music for the darker days

[The Chase]

Don't forget Portishead! First time I ever heard them was a CLASSIC rainy day/blow my brains out situation..

Oh shit I dont even know how I forgot portishead

the beginning of 'Roads' is soothing no matter how bad the doldrums are (wish there were no drums, though)

Wandering star, Only you, Mysterons, all good tunes.

[DuX]

I usually cheer myself up with some Leaether Strip. "Legacy of hate and lust" or "Positive depression" usually does it for me and I end up demolishing my room a bit... man what a relief . I also love Portishead and I'm glad someone like them, too. Great band.

Cheers.

[_oswald]

Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" is my favorite 'lemons-into-lemonade' album. Love it.

[DuX]

Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" is my favorite 'lemons-into-lemonade' album. Love it.

This is one of my most "overplayed" albums. First the record then a CD. The record is all worn-out from playing it . No wonder it's so good and dark, it was recorded in Berlin. One of the best from Depeche along with Music for the masses and Violator.

[sirocco]

Nick Drake - Pink Moon (whole album)

[Voidoid Surrealist]

Mahler - 2nd symphony
Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Prokofiev - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F minor
Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Cruel Way to Go Down
Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
Suicide
Naked City
Painkiller
Burzum
Swans
Arab on Radar
Alice in Chains
A CD I filled with a bunch of Sickle's stuff that he posted here...

[DuX]

Some excellent stuff you got there Voidoid .

[xoxos]

you guy actually let your mood be governed by your environment/playing recordings?

seriously.. not me.. but don't *you* think you're kind of pathetic???

if your dumb ass needs to be programmed to stop bumping into clearly visible solid objects, et c., may i suggest damon edges' chrome.

why?

because, as anyone will tell you, w/o helios, chrome went to shit, so you get 30 minutes of overtly sucky garbage instead of sucky garbage that wants you to think it's the queen.

but then again, civilised people do need to feel that sense of entitlement or they'd be uncomfortably out of place aww diddums

f**king civilised people with chocolate cakes on little doilies coming out they speakers, all perfect and 'ahh, here's my recording, i am now the master because i am the perfect receptor'

you can see the little 'betty crocker' spoon in the corner, dumbfucks

[clueless]

[herodotus]

Ehem...so, anyway....During my ugliest period (about 4 years back or so) i stayed alive by listening to The Jesus Lizard (mostly "Shot", but also that first album recorded at CBGB's) and Joel R.L. Phelps and the Downer Trio's "Blackbird", which is so damn good it gets listened to no matter what mood I am in.

[clueless]

that should be enough to finish anybody off

[clueless]

but if not...



...there's always Mrs Mills again

[clueless]

alternatively...

[Bourgeois]

Do yourself a favour and give some of these a listen. Right now guddammit.

Radiohead - There There
Catpower - Fool, Metal Heart, etc.
Boards of Canada - An Eagle in Your Mind
The Smiths - Asleep
Joanna Newsom - Clam Crab Cockle Cowry
Junior Boys - Birthday
Vitalic - The Past
Philip Jeck - Pax
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Teach Your Children Well
Temptations - I Wish it Would Rain
Juliana Hatfield - The Lights
Xiu Xiu - Mike
Interpol - A Time to be So Small
Fog - The Girl from the Gum Commercial
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
The Microphones - Solar System
T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
Joy Division - Ceremony
Supersilent - 6.2
TV on the Radio - Blind
Mirah - Person Person
Mum (moom) - The Land Between Solar Systems
Durutti Column - Love is a Friend
Smashing Pumpkins - Blank Page
The Cure - Watching me Fall (underdog remix)
Low - Embrace
Fennesz - Rivers of Sand
Unwound - Below the Salt
Sonic Youth - I Love Golden Blue
Grandaddy - He's Simple He's Dumb He's the Pilot
Schneider TM - The Light 3000
Mercury Rev - Little Rhymes
Unkle - Unreal
Modest Mouse - Life Like Weeds
Radiohead - Dollars and Cents
Smashing Pumpkins - In My Body
Smog - Sweet Treat
Tom Waits - Alice
The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
The Microphones - The Mansion
Xiu Xiu - Suha
The Shins - New Slang
The Walkmen - French Vacation
M83 - Farewell Goodbye
Styrofoam - Safe & Broken
Murcof - Ulysses
Soft Pink Truth - Do They Owe Us a Living
Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away I'm Dying

This is just a small sample of the comforting that I require. Sniff.

[luCiPHer]

Don't forget Portishead! First time I ever heard them was a CLASSIC rainy day/blow my brains out situation..

Oh shit I dont even know how I forgot portishead

the beginning of 'Roads' is soothing no matter how bad the doldrums are (wish there were no drums, though)

Wandering star, Only you, Mysterons, all good tunes.

roads without drums?
would totally destroy it, portishead is all about the drums, the singer and some backgroundtextures (rhodes and stuff), in THAT order.
oh, and i'm one of those guys that prefer the SECOND album