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Old October 30, 2003, 05:50   #31
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It's strange that nobody mentioned Portishead.
'Twas on the tip of my tongue.

'It's a Fire' and 'Mysterons' and 'Theme From to Kill a Dead Man', and 'Mourning Air' from the 'Help' compilation.

Also Massive Attack's 'Home of the Whale' from the Massive Attack e.p. and 'Teardrop' from 'Mezzanine'.
I think the Madonna/Massive Attack version of 'I Want You' is also quite melancholy.

Other sad and melancholy refrains:

Roxy Music: 'Strictly Confidential' and '2HB'

Bowie: 'Lady Grinning Soul' and 'Warszawa'

Emmylou Harris/Dolores Keane/Mary Black: 'Grey Funnel Line' from the 'Bringing it Back Home' compilation.

Nico and Eno: 'The End' from 'June 1 1974'.

Caroline Lavelle: 'Moorlough Shore'.

Christopher Hobbs/Gavin Bryars/John Adams: 'Maccrimmon Will Never Return' from 'Ensemble Pieces'.

John Cage/Jan Steele: 'Voices and Instruments' (whole album)

Dinah Washington: 'Blue Gardenia'.

June Tabor: 'Aqaba' and 'Pavane'.

Marianne Faithfull: 'Strange Weather', 'Trouble in Mind', 'El Galivan' and 'As Tears Go By' (both versions).

Mary Coughlan: 'Handbags and Gladrags', 'Magdalene Laundry' and 'Dido's Lament'.

Bessie Smith: 'Empty Bed Blues'.

Nina Simone: 'Suzanne', 'Just Like A Woman' 'Baltimore' and 'My Man's Gone Now'.

This Mortal Coil: 'Tarantula', 'Another Day', 'Song to the Siren' 'My Father'.
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Molly,

What the hell do the lyrics in Strictly Confidential mean? I'm always puzzled by them. It's a great song btw.
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Well I've discovered another song that really depresses me and reminds me of my ex-girlfriend.

Jimi Hendrix- stand next to your fire.

Damn woman ruined so many good songs for me . I can't listen to them without thinking about her

Nights in white satin? I don't find that song depressing. I love that song though. I wouldn't call it up lifting either. I'm not sure what to call it.
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"Epitaph" by King Crimson
"Starless" by King Crimson
"Script for a Jester's tear" by Marillion
"Misplaced Childhood" by Marillion (entire album but two last songs)
"Why" A.Lennox
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Old November 2, 2003, 05:45   #35
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Old November 2, 2003, 06:20   #36
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Oh, sometimes "Who wants to live forever" by Quuen,
"Nevermore" by Queen...
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Old November 2, 2003, 06:25   #37
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Perhaps "It's gonna get better" by genesis,
or "Fading lights" by genesis,

OH, I remind myself my sad-hit.
"Mother of Violence" by P.Gabriel

except for that,
"Here comes the flood",
"The Time of the turning" - parts,
"San Jacinto",
"Biko",
these are sad for me, too, but not as much.

I like to cry listening to music.
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of course I always listen to Marlyin Manson's album- antichrist superstar.

But I don't consider that album sad- just dark.
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I hate sad music. In very rare occasions I'd listen to it. Nothing foreign when it comes to sad music apart from Edith Piaf.
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The saddest song I have listened to has to be "Les Vieux" by Jacques Brel. It depicts the daily life of old people. Very general. Very poetic. But above all very true.

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Les vieux ne parlent plus ou alors seulement parfois du bout des yeux
Même riches ils sont pauvres, ils n'ont plus d'illusions et n'ont qu'un cœur pour deux
Chez eux ça sent le thym, le propre, la lavande et le verbe d'antan
Que l'on vive à Paris on vit tous en province quand on vit trop longtemps
Est-ce d'avoir trop ri que leur voix se lézarde quand ils parlent d'hier
Et d'avoir trop pleuré que des larmes encore leur perlent aux paupières
Et s'ils tremblent un peu est-ce de voir vieillir la pendule d'argent
Qui ronronne au salon, qui dit oui qui dit non, qui dit : je vous attends

Les vieux ne rêvent plus, leurs livres s'ensommeillent, leurs pianos sont fermés
Le petit chat est mort, le muscat du dimanche ne les fait plus chanter
Les vieux ne bougent plus leurs gestes ont trop de rides leur monde est trop petit
Du lit à la fenêtre, puis du lit au fauteuil et puis du lit au lit
Et s'ils sortent encore bras dessus bras dessous tout habillés de raide
C'est pour suivre au soleil l'enterrement d'un plus vieux, l'enterrement d'une plus laide
Et le temps d'un sanglot, oublier toute une heure la pendule d'argent
Qui ronronne au salon, qui dit oui qui dit non, et puis qui les attend

Les vieux ne meurent pas, ils s'endorment un jour et dorment trop longtemps
Ils se tiennent par la main, ils ont peur de se perdre et se perdent pourtant
Et l'autre reste là, le meilleur ou le pire, le doux ou le sévère
Cela n'importe pas, celui des deux qui reste se retrouve en enfer
Vous le verrez peut-être, vous la verrez parfois en pluie et en chagrin
Traverser le présent en s'excusant déjà de n'être pas plus loin
Et fuir devant vous une dernière fois la pendule d'argent
Qui ronronne au salon, qui dit oui qui dit non, qui leur dit : je t'attends
Qui ronronne au salon, qui dit oui qui dit non et puis qui nous attend.
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doesn't look too sad to me
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Old November 3, 2003, 05:41   #42
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I hope Spif translates it, I've been searching for one but there difficult to find. (My French isn't good enough to do it. )
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I'd read of a song composed by a person on the day his GF broke up with him . He committed suicide later , and others who listen to that song have , in about 50% of cases , committed suicide . For me , it's the times a song is associated with that make it happy or sad .
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