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Old 07.16.2008, 03:55 AM   #21
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i think the universe is ending when I listen to it

Ohh nice one.
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Old 07.16.2008, 04:15 AM   #22
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i find that Cat Power's Moon Pix extremely bleak, while at the same time kinda encouraging

Alice in Chains' Dirt is ultra bleak, the sound of heroin
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Old 07.16.2008, 04:22 AM   #23
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frigid stars by codeine is so good.
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Old 07.16.2008, 06:55 AM   #24
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bleaker than bleak
here is an excerpt :
"EVERYBODY DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES"

powerful, yet fucking bleak, to say the least.
musically excellent
i don't listen to this anymore
i was a great Sepultura and Obituary fan back in the early 90's though.
killer
might spin this nasty gonzo laters today
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Old 07.16.2008, 07:15 AM   #25
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I still think Berlin by Lou Reed holds up perfectly. I absolutely love that records, and yet can only listen to it through once every couple of years.

Bleakest album of them all. Puts your Jandeks, Sunns, and Godpspeeds to shame in that department.
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Old 07.16.2008, 07:18 AM   #26
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You guys haven't obviously heard the album I talked about in the first post
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Old 07.16.2008, 07:24 AM   #27
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Songs: Ohia 'Ghost Tropic' is pretty much a downer as well.
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Old 07.16.2008, 08:31 AM   #28
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Yeah that whole album is pretty depressing. I think Fevers & Mirrors is sadder, though.

"And they made me a necklace, hanging beads of sweat on a string of my regrets, and placed it round my neck and they were singing, 'Don’t you do what you’ve wanted to. Don’t destroy yourself like those cowards do. And maybe the sun keeps coming up because it has gotten used to you and your constant need for proof.'”

True. In 'A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever And A Necklace' the recording of that kid trying to read the storybook is sometimes too suffocatingly sad to even listen to.
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:07 AM   #29
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:08 AM   #30
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:31 AM   #31
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I don't see Godspeed as being bleak and all that. To me, their music has always been filled with hope.
Well I can hear hope on Lift Yr Skinny... and Yanqui UXO, but not on F#A#. I think that album is a perfectly describing a pre or post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

Hmm... it may sound dull but I think it would fit perfectly in the second part of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, you know when you get out of the temple and you see the mountain surrounded by a big red ring behind you...
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:32 AM   #32
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I still think Berlin by Lou Reed holds up perfectly. I absolutely love that records, and yet can only listen to it through once every couple of years.

Agreed 100%
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:34 AM   #33
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:36 AM   #34
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ive never dig codeine (the band, not the drug, the drug is veddy nice)

the bleakest album ever? shit thats a tough one. i would have to say something by jandek. how about 'your turn to fall'.
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:36 AM   #35
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I still think Berlin by Lou Reed holds up perfectly. I absolutely love that records, and yet can only listen to it through once every couple of years.

i agree on the bleakness, however i find it quite listenable and play it somewhat often
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Old 07.16.2008, 09:43 AM   #36
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Cat Power's covers album. Such a dirge, massively depressing.
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Old 07.16.2008, 10:12 AM   #37
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i find that Cat Power's Moon Pix extremely bleak, while at the same time kinda encouraging

Alice in Chains' Dirt is ultra bleak, the sound of heroin

these two i endorse.

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codeine i like a lot but i don't find them bleak at all.

are we talking about albums with bleak lyrical themes or bleak music or bleak everything? because most of the albums on this list don't seem bleak at all to me.
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Old 07.16.2008, 11:00 AM   #38
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Old 07.16.2008, 03:07 PM   #39
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Old 07.16.2008, 03:10 PM   #40
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Skip Spence's "Oar" I find pretty harrowing - a great album too.
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