ImTheFloor
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Echoes73 Wrote:hey you
Really? ??? I always found "Hey You" to be one of the most depressing songs ever.
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FreshBrains
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Love Shack - The B52's.
Yeah, I'm sorry too.
Oh, and Superstition by Stevie Wonder.
The Beach Boys is rather happy-go-lucky too.
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Philintheflesh
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ImTheFloor Wrote:Echoes73 Wrote:hey you
Really? ??? I always found "Hey You" to be one of the most depressing songs ever.
Yes. Strange choice.
Though I think "Don`t Leave Me Now" tops it for bleakness.
Mind you, depressing songs, films etc. can often have an up-beat effect on an audience. The idea of a catharsis - ie a purging of the emotions - through tragedy, goes back to Aristotle.
In Aristotle, the function of tragedy is to enlighten us, to take us on a quest, whose fruits bring us pleasure because we not only take a delight in learning, but also because we gain some knowledge of both ourselves and the world, and hence are empowered.
Shakespearean actors often leave the stage after playing a tragedy like King Lear or Macbeth on a real high. Playing comedy often has the opposite effect...so many comedians, ironically, suffer from depression.
It`s official then, Roger Waters makes you feel good!!! Mind you, I don`t exactly burst out laughing listening to some of his stuff. :laugh:
Icy wind of night be gone...this is not your domain
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Morglor9
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I find that I can only listen to the Beach Boys if I'm happy-ish to begin with. If I'm not, it just ends up annoying me because it's too happy, like that overly happy person at work or school that pisses everyone off.
Hitting Bottom Isn't A Weekend Retreat.
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FreshBrains
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On the contrary, I often broke into happy dancing while listening to The Fletcher Memorial Home. (Well, technically it isn't a Waters solo album, but it may as well be.)
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The Revelator
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in the aeroplane over the sea - neutral milk hotel
[untitled] - neutral milk hotel, what a fun song!
12:51 - the strokes
Alone, Together - the strokes
Your Southern Can Is Mine - the White Stripes version of the song
Ballad of Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash
tons more
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Echoes73
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Philintheflesh Wrote:ImTheFloor Wrote:Echoes73 Wrote:hey you
Really? ??? I always found "Hey You" to be one of the most depressing songs ever.
Yes. Strange choice.
Though I think "Don`t Leave Me Now" tops it for bleakness.
Mind you, depressing songs, films etc. can often have an up-beat effect on an audience. The idea of a catharsis - ie a purging of the emotions - through tragedy, goes back to Aristotle.
shes got it, and its not just the lyrics that make a song for me its usually guitar riffs and melody
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Let There Be More Floyd
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anything by Minus the Bear, espeicially Minus the Bear - Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked.
Also:
The Police - Canary In a Coalmine
The Police - Sychronicty II
Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be
Gorillaz - Dare
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Slowdive - Shine (even though all their songs have kind of a melancholy undertone, this song makes me feel as warm as the song title should)
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IbanezIsTheColour
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Echoes73 Wrote:Philintheflesh Wrote:ImTheFloor Wrote:Echoes73 Wrote:hey you
Really? ??? I always found "Hey You" to be one of the most depressing songs ever.
Yes. Strange choice.
Though I think "Don`t Leave Me Now" tops it for bleakness.
Mind you, depressing songs, films etc. can often have an up-beat effect on an audience. The idea of a catharsis - ie a purging of the emotions - through tragedy, goes back to Aristotle.
shes got it, and its not just the lyrics that make a song for me its usually guitar riffs and melody
I can understand Hey You. If your happy when you listen to it, you will feel worse, but since it is so good, listening to it while depressed helps you feel better somehow, at least for me.
Morglor9 Wrote:If I'm not, it just ends up annoying me because it's too happy, like that overly happy person at work or school that pisses everyone off.
yeah I dont like people like that. I dont mind people being nice, but when they're too nice I sometimes just want to poke them with sharp sticks. Like once, when someone introduced me to a cashier at the movie theatre... :Oo:
RIP Syd Barrett - 1/6/46 - 7/7/06
RIP Rick Wright - 7/28/43 - 9/15/08
"Well, I could be wrong, but I believe, uh, Diversity is an old old wooden ship used during the Civil War Era." -The Legendary Ron Burgundy
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