I tried to follow up yesterday’s exercise with the opposite. The same rules apply except for the techno one, with one fudge. I honestly can’t remember putting Teardrop on a mix cd, but the way I love that song, I can’t believe it. Maybe I just never shared it with anyone.
A couple other things I realized while compiling this list:
- I don’t have a lot of depressing music in iTunes. I know I have more at home that I haven’t ripped yet, but it wasn’t handy to grab right this minute.
- A lot of stuff I thought was depressing really isn’t. Morphine? Except for a couple notable exceptions, they’re not depressing at all. The songs are sometimes, sexy, other times ironic or cynical, and sometimes just plain bouncy.
- Ben Folds and Phish both throw some great woe-is-me classics in between the happy poppy stuff. Evaporation on Whatever and Ever Amen is amazing, as is Dirt from Farmhouse
Here it is, a CD I whimsically call Depressed as Hal:
| Title | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| II\. Lento E Largo – Tranquillissimo | Henryk Gorecki | Symphony No. 3 |
| Everybody Hurts | R.E.M. | Automatic For The People |
| Dirt | Phish | Farmhouse |
| I Grieve | Peter Gabriel | Up |
| Trouble | Coldplay | Parachutes |
| Sour Times | Portishead | Dummy |
| Don’t Change Your Plans | Ben Folds Five | The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner |
| Gone For Good | Morphine | Yes |
| Teardrop | Massive Attack | Mezzanine |
| Evaporated | Ben Folds Five | Whatever and Ever Amen |
| Passacaglia/Bud And A Slice | Joe Jackson, feat. Brad Roberts – voice, Judy LeClair – bassoon | Heaven & Hell |
| Sweetness Follows | R.E.M. | Automatic For The People |
| My Head Sounds Like That | Peter Gabriel | Up |
| Maybe I’ll Come Down | Soul Coughing | El Oso |
I love “teardrop” also. It’s the only Massive Attack song I know.