When listening to really depressing music does it make you..

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I love listening to really, really sad music. Most people cannot stand to listen to it because it brings them down. But for me it is just the opposite. When I am really down, I put on an "Armor for Sleep", or some similar record, and it cheers me up.

This way for anyone else too?

yep, mostly I listen to a lot of green day. Jesus of suburbia, boulevard of broken dreams, the gorillaz fire coming out of the monkeys head.

Sad and depressing music doesn't bring my mood down, it just makes me feel incredibly bored with the attitude of "Why Am I listening to this?"

The (what is meant to be) sad and depressing music is usually on the radio, as I don't have that kind of music on my iPod.

It only makes me bored, nothing else.

Sad music makes me happy.

Kind of ironic I know, but "Korn - Alone I break" has helped me through a few breakups and other depressive events.

As the guy from High Fidelity said "Which came first the music or the misery"
is an interesting question I listin to a lot of dark music but some of this music can make me happy sometime you can only find true beauty in darkness

After an intensely painful emotional experience this year (basically, I experienced my first instance of a genuinely broken heart), I found myself immersing myself in Tori Amos music.

This was not a good idea. I have never been so miserable before in my life.

Then again, when I got an Alice In Chains CD through the post, I put that on, and within seconds I was perked up, despite the words of the songs not being overly positive - the guitar riffs alone were enough to grab my mood and pull it up by its bootstraps.

Sometimes, all you need is a decent bit of metal music to feel good again.

That happens to me, a lot. There was a sad song on the radio, when I was twelve and my kid sister and I were bopping to it. The song was Victoira - by The Kinks, and my mum walked into the TV room and said, "You guys! That's a very sad song!"

People tell me to listen to happy, upbeat music when I'm sad, but it makes me feel like it's mocking me or something, so I listen to sad music. Sad music makes me feel good.

I love sad music. Some of my favorite sad songs: "Flames" by Vast; "From a Shell" by Lisa Germano; "Suicide Note" by Johnette Napolitano; "New Madonna" and "Houses of Cards" by Zeromancer; "Hurt," "Something I Can Never Have," "And All that Could Have Been," and "Right Where it Belongs" by Nine Inch Nails; "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You," "Good Enough," "Missing," "Hello," "My Immortal," and "Before the Dawn" by Evanescence; "Mad World" by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules; and pretty much any Dark Sanctuary song...they're all depressing as hell.

Crowd Surf Off a Cliff by Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton is a really depressing song. I love it.

"Night Wines" by The Outlaws is probably one of the most depressing songs I like:
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Last night I bedded with a bottle of Beaujeaulais
Trustin' that in time my blues might drift away
Slumber drew me victim to the blues waters sweet bouquet

When I woke up this morning I had a beautiful dream
It had been the summer when I was just eighteen
When I turned the lights on there were ten years in between

It made my heart hunger to make my years younger
Old father time made up his mind and circumstance
Good times and bad times each weaves its own web
There is no second chance

Now the curtain falls on still another day
While hopes and dreams hang out as if the same
Live's to important just to let it slip away

It makes my heart hunger to make my years younger
Old father time made up his mind and circumstance
Good times and bad times; each weaves its own web
There is no second chance

Tonight I will be beddin' with a bottle of Chardonay
Hoping that in time my blues might fade away
Soon fallen victim to the nightwines' sweet bouquet
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I also consider 707's "Whole Lot Better" to be a depressing song as well.

I love listening to funeral doom when I'm sad. It helps a lot.

isnt this in the wrong forum?