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Which album do you find the darkest lyrically and atmospherically?
This Mortal Coil - "It'll End In Tears" for me
A lyric from Fond Affections
"Now the winter's drawing close The days are getting older I can tell by your face that your heart is getting colder"
and there's plenty more of that on there
Jiphy wrote:
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote: Recoil - Unsound Methods
+1
It's an excellent album, although nothing like Depeche. At least over here, though, it's very difficult to find Recoil. In Boston, I found it in a goth/industrial section in a used record store called In Your Ear, but in Philly, even at a record store that sells exclusively goth/industrial/synthpop/any band with a synth in it records, I found none on several occasions.
Here are a few that immediately jump to mind...
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma DAF - Alles ist Gut Skinny Puppy - Vivisect VI
Daver wrote: Got to be Closer.
same here. i'm not really into dark music, although some of that smiths stuff i have is also quite dark.
Killing Joke (1980) Closer Berlin - Lou Reed Disintegration - The Cure In Utero - Nirvana The Downaward Spiral - NIN The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
Some of these have been mentioned before, but:
Cocteau Twins - Garlands JD - Closer ACR - The Graveyeard And The Ballroom
Snorri xxx
M wrote: any by the Birthday Party
aint got them now but had their first 2 albums at the time.
saw them at hac in 82 and yea your right, dark as hell
If I have to go with the album which is almost too depressing to bear, it'd be Dead Can Dance's Serpent's Egg. But I have a lot of dark music, so trying to win one over the other is just a bit tough.
twist wrote: Pornography
same here m8
btw. I wouldnt call It'll end in tears a dark album, its quite warm, nice and I dont have a trauma after listening hehe
arek p. wrote:
twist wrote: Pornography
same here m8
btw. I wouldnt call It'll end in tears a dark album, its quite warm, nice and I dont have a trauma after listening hehe
i find the lyrics " there's no light at the begiining/there's no light at the end/lets all sit down and cry"
and
" your mother's dead"
quite depressing
Johnny wrote:
arek p. wrote:
twist wrote: Pornography
same here m8
btw. I wouldnt call It'll end in tears a dark album, its quite warm, nice and I dont have a trauma after listening hehe
i find the lyrics " there's no light at the begiining/there's no light at the end/lets all sit down and cry"
and
" your mother's dead"
quite depressing
Thanks for giving the forum a lift Johhny
Johnny wrote: bad timing eh?
Nothing to do with timing mate...I'm probably on the wrong thread,sorry
Binocher wrote: Probably Unknown Pleasures - Black Cover ( Dark )
first thought too.
Substance. also black. but am more ok with it's content over say- INXS - because it wasn't a lie. that JD- touching from a magicaL distance.
M*A*S*H suicide is painless tune ..is a track stopper.
Darklands 
by the Mary Chain
or Dark Side of the Moon by Floyd.
(but probably Revelations by Killing Joke)
One of the volumes of "selected ambient works II" by Aphex Twin (a pint to anyone who knows where to name comes from)...can;t remember which one tho. Also "I care because you do"....it's not just musically dark, it's engineered with genuine evil.....fucking test tones running through tracks and stuff....fucking maniac.
oh and Gorecki (SP?)'s third symphony....a cheery suite about the Warsaw ghetto, but it's interspersed with moments of genuine beauty.
EDIT: come to think of it, the darkest music I have is stuff I did myself. Stuff so sick it's not even on the webserver before any of you buggers start on me bandwidth again :D ( I know who you are....I have logs you know....na, the stuff's there for a reason ;) )
Hmm we are on a new order site and no one has mentioned NO's greatest album 'movement'. nothing is darker than dealing with the reality of your good friends suicide, and they did it in the studio (rip hannett)
other than that
closer holy bible pornography full collapse (thursday)
