The Top 40 Most Depressing Albums

I'll be honest, I never found Elliott sad. Melodic, yes. Intimate, yes. I actually don't find his work depressing at all. The opposite. Same with all of these albums. That's just what has been superficially attributed to them because they deal with some dark, raw emotions. They're all very honest records.

I don't find Skeleton Tree or Blackstar depressing in the slightest. I find them absolutely uplifting and inspiring. The're albums that rise up above their tragedy. Those are albums about Life and living. Terribly misunderstood I think, owing to the circumstances of their release. Cave wrote most of Skeleton Tree before his son died. And Bowie did not embark on Blackstar thinking it was his last. Anything but.

Kanye IS depressing to because he's such an obnoxious narcissist and a complete clown of an asshole.

Nirvana, well it may be sacrilege to say, but I've never liked them. Teen Spirit and other songs stole signature riffs from other bands like Killing Joke verbatim. While I have some compassion for how ill Cobain was, as a person and an artist, he was never anyone I wanted to spend time with.

Blue Mask is def a runner up! Bob Quine is just majestic on that. Miss that guy. He was brilliant.

I never, ever found Pink Moon sad. Beautiful and intimate would be the words to describe. That last track is actually quite optimistic. Its a very misunderstood record and I think a lot of people attribute romantic notions of tragedy to it. Nick Drake was actually in quite a good mood when he made it and it was a ballsy move for him reject the labels attempts to over orchestrate as they did on his prior releases.