The Sound of Depression

[VagrantFarce]

Post songs/videos that evoke how you've felt when depressed.

[youtube=m5oatJ9P_mU]x[/youtube]

[youtube=L-tOkt9rafk]x[/youtube]

 

[prplchknz]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8urXx--I6M"]This song actually most of this album[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dmjGo1pfME"]I know not the best song but it describes my recent depression[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiFmO2GRDWU"]I'm beginning to think depression for me is partly a sense of lost[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_iNdbPvrYk"]I just like this song[/YOUTUBE]

 

[The Outsider]

 

[Thalassa]

 

[The_World_As_Will]

^ <3

 

[guesswho]

This:

 

[Mae]

 

[ThatGirl]

[YOUTUBE="P5ItNxpwChE"].[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Unkindloving]

The fruit of the melancholy tree, my dears. My forte.
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lv_hvs_C2U"]Emily Haines - Winning[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwVhZ4m937o"]Cat Power - Hate[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdBF_mdSnGE"]Frou Frou - Dumbing Down of Love[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qu5ZT8WrCg"]Elliott Smith - Between the Bars[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un9VmOSzzCs"]Jeff Buckley - Nightmares by the Sea[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAt1ejlO_7Q"]The Spill Canvas - The Tide[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaXunJGGUI"]The Stills - Everything I Build[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9NJKl5M3iE"]The Red Paintings - We Belong in the Sea[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O6GqCwjh-k"]Amanda Palmer - Astronaut[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbJ2gyu-yg"]Jason Webley - Against the Night[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Starry]

 

[The Outsider]

A question:
Do you people enjoy listening to the songs you have posted?

 

[Unkindloving]

A question:
Do you people enjoy listening to the songs you have posted?

I most definitely do. I like the music in general, and the added emotional response gives it that extra oomph for me. A lyric in Dumbing Down of Love reads "Music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger break down and cry" I don't entirely agree, but it strikes a chord.
How about you, dear?

 

[Synapse]

When I was depressed sure I listened to depressing songs. Now prefer more uplifting music.

Here is a selection from my past.

[youtube="YmH8hioAKsc"]Green Carnation - Alone[/youtube]

[youtube="1LfFHEsxIfs"]Persephone - Immersion[/youtube]

[youtube="40W4xYVtx7c"]Claire Voyant - Pieces[/youtube]

[youtube="WpSLbQcphr8"]Lisa Germano - From A Shell[/youtube]

 

[The Outsider]

I most definitely do. I like the music in general, and the added emotional response gives it that extra oomph for me. A lyric in Dumbing Down of Love reads "Music is worthless unless it can make a complete stranger break down and cry" I don't entirely agree, but it strikes a chord.
How about you, dear?

I can't really listen to the song I posted myself. It captures something that's very close to the feeling I've had in some of the most negative states of mind for me, which is why I posted it, and which is also why I can't enjoy it. Even though I think it is a good song, and can admire it.

 

[violaine]

I just listen to a tonne of Mark Kozelek in all his guises when I feel a certain way (though, I find it more soothing than depressing).

[YOUTUBE="NFQ4nuUuwNo"]Katy Song[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="lBL28tgXK18"]Drop[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="3pRO3wBQmaY"]Things Mean a Lot (at the Time, Don't Mean Nothing Later)[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="_W0DWYwsLu4"]Smokey[/YOUTUBE]

^One of my favorite songs with some of my favorite lines:

I'm broken down
You caved my karma in

I can't erase your smokey eyes
Your smothered face
Gripping on my waist
Leaving a ghost up on the Oregon Coast

Who can pretend
That there's a beginning without an end
It ain't contrived all the magic in our lives
Comes down like a storm then drizzles then dies

Your soul is free
But you're the one I need
And you made your deal
But you're still my ideal
And so I wait
And so I choose this fate

 

[Rail Tracer]

[YOUTUBE="QZTACx2zDt0"]Perrin Lamb - Be This Way[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="8NaOIUL8wwk"]Ronnie Day - Written At A Reststop [/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="XZJvanJpjG8"]Shawn Colvin - I'll Say I'm Sorry Now[/YOUTUBE]
^Ignore the vid and listen to the song.

[YOUTUBE="jFg_8u87zT0"]The Fray - You Found Me [/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE="i1GmxMTwUgs"]Sarah McLachlan - Angel[/YOUTUBE]

There is definitely more, some with no vocals, some in other languages. I'll probably post them when they come (not sure about the ones in other languages though... might just stick with English.)

A question:
Do you people enjoy listening to the songs you have posted?

Yes I do. It is just that, these songs actually have a stronger impact when depressed/sad.

 

[Octarine]

I took the question more literally and I deduced that the sound of depression is similar to that of tinnitus.

I'd post a clip, but you don't actually want to hear it because it'd make you anxious or depressed.

 

[skylights]

i usually avoid sad/dark songs, but i could listen to this one for ages.

 

[Unkindloving]

i usually avoid sad/dark songs, but i could listen to this one for ages.

Definitely like that song. I always forget that the singer was super attractive too lol.

 

[lowtech redneck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljdSGe6zQ10

Generic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVcbVeMnt8

OCD secifically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCAy9ErdKY

Ironically.