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I can't say I know any sad albums, as in albums where theres a sad aura throughout all the songs. Although I can't get through The New Abnormal by the Strokes without getting close to shedding tears. Never actually have though. Can't say I ever actually have to music, or any media really.

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4 hours ago, invisible airwave said:

It's such a sonically innovative album ahead of it's time with or without lyrics like the opening, "It doesn't matter if we all die."

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Sea Change by Beck is another good one.

 

I LOVE that album - I remember it like yesterday, even though it came out 40 years ago!

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Lacuna Coil- Unleashed Memories

 

I find this a soulful, haunting and brooding listening experience. The abstract nature of the lyrics also evokes feelings more than literal interpretations which I find very unique.

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David Bowie - 'hours...' (1999)

 

I can (sadly) relate to this album on oh so many levels.

 

Here we find the artist trying make sense of his past while trying to put on a brave face while looking toward the future.

 

Seeking answers and to make some kind of sense about the meanings of his life, death, aging, 

wasted time & opportunity, God, and relationships along the way, both successful and failed.

 

The music is haunting and in perfect harmony with the lyrical counterpart.

 

David said of this album...

 

"It's a more personal piece but I hesitate to say it's autobiographical. In a way, it self-evidently isn't.

I also hate to say it's a 'character', so I have to be careful there. It is fiction.

And the progenitor of this piece is obviously a man who is fairly disillusioned. He's not a happy man.

I was trying to capture elements of how, often, one feels at this age.

There's not much concept behind it. It's really a bunch of songs,

but I guess the one through-line is that they deal with a man looking back over his life."

 

 

 

 

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If I am sad now, I don't listen to anything. But -

 

As a depressed teenager, I would listen to the following to get that pain out. Not that they are sad in general albums..

 

 

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

 

Boy - U2

 

Organisation - OMD  (original release UK)

 

Abbey Road  - Beatles

 

Who's Next - The Who

 

I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! - Janis Joplin

 

 

 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, Rick N. Backer said:

@JohnRogers @laughedatbytime

 

The entire synth-era of Rush makes me sad.  In fact, just thinking about it makes me cry.  :wink:

There is so much upbeat joy in the synth era unlike Black Sabbath.

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Sad? Oh my goodness pick a flavor, lol. Lots of different kinds of records I spin when I feel sad, lonely, angsty, etc. Also depends on how I want to deal with the feeling at the time. 
 

Here are a few that I have turned to in the past for various reasons:

 

King Crimson - Red

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

The Cure - Disintegration

Weezer - Pinkerton

Paramore - After Laughter

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

Sad? Oh my goodness pick a flavor, lol. Lots of different kinds of records I spin when I feel sad, lonely, angsty, etc. Also depends on how I want to deal with the feeling at the time. 
 

Here are a few that I have turned to in the past for various reasons:

 

King Crimson - Red

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

The Cure - Disintegration

Weezer - Pinkerton

Paramore - After Laughter

 

 

Red? Guess I don't really know what a sad album is lol

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1 hour ago, ST3V said:

Red? Guess I don't really know what a sad album is lol

Well my thing with Red is very personal. It’s by far the darkest thing KC ever recorded (at least that I’ve heard thus far), and as such fills me with an undefinable and sometimes inescapable malaise and dread, which makes me turn to it sometimes when I’m particularly sad.

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12 hours ago, Rick N. Backer said:

This post makes me cry all over again.  Might as well put on the ending of Toy Story 3.

 I adore the synth era! I forget many fans do not

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wrong thread

Edited by Segue Myles
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24 minutes ago, Maverick said:

Will you two ever agree on anything? 

 

:LOL:

Maybe...

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1 minute ago, Rick N. Backer said:

It's more a running joke between Jackie and me.

It's all good, I say I love that era, but rarely will you find me spinning Power Windows

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1 hour ago, Segue Myles said:

UFO- Strangers In The Night 

 

Okay, this version of Love To Love might just be my favourite song ever. Like WOW.

The interesting thing about this album is the box set has 8 shows, and they are all fantastic.  I played the Lights Out album to death when I first got it.  It's up there with the likes of Moving Pictures, Paranoid, Pyromonia, and Fair Warning for me.

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