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Memories and melancholy.
| Memories and melancholy. | |
| Created by: | darrin. |
| Tracks: | 11 |
| Length: | 00:40:38 |
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1. Mix Contest 2 2. Mix Contest 2 3. Mix Contest 2 |
| Created on | 8/29/06 06:56pm |
| Level | 5 |
| Points | 2493 |
| Total visitors | 86 |
| Unique visitors | 46 |
| This mix was ranked #8 out of 30 entries for this contest | |
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Songs of melancholy to cry to. My contribution to the Mixtape Contest II: The Saddest Music in the World.
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| 1 | Roy Orbison : Crying |
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The ultimate song about what might have been, and there could be no better way to begin a sad songs mixtape th [...]
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Track 10 from Black & White Night
Length: 00:03:14 Year: 1999 |
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The ultimate song about what might have been, and there could be no better way to begin a sad songs mixtape than with Roy Orbison's sullen whimper. Never listen to this song during one of those all night "what if..." benders. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | The Beatles : Yesterday |
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She's gone, and part of you is gone too. Could anybody capture that sort of pain in song more poignantly than [...]
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Track 13 from Help!
Length: 00:02:05 Year: 0000 |
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She's gone, and part of you is gone too. Could anybody capture that sort of pain in song more poignantly than The Beatles? SHOW LESS
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| 3 | The Postal Service : We Will Become Silhouettes |
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When the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning moments of WWII, there was no wa [...]
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Track 7 from Give Up
Length: 00:05:00 Year: 2003 |
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When the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning moments of WWII, there was no warning. The flash of the explosion was so bright that it seared peoples' shadows onto walls as they walked down the sidewalk, immortalizing their last steps even after their physical bodies were erased. Is there any more disturbing, emotional backdrop for a song? Dispite the chirpy electronic bliss, even as a metaphor, Gibbard is responsible for one of the saddes songs in existance. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | The Beach Boys : Sloop John B. |
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The Beach Boys were my first musical obsession, years and years ago when I was in elementary school. Then, an [...]
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Track 7 from Pet Sounds
Length: 00:02:59 Year: 1966 |
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The Beach Boys were my first musical obsession, years and years ago when I was in elementary school. Then, and even to this day, this song can tear me up more than any other ever written. Though I never had an abusive, alcoholic grandfather, I can still relate to this song on so many levels. A truly amazing moment in pop music. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Calexico : Black Heart |
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"Can't find the poision / now I've got no cure."
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Track 4 from Feast of Wire
Length: 00:04:52 Year: 2003 |
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"Can't find the poision / now I've got no cure." SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Otis Redding : I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) |
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This is song is sort of the R&B equivalent to a "Dear John" letter. And who hasn't been there before?
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Track 10 from I've Been Loving You Too Long
Length: 00:02:53 Year: 0000 |
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This is song is sort of the R&B equivalent to a "Dear John" letter. And who hasn't been there before? SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Neutral Milk Hotel : Oh Comely |
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Somebody else included this song on their mix, and it's no suprise why. This song is pain set to music as emot [...]
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Track 8 from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Length: 00:08:18 Year: 1998 |
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Somebody else included this song on their mix, and it's no suprise why. This song is pain set to music as emotionally affecting as you'll ever hear. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | The Beatles : Eleanor Rigby |
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The Beatle's second appearance on this mixtape; This time John and Paul give us a song not about lost love, bu [...]
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Track 16 from 1
Length: 00:02:06 Year: 2000 |
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The Beatle's second appearance on this mixtape; This time John and Paul give us a song not about lost love, but about lost people: "Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name / Nobody came / Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave / No one was saved" SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Modest Mouse : Bankrupt on Selling |
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A little bit more of a cultural-critique than a relationship-critique, there is just something jarring about t [...]
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Track 8 from Baron von Bullshit Rides Again!
Length: 00:03:04 Year: 0000 |
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A little bit more of a cultural-critique than a relationship-critique, there is just something jarring about these old Modest Mouse tunes and the way they can pierce a listener. The lyric, "I come clean out of love with my lover / I still love her / loved her more when she used to be sober and I was kind" really close the case on this one. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Johnny Cash : I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry |
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Though "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is lyrically typical classic-country depressing, it is Johnny Cash's deli [...]
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Track 12 from American IV: The Man Comes Around
Length: 00:03:03 Year: 2002 |
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Though "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is lyrically typical classic-country depressing, it is Johnny Cash's delivery of the Hank Williams standard that make clouds fill the sky. The same could be said of most of Cash's "American" series. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Simon & Garfunkel : The Sounds of Silence |
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Sometimes, you're never more alone than in a city full of people. This is quite possibly the most emotionally [...]
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Track 1 from The Sounds of Silence
Length: 00:03:04 Year: 1966 |
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Sometimes, you're never more alone than in a city full of people. This is quite possibly the most emotionally draining song ever written. SHOW LESS
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