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Saddest songs you have ever heard? |
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David_D 
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 Posted: March 03 2022 at 04:04 |
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Let me just tell you, Logan, that I think and feel very differently than you describe it in your post - and I'm very reflective about it. Edited by David_D - March 03 2022 at 04:24 |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 05:19 |
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David_D
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 06:19 |
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Tracy Chapman - "Behind the Wall" Last night I heard the screaming Loud voices behind the wall Another sleepless night for me It won't do no good to call The police always come late If they come at all And when they arrive They say they can't interfere With domestic affairs Between a man and his wife And as they walk out the door The tears well up in her eyes (from the selftitled debut album as well (1988)) |
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David_D
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 06:26 |
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Grumpy wrote: Todd Rundgren - "Bag Lady" (1978) One day it gets a bit too cold Maybe a little too wet, maybe a little too lonely Lifelessly she lies amidst her bag world But maybe she's only sleeping  Edited by David_D - March 03 2022 at 06:50 |
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A Crimson Mellotron
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 08:31 |
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Great suggestions from everyone! Thanks to all for the lovely songs, keep 'em coming.
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David_D
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 08:44 |
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Do you guys think that Tracy Chapman is referring to Pink Floyd's The Wall with her song title?
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Lewian
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 08:51 |
No. Her song treats a different topic in which the "wall" totally makes sense on its own, without any reference.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 09:25 |
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On the previous page someone mentioned some Genesis and PC songs. For me I would say "afterglow" and maybe "another day in paradise." "Afterglow" in particular often gets to me.
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Grumpyprogfan
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 09:47 |
 Tracy's lyrics are excellent. Even the police don't want to get involved and that's what makes domestic abuse sad. And what is the neighbor who hears the abuse to do? Sure it would be justified if the abuser got a taste of their own medicine but then what? |
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David_D
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 12:51 |
It was also about my referring to something else.
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David_D
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 13:04 |
I do certainly find "House with no Door" to be a sad song but this one much sadder: Van der Graaf Generator - "Killer" So you live in the bottom of the sea And you kill all that come near you But you are very lonely Because all the other fish fear you And you crave companionship And someone to call your own Because, for the whole of your life You've been living alone On a black day in a black month At the black bottom of the sea Your mother gave birth to you And died immediately 'Cause you can't have two killers Living in the same pad And when your mother knew that her time had come She was really rather glad (it's not all the lyrics of this song, and it's from the album H to He....(1970))
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Steve Wyzard
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 13:06 |
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Just thought of:
The Beatles: "Good Night"!
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David_D
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 13:55 |
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after second thought
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Hugh Manatee
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 15:53 |
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 03 2022 at 16:14 |
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one from Wyatt's Rock Bottom (take your pick, really)
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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David_D
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Posted: March 04 2022 at 03:01 |
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Marillion - "Chelsea Monday" Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town Awaiting the prince in his white Capri Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen She's playing the actress in this bedroom scene She's learning her lines from glossy magazines Stringing all her pearls from her childhood dreams Auditioning for the leading role on the silver screen Patience my tinsel angel Patience my perfumed child One day they really love you You'll charm them with that smile But for now it's just another Chelsea Monday ................ ................ Hello John, did you see The Standard about four hours ago? Fished a young chick out of The Old Father Blond hair, blue eyes. She said she wanted to be an actress or something Nobody knows where she came from, where she was going Funny thing was she had a smile on her face She was smiling, what a waste (from the album Script for a Jester's Tear (1983)) |
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Posted: March 04 2022 at 05:31 |
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Henryk Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - 2nd mouvement (Soprano: Zofia Kilanowicz) |
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The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
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Posted: March 04 2022 at 06:12 |
Hmm, I wouldn't have said that was sad lyrically speaking, it's basically a lullaby.
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David_D
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Posted: March 04 2022 at 15:25 |
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Why don't you like me, suitkees?
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suitkees
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Posted: March 05 2022 at 04:53 |
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^ Why would you say that? If you think that my Górecki suggestion was a reaction to your - very good - Marillion suggestion, then you're mistaken - it was a suggestion like any other (like yours), not a reaction to anyone or any post but the OP. If it is a general question, then I don't think it has its place here in this thread, but to get to it: I don't know you, so I cannot like or not like you. The only thing I don't like is how you interact - sometimes ! - with other forum members (and some may think the same of me/my interactions!). The best solution in such cases on internet forums, IMO, is to keep interaction to a minimum. But I won't ask you to stop posting or reacting to me or whatever - I think we all have our place here, since we share a passion. It's just that when something disturbs me, I express my opinion about it, sometimes.
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