Saturday Survey: Sad, Sad Man
If Mondays are list days, then Saturdays are now survey days. I should come up with a daily theme schedule. Would be a hell of a lot easier than thinking up topics every morning.
Anyhow, I'm putting together a CD for a friend who wants to wallow in his misery. The stipulations are: no country songs, no disco, no novelty ballads, no overtly manipulative sad songs (like the christmas shoes garbage). Just some rock and roll/metal/goth/teased-hair power ballad/emo songs that will make him curl up in a fetal position and cry like a bitchy little girl before he heads out to find a cross to nail himself to.
Comments
Anything by The Cure.
Posted by: Timmer | June 25, 2005 11:10 AM
"No country"
That's an amateur for you.
Posted by: JimK (No Relation) | June 25, 2005 11:16 AM
Heh, I was just thinking the same thing, Timmer. Their last CD had a few that would be perfect: The Promise, Lost, jeez, I could go on and on ...
Staind, off the Dysfunction CD ... lots of loss, death, and anger in that one.
Suicidal Tendencies may fit the bill.
Posted by: SharonO | June 25, 2005 11:19 AM
No, it's a guy with taste.
Posted by: michele | June 25, 2005 11:22 AM
Just because I'm me, this list will be rife with 80s new wave sad songs. BTW, I second Timmer's comment.
"Mad World" by Tears for Fears
Either "Lament" or "Dancing with Tears in my Eyes" by Ultravox
"Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult
"Bring on the Dancing Horses" or "Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen
Really, one could choose nearly any Smiths song (or solo Morrissey for that matter), but "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" even has the title for the collection. Or "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side".
"Muzzle" by Smashing Pumpkins
"Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat
"Our Lips Are Sealed". Not the Go-Gos version, which is rather upbeat. The Fun Boy Three version is sad.
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division
"Just Like Honey" by Jesus and Mary Chain
"Wild Horses" by the Rolling Stones
"Fade Into You" by Mazzy Starr
"More Than This" by Roxy Music
Okay, so I actually have a playlist called "Melancholia".
Posted by: Lesley | June 25, 2005 11:33 AM
I was talking about "Fade into You" with someone the other day and described it as melancholy. I swear, that song makes me feel like my insides are being twisted. Makes me instantly sad and restrospective, and it's not so much the lyrics as it is the music.
Posted by: michele | June 25, 2005 11:38 AM
Yeah, it really is the music, since I can't understand half of what she's saying anyway. Well, that and the tone of her voice while she's singing.
Posted by: Lesley | June 25, 2005 12:00 PM
Lover's Cross by Jim Croce
Posted by: Gahrie | June 25, 2005 12:00 PM
Acoustic versions of "Outside" of "Wish You Were Here" by Aaron Lewis (Staind) and Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)
Posted by: Miller's Time | June 25, 2005 12:01 PM
I do believe that the following may be of great ass=istance:
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Fade to Black
I Remember You
All Out of Love
I'll Be There For You
Novermber Rain/Estranged
Janie's Got A Gun
Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
Posted by: g | June 25, 2005 12:11 PM
"Auf Wiedersehen" Cheap Trick
"Too Sick to Pray" La Peste
" The Reaper" Alana Davis (pretty cool cover of BOC)
Posted by: mbruce | June 25, 2005 12:24 PM
dang, i was hoping that i'd be able to say "dude - Stryper! To Hell with the Devil!" but it doesn't quite fit.
but how about...
Slaughter - Fly to the Angels
Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Dokken - It's not Love
Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Comin'
shit, i need to get out of the 80's. how about...
NIN - March of the Pigs
Static X - Bled For Days
White Zombie - Thrust!
Disturbed - The Game
Posted by: mikey | June 25, 2005 01:04 PM
"Mascara Tears" - Richard Thompson.
Posted by: Farmer Joe | June 25, 2005 01:35 PM
NIN - Something I Can Never Have. Listen to it with the blinds shut.
Type O Negative - Everything Dies
Posted by: Pauly | June 25, 2005 01:50 PM
"Dead of Winter" -- Eels
"And on" -- Yaz
Posted by: marc | June 25, 2005 01:55 PM
NIN:
Something I Can Never Have
La Mer
Right Where It Belongs
The Smiths:
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
How Soon Is Now
Never Had No One Ever
Depeche Mode or The Cure:
Anything really... :)
Same for the Smiths/Morrissey
Posted by: adi | June 25, 2005 03:01 PM
i'll add one to the mix...
close my eyes forever -- ozzy osbourne & lita ford
Posted by: ac | June 25, 2005 03:50 PM
Uh... can I suggest Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber?
That'll reduce him to a quivering mass of protoplasm.
Posted by: Darleen | June 25, 2005 03:53 PM
The Who--
Behind Blue Eyes
Melancholia
Posted by: Anna | June 25, 2005 04:06 PM
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
it's not really country
Posted by: Dave in Texas | June 25, 2005 04:45 PM
Ghost Town-The Specials and The End-The Doors
Posted by: Pat Patterson | June 25, 2005 04:59 PM
In a Lonely Place - New Order
Cries and Whispers - New Order
Hurt - New Order
Confusion (Instrumental) - New Order
Lonesome Tonight - New Order
Shame of the Nation - New Order
Pretty much, "Best of New Order - Disc 2" fits the bill.
Warren Zevon -
Ain't That Pretty at All
Desperados Under the Eaves
Accidentally Like a Martyr
Looking for the Next Best Thing
Peter Gabriel - Passion
With This Love
'Christo Redemptor' is a pretty good song too if Jazz is allowed.
Posted by: BumperStickerist | June 25, 2005 05:13 PM
NIN - Ring Finger
Foo Fighters - Walking After You (accoustic)
Posted by: von | June 25, 2005 05:55 PM
ZZTop: "Rough Boy"
Dire Straits: "Brothers in Arms"
Posted by: Jaquandor | June 25, 2005 06:56 PM
Type-O-Negatives "Unjustifiable Existense"
A great song about commiting suicide
Posted by: Randy | June 25, 2005 08:20 PM
OK, I'm a dumbass........it's correct title is "Are you Afraid"
sighs
Posted by: Randy | June 25, 2005 08:27 PM
Tori Amos's cover of "Lovesong" by the Cure.
Just about anything by the Smashing Pumpkins.
Posted by: Dr_Funk | June 25, 2005 09:30 PM
"Killing Me Killing You" by Sentenced. Actually, anything by Sentenced would do the trick.
Posted by: Shawn | June 25, 2005 10:29 PM
No need for a compilation. The whole "Unknown Pleasures" album by Joy Division is perfect for that.
Posted by: Frank | June 26, 2005 12:10 AM
Most of the songs off of "Turn of the Cards" by Renaissance.
"Running hard towards what used to be"
"The Black Flame"
"So cold is being lonely"
Posted by: Marshall | June 26, 2005 12:54 AM
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Reality Used to Be a Frind of Mine - PM Dawn
Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen (or Concrete Blonde, if you prefer)
You Shook Me - Led Zeppelin
Whippin' Post - Allman Brothers Band
Posted by: Darth Monkeybone | June 26, 2005 02:19 AM
The classics always work best.
I have used Black Sabbath's "Master of Reality" for years. Make sure the curtains are closed and the lights are out so that the entire room is as dark as the album cover, and play the whole album beginning to end.
I did that so many times when I was young and single. It worked, trust me.
Posted by: Dave in Pgh. | June 26, 2005 02:46 AM
A "wallow in misery" tune?
Yes we're the--YANKEES!
a pack of hapless sacks, the
YANKEES!
We wish that BILLY's back,
YANKEES!
Even George, is, bored with our crap....
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | June 26, 2005 11:04 AM
I think Sinead's Nithing Compares 2 U is a great sad song and I am amazed that Radiohead has not been mentioned much, if at all. They make me instantly weary. I also think Muse - Absolution is a cracking album. I don't know if this is the right type of music Michele but Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Sara McLachlan, Massive Attack, Badly Drawn Boy, Jeff Buckley are all lovely when I am in a mood.
Posted by: jwl | June 26, 2005 03:18 PM
How about Queen of Misery by Toy Matinee? Things She Said fits the playbill too. In fact, the entire CD is a great one to wallow in and it should be available in the bargain bin for a buck.
Posted by: Mark | June 26, 2005 06:58 PM
Pretty much anything by Life of Agony. That was my first thought.
Posted by: carol | June 26, 2005 07:21 PM
Hey Annette. Tuesday is "Guest Star" Day.
Posted by: Rox | June 26, 2005 09:36 PM
Too late?
"Killkelly" by the Green Fields of America.
"Hurt" by Johnny Cash (NIN cover, doesn't count as country)
"The Trampled Rose" by Tom Waits
"My Little Empire" by the Manic Street Preachers
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
"Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath"
Posted by: Witless chum | June 27, 2005 05:01 PM