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Discounting classical for the moment, what songs/albums do you like that are just downright grim and sepulchral.

The Cure - The Drowning Man
Swans - A Hanging

― mzui, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Funeral Party" by the Cure

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"This Big Hush" by Shriekback

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division - "The Eternal"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Joy Division "The eternal"
The Cure "All cats are grey"
Big Star "Holocaust"

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

swans- god damn the sun

― kephm, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Just throw on Faith and Closer and an appropriate Swans CDR.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Throbbing Gristle - Auschwitz

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ravel - Pavane for a Dead Princess

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Bethlehem - Dictius Te Necare (You must kill yourself)
Skepticism - any album/song/whatever

― Avi (Avi), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Over" - Portishead

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"REQUIEM" BY KILLING JOKE

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

EVERYTHING on the marble index. also i guess on desertshore and the end. MI is the blackest and uglist of them all, though.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"My Way" by Elvis Presley with the "C.C. Rider" reprise playing on repeat as they're carrying the coffin out.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Lycia - Cold

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie Wonder - "They Won't Go When I Go"
Scott Walker - "Farmer In The City"
Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"
Ralph Stanley - "O Death"

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Cul de Sac - "I Remember Nothing More"

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Just a Closer Walk With Thee" at dirge tempo. It may not sound *that* grim, but it's played at a whole lot of funerals and it's all context anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heresie" by Univers Zero

Skepticism is good.

― manuel (manuel), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Knifestorm Funeral Music

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike & the Mechanics - "The Living Years"

― thekingatnight, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Elton John - "Funeral For A Friend" - from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 20 August 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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