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If Sad Days Were Dimes, I'd Be Dirt Poor

If Sad Days Were Dimes, I'd Be Dirt Poor
Created by: whackedtollie
Tracks: 13
Length: 00:45:06
Keywords 1. sad day
2. stress
3. depression
Created on 9/28/06 12:45pm
Level 5
Points 2205
Total visitors 95
Unique visitors 44
description:
In general, I am a happy person. I try to be anyway. But... jeez. Sometimes you get too much, and when you try to keep going (as I did yesterday and this morning) it just gets worse and you have a meltdown.

These are songs that I can listen to that don't make me sick with their optimism, but that I can't wallow in my self-pity to. Because I never saw the point of wallowing in self-pity. I've done it, but it always makes me feel like an idiot afterwards. It's like getting high in front of your crush or giving someone you don't know a love-letter mix tape. I've done both of those, too :P

At any rate, they make me feel so much better, and I'm not yelling at the sky going, "WHY ME?" anymore.

tracklist

1 Kings of Leon : Rememo
This song is one of a few more slow-paced, softer songs on Kings of Leon's second album. The lyrics, however, [...]
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Track 12 from Aha Shake Heartbreak
Length: 00:03:20
Year: 2005
Track Description:
This song is one of a few more slow-paced, softer songs on Kings of Leon's second album. The lyrics, however, are a different story.

"On a plane, on a plane, off to see the city girls again, only bringing what I carry on, so you know that I won't be long, dripping beard, it's cold as hell and the motherfucker's gonna go to jail"
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2 The Replacements : Bastards of Young
This song is just about perfect for the mix. It's not happy, but it's not "emo," just kind of down and angry [...]
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Track 7 from Tim
Length: 00:03:35
Year: 1985
Track Description:
This song is just about perfect for the mix. It's not happy, but it's not "emo," just kind of down and angry at the same time.
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3 Art Brut : Home Altars of Mexico
Not explicitly sad, but nostalgic and just rather despondent in nature I suppose... I can't think of any words [...]
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Track 3 from Good Weekend
Length: 00:02:41
Year: 2005
Track Description:
Not explicitly sad, but nostalgic and just rather despondent in nature I suppose... I can't think of any words >_
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4 The Cure : Boys Don't Cry
What's great about the Cure is that a lot of their songs are set to these really light poppy musical backdrops [...]
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Track 1 from Boys Don't Cry
Length: 00:02:34
Year: 1988
Track Description:
What's great about the Cure is that a lot of their songs are set to these really light poppy musical backdrops. You have to sort of listen to them in an ironic way if you want to be really depressed about it.
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5 David Bowie : Life On Mars?
This song always makes me kind of sad, but it's just always so much fun to sing it. You get to belt it out. [...]
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Track 4 from Hunky Dory
Length: 00:03:52
Year: 1971
Track Description:
This song always makes me kind of sad, but it's just always so much fun to sing it. You get to belt it out. "Is there li-ife on MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS?!" I love that.
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6 The Libertines : Death on the Stairs
I actually used the 1st demo from "The 77 Demos" but I'm not going to add it to the site. I haven't listened [...]
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Track 2 from Up the Bracket
Length: 00:03:24
Year: 2002
Track Description:
I actually used the 1st demo from "The 77 Demos" but I'm not going to add it to the site. I haven't listened to the Libs a lot lately because everything they did just makes me sad because they (Pete) wasted all that fucking talent and the other projects they're all doing aren't nearly as good. I don't listen to them at all.

Anyway, even though their songs make me sad, I still love to listen to them, and they're still my favorite band. I should listen to them more, really. *covers up last.fm page which reads "#1 The Libertines 2207 listens"*
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7 Regina Spektor : prisoners
This song... okay I think it can only be described in several lyrics that I particularly love:

[...]
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Track 3 from Songs
Length: 00:03:02
Year: 2002
Track Description:
This song... okay I think it can only be described in several lyrics that I particularly love:

"In the ground they're tattooing the stones
With cusses like cavemen
'Yo momma was here'.
They wanna run through the air
With no barriers or obstacles
Gunmen or guarddogs or priests
And to rise from the mud
And start over and over
With the people all DEAD!
...In my cell I'm tattoing myself
With mermaids and swallows
And oh, I do swallow
My momma thinks I'm grown
But I'm really just little
And someday I will remember..."
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8 Violent Femmes : Kiss Off
I'll do lyrics for this one, too:

"I'll take one, one,
One cos you left me
And two, t [...]
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Track 2 from Violent Femmes
Length: 00:02:24
Year: 1983
Track Description:
I'll do lyrics for this one, too:

"I'll take one, one,
One cos you left me
And two, two,
Two for my family
And three, three,
Three for my heartache
And four, four
Four for my headaches
And five, five,
Five for my lonely
And six, six,
Six for my sorrow
Seven, seven
N-n-n-n-no tomorrow!
Eight, eight,
I forgot what eight was for!
Nine, nine, nine for lost god
Ten, ten, ten, ten,
For EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING!"

Ahhhh, it's so awesome.
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9 Pulp : A Little Soul
Jarvis's voice is amazing. In order for a sad song to really be sad for me, I always look for a little bit of [...]
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Track 12 from Hits
Length: 00:03:18
Year: 2002
Track Description:
Jarvis's voice is amazing. In order for a sad song to really be sad for me, I always look for a little bit of anger, a little bit of desparation in the singer's voice. That's what I like about Morrissey, that's part of what I like about Regina, and that's what I like about this song. The song is almost heartbreaking.

"You look like me,
But please don't turn into me
You look like me
But you're not like me, I hope
I have one, two, three
Four shots of happiness
I look like a big man
But I only got a little soul"

I'd hate to break it to Jarvis that he doesn't really look like a big man at all... he's actually rather stick-buggy.
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10 The Velvet Underground : Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
I love it. Lou sounds so young and miserable, narrating the sad stories of sad people. The first few months [...]
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Track 10 from Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition (disc 1)
Length: 00:07:29
Year: 1970
Track Description:
I love it. Lou sounds so young and miserable, narrating the sad stories of sad people. The first few months after I listened to this song for the first time, I thought it was maybe 4 minutes long. It sure as hell doesn't seem like 7 and a half minutes. The Velvet Underground have the ability to do that for me. I once listened to "Sister Ray" 4 times in a row just because I hadn't had enough.
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11 The Smiths : Half A Person
"Call me morbid,
Call me pale,
I've spent six years on your trail
Six long years on your tra [...]
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Track 5 from Louder Than Bombs
Length: 00:03:36
Year: 1987
Track Description:
"Call me morbid,
Call me pale,
I've spent six years on your trail
Six long years on your trail
Six full years of my life on your trail
And if you have five seconds to spare
I'll tell you the story of my life
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I
I booked myself in at the Y
...WCA
I said I like it here,
Can I stay?
Do you have a vacancy
For a back scrubber?"
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12 Simon And Garfunkle : The Sound Of Silence
I believe the song is called "The Sounds of Silence" and the artist is Simon and Garfunkel. But I'll let that [...]
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Track 1 from Sounds Of Silence
Length: 00:03:06
Year: 1966
Track Description:
I believe the song is called "The Sounds of Silence" and the artist is Simon and Garfunkel. But I'll let that go for right now. I think this song flows nicely into the final track, taking away some of the Smiths jangly rock and giving way to the Redwalls retro rock'n'roll blues

Besides that, have you ever seen the Graduate? Dang this shit is played like every 5 minutes in that movie. Great movie though. And the soundtrack is awesome. It just repeats a lot.

Anyways, that's not what I was going to say. The opening line of this song set the mood for the entire thing... "Hello darkness, my old friend..."
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13 The Redwalls : Home
"Home is where you hang your head
Is where you rest your bones
Is where you're livin'
And sl [...]
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Track 8 from Universal Blues
Length: 00:02:45
Year: 2003
Track Description:
"Home is where you hang your head
Is where you rest your bones
Is where you're livin'
And sleep is how you move your mind
Is how you feel inside
Is what you're doin'"

That's what I'm doing today... staying at home and de-stressing.
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A great mix. "Life On Mars" is one of my tuines to belt out in times of stress. I also use Pulp's "Year 2000" for the same purpose! As for the Smiths, "I want the one I can't have" rang true for me for a long time!
9/28/06 04:59pm
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Did you know the music for the Sounds of Silence is from an Inca folk song? Well done. I can get behind this.
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Haha, yeah... the moderating system is kind of crappy right now though isn't it? They'll fix it I hope.
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