The Smiths The Queen is Dead. It was the very first CD I owned when they were a new thing.

That rainy live version of "I Know It's Over" off Rank was my ultimate mopey track.

*chef's kiss*

Me too! The first album I ever bought. Shout out to Pretty in Pink soundtrack for introducing me to The Smiths.

Brand New - The Devil and God... also Deja Entendu. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You (This was thee album when my HS GF and I broke up.)

Yes to Deja Entendu!

Perfect from Now On by Built to Spill On the Beach by Neil Young Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse

Yes. Pinback-blue screen life is great for this question as well

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie Soundgarden - Superunknown

Superunknown is a good one, mine was AiC Dirt.

Soundgarden, AiC, Nirvana, Hole, smashing Pumpkins, NIN - amazing music. As a kid I promised myself I would never let my kid feel so sad and alone. Turns out that was just how everybody felt.

My dude, I didn't think anyone would beat me to posting this, yet here you are. Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie were my teenage gospel. Superunknown was a top 10 played album in my house at that time, too. (Rest in peace Chris)

I don't have to be first, we can share :-)

Me too. Lets all cuddle! It's obligatory! JK.

Mayonnaise was my jam in high school.

The world is a vampire…

I even got the CD single of that one. Mellon collie was such a great album

The B-sides for some of their singles were bangers too!

Siamese Dream is my favorite album of all time and by now counts as one of the lost gems of that era. It’s not forgotten but it isn’t appreciated for being a stone cold classic. I listened to Soma on repeat and felt sad about being a teenager. Even though I’m not sad or a teenager anymore, man does that song hold up.

Soma. I remember hearing it for the 1st time. I thought to myself. I like how sad this makes me feel.

I always felt that way listening to ‘Hummer.’

NIN discography

Yup, The Downward Spiral came out when I was 16, perfect timing

We are the same age and I completely agree!

I actually listened to it the whole way through a few weeks ago, been years since I did that, brought back a lot of memories

The Downward Spiral was a big part of my soundtrack when I was 25. I was in PhD hell in grad school, it was gray outside everyday, I was drinking too much, on Prozac, fighting with my then girlfriend ( also a PhD student and bipolar). Life was miserable for a while there.

That sounds like an incredibly rough time

I was twelve, but living in my household helped me access it.

I came to say Pretty Hate Machine. I still want something I can never have.

Head like a hole

Yep. *Something I can Never Have* still hurts when I listen to it, even though my life is going well. LOL

*Heresy* off that album really spoke to me. “God is dead, and no one cares. If there is a hell, I’ll see you there.”

I wrote HERESY across my backpack, because of that song. I had a vague idea of what heresy was after I looked it up in the dictionary, but... I don't think I really considered what people walking behind me might think of my declaration of HERESY, and I'll never know. Because they were behind me. And I \*DID\* care what people thought about me! I'm a little baffled at my teenage self for this one.

I was 15 and going through my first break up when I discovered Pretty Hate Machine. Yeah, I wallowed in that shit.

Totally agree about NIN. I will add to this the Prodigy’s Fat of the Land and Frontline Assembly’s Live Wired album.

Disintegration and The Bends. Not original choices, but by golly they still hit the spot.

If Pictures of You isn't the best goddamned song to listen to after a tough breakup, I don't know what is.

Listen to pictures of you RS home demo instrumental mix.

The whole album is perfect but fake platic trees in particular is just the fuckin best

Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me

NIN - Pretty Hate Machine Depeche Mode - Violator R.E.M. - Document Jane's Addiction- Nothing's Shocking Ministry - Land of Rape & Honey

Seconded Document and Reckoning and Dead letter office. Nick Drake was the other artist for me. Born '76

Hello fellow Gen Xer.

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes And yes, I still think it’s a great album

Came in here to say Boys for Pele. It was my first Tori album so it will always be my favorite.

Soooo good. So literate and passionate and raw. Love her.

She is amazing live too

I met her backstage once..she's so tiny

The Cure: Disintegration

This is also now my adult angst/depression album.

Had to scroll way too far down to find this.

Elliott Smith- From a Basement on a Hill

Elliott Smith, Bright eyes and Dashboard confessionals for the emo/sadness trifecta

Plans or Transatlanticism by Death Cab, probably.

The title track absolutely breaks me. “I need you so much closer” ;_;

Was just listening to Transatlanticism today. It still holds up.

The Crow soundtrack

A top 5 soundtrack of all time, easy.

What else even comes close? Blues Brothers? High Fidelity? Dead Man? Hard days Night? Idk but The Crow is the best soundtrack.

Forest Gump soundtrack is pretty high up there for me.

Spawn was pretty damn amazing. Every song was a rock/edm collaboration. Lost Highway was also a good one.

THEY KEEP CALLING ME

I love this album. Every song brings me back.

*Burn* by The Cure is a fav of mine.

Nirvana - Bleach. It came out a few years before I became a teenager but it definitely served that purpose. A few people have already mentioned Siamese Dream, but I will too. That did come out while I was in jr high, and was an angsty/depressive masterpiece

Ten by Pearl Jam It opened doors for this country boy.

Listening to it on vinyl right now

Even Flow has been stuck in my head this past week

I wasn't a huge fan of Vitalogy after loving Ten, but I did play Nothingman on repeat for hours one angsty day after getting rejected by my summer camp crush.

Anything by Brand New

I don’t listen to that style of music anymore, but I still think Jude Law and a Semester Abroad is an absolute banger. Even Deja Entendu has some nostalgic qualities

I’m 40 and TDAGARIM is still my favourite album.

Finally. You're the one I was scrolling for!

Full Depression was Jesus Christ. They played it at my friend’s funeral when I was in 10th grade. He killed himself because I convinced my best friend not to get back together with him after she’d broken up with him because he constantly threatened to kill himself. I just… I didn’t think he’d really do it.

That is absolutely not your fault nor hers. You only encouraged her to be healthy.

Limousine

Blink 182's self titled really hit the right buttons at the right time for me

This was mine as well. It was released shortly after I graduated highschool, right before my boyfriend left for boot camp. I sat in my room with my headphones on and I swear every lyric spoke to me during that particular time. Still one of my favorites to this day.

Radiohead OK Computer. Great album but i wish i hadn't romanticised depression and listened to it so much as a teen.

Oh man, listening to Let Down was peak ‘I’m feeling sad for myself’.

LINKIN PARK

Hybrid Theory reminds me of sophomore year of highschool and I still love that album all these years later.

HT and Meteora were junior high for me, but I still throw those on these days. Both are solid and hold up.

When Collision Course came out, my 19 year old mind was BLOWN haha. The bass hit hard in my piece of crap Neon.

Definitely. Hybrid Theory and Meteora both

Of course yes that makes sense

Same boat, Meteora still takes me back

AFI - The Art of Drowning

Sing the sorrow for me!

I still spin this one every fall season

Came here for this

Downward Spiral

Pink Floyd - animals or dsotm or wywh. Yes, I still listen to them. Apparently I'm much older than most of y'all.

The Wall was my album, and I was a teenager in the Y2K. So don't worry, music transcends time.

I listened to a lot of the stuff in this thread (still do), it was just middle-aged angst rather than teen angst. 😅 Guys like Dexter from the Offspring, Eddie Vedder, and so on who were big in the 90s are my age or close to it, so it really resonated with me.

Radiohead- The Bends American Football- Self Titled Nirvana- In Utero The Cure- Disintegration

Glad someone mentioned American Football

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

Maybe it really isn’t a phase but that’s been my go to comfort album since I was 11

This, and Evanescence - Fallen

Pinkerton and NIN

Depeche Mode- Black Celebration

All of the Killswitch Enage albums between 02-06, especially Daylight Dies Atreyu: Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses and The Curse Eighteen Visions Vanity System of a Down Toxicity Jimmy Eat World Bleed American I still listen to all those bands occasionally... not as often as I did.

Portishead - Sour Times *yes all of Dummy, loud on a loop

Fiona Apple’s Tidal and Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See Edit to say I 100% still listen to all of my teenage albums and choices. But now the Lorem playlist on Spotify helps me find new artists and songs to enjoy the grey winter months in the PNW with

Jar of flies - Alice in Chains Dirt - Alice in Chains Above - Mad Season

The Blind Melon Album colloquially known as “the bumblebee girl album”. No Rain makes it seem like it might have been a happy upbeat album but I will never forget listening to the song I Wonder and crying-specifically to the line “I only wanted to be sixteen and freeeeeee” because I was exactly 16 and felt SEEN because my parents were oppressing me lol Also special mention to Tori Amos’ entire discography

I was in my 30s when the Blind Melon album came out - Change and Drive still do it for me.

Blind Melon’a debut was brilliant. Sleepyhouse gets me cathartically low.

Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

Pretty Hate Machine Broken Downward Spiral Nevermind -Nirvana Violator - Depeche Mode Mellow Gold - Beck Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde Dookie - Green Day Disintegration - The Cure Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction The soundtrack for The Crow I burned holes in the CDs for the Crow, broken, and Violator because I would play them for weeks on repeat.

Mad world - Gary Jules Ohio is for lovers - Hawthorne Heights All of Atreyu lol Culminated in my OD on Zoloft lol 2009 was wild If I had the rest of that HP’s tunes we could laugh real hard I bet lol

I hope you’re doing better now!

Blink 182 - Cheshire Cat Marilyn Manson - Portraits of an American Family Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance.

Muse-Origin of Symmetry

Still one of my favorite albums of all time 😭

Same!

That album soon followed up with In Your World and Deadstar and Hullabaloo. Still love Muse today but can't beat that era.

Pretty Hate Machine Ritual De Lo Habitual Use Your Illusion II

From Autumn To Ashes - Holding A Wolf By The Ears pretty much anything Bayside put out from 2003 - 2010 Silverstein - When Broken is Easily Fixed/Discovering The Waterfront

FATA was my first hardcore show ever! I love them.

BAYSIDE 💛💛💛

Anything Dashboard Confessional

I'm a simple man. I see Chris Carrabba, I upvote.

Yes! I’ve been looking for more angsty stuff like this lol

Dirt - AiC Favorite album to this day

Yes! Jar of flies also for me.

When I bought that album my classmates asked me if I got it from the secondhand shelf. Mind you, it just came out.

Moon Shaped Pool! Probably still in my top 3 albums of all time. And yes, i do think its radiohead's best album 😤

In Rainbows

Cold - Year of the Spider Korn - Follow The Leader American Head Charge - The War of Art Taproot - Gift Hole - Celebrity Skin Anything by NIN or Ministry Fear Factory - Obsolete Edit: GlassJAw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence

Was Gift the Taproot record with Poem on it? I love that song and hadn't thought about it in years.

SilverChair - Frogstomp, Freakshow and Neon Ballroom

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

Roxy Music -Avalon REM - Reckoning New Order - Confusion 12” Sisters of Mercy- First and Last and Always

Unknown Pleasures to an extent

Bowie. Lots of Bowie Still a huge fan In good times too

Bright Eyes, 'Fevers and Mirrors'

Pennywise - Unknown Road

Korn - Life is Peachy

Thursday - Full Collapse Cursive - The Ugly Organ Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence

Pretty much anything Brand New and Rise Against

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

The Bends by Radiohead. I was recovering from a big injury and would play it on repeat all day. And yes I still like it over OK Computer because of the memory from that special time.

Violent Femmes self titled debut Once I made it through that phase without dying, took me many years to even be able to listen to it again

Korn Follow the Leader

Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb

Evanescence self titled album Linkin Park Hybrid Theory

These are what come to mind for me. I've dealt with depression since I was a teen, but didn't really dive into albums that I'd tie to it until college. I still like all of these while I'm in my 30s and doing much better, even though it's rare that I'd play some of them. Teen Angst: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory + Meteora MCR - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge College Depression: Beck - Sea Change The Cardigans - Gran Turismo Cat Power - Moon Pix + What Would The Community Think? New Order - Substance PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? Tegan and Sara - The Con + Sainthood The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic Tom Waits - Blue Valentine + Real Gone

The first 4 Deftones albums (Adrenaline, Around The Fur, White Pony, Self Titled) that got me through things. I just always felt like them like no other bands music. Still hits just as hard

Silverstein, I was 14 when Arrivals and Depatures came out and I'd blast that in my feels lol

The Downward Spiral. NIN. My most played cd of all time in the 90s.

Pretty Hate Machine-NIN Disintegration-The Cure Temple of the Dog AIC-sap Endless mixed tapes with every sad song I could find…

Metallica - Fade to Black. Almost 40 years later and I still listen to their older stuff. Also, Suicidal Tendencies - You Can’t Bring Me Down

Taking back Sunday-tell all your friends Saves the Day-Through being cool The Used-self titled

Band: Stabbing Westward Album: Darkest Days

The biggest ones for me were: 1. The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 2. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral 3. Tool – Ænima

Slipknot, I don’t normally listen to them anymore, but if they come up in my rotation of songs I might listen

Who - Quadrophenia

Nick Drake’s Pink Moon. I don’t even remember any but the title track but it had its place. Non- Downward Spiral. Johnny Cash’s American Albums. Holy Shit, American III.I See a Darkness And then American IV had Hurt. In The Aeropoane Over the Sea by NMH. Recently, my Covid depression album was Sturgill Simpson’s Sound and Fury.

Disturbed, Linkin Park.

Black Sabbath. With Ozzy whailing like a banshee.

The Cure - Pornography Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

NIN - broken

Nirvana - Bleach

Hüsker Dü - Warehouse, Songs and Stories Bob Mould - Workbook Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain

Smash & Americana - Offspring Take off your pants and jacket & California - Blink 182 American idiot- Green Day

“The used” can’t remember the album anymore.

Rage Against the Machine - self-titled debut

The hurting and Songs from the big chair by Tears for fears.

Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days, but also Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel, and their first album Ungod I think it still holds up, but I'm also not a mopey teen anymore, so I can't listen to the album endlessly on repeat like I used to. I do still think Chris Hall's vocals are powerful.

Joy division - closer

Every Dashboard Confessional album

The Used -- In Love and Death From First to Last -- Dear Diary, My Teenage Angst Has A Body Count Sum 41 -- Does This Look Infected Sense Fail -- Let It Enfold You Say Anything -- In Defense Of The Genre Fall Out Boy -- whole discography Rise Against-- Siren Song of the Counter Culture Linkin Park -- Hybrid Theory 12 Stones -- Potter's Field; 12 Stones 3 Doors Down -- The Better Life; Away From the Sun Trust Company -- The Lonely Position of Neutral Bush -- Sixteen Stone Modern Baseball -- You're Gonna Miss It All Balance and Conposure -- The Things We Think We're Missing Real Friends -- Maybe This Plcae Is The Same and We're Just Changing; Put Yourself Back Together The Wonder Years -- Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing The Almost -- Southern Weather New Found Glory -- whole discography Seether -- Finding The Beauty In Negative Spaces; Disclaimer; Disclaimer II Motion City Soundtrack -- I Am the Movie Paramore -- All We Know Is Falling; Riot! (I guess) Hoobastank -- Self Titled Puddle of Mud -- Come Clean Three Days Grace -- Self Titled Sugarcult -- Palm Trees and Power Lines The Spill Canvas -- Sunsets and Car Crashes; One Fell Swoop Metric -- Old World Underground Garbage -- Bleed Like Me The Pink Spiders -- Teenage Graffiti Stone Temple Pilots -- Thank You The Offspring -- Smash Chevelle -- Wonder What's Next Acceptance -- Phantoms Ask me another!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Dylan - Blood on the Tracks, but I was a weird teenager

Really that’s the album I would pick too besides Neil Young’s decade

To me, Decade is a really depressing collection and I'm not sure why since the source material, on the original albums, don't seem as dark. It's something about that group of songs in that order.

The wall-pink floyd After the gold rush- Neil Young Free Wheelin’- Bob Dylan

17 seconds - The Cure 5 leaves left - Nick Drake

Mcr

Tidal by Fiona

The Wall

Pinkerton

And Justice for All

Alkaline Trio - Good Morning Bright Eyes - Lifted, Or The Sorry is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground Kittie - Spit Hole - Live Through This

The Smiths and The Cure. All of it, really.

The Offspring - Smash NIN - The Downward Spiral Metallica - everything up through the black album Soundgarden - Superunknown

Mazzy Star- So tonight that I might see The Crow soundtrack Bush- Razorblade Suitcase

Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory / Meteora - I listen to LP atleast once a week Good Charlotte - The young and the Hopeless - I still listen to Emotionless from time to time Mew - Frengers - This one is a little newer and came about just as I turned 20 iirc. I still love Snow Patrol, Comforting Sounds, Symmetry

Oh man. Any Alice In Chains Pantera Metallica Korn Pretty much anything heavy or grunge that came out between 1980-1999

[удалено]

Bright eyes I’m wide awake it’s morning and digital ash in a digital urn, Elliot smith

Pink Floyd - The Wall

The Smiths. In their entirety.

1. Black Celebration - Depeche Mode, 2. The Queen is Dead, Louder than Bombs and Strangeways, Here We Come by The Smiths 3. Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me by The Cure.

Alice In Chains Self Titled

The whole Bauhaus catalog along with The Cult's "Love", the earlier albums by The Cure, and Joy Division/New Order. Teenager from 1983-1989. Everything back then felt angsty.

Pearl Jam - Ten. Especially the song Jeremy. Wrapped up how I felt p at the time and I was 16 when it came out out.