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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:18 pm ] |
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according to some boffin it's Drugs Don't Work. His list: 1. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work 2. Robbie Williams - Angels 3. Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word 4. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 5. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 6. Will Young - Leave Right Now 7. Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight? 8. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful 9. James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover 10. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees. I agree Drugs Don't Work is sad but not in the sense he meant. Miserable toss if you ask me. What always gets you holding back the tears to paraphrase a ginger nut? For me: Joy Division... where do you start? But Atmosphere, Decades and Love Will Tear Us Apart are up there because they are sad but brilliant too. The Parting Glass by The Pogues because of the tender words and wonderful music. And loads of stuff by Billy Bragg in his prime. |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:25 pm ] |
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The only songs that ever 'upset' me were: The whole of the Anthony and the Johnsons album, I am a bird, heh - all of them are heartbreaking. Lupen's 'Shake baby shake' makes a tear crawl down my cheek. Cat Steven's Wild World - it's the way he sings it you know? Pulp, Wickerman - something haunting about it. That will do for now. |
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| Author: | Westie [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:46 pm ] |
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| Author: | Teasy [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:57 am ] |
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| Author: | tim [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:40 am ] |
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The Drugs Don't Work is a sad song. Besides, a lot of people associate it now with the death of Diana as it got to number one on the weekend she died and summed up the mood of the entire country perfectly. For me... Cat Power's cover of Moonshiner, which she plays in a miserable A minor, especially when she starts screaming 'You're already in Hell, I wish I could go to Hell..." and her cover of Michael Hurley's Werewolf Song, where even the cello sounds like it's crying. Tom McRae's Language of Fools and 2nd Law from his first album. "Tell all my friends I have gone to the moon/Tell all my friends I will write them soon/Tell them, if you see them, that I am better left alone." In fact, I can sit and sulk to that whole record. Must admit Paul Heaton singing about a past girlfriend's miscarriage on The Beautiful South's Have Fun brings a tear to my eye. "And we should have a baby, then I wouldn't feel quite so bad/Then I'd feel like Paul the Saint and not Jack the Lad/A baby that would make me feel so very glad/I've had a life of booze, but that's all I've had." Rufus Wainwright's The Art Teacher and Tom Waits' Another Man's Vine are both pretty tragic and There's No Love To Be Made Here Now by Luke Doucet always reminds me of an ex girlfriend. |
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| Author: | dookerdoo [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:51 am ] |
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| Author: | Westie [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:00 pm ] |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:27 pm ] |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:33 pm ] |
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| Author: | matt611 [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:27 pm ] |
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"where did your long hair go? What happened to the girl I know..." *sniffles back manly tears* |
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| Author: | Captain Howdy [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:29 pm ] |
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| Author: | Bazza [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:53 pm ] |
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| Author: | dookerdoo [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:57 am ] |
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hot burrito #1 - flying burrito brothers |
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| Author: | Westie [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:34 pm ] |
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Ooh... The Magnetic Fields - Acoustic Guitar. Don't get much sadder dan dat. |
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| Author: | Vodka-Volauvent [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:41 pm ] |
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Better the Devil You Know - Kylie |
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| Author: | dookerdoo [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:11 pm ] |
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| Author: | Vodka-Volauvent [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:28 pm ] |
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| Author: | dookerdoo [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:05 pm ] |
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| Author: | Captain Howdy [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:27 pm ] |
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Alone Again Naturally by the immortal Gilbert O'Sullivan. I mean, check out the lyrics: In a little while from now, If I'm not feeling any less sour I promised myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower, And climbing to the top, Will throw myself off In an effort to make it clear to who Ever what it's like when your shattered Left standing in the lurch, at a church Where people 're saying, "My God that's tough, she stood him up! No point in us remaining. May as well go home." As I did on my own, Alone again, naturally To think that only yesterday, I was cheerful, bright and gay, Looking forward to, but who wouldn't do, The role I was about to play But as if to knock me down, Reality came around And without so much as a mere touch, Cut me into little pieces Leaving me to doubt, All about God and His mercy For if He really does exist Why did He desert me In my hour of need? I truly am indeed, Alone again, naturally It seems to me that There are more hearts Broken in the world That can't be mended Left unattended What do we do? What do we do? (instrumental break) Now looking back over the years, And what ever else that appears I remember I cried when my father died Never wishing to have cried the tears And at sixty-five years old, My mother, God rest her soul, Couldn't understand, why the only man She had ever loved had been taken Leaving her to start with a heart So badly broken Despite encouragement from me No words were ever spoken And when she passed away I cried and cried all day Alone again, naturally Alone again, naturally Jesus! |
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| Author: | Simon Los Love [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:54 pm ] |
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