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TheBoyWithAName Posted Mon 28 Mar, 2011 3:31 PM |
Haha that made me laugh in the same way I do while listening to The Laughing Gnome by Bowie.
Ok! day 03 (Monday 28th March) - a song that makes you happy
I'll chose one of my ultimate pep-songs, always make me think of summer: Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now |
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megg_inc Posted Mon 28 Mar, 2011 10:51 PM |
Day 3 - a song that makes me happy
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this one. For me the whole point of music is that it makes you feel happier. So I could have listed dozens here, not all of them being obvious choices. But as I can't really do that, I will go with Wouldn't It Be Nice. Beach Boys generally make me happy. |
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Turtleneck Posted Mon 28 Mar, 2011 11:06 PM |
I read this too quickly and thought it said Johnny CASH! So of course I clicked, never having heard the Johnny Cash version. Hearing Johnny Nash when you're expecting Johnny Cash is hilarious. |
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Leia Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 3:56 AM |
Day 3: a song that makes me happy.
It was easy to choose: Why Does It Always Rain on Me? Whenever I feel sad, or tired, or angry, this song never fails to make me absolutely happy. It reminds me of summer, blue sky, clouds, green grass, all these simple things we forget in everyday routine.
Funny enough, but I never liked rainy weather, it made me feel kind of depressed. But since I heard this song I DO love rain!
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 5:13 AM |
Day 04 (Tuesday 29th March) - a song that makes you sad
The Green Fields of France
Eric Bogle wrote this, he also wrote "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", you really should check out his stuff if you haven't before. This version is half sung in German which I hadn't heard before (it doesn't really work for me). The reason I find it sad is that it's about waste of a life. Thousands of men (some only boys) were shot, bombed & gassed at the bequest of complete and utter fuckwits like Haig. Who instructed his men when charging to walk across no man's land, not run, of course they were just mown down by machine gun. Whole villages/families were wiped out because at the time you could request to fight in the same unit (they thought it would be good for morale) unfortunately whole batallions were wiped out at a time leaving places with a distinct shortage of men and a huge population of widows. This pisses me off. As the song itself states, it was allowed to happen again & again, in fact it's maybe apt at a time when we're marching into yet another country.
Oh how do you do, Private Willy McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down beside your graveside
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in 1916
Well I hope you died quick
And I hope you died clean
Oh Willy McBride, was is it slow and obscene
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined
And though you died back in 1916
To that loyal heart you're forever nineteen
Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind some old glass pane
In an old photograph torn, tattered, and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
The sun shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
No gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now
But here in this graveyard that's still no man's land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
And a whole generation were butchered and damned
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
And I can't help but wonder oh Willy McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you the cause?
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing and dying it was all done in vain
Oh Willy McBride it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and again
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they sound the death march as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post in chorus?
Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?
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TheBoyWithAName Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 12:44 PM |
day 04 (Tuesday 29th March) - a song that makes you sad:
There's a lot of them out there, but I'll go with this song, especially this version:
Bruce Springsteen - Empty Sky
The falsetto in the beginning totally does it for me...
I just want to add that Deep Purple - When A Blind Man Cries is close behind, but it leaves me with mixed feelings, the guitar solo is so f@£king epic. |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 1:02 PM |
Turtleneck wrote:
I read this too quickly and thought it said Johnny CASH! So of course I clicked, never having heard the Johnny Cash version. Hearing Johnny Nash when you're expecting Johnny Cash is hilarious.
I'd have gone with Jimmy Cliff's version, but it's still a great song.
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Turtleneck Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 1:20 PM |
Day 4: A song that makes you sad
It's hard for me to think of a sadder song than
Where've You Been by Kathy Mattea.
I can't listen to this song without big tears rolling down my cheeks by the end. Even more so now with what is beginning to look like a trend in severe memory loss in my family. |
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TheBoyWithAName Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 1:28 PM |
Turtleneck wrote: Day 4: A song that makes you sad
It's hard for me to think of a sadder song than
Where've You Been by Kathy Mattea.
I can't listen to this song without big tears rolling down my cheeks by the end. Even more so now with what is beginning to look like a trend in severe memory loss in my family.
OMG, that was really heartbreaking :( |
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DAKOTA Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 3:04 PM |
Son Is Watching by Cloud Cult
It's about their son, who died. When he was 2 years old. Yeah. |
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thewishlist Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 5:46 PM |
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven (Unplugged)
An incredibly incredibly sad and beautiful song, about Clapton's son who died at the age of four... It's one of the very few songs that will reduce me to tears every time I listen to it. |
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megg_inc Posted Tue 29 Mar, 2011 6:57 PM |
| Moon River. Brings tears to my eyes every single time. |
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Leia Posted Wed 30 Mar, 2011 4:21 AM |
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
I read somewhere that this is the saddest song in the world, it always brings tears in my eyes. It's really very sad when someone you love is ill and you know you can't do anything to relieve his pain. |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Wed 30 Mar, 2011 7:38 AM |
Leia wrote: The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
I read somewhere that this is the saddest song in the world, it always brings tears in my eyes. It's really very sad when someone you love is ill and you know you can't do anything to relieve his pain.
According to QI the saddest song in the world is Gloomy Sunday by Billie Holiday,
"The saddest song ever is "Gloomy Sunday" sung by Billie Holiday, also known as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". The song was originally written by Rezsó Seress, who broke up with his girlfriend. After the song became popular, they got together briefly but then she committed suicide by poisoning herself and left only a two-word suicide note that said simply "Gloomy Sunday"."
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Wed 30 Mar, 2011 7:49 AM |
Double Post
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