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.
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Depression is a mess, it can have lots of symptoms. Same as antidepressants kek.
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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".
Honestly hurt is my go to song when Iβm feeling like shit.
Down in a Hole - Alice in Chains, from the unplugged album. Just such a raw song.
Yes, those harmonies are rough!
That was an exceptional performance. MTV unplugged was a great era
The Cure, Disintegration
This is probably the best answer I've seen. Watching them build the song over the OK Computer tour when you were sure they were going to implode... It hits just right.
Mine is for a very specific kind of depression that's really more of a vibe of melancholic regret and realization of self limitations which breeds a strange, nearly apathetic anxiety. The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New (full album) just picks at a scab that you know probably isn't healthy but feels satisfying to indulge.
For existential dread, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd hits way different now than when I was young. Especially the songs Time and Great Gig In The Sky.
For depression depression, I couldn't be bothered to listen to any music. "Music is for winners" is kinda the mindset. Not helpful, but depression is a motherfucker and it's almost like self-inflicted emotional abuse when you're already vulnerable. You feel miserable and convince yourself that you deserve misery, so all is right in the world. It fucking sucks and I hope that if this comment causes anything in anybody's brain to light up, saying "hey wait a minute, is that not normal?", then please invest in yourself and spend some time with a therapist, take more vitamin D, and try to do what you can to get yourself to a place where those feelings are just memories that you can mention on Lemmy in hopes of helping others the same way that you needed help.
Dark Side is such a good album. Great Gig in the Sky never resonated with me as a kid but now itβs a whole different story.
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is such a good album. In some ways I hate listening to it because I know it's not helping me but at the same time everything about it is just perfect
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's not really a single song for me, it really depends on how depressed I am and whether I want to dive deeper into it (which really helps a lot sometimes) or make myself feel better.
Dive-in (including, but not limited to):
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The album Spiderland by Slint is pretty much full of depression songs for me, gloomy and full of dread. Don, Aman and Washer in particular are very hard hitting for me.
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F#A#β by Godspeed You! Black Emperor has similar vibes but is a lot more dystopian and pessimistic. Ever since hearing East Hastings in 28 Days Later it's been my favourite song on the album.
Feel better (including, but not limited to):
- Everybody Hurts by R.E.M.; I normally don't like this kind of songs but this one just feels honest and sincere which I can appreciate, plus Michael Stipe just has a great voice.
- Down Under by Men At Work; Pretty much the polar opposite of the post-punk/-rock songs mentioned above. I really want to move to Australia one day and this song reminds me of that goal.
- Happiness/The Gondola Man by Elliott Smith; just a nice song and I really like Elliott's voice.
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.
I've got a playlist, "Everything sucks but that's ok". This Year by The Mountain Goats is usually a solid pick. It's wistful and defiant without being too sweet.
Misanthropic Drunken Loner by Days N Daze is bleak with a wry smile.
Nausea by Jeff Rosenstock.
I got so tired of discussing my future I started avoiding the people I love Evenings of silence and mornings of nausea Shake and sweat and I canβt throw up
And if things are starting to get a little better Good As It Gets by Little Hurt is great. It is incredibly catchy.
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby, Stills, and Nash (and sometimes Young). Also, Wooden Ships, same band. Four Way Street is an outstanding album full of heavy hitters
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.
Broken, by Sentenced.
Sea Change album by Beck
Oof, great album, especially after life hits you hard.
I overheard a guy tell his friend βitβs Beck, but without all the gadgetsβ and I thought that was hilarious so I checked it out (as was going through a tough break up years ago), and damn was it perfect
Lol that's a good description. So many good tracks there, but Golden age is one of the bes, driving songs ever.
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.
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.
Stone Sour - Bother
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
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.
Mostly Leaf Ellis from Sorority Noise
These songs will always make me cry when I'm down in the dumps
- Liability by Lorde
- All I Want by Kodaline
- Thursday by Jess Glynne
- Heavy by Linkin Park ft. Kiiara
This album does the trick.
Planning for Burial - Below the House
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lX7Y_8v8ReyLynZVcEua1Kcs9PMcVL9Ow
Album or song? Because for me, they both kinda blurred together when I was at my worst. That being said, I'd suggest the album Tomorrow is nearly yesterday and everyday is stupid by Crywank (UK). I listened and related so much to this album at one point that it's actually difficult for me to listen to anymore.
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
LDLHAβIBCSYWA by Twiztid
When my dog died Iβd listen to it and cry a ton.
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.
Lorde - Liability
Hits that slow, mellow, sad music tone cravings with heavy hitting lyrics.
Desperados Under the Eaves (but really, lots of Warren Zevon songs)
That's the Way the World Goes Round (John Prine)
There is a small indie band called Kabir Cafe, whose songs are inspired by a 14th-15th century poet- philosopher called Kabir. Those are some amazing songs to hear to.
https://youtu.be/lSWv9qodOAs?si=teXNFUnC19ETe6TB Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.
I especially like how the βrain falling downβ metaphor comes back when heβs going off and he says, βMy clothes are all wet, tell me!β
Solace by Earl Sweatshirt.
Good pick, I don't even have to click the link to recognize that pink background. I'd throw in most of SRS in there, too.
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?
Lately, its been Oni by Swersvlt. The mood of just staring miserably into space wile zoning out.
The Burgundian lullaby perhaps
Doomed by I Prevail
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