call on the Samuel Barber piece...which was used heavily in Oliver Stone's Platoon...very moving, emotional piece I would also recommend (these are kinda classical's most requested hits): Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (First Movement) Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor (posthumous) and probably all his other Nocturnes, too Mahler's Adagietta (Fourth Movement) from Symphony #5 Holst's 'Saturn' and 'Venus' Movements from the Planets Dvorak's Second Movement from Symphony #9 (The New World) Saint Saen's The Swan from the Carnival of the Animals (the cello cries over flowing water-like arpeggios played by a piano) There are so many more pieces that could be listed here...... Also the entire Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, which expresses the drug-induced journey to hell lamenting his unrequited love to an actess (that he later married). Another less known contempory piece that is also excellent would be Gorecki's Symphony #3 (Sorrowful Songs) that reflects a Polish mother crying for her dead son and a poem inscribed in a Gestapo prison during WWII. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites