What's a depression anthem? I never expected sufferers of depression to feel like singing a theme song to it.
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It's a song that speaks to your flavour of depression. Makes you feel like someone feels the exact same way you do. That in turn makes you feel sane. Like you're heard. Even understood.
Over time, songs (or movies or other things) can become a ritual - you feel awful, listen to the song, eventually you come out the other side as the depressive episode fades. Then the next time it happens you associate the song with your recovery. So over time it becomes What You Do when you Feel That Way.
What song would you recommend to someone who has done things she regrets when she had the opportunity to have something good and lives with the still-ongoing snowball effect that she is so used to seeing as karmic that she doesn't typically bring up any of the issues?
Here's the closest I've got.
Priest is an electronic music project originally formed by ex-members of the hugely popular band Ghost. I'd call this Darkwave, but the label doesn't matter, it's depeche mode-y and don't let the gimp mask put you off, I believe the song is very sincere.
I can't stop, it's too late, it pours out, it's my fate
My legacy in black
Looking in to my eyes, see the things i despise
My soul is tainted black
I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
I'm free of all the lunacy
I never want it back, my history in black
Silent screams longing voice, violent dreams, ringing noise
My memory is black
It's not a mask, it's my skin
Please don't ask where i've been
My heart is painted black
I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
I'm free of all the lunacy
I'm never want it back, my history in black
I escaped from the cage inside
I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
I'm free of all the lunacy
I never want it back, my history in black
My history in black
Yes, that works. I definitely feel this song.
Swans - Song for Dead Time
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me, dear
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to burn
To sand...
Yes. Swans have several beautiful crushingly dark songs. God Damn the Sun is one I go to.
Depression is a mess, it can have lots of symptoms. Same as antidepressants kek.
True, though I thought being "not in the mood" (for a lack of a better word) is required before all diagnoses of depression.
The Great Below -- Nine Inch Nails. (About 5 months in 2001 while addicted to Everquest).
The Beginning is End is the Beginning -- Smashing Pumpkins (this version: https://youtu.be/0fDZD46IZ5Q?si=CyfMtrWL7YbtsEs7) (during my undergrad thesis crunch time crisis circa 2009)
There's more but these are good examples.
It depends on what you mean.
A single song: Hurt - Jonny Cash
Playlist to feel that:
- Pergunta Urgente - Frejat
- Broken Heart - White Lion
- Hurt - Jonny Cash
- Shake It Out - Florence & The Machine
- Best Thing I Never Had - Beyonce
- Dos Margaritas - Herbert Viana
- Depois - Marisa Monte
To recover from that:
- Ain't no grave - Jonny Cash
- Where Angels Fear to Fly - Battle Beast
- Hurt - Jonny Cash
- Fire in Bone - The Killers
- Semana que Vem - Pitty
- Life Won't Wait - Ozzy Osbourne
- Broken Heart - White Lion
- Temporal - Pitty
- O Poeta EstΓ‘ Vivo - BarΓ£o Vermelho
- Could Have Been Me - The Struts
- This Time - Guano Apes
- Spirit Never Die - Masterplan
- Sem Parar - Gabriel o Pensador
- Tente Outra Vez - BarΓ£o Vermelho
- Carry On - Angra
- Levanta e Anda (feat. Rael) - Emicida
- What a Wonderful World - Joey Ramone
- Rising Fire - Firewind
- Let Me Hear You Scream - Ozzy Osbourne
- Heavy Metal Never Dies - Iron Savior
- Born to Survive - Myrath
- Amnesia - Red Sun Rising
- Dance - Myrath
- Freak Like Me - Halestorm
- Where My Heart Will Take Me - Russel Watson
- Saga Cega - RAPadura
- Farol - Supercombo
- I Like It - Lacuna Coil
- Beyond the Burning Skies - Battle Beast
- Reason to Believe - Arch Enemy
- Moving On - Jimmy Cliff
- Conselho - Almir Guineto
- Unstoppable - Sia
- A Beautiful Life - Dorothy
- Nothing is Forever - Iron Savior
This second playlist is named "Keep Walking". The first one, translated, could be "wheel's bottom".
Where My Heart Will Take Me
JONATHAN ARCHER INTENSIFIES
Exactly
Honestly hurt is my go to song when Iβm feeling like shit.
On GP - Death Grips
Nine Inch Nails album With Teeth. Every Day is Exactly the Same, Only, and Right Where it Belongs.
This by far my favourite album of theirs. Every one a banger. Especially those you listed.
Have been too depressed for too many decades. Lost the ability to enjoy music. Miss it, but anytime I try it feels contrived and I hear people from my past deriding my selections for various reasons.
The Cure, Disintegration
The Wall is a special album for me, usually makes want to kill myself so I have to carefully pick the moments I listen to it.
Daniel Johnston - Cold Hard World
What I listen to when I'm depressed and want to be, not the best song to lift you out of it.
Lorde - Liability
Hits that slow, mellow, sad music tone cravings with heavy hitting lyrics.
This album does the trick.
Planning for Burial - Below the House
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lX7Y_8v8ReyLynZVcEua1Kcs9PMcVL9Ow
Mostly Leaf Ellis from Sorority Noise
A black sun rises everyday / Shadows cross my path as if to say / "Change your life, change your ways, look up to the sky" / Tomorrow'll soon be here then time to die
This is some loud stoner/doom metal. Cheesy? sure. Self indulgent? Absolutely. But when the mood strikes it hits the spot every time
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
LDLHAβIBCSYWA by Twiztid
When my dog died Iβd listen to it and cry a ton.
My go-to song for turning into a sobbing mess on the floor is Sting (feat. Ray Chen) - What Could Have Been. Hits very hard.
Lately, its been Oni by Swersvlt. The mood of just staring miserably into space wile zoning out.
Owen's Theme from Torchwood. Not an amazing show, but the music was written and composed by Ben Foster & Murray Gold who brought us all the haunting music from the new Dr. Who series. The descending pattern, combined with Owen's own tragic story is one of the most indulgent depressing songs I've ever heard.
Desperados Under the Eaves (but really, lots of Warren Zevon songs)
That's the Way the World Goes Round (John Prine)
Doomed by I Prevail
The Burgundian lullaby perhaps
Magnolia Electric Co - The Dark Donβt Hide It or Just Be Simple
Mogwai - Helicon 2
Broken Social Scene - Lovers Spit
Liquor Bottle by Herbal T. Has a nice faux-upbeat rhythm with jazzy kinda beats, but lyrics.are dark. Definitely helps me keep a sane face on the dark days:
And that's why / I keep a
A liquor bottle in the freezer βͺ
In case I gotta take it out β«
Mix me a drink
To help me
Forget all the things
In my life that I worry about βͺ β«
Wax and Herbal T both nail those faux-upbeat type songs
I have several actually:
- As mentioned earlier: Portishead - Threads. Actually, the whole album is perfect for a certain desolate mood.
- The God Machine - Picture of a Bleeding Boy
- The Cure - End
- Joy Division - Komakino
- Nine Inch Nails - The Wretched
I'm a big music snob, and I'm in my forties, but Decompression Period by Papa Roach hit me really hard the first time I heard it, and it's always one I go back to. I've never had a bad breakup or anything, but it really captures the feeling for me.
You just won't lie down. Even closing your eyes, you can't let it go, Surrounded inside. Leave it alone. You don't get it back Undoing the scenes you can't explain, Whatever you dream That you've buried away. It seems like you're there as someone removed And left in their place with nothing to do. Bound to the switch. Railing again at the thought of the fight For well-earned dissent Undeserved at the time. As you've been shown, the motion has gone A shade of the night, only leading you on.
Eye of the Tiger
Giving up by Corbin and sodus cementeries
Whipping boy - we don't need nobody else
steiner's theme from ff9
The whole soundtrack (and game) is wonderful, and it develops across the album through to hope. The first few tracks though, they take me back to a point of great sorrow and straight through the stages of grief.
No room to live, and no room to die / Hell is a kettle with a concrete sky.
Life in a big city in the developing world. Makes you hard like hunger, sharp like regret.
Orchid Mantis - Flashbulb Memory
I've got a whole fucking playlist for real sadboy hours on rainy drives home where I want to get lost in the back of my mind and it's like 50% this band.
For any mundane depression, (you're gonna laugh, they're all gonna laugh at me) it's OK to laugh at this, believe it or not my go to song is "On a Clear Day" Yes that song from the musical of the same name. Stupid, I know - but it does the trick. For seasonal depression, my go to is "Sleigh Ride." How can you feel blue when you're balls are bouncing on a sleigh over the snowy hills and through the woods?
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