What's a depression anthem? I never expected sufferers of depression to feel like singing a theme song to it.
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.
Depression is a mess, it can have lots of symptoms. Same as antidepressants kek.
It depends on what you mean.
A single song: Hurt - Jonny Cash
Playlist to feel that:
To recover from that:
This second playlist is named "Keep Walking". The first one, translated, could be "wheel's bottom".
Honestly hurt is my go to song when I’m feeling like shit.
Where My Heart Will Take Me
JONATHAN ARCHER INTENSIFIES
Exactly
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
Roads by Portishead.
She knows. She gets it.
Ecellent choice! My personal choice is "threads" from their third album.
Oh, solid track
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.
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How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
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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.
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 it’s 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
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):
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.
F#A#∞ 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):
On GP - Death Grips
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.
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.
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 can’t 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.
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.
Broken, by Sentenced.
Stone Sour - Bother
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
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.
Sea Change album by Beck
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Mostly Leaf Ellis from Sorority Noise
These songs will always make me cry when I'm down in the dumps
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.
LDLHA‐IBCSYWA by Twiztid
When my dog died I’d listen to it and cry a ton.
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
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.
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.
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
Desperados Under the Eaves (but really, lots of Warren Zevon songs)
That's the Way the World Goes Round (John Prine)
Deerhunter - helicopters
https://youtu.be/lSWv9qodOAs?si=teXNFUnC19ETe6TB Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart.
I especially like how the “rain falling down” metaphor comes back when he’s going off and he says, “My clothes are all wet, tell me!”
Lately, its been Oni by Swersvlt. The mood of just staring miserably into space wile zoning out.
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