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.
What song would you recommend to someone who has done things she regrets when she had the opportunity to have something good and lives with the still-ongoing snowball effect that she is so used to seeing as karmic that she doesn’t typically bring up any of the issues?
Swans - Song for Dead Time
So bury your trust beneath the ground with me, dear
And lay your loneliness down for the sun to burn
To sand…
Yes. Swans have several beautiful crushingly dark songs. God Damn the Sun is one I go to.
Here’s the closest I’ve got.
Priest is an electronic music project originally formed by ex-members of the hugely popular band Ghost. I’d call this Darkwave, but the label doesn’t matter, it’s depeche mode-y and don’t let the gimp mask put you off, I believe the song is very sincere.
I can't stop, it's too late, it pours out, it's my fate My legacy in black Looking in to my eyes, see the things i despise My soul is tainted black I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny I'm free of all the lunacy I never want it back, my history in black Silent screams longing voice, violent dreams, ringing noise My memory is black It's not a mask, it's my skin Please don't ask where i've been My heart is painted black I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny I'm free of all the lunacy I'm never want it back, my history in black I escaped from the cage inside I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny I'm free of all the lunacy I never want it back, my history in black My history in blackYes, that works. I definitely feel this song.
Depression is a mess, it can have lots of symptoms. Same as antidepressants kek.
True, though I thought being “not in the mood” (for a lack of a better word) is required before all diagnoses of depression.
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 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 Está Vivo - Barão Vermelho
- Could Have Been Me - The Struts
- This Time - Guano Apes
- Spirit Never Die - Masterplan
- Sem Parar - Gabriel o Pensador
- Tente Outra Vez - Barão 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 I’m feeling like shit.
Where My Heart Will Take Me
JONATHAN ARCHER INTENSIFIES
Exactly
On GP - Death Grips
The Cure, Disintegration
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lorde - Liability
Hits that slow, mellow, sad music tone cravings with heavy hitting lyrics.
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
This album does the trick.
Planning for Burial - Below the House
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lX7Y_8v8ReyLynZVcEua1Kcs9PMcVL9Ow
LDLHA‐IBCSYWA by Twiztid
When my dog died I’d listen to it and cry a ton.
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Mostly Leaf Ellis from Sorority Noise
