Now, however, I don't seem to remember any others.
(p.s. - No, this is NOT a cry for help, and I'm not on the verge of killing myself.)
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
"Suicide is Painless"? Who sang that originally?
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
Jamie Mandel did "Suicide Is Painless," by the way. I don't remember all the lyrics (mostly because the version used in the tv show is instrumental), but it's got a pro-suicide bent doesn't it?
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
― BrianB, Friday, 5 December 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, but maybe this thread is too convoluted anyhow.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― may pang (maypang), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― may pang (maypang), Friday, 5 December 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
― andy, Friday, 5 December 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 5 December 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 5 December 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
(There's a guy outside my window who's been threatening to jump all night!)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee Trevino (Leee), Friday, 5 December 2003 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 5 December 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:38 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ (ModJ), Saturday, 6 December 2003 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― notfazed (notfazed), Saturday, 6 December 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link
― kelly janney, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh Candy why did you do itYou should've called me on the telephoneI didn't expect for you call me'Cause I didn't think that you were aloneSo aloneOh, Candy worked so hardAt doin' what he thought was rightIt really really doesn't mean a thingOh, Candy worked so hardAt doin' what he thought was rightIt really really doesn't mean a thingOh Candy why did you do itYou didn't stick a needle in your veinYou just got so damned depressedWe all liked you except yourselfOh, Candy worked so hardAt doin' what he thought was rightIt really really doesn't mean a thingOh, Candy worked so hardAt doin' what he thought was rightIt really really doesn't mean a thingYou, you won't be comin' around no moreYou, you won't be comin' around no moreOh Candy why did you do itI didn't think you heard a word that I said
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― unfished business, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― mehlt, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Here are thirty songs.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTBy9CsPNU
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
Not exactly a power ballad but from the same time period: Rush - "The Pass"
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
1-800-273-8255
― map, Friday, 16 March 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
"suicidal thoughts" would be my #1 as well. "She don't even love me like she did when I was younger" is brutal.
"i know it's over" is an all-timer but i've always connected to "asleep" more. "It's so easy to laugh / It's so easy to hate / It takes guts to be gentle and kind" is absolutely iconic, i think, but it also represents a sort of a glimpse of a positive outlook that doesn't really resonate with me, not when one is in that state of mind. whereas
Don't feel bad for me / I want you to know / Deep in the cell of my heart / I really want to goThere is another world / There is a better world / Well, there must be
also presents a vision of something better, but it's somewhere else that unreachable from the world of the living, and that seems more real.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 March 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
(responding to alfred's list, not the power ballad topic, obv)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 March 2018 05:17 (six years ago) link
Duran Duran, “So Long Suicide”Franco Battiato, “Breve invito a rinviare il suicidio” (A brief invitation to put your suicide off)
― Max Florian, Friday, 16 March 2018 07:34 (six years ago) link
Metallica's "Fade to Black" I think would be a big tunes in this category.
― earlnash, Friday, 16 March 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure it's about suicide per se (as opposed to just a premature death) but I'm fond of 'Fly High Michelle' by Enuff Z'Nuff.
― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 March 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Twisted Sister - “The Price”!!!
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 16 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
See also
kinda menacing-sounding '80s trash/sleaze metal for stripper girlfriends to shoot heroin to
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 16 March 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link