Depression songs

Songs that articulate depression well

what do you got?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkg4yirbkEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYZq5QlJHkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIS-UgixGE

i posted something about yo la tengo and And Then Everything Turns Itself Itself Inside Out earlier. i have no idea where it went, but it didn't end up there. but if anyone reading this is in the mood for depression in the form of an album, there you go

just now reading these lines from the pitchfork review of I Can Hear Hear the Heart:

"Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield has written that Kaplan and Hubley “[do] for marriage what the Velvet Underground did for heroin,”and there’s something to the love-is-the-drug comparison. “When the smack begins to flow/I really don’t care anymore,” Lou Reed sang on the Velvets track, one where he infamously called the opiate both his life and his wife"

yeah, wait til and then nothing

'the crying of lot g' is one of my favorite love songs- not depression but it conjures regret and sorrow really well

xpost i always get these albums mixed up

wait lol nvm

I can think of heaps of sad songs that I love, but depression is so boring. I've never felt the need to revisit that (absence of) feeling in musical form.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zohcT6xOoEY

Sometimes I just want to listen to this on repeat.

Even though
I started to feel cold
And I was far from town
I just sat there in the dark

when i'm depressed all songs are depression songs.

Queen - Don't Try Suicide

when i'm depressed all songs are depression songs.

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, October 29, 2017 7:55 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, the thing about this question - "what songs best conjure the feeling of depression?" - how do you convey a complete lack of feeling? a fridge buzzing for four hours? there are so many more songs about "sadness," which is obviously distinct from depression. you can wallow in the music of The Cure, or Elliott Smith, or Grouper, but those artists that are known for making "sad music," their songs make you feel better - whether it's less alone, a glimpse of light, a connection, a feeling. So I picked Grouper's "Disengaged," most of which really does capture that trapped beneath molasses feeling of deep depression and sadness, but the clouds part at the end of the song into this glorious ascending thing. then there are songs about grief, which is totally separate - Mount Eerie's A Crow Looked at Me is the most obvious recent example. The thing about sadness is that it feels good to wallow in it often: "I miss the comfort in being sad" / "I'm in love with my sadness" / etc...