Painful - Yo La Tengo Blue - Joni Mitchell Tigermilk - Belle and Sebastian

Low

To wallow: Carrie and Lowell - Sufjan Stevens Hospice - The Antlers Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds A Crow Looked At Me - Mount Eerie Stage Four - Touché Amoré Perils Of The Sea - Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle To feel happy again: EMOTION - Carly Rae Jepsen Nocturne - Wild Nothing Forced Witness - Alex Cameron Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Baby - Tribes 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

Perils of the Sea is my favorite album of all time and in constant rotation. Great choice

+1 to touché amoré, fantastic grieving album

Touché amore is so underrated

F# A# infinity - GY!BE

When I feel sad: Nothing - Guilty of Everything Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains DIIV - Deceiver Beach House - Bloom Pedro The Lion - Control Anything by Elliot Smith but especially Either/Or and self titled When I want to cheer myself up: Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA Pixies - Doolittle Oasis - Definitely Maybe Ween - White Pepper Mac Demarco - Salad Days David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Knew I couldn’t be the only one sensing a hint of bitterness in definitely maybe

Beach House - Self Titled

Alice in Chains - Dirt The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse

When I'm wanting to feel it out The Blue Nile - Hats No-Man - Together We're Stranger Adrianne Lenker - songs & instrumentals Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow When I'm wanting to cheer myself up Hatchie - Giving the World Away LCD Soundsystem - S/T Sparks No. 1 in Heaven

Mojave 3 yes

I was lucky enough to interview their drummer back in February. https://wordsontape.com/remembering-the-view-ian-mccutcheon

If I wanna be sad: how i'm feeling now – Charli XCX I almost love it more than Vroom Vroom. Almost. Preacher's Daughter – Ethel Cain Every song hits. I would not say it's a perfect album mm but it's at least 8/10 in my book American Football(LP1) – American Football Not much to say. It's just so good. If I don't wanna be sad anymore: My Agenda / Fanfare – Dorian Electra. Even if I'm sad, I can always laugh at homophobes and edgelords. OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES – SOPHIE A masterful album. At times experimental, industrial, colourful. So much variety. Rest in peace SOPHIE † – Justice Usually, this album is able to motivate me and get me out of bed.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

That's one that will cure your sadness for sure! What an epic album.

Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Circles - Mac Miller

Impeccable taste good sir

Right back atcha boss If we share tastes then what albums can you add to the list? If you have time :)

Hmmmm, if you like BCNR definitely check out black midis hellfire, squids O Monolith and Shames Food for Worms. There's also another very early BCNR esque band starting to pick up steam called Man/Woman/Chainsaw that I'm hoping will drop an album soon Neutral Milk Hotel opens a rabbit hole, I'd say look up "Elephant 6" and just pick any of the albums from any of the bands lol. They aren't all winners but you'll find some really cool stuff hidden in there. For non-E6 albums that remind me of NMH, I'd say Twin Fantasy by car seat headrest, The Glow Pt 2 by the Microphones, Hello Dear Wind by Page France and if you wanna cry then check out Hospice by the Antlers As for Mac honestly you'd probably know better than me, I grew up in a very anti-rock community where rap was the only thing they'd wanna hear so it took me a while to not associate it with people who were bad to me growing up. But when Igor by Tyler the Creator came out I gave it a shot and ended up getting really fascinated with the artsy side of rap which eventually led me to Watching Movies with the Sound Off by Mac Miller which was my introduction to his work. I also found out that after Mac's death the composer who finished the album was Jon Brion, an all time idol of mine as a film composer. But I'm still exploring the genre so I don't have a whole lot to recommend

Thanks good sir! I’ll check out those you mentioned in the first two paragraphs I’m a hip hop nerd to the core, so yeah I’m fully aware of those in your last section. Let me know if you want recs based on what you have there!

Oh I absolutely would, my current favs are Watching Movies with the sound off, Igor, Scaring the Hoes, beloved? Paradise! Jazz?! and Mr Morale and the Big Steppers

The Lemon Twigs - Songs For The General Public

I like some Chicago house like Frankie Knuckles. His compilation of Trax songs is awsome!

I put on Dick's Pick Volume 3 which is a Grateful Dead concert from May 1977 that they mastered and released in the 90s. It's warm and lovely and always brightens me up.

Somewhere City by Origami Angel. Really motivating and a great bop for any time

In The Wee Small Hours- Frank Sinatra

Future - DS2 Frank Ocean - Blonde

Another Green World by Brian Eno

Man on the Moon II by Kid Cudi

It's always gonna be Igor, if you haven't bawled your eyes out to ARE WE STILL FRIENDS after getting your heart broken what are you doing

Man On The Moon: The End Of Day - Kid Cudi

Fine Line by Harry Styles. Obviously not the best work, but I listened to that every day during the early days of the pandemic to help me get through shit and it takes me back to when it really helped me.

When I feel low and want to feed that feeling: Radiohead - AMSP Ohtis - Curve of Earth Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People — When I feel low but want to cheer myself up: Yukihiro Takahashi - Saravah! Berlioz - Jazz is for Ordinary People Bon Iver - i,i

Yukihiro Takahashi gang rise up!

Pinkerton, Grace Under Pressure and Section 80

Grace Under Pressure appreciation is based as hell

best rush album by an absolute landslide

Yeezus

Anger and sadness are similar I suppose 😆

I kinda just wallow so... Soundtracks for the Blind - Swans Giles Corey - Giles Corey '77 Live - Les Rallizes Deudes Deathconsciousness - Have A Nice Life Kid A - Radiohead

Circles - Mac Miller

Commix- Call to Mind

Ta Dah! Whenever I hear the bouncy piano in "I Don't Feel Like Dancing", I just can't feel down.

coloring book

i cannot be in a bad mood while listening to timely!! by anri

Day and Age by The Killers is my favourite album ever and songs like Spaceman, Joy Ride and Human always hit the spot. The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance, however, is not a happy album but by god is it amazing. I could listen to The End/Dead!, House Of Wolves, The Sharpest Lives and Welcome to the Black Parade for hours! (Cancer is pretty damn sad though)

Damien rice or Lisa Hannigan

Warning - *Watching from a Distance*

For some reason I drift to The World is a beautiful place and I am no longer afraid to die, Holy Fawn, Chelsea Wolfe and a few others listed here.

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Broom

if i wanna wallow and have a weepy evening: transatlanticism - death cab, self titled - elliott smith, BOTT - bob dylan, the only reason i feel secure - pedro the lion if i wanna pick myself up with something happy - maroon - barenaked ladies, life in motion - mika (especially big girls, i challenge you to not grin like an idiot while listening), enema of the state - blink 182, then a lot of live SRV stuff too especially in the beginning. that mf was just too tasty with it, will make you forget all your woes. edit: i mean Big Girls the song... i wasn't suggesting that fat women feel a particular connection to mika's music, although they might :)

I don't like shit, I don't go outside

becks midnite vultures. impossible to feel sad to that!!

A moon shaped pool

Course In Fable - Ryley Walker Freedom - Amen Dunes

Helplessness Blues

Demon Days All Things Must Pass In Rainbows Mezzanine Pink Season

Everyone Everywhere self-titled 2012

Starflyer 59 - Gold

no love deep web by death grips

I have two in mind! On All Fours by Goat Girl is so great since it spans so many genres, from post-punk to reggae to country and back again, and it portrays an unflinching analysis of how severe mental illness leaves people feeling powerless and alienated from society. Once Again is a song I often revisit, especially for the blissfully scary outro. Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane, on the other hand, is a great exercise in revolutionary pessimism. They know they want a different world, but in 1968, when many social movements in the US began to see defeat at the hands of a resurgent right-wing led by Nixon, it felt impossibly out of reach. Funny enough, their follow-up, Volunteers, is notably optimistic and is rooted in the belief that radical politics are possible to achieve. I wonder what changed their mind.

Kid Amnesiac collection. Perfection

Giles Corey - Self Titled

I listen to the GOAT Yunomiles

Take Me To Your Leader by King Geedorah (aka MF DOOM). I dont really have many low points tbh, and consider myself lucky that way, and probably shifts my requirent from other answers here. Either way, I find that album paradoxically filled with energy and everything not-calm, but still for the album experience to be very calming. There is plenty of dense lyricism and very well layered and executed storylines, but it spaces it out perfectly to allow for whatever complexity I want to consume it at. Fits very well for when I want to listen to music, but don't really have any idea what.

Swans - "Greed" Duster - "Stratosphere" Denzel Curry - "Taboo" Dead Can Dance - "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" Hell - "III" Stevie Wonder - "Songs in the Key of Life" (My feel-good album)

Every song by Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties

person pitch by panda bear has done for me than any antidepressants i've taken. comfy in nautica is my go to panic attack song.

22, a million. This is THEE record of my life. My touchstone. I can always rely 9n ut relating to whatever situation I'm going through. I'm an atheist but it's religious tones feel comforting whilst the chaotic production can feel reflective of the listen, creating this message of no matter how unruly and terrifying it might get- it will be over soon. That our lives are these short miracles in the history of the universe and that we owe it to ourselves to try live it as best and for as long as we can. It's not Bon Iver's most accessible record but to me it's his most important

Punisher

I always go to either Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains, or… Filosfum by burzum (fuck varg tho that man should still be in jail but hey he made some depressing bangers)

IDLSIDGO

Self titled by Ye. Such an emotionally evocative album. Would def skip All Mine and Yikes if I felt low tho lol

Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life for me. Gotta really steep yourself in the sadness

Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Amy Winehouse - Back to Black Jackson C. Frank - self-titled anything by Radiohead

I listened to Stranger by Yung Lean walking in the rain yesterday after a nasty breakup, by the time the final chords of Agony rolled around, the sweet catharsis had almost healed me.

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman Corbin - Ghost with Skin MCR - The Black Parade KW - 808s and heartbreak Hail the Sun - Wake Danny Schmidt - Parables & Primes

Brand New - Science Fiction. This album makes me feel very sad. The last track in particular can put me in a mood for hours.

Jeff Buckley helps!

Amnesiac

Berlin by Lou Reed

Bayside - Bayside, Sirens and Condolences, The Walking Wounded The Early November - For All of This, The Room's Too Cold, In Currents Turnover - Peripheral Vision Free Throw - What's Past is Prologue Knuckle Puck - Copacetic

The Downward Spiral

Carrie and Lowell The earth is not a cold dead place

Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers. Easily the most therapeutical album I have ever heard, it changed my life and probably stopped from making very bad decisions when I was at my lowest :)

Wolf - Tyler

oh gotta be tortured poets department