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Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be?
Aeon ^
| February 4, 2020
| Alberto Acerbi, and Charlotte Brand
Posted on 02/19/2020 12:27:56 PM PST by C19fan
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To: redshawk
Mr. Carlson and the Thanksgiving episode. ..you know. ...the turkeys?
Based on a TRUE STORY! It happened at a station out in Denver in the 60's. That station manager ended up working in Pittsburgh later on.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:01:03 PM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: mlo
Whatever happened to that guy? He was great.
He turned into a Lefty PC sellout just like all the rest of them. I guess it's that or be drummed out of showbiz these days.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:01:57 PM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Actually once Bill Hicks died, he ran out of material to steal.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:04:59 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dp0622
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:05:19 PM PST
by
MD Expat in PA
(No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
To: C19fan
Sinatra’s “Songs For Only The Lonely” and “No One Cares,” both masterpieces, were released in the 1950s.
Beck’s superb “Sea Change” was released in 2003.
Those are about as sad as you can get.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:12:02 PM PST
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: C19fan
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:12:24 PM PST
by
Lexington Green
(Sun Tzu Trumps Saul Alinsky)
To: C19fan
The Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concerto spawned three songs: Full Moon & Empty Arms, I Think of you, and Eric Carmen’s plagiarized All By Myself. Quite a melodic piece.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:19:05 PM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
(With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
To: dp0622
Sad has always sold.
What is different and produced and bought now is anger and hate. Ignorant anger and hate, but anger and hate all the same.
To: C19fan
Some of the old songs had sad content without sounding “sad”. Green Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones), MacArthur’s Park (Richard Harrison), Timothy (the Buoys), You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield), Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Shirelles), and many others.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:23:04 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: C19fan
Two of the Top songs of the 60s (as voted by Freepers) are “You’ve Lost the Lovin’ Feelin’) and “Sittin’ at the Dock of the Bay”. Pretty sad stuff. The ‘90s Grunge Music was pretty sad as well. The early ‘80s was mostly upbeat New Wave stuff. These things go in cycles.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:25:29 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: C19fan
Human secularism is a dreary path
To: dfwgator
Manilow basically did the same thing on "Could This Be the Magic?" which he lifted from Chopin.
And so did Billy Joel in "This Night" (Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata)
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:27:35 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: C19fan
A Boy Named Sue...Happy or Sad??
To: Sacajaweau
Happy, his father did what he had to do to make sure his son could stand up for himself.
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:30:35 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Dr. Sivana
“Timothy”..the only pop song about cannibalism...or did they eat the ship’s dog? (Now we know what happened to “Shannon”!)
To: C19fan
I thought that whiny self pity garbage started with the grunge era?
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:33:20 PM PST
by
doorgunner69
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
To: kaktuskid
“Timothy”..the only pop song about cannibalismRupert Holmes wrote that. You may know him better from his other song, "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:33:55 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: C19fan
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:35:24 PM PST
by
olesigh
To: C19fan
To: dp0622
One Is The Lonliest Number
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posted on
02/19/2020 1:36:15 PM PST
by
olesigh
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