Sad sad music

[molly bloom]

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend a few years ago- whenever he felt depression setting in, or just had a case of the blues, then it was time for the sad platters to come out of the record covers.

Oddly enough it's not always the supposedly out and out melancholy songs that necessarily are the ones people listen to when they're feeling down- in my case it's more often songs that I associate with times when I've been depressed, or was listening to when I received bad news- such as Shawn Colvin's 'Shotgun Down the Avalanche' which I'd been listening to before I received the news of my friend's death.

That said it's a diverse bunch anyway- everything from Bryan Ferry and 'Carrickfergus' to Bowie's 'Moss Garden', Mary Coughlan's 'Invisible to You', Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports', Joni Mitchell's 'Blue', and Thomas Tallis's 'Spem in Alium'. It's good to have a whole album's worth of melancholia- I find it has a cathartic effect most of the time.

[Zylka]

Dido - White Flag
U2 - With or without you

[monolith94]

Originally posted by Zylka
U2 - With or without you

Lately you've started to suck.

Lou Reed - No Change

[rev]

Everyone has these kind of songs. My favorites, in particular, usually have to do with the end of relationships (but not always):

Guster, "Either Way"
Ben Folds Five, "Evaporated", "Selfless, Cold, and Composed"
American Football, "Never Meant"
Alkaline Trio, pretty much any song they've written
Nada Surf, pretty much anything after and including "Proximity Effect"
Counting Crows, again, almost anything.

[Verres]

Along with my usual collection of music, i noticed that I have a few bits of music which are reserved for those moments in life, when you really just want to retreat into yourself / sulk / feel sad / cry / or just get that low feeling over and done with.

Yep, listened to a lot of that kind of music this morning.

"Epiphany" - Staind
"It's been a while" -Staind (Both from an album that has some horrible memories, but is very good for crying to)

"The drugs dont Work" - The Verve (Like Drogue said, scarily poignant...yet strangely comforting )

"Nights in White Satin" - Moody Blues (I defy anyone to listen to this and not get emotional)

"Yesterday" - Beatles (yes, its not exactly original i know)

"Moonlight" - Beethoven

[alva]

Mad world - Gary Jules (the Donnie Darko version)
Ne me quite pas - Brél
Pictures of you - Cure
Drive - REM
Elle adore le noir - Arno
People are strange - The Doors
Forever young - Alphaville
Et maintenant - Becaud
Stand by me - Ben E King
Heroes - Bowie
That's just the way it is - Hornsby
Ring, Ring - Grignard Ferre
Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
True Colors - Cindy Lauper
The last film - Kissing the pink

I'm gonna stop here, don't feel like getting depressed today

BTW: if there is a song you've never heard of, get it (you know how), they all are good songs ( especially the non-english ones, for which you don't need to know any french at all, IE you''ll get the picture without understanding the words )

[The Viceroy]

Wow, good to see im not alone

Ive also got some Enya stuff (not at home, so don't have the titles), which i use to l listen to.

For me, quite a lot of the music seems to be film related .. not sure why, maybe because film music of all music will try and add to the emotion of a situation, which makes it ideal sad music.

[reds4ever]

why would anybody want listen to music that makes them feel sad? Lifes too short

[alva]

'Cause sadness is a very intense emotion, call it 'quality time' if you want.

And one can't enjoy the sun and warmth, if one never experiences rain or cold

[rixxe]

It's strange that nobody mentioned Portishead.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by alva
'Cause sadness is a very intense emotion, call it 'quality time' if you want.

hitting my thumb with a lump hammer would cause a very intense sensation, i try to avoid it though

[Alex]

wow, good thread for kazaa lovers. thank you, guys.

[alva]

hitting my thumb with a lump hammer would cause a very intense sensation, i try to avoid it though

And right you are, I try to avoid being sad too, but if it happens to strike, I might as well make the most of it, no.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by molly bloom

That said it's a diverse bunch anyway- everything from Bryan Ferry and 'Carrickfergus' to Bowie's 'Moss Garden', Mary Coughlan's 'Invisible to You', Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports', Joni Mitchell's 'Blue', and Thomas Tallis's 'Spem in Alium'. It's good to have a whole album's worth of melancholia- I find it has a cathartic effect most of the time.

Moss Garden has never failed to wring a tear from me, which is surprising in that it's an environmental piece with no singing. It reminds me very much of childhood though. A lot of Eno stuff fits the bill, especially the second half of Before and After Science. Bjork also does sad very well. When I'm not extremely depressed I listen to the fairly large collection of sad type songs in my collection, and they sound so extraordinarily beautiful that I often cry those little tears of rapture that come from the outsides of my eyes. When I'm actually depressed I tend to play from a smaller play list of healing music. This tends to be music that is somewhat sad, but builds into a somewhat triumphal piece by the end. An example would be a lot of Roxy Music, or King Crimson's "Sheltering Sky", a fair amount of Pink Floyd etc. Good moods tend to require strongly triumphant music like the Who, or lighter fare like happy Jazz, or fun and funny stuff like the B-52s. It's fun being the music director of your own life.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by reds4ever


hitting my thumb with a lump hammer would cause a very intense sensation, i try to avoid it though

Too bad you didn't apply the same philosophy to your brain!