Most dismal CD you've ever heard

[dingodan]

I remember staind, they only had 2 decent tracks if I recall.

This is kind of the opposite of the threads purpose but two albums which have stayed with me (despite changes to my taste) have been Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory and Maroon 5, Songs about Jane. Both imense from the first track through to the last track.

As for bad albums that have disappointed, Stereophonics albums get progressively better as you got backward in time, with Performance and Cocktails and Word Gets Around being ridiculously awesome. Nothing they have dones since has ever really come close to the first two albums.

Music Rocks

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[Dave the OAP]

Some of the REM ones are a bit dismal....but what really dissapointede me was TANGO IN THE NIGHT by Fleetwood Mac. It came off the back of RUMOURS which was a genius album, but TITN was IMHO just dreadful

 

[Buzzer]

The album that fills me with eternal sadness is Elliott Smith's 'From a Basement On a Hill'. Effectively, it was his suicide note after years of fighting mental illness and drug abuse. I still miss him, 8 years on.

The dreariest album I ever bought though was 'The Week Never Starts Round Here' by Arab Strap - members included Malcolm Middleton and some of Belle and Sebastian although you wouldn't think it with a depressing slice of the life of a nobody on a sink estate in post-Thatcher Britain. It's sordid, it's nasty and depressing in a way like no other.

I'd also give a mention in despatches to Bowie's soundtrack to the film 'Christine F'. Any film about underage prostitution and heroin addiction isn't going to be a bundle of laughs though, is it?

Anyone who says the Smiths or Leonard Cohen or Echo and the Bunnymen is the type of person who doesn't get black humour.

 

[Buzzer]

By the way - the early 80s were a golden time for miserablist electronic pop and there's a brilliant blog that has lots of obscure miserable stuff. Here's the link: http://blackesteverblack.blogspot.com/

Also, there's a lot from the Witch House genre that is incredibly doom-laden and morose.

Can I also add the 'Laughing Stock' album by Talk Talk? One of my favourite albums, it's a classic album by Mark Hollis who really was peed off with all things music industry at this point and delivered one of the first post-rock soundscapes that is as minimal as it is depressing. I love it!

 

[peterward]

this is officially the worst CD ever made............ it you want to torture me for info, you don't need violence, this CD and 25 minutes should get me singing like a canary...... I'll sign ANYTHING

1. Glad All Over - Crystal Palace FC FA Cup Final Squad 1990
2. Claret And Blue - Crystal Palace FC 1972
3. Power To The Palace - Palace
4. Why Can't We All Get Together - Crystal Palace FC 1972 & Wives
5. Bye Bye Blackbird - Terry Venables & Friends
6. Flying High - Palace
7. Gonna Build A Palace - Gary's Construction Company
8. Our Crystal Palace - Crystal Band
9. Where Eagles Fly - Crystal Palace FC FA Cup Final Squad 1990
10. Follow The Eagles - Universal
11. We All Follow The Palace - Eastern Eagles
12. We Are The Eagles - Eastern Eagles
13. Eagles Are Flying High - Garage Mechanics
14. I'm In Love With Harry Bassett - Lady Helen Of Selhurst
15. Where's Joyce - Lower Tier
16. We're Back Where We Belong - Eddie Eagle
17. Yes We're Back - Back Five

 

[New Carpet?]

Knives Don't have Your Back, the solo album from the lovely Emily Haines (of Metric and Broken Social Scene fame) from a few years ago instantly sprung to mind - very, very miserable.

Hope she's not as grouchy and morose in real-life conversation.

 

[xenophon]

Dismal, but every song is still brilliant

 

[xenophon]

Same as this, crackingly dismal

 

[Nickols4]

'The Best of Daphne & Celeste'. (I may have made up 'The Best of..' bit)

 

[Return of the Rev]

'Still' by Joy Division[/QUOTE
just love that album

 

[gazingdown]

Same as this, crackingly dismal

Quite possibly the best album ever, certainly for me.

It's is quite dark though but not as dark as Pornography / Faith albums.

When the Cure do "dark" they do it so darn well.

For many "dark" bands, if you don't "get it" it can be depressing but for those that do, it's touching, heartfelt, inspiring, emotional etc... It's not for the musically superficial.

I have a whole list of sad, introspective, beautiful music but that said, I'm not enamoured with the use of "dismal" to describe any of it.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

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[Goldstone Rapper]

'The Best of Daphne & Celeste'. (I may have made up 'The Best of..' bit)

Ooh stick you!

 

[Frutos]

Some of the REM ones are a bit dismal....but what really dissapointede me was TANGO IN THE NIGHT by Fleetwood Mac. It came off the back of RUMOURS which was a genius album, but TITN was IMHO just dreadful

Off the back of Rumours?

It was 11 years later and there were three albums (Live, Tusk, Mirage) between the two.

 

[brakespear]

'Pornography' by The Cure is the most distressingly mentally unbalanced record I have ever heard (at least mainstream stuff anyway).

It's also fantastic.

 

[KNC]

The NSK 'Top Twenty Songs and Chants'

 

[Art Vs Science]

Voivod's Angel Rat was depressing and then i suddenly realised it's hidden genius. Other than that, The Outer Limits was the only thing of note they produced unless you like utter Noise

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[DT Withdean]

Anything by James Blunt.
Utterly dull music by the over-hyped public school twat.

 

[Twizzle]

Some of the REM ones are a bit dismal....but what really dissapointede me was TANGO IN THE NIGHT by Fleetwood Mac. It came off the back of RUMOURS which was a genius album, but TITN was IMHO just dreadful

So you missed 'Tusk' then?