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Sad vs Depressing
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Like button... Where's that darn like button when you need it?
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Here's Patton Oswalt's deconstruction of that song (NSFW or anyone easily offended):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10bz3PxyY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10bz3PxyY
Kent T said:
LOL!!! ;D
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joybandit said:
As was Don't Cry Daddy, Elvis...
And "In the Ghetto," but it was, of course, designed to be. It was meant to make you think.jfrancispastirchak said:
firepoint525 said:
Written by Mac Davis. And one of Elvis' other depressing hits, "Kentucky Rain," was written by Eddie Rabbitt.
"Kentucky Rain" was actually one of my favorite Elvis' hits from his later career, probably because I am old enough to remember when it was a hit, unlike some of his earlier songs.CTListener said:
The first station that I ever worked for was in McKenzie, TN, but could probably be heard in Kentucky on a good day. I remember playing "Kentucky Rain" once, and saying something to the effect of "you Kentucky folks can keep your rain. We don't want it here!" I still remember how the VU meter needle jumped during the "searching for you" bit on "Kentucky Rain."
"Rainy Night In Georgia" is a song that is more melancholy-sad then depressing. "Is That All There Is" by Peggy Lee may be the biggest hit that is truly depressing.
OK, what could be more of a downer than "The Eve of Destruction" (Barry McGuire)? Unless it's "The End of the World" (Skeeter Davis)!
johnbasalla said:
Re Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is being truly depressing... interestingly though, the lyrics, though mostly gloomy, also serve to neutralize the sting of depression by offering a solution, "... then let's keep dancing, let's sing out a tune and have a ball, if that's all..."
I don't think the lyrics beginning with "So, let's keep dancing..." etc... serve to neutralize depression by offering a good solution at all. The lyrics are ones of resignation, ones of giving up, ones of accepting and living with this sorry state of affairs. This denoument actually has a deep depressing element to it. In fact, the the lyric actually goes... "Let's break out the booze and have a ball". Yeah. Getting drunk as a way of dealing with depression. That's depressing too.
There we go again-- lyrics misinterpereted thanks to the compression of AM radio. Oops, wrong thread. :-[johnbasalla said:
My gosh! I just realized, the song I wrote about on the "Stellar B-Side" thread ... "(Poor Old) Mr. Jensen" crosses over from being just sad to actually depressing. The first part of the song is about attending the funeral of Mr. Jensen, who has just passed away. The cryptic lyrics mention his wife placing of a wreath around his head and how people are praying for her. Then the lyrics begin to turn as the people are "Silently and sadly, walking in procession. What do they care, now he's dead". The last part of the song laments that, in reality, nobody really cares all that much as they quickly forget about Mr. Jensen.
How about songs that whine too much....Stevie Wonder.. Isn't She Lovely Aretha Franklin.....Think ....and ....Natural Woman Simply Red.....Holding Back the Years Even if the lyrics are not sad the way they are sung sure is.
Whitney Houston was a real Whiner too. They could use her voice for an air raid siren. Imagine being married to her and she was yelling at you to take out trash can out to the curb.
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