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| Sputnik is Sad: Destroyers
If nothing else can unite the Sputnik community, it is the feeling of sadness that has, no doubt, coursed throughout all of our veins that should bring us together. Therefore, I call upon all ye unashamed users to add to this playlist of absolute soul destroyers.
My criteria is LOOSE, but the guidelines are TIGHT: comment ONE song that fucked you up inside and out and tell us why. I can't say what it is that fucks YOU up, but my picks should work as a loose template.
NOTE: I’m not looking for material from bands like Defeated Sanity where you are left feeling defiled (lol), but more for songs that left you feeling barely less than dead from their emotional weight.
I’ll update the list, but keep it to one pick per user (I’ll take the first if you post more than one). I know I picked several songs (shut up) and I know you may have your own personal picks for some of the artists I included (Sleeper 1982, anyone???) but, what you pick is up to you, just say why, while respecting the character restrictions if you can.
I want- no, NEED, a list of soul-crushing, life-diminishing, ball-busters that I can put on the next time I have a pet pass away, a divorce filed, or a liver ruined.
I know you have it in you, so let's have it here. | 1 | | Kevin Devine Make the Clocks Move
'Ballgame'
Ever think you drink too much? Ever wanna confront that? Nah? Too bad. This is an anthem for the drunk and for those that don't want want to admit they have taken it too far. Seeing Kevin sing this live put more into perspective than I asked for with my $12 ticket. | 2 | | Listener Time Is A Machine
'It Will All Happen the Way it Should'
Never have I been so affected by a live performance as when Dan Smith told me everything was fucked, but that everything was okay. I can't really add to the message of the song but love to reinforce the idea that things will get better with time, no matter what. | 3 | | Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing
'I Can Feel a Hot One'
Something about this just waited for the right minute to strike me. I was driving up a staggered mountain trail with my now wife, when the last verse of this put us outside of the vehicle and nearer the cloud of dust we left behind us as we climbed into the unknown. We questioned, and imagined, all things that may and may never be, but here we are now. | 4 | | Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
'Fourth of July'
This may be self-explanatory but the first time I heard this was at 2 or 3 AM with a few whiskeys in me. I did not know what was to come, but every line here dug deeper and deeper. I think of this song too often. | 5 | | mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p.
'August 6th'
Really, there are so many mwY songs I could put here, but this one, in particular, hit so hard when it came out that I was reduced to tears. The sudden EP release was shocking enough, but I knew after 30 seconds of this song that mwY was ready to leave on their own terms. | 6 | | Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse
'Nitrous Gas'
I don't even like to talk about this. We all spent years sifting through a semblance of the pain that lead guitarist and vocalist Scott Hutchinson endured. This song was fucked up 8 years ago; it's even more fucked up realizing his tragic passing. RIP, Scott. | 7 | | Warning Watching from a Distance
'Footprints'
The big difference between this and all my other entries here is that this feels like it could be fantasy, but I do not think that's the case at all. No matter what sort of Merlinesque tragedy Patrick Walker presents in the beginning of this song, the last verse strips away all invulnerability, delivering an undeniably honest plea for love so bare I still dream about it to this day. | 8 | | Alice in Chains MTV Unplugged
'Down in a Hole'
'Many songs have made me cry, but most of the time it is because they make me emotional over how pretty or actually inspirational for a depressed spirit that finds the song to be relatable may be
But if I had to pick a song that makes me emotional because it is depressive as fuck per se, I'd say the first pick that comes to mind is the MTV Unplugged version of Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains'
-MrSirLordGentleman | 9 | | Beardfish Mammoth
‘Without You’
'An incredibly underrated acoustic ballad of loneliness and regret. Beardfish have made a ton of lengthy epics, but this song - which doesn't even clock in at 3 minutes - is one of their most emotionally hard-hitting tracks imo'
-DivergentThinking | 10 | | Murcof Martes
budgie didn't say shit, so I just picked Murcof's first album :) I am interested in watching the film now.
-budgie | 11 | | Aimee Mann The Forgotten Arm
‘King of the Jailhouse’
'The album tells the story of a an alcoholic Viet Nam vet named John who takes up with a troubled drifter girl named Caroline. John is also a boxer, and the "forgotten arm" is a boxing concept about an opponent pummeling you again and again with one hand so badly that you forget all about other hand, until it comes at you from out of nowhere and delivers the haymaker.
"King of the Jailhouse" is kind of John's intro song. John and Caroline meet at the Virginia State Fair in the 1970s and decide maybe they can outrun their troubles if they run off together. During the song, sung by John as Caroline is asleep in the backseat of his car.
The chorus of the song crushes me, as it's kind of the anthem for anyone who has ever had a mental illness, an addiction, or just the feeling of being an outsider -- he knows he's different from other people, but he can't understand why...'
-Divaman | 12 | | Matt Elliott Howling Songs
'I Name This Ship the Tragedy, Bless Her and All Who Sail with Her'
'For me a lot of Matt Elliott has had that effect. Especially at a point where I wasn't feeling good with myself in my early 20s, kinda depressed because of lack of any self-esteem, love issues, teenage angst coming out late and heavy drinking
Anything in drinking songs is wrecking but probably the one single track from him that is killer is 'I name this ship the tragedy'
-pollastrerostit | 13 | | Barenaked Ladies Everything to Everyone
‘War on Drugs’
'I know it's hard to believe a band as glib and silly as BnL could ever come up with something truly heart-shattering, but this is quite possibly the most honest and sad look at the phenomenon of addiction and suicidality I've ever encountered in any medium, and as I've gotten older and seen people around me struggle with (and, sadly, occasionally succumb to) the very same issues this song describes, it only seems to hit harder with every re-listen'
-Kompys2000
Real curious about this one lol, you got my attention. | 14 | | The Antlers Burst Apart
'Putting the Dog to Sleep'
'while any number of Antlers tracks could be offered up (Hospice in particular housing them front to back), this track was made with the express intent of making your bitchass cry, creating parallels between euthanizing a beloved family dog and the final breaths of a dying relationship. essential crybaby jam.'
-RadioSuicide | 15 | | Diorama Synthesize Me
'Synthesize Me'
'If there's anything wrapped up in a 4 minute 19 second package that could grip my soul and spirit it's this thumping beat that goes and goes and goes even as the machine has broke and begged for mercy. When I listen to this song I feel myself go to a place I have only visited in my darkest dreams - a kind of stasis where when there is nowhere else to go I can visit and take a break in cold metallic darkness. The song and I are hollowed and there is a love. There is a hope somewhere buried in grief. One of my most special pieces of music.
I'm half-alive
My skin is intact
I'm only staring at
The blade'
-cordwainerbird | 16 | | Boards of Canada Geogaddi
'Over the Horizon Radar'
'this one is too much for my poor little soul to handle'
-Hyperion1001
great pick and great username : ) | 17 | | The Byrds The Notorious Byrd Brothers
'Goin' Back'
'The one song that almost always waters my eyes when I listen to it. I think it triggers me very hard on how easy/simple/innocent/genuine things were when you were younger, and not realizing how actually strange things were back then and now you have to keep up with your responsibilities, your future, your career, while also balancing all the other life things, not forgetting your family, your friends, the simple things that used to make you happy/bring you joy, not worrying about all the life's bullshits. and that's all delivered by the lovely harmonies from the byrds boys and mcguinn rickenbacker guitar, at the end it's such a simple song, but really hits me very hard'
-protokute | 18 | | Kishi Bashi Omoiyari
'Angeline'
'Young Egarran would probably say Daddy by Korn.
But the last one that made me teary was Angeline by Kishi Bashi and it's basically fucking country lyrics dammit. It's about losing your soul mate because of greedy white devils who send you to work and die in a mine. Based on a true story ):'
-Egarran | 19 | | Hayden Everything I Long For
'When This is Over'
'...the track is sung from the perspective of one of two little boys strapped into the back of a car driven into a river; their final moments. Written about a real crime from the early-mid nineties. It's hard to listen to.'
-The Wr3tched
He also mentioned Skates by the same artist because he doesn't give a shit about my silly rules lol
EDIT: Now shouting out Washer by Slint and you can read why in the comments below. | 20 | | Dave Bixby Ode To Quetzalcoatl
'Drug Song'
-Cygnatti | 21 | | Evans Blue The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume
'Beg'
'Evans Blue's "Beg" kicked me in the dick after my first break up'
-Josh D. | 22 | | Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
'A Flood of Light'
'Yeah basically the whole Time Will Die album could go here for me. I am quite an introverted person, I remember cycling out to this empty field multiple times and just listening to this album, being on my own makes me very relaxed, but it also makes me feel depressed because that's not a thing a person should be enjoying, making me feel inadequate, etc. This song just makes me think of all the hardships in my life so far, very emotional and I've cried to this song many times. I dont know why, but just being in blistering cold weather enhances this album so much more imo, whether it be at night, or a shit cloudy and windy day, I suggest it to anyone who enjoys the song/album.'
-Tundra | 23 | | Jesu Jesu
'Man/Woman'
'btw Godflesh has a track that is literally entitled "Crush My Soul", but for my official selection I am going to go with "Man/Woman" off the jesu self-titled album
honestly you should probably seek out the entire JKB catalog if soul-crushing destroyers and the like are what you're looking for - dude's got a bleak streak a mile wide'
-Sharenge
Broadrick definitely has that vibe and I have probably owe it to myself to hear more of his stuff. | 24 | | Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou May Our Chambers Be Full
'The Valley'
'My hardest soulwrecker of 2020,
"A tower of failures, get them out of my way"'
-DDDeftoneDDD
You know I'm a sucker for Thou and this song indeed does own. | 25 | | Amanda Palmer Theatre Is Evil
'The Bed Song'
The song that fucks me up no matter what. So, I’m extremely introverted and carry a lot of emotional baggage while at the same time finding it very difficult to express and articulate my emotions. I’m a reclusive loner, I don’t have many friends, I don’t have much family left, but I do have an amazing partner whom I love and adore very much. I’m not the best boyfriend (really, I’m not the best person), and I have a knack for slipping back into old habits even though I try my best not to (being emotionally unavailable, being too sad to have a drive for anything, lacking affection, etcetcetc you get the picture). So this song is symbolic to the point of its’ lyrical content will be the outcome if I keep on the trajectory I currently am. I drive the people closest to me away, without fail. I don’t know I’m doing it at the time, until it’s too late. So, the second I hear that piano into, I’m a blubbering mess and it can totally ruin my entire day and mood...'
-cold | 26 | | The Hotelier It Never Goes Out
'An Ode To The Nite Ratz Club'
'This song never ceases to put a lump in my throat that I cannot clear no matter how I try. A year and a half ago my partner put this song on, because they told me it reminded them of me. It reminded us of drunken shenanigans, breaking into abandoned places, and traveling to empty fields in search for fun. It also reminded us of how we finally found someone to confide in; all the pain we endured from self-harm, recklessness, desperation. They passed away last November, and this was one of the first songs that I listened to after it all happened. I think of that night every single day, but this song at the very least reminds me of our vulnerability, and finally feeling some happiness within each other'
-Minushuman24 | 27 | | Amenra Mass III
'Am Kreuz'
'I developed some mad neurological condition that fucked my sight up. Docs wouldn't accept its a brain condition. I travelled round the world for 11 years on and off at least 6 months a time,sometimes years and I stopped for the first time. First world problems I know,but that was entire life. Get any job,save,travel until money has gone. Repeat. Finished. I was in a bad place, Staying at a friends. My head was going under. Worse than I realised at the time. I put Amenras live 23.10 DVD on randomly, I was a fan for years but didn't get some of the over adulation for them. I broke the fk down in front of 2 of my mates when Colin was doing the suspension and Caro Oathbreaker finished the track as hes hanging in the air ('Aorte/Ritual).I Dunno. It Was a moment.'
-Deez
See below for the rest of description and a TVZ shout! | 28 | | Alice in Chains Jar of Flies
'Nutshell'
'Was my ex's favorite song. Takes me back to lovely, happy and drunken evenings and tears my heart out from incredible love lost every time I hear it. It's not the song itself so much as the emotional connection to the feeling of hearing it. The song literally leaves me utterly obliterated every time I hear it. I will never be able to love like that again.'
-evilford | 29 | | Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea
'6/99'
'This reminds me of all the choices I wish I had made and reminds me of the breakdown of a friendship I had recently. It hit me two years ago and that feeling still reverberates with me today.'
- ResidentNihilist | 30 | | The Verve Urban Hymns
'Drugs Don't Work'
'Reminds me too much of a point in my life when I became reliant on self medicating with alcohol and Adderall (a year sober now tho so that's great). This song hasn't been scientifically proven to be the most depressing song written for nothing'
-TVC15 | 31 | | El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead
'The League of Extraordinary Nobodies'
A selection of lyrics:
"Another room up in the tombs, an ugly substance
Where the grave diggers are shoveling that dirt up in her heads
The very fact is that I'm sitting here with zombies talking endlessly
But couldn't tell you one thing that was said
I get surrounded by the friendliest of strangers
Who would sooner kill themselves than give a fuck if I were dead"
(additional shout to Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag)
-MiloRuggles | |
dbizzles
04.26.21 | crybaby bump, what up, sad sacks?????????????????? | MrSirLordGentleman
04.26.21 | Many songs have made me cry, but most of the time it is because they make me emotional over how pretty or actually inspirational for a depressed spirit that finds the song to be relatable may be
But if I had to pick a song that makes me emotional because it is depressive as fuck per se, I'd say the first pick that comes to mind is the MTV Unplugged version of Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains | Koris
04.26.21 | Beardfish - Without You
An incredibly underrated acoustic ballad of loneliness and regret. Beardfish have made a ton of lengthy epics, but this song - which doesn't even clock in at 3 minutes - is one of their most emotionally hard-hitting tracks imo | someone
04.26.21 | Commenting to check back | budgie
04.26.21 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4fCo1T6ktw | Divaman
04.26.21 | Aimee Mann's "King of the Jailhouse" - from her album The Forgotten Arm.
The album tells the story of a an alcoholic Viet Nam vet named John who takes up with a troubled drifter girl named Caroline. John is also a boxer, and the "forgotten arm" is a boxing concept about an opponent pummeling you again and again with one hand so badly that you forget all about other hand, until it comes at you from out of nowhere and delivers the haymaker.
"King of the Jailhouse" is kind of John's intro song. John and Caroline meet at the Virginia State Fair in the 1970s and decide maybe they can outrun their troubles if they run off together. During the song, sung by John as Caroline is asleep in the backseat of his car.
The chorus of the song crushes me, as it's kind of the anthem for anyone who has ever had a mental illness, an addiction, or just the feeling of being an outsider -- he knows he's different from other people, but he can't understand why. Mann, singing slowly, in character as John, sings:
Baby, there's something wrong with me
Baby, there's something wrong with me
Baby, there's something wrong with me
That I can't see
That I can't see | pollastrerostit
04.26.21 | Footprints period | rockarollacola
04.26.21 | Still - Remedios
This song actually put me into a depression for almost a month. I associate it with the inevitable passing of my mother, which is an event that I will never be ready for. I've only listened to it once because it fucked me up so bad. Kind of gives me an anxiety attack just thinking of it. Pretty sure this song came from an anime that I refuse to watch solely because the song is featured in it. | pollastrerostit
04.26.21 | For me a lot of Matt Elliott has had that effect. Especially at a point where I wasn't feeling good with myself in my early 20s, kinda depressed because of lack of any self-esteem, love issues, teenage angst coming out late and heavy drinking
Anything in drinking songs is wrecking but probably the one single track from him that is killer is 'I name this ship the tragedy' | dbizzles
04.26.21 | Happy to see some input- I am at work right now, but will add all of your picks this afternoon.
Budgie, I'm guessing that's not in the data base lol but I'll get it on the list one way or another. | Kompys2000
04.26.21 | Barenaked Ladies- War on Drugs
I know it's hard to believe a band as glib and silly as BnL could ever come up with something truly heart-shattering, but this is quite possibly the most honest and sad look at the phenomenon of addiction and suicidality I've ever encountered in any medium, and as I've gotten older and seen people around me struggle with (and, sadly, occasionally succumb to) the very same issues this song describes, it only seems to hit harder with every re-listen. | LeddSledd
04.26.21 | For as much as I love music and the many feelings it bring me, I've never had that one song that kills me like so many others do. I've had songs that make me sad, yes, but never a real soul destroyer
Hmmm | TheSpirit
04.26.21 | commenting to stay crynik
weird choice but 'family tradition' always gets me in my feels b/c buddy perfect encapsulates the feelings behind growing up w/o a dad | Drifter
04.26.21 | hmm | dbizzles
04.27.21 | Alright, I got them added, will be listening over the next few days.
Spirit, you're gonna have to be more specific. I thought it was Hank Williams and then I thought it was Buddy Holly and now I know nothing lol. | twlight
04.27.21 | fourth of july hit me real hard first time i heard it | RadioSuicide
04.27.21 | The Antlers - Putting the Dog to Sleep
while any number of Antlers tracks could be offered up (Hospice in particular housing them front to back), this track was made with the express intent of making your bitchass cry, creating parallels between euthanizing a beloved family dog and the final breaths of a dying relationship. essential crybaby jam. | dbizzles
04.27.21 | Good shout. I don't think I've heard that song or album, but I'm not surprised at all that they've been fucking people up with more than just Hospice. | parksungjoon
04.27.21 | feature this | cordwainerbird
04.27.21 | great list and great concept. ill be back with one to add soon | cordwainerbird
04.27.21 | wait i got one - i didnt have to think about it much.
Diorama - Synthesize Me
If there's anything wrapped up in a 4 minute 19 second package that could grip my soul and spirit it's this thumping beat that goes and goes and goes even as the machine has broke and begged for mercy. When I listen to this song I feel myself go to a place I have only visited in my darkest dreams - a kind of stasis where when there is nowhere else to go I can visit and take a break in cold metallic darkness. The song and I are hollowed and there is a love. There is a hope somewhere buried in grief. One of my most special pieces of music.
I'm half-alive
My skin is intact
I'm only staring at
The blade | dbizzles
04.27.21 | Awesome. The list is growing nicely. I'll put together an actual playlist at some point when entries fizzle out. I have all of my picks on a spotify playlist already which is where the idea came from. | Hyperion1001
04.27.21 | this one is too much for my poor little soul to handle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxSpuL8P5Ok | protokute
04.27.21 | The Byrds - Goin Back
The one song that almost always waters my eyes when I listen to it. I think it triggers me very hard on how easy/simple/innocent/genuine things were when you were younger, and not realizing how actually strange things were back then and now you have to keep up with your responsibilities, your future, your career, while also balancing all the other life things, not forgetting your family, your friends, the simple things that used to make you happy/bring you joy, not worrying about all the life's bullshits. and that's all delivered by the lovely harmonies from the byrds boys and mcguinn rickenbacker guitar, at the end it's such a simple song, but really hits me very hard | Egarran
04.27.21 | Young Egarran would probably say Daddy by Korn.
But the last one that made me teary was Angeline by Kishi Bashi and it's basically fucking country lyrics dammit. It's about losing your soul mate because of greedy white devils who send you to work and die in a mine. Based on a true story ): | Sharenge
04.27.21 | "things will get better with time no matter what"
delusion | dbizzles
04.27.21 | Sometimes that's what I need. | dbizzles
04.28.21 | Updated.
Egarran, you've come a long way since Daddy by Korn. | TheWr3tched
04.28.21 | Skates and/or When This is Over by Hayden; the second track is sung from the perspective of one of two little boys strapped into the back of a car driven into a river; their final moments. Written about a real crime from the early-mid nineties. It's hard to listen to. | protokute
04.28.21 | it was very traumatizing listening to Daddy when I was maybe 10 years old lol | dbizzles
04.28.21 | Wr3tched, I'm going to just to add When This is Over (because you gave a description and it sounds like the kind of abyss meant for this list) add I'll add a nod to Skates. | Egarran
04.28.21 | Daddy was a new level of emotion in metal though. It was so unpleasant to listen to. That poor poor Jonathan.
Also it has a motherfucker of a riff. | Egarran
04.28.21 | I also kinda got a lump in the throat from Lake Song by The Decemberists. | Cygnatti
04.28.21 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0HzNePL-XM | Josh D.
04.28.21 | Evans Blue's "Beg" kicked me in the dick after my first break up | dbizzles
04.28.21 | I'm not hating on korn, just felt like an outlier for a choice. I love Lake Song, haven't heard that album in years.
I'll get Cygnatti and Josh's pick added in a few. I should have included Inmates or New Friend by the Good Life to be honest. Those are real motherfuckers for break-ups. | Egarran
04.28.21 | It's cool, I'm just afraid you would disqualify my emotions, you know? | dbizzles
04.28.21 | Me? Disqualify emotions? Never.
| Egarran
04.28.21 | That's good to hear | dbizzles
04.28.21 | We are up to date. Hoping for some more submissions. Bump at will. | Tundra
04.28.21 | Rolo Tomassi - A Flood of Light
Yeah basically the whole Time Will Die album could go here for me. I am quite an introverted person, I remember cycling out to this empty field multiple times and just listening to this album, being on my own makes me very relaxed, but it also makes me feel depressed because that's not a thing a person should be enjoying, making me feel inadequate, etc. This song just makes me think of all the hardships in my life so far, very emotional and I've cried to this song many times. I dont know why, but just being in blistering cold weather enhances this album so much more imo, whether it be at night, or a shit cloudy and windy day, I suggest it to anyone who enjoys the song/album. | dbizzles
04.29.21 | Added. I need to try them out again, only heard the last two which were decent enough, but didn't click with me. | Sharenge
04.29.21 | btw Godflesh has a track that is literally entitled "Crush My Soul", but for my official selection I am going to go with "Man/Woman" off the jesu self-titled album
honestly you should probably seek out the entire JKB catalog if soul-crushing destroyers and the like are what you're looking for - dude's got a bleak streak a mile wide | someone
04.29.21 | And I still have not rec'd anything. Gotta sit down and think of something soon. | DDDeftoneDDD
04.29.21 | My hardest soulwrecker of 2020
Thou and Emma - the valley
"A tower of failures, get them out of my way" | cold
04.29.21 | Man, oh man, I could legitimately create a long list of songs like this myself (PBTT, The Smiths, HANL, TA, MWY, Giles Corey, etc etc etc). But for the sake of your list, I’ll choose just one song. The song that fucks me up no matter what is “The Bed Song” by Amanda Palmer.
So, I’m extremely introverted and carry a lot of emotional baggage while at the same time finding it very difficult to express and articulate my emotions. I’m a reclusive loner, I don’t have many friends, I don’t have much family left, but I do have an amazing partner whom I love and adore very much. I’m not the best boyfriend (really, I’m not the best person), and I have a knack for slipping back into old habits even though I try my best not to (being emotionally unavailable, being too sad to have a drive for anything, lacking affection, etcetcetc you get the picture). So this song is symbolic to the point of its’ lyrical content will be the outcome if I keep on the trajectory I currently am. I drive the people closest to me away, without fail. I don’t know I’m doing it at the time, until it’s too late. So, the second I hear that piano into, I’m a blubbering mess and it can totally ruin my entire day and mood. To go through all of those lyrics just to get to the very end portion is what really solidifies it.
“ And I finally ask you, what was the matter?
Was it a matter of worse or of better?
You stretch your arms out and finally face me,
You say I would have told you if you'd only asked me”
fuckingwrecked
| dbizzles
04.29.21 | Added. Sorry, cold, I couldn't quite fit/format all of your words into the description. I actually know very little about Amanda Palmer outside her relationship with Neil Gaiman. | DDDeftoneDDD
04.29.21 | "You know I'm a sucker for Thou"
Ido | RadioSuicide
04.29.21 | i just want someone to say I Can't Make You Love Me | dbizzles
04.29.21 | lol I can't complain because I picked so many, but all these entries are making me think of more and more candidates. | someone
04.29.21 | I can't make you love me, RadioSuicide | RadioSuicide
04.29.21 | yousonofabitch | Pheromone
04.29.21 | i am sad | RadioSuicide
04.29.21 | how come | someone
04.29.21 | wly phero don't be sad | Egarran
04.29.21 | And if you must be, sing a song about it | cold
04.30.21 | Also: La Dispute- A Letter
I mean, just read the fucking lyrics. | dbizzles
04.30.21 | Give us a pick, phero!! | Egarran
04.30.21 | Phero, what's the saddest Grandaddy song? | TheWr3tched
04.30.21 | @dbizzles, just realized, I did ignore your rule, and I'm sorry. I skimmed. | dbizzles
05.02.21 | lol it doesn't matter : )
| Minushuman24
05.02.21 | The Hotelier - An Ode to the Nite Ratz Club.
This song never ceases to put a lump in my throat that I cannot clear no matter how I try. A year and a half ago my partner put this song on, because they told me it reminded them of me. It reminded us of drunken shenanigans, breaking into abandoned places, and traveling to empty fields in search for fun. It also reminded us of how we finally found someone to confide in; all the pain we endured from self-harm, recklessness, desperation. They passed away last November, and this was one of the first songs that I listened to after it all happened. I think of that night every single day, but this song at the very least reminds me of our vulnerability, and finally feeling some happiness within each other. | dbizzles
05.02.21 | I actually don't think I've heard that album at all either. Looking forward to hearing the track at least. | Deez
05.02.21 | Amenra - Am Kreuz
I developed some mad neurological condition that fucked my sight up. Docs wouldn't accept its a brain condition. I travelled round the world for 11 years on and off at least 6 months a time,sometimes years and I stopped for the first time. First world problems I know,but that was entire life. Get any job,save,travel until money has gone. Repeat. Finished. I was in a bad place, Staying at a friends. My head was going under. Worse than I realised at the time. I put Amenras live 23.10 DVD on randomly, I was a fan for years but didn't get some of the over adulation for them. I broke the fk down in front of 2 of my mates when Colin was doing the suspension and Caro Oathbreaker finished the track as hes hanging in the air ('Aorte/Ritual).I Dunno. It Was a moment. I suddenly got the the connection outside of simply the music there was a shared grief. So, turns out they were playing in Europe 2 weeks later, I flew out to Germany see them Live and it was just insanely emotion. Was like the universes lined it up. Second show night after down in Leipzig was sold out, I messaged them before I left UK explaining everything they hooked me with a Guest list, no problem to them at all. Over the years the band and the whole crew have become good friends and Ive got people I love through Amenra shows, Through the Church of Ra etc. I hit maybe 3 countries a year to see them and hang with everyone but this song always gets me, especially that second half. A lot of baggage in it. It kinda encapsulates that time and I dunno where Id be if all that hadnt happened. Legit saved my life more than likely.
Shout out to Townes Van Zandt - Nothin that would be my joint choice also! | dbizzles
05.02.21 | Damn it, Deez lol. I can’t fit all that in one entry. I’ll get it added tomorrow, paraphrased as best as I can.
And, I can’t never discount Townes. He’s my boy. | DDDeftoneDDD
05.02.21 | I'm such a normal dude, deez' stories always blow my mind away. Hope you solve(d) the eye condition bro. | evilford
05.02.21 | Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Was my ex's favorite song. Takes me back to lovely, happy and drunken evenings and tears my heart out from incredible love lost every time I hear it. It's not the song itself so much as the emotional connection to the feeling of hearing it. The song literally leaves me utterly obliterated every time I hear it. I will never be able to love like that again. | budgie
05.02.21 | dbizz: yeah lake mungo is the most harrowing depressing film ever and the credit track just rapes me | Deez
05.02.21 | 'Damn it, Deez lol. I can’t fit all that in one entry.'
yeah soz got carried away haha
@D Cheers mate, Unfortunately its unfixable. Ive kinda had to change my life around it but in a much better place. Still an incredible pain in the ass but hey. Theres always people worse off right ? x | Sharenge
05.03.21 | >Nutshell
nice choice... even without the personal connection, still a sad fucking song | dbizzles
05.03.21 | Today got away from me. Happy to see more input. I’ll update tomorrow. How long is the longest time it took for a list to get featured? I think if we get enough participants that we might be able to get it. | Deez
05.03.21 | Ya Feature diss
Honestly | someone
05.05.21 | i don't know, i'm blank. can't think of any song that makes me cry.
heartless bastard | parksungjoon
05.05.21 | featur ethis | someone
05.05.21 | gonna have to hear the songs on the list to know for sure that my emotions are stunted | parksungjoon
05.05.21 | feature this | dbizzles
05.05.21 | Updated. Let's get some more entries.
Fordy, I feel that deep inside. I have a few songs like that, luckily not usually by bands I like so much as bands they liked. I'm fortunate not to run into them too often, but they still come up in my thoughts all these years later. It's DUMB. | RadioSuicide
05.05.21 | yupyup, about a year detached from a 3 year relationship with my ex who loved a ton of the same music as me, especially within the folk/indie rock realm. Fourth of July was one of those songs, but it already destroyed me anyways so no biggie | dbizzles
05.05.21 | Call it collateral damage lol. | RadioSuicide
05.05.21 | hahaha spot on. applies to a lot of Listener as well. we got to see them at a dive in Pitt with '68, Dan even walked by me when they exited the stage and i intentionally kinda bumped into his sweaty arm so i could say i touched him lmfao. bailed halfway thru '68's set to get high and fuck back at the hotel. bittersweet memories. | ResidentNihilist
05.05.21 | Frodus - 6/99 off of And we washed our weapons in the sea.
This reminds me of all the choices I wish I had made and reminds me of the breakdown of a friendship I had recently. It hit me two years ago and that feeling still reverberates with me today. | dbizzles
05.05.21 | You know they are destroyers when they stand the test of time. | evilford
05.05.21 | @dbizz yeah that's good man lol. My ex and I shared some taste, mostly with some hard rock/metal. My favorite band for like a decade was tool. But that was her favorite band. So now they're pretty much ruined for me lol | TheWr3tched
05.05.21 | I'm back for more, as I realized there was no Slint on the list!
Slint - Washer;
Haunting, cuts straight to the bone, it just bleeds vulnerability; makes me think of the times I spent wallowing in loneliness when I couldn't figure out any of my romantic relationships in my youth, still takes me back to those feelings every time I hear it; others may be able to relate. | TheWr3tched
05.05.21 | If you want to exile me dbizz, I understand | evilford
05.05.21 | Washer is the best song ever made no joke | evilford
05.05.21 | Hard hitter for sure | TheWr3tched
05.05.21 | Hell yeah man, I've yet to hear anything I can compare it to | dbizzles
05.05.21 | Check the edit on your Hayden pick. Also, yes, you are now exiled. Please refrain from all contact from here on out lol. | TheWr3tched
05.05.21 | I'm sulking away, but I'm also grinning | Deez
05.06.21 | 'can't think of any song that makes me cry.
heartless bastard'
Cold mfer | dbizzles
05.06.21 | We need to AT LEAST hit 30 items on the list. B U M P | TVC15
05.06.21 | The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
Reminds me too much of a point in my life when I became reliant on self medicating with alcohol and Adderall (a year sober now tho so that's great). This song hasn't been scientifically proven to be the most depressing song written for nothing | MiloRuggles
05.07.21 | El-P - League of Extraordinary Nobodies
"Another room up in the tombs, an ugly substance
Where the grave diggers are shoveling that dirt up in her heads
The very fact is that I'm sitting here with zombies talking endlessly
But couldn't tell you one thing that was said
I get surrounded by the friendliest of strangers
Who would sooner kill themselves than give a fuck if I were dead" | MiloRuggles
05.07.21 | Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag may just be self-hatred at its most potent (and poetic) | MrSirLordGentleman
05.07.21 | Yeah why hasn't been this featured yet
"Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag"
oh yeah, that's one that hurts a lot
| budgie
05.07.21 | featured | dbizzles
05.07.21 | Yooo I’ll get this updated in the morning. Thanks for the entries. | RadioSuicide
05.07.21 | next do sputnik is mad | Egarran
05.07.21 | In fact most consonants would work
sputnik is vlad | dbizzles
05.07.21 | Sputnik is Chad
Updated. Always have room to shout out so Cohen. | Deez
05.07.21 | Great shout Milo | dbizzles
05.08.21 | Thought of another one. Stepson by Foals kicks me in the chode with a steel-toed boot. | budgie
05.08.21 | check lake mungo dbizz | dbizzles
05.09.21 | I plan on it. |
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