I’m listening to Jacques Brel right now. What else y’all got for me? All genres and languages welcome.

  • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
    7·
    19 days ago

    My go to when I’m suicidal is the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. It’s the perfect album when I need to feel okay with not being okay. Also gives my depression a name and a face that I can insult and yell at when my brain is being mean to me.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      19 days ago

      I love NIN, I have the album on CD. Pretty Hate Machine is still one of my all-time favorites. Probably a good time to listen to it again.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    19 days ago

    I call random customer service phone lines and wait in line and then hang up after 30 seconds of listening to the saddest person on earth asking if I’m there or if I can hear them.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      18 days ago

      Great cover by an amazing artist. I hadn’t listened to his version in a while. It’s still so good. Thank you!

  • fool@programming.dev
    5·
    19 days ago

    I reserve some wordless music for when my sadness gets critical. That way, they always sound bittersweet without me listening them to death.

    • Lourié’s 5 Préludes Fragiles. Makes me feel aware of how easy I am to break at the moment, but also how pretty survivalism through fragility can be.
    • Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. It’s not about a dead princess, just one in the past, but it makes me feel like I’m that princess, rich and sad and stepping around in a bright, cream-beige ballroom. Instead of just solely sad.
    • Debussy’s Images. II. Hommage à Rameau. A quiet plaintiveness with occasionally rising energy helps me tend closer to neutrality.
    • Stanchinsky’s Prelude in the Lydian Mode. As the n-tuplets get desperate, I get desperate to fix everything. But then the curses stop and we return to a pretty but occasionally sickly quiet. The nonsenses are pinpricks in its floral thoughts.
    • Glinka/Balakirev’s The Lark. Reminds me that I’m fluttering, not just floundering.

    In any order, but I usually start with the Fragile Preludes (especially the middle few of the set). Lyrical songs are usually for higher energy/mood to me

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      19 days ago

      I really like Soundgarden. I haven’t listened to his solo material before. It’s probably a good time to start. I remember when he passed, It’s still hard to believe he’s gone.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      2·
      19 days ago

      Shower in the dark day, clean sparks diving down
      Cool in the waterways, where the baptized drown…

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      18 days ago

      I listened to all three. Number 3 is the saddest and cutest thing I ever seen. Thank you!

      Edit: The sad little aliens are pretty relatable too

      • Coriza@lemmy.world
        3·
        18 days ago

        I am really happy you enjoyed :)

        The sad little aliens are pretty relatable too

        Right?

        I didn’t know Jacques Brel by name but I when to check it out and the first YouTube suggestion was Ne me quittes pas and I recognize it, very sad and very beautiful indeed.

        • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          13 days ago

          I found his music through Seasons in the Sun which is a rough translation of Brel’s song Le moribond. Now I can’t listen to the English version, it’s worse in every way. His music can be very sad and also beautiful as you said. He was a very talented artist.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    2·
    19 days ago

    When I’m feeling what I can only describe as ‘general despair at the state of things’ (weltschmerz?) I have to admit that Babylon Zoo’s Spaceman does a great job in vocalising what I feel.