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Post by The Ocean on Sept 11, 2020 16:28:11 GMT
I think it's funny that Eric's vocals on Goin' Through The Motions make it a sad song, but Bonnie Tyler's cover makes it sound more... I guess defiant? Triumphant?
Eric can sometimes have a very soulful and expressive voice, ESPECIALLY around the Spectres era. His voice on BOC's cover of Be My Baby is incredible. But with Goin' Through the Motions, those same words coming from another voice take the sadness out of the song entirely. I don't know if that's a good thing, because there is a kind of ambiguity in the lyrics enough that any singer can imbue the song with any emotion based on their own interpretation.
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Post by edog40 on Sept 11, 2020 16:33:22 GMT
Hate the kids singing on that song, and it’s Moe upbeat making it less soulful.
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Post by Buck on Sept 11, 2020 18:54:35 GMT
"I Can't Give Everything Away" from Bowie's Blackstar record. This whole record is just heartbreaking but triumphant as a parting shot. I can't get my wife to listen to it, she doesn't want to go there, David knowing he was dying.
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Post by The Ocean on Sept 11, 2020 22:30:54 GMT
"I Can't Give Everything Away" from Bowie's Blackstar record. This whole record is just heartbreaking but triumphant as a parting shot. I can't get my wife to listen to it, she doesn't want to go there, David knowing he was dying. It still hurts to think of. Dollar Days is another one from that album. That repeated final phrase: I'm trying to I'm dying to Or I'm trying to I'm dying, too I bought that album on release day and listened to it twice. Even before his death made it clear two days later, the lyrics seemed to be contemplative of mortality. So devastating just how intentional that was.
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Post by eastmark on Sept 11, 2020 23:35:47 GMT
“Eric can sometimes have a very soulful and expressive voice, ESPECIALLY around the Spectres era. His voice on BOC's cover of Be My Baby is incredible”
Always been dazzled by his “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” vocals. Prime.
His vocals as well as the entire band is just crazy good. Much better than the known Burden version IMO.
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Post by Rich on Sept 12, 2020 0:30:51 GMT
Well, there's many a sad songs but i can't think of many as sad and bad as "The Walker Brothers.. The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore... Haven't heard this for years until watching a really weird movie called Mid Sommar...bizarre movie.
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Post by seamus on Sept 22, 2020 2:12:05 GMT
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Post by joe on Aug 10, 2022 1:39:29 GMT
Stumbled on this long dormant thread and immediately thought of one. Clearest memory of it was while I was on a half-empty plane, in the middle of the night, flying somewhere over the most desolate parts of California - the place where you look down and see three lights on. During the time when the airlines used the stethoscope-style air driven "earphones" with good sound. No turbulence, the plane was dead quiet, nobody sitting near me, lights down dim, half the people asleep - you get the picture. In the mid 70's I think.
"Long, Long Time" by Linda Ronstadt (1970)
Beautiful voice.
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Post by edog40 on Aug 10, 2022 4:39:37 GMT
How about “Going Down to Die” from Danzig?
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Post by The Ocean on Aug 10, 2022 5:16:01 GMT
The original version is sad, but Alan Cumming’s rendition is heart wrenching. As he explains it is very personal to him.
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Post by javan on Aug 10, 2022 19:04:14 GMT
Alan Parsons Project - "Old and Wise" Love - "Signed DC" Judas Priest - "Before the Dawn" Blue Oyster Cult - "Tainted Blood" (Reminds me of "Trueblood" and there were several good vampires in that show)
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Post by Espo on Aug 10, 2022 19:48:32 GMT
Warren Zevon - Keep me in your heart. As Buck noted in a previous post about Bowie, Warren's last CD The Wind was recorded when he was terminal. It is both beautiful and heart wrenching at the same time.
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Post by Buck on Aug 11, 2022 1:29:40 GMT
Seeing this thread come up again, I remind myself I really enjoy the sadder, love lost songs best of all. They just tug at my heartstrings in a way that little else in popular art does. And knowing through pop music that sadness and misfortune is as universal an emotion as happiness and elation, has always and continues to be, a comfort to me in our journey through this lifetime. My hat is off to every sad song ever written. Maybe too few these days? I don't know.
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Post by The Ocean on Aug 11, 2022 3:15:46 GMT
A lot of people will cite November rain for a sad Guns N Roses song but Estranged is it for me.
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Post by sirrastus on Aug 11, 2022 3:52:40 GMT
I think it's funny that Eric's vocals on Goin' Through The Motions make it a sad song, but Bonnie Tyler's cover makes it sound more... I guess defiant? Triumphant? Eric can sometimes have a very soulful and expressive voice, ESPECIALLY around the Spectres era. His voice on BOC's cover of Be My Baby is incredible. But with Goin' Through the Motions, those same words coming from another voice take the sadness out of the song entirely. I don't know if that's a good thing, because there is a kind of ambiguity in the lyrics enough that any singer can imbue the song with any emotion based on their own interpretation. An argument I had with Sam who hated this song of course I loved it still do shoulda been a contender that album pretty much covers itself in an aura of greatness from beginning to end.Sam and I always agreed that Madness To The Method was greatness.
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