The Smiths
Morrissey
The Cure
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Garbage
- Pretty much their whole discographies
A specific song when I was a teen was Fiona Apple's "Sullen Girl". I just have a specific visual memory tied to that, and my teen years were probably my bleakest.
I still love melancholy music with lyrics that have a focus on sadness & obsessions, and so I still like all this music a lot. I have always had varied taste, liking music among several genres and eras, as well as different moods. But this does represent the sound I gravitate to most. Why I have a thing for 80s alt/dark wave, IDK.
Finding a song to fit a dark mood is not that hard either. But the other day I decided to make a playlist of happy love songs, because I realized everything I listen to seems to have a sad/obsessive take on love, and I realized maybe this was not the healthiest stuff to always be listening to, that it may be affecting my subconscious. I have a rather bleak, tragic view of love (or perhaps an idea of never finding it), albeit it is romantic. Well, it is HARD to find positive love songs, especially ones that aren't super cheesy and full of cliches.
A lot of songs that aren't about love are still about distraction or obsession. This struck me as interesting....why is happiness often reduced to this simplistic, almost stupid thing and generally described with cliches, whereas darker emotions are presented as complex and deep and given so much more creative imagery?