Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:58     Subject: Saddest album?
Anonymous wrote:Mine would be Undun by The Roots. The first time I listened, knowing the story, I could not stop hysterically crying. Even now, certain songs like "Make My" come up in shuffle and make me teary eyed.



Other contenders would be "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" by Kanye and any album by Bon Iver.

Does anyone have a favorite "sad" album?


No one's in the lighthouse...
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:55     Subject: Saddest album?
Blue by Joni Mitchell was right up there.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:51     Subject: Saddest album?
Anonymous wrote:Mine would be Undun by The Roots. The first time I listened, knowing the story, I could not stop hysterically crying. Even now, certain songs like "Make My" come up in shuffle and make me teary eyed.




What's the story?
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:51     Subject: Saddest album?
Anonymous wrote:Oddly, any album by the Carpenters. I think it's some personal recollections of a difficult time for me in the 70's, along with knowing what happened to Karen Carpenter.



Yes, she has a very beautiful but melancholy voice.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:50     Subject: Re:Saddest album?
Elvis Costello, Painted by Memory.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:42     Subject: Saddest album?
Oddly, any album by the Carpenters. I think it's some personal recollections of a difficult time for me in the 70's, along with knowing what happened to Karen Carpenter.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:39     Subject: Saddest album?
Anonymous wrote:carrie and lowell by sufjan stevens


Yes.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 20:38     Subject: Saddest album?
I tend to break out Fiona Apple or the Hope for Haiti album when I'm in a certain kind of mood.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 16:27     Subject: Saddest album?
David Gray -- White Ladder
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 16:03     Subject: Saddest album?
Anonymous wrote:Nick Drake, and then he killed himself


The Pink Moon got him...


Pink Floyd -- The Wall
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2015 15:39     Subject: Saddest album?
Springsteen, Tunnel of Love
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2015 01:49     Subject: Saddest album?
Anonymous wrote:+1 for either/or
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2015 01:45     Subject: Saddest album?
Anonymous wrote:+1 for either/or


My first thought as well
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2015 01:31     Subject: Saddest album?
A lot of Shawn Colvin songs are really, really depressing. Much of what is on Sunny Came Home is just, whoa. Jewel's Pieces of You is pretty bleak in places. Springsteen's Ghost of Tom Joad makes me want to open a vein or two. The Psychedelic Furs, All of this and Nothing or Talk Talk Talk, partly because they're sad and also because they remind me of a time when I was sad. And on that note a special mention goes out to The Smith's Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, because of all the times I played it to wallow in, cry about, and/or transcend my unrequited teenage crush. Ah, love!
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2015 00:21     Subject: Re:Saddest album?
On the Road to Kingdom Come by Harry Chapin

All of his songs are stories and every one is more depressing and sad that the one before.