I'm not checking, but in 4 pages surely somebody mentioned Ryan Adams' Hearbreaker. "Call me on you way back home" will kill you if you're in the proper frame of mind. And "Come pick me up" is narcissistic in the best way. Its just calling out for more abuse.

Help! has got to be the Beatles' saddest album, and as such, one of the saddest albums ever made. Check out "Help!", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday", etc., etc.

i can't believe nobody has mentioned any of nick drake's music here. pink moon is probably the most beautiful sad album i've ever heard. nor can i believe that sparklehorse hasn't been mentioned, gorgeous chamber pop sadness made in a farmhouse in rural virginia by a sincerely depressed mark linkous. the best of his is (ironically) 'it's a beautiful life.' of mark kozalek's albums, 'blue guitar' is a great album, but for rainy day sadness, buy 'ocean beach' by the red house painters. one of the first posts mentioned south san gabriel, and if you want pure unfiltered sadness with the spare beauty of a drum machine, acoustic guitar and deeply melancholy voice, try 'welcome convalescence.' i guess the truly saddest bastard of them all had to be elliot smith. i live in portland, so it makes some sense to me, but there is an undercurrent of depression that permeates every note he ever recorded.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Song of the Blackbird isn't too terribly sad, but I do enjoy it. I'm gonna have to check out some of his older stuff.

I don't think we're operating on the same axis of sad, here. Half the songs are about dying and it's not too terribly sad??????

Oh and my I'm From Barcelona joke totally fizzled, which made me because I felt oh so clever when I made it.

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Originally posted by Vykromond:

Oh and my I'm From Barcelona joke totally fizzled, which made me because I felt oh so clever when I made it.

Well. It is sad, just not in the way you meant I guess.

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Originally posted by Hophead:
I'm not checking, but in 4 pages surely somebody mentioned Ryan Adams' Hearbreaker. "Call me on you way back home" will kill you if you're in the proper frame of mind. And "Come pick me up" is narcissistic in the best way. Its just calling out for more abuse.

I said that a few posts into the thread. I love Ryan Adams more than anything. I'm never sure if I listen to him because I'm depressed or if I'm depressed because I listen to him. Either way, many of his songs make me despair more than I thought I was capable of.

I tried my best to read through the previous 4 pages and actually pay attention; I don't think anyone mentioned Pilate.

Pilate's 2001 (I believe) release Caught by the Window is something I would definitely classify as a great sad CD. They're pretty mellow but have some serious temper/emotional/loud (kinda orchestral?) parts in their songs. No songs are too epic or overbearing, so I really kinda like them a lot. On the down side at times the lyrics can seem a tad bit whiny, but it's nothing too severe and I can easily overlook that.

They go by the name Pilot Speed now, and they released another album a few years ago but I unfortunately never got around to checking it out. Whoops.

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Originally posted by Sicnarf:
Swell's Too Many Days Without Thinking is really good and really sad and has some really good indie guitarisms.

This album = not sad. Yet, after listening to it just once, it is really good.

hurrrrrrrrr

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I think Saybia - the second you sleep has some really sad songs.

I was just reading the Onion AV Club's Permanant Records feature on Matthew Sweet's Altered Beast, and it reminded me that Sweet's "Someone to Pull the Trigger" would make a good addition to this thread.

You should look up Michael Runion. His Ep this year hit me like Ryan Adam's Heartbreaker first hit me. Really good.

Hopefully you still check this thread: here's some albums I think you'll really love,as we seem to have a pretty similar taste in music from what you've mentioned. Anyways.....

* The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
* Ben Christopers - Spoonface
* Eels - Blinking lights and other revelations
* Damon and Naomi - More sad hits
* Elbow - Asleep in the back
* Scott Walker - Scott 3
* Okkervil River - Black sheep boy
* Robert Wyatt - Rock bottom
* Air - The Virgin Suicides (O.S.T)
* Headphones - Headphones

Hmmm, I don't know most of those. I'll have to give them a shot sometime.

Yeah, you definately won't regret it.

I didn't realize Air made a soundtrack...

maybe i just missed it cuz i havent read all 5 pages...but if conor obersts music isnt depressing and sad and indie i dont know what is...

Even though I did not really enjoy the album....Love Spit Love's "Am I wrong" is pretty damn sad. People usually make fun of me for liking this song because it was in the movie "Angus"...but I still listen to it from time to time.

Try Smog and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

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Originally posted by Moon Pix:
Try Smog and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Very good choices. Bill Callahan is a brilliant songwriter. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone was not my cup of tea at first but his music grew on me.

P.S.- Welcome Back, MP