[shawnbowski]

Cage "Balled Of Worms"

 

[Masonjar]

The God Machine - It's All Over
"Why do all the things have to change, just when they mean the most?"

Joy Division - Decades
"We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber,
Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in.."

The Cure - A Strange Day
"And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes,
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away
On a strange day"

Husker Du - Too Far Down
"..When I sit and think
I wish that I just could die,
or let someone else be happy
by setting my own self free

And you don't want the emotion,
cuz the taste it leaves is for real but,
nothing's ever real until it's gone,
and I might be too far down.."


-jar

 

[minya]

Quote:

Originally posted by razerx Pretty much the entire Smiths catalog but especially "There is a light that never goes out" from The Queen is Dead.

I don't know if you like electronic music, but there's a cover of that song by German laptop-pop musician Schneider TM that is absolutely one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Glitchy, melodic, sad, and bleepy with vocoder vox that just make me want to die.

- Chris

 

[spaceman]

Bed of Flames by Hungry Lucy


Dirty conscience in my head
Naked dreams that go unsaid
You have put this fear in me
Why won't you just let me be

Leave me on this bed of flames
Life can never be the same
All that's left is guilt and shame
I'm not sorry

Trust is not a simple plea
All I have is all of me
You can't take what's in my heart
Leaving pieces torn apart

Leave me on this bed of flames
Life can never be the same
All that's left is guilt and shame
I'm not sorry

In the flames of truth
The blind man can see
The cross won't save you
Travel with me

As I lay me down to sleep
Wicked thoughts through my mind creep
Fire burns me outside in
Maybe this will take my sin

Leave me on this bed of flames
Life can never be the same
All that's left is guilt and shame
I'm not sorry

 

[Arzela]

The Pogues- "The Old Main Drag"


When I first came to London I was only sixteen
With a fiver in my pocket and my ole dancing bag
I went down to the dilly to check out the scene
And I soon ended up on the old main drag

There the he-males and the she-males paraded in style
And the old man with the money would flash you a smile
In the dark of an alley you'll work for a five
For a swift one off the wrist down on the old main drag

In the cold winter nights the old town it was chill
But there were boys in the cafes who'd give you cheap pills
If you didn't have the money you'd cajole or you'd beg
There was always lots of tuinol on the old main drag

One evening as I was lying down by Leicester Square
I was picked up by the coppers and kicked in the balls
Between the metal doors at Vine Street I was beaten and mauled
And the ruined my good looks for the old main drag

In the tube station the old ones who were on their way out
Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout
And the coppers would come along and push them about
And I wished I could escape from the old main drag

And now I'm lying here I've had too much booze
I've been shat on and spat on and raped and abused
I know that I am dying and I wish I could beg
For some money to take me from the old main drag

(Shane MacGowan)

 

[razerx]

Quote:

Originally posted by minya I don't know if you like electronic music, but there's a cover of that song by German laptop-pop musician Schneider TM that is absolutely one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Glitchy, melodic, sad, and bleepy with vocoder vox that just make me want to die. - Chris

Thanks for the tip Chris. I found the CD which is an EP called "6 Peace" on Amazon. Since I am going to add Black Sabbath's Sympton of the Universe anyway I will add it to my order.

 

[Arzela]

oops, forgot "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda",
by the Pogues. The whole album "Rum Sodomy and the Lash" is great stuff
when your in a mauldin mood.


When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the Murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said Son
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be
done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the
cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli

How well I remember that terrible day
When the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He showered us with bullets, he rained us with
shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then it started all over again

Now those who were living did their best to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for seven long weeks I kept myself alive
While the corpses around me piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was
dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
To the green bushes so far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

So they collected the cripples, the wounded and
maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
And they turned all their faces away

And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving the or their dreams of past glory
I see the old men, all twisted and torn
The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me, "What are they
marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll go a-waltzing Matilda with me?


-Eric Bogle

 

[Audio Redneck]

Roy Orbison - Crying

 

[redshifter]

nin - hurt (it is the closest representation in music of real depression)

beethoven - cavatina (a movement from one of his late quartets. unbelievably moving and sad. beethoven once admitted it was his best piece of music)
- moonlight sonata (1st movement - very famous, a deeply dark improvisation)

the smiths - last night i dreamt somebody loved me (desperate self pity so bad it feels good)
- how soon is now (more self pity, but with chills)

brian eno - some of ambient #4 (there are worlds in this album, some dark, vast and sad (others warm and beautiful). one track suggests what it might be like to be (un)dead, with the chains of the damned clanking in the distance)

 

[Arzela]

beethoven - cavatina (a movement from one of his late quartets. unbelievably moving and sad. beethoven once admitted it was his best piece of music)

From the 15th quartet, 3rd movement?
I think it was. The opening movement
to his 12th quartet is quite nice also.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Quote:

Originally posted by Tina omg dusty!!! that's a song that captured me the moment i heard it and still does to this day. recommended to everyone to check out. also his "washing of the water".

Well, technically, your post is the one that made me think of it.

Also, from So, "Mercy Street".

And I can't believe I forgot: "I Grieve". Quote:

Originally posted by grinch radiohead - pyramid song

Good call on that one. Quote:

Originally posted by minya I don't know if you like electronic music, but there's a cover of that song by German laptop-pop musician Schneider TM that is absolutely one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Glitchy, melodic, sad, and bleepy with vocoder vox that just make me want to die. - Chris

Your post made me think of lb (aka Lassigue Bendthaus, aka Atom [Heart], aka Uwe Schmidt), have you ever heard Pop Artificielle? There's a cover of "Angie" (yes, that Rolling Stones song) on it that's just gorgeous. The "vocal" line is actually "resynthesized", I.E., he took Mick Jagger's vocal line as the input for what he ended up using (not just vocoder, but basically the basic pitches and maybe some formants), and it really captures the human aspect of the song, while still sounding very robotic and bleepy. Highly recommended.

I would add the original to this list, too.

 

[redshifter]

Quote:

Originally posted by Arzela beethoven - cavatina (a movement from one of his late quartets. unbelievably moving and sad. beethoven once admitted it was his best piece of music) From the 15th quartet, 3rd movement? I think it was. The opening movement to his 12th quartet is quite nice also.

actually it is his quartet #13 in b flat, 5th movement.

the second movement of the 12th quartet is also wonderful. beethoven in his own words said it represented fleeting feelings of strength as he lay on his sickbed.

his opus 132 quartet sometimes includes the opus 133, called the "grande fugue". it contains some of the most difficult music to perform ever written, and many string quartets simply omit it from the 132 quartet. the "grosse fugue" is essentially the speed metal of classical music, with some modern jazz thrown in. good stuff.

back on topic....

 

[fractus2]

Harry Nilsson, Without you.



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[mrkun]

Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

 

[elrod-tom]

Quote:

Originally posted by razerx Pretty much the entire Smiths catalog but especially "There is a light that never goes out" from The Queen is Dead.

How about Mother I Can Feel the Soil Falling Over My Head ?