OT: mope rock

[Climb01742]

i've been watching too much cable news lately. melancholy has set in. which, quite naturally, brings one to mope rock. one of the few musical genres we haven't explored. (for good reason, some might say.)

what's your top mope rock band/singer?

top mope rock song?

for me, no contest. morrisey (solo) and with the smiths.

and mopest of mope rock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC18xFFEp-M&feature=related

my number two band and song ('cause the cure is too easy):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TWVyQj6ZCE

what gets your mope on?

[93legendti]

Bread
Air Supply
Carpenters

[cowgirl]

legendti:

do you like journey also? faithfully is one of my favorites.

Yippi Kai yae!

[justinf]

Yeah, it's gotta be The Smiths and The Cure for me. Easy, yes, but just right on.

[paczki]

Anything by Joy Division. It's not rock, but I don't think there's a sadder record (and better) than Nick Drake's Pink Moon.

[justinf]

faithfully

Yacht Rock yo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_Rock)

[Spicoli]

Im sorry but Cowgirl has the best avatar ever! It beats the jerks old space suit dude :beer: Moderaters pls let it stay :banana:

[H.Frank Beshear]

Here's a couple from one my favorites, the video isn't great but the lyrics,..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcFwIg7h3dk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLsm2BChw8

[J.Greene]

legendti:

do you like journey also? faithfully is one of my favorites.

Yippi Kai yae!

You had me at hello

JG

[fungusamungus33]

Will Oldham
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Palace Music
Palace Brothers
etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx5Giwpz0v4&feature=related

[texbike]

Too easy of a target, but Radiohead is my absolute favorite for mopey rock that kicks tail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpblnsJEWM

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LeLAELIxKY&feature=related

AND who could not like the Pixies and good ole' Black Francis....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGXdXcpNsv4&feature=related

Mmmmmmopey rock at its best!

Texbike

[goonster]

Red House Painters

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b3/RHP-Rollercoaster.jpg/200px-RHP-Rollercoaster.jpg

Tindersticks

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001ECN.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

[mosca]

Mark Eitzel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9K4GA8C8w)

[PaulE]

Tom Traubert's Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw) On the Nickel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILtO6LAEq8&feature=related)
Ol 55 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6CDa-z1MUY&feature=related) Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tPymxhwaEE) Invitation to the Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgJLwFv2L-Q&feature=related)

[davids]

Radiohead to a point.
Red House Painters, yes.
Mark Eitzel or American Music Club, absolutely.

Let me add Interbabe Concern by the Loud Family. Even when the song is a maelstrom of noise, Scott Miller is the perfect whiner. Divorce will do that to you, I hear. Just one sample lyric - Reading it, it's hard to believe it could possibly translate to music. That's the difference between him and us:

"Such Little Nonbelievers"

Uncriticizable you
Unadorned, therefore not poorly adorned

We're fighting smiling Irish, they say that we look good in uniform, and mais oui!
So good you couldn't pry the cold dead fingers of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders free

We're action at a distance, we're forces; They say we're cute when we're mad, and we are!
So cute there's not an animation product in Japan we don't out-sparkle by far

Don't try to tell me we weren't inches away
From turning the tables and using what used you and me
Courtney, such little nonbelievers, aren't we?
Courtney, are you sure all your problems were me?
Courtney, I think we missed our chance to be free

You're finding focus now, your big project is finding the perfect way to leave me
And everybody needs their own big project, time that's set aside for something stress-free

Will you be eating ice cream three meals a day?
Will tango music play? Will he be better than me?
Courtney, such little nonbelievers, aren't we?
Courtney, are you sure all your problems were me?
Courtney, I think we missed our chance to be free
http://scarygoround.com/images/albums/interbabeconcern.jpg

[taz-t]

Lou Reed - Street Hassle

- taz

[d_douglas]

These two fellas are what my wife refers to as 'suicide music' - yes, a bit melancholy, but so damned good. Elliott's story was made that much more sad by the fact that he stabbed himself to death in his kitchen a few years back. A sad day for mope rock.

Check out 'Figure 8' or 'Summer in the Southeast'...

DD



quoted by: fungusamungus33
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all the same guy...
Will Oldham
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Palace Music
Palace Brothers
etc.

[72gmc]

katy song by Red House Painters
lately by The Helio Sequence
Thom Yorke's solo work (the eraser album in particular)

and it may be too grand to fit this category, but Pink Floyd The Wall is some of the most brilliantly depressing music that will ever be created.

[false_Aest]

*cough*

Pedro the Lion - "Priests and Paramedics"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uvR5w6Iqnjg&feature=related


Jawbreaker - "Kiss the Bottle"

[soulspinner]

Janes Addiction. Im gonna kick tomorrow...

[Fat Robert]

these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23PkA3G6NL8&NR=1

friggin jerkoffs copied my hairstyle

[shoe]

neutral milk hotel

[fierte58]

talk talk- spirit of eden and laughing stock.

maybe not a lot of rock, but plenty of excellent mope.

[cadence231]

Beach House (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2YiUTh9dj4)

[Bittersweet]

Looking at the Saronni era paint on the new Extreme Power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYpd3_roHg

The Moz is the best.

[wren]

If you like the Smiths, try Bell Hollow for some current mope rock . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpfodPKJdg4

[William]

I thought that’s what Grunge was??????? :confused:






William :rolleyes:

[cmg]

Sun Kil Moon

[72gmc]

Heard this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8kxB98v9C0) while working on my bike at 6-something this morning and it was just right for a grey windy day in Seattle.