At the end of the article on depressing songs, the Post-Dispatch invited readers to make their own nominations. Now, I don't know whether these songs are mentioned in the book, but they certainly did not appear in the original article. Here are the top three reader-nominees:
Alone Again Naturally, Gilbert O'Sullivan. Yes! This is the absolute epitome of depressing songs, junior class.
Cat's in the Cradle, Harry Chapin. And this one's top-of-the-charts in the senior class.
Downbound Train, Bruce Springsteen. On the money again (although the songs from his 9/11 album, especially "My City's In Ruins", hit me harder - so hard that I made only one attempt to listen to the album, and shut it off after about three songs).
It's almost enough to make me believe in this "democracy" thing...
Alone Again Naturally, Gilbert O'Sullivan. Yes! This is the absolute epitome of depressing songs, junior class.
Cat's in the Cradle, Harry Chapin. And this one's top-of-the-charts in the senior class.
Downbound Train, Bruce Springsteen. On the money again (although the songs from his 9/11 album, especially "My City's In Ruins", hit me harder - so hard that I made only one attempt to listen to the album, and shut it off after about three songs).
It's almost enough to make me believe in this "democracy" thing...