Dystopian music - world is going to hell in a handbasket; thread for depressing music?

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Back in 1984 they were doing a movie version of....1984. For the soundtrack the studio hired the duo Eurythmics who came up with both an in-movie ambient music and an album of songs based on said ambient musics. The result was (in my opinion) a pretty impressive assembly of dreamlike yet depressing surreal synth pieces which paired surprisingly well with the finished movie and helped highlight the whole living nightmare aspect of the story.

The films director however thought differently. Very differently. So much so that he threw a public tantrum about being forced to use this music he hated in his movie and another one at an awards ceremony, and when given the chance for a directors cut he replaced it all with an orchestral score he comissioned himself. A score which (in my mind) was pretty damn dreary and generic, and did little to give the film more identity. That being said I saw the Eurythmics version first when I was 12 so Im probably biased due to nostalgia. Either way here is the soundtrack in question

 
It's definitely more of the statist kind of dystopia than the Fallout kind, but this is pretty dystopic.
It's up to you to figure out whether or not it's depressing though.
 
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Wall, but then again it has its moments that are just Waters getting his own demons out.

The Resistance album by Muse is another good one to checkout. MK Ultra for all your mind control needs, United States of Eurasia if you are a Orwellian book thumper, and Uprising if you are feeling Anti-Fascist when it comes to your taste of revolution.

The Sound of Muzak by Porcupine Tree is a pessimistic view of the homogenization and commercialization of music(we are pretty much around that area right now so.) I'm not sure you could call it a dystopian song.

Lastly, any Sludge or Doom metal if you want to just want to watch the world burn at this point.
 
Lord_Ghoul said:
Lastly, any Sludge or Doom metal if you want to just want to watch the world burn at this point.
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or anything by Brighter Death Now
and let's not forget "Persepolis" by Iannis Xenakis, which is pretty much an apocalypse documented in the form of sound
 
I sometimes fear this dystopia has come to pass already (:_(

https://genius.com/Death-metal-band-1000-eyes-lyrics

Crossing the line into the other side
Emerging as prisoners
To the emptiness of time

To the left and to the right
From behind - they're out of sight
Plunging into a newfound
Age of advanced observeillance
A worldwide, foolproof cage

Privacy and intimacy as we know it
Will be a memory
Among many to be passed down
To those who never knew

Living in the pupil of one thousand eyes

Was it overlooked in front of all our faces?
Now, all the mistakes and secrets
Cannot be erased

Viewing the blind complexity
By which laws were justified
To erase simplicity

To the left and to the right
From behind - they're out of sight
Plunging into a new found
Age of advanced observeillance
A worldwide, foolproof cage

Privacy and intimacy as we know it
Will be a memory
Among many to be passed down
To those who never knew

Living in the pupil of one thousand eyes

We are enslaved now...

Now for something a little lighter (nuclear holocaust)



 
I like the music from Bubblegum Crisis for that dank 80s idol-heavy cyberpunk dystopia feel.
 
This is music I could imagine playing for a dictator in an apocalyptic scenario. It’s by a Russian composer and it’s classical. It reminds me of John Williams “Imperial March” from Star Wars at some parts.
 
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