Most Depressing Album: 2017

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RoundTheBend
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  • Posted: 12/13/2017 05:44
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rkm wrote:
Mount Eerie is incredibly sad, about death and grief, but the reason Pure Domedy is more depressing to me, is that it's a demolition of faith in anything and everything. It's devoid of hope.


For me it's honest. And I like honest music. But I see where you're coming from.

Complete devoid of hope... well for me that's this album:

Hail To The Thief by Radiohead
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Daydreamer wrote:
Tap wrote:
maybe it's just me but I think it's this one


A Crow Looked At Me by Mount Eerie



This one


I quadruple this one.

Anyone who has dealt with death of a direct family member/someone you spent every day with for years, this just hits way too home.
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I concede to "A Crow Looked At Me".

This song is off topic but on topic.

The lyric, "despair is never worse than the despair that death brings"


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sethmadsen wrote:
For me it's honest. And I like honest music. But I see where you're coming from.

Complete devoid of hope... well for me that's this album:

Hail To The Thief by Radiohead


I think the trajectory of Radiohead is one of relinquishing hope and opting for numbness instead, paralleled by an embrace of electronics. For someone who feels too much, it's a relief not to feel.
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I actually had to turn off "A Crow Looked At Me" because I couldn't handle it. Forget 2017, it might take the all time cake.
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Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1 by Lil Peep

easily this, nothing comes close

mount eerie would probably be #2
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rkm wrote:
sethmadsen wrote:
For me it's honest. And I like honest music. But I see where you're coming from.

Complete devoid of hope... well for me that's this album:

Hail To The Thief by Radiohead


I think the trajectory of Radiohead is one of relinquishing hope and opting for numbness instead, paralleled by an embrace of electronics. For someone who feels too much, it's a relief not to feel.


I'm glad that's a positive thing for you.

I actually like this album, but sometimes I ha(d)ve a hard time listening to it because it's dissociative lyrics are at times hitting home too much - not only from a mental health standpoint but from a modern society desensitization standpoint. It kills me.

I suppose like you were saying about Pure Comedy, I feel liberated because he's talking about the source of the issues often and not just the symptoms - meaning he's actually clearly stating problems in a very honest way.

I feel like Radiohead is only showing the symptoms and the unknown - and discusses the same thing in a much more derogatory way.

Some lyrics for example:
It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now

Sometimes I feel like I'm being waterboarded when I hear this song (yet I love this song):
Hey! (Stand up)
We can wipe you out anytime
We can wipe you out (Sit down)
Anytime
Anytime

idk - I'll stop there, but here's the lyrics of the whole album:
https://genius.com/albums/Radiohead/Hail-to-the-thief
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sethmadsen wrote:
rkm wrote:
sethmadsen wrote:
For me it's honest. And I like honest music. But I see where you're coming from.

Complete devoid of hope... well for me that's this album:

Hail To The Thief by Radiohead


I think the trajectory of Radiohead is one of relinquishing hope and opting for numbness instead, paralleled by an embrace of electronics. For someone who feels too much, it's a relief not to feel.


I'm glad that's a positive thing for you.

I actually like this album, but sometimes I ha(d)ve a hard time listening to it because it's dissociative lyrics are at times hitting home too much - not only from a mental health standpoint but from a modern society desensitization standpoint. It kills me.

I suppose like you were saying about Pure Comedy, I feel liberated because he's talking about the source of the issues often and not just the symptoms - meaning he's actually clearly stating problems in a very honest way.

I feel like Radiohead is only showing the symptoms and the unknown - and discusses the same thing in a much more derogatory way.

Some lyrics for example:
It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now

Sometimes I feel like I'm being waterboarded when I hear this song (yet I love this song):
Hey! (Stand up)
We can wipe you out anytime
We can wipe you out (Sit down)
Anytime
Anytime

idk - I'll stop there, but here's the lyrics of the whole album:
https://genius.com/albums/Radiohead/Hail-to-the-thief


I hear you. I didn't mean it's actually a positive thing. It was just an observation. Numbing out is an option, but not really a good one. This gets back to why I like U2: they don't ignore the state of the world, but bring hope into the equation. Maybe this is the crux of why people DON'T like U2: they've relinquished their own idealism and therefore don't find Bono's idealism to be believable?
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Even in a 'most depressing LP of 2017' thread, Radiohead has to turn up Laughing
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Norman Bates wrote:
Even in a 'most depressing LP of 2017' thread, Radiohead has to turn up Laughing


slightly depressing indeed! Smile
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