― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2007 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2007 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Friday, 6 April 2007 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2007 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― MRZBW, Friday, 6 April 2007 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Friday, 6 April 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― babyalive, Friday, 6 April 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimble, Saturday, 7 April 2007 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
"landslide" - fleetwood fucking mac ^^^^ mind bogglingly obvious choice
"memory lane (sittin in da park)" - nas ^^^^ adolescence r.i.p.
third verse of "passin me by" - pharcyde rly tho rly rly
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 23 March 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Fantastic thread, Hoos! I'll have to think up some tracks along these lines.
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 March 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
This Mortal Coil - Holocaust (yes it's a Big Star song, but this version with Howard Devoto on vocals is simply the saddest song I've ever heard)
Spoonfed Hybrid - A Pocketful of Dust (haha I remember a friend of mine saying along the lines of "it's a bit depressing isn't it?" we just kindof nodded, recognizing the vast understatement made there
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (there aren't any words to describe the crescendo of strings and guitar at the end that bashes your emotion against a great rock at the edge of the sea)
The Cure - Sinking (Best part: "I Crouch In Fear And Wait..")
Japan - Night Porter (I think there's a theme here...this is the third depressing song I've named with one of those crescendo climaxes. The movie of the same name that I believe inspired the song is downright creepy, though.)
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 March 2008 04:11 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL at my Radiohead post upthread.
― Bimble, Sunday, 23 March 2008 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Nothing by the Velvets matches the depths of Lou Reed's Berlin.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 23 March 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
berlin is like on a whole other level
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 23 March 2008 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
The Gutter Twins - All Misery/Flowers
― stephen, Thursday, 27 March 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
'berlin' was depressing until i realised i didn't give a shit about lou's self-absorbed, half-assed concept. the songs on that record are good, though. but have absolutely nothing on the first 4 velvets outings
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 27 March 2008 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"Depressing" isn't quite right, there, nor is "concept". Chill out for another 15 years, K?
― libcrypt, Thursday, 27 March 2008 06:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, Bimble, you really have redeemed yourself with that second stab.
"A Change is Gonna Come," Sam Cooke
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 27 March 2008 07:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"A Horse With No Name," America "Please Mr. Postman," The Carpenters (so sad!) "Muskrat Love," any version )them muskrats are gonna die an early death!) "Sad Songs (Say So Much)," Elton John (true! Can hardly tupe!)
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 27 March 2008 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link
don't worry, i'm chilled! :) i know why people like that record, and i like it myself
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 27 March 2008 07:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I realize that any of perhaps three or four hundred Tom Waits songs could get posted here, but for me the title track from Alice does the trick every time.
Also: Neil Young - "Tired Eyes"
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
That little instrumental tune off Pink Moon, "Horn". Actually that whole album, but Horn especially sounds like someone who's just had enough.
Also "A Man Needs a Maid", the best evocation of Just Fuck Off And Leave Me Alone that's been recorded.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Gilbert O' Sullivan .: Alone Again (Naturally) is more devastating than it really should be for me.
Anything off Horses in the Sky by A Silver Mt. Zion is equally devastating but makes more sense.
― myndbloom, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
that fucking peter bjorn and paul song with the whistling
― chaki, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
"the end of the rainbow" - richard & linda thompson
― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 27 March 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Neil Young - "Tired Eyes"
I have been listening to this song daily for like 3 weeks.
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i love that song so much. 'please take my advice. please take my advice'
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
"Blue Eyes Cryin in the Rain"
― people explosion, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
If I've ever been curled up into a fetal position with a bottle of whiskey any details I managed to keep weren't of what song was playing. Or existant at all.
― nickalicious, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe "Wanna Be Startin Somethin".
― nickalicious, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
and the Elevators "I Had to Tell You" and Hank's "Pictures from Life's Other Side", but also, in a weird way, "Kaw-liga" and I guess everything in between...
― people explosion, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
though the ultimate whiskey+fetal position Hank Williams song (for me) might be "Cool Water" from ...Alone with His Guitar
― people explosion, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
So obvious you must have tripped over it: Break out the booze and have a ball
― derelict, Thursday, 27 March 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYziZ0lYfeI
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
famous blue raincoat, heard at the right moment, can shatter me
― Pat Finn, Monday, 22 April 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
Seconded
― He has a lot of baggage (handlers' perks) (Michael White), Monday, 22 April 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
1. "Silent Boatman" by Parliament, the bagpipes make my heart go WROOONK2. Most of Hammill's Over, my goodness is that difficult to listen to (as is a lot of his good solo stuff)3. "Narrow Your Eyes" by They Might be Giants. Just an impossibly sad breakup song that actually feels quite tame until you analyze the lyrics a bit4. "Most 'Ospitable" by Underworld. Kind of an obscure B-side type and maybe not fully developed but my god is that synth noise both gorgeous and impossibly sad.5. This version of "In the Ghetto", especially the way it ends:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyOaUzLNtBE
― frogbs, Monday, 22 April 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
'Soldier's Things' - Tom Waits'Le Plat Pays' - Jacques Brel
― He has a lot of baggage (handlers' perks) (Michael White), Monday, 22 April 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
on raglan road
― the gowls are not what they seem (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
i actually teared up this morning on the drive to work listening to two headed boy pt. 2 when it came up on shuffle. other things were going on in my life that contributed to that, but still, that song is pretty powerful
― Pat Finn, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
James McMurtry's Lights of Cheyenne is 7 minutes of staring into the suicidal void and not blinking once. Brutal. It was like he took Townes' Waiting Around To Die and said "how can I make this 50 times sadder?"
― kaleb h. (Everything You Like Sucks), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Motheryou had mebut I never had youI wanted youyou didn't want meso I -- I just gotta tell yougoodbye goodbye
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:13 (eight years ago) link
And in my dreams you're alive and you're cryingAs your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweetRings of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love youFor the rest of your life when you're ready
Brother, see we are one in the sameAnd you left with your head filled with flames and you watched as your brainsFell out through your teeth, push the pieces in place, make your smile sweet to seeDon't you take this away, I'm still wanting my face on your cheek
― Treeship, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
Michelle Shocked - Stillborn
The lyrics are relatively matter-of-fact, the performance is a gut-wrenching wail.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link
Any tropical house in a taxi after midnight.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
Esp. "I Took A Pill In Ibiza"
― Tim F, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
"Walking on a Wire" - Richard and Linda Thompson
― dc, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 13:08 (eight years ago) link
YMCA
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Holocaust-Big Star
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
whitney - greatest love of all
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
america - daisy jane
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
eels - my timing is off
― down and down we go (art), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
Tom Waits - Kentucky AvenueGravenhurst - The Ice TreeThe Memory Band - By The Time It Gets Terry Callier - Lean On Me (for personal reasons. Fuck what a song.)Richard Youngs - It Soon Will Be Fire (c'mon, it's about his dead dog)Nico - The FalconerSlowdive - WavesCat Power - Colors and the Kids
I don't drink whiskey, but I get the sentiment.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
yeah would prob swap out the whiskey for a bag of crispy m&ms tbh
― dc, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
Was just reminded of:
The Chills - Pink Frost
― Evan, Friday, 15 April 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
ugk - one day
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 15 April 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link
Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gQZUUHULco
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEx147n9G1A
― kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.challies.com/articles/seems-so-long-ago-nancy-2/
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 04:38 (six years ago) link
(explanation of the song by the subject's nephew, which is interesting, although tbqh I never found the song all that cryptic)
second over by p hammill and on raglan road from waaaay upthread. joan armatrading - dry land, i know it’s not entirely tragic, but it’s *not quite there-ness* gets me. something about the hope.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 07:05 (six years ago) link
and prefab sprout we let the stars go is slaying me rn but that may be for local reasons and will report back in ten years time to see if it still produces the whisky.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 07:06 (six years ago) link