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Depressing sounding songs
- Thread starter Don CT
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Mentioned a few posts back. Threads involving lists invariable run into this problem. Maybe a shutdown is appropriate now.
Here's the ultimate depressing song:
All my sorrows, sad tomorrows
Take me back to my old home
All my crying, feel I'm dying
Take me back to my old home ...
The world is a bad place
A bad place
A terrible place to live
Oh, but I don't want to die ...
Great honk! Somebody play the Archies!
C.
All my sorrows, sad tomorrows
Take me back to my old home
All my crying, feel I'm dying
Take me back to my old home ...
The world is a bad place
A bad place
A terrible place to live
Oh, but I don't want to die ...
Great honk! Somebody play the Archies!
C.
That is not a depressing song. It may be suggestive, but it's not depressing. If you don't like the song, that's just your opinion.
But it was considered "with it" and "relevant" (the forerunners of political correctness) in 1970. Not only was it depressing, it really was a whiny-assed song that was 20-25 years "ahead" of its time.
Or Bieber! OK, same thing.
All the stations I listen to call him "a big, big man".
That's the single edit.
Regional differences. On Sunday, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver had a segment on people getting burned by timeshares. Part of it included a local TV news interview with a 76-year-old Tennessee woman who got burned. In it, emotional, she used the word "damn" and then said---"you may have to bleep that" to the local news crew.
Oliver's New York audience laughed, but Oliver noted that among some people in Tennessee (still), a 76-year-old woman saying "damn" would be equivalent to a middle schooler with a bullhorn shouting "motherf***er" on either coast.
What would happen if they saw Samuel L. Jackson in "The Hitman's Bodyguard"?
Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno just to watch him die and now he's stuck in Folsom Prison.
Which has never made sense to me. If he shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die, he should be stuck in the Northern Nevada Correctional Facility in Carson City, but only because they closed the Nevada State Prison in 2012. Of course, Johnny died in 2003, and he wrote the song in 1953 so...
You don't shoot someone in Reno and get put in prison in California.
I want his long-dead self extradited back to Nevada!
What makes even less sense was following "Montovani". I got that spelling from the web site where they show what is playing now.
In fact, NONE of "Folsom Prison Blues" makes any damn (you may have to bleep that out) sense, even before we get to the part where he shoots the man in Reno (just to watch him die):
"I Hear The Train A-Comin'; It's Rollin' 'Round The Bend,
And I Ain't Seen The Sunshine Since I Don't Know When,
I'm Stuck At Folsom Prison And Time Keeps Draggin' On.
But That Train Keeps A-Rollin'
On Down To San Antone."
FROM SUBURBAN SACRAMENTO????
I've had it, I tell ya!
"I Hear The Train A-Comin'; It's Rollin' 'Round The Bend,
And I Ain't Seen The Sunshine Since I Don't Know When,
I'm Stuck At Folsom Prison And Time Keeps Draggin' On.
But That Train Keeps A-Rollin'
On Down To San Antone."
FROM SUBURBAN SACRAMENTO????
I've had it, I tell ya!
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Nobody knows how to spell "Mantovani". David puts two "n"s in it. And really, it's amazing anyone needs to know how to spell "Mantovani".
I do, but I'm retired and have nowhere to fix it but here anymore.
Which is why you only go for the hit instrumental by Al De Lory:
I also find it hard to get too depressed if I have the album cover nearby:
Glad to be of help.
It has two n's in the correct spelling, too. David must be putting three in it.
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Sammy Reed
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Then there's the 1977 disco version by The Ventures!
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