What's a depression anthem? I never expected sufferers of depression to feel like singing a theme song to it.
It depends on what you mean.
A single song: Hurt - Jonny Cash
Playlist to feel that:
- Pergunta Urgente - Frejat
- Broken Heart - White Lion
- Hurt - Jonny Cash
- Shake It Out - Florence & The Machine
- Best Thing I Never Had - Beyonce
- Dos Margaritas - Herbert Viana
- Depois - Marisa Monte
To recover from that:
- Ain't no grave - Jonny Cash
- Where Angels Fear to Fly - Battle Beast
- Hurt - Jonny Cash
- Fire in Bone - The Killers
- Semana que Vem - Pitty
- Life Won't Wait - Ozzy Osbourne
- Broken Heart - White Lion
- Temporal - Pitty
- O Poeta Está Vivo - Barão Vermelho
- Could Have Been Me - The Struts
- This Time - Guano Apes
- Spirit Never Die - Masterplan
- Sem Parar - Gabriel o Pensador
- Tente Outra Vez - Barão Vermelho
- Carry On - Angra
- Levanta e Anda (feat. Rael) - Emicida
- What a Wonderful World - Joey Ramone
- Rising Fire - Firewind
- Let Me Hear You Scream - Ozzy Osbourne
- Heavy Metal Never Dies - Iron Savior
- Born to Survive - Myrath
- Amnesia - Red Sun Rising
- Dance - Myrath
- Freak Like Me - Halestorm
- Where My Heart Will Take Me - Russel Watson
- Saga Cega - RAPadura
- Farol - Supercombo
- I Like It - Lacuna Coil
- Beyond the Burning Skies - Battle Beast
- Reason to Believe - Arch Enemy
- Moving On - Jimmy Cliff
- Conselho - Almir Guineto
- Unstoppable - Sia
- A Beautiful Life - Dorothy
- Nothing is Forever - Iron Savior
This second playlist is named "Keep Walking". The first one, translated, could be "wheel's bottom".
Nine Inch Nails album With Teeth. Every Day is Exactly the Same, Only, and Right Where it Belongs.
i'm so tired - fugazi. this song has accompanied almost every depression breakdown i can remember.
Might as well just ask what my Recap is:
- All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus
- New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
- The Last Thing - Lebanon Hanover
- Autonomy - Boy Harsher
- Ghosts Again - Depeche Mode
- Anhedonia - Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle
- Various Methods of Escape - Nine Inch Nails
- Turn Those Clapping Hands into Angry Fists - Against Me!
- Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
- 6:45 - Firewater
- The Man on the Burning Tightrope - Firewater (the whole album, not just the song)
so many against me songs are depressive yet really beautiful. joy, searching for a former clarity, i still love you julie, and especially paralytic states. that song is like a knife in the heart for my dysphoria lmao.
I like to go all the way back to Pints of Guinness Make You Strong sometimes. The line
- If I would have known
- Just how things would have ended up
- I just would have let myself die
Always gets me
Daniel Johnston - Cold Hard World
What I listen to when I'm depressed and want to be, not the best song to lift you out of it.
Desperados Under the Eaves (but really, lots of Warren Zevon songs)
That's the Way the World Goes Round (John Prine)
I have several actually:
- As mentioned earlier: Portishead - Threads. Actually, the whole album is perfect for a certain desolate mood.
- The God Machine - Picture of a Bleeding Boy
- The Cure - End
- Joy Division - Komakino
- Nine Inch Nails - The Wretched
The fragile cd 1 is just fantastic depreasion music all around.
TV On The Radio - Young Liars. The entire EP, or just the single with the same name from it, depending on my mood.
Every New Year's i play the same two songs around midnight: This Year by The Mountain Goats and The Ice of Boston by The Dismemberment Plan. Both help me get through those turn of the year moods.
