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The Reverse of Happy

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

posted May 12, 2004 1:04 PM by Kevin Lawver | music | | permalink

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