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stoutfellowAt 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...
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Date: 2006-08-02 06:24 pm (UTC)Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration" album is a depress-the-teenagers-classic! I should know as I must have been like 13 when it came! ,-)
And "Forever Young" by Alphaville? The entire 1980's seems like a depressing teen disco when you listen to that... ...because it was played at least once on every depressing teen discom in the 1980's.
Smashing Pumpkins even got Simpsons appearance for depressing teens.
More seriously, I'd go with Joy Division for being the epitome of depressing. If the article has no Joy Division songs I'd be really concerned.
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Date: 2006-08-02 06:43 pm (UTC)The only other post-1980 songs mentioned in the article were: George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today"; Portishead, "Roads"; and R.E.M., "Everybody Hurts". (There may, of course, have been some editorial or reportorial filtering.)
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Date: 2006-08-02 07:11 pm (UTC)