Dire Straits -- Romeo and Juliet
Dire Straits -- Romeo and Juliet
WommyTiseau wrote:
Boys Of Summer by Don Henley. It has it all: insecurity, not being good enough, loneliness, empty streets and beaches.
Good choice. Also, from same era of Don Henley, The Heart of the Matter. Searching to understand:
"I'm learning to live without you now, But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand,
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again
I've been tryin' to get down
To the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore"
Acoustic version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeJy3KDwMwAlso, "Point Blank" by The Boss. Haunting piano solo to start, great lyrics.
Peter Gabriel Washing of the Water
Gorecki Symphony No. 3
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails. The video is heartbreaking. He died within a year and it seems like he knew his time was running short when he did the video. It is like he is singing his own requiem.
One hand one heart. Westside Story
New World, Bjork from Dancer in the Dark
And after a few drinks, Cat's in the Cradle gets to me even though I really don't like the song at all.
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
Second to Don Henley but I find The End of the Innocence much more moving
The Carpenters "We've Only Just Begun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgEptmz_eE
John Denver Rocky Mountain High
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOB4VdlkzO4
The latter two because of how the artists died. Makes the songs more profound
Not even being ironic here, this song is dark as hell
Cat's in the Cradle. It's always Cat's in the Cradle.
Straight To Hell by The Clash
The whole B-side of Carrie & Lowell is a huge gut punch. If you've ever lost your mom and need a good cry, put that one on and get it all out.
Jack and Diane always makes me pretty depressed.
Lou Reed - Perfect Day (very bittersweet. most people interpret this song as a song about heroin, but I prefer to take the lyrics more literally). "You're going to reap just what you sow" x4 hits hard when you've only sowed things of questionable value)
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack (once you're familiar with the lyrics, watch this arrangement
)
William Shatner - It Hasn't Happened Yet (spoken word. The feeling of isolation, unfulfilled potential and unhappiness just makes you want to give up)
Nick Cave - I Need You (a song about losing his 15 year son Arthur (he died from falling off a cliff while on LSD. So unnecessary. So avoidable. So frustrating. I can't imagine.)).
Sun Kil Moon - I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love (your mother won't be around forever. don't forget that.)
The Cowboy Junkies recording of Hank William's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" from the "The Trinity Sessions" album. The rest of the album are the runners up.
"On top of Spaghetti" by Tom Glazer
On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed
It rolled off the table, it rolled on the floor
And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door
It rolled in the garden and under a bush
And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush.
The mush was as tasty as tasty could be,
And early next summer it grew to a tree.
The tree was all covered with beautiful moss
It grew great big meatballs and tomato sauce.
So if you eat spaghetti all covered with cheese,
Hold on to your meatball and don't ever sneeze.
Headlights by Bug Hunter
"The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot