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Post by enjoy on Dec 13, 2005 3:05:33 GMT -5
the most obvious: "gloomy sunday" - billie holiday ... it's often referred to as the most depressing song ever written, and it's absolutely beautiful and a lot of joy division... as for gloomy sunday, I never got this, it was all a dream..so not half as depressing as "strange fruit"--that is some depressing subject matter right there. and stormy weather is much more bleak than gloomy sunday, but thats me. joy division I dont get either, its more like comfortable solitude rather than depression. ok, and "start breaking my heart" by manitoba is depressing to me, because it sounds like the soundtrack to driving past your childhood neighborhood, and seeing how much everything is changed, and knowing things will never be the same. never actually happened to me, but i still get that image everytime I listen to that album |
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Post by kevin on Dec 13, 2005 16:14:32 GMT -5
pink floyd - 'mother'
bright eyes - 'amy in the white coat'
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Post by kevin on Dec 13, 2005 17:43:30 GMT -5
bjork - 'desired constellation'
neutral milk hotel - 'two headed boy pt 2'
sigur ros - 'untitled 1 (vaka)'
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Post by bignothing on Dec 13, 2005 20:22:37 GMT -5
oh yes, i forgot about amy in the white coat.
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Post by byronhulcher on Dec 13, 2005 21:59:30 GMT -5
neutral milk hotel - 'two headed boy pt 2' first time I read that, I swore I saw "two headed cat" by the aquabats and I freaked. It wasn't too depressing to me. Bohemian Rhapsody is a good one in my point of veiw, for Queen rocks it out ballad style and "nothing really matters" is pure depression if I've heard it. |
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Post by thisshitisoranges on Dec 28, 2005 3:13:42 GMT -5
nirvana - " something in the way"
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Post by yume on Dec 28, 2005 20:28:25 GMT -5
I used to think various songs on Moon Pix by Cat Power and most of Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair. A lot of early Songs Ohia= depressing. Jude-Battered Broken, I Do,and I Know from No One Is Really Beautiful The rest of the list is just sad but makes me happy. Jim Yoshi Pile-Up-Breakdown Championship a few songs from Hefner's-Breaking God's Heart or anything of theirs outside of We Love the City Old 97s- Bel Air, Valentine, Jagged and Lonely Holiday Get Up Kids-Valentine Jonathan Richman's I Can't Find My Best Friend Vic Chesnutt's Stay Inside Sean Na-Na's-Princess and the Pony Jill Sobule's Rock Me To Sleep, Strawberry Gloss, Guy Who Doesn't Get It Joni Mitchell's River, The last time I saw Richard And the Wowz-Do You Remember, Maybe Someone, and Hand Me Down Heart local band from new york city-my favorite. check them out at www.thewowz.com. and www.myspace.com/thewowzHerman Dune-Good For No One from Not On Top EP, and Only the Shadow of Myself okay that's all i can think of now. for some reason compiling them makes them feel not as sad... hmmm. |
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Post by yume on Dec 28, 2005 20:35:52 GMT -5
oh yeah and the smiths How Soon is now. part of my high school favs, which includes fiona apple's sullen girl. and some smashing pumpkins songs, maybe a little eddie vedder-how much difference does it make? ha
i also like Smiths Half a person.
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Post by yume on Dec 28, 2005 21:20:57 GMT -5
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taking my business elsewhere and beeswing by richard thompson
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Post by kevin on Dec 29, 2005 7:31:02 GMT -5
although overplayed and completely out of listenability now, i have to add
Green Day - 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)'
for at the time, it was very sad.
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Post by byronhulcher on Dec 29, 2005 10:54:26 GMT -5
I think it was played at every single HS graduation in the 90's.
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Post by sithiework on Dec 29, 2005 13:52:56 GMT -5
oh god how could i forget
Aimee Mann - 'Wise Up'
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Post by dr. strangelove on Dec 29, 2005 14:34:03 GMT -5
the most obvious: "gloomy sunday" - billie holiday ... it's often referred to as the most depressing song ever written, and it's absolutely beautiful and a lot of joy division... as for gloomy sunday, I never got this, it was all a dream..so not half as depressing as "strange fruit"--that is some depressing subject matter right there. and stormy weather is much more bleak than gloomy sunday, but thats me. the "it was all a dream" thing was added onto the song to make it seem less depressing actually, i had always heard that the song inspired a string of suicides when it was first released, but always wondered if it was true, so i just tried to do some "urban legend" research and found that most sites list it as "undetermined" rather than "legend"... here's one site that discusses it: www.snopes.com/music/songs/gloomy.htmand here's a site that translates the original hungarian lyrics, which seem far worse than even billie holiday's version: www.phespirit.info/gloomysunday/lyrics_seress.htm |
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Post by SINISTER FUNKHOUSE on Dec 29, 2005 15:09:38 GMT -5
as far as songs: ohia goes...
the whole ghost album. i'm listening to it right now. i just woke up. it's been raining for three days straight.
i called in sick today. mom's gone to get special k.
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Post by lysine on Jan 1, 2006 19:41:42 GMT -5
cats powers whole "moon pix" album makes me so sad. and then on the casiotone alphabet series versions of roberta c, when he says "true love is hard to find" i always feel like i might cry a little.
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