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In reply to the discussion: What is the most depressing song ever? [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(44,579 posts)The whole Adore album is strikingly beautiful yet extremely depressing. Ironically, Adore--and not Mellon Collie--is the trule meloncholy album by the Pumpkins. Fans didn't know what to make of it after the much more guitar heavy (yet epic) Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie, and it initially got a rather negative response. Only after a few years had past did fans begin to truly appreciate it as a work of art.
Here's something I suggest, based on personal experience. If you find yourself really, really sad about something, have a glass of wine or two, and then listen to Adore from beginning to end, in the dark, with the knowledge that Billy wrote it in the shadow of his mother's death and at the end of a relationship. You'll seriously bawl your eyes out, yet after it's all done it's actually extremely cathatric.