Artist	Song
Nick Drake	Been Smoking Too Long
Elliot Smith	Between The Bars
Leonard Cohen	So Long, Marianne
Ryan Adams	When The Stars Go Blue
Fiona Apple	Love Ridden
Doves	Karen
Pete Yorn	Lose You
Machine Gun Fellatio	Just B'Coz
Velvet Underground	Stephanie Says
Rufus Wainwright	In A Graveyard
Rufus Wainwright	Hallelujah
Yuhki Kuramoto	A Scene Of La Seine
Yo-Yo Ma	Excerpt from Sonata for Cello & Piano in G Minor
Widow Jones	Stoned Again
Tex Perkins	She Speaks A Different Language (Bonus Track Mix)
Tim Buckley	Sing A Song For You
Otis Redding	Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
The Smiths	Asleep
Nick Drake	Know
Brian Eno	An Ending (Ascent)

Comment:

Christ I've made a lot of mixes this week for people (hey, my exams are over...for a month or two), and it's gotten me really depressed. Well, it hasn't at all really, but that didn't stop me making this depression mix which I think is incredibly depressing. Something about depressing music does it for me incredibly...there's more passion, more meaning...it just sounds more 'real.' So even when I'm not feeling down, I like listening to really depressing music. I made this mix CD last week and I've been listening to it while smoking cigarettes and writing a novel at around 3am. It's been good. It's been very good. I think this mix, uh, mixes really well.

(I think Nick Drake exemplifies depressing music, especially knowing his history - or lack thereof. Such an extraordinary guitarist, lyricist and vocalist dying at such an early age is always going to be incredibly depressing and tragic. And I may be looking for it too hard, but when you listen to his voice, it seems to have the fragility of an incredibly depressed person. The same fragility I hear in the voices of the two friends I have who have or have had clinical depression).

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