Love Hate Love - Alice in Chains
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot always brings a tear to my eye.
Wow....sometimes we are the same person my friend.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
It's a song about the only couple in the US jailed for consensual brother-sister incestual sex. It's something we normally laugh about, but the way Patterson sings the lyrics, it's just so touchingly sad.
I know I say this every time someone mentiones this song, but IMO, it has one of the greatest lyrics ever written.
*Ahem*
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say she'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put 15 more miles behind her
The might have split up or they might have capsized
they may have broke deep and took water Now all that remains are the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters
Gives me chills.
Barry: Top 5 songs about death. A Laura's Dad tribute list, okay? Okay. Leader of the Pack. The guy fin' beefs it on his motorcycle and dies, right? Dead Man's Curve. Jan & Dean.
Dick: Do you know that right after they recorded that song Jan himself crashed his car...
Barry: It was Dean you fin' idiot...
Rob: It was Jan. It was a long time after the song.
Barry: Okay, whatever. Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down - Laura's Mom could sing it. You know what I'd want? One Step Beyond by Madness. And, uh, You Can't Always Get What You Want.
Dick: No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill.
Barry: Oh God. You're right!
Dick: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.
Barry: You b@#$%^d! That's so good - that should have been mine...
Harry Nilsson "Without You" for musical and vocal emotion. One of the most underappreciated singer songwriters ever.
Elton John "Indian Sunset" for subject matter and pure awesomeness. THIS Elton John is one of the top 10 rock acts ever IMO. This is a great version, but the CD version with full orchestra is even more emotional.
Coven "One Tin Soldier" Not the greatest song in the world musically, but the message is so appropriate today...on every level. Humans suck.
Mad Season "Wake Up"
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
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Well, Ive been afraid of changing cause Ive built my life around you But time makes you bolder Children get older Im getting older too
Lovers In A Dangerous Time - Bruce Cockburn
When you're lovers in a dangerous time Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
A Matter Of Time - Los Lobos
Speak softly, don't wake the baby Come and hold me once more Before I have to leave Because there's a lot of work out there Everything will be fine And I'll send for you baby Just a matter of time
I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh Those were the happiest days of my life
Let Down - Radiohead
Let down and hanging around Crushed like a bug in the ground Let down and hanging around
Perfect Day - Lou Reed [the "you" is allegedly heroin]
You made me forget myself. I thought I was someone else, Someone good.
The Rising - Bruce Springsteen [9/11 song]
Can't see nothin' in front of me Can't see nothin' coming up behind I make my way through this darkness I can't feel nothing but this chain that binds me Lost track of how far I've gone How far I've gone, how high I've climbed On my back's a sixty pound stone On my shoulder a half mile line
Disconnection Notice - Sonic Youth [9/11 song]
did you get yr disconnection notice
mine came in the mail today
they seem to think im disconnected
don’t think i know what to read or write or say
I come from down in the valleyWhere mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school When she was just seventeen We'd drive out of this valley down to where the fields were green We'd go down to the river And into the river we'd dive Oh down to the river we'd ride Then I got Mary pregnant And man that was all she wrote And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat We went down to the courthouse And the judge put it all to rest No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle No flowers, no wedding dress That night we went down to the river And into the river we'd diveOh down to the river we did ride I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy Now all them things that seemed so importantWell mister they vanished right into the air Now I just act like I don't remember Mary acts like she don't care But I remember us riding in my brother's car Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir At night on them banks I'd lie awake And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse Is a dream a lie if it don't come true Or is it something worse,That sends me down to the river Though I know the river is dry That sends me down to theriver tonight Down to the riverMy baby and I Oh down to the river we ride
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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Wow....sometimes we are the same person my friend.
Love Hate Love, I don't think Staley's vocals are better on any other song they do. He feels every word of the lyrics. He is in agony singing this. And I love it. Gives me goosebumps when I hear it.
Then I got Mary pregnant And man that was all she wrote And for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat We went down to the courthouse And the judge put it all to rest No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle No flowers, no wedding dress
Bruce Springsteen is the king of depressing music.
Everyone treated Born in the USA as some sort of American Anthem in the 80's. I think Presidential Candidates wanted it as a theme song.
But with Lyrics like this.
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up, now
Born in the U.S.A, I was
Born in the U.S.A, I was
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A, now
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to a foreign land, to go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A, I was
Born in the U.S.A, I was
Born in the U.S.A, I was
Born in the U.S.A
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man,
He said "Son don't you understand now"
I had a brother at Khe Sahn, fighting off the Viet cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman who lived in Saigon,
I got a picture of him in her arms, uhh
Down in the shadow of the peni-tentiary
Out by the - gas fires of the - refinery
I'm - ten years burning - down the road
Nowhere to run ain't, got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A, I was
Born in the U.S.A, now
Born in the U.S.A, I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A, now
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A, I'm a cool rockin' daddy, I'm a U.S.A., now
__________________
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
Wow, Troutman nailed a couple of mine. We definitely have similar taste in music.
For Radiohead I've always found 'How to Disappear Completely' and 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' to be pretty sad stuff.
A couple ones that aren't too bad but always get me are John Mayer's 'Stop this Train' and Crowded House's 'Don't Dream It's Over'. There are definitely sadder songs, but the lyrics in these two always make me pause.
__________________
The great CP is in dire need of prunes!
"That's because the productive part of society is adverse to giving up all their wealth so you libs can conduct your social experiments. Experience tells us your a bunch of snake oil salesman...Sucks to be you." ~Calgaryborn 12/06/09 keeping it really stupid!
( just very well written )
