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As a (very very) belated follow-up to my last entry I must include the following:
I CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT 'SAY HELLO 2 HEAVEN' in the list of most depressing songs!!!! How could I?? Really, an insult to Temple of the Dog, Andrew Wood and all grungers out there...What could be more depressing than a song dedicated to a brilliant man who died all too soon at the lethal needle of heroine. So anyway, I hereby include my PROPER, ultimate, possibly final version of my top five get-me-downs:
1) Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog
2) Man of Golden Words - Mother Love Bone
3) Not Dead - Unified Theory
4) Nutshell - Alice In Chains
5) Call Me a Dog - Temple of the Dog
Though I have rated from most to least (less) depressing, they all score very high on the melancholy list and it's actually very hard to put one above the other. I think, in the end, they can all turn my yellows to blues...
I feel I just have to explain why 'Man of Golden Words' is so high on my list. Although the lyrics to the song aren't very sad, they're really about music and its beauty (right??) but there is that one line in the song, right at the beginning, where Andrew Wood sings: ...'seems I've been living in the temple of the dog'. That line just always fills me with such sorrow, because it makes me think of Temple of the Dog, then why it was made, which of course makes me think of Andrew Wood and his sad death (aren't deaths always sad??). Therefore that song is a real get-me-down.
And, the anguish and sadness in Chris Cornell's voice in Say Hellow 2 Heaven just always gets to me so bad. His voice and the lyrics are what really strikes me hard every time I listen to it.
I really think I have to go listen to some Beach Boys now, listening to these songs have made me uber depressed...
I CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT 'SAY HELLO 2 HEAVEN' in the list of most depressing songs!!!! How could I?? Really, an insult to Temple of the Dog, Andrew Wood and all grungers out there...What could be more depressing than a song dedicated to a brilliant man who died all too soon at the lethal needle of heroine. So anyway, I hereby include my PROPER, ultimate, possibly final version of my top five get-me-downs:
1) Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple of the Dog
2) Man of Golden Words - Mother Love Bone
3) Not Dead - Unified Theory
4) Nutshell - Alice In Chains
5) Call Me a Dog - Temple of the Dog
Though I have rated from most to least (less) depressing, they all score very high on the melancholy list and it's actually very hard to put one above the other. I think, in the end, they can all turn my yellows to blues...
I feel I just have to explain why 'Man of Golden Words' is so high on my list. Although the lyrics to the song aren't very sad, they're really about music and its beauty (right??) but there is that one line in the song, right at the beginning, where Andrew Wood sings: ...'seems I've been living in the temple of the dog'. That line just always fills me with such sorrow, because it makes me think of Temple of the Dog, then why it was made, which of course makes me think of Andrew Wood and his sad death (aren't deaths always sad??). Therefore that song is a real get-me-down.
And, the anguish and sadness in Chris Cornell's voice in Say Hellow 2 Heaven just always gets to me so bad. His voice and the lyrics are what really strikes me hard every time I listen to it.
I really think I have to go listen to some Beach Boys now, listening to these songs have made me uber depressed...