Nihilism... Album... (1 Viewer)

[Kafka]

Name one better than Golden Palomino's "Dead Inside"... Still resonant after all these years...and Nick Cave & " Stagger Lee"  doesn't count, because it tells the Bad Seeds had no feels...Just listened to Dead Inside  after many years, & it bothers me more now, even with a family...(actually, that probably makes it more frightening)..."The Ambitions Are"...

 

[Kafka]

...should have stayed in soccer forum(s), but they don't want me there, either...you

 

[Kafka]

I swear to god, "Victim" is real for everybody...

 

[rockaction]

Are we talking about nihilism as a concept, embodied in the words and music of the album?  

 

[Kafka]

Erase all this nonsense... Thought  I could hang with Euphus & Bentley's AM discretions, but obviously i can't.  Audi 5000.

 

[Kafka]

Are we talking about nihilism as a concept, embodied in the words and music of the album?  

When is nihilism not a "concept"...Dostoyevskyn& Stavrogin show its absurdity...but Kirilov (& Camus, by proxy, & character study)) shows it's true genius; Kirilov's logic is inscrutable; he chooses to ignore it, but realizes once he pursues this agenda to it's (il) logical conclusion,  suicide is the only viable alternative...but he (albeit reluctantly) abides by his convictions, unlike Raskalnikov.  Right is right, if everyone's wrong...& wrong is wrong if everyone's right.  Viva Kirilov!...understudied, & under appreciated.

 

[cstu]

I found listening to the whole thing exhausting and pointless.

 

[Kafka]

Ummm...I feel this whole thread should've been a PM, or something?  Anyways, thanks for answering, Rock action... I'm a known alcoholic & flabbergaster ... 

 

[Kafka]

Long live Stavrogin! The best & most conflicted anti-hero ever created through subtle prose.

 

[rockaction]

When is nihilism not a "concept"...Dostoyevskyn& Stavrogin show its absurdity...but Kirilov (& Camus, by proxy, & character study)) shows it's true genius; Kirilov's logic is inscrutable; he chooses to ignore it, but realizes once he pursues this agenda to it's (il) logical conclusion,  suicide is the only viable alternative...but he (albeit reluctantly) abides by his convictions, unlike Raskalnikov.  Right is right, if everyone's wrong...& wrong is wrong if everyone's right.  Viva Kirilov!...understudied, & under appreciated.

I was just wondering whether you were looking for overt uses of the word nihilism or the philosophical concept. 

Anyway, Never Mind The Bollocks might be an overdone pick, but it certainly fits the bill, IMO. 

And if we go to Nietzsche, who shows us the overman and the embrace of our newfound philosophical fate of life without faith, then the Ramones' early albums are a bubblegum embrace of the concept. 

I am sure there are other underground punk bands of that time period that also seem nihilistic, but those two immediately come to mind. 

Also, Camus can't be Kirilov's proxy. He believed in a life celebrated and free from original sin and penned the Myth Of Sisyphus in order to specifically address the logic of suicide, didn't he? That in our embrace of our absurd position in life and our heavy burden to bear, that we find contentment and sacrifice in the struggle itself. Camus wrote The Fall, which I've read, and that seems like a paean to the abdication of a secular morality and an annihilation of the last vestiges of original sin. That's why he creates the little-ease metaphor with respect to prisons. 

I'd also say Johnny Cash's prison work is nihilistic in parts. Deeply American, but nihilistic in a rare way.