Nihilistic Music

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Okay, so technically this will be exploited for NaNoWriMo, but I figure this is a good place to ask for tracks considering the responses on old music threads.

The main locale for my novel will be a place known as Nihilist City where everyone is partying their lives away, on the edge of despair, or just complete in their disillusionment with the world. As such, the music reflects this and often interplays with the actions of the main character. As he enters the place, I imagine "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N Roses playing in the distance. As he's faced with true horror and impotence of action, I imagine the next song he hears will be "Black Planet" by Sisters of Mercy. During a scene of cursing out the world if I have one, "Surfacing" by Slipknot will be used and at the very end for reasons I'll keep to myself I imagine the piece he puts on will be "Yesterday" by The Beatles.

While I plan to supplement these with other pieces from the darker depths of my music collection, I need other people's advice for really evocative nihilistic rock songs. They can be of the party hardy and forget the world vein, the so sad they tear you up vein, the surrender know the world owns you, or the fuck everything rage pieces or even some other nihilistic mood that you find a piece captures perfectly.

Anyways, any help would be appreciated, since I plan to put a whole bunch of these songs on a looping soundtrack while I type up my work on top of popping songs into the piece itself.

 

[TheEarl]

Probably not one of the more well known ones, but Nickelback's "Should've Listened" is a good depressing one. It's melancholic and about a man surveying the collapse of his world after his girlfriend's left him.

"Bad Influence" by Eminem is possibly the most nihilistic track in history - written as part of the soundtrack of End of Days, so I think it hits your kind of mood.

The Earl

 

[Liar]

Nihilistic?
http://logjammin.org/lebowski_archive/autobahn.jpg


Ok, seriously, I've got some gloom in my collection. I'll go dig and get back to you.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Nihilistic?
http://logjammin.org/lebowski_archive/autobahn.jpg


Ok, seriously, I've got some gloom in my collection. I'll go dig and get back to you.

Autobahn. Holy shit.

 

[TheEarl]

Nihilistic?
http://logjammin.org/lebowski_archive/autobahn.jpg


Ok, seriously, I've got some gloom in my collection. I'll go dig and get back to you.

The end of the world is nigh!

The Earl

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Bump.

Anyone else have any soul crushing or otherwise nihilistic tunes to offer up?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Bittersweet symphony by the verve.

the bell tolls fo rthe by Rush

 

[TheEarl]

Soul-crushing tunes have been all that's been rolling around my playlist recently. Let's see what else I can dig out.

Yesterday - John Lennon: Nice depressing song, think we all know it.
How Cheap Is Your Love - Frigid Vinegar: Very unknown song, but exactly what you're looking for I think - A scream of ego-centric hatred and misery at a departing partner.
Dry Your Eyes - The Streets: The only good song from this group. Basically a more low-key version of HCIYL, with some brilliantly descriptive lyrics of a breakup.
Never Again - Nickelback: Angry song about domestic abuse.
In The End - Linkin Park
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Bother - Stone Sour
Broken - Seether ft Amy Lee

There's a few names to get you started.

The Earl

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Bittersweet symphony by the verve.

the bell tolls fo rthe by Rush

Heh, yeah, I've got the first on my list for soundtrack and may or may not put it into the piece itself.

I'll have to download...acquire through "legal" channels the second though.

Oh and thanks Earl for your suggestions. I've got them both on my list of listening even though I really dislike Eminem. Good tones from both of them.

Oh and do keep them coming people, music helped make my Halloween story as depressing as it was and I'm trying to continue that trend. Plus, this is the first work where I'm including music into the piece itself.

 

[TheEarl]

Bittersweet symphony by the verve.

Good shout Colly. <adds it to playlist>

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Soul-crushing tunes have been all that's been rolling around my playlist recently. Let's see what else I can dig out.


Nothing Else Matters - Metallica


The Earl

I disagree! I think Nothing Else Matters is a very uplifting and soothing song. Might just be me, though, and how I interpret it.

Here's a couple from me...

Everybody's Changing - Keane
Run - Snow Patrol
Stay - Shakespeare's Sister

There's gotta be more, I'll add them when I think of them.

Lou

 

[Xelebes]

I can offer some doomcore sets to listen to, but they are partially aurally masochistic pieces. Don't know if you are interested but they are dj sets.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Soul-crushing tunes have been all that's been rolling around my playlist recently. Let's see what else I can dig out.

Yesterday - John Lennon: Nice depressing song, think we all know it.
How Cheap Is Your Love - Frigid Vinegar: Very unknown song, but exactly what you're looking for I think - A scream of ego-centric hatred and misery at a departing partner.
Dry Your Eyes - The Streets: The only good song from this group. Basically a more low-key version of HCIYL, with some brilliantly descriptive lyrics of a breakup.
Never Again - Nickelback: Angry song about domestic abuse.
In The End - Linkin Park
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Bother - Stone Sour
Broken - Seether ft Amy Lee

There's a few names to get you started.

The Earl

Yesterday is going to be the closing theme, I reveal no more.
In the End and Nothing Else Matters are both on the playlist I'm setting up for NaNo.
I'll definitely have to look into the others though.
Again, thanks, these are all helping to get me in the mood and to help plan out various scenes.
I have one scene that I plan on just looping AiC's "Down in a Hole" for.

 

[Guest]

Hey, here's a goodun! Guaranteed to make anyone feel suicidal, for a variety of reasons.

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion.



Lou

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Heh, yeah, I've got the first on my list for soundtrack and may or may not put it into the piece itself.

I'll have to download...acquire through "legal" channels the second though.

Oh and thanks Earl for your suggestions. I've got them both on my list of listening even though I really dislike Eminem. Good tones from both of them.

Oh and do keep them coming people, music helped make my Halloween story as depressing as it was and I'm trying to continue that trend. Plus, this is the first work where I'm including music into the piece itself.

It's off the signals album. It is about the most soul destroying song I can think of, without any hars or loud noises. The wrods themselves carry the feel.

On a personal note: Don't let the music get to you please Lc. You either Earl. I love both you guys and would miss you terribley.

-Colly

 

[rgraham666]

Hey, here's a goodun! Guaranteed to make anyone feel suicidal, for a variety of reasons.

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion.



Lou

You have a vicious, twisted mind, Lou.

I like that in a woman.

Rob Zombie works for me.

Also Dü Hast (sp?) by Ramstein

 

[LadyJeanne]

Ministry's 'Every Day is Halloween' is creepy nihilistic.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Hey, here's a goodun! Guaranteed to make anyone feel suicidal, for a variety of reasons.

My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion.



Lou

*Twitch*

Evil wench.

And about your earlier comment on Nothing Else Matters, I feel it'll work, but that Metallica's most utterly soul-crushing work was "Fade to Black"

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

You have a vicious, twisted mind, Lou.

I like that in a woman.

Rob Zombie works for me.

Also Dü Hast (sp?) by Ramstein

Yeah, "Scum of the Earth" will probably get airtime as either inspiration or as scene piece.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Xelebes- maybe. PM me about it.
LJ- I'll have to check that one out. Yea, more music.

Colly- Don't worry. I made up my mind about suicide a long time ago. Besides, if the music starts getting too much, I'll just put on "Don't Worry About the Government" by Talking Heads. It's physically impossible to not be upbeat when listening to it. I always end up doing an embarrassing dance when I listen to it, even when I'm alone. (How sad is that?)

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Xelebes- maybe. PM me about it.
LJ- I'll have to check that one out. Yea, more music.

Colly- Don't worry. I made up my mind about suicide a long time ago. Besides, if the music starts getting too much, I'll just put on "Don't Worry About the Government" by Talking Heads. It's physically impossible to not be upbeat when listening to it. I always end up doing an embarrassing dance when I listen to it, even when I'm alone. (How sad is that?)

I always worry about my freinds, it's part of me thinking of people as friends

Just load Louis Armstrongs What a wonderful world in the break in case of OD emergency tunes please

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

I always worry about my freinds, it's part of me thinking of people as friends

Just load Louis Armstrongs What a wonderful world in the break in case of OD emergency tunes please

No, that song always makes me cry.

 

[TheEarl]

I disagree! I think Nothing Else Matters is a very uplifting and soothing song. Might just be me, though, and how I interpret it.

Agreed at times, but I think it all depends on your mood when you listen to it.

On a personal note: Don't let the music get to you please Lc. You either Earl. I love both you guys and would miss you terribley.

-Colly

If there's an edge for me to be tipped over, rest assured, it's not the music that will give the final tip.

The Earl

 

[cantdog]

Most anything by Current 93, when it isn't just hilarious because it's so over-the-top fucked up

Masters of War, early Dylan. He cares, so it isn't nihilistic, but it is unrelievedly depressing in the current context

Down In A Hole, by Alice, which I see you already have

The Scorpion Departs, And Never Returns, by Phil Ochs... this one is suicidal but not nihilistic

A lot of Deutsch Nepal's stuff, and the hostile "tunes" off the works of Muslimgauze. There is Drugsherpa, Minarets, and then after that just about anything they do is ragefilled and nihilistic to a degree

 

[dr_mabeuse]

If you want to ga back a ways, try anything by Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.

Heroin, despair, and nihilism.

Can't forget the Lizard King either. Try the Doors' "The End".

I might also put on a little Tom Waits if you can stand to hear him sing. Nails on a blackboard ain't half of it.

--Zoot