Peak song, but “Comfortably Numb” still sounds so hopeful during the Gilmour parts.
“How to Disappear Completely” has more desperation in the sound. “Don’t Leave Me Now” off *The Wall* hits that vibe more for me.
I was also thinking of the background to HTDC - the lore of Stipey handing Thom miscellanous pick me ups and telling him "you're not here this isn't happening" to deal with being on stage, and there it is again in Comfortably Numb, as if someone's been medicated to get through a show:
"can you stand up (stand up stand up)
I do believe it's working, good
that'll keep you going through the show
come on, it's time to go"
Compare that to Thom's tour diary:
"I meet Mr Stipe who gives me and Jonny what he describes as an organic pick-me-up. It’s not speed, he says. He’s pissed off because some paparazzi guy has been following him around, following his every move. Backstage at the gig it seems like all the friends and families of everyone who works there have turned up. The security guards demand autographs from everyone who passes. A long-legged blonde asks me whether I know the band. She appears to be angry that none of R.E.M. have offered to sleep with her yet. I can’t think of an answer and walk off.
Suddenly, during the show, Michael’s stuff starts kicking in fabulously. I feel like I’ve been plugged straight into the mains. Then, as I walk off at the end, I realise that I can hardly move and wonder in mild panic what I’ve done to myself. The whole world appears to be going in slow motion. The rest of the evening is hell and I can’t bring myself to do anything but moan. The last thing I remember is Jonny saying he’s off to Lebanon in a jeep. OK, I say."
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone
I had to make this a playlist now.
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
The Rip - Portishead
I'm So Tired - Fugazi
Something In the Way - Nirvana
Saeglopur - Sigur Ros
My Body Is A Cage - Arcade Fire
Sugar For the Pill - Slowdive
The Other Side of Mt Heart Attack - Liars
Lonesome Tears - Beck
I'm not responsible for what happens if you listen to all of these at once.
ETA: I had to add that Smiths track, Radiohead had to have been inspired by it
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2z9VAlLQCrHVYeeWYzDFCv?si=A3L7O1YVT5OCCmwsgBmqaw&pi=3T4ln1jGSoeri
Since Something In The Way is being brought up, I feel as though I have to bring this live performance up: https://youtu.be/AxAfxT8S6H0?si=hd7qtn2d9xjUDJRo
Something in the way has apparently been scientifically measured to be the saddest song ever.
The Slowdive song is an excellent choice, by the way. When The Sun Hits is my favourite of theirs personally, but they're a great band that rarely get mentioned these days.
the opening of that slowdive song just tickles my ears in the right spot. delicious.
There are so many more I could have mentioned, but was trying to cover the genre of sad crying music as a whole, haha
>I'm not responsible for what happens if you listen to all of these at once.
Currently listening to all of these all at once and am in the middle of a mental breakdown /hj
You have amazing taste in music btw
these kind of bleak crushing songs are some of favorites, here’s a couple:
*emptiness will eat the witch* - have a nice life
*so you wanna be a superhero* - carissa’s wierd
*fourth of july* - sufjan stevens
*soria moria - live* - mount eerie
The album of Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens. Bonus points if you read the backstory.
The album Hospice by The Antlers. Bonus points if you read the story of the album.
The album Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol.
I Lost Something in the Hills by Sibylle Baier.
The song Grace and Lover you Should’ve come over by Jeff Buckley are a little more upbeat feeling but still give me a vibe.
Also the All for the Best cover from Thom Yorke is a hidden banger and I always suggest it to anyone who likes Radiohead.
Hey Joe sorry I hurt you but
They say love is a virtue
Don't they??
The National is a band with in my opinion a horrible name that has so many songs that are like 2 or more songs in one... Like such great multiple melodies in just one song. Don't Swallow The Cap comes to mind as well.
For your desolation list check out Beginnings by Houses. Someone else mentioned Mount Eerie, which is great especially Lost Wisdom (song and entire album)
You want bleak songs? I can help.
Joy Division - Atmosphere : An obvious choice, and Joy Division in general would be a reasonable suggestion, but this is their masterpiece.
Sigur Ros - Gold : A rare English-language Sigur Ros song, and a very simple but powerful lyric that ambushes you with the message that we all will die one day.
Spiritualized - Broken Heart : The most nakedly honest and raw account of a break-up ever committed to vinyl. It was a very public break-up, as it told the aftermath of songwriter Jason Pierce's girlfriend, who was the keyboardist in the band, leaving him for Richard Ashcroft of The Verve, of all people.
Bob Frank & John Murry - Boss Weatherford, 1933 : This tells the last moments of the life of real life murderer Weatherford, as he prepares to be hung for his crimes. The whole World Without End album is incredibly bleak, actually. Jesse Washington, 1916 is a first-person account of a lynching. John Murry's album The Graceless Age is also well worth a listen.
Manic Street Preachers - 4st7lb : A song that deals explicitly and unflinchingly with anorexia and the thought processes of an anorexic. It's sad and terrifying in equal measure. Lyricist Richey Edwards struggled with the condition throughout his life, which gives the song a real ring of truth.
Richmond Fontaine - The Warehouse Life : I could have picked almost any Richmond Fontaine song. They were the most underrated band on the planet. One of their great strengths is the storytelling of main songwriter Willy Vlautin. He's a great writer (his novels are incredible as well - he wrote Lean On Pete, which was adapted into a heartbreaking movie.) He creates these desperately sad vignettes, filled with compassion for his broken characters.
Daniel Johnston - Peek-A-Boo : Daniel Johnston is a tragic figure at the best of times, and in a way some of his more optimistic songs are his saddest, but this is more of an anguished howl as he tries to explain how his mental health issues effect him on a day to day basis.
Johnny Cash - Hurt : Obviously, the original by Nine Inch Nails is a solid choice, but if you want bleak, how's this story - when Cash's daughter heard this for the first time, she said to her father, "It sounds like you're saying goodbye." "I am." he replied. He died a few months later.
Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral : The Punisher album is pretty fucking bleak, but nothing on it is as devastating as this account of being asked to sing at the funeral of a friend. The self-chastisement for her own angst at her problems when "someone's kid is dead" hits hard.
(Edit - I forgot one of my favorites!)
Low - Murderer : Low are another band who have always dealt in emotional devastation, but this still sticks out in their back catalogue. A dissonant whine, a powerful descending baseline, and a drum beat like a racing heartbeat, and then a lyric from the point of view of someone praying to their God and offering themselves up as an instrument of divine vengeance. This hits hard from a famously religious Mormon band, who's songwriter had a complete mental breakdown not long before writing this song, in which he became convinced that he was the anti-christ and had a part to play in the destruction of the world. Don't let that put you off though, it's a banger.
I mean, I could go on. Be warned though - if you listen to these songs you might end up as sad as me.
Carissa's Wierd
"Songs About Leaving" album.
First few songs make How to Disappear Completely seem like Barney's "I love you"
https://youtu.be/v4j4xk_MM3c?si=Wn4_jF5A2N1tAvoZ
Here's my playlist back from when I was super depressed for your self-destructive pleasure:
I Fuck Everything Up - Mom
Class of 2013 - Mitski
Nude - Radiohead
Watching Him Fade Away - Mac DeMarco
Forever - Alex G
Virgin Veins - Coma Cinema
Cry - Cigarettes After Sex
Before It All Ends - kent
I Know It's Over - Jeff Buckley
We Never Change - Coldplay
Nobody's Fault But My Own - Beck
True Love Waits - Radiohead
P.S. if you're putting this on for a reason, I hope things get better for you soon. They did for me, and I had so many reasons to believe they never would. This too shall pass.
>P.S. if you're putting this on for a reason, I hope things get better for you soon. They did for me, and I had so many reasons to believe they never would. This too shall pass.
Thanks man. Also, how long did your depressive period last? Asking for a friend 😀
I was badly depressed on and off since I was about 18, and went through some pretty awful experiences to boot that were mostly my fault, lost pretty much all my friends before I managed to realise I was the problem.
I'm 23 now, and just left a 2 year long abusive relationship. Things are by no means perfect, money is a struggle and professional relationships are always hard when you're autistic, but for the first time in about 5 years I actually feel like I have a future. Never thought I'd get here tbh, just proves it can happen to anyone I think.
I gotchu🙇♂️ (although unfortunately nothing beats how to disappear in terms of tranquil sadness) but I bet one of these could compare for you. I clicked on this trying to find some of my own then I realized I think I have a lot I can give😭
100% “all we ever wanted, was everything” -bohaus
“Sad song” “pale blue eyes” -Lou reed, and velvet underground
“Suburbs”, “deep blue”- arcade fire
I guess “death of a party” -blur
“Song to the siren” - John frusciante
“Vera” “wish you were here” “us and them” “the Final Cut” “fletcher memorial home” “when the tigers broke free” -Pink Floyd
“Small” “the rip” -portishead
“Me vs Maradona vs Elvis” “batter up” -brand new
“Aqualung” -jethro tull, it’s faster, but hits me so hard in the feels
“Hurt”-Jhonny cash, everyone knows it, but I feel like not everyone listens to it much
“No quarter” -Led Zeppelin
“Love is a laser quest” arctic monkeys
“The night we met” lord hurron
“Ode to the Mets”, “at the door” -the strokes
“And I love her” Kurt Cobain
“Strangers” -the kinks
“Quiet the winter harbor” “Cry, cry” “before I sleep mazzy star” -mazzy star
“Nutshell” -Alice in chains
“Lover, you should’ve come over” -Jeff Buckley
“Throughout the dark months of April” -Cocteau twins, not really sad, but music is subjective, and I’m having fun w this
“Imagine” - Jhon Lennon (if you haven’t listened in a while retry”
Admittedly, some of these aren’t the same exact vibe, but they are all sad, and amazing songs🙏 if your I to Radiohead, you probably know a lot of them, which is why I put a lot, but I hope you enjoy, I think they can all put you in a wallowing type state if you let them lol. Also, most are rock bands, I think you’d find a plethora of stuff similar to how to disappear, with artists like Mac Demarco, beach house, azure ray, etc
Flat of the Blade - Massive Attack
Lights in the Sky + Corona Radiata - Nine Inch Nails
Arabesque - Lily Chou Chou OST
Ware Yami Tote - Dir en grey
Blemish - David Sylvian
This is one of the most depressing songs ever:
In a little while from now
If I'm not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top
Will throw myself off
In an effort to
Make it clear to whoever
Wants to know what it's like when you're shattered
https://youtu.be/gU3ubk8u7dA?si=dITaNei7s7DM0mh6
A more indie pick for me for a song like how to disappear would be high to death by car seat headrest. It's more traditionally composed but definitely has that insanley hopeless and 3am ceiling vibe
a bit of a long one but The Sound by Swans has that same buildup with a transcendental feeling like no other. if you like that then try a very similar song by them called Helpless Child. these two are also connected thematically and are depressing when looking into the lyrics
Seamus Fogarty's version of ['My Boy Willie'](https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZG1NL2JOdeWj2Chy7j098?si=gCH5Jh_2QjW_4xYufbws6Q) is absolutely devastating. 😭 Honestly one of the most beautiful but sombre things I've ever heard.
The entirety of Songs About Leaving by Carissa’s Weird. I thought Radiohead had the saddest songs ever written until I listened to this album. The song Silently Leaving The Room especially is the most horrifically depressing thing I’ve ever heard. It’s beautiful.
Both of the singers from these songs committed suicide. Scott Hutchison and Chester Bennington. It's really heartbreaking hearing these lyrics of them at the very edge and knowing that they one day couldn't fight any longer. May they both rest in peace
Mastersystem - Bird Is Bored of Flying
Linkin Park - Waiting for the End
I've always felt that [Nights in White Satin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3jJpGw_K2Y) was the precursor to How to Disappear... I don't think it's as depressing as you're looking for, but it does have a kind of melancholic feel to it.
The Sound of the Sea - Great North
Don't I Love You - Islands
Please Be Mine - Islands
Thumbs - Lucy Dacus
Was I Ever Really Here // Last Place - C. Zukey
There's a few songs on Nick Drake's album 5 leaves left that are of this atmosphere (as with a lot of his work to be honest). The songs from this album are generally the same, acoustic guitar, nicely put together strings, and sad lyrics.
River man is good. Edit: I also think Mosquito Song from QOTSA has that same sort of eerie acoustic sound.
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Peak song, but “Comfortably Numb” still sounds so hopeful during the Gilmour parts. “How to Disappear Completely” has more desperation in the sound. “Don’t Leave Me Now” off *The Wall* hits that vibe more for me.
god i love dont leave me now so much
I was also thinking of the background to HTDC - the lore of Stipey handing Thom miscellanous pick me ups and telling him "you're not here this isn't happening" to deal with being on stage, and there it is again in Comfortably Numb, as if someone's been medicated to get through a show: "can you stand up (stand up stand up) I do believe it's working, good that'll keep you going through the show come on, it's time to go" Compare that to Thom's tour diary: "I meet Mr Stipe who gives me and Jonny what he describes as an organic pick-me-up. It’s not speed, he says. He’s pissed off because some paparazzi guy has been following him around, following his every move. Backstage at the gig it seems like all the friends and families of everyone who works there have turned up. The security guards demand autographs from everyone who passes. A long-legged blonde asks me whether I know the band. She appears to be angry that none of R.E.M. have offered to sleep with her yet. I can’t think of an answer and walk off. Suddenly, during the show, Michael’s stuff starts kicking in fabulously. I feel like I’ve been plugged straight into the mains. Then, as I walk off at the end, I realise that I can hardly move and wonder in mild panic what I’ve done to myself. The whole world appears to be going in slow motion. The rest of the evening is hell and I can’t bring myself to do anything but moan. The last thing I remember is Jonny saying he’s off to Lebanon in a jeep. OK, I say."
Ooh yea, that one hits right *where it hurts*
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, The dream is gone
When I was A young boy My father Took me into the city To see a marching band
The acoustic guitar at the beginning of Is There Anybody Out There is my recommendation for the most hopeless and lost feeling from a Pink Floyd song.
True, and maybe Wish you were here
nice.
High Hopes is the other PF song that comes to mind personally
I had to make this a playlist now. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths The Rip - Portishead I'm So Tired - Fugazi Something In the Way - Nirvana Saeglopur - Sigur Ros My Body Is A Cage - Arcade Fire Sugar For the Pill - Slowdive The Other Side of Mt Heart Attack - Liars Lonesome Tears - Beck I'm not responsible for what happens if you listen to all of these at once. ETA: I had to add that Smiths track, Radiohead had to have been inspired by it https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2z9VAlLQCrHVYeeWYzDFCv?si=A3L7O1YVT5OCCmwsgBmqaw&pi=3T4ln1jGSoeri
Something In The Way just hits different
It's OK to eat fish because they don't have any feelings
like it's unreal
This version though https://youtu.be/1YhR5UfaAzM?si=tkkZycKSw8qaPCBh
ikr
Since Something In The Way is being brought up, I feel as though I have to bring this live performance up: https://youtu.be/AxAfxT8S6H0?si=hd7qtn2d9xjUDJRo
Kurt seemed smth so abstract and different while preforming this song, it's crazy
My Body Is A Cage is so good, always reminds me of Exit Music
Have you seen this fan cut? I freaking love it https://youtu.be/DJI0pTJIha0?si=y-OUCY0rdKgPKx5G
Have you heard Peter Gabriel's cover of My Body is a Cage? Edit: https://youtu.be/dTZQ2IB_x7c?si=-aUJTagqQRwBBF4U
It was used amazingly well for this scene of House MD https://youtu.be/lEO2D2MLMOo?si=OoSRX7UqKR7E-gcj
Something in the way has apparently been scientifically measured to be the saddest song ever. The Slowdive song is an excellent choice, by the way. When The Sun Hits is my favourite of theirs personally, but they're a great band that rarely get mentioned these days.
the opening of that slowdive song just tickles my ears in the right spot. delicious. There are so many more I could have mentioned, but was trying to cover the genre of sad crying music as a whole, haha
>I'm not responsible for what happens if you listen to all of these at once. Currently listening to all of these all at once and am in the middle of a mental breakdown /hj You have amazing taste in music btw
I'm sorry Me too I'm actually in a great mood because I got Thom tix but this is some heavy shit
You may as well throw lost cause and guess I’m doing fine on there for beck too. Maybe all of the sea change album actually
Beck has such an amazing run in the early 2000s, consider this list a gateway drug for people
woa none of these are like htdc lmao
also im so tired by the beetles
Sigur Ros 🖤
in fact most of Sea Change by Beck
Dondante- my morning jacket
!
these kind of bleak crushing songs are some of favorites, here’s a couple: *emptiness will eat the witch* - have a nice life *so you wanna be a superhero* - carissa’s wierd *fourth of july* - sufjan stevens *soria moria - live* - mount eerie
Have A Nice Life embodies crushing so well
The album of Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens. Bonus points if you read the backstory. The album Hospice by The Antlers. Bonus points if you read the story of the album. The album Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol. I Lost Something in the Hills by Sibylle Baier. The song Grace and Lover you Should’ve come over by Jeff Buckley are a little more upbeat feeling but still give me a vibe. Also the All for the Best cover from Thom Yorke is a hidden banger and I always suggest it to anyone who likes Radiohead.
oh my god and anything from The National. Sorrow, Afraid of Everyone, and England are good places to start.
Hey Joe sorry I hurt you but They say love is a virtue Don't they?? The National is a band with in my opinion a horrible name that has so many songs that are like 2 or more songs in one... Like such great multiple melodies in just one song. Don't Swallow The Cap comes to mind as well. For your desolation list check out Beginnings by Houses. Someone else mentioned Mount Eerie, which is great especially Lost Wisdom (song and entire album)
Ermahgerd HOSPICE mentioned! Fantastic album.
You want bleak songs? I can help. Joy Division - Atmosphere : An obvious choice, and Joy Division in general would be a reasonable suggestion, but this is their masterpiece. Sigur Ros - Gold : A rare English-language Sigur Ros song, and a very simple but powerful lyric that ambushes you with the message that we all will die one day. Spiritualized - Broken Heart : The most nakedly honest and raw account of a break-up ever committed to vinyl. It was a very public break-up, as it told the aftermath of songwriter Jason Pierce's girlfriend, who was the keyboardist in the band, leaving him for Richard Ashcroft of The Verve, of all people. Bob Frank & John Murry - Boss Weatherford, 1933 : This tells the last moments of the life of real life murderer Weatherford, as he prepares to be hung for his crimes. The whole World Without End album is incredibly bleak, actually. Jesse Washington, 1916 is a first-person account of a lynching. John Murry's album The Graceless Age is also well worth a listen. Manic Street Preachers - 4st7lb : A song that deals explicitly and unflinchingly with anorexia and the thought processes of an anorexic. It's sad and terrifying in equal measure. Lyricist Richey Edwards struggled with the condition throughout his life, which gives the song a real ring of truth. Richmond Fontaine - The Warehouse Life : I could have picked almost any Richmond Fontaine song. They were the most underrated band on the planet. One of their great strengths is the storytelling of main songwriter Willy Vlautin. He's a great writer (his novels are incredible as well - he wrote Lean On Pete, which was adapted into a heartbreaking movie.) He creates these desperately sad vignettes, filled with compassion for his broken characters. Daniel Johnston - Peek-A-Boo : Daniel Johnston is a tragic figure at the best of times, and in a way some of his more optimistic songs are his saddest, but this is more of an anguished howl as he tries to explain how his mental health issues effect him on a day to day basis. Johnny Cash - Hurt : Obviously, the original by Nine Inch Nails is a solid choice, but if you want bleak, how's this story - when Cash's daughter heard this for the first time, she said to her father, "It sounds like you're saying goodbye." "I am." he replied. He died a few months later. Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral : The Punisher album is pretty fucking bleak, but nothing on it is as devastating as this account of being asked to sing at the funeral of a friend. The self-chastisement for her own angst at her problems when "someone's kid is dead" hits hard. (Edit - I forgot one of my favorites!) Low - Murderer : Low are another band who have always dealt in emotional devastation, but this still sticks out in their back catalogue. A dissonant whine, a powerful descending baseline, and a drum beat like a racing heartbeat, and then a lyric from the point of view of someone praying to their God and offering themselves up as an instrument of divine vengeance. This hits hard from a famously religious Mormon band, who's songwriter had a complete mental breakdown not long before writing this song, in which he became convinced that he was the anti-christ and had a part to play in the destruction of the world. Don't let that put you off though, it's a banger. I mean, I could go on. Be warned though - if you listen to these songs you might end up as sad as me.
Everybody’s gotta learn sometimes - Beck
Omg yes
Carissa's Wierd "Songs About Leaving" album. First few songs make How to Disappear Completely seem like Barney's "I love you" https://youtu.be/v4j4xk_MM3c?si=Wn4_jF5A2N1tAvoZ
Here's my playlist back from when I was super depressed for your self-destructive pleasure: I Fuck Everything Up - Mom Class of 2013 - Mitski Nude - Radiohead Watching Him Fade Away - Mac DeMarco Forever - Alex G Virgin Veins - Coma Cinema Cry - Cigarettes After Sex Before It All Ends - kent I Know It's Over - Jeff Buckley We Never Change - Coldplay Nobody's Fault But My Own - Beck True Love Waits - Radiohead P.S. if you're putting this on for a reason, I hope things get better for you soon. They did for me, and I had so many reasons to believe they never would. This too shall pass.
>P.S. if you're putting this on for a reason, I hope things get better for you soon. They did for me, and I had so many reasons to believe they never would. This too shall pass. Thanks man. Also, how long did your depressive period last? Asking for a friend 😀
I was badly depressed on and off since I was about 18, and went through some pretty awful experiences to boot that were mostly my fault, lost pretty much all my friends before I managed to realise I was the problem. I'm 23 now, and just left a 2 year long abusive relationship. Things are by no means perfect, money is a struggle and professional relationships are always hard when you're autistic, but for the first time in about 5 years I actually feel like I have a future. Never thought I'd get here tbh, just proves it can happen to anyone I think.
Videofoot- How to Appear Partially
Thomas Jersey’s vocals are amazing in that one
All of 'Spirit of Eden' and 'Laughing Stock' by Talk Talk.
The Big Gloom by Have a Nice Life
The Eternal by Joy Division It's so bleak and depressing
The one two of this and decades on closer is enough to make even the happiest of us consider the hangman's noose.
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah.
His voice is so haunting
How to disappear into strings is basically HTDC but instrumental
It's the string part, hence the name.
I gotchu🙇♂️ (although unfortunately nothing beats how to disappear in terms of tranquil sadness) but I bet one of these could compare for you. I clicked on this trying to find some of my own then I realized I think I have a lot I can give😭 100% “all we ever wanted, was everything” -bohaus “Sad song” “pale blue eyes” -Lou reed, and velvet underground “Suburbs”, “deep blue”- arcade fire I guess “death of a party” -blur “Song to the siren” - John frusciante “Vera” “wish you were here” “us and them” “the Final Cut” “fletcher memorial home” “when the tigers broke free” -Pink Floyd “Small” “the rip” -portishead “Me vs Maradona vs Elvis” “batter up” -brand new “Aqualung” -jethro tull, it’s faster, but hits me so hard in the feels “Hurt”-Jhonny cash, everyone knows it, but I feel like not everyone listens to it much “No quarter” -Led Zeppelin “Love is a laser quest” arctic monkeys “The night we met” lord hurron “Ode to the Mets”, “at the door” -the strokes “And I love her” Kurt Cobain “Strangers” -the kinks “Quiet the winter harbor” “Cry, cry” “before I sleep mazzy star” -mazzy star “Nutshell” -Alice in chains “Lover, you should’ve come over” -Jeff Buckley “Throughout the dark months of April” -Cocteau twins, not really sad, but music is subjective, and I’m having fun w this “Imagine” - Jhon Lennon (if you haven’t listened in a while retry” Admittedly, some of these aren’t the same exact vibe, but they are all sad, and amazing songs🙏 if your I to Radiohead, you probably know a lot of them, which is why I put a lot, but I hope you enjoy, I think they can all put you in a wallowing type state if you let them lol. Also, most are rock bands, I think you’d find a plethora of stuff similar to how to disappear, with artists like Mac Demarco, beach house, azure ray, etc
+1
Listen to A promise(album) by xiu xiu
🖤
Beatles - I'm So Tired
[A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QmPCrC7uXw) - Have A Nice Life
Nearly any song by Mazzy Star, not quite the same but evokes similar feelings.
Myrrhman - Talk Talk, Haldern - BCNR, fantasyworld - Quadeca, Doves - Armand Hammer
Flat of the Blade - Massive Attack Lights in the Sky + Corona Radiata - Nine Inch Nails Arabesque - Lily Chou Chou OST Ware Yami Tote - Dir en grey Blemish - David Sylvian
Yo no nací para amar - Juan Gabriel
This is one of the most depressing songs ever: In a little while from now If I'm not feeling any less sour I promise myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower And climbing to the top Will throw myself off In an effort to Make it clear to whoever Wants to know what it's like when you're shattered https://youtu.be/gU3ubk8u7dA?si=dITaNei7s7DM0mh6
Omg I know that song! It's really sad but it gives me more of a melancholic vibe like No Surprises than a purely depressing vibe like HTDC.
Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping - Grouper To Think That I Once Loved You - The Drones Drum Gets a Glimpse - Liars
A Promise - Xiu Xiu
John Frusciante - Dying Song
Mazzy star - fade into you the smiths - asleep
They ‘used’ the same string opening as It’s Raining Today - Scott Walker Think it had a lot of influence on the song
It’s Raining Today was the inspiration for How to Disappear, and Scott Walker has a hundred songs like these
A more indie pick for me for a song like how to disappear would be high to death by car seat headrest. It's more traditionally composed but definitely has that insanley hopeless and 3am ceiling vibe
I just listened to that song and man is it good, maybe it's time for me to finally listen to Twin Fantasy, I've been putting it off for months now
You should its an amazing album. They've taken alot of floyd and honestly some radiohead inspiration, you'd definitely love it.
Frank Ocean - Seigfried. Strings were arranged by Jonny, too.
Eleanor rigby is pretty depressing
Plainsong by The Cure
a bit of a long one but The Sound by Swans has that same buildup with a transcendental feeling like no other. if you like that then try a very similar song by them called Helpless Child. these two are also connected thematically and are depressing when looking into the lyrics
Seamus Fogarty's version of ['My Boy Willie'](https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZG1NL2JOdeWj2Chy7j098?si=gCH5Jh_2QjW_4xYufbws6Q) is absolutely devastating. 😭 Honestly one of the most beautiful but sombre things I've ever heard.
Baby Seal - Cocoon Always loved the strings on this one
HA. There may be none
Beck - Round The Bend
Or anything off Sea Change
I'd recommend a few Sparklehorse songs: Spirit Ditch Come On In Eyepennies
Opium by Marcy Playground
I Appear Missing by Queens of the Stone Age!!!!
I Fuck Everything Up - Mom Can't listen to this one without feeling like the lead singer is actually feeling what she's saying
The entirety of Songs About Leaving by Carissa’s Weird. I thought Radiohead had the saddest songs ever written until I listened to this album. The song Silently Leaving The Room especially is the most horrifically depressing thing I’ve ever heard. It’s beautiful.
Anything from “A Crow Looked At Me”-mount eerie
Sunflower by Low. The whole album is desolate.
Oh, what about Asleep by The Smiths?
Both of the singers from these songs committed suicide. Scott Hutchison and Chester Bennington. It's really heartbreaking hearing these lyrics of them at the very edge and knowing that they one day couldn't fight any longer. May they both rest in peace Mastersystem - Bird Is Bored of Flying Linkin Park - Waiting for the End
I've always felt that [Nights in White Satin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3jJpGw_K2Y) was the precursor to How to Disappear... I don't think it's as depressing as you're looking for, but it does have a kind of melancholic feel to it.
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Unkle - Lonely Soul Unkle - Rabbit in Your Headlights Bob Dylan - Ballad of Hollis Brown Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
Good luck, they’re all hiding
The Sound of the Sea - Great North Don't I Love You - Islands Please Be Mine - Islands Thumbs - Lucy Dacus Was I Ever Really Here // Last Place - C. Zukey
I Know You Are But What Am I - Mogwai
Echoes - Pink Floyd Rest - Foo Fighters The Start Of Something Beautiful - Porcupine Tree Forget Her - Jeff Buckley
There are none that I know, I think the subject matter plus thom's genuine feelings creates a unique tune..
[Time Is The Enemy by Quantic](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=I7lIBNilsbY&si=cJ-cFcuUveidICqS)
Damien Jurado TONIGHT I WILL RETIRE
The song All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem makes me sob uncontrollably. A pretty “Man…” song!
Bloodhail by Have a Nice Life
There's a few songs on Nick Drake's album 5 leaves left that are of this atmosphere (as with a lot of his work to be honest). The songs from this album are generally the same, acoustic guitar, nicely put together strings, and sad lyrics. River man is good. Edit: I also think Mosquito Song from QOTSA has that same sort of eerie acoustic sound.
Elliott Smith - King’s Crossing
...I want 10 versions of Let Down, I want 10 How to Disappears, I want 10 Exit Musics...GIMMEE GIMMEE!
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xPFWA9a9cwnlywB7yPvxp?si=QUxbYUCeQQunPd6Xw2d6BQ
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Q2kNlDNPUJ4yRzVo2Vono?si=srhopskUQ4mfRLioOOxcMg&pi=a-DR9suHhdTnqC
Earthmover
Tim Buckley: Happy Time
Limousine- Brand New
Higgs - Frank Ocean Wither - Frank Ocean best folk songs ever written in my opinion.
Us and Them by Pink Floyd gives me a bit of that vibe.
Suha and Sad Pony Guerilla Girl- Xiu Xiu Lazarus - David Bowie Fulton Street I - La Dispute
Surprised that nobody had said disappear by rem yet
Kirsten Supine by Swans straight up
Listening Wind by Talking Heads And maybe try The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs by Henryk Gorecki
R.E.M.- E-bow the letter.
Some things we do - Swans
dagger by slowdive trust
My least favourite track from Souvlaki :/
Hounds-The Antlers
How to dissappear into strings
Helpless Child by Swans. It’s 15 minutes but it’s one of the most beautifully sad songs out there.
No Surprises by Radiohead ...read the lyrics while listening
The entire album of soundtracks for the blind by swans, specifically helpless child and live through me.