Posted on 11/05/2014 10:53:58 AM PST by C19fan
Turn up those tearjerkers and dig out your Radiohead albums, because scientists claim that melancholy music can actually lift your spirits. A new study has revealed that listening to sad songs can improve a person’s emotional wellbeing as well as make us feel at peace and nostalgic. It found that most people experience more than three emotions when listening to sad songs, which provoke a more complex reaction than happy pop songs.
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“And when my mind is free,
no melody can move me.
But when I’m feeling blue,
guitars come on through to soothe me...”
Dobie Gray - Drift Away
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Ah, yes... The bridge is perhaps the most powerful passage of that great song. I’ve always liked how the strings kick in prominently at this point.
Morrissey couldn’t be happier to hear this.
If you can live though the angst in this song, the next time you hear it you know “I can live though this” and then you feel better, lol.
Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTeI65yrhGw
All my sorrow, sad tomorrow
Take me back to my old home
All my cryin’, feel I’m dyin’, dyin’
Take me back, to my old home
I’m changin’, arrangin’, I’m changin’
I’m changin’ everything, ah everything around me
The world is a bad place, a bad place
A terrible place to live, oh but I don’t wanna die
“You want to come in and sing some blues? No, thanks, Taj. There’s something about those songs. They depress me.”
From “The Jerk”.
That what the blues is all about
Well yeah. Every fan of the dark side of rock knows that. Nothing like Lou Reed or Nick Cave or Morrisey to brighten your spirits.
“What’ll I do?” sung by Frank.
You will either feel better or slit your wrists.
Yeah, they are called the
Blues”.
How much money did they spend on this?
Next up, water is wet.
LOL!
Roy Orbison does that to me. God, I love that man.
Last night as Hugh Hewitt ended his election night show, he played for the Dems, “The sun will come out tomorrow...”
Sound of Silence,
Simon and Garfunkel
That's my #1 song since I discovered it at 6 years old...to this very day I adore it.
I AGREE! Someone is just a hater if they can't see that.
I love that tune.
if you are lonely....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n4V3lGEyG4
I think most Americans will appreciate that the chorus is in English and rhymes
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