Eli the Barrow Boy - The Decemberists
Cat Power's cover of - I Found a Reason
That is a really melancholy song. Good choice.
I find I Wanna Be In the Cavalry: Reprise on the new Corb Lund another "great" song. Great album and the fact that it's dedicated to the dead in Afghanistan is overwhelmingly poignant.
The song played during the Cup Finals portion of the montage that AnthonyCook made back in 03/04.....Times like these - Foo Fighters.
I know it's more the result, and not so much the song, but to this day, I hear that song and I think of losing to Tampa and damn near cry every time. I almost cried at the Foo concert for petes sake!
I find I Wanna Be In the Cavalry: Reprise on the new Corb Lund another "great" song. Great album and the fact that it's dedicated to the dead in Afghanistan is overwhelmingly poignant.
Definitely agree..
I'm not allowed to listen to Eli, the Barrow Boy when I'm in the field.. I get too.. upset.
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I don't know what I think about that song. There's some religious redemption in there that comes from Cave's experiences in throwing his heroin addiction. It's kind of dark, but maybe not sad.
I think "The Kindness of Strangers" on Murder Ballads is heartbreakingly sad.
You can keep what you want I want none of this They're just bad memories I don't want In the sunshine You can pack it all up And be gone And be gone If it matters to you You can sell it all up If the price fells right I won't judge If you get off your knees You'll be out on the breeze Take a lesson from me Don't get stuck on a dream
Fun Trivia!
While performing the above song live in England in 2006, an obnoxious fan in the audience was making so much noise Thom Yorke stopped mid-verse and barked "Shut up, you c--t!" which brought about gales of laughter from the rest of the crowd. Funniest moment EVER for a sad song.
__________________ 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
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.
Definately, I get chills just reading those lyrics.
__________________ 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
In my dreams you're alive and you're crying
As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet
Rings of flowers around your eyes and I'll love you
For the rest of your life
. . .
Two headed boy, she is all you could need
She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
And retire to sheets safe and clean
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave
Radiohead - True Love Waits
I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace
I'll dress like your niece
To wash your swollen feet
Just don't leave, don't leave
And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love wins
On lollipops and crisps
Just don't leave, don't leave
I'm not living
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy kiss and smile
Needle in the hay - Elliot Smith
The Hardest Walk - The Jesus & Mary Chain
Fly - Nick Drake
Goodbye Girl - Squeeze
China - Tori Amos
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
I Almost Cried - Hayden
Mary of the Wild Moor - Johnny Cash
The Dark is Rising - Mercury Rev
Love Vigilantes - New Order
A Warm Place - Nine Inch Nails
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. - Sufjan Stevens
For Emily,.... - Simon & Garfunkel
Fast Car - Xiu Xiu (Tracey Chapman cover)
Mad World - Gary Jules
I Don't love Anyone - Belle & Sebastian
Street Spirit is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It's called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things you'll one day swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack...
Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realise what they're listening to. They don't realise that Street Spirit is about staring the ing devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh. And it's real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I'd crack.
I can't believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That's why I'm convinced that they don't know what it's about. It's why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging its tail on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim it. It asks too much. I didn't write that sStreet Spirit is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It's called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things you'll one day swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack...
Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don't realise what they're listening to. They don't realise that Street Spirit is about staring the ing devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he'll get the last laugh. And it's real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I'd crack.
I can't believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That's why I'm convinced that they don't know what it's about. It's why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging its tail on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim it. It asks too much. I didn't write that song.
Another one by Radiohead...All I Need
Give My Love To Rose- Johnny Cash
Blue Wing- Danny Hooper
If Tomorrow Never Comes- Garth Brooks
Who'd You Be Today- Kenny Chesney
I Want You To Live- George Canyon
Three Wooden Crosses- Randy Travis (this one and I Want You To Live make me leak a little haha)
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If you took a burger off the grill and slapped it on your face, I'm pretty sure it would burn you. - kermitology
