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I find Big Star's Sister Lovers, and Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights extremely bleak. And neither sound even remotely like Joy Division. Which is always a plus.
Lou Reed's Berlin is bleak, but it's perhaps a bit too self-consciously so for me. Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue is all the more harrowing simply because it shows someone trying to put on a smile to cover up the fact that they're clearly in a deep hole.
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