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      CommentAuthorAlexander
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010 edited
     
    What do you like to hear when you're sad, depressed, misunderstood, lonely or melancholic?

    My 'toplist' :

    -Current 93 - A Sadness Song, Niemandswasser and many more,
    -Shooting Star - Bob Dylan (the live version from MTV, please;)
    -of course lots of songs from DcD, Brendan, Lisa: Don't Fade Away, Severance, Hymn for the Fallen, Song to the Siren etc.
    -Cat Stevens - Trouble
    -Coil - Batwings
    -Simon Finn - Wanted You, Other Side of Rain
    -Baby Dee - Half a Chance, My Love has Made a Fool of Me
    -Nature and Organisation - Bonewhiteglory
    -Leonard Cohen -Famous Blue Raincoat
    -Antony -Knocking on Heaven's Door
    -The Byrds - Everybody's Been Burned
    -Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
    -Neil Young - Old Man
    -Bonnie Prince Billy - Bed is For Sleeping

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    • CommentAuthorsalehliam
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010 edited
     
    What comes to my mind...

    - Eye Of The Hunter
    - The Sleeping Beauty (Tiamat)
    - Elysium (Fields Of The Nephilim)
    - Damnation (Opeth)

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      CommentAuthorAlexander
    • CommentTimeJul 28th 2010
     
    Elizium is good =) And there Will my Heart be Also!
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    R.E.M.
    Sting
    Brendan Perry
    ...always Brendan Perry. :)
    • CommentAuthorbharris
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     
    jesus christ... if anything, NOT current 93! its wonderful, and imperium is my favourite, but the rest is incredibely sad... the polar opposite of DCD.
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      CommentAuthorAlexander
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     
    What's with c93? Opposite? Hm, just another Band, I guess. No need to compare them.
    • CommentAuthorbharris
    • CommentTimeJul 29th 2010
     
    yeah but all music that is produced for the sake of music/art/creativity and no irrelevent purposes (current 93 and DCD are prime examples, obviously), if we find them to be entrancing in some way are going to have parallels by which we can compare how the intrinsic properties of the music affects us and similarly how we relate to it. i think that both DCD and c93 is music that is very accurate to what the composer is trying to convey (not in a necesarily symbolic or rational sense, more in a sensual/aesthetic sense - that is the real magic of music), and so all that is left is for it to act upon our individual minds. you might think this is complex or deep but actually it always happens when thinking people listen to music, and how we sense the emotional/psychologic property of the sound

    in reference to what you say, i see c93 as being doom 'n' gloom really... the early albums are terrifying, and the later albums are to me unbelievably sad, reflecting on mr whatsisname's sad dreams and things. however, the music is really good because i can feel through it a very clear sense of melancholy and horror, and if he didnt have such a clear musical vision then it would be laughable and i would not understand it, and it really affects me. i can't even listen to 'of ruine', i am genuinely afraid of that album, and that is a testimony to the great power and superiority of the music, though i do not want to hear it. it is so easy to flit around and listen to a multitude of downloaded songs and not really feel the true essence of the music, but there are rare occasions of lucidity when you do understand, and then you realise how serious it actually is.

    on the other hand, DCD present pure beauty as i have always imagined it to be, long before i even listened to them (specific pieces mostly, but all of it is relatively excellent), and that makes me reassured of the possibility for such things to happen when extraordinary people spring up and create things.

    not to be a bore....
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      CommentAuthorAlexander
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2010
     
    I understand what you mean... maybe one day you'll try 'or ruine', it has at least a happy ending. Okay, depends on the viewer, but you can see it as one.. Some songs, especially the cloud of unknowing is one of the most depressing and painful things I've ever heard :/
    • CommentAuthorAdrian
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2010 edited
     
    The titles that spontaneously come to mind:

    Sonic Youth's "Massage The History" ...

    also Portishead "Roads", "Undenied", "Small", "Threads" among others...

    Nirvana "Something in the Way"...

    Pagoda "Death to Birth" & "Alone"...

    PJ Harvey "The Piano" & "Passionless, Pointless"...

    Brendan's "Song to the Siren"... (one of many)

    AIR "Suicide Underground"

    John Williams "Remembering Munich" & "Bonding" (Munich OST)

    Jocelyn Pook "Masked Ball", "Romeo & Juliet", "Oppenheimer", "Dionysus"...

    Many Dead Can Dance songs (no need to mention :-))

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    Bach's Violin Partitas...

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      CommentAuthorSilentwake
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2010
     
    Definitely Leonard Cohen, Mazzy Star and DCD.
    • CommentAuthorSaldek
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2010 edited
     
    All samples are randomly chosen, except the Machinarium track and Aphex Twin.. I only like a few Aphex Twin songs.

    Tenhi Ma Syttyy (sry for the end of the clip, lol)
    Gurdjieff/ De Hartmann Chants Hymns & Dances
    Tim Follin, Complete Ecco Soundtrack Shrine of controversy Pathways from nowhere
    Machinarium
    Aphex Twin Nannou
    Eleni Karaindrou - The Weeping Meadow Track
    Bohren & der Club of Gore On demon wings Constant fear
    Hildegard von Bingen (and similar music) Caritas abundat in omnia
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      CommentAuthordcdfan77
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2010
     
    Radiohead: Street spirit (fade away)
    Dead Guitars: Blue
    The Mission: Heaven sends you
    The Cure: Anniversary
    JXL feat. Grant Nicholas: Broken
    ...and more
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    Thank you Saldek for posting "Gurdjieff : Chants, Hymns and Dances". First time I ever heard of him and this sublime music. I'm just reading about George Gurdjieff now on Wikipedia. A very interesting figure.
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      CommentAuthorAlexander
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2010
     
    I got the first album of Maja Elliott some days ago, it's very emotional and beautiful. She played with Simon Finn, Current 93, In Gowan Ring and many more..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrpAf30veI

    "In Maja's words it is "an emotional journey through genres, time and place. It spans a 5 year period, the title track Dreams of Elyssia having first been recorded on the Current 93 album, Live in Lisbon, with Antony (from Antony and the Johnson's). Some tracks were recorded in Venice, others in Sweden and Ireland." It as stunningly beautiful."
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      CommentAuthorAelfleda
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2010
     
    I'm listening to Cymbaline by Pink Floyd right now. It seems to fit.

    Pink Floyd
    DCD & Brendan
    Violator: Depeche Mode (still, after all these years)
    Kansas "Dust in the Wind"
    Alan Parsons Project "Time"
    Syd Barrett "Wouldn't You Miss Me?"
    Slowdive albums "Just for a day" and "Pygmaleon"
    Sigur Ros
    Philip Glass, soundtrack to "The Hours"
    Danny Elfman, soundtrack to "Edward Scissorhands" (always makes me cry)

    Feeling pretty blue right now actually. Listening to Apocalyptica's accousic Nothing Else Matters. Beautiful. And it's raining. Ain't it nice to be glum. "Sad is happy for deep people" quote from Doctor Who.

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