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post #31 of 656
3/1/04 at 2:59pm
Am I the only one completely unaffected by lyrics? I can't really find them emotionally affecting (or even understand what they mean) anymore. I think this is what too much instrumental music does to you.

Anyway, I prefer songs which express melancholy and sadness through sound, rather than words. Some examples:
  • Autechre - Vletrmx21, Krib
  • Boards of Canada - all of the Hi Scores EP (except for "Nlogax")
  • Global Communication - 14:31 and a bunch of tracks on Pentamerous Metamorphosis
Umm... that's about all I can think of now. But, yeah, anyone else have the same problem as I?

- Chris
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post #32 of 656
3/1/04 at 3:03pm
"Mr. Bo Jangles"

"The Promise" - Tracy Chapman

I can't get through either one without a tear in my eye.
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post #33 of 656
3/1/04 at 5:07pm
Massive Attack - Better Things

Now, according to most people who have the privilege of knowing me () I am a cold hearted, antipathetic human being, but this tune somehow always finds its way to the soft and sentimental side of my personality.
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post #34 of 656
3/1/04 at 6:18pm
Gary Allen - Smoke Rings in the Dark
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post #35 of 656
3/1/04 at 7:52pm
Musically, Apocalyptica's cover of Metallica's The Unforgiven is hauntingly beautiful. The cries of a cello...

Lyrically, it's a toss-up between Nirvana's All Apologies, and Metallica's Master of Puppets.

Oh, and for a runner-up for both categories, Elton John's We All Fall in Love Sometimes.

(-:Stephonovich:-)
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post #36 of 656
3/1/04 at 7:58pm
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Originally posted by Stephonovich
Elton John's We All Fall in Love Sometimes.

(-:Stephonovich:-)
Another good song that is also very very sad. The song that follows it on the Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album, called "Curtains" is also a very good one.

I used to know this old scarecrow
He was my song, my joy and sorrow
Cast alone between the furrows
Of a field no longer sown by anyone

I held a dandelion
That said the time had come
To leave upon the wind
Not to return
When summer burned the earth again

Cultivate the freshest flower
This garden ever grew
Beneath these branches
I once wrote such childish words for you

But that's okay
There's treasure children always seek to find
And just like us
You must have had
A once upon a time
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post #37 of 656
3/1/04 at 8:01pm
Yes, I believe my dad had that album on LP at one point. He's still got the sheet music for it.

Oh yes, Funeral For a Friend is also an extremely mournful song. I used to be able to play some of it on the piano. Ought to learn the whole thing.

(-:Stephonovich:-)
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post #38 of 656
3/1/04 at 10:00pm
'Fairytale of New York' from 'If I Should Fall From Grace With God' by The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl .

Also 'Train Song' from 'Frank's Wild Years' by Tom Waits

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post #39 of 656
3/1/04 at 10:43pm
Ciaconna from Partita No. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach

There is no equal. In this single movement lies the pinnacle of human musical achievement. The Ciaconna (Chaconne) is a triumph of spirit over matter.

I have played over a hundred pieces of music, dozens of which are baroque, classical, romantic, or modern pieces, and NOTHING is as expressive, dark, impassioned, depressing, and spiritual as the chaconne, NOTHING.

Cheers,
Geek
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post #40 of 656
3/2/04 at 1:41pm
REM's 'everybody hurts' is a good contender like many other great songs; however, I have to say that Pink Floyd songs are perhaps the most depressing songs ever written. 'The Wall' is one of the most depressing albums ever connived, with depression and madness dripping form every tune.

‘Goodbye cruel world’ is very depressing since it comes in a part of the story in the 'Wall' album where if listened closely one feels that there is no hope left. Roger Water convey his emotional trauma, depression and proximity to madness so well and so honestly that even after many listen I still get carried away by this album.

IMO, not one song but the whole album in floyd's 'wall' is perhaps one of the most depressing and emotionally draining albums in history of music...

There are many cases of suicides where the person had been listening to Floyd for sometime before killing themselves.
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post #41 of 656
3/2/04 at 2:43pm
I seem to notice too many people have posted "depressing" songs as opposed to "sad" songs. Isn't there a difference between those two connotations?

The song "Creep" by Radiohead for instance, I place on the "Depressing" landscape, but I don't regard it as a sad song.

The sad song I was referring to ("Al mar anochecido", music by Gonzalo Castellanos, I can't remember who wrote the lyrics), one of the saddest I've ever heard, starts with something like the following:

"If her beauty could die within myself, as it died in you, sea."

That is a very poor translation, but you get the idea. It's an extremely poetic and sad song imho, but it's not really depressing. I think there's a distinction.
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post #42 of 656
3/2/04 at 3:32pm
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Originally posted by rsaavedr
I seem to notice too many people have posted "depressing" songs as opposed to "sad" songs. Isn't there a difference between those two connotations?

The song "Creep" by Radiohead for instance, I place on the "Depressing" landscape, but I don't regard it as a sad song.

The sad song I was referring to ("Al mar anochecido", music by Gonzalo Castellanos, I can't remember who wrote the lyrics), one of the saddest I've ever heard, starts with something like the following:

"If her beauty could die within myself, as it died in you, sea."

That is a very poor translation, but you get the idea. It's an extremely poetic and sad song imho, but it's not really depressing. I think there's a distinction.
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post #43 of 656
3/2/04 at 5:31pm
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Originally posted by wali
about your

What's confusing about my posting?
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post #44 of 656
3/2/04 at 6:35pm
Yes, there is a difference, but I myself usually don't place much distinction. If I'm in a foul mood, either one will do

Metallica's Master of Puppets, for instance, is a depressing song of a cocaine addicts' downward spiral into insanity, or near enough. First he's happy, then he's confused, angry, hurt, and screaming.

Metallica's Nothing Else Matters, (dunno why I keep pulling them up for examples...) OTOH, is a sad song, about someone completely losing any trace of emotion, and ceasing to care about life. He's been had, and he no longer cares about anything. I suppose one could take that as depressing, but to me, it's more sad. Dunno why.

(-:Stephonovich:-)
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post #45 of 656
3/2/04 at 7:00pm
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Originally posted by Stephonovich
Metallica's Master of Puppets, for instance, is a depressing song of a cocaine addicts' downward spiral into insanity, or near enough. First he's happy, then he's confused, angry, hurt, and screaming.
Yes, to me depression sounds very related to hopelessness. Sadness hurts and is terribly painful etc., but is not necessarily associated with depression or hopelessness, well at least for me. English is not my native language, so probably am not using the standard meanings of these words properly.
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