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View Poll Results: The most Depressing Band?
Alice In Chains 19 6.48%
Coldplay 28 9.56%
Dashboard Confessional 15 5.12%
Death Cab For Cutie 11 3.75%
Neil Young 2 0.68%
NIN 13 4.44%
Nirvana 20 6.83%
Placebo 6 2.05%
Radiohead 24 8.19%
Smashing Pumpkins 16 5.46%
Tool 6 2.05%
Classical Composer (eg Mozart) 8 2.73%
A Perfect Circle 7 2.39%
Other 118 40.27%
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Old 06-12-2015, 05:20 PM   #461 (permalink)
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Maybe they were mentioned before, however a quick "Thread Search" of their name yielded no result. So, one of my favourite Folk/Doom Metal bands and probably my favourite band from South America is a band called Uaral. They only released two LPs and a bit of other stuff before splitting up, but a lot of it's really good, sad melancholic stuff. The primary aspect of their music which draws the most interest from me is how well they've incorporated South American Folk music with their other Extreme/Doom Metal sound.

The only thing in their music that leaves me kinda wanting is, due to English not being their first language, some of the lyrics' grammar is somewhat poor, though it's adequate enough if the listener isn't wanting to focus on the lyrics as a primary aspect for their enjoyment of Uaral's music, because the music's otherwise quite great. However, I've also heard some complaints over the inclusion of Extreme Metal vocals in their music, it was never much of an issue for me, and probably shouldn't be for anyone else who likes, or can at least tolerate that vocal style.

Their first album is probably my favourite of theirs, though their second is also worthwhile. Here's their first:




The band Sigh has also done quite some doomy stuff. I think the song Seed of Eternity is particularly doomy and great, with some quite sad lyrics. Metal-Archives' display of the lyrics to the song is a bit incorrect, though it's correct for the most part if anyone's interested in looking them up while listening to the song, and anyone who can usually make out lyrics from Extreme Metal vocalists should be able to make out the rest of the lyrics pretty well as the vocalist is much more intelligible than many other Extreme Metal vocalists out there. The lyrics really do add a lot of doom/gloom to the song and they pair up quite well together, so for the sake of posting this in this thread, I really would recommend reading them while/if you listen to the song.
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Old 06-12-2015, 06:50 PM   #462 (permalink)
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Always found Morphine to be pretty depressing.

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I never enjoyed when artists reinterpret and redo songs to make them into tearjearker songs. Yes, I do understand that you can really "listen" to the lyrics better and understand the song in a whole new way...but I prefer to listen to the original song rather than the more "depressing" interpretation...I just find it irritating and annoying and a somewhat cheapening of the original song. Just my pov.

Cases in point:
Alphaville's "Big in Japan"


vs Ane Brun's interpreation



or Tears for Fears's "Mad World"



vs. Gary Jules's version

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I think U2 is the most depressing band because it makes me sad that something so terrible got so popular.
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I think U2 is the most depressing band because it makes me sad that something so terrible got so popular.
This pretty much sums up my feelings about U2, I've never heard anything I've ever liked from them.
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This pretty much sums up my feelings about U2, I've never heard anything I've ever liked from them.
People tell me they have good songs, and I listened to a good deal of their discography trying to see if I could find it, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for.







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Old 06-16-2015, 08:32 PM   #468 (permalink)
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People tell me they have good songs, and I listened to a good deal of their discography trying to see if I could find it, but I still haven't found what I'm looking for.







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Well done. Have you heard Negitivland - The Letter U And The Number 2 (I think that's what it's called)
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Well done. Have you heard Negitivland - The Letter U And The Number 2 (I think that's what it's called)
Are you talking about this scandalous bad boy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_(EP)

If so, then yes, Negativland kicks some arse.
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Are you talking about this scandalous bad boy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_(EP)

If so, then yes, Negativland kicks some arse.
YES!!! And I know my dad introduced me to them a few yeats ago they ****ing rule.
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