tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post5488964629685454771..comments2023-08-22T11:08:35.711-07:00Comments on FERRET-FACED FASCIST FRIENDS: SAD SONGS BLOGFESTStephen T. McCarthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-29979368060021661372012-04-01T01:36:20.911-07:002012-04-01T01:36:20.911-07:00BR'ER MARC ~
Your Mom had EXCELLENT taste in m...BR'ER MARC ~<br />Your Mom had EXCELLENT taste in music!<br /><br />~ D-FensDogg<br />'Loyal American Underground'Stephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-51475812838478558782012-03-31T21:42:08.013-07:002012-03-31T21:42:08.013-07:00Stephen,
These are songs my mom listened to. I...Stephen,<br /> These are songs my mom listened to. I say that not to be rude. I say it because it's the truth. Not bad though. <br /><br /> Br'er Marcmousiemarchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946780831209471709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-86738589531391262312012-03-31T12:01:53.055-07:002012-03-31T12:01:53.055-07:00With the exception of Sing, I'm not familiar w...With the exception of Sing, I'm not familiar with any of these. Thanks for sharing them and expanding my music knowledge. I particularly liked Photographs and Memories!Jennie Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088195986628533511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-34329561922487204542012-03-31T01:57:04.041-07:002012-03-31T01:57:04.041-07:00M.PAX:
Actually, here in Phoenix (where I know it&...M.PAX:<br />Actually, here in Phoenix (where I know it's usually a bit lower than in the rest of the country, although I couldn't tell you why) gas is really about $3.90 a gallon - Arco being the cheapest, and the place where I buy it. I just rounded it up to $4.00, which it will be soon here anyway.<br /><br />DISCDUDE:<br />Karen Carpenter couldn't sing ANYTHING without it somehow sounding sad. I mean, I'll bet she could have sung "Happy Birthday" and it would have made me misty-eyed.<br /><br />Yeah, I knew 'SING' was an unusual choice (like, over 'Superstar'?; 'Yesterday Once More'?; 'Rainy Days And Mondays'?), and that's why I prefaced it with this:<br /><br />"I don’t explain if you don’t understand."<br /><br />I COULD explain the several reasons I really do find 'Sing' to be one of her saddest, but... suffice to say that in the same sort of backward way that we label certain songs "The Blues" but they're usually really more soulful than sad, Karen's 'Sing', despite being an ostensibly happy song, really has a potent sad undercurrent to it, especially because of the addition of all those sweet, young, innocent voices in the children's choir.<br /><br />'Sing' really has made me choke up more than once. (But then again, I'm a puss.)<br /><br />~ D-FensDogg<br />'Loyal American Underground'Stephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-29405173497444263832012-03-30T22:54:19.949-07:002012-03-30T22:54:19.949-07:00I'm having a hard time imagining a Beach Boys&...I'm having a hard time imagining a Beach Boys' song that doesn't sound like "Wouldn't It Be Nice."<br /><br />I'll need to nreak out some CD's and listen (been a while)-didja know they've got a new CD coming out (I think in June)?<br /><br />The Capenters song was not the obvious one-I never thought of this one as sad. <br /><br />You're right-too many good ones.<br /><br /><br />LCDiscConnectedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07013919800637508392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-27056707049780640872012-03-30T21:14:36.752-07:002012-03-30T21:14:36.752-07:00I too seemed to have missed the boat on this one, ...I too seemed to have missed the boat on this one, but all good tracks to add to my new sad song playlist, thanks!kate nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343201276177843047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-42776013041986281632012-03-30T15:47:11.124-07:002012-03-30T15:47:11.124-07:00I know some of the artistes, but I'm not famil...I know some of the artistes, but I'm not familiar with most of your picks. More new discoveries.J.L. Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05666634455836834179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-39275092518927282792012-03-30T15:18:19.916-07:002012-03-30T15:18:19.916-07:00You're getting off cheap with gas only $4 a ga...You're getting off cheap with gas only $4 a gallon. :)<br /><br />Love your picks. Van Morrison is always good and moody.M Paxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14096697282530998519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-51130557608066942542012-03-30T12:32:01.879-07:002012-03-30T12:32:01.879-07:00LC ~
Actually, 'A Woman In Love' never eve...<b>LC ~</b><br />Actually, 'A Woman In Love' never even crossed my mind. There are just SO MANY GREAT "Sad Songs" to choose from that I thought it was nearly miraculous I was able to trim my list down to just these. <br /><br />I really, really wanted to use Dylan's 'You're A Big Girl Now'. <br /><br />And, as for The Beach Boys...<br /><br />Ha! Actually, they have several songs that I think of as being wistfully sad. 'Caroline No' probably isn't even my #1 in that department. 'The Warmth Of The Sun' might be, to me, their saddest song, but I know I've posted it before, somewhere on 'Stuffs', and decided to choose something different.<br /><br />Other B.B. songs I might have used are 'Don't Worry, Baby' and 'All Summer Long'. The latter one is really quite upbeat and most folks probably wouldn't think of it as "sad", but it's really reminiscing about good times in the past, and so there's an underlying sadness to it. At least to me. <br /><br />Another "reminiscing" song they sing is 'Do It Again'. Love it. Yeah, seriously, there were probably eight different Beach Boys songs I might easily have selected for this list. <br /><br />But I figured no one could possibly listen to 'Caroline No' and fail to notice that it's drenched in melancholy. <br /><br />~ D-FensDogg<br />'Loyal American Underground'Stephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-35106410236873401682012-03-30T11:20:05.132-07:002012-03-30T11:20:05.132-07:00McDogg-
I expectd you to have "A Woman In Lo...McDogg-<br /><br />I expectd you to have "A Woman In Love" on there just because of a discussion we had way back when about that line in the last verse.<br /><br />Obviously I am not as familiar with the Beach Boys' catalogue as you-I wouldn't think it possible for them to have a sad song!<br /><br />LCDiscConnectedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07013919800637508392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-75504892830003771402012-03-30T10:47:44.201-07:002012-03-30T10:47:44.201-07:00SPUNKY ~
Great idea for a blogfest! Thanks for com...SPUNKY ~<br />Great idea for a blogfest! Thanks for coming up with it, as I enjoyed putting this list together.<br /><br />~ D-FensDogg<br />'Loyal American Underground'Stephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-38903796139599158642012-03-30T10:44:38.412-07:002012-03-30T10:44:38.412-07:00Thank you for stepping outside of the norm today. ...Thank you for stepping outside of the norm today. Most of those are before my time, but I know the last two songs well.L. Diane Wolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06425864276166334896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-82030020970949534582012-03-30T10:44:16.649-07:002012-03-30T10:44:16.649-07:00TO ALL COMMENTERS:
Thanks for coming by and sayin&...<b>TO ALL COMMENTERS:</b><br />Thanks for coming by and sayin' sumpin'. I'm REALLY surprised that a couple of you didn't know ANY of these songs! I mean, I knew I was old, but I didn't know I was <b><i>that</i></b> old. Sheesh.<br /><br />Of course, there are a couple recordings here that I anticipated few if any of you would be familiar with ('Magic Journeys', 'Sarah's Crime', and perhaps 'Pagan Streams'), but 'Sing', and 'Caroline No', and 'Photographs And Memories' I figured EVERYONE has heard once or a million times.<br /><br />I also assumed that the stolen lyric from the famously sad song 'Cats In The Cradle' in the opening paragraph is something EVERYONE would immediately recognize as well (i.e., "the new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu but it's sure nice talking to you...") but I now suspect that also went utterly unrecognized by most of ya. Wow! How did I get SO OLD?!<br /><br />ALLIALLO: At first I was planning to include Dylan's 'You're A Big Girl Now', but his version was not available at YouTube. I did find a pretty good cover version of it by some bloke, but decided not to use it since it wasn't Bob's heartbreaking original. Tom Waits I briefly thought about as well ('Broken Bicycles') but there were just too many to choose from and I wanted to keep my list to a manageable size. <br /><br />BOIDMAN: The ending of 'Sarah's Crime' - if you're referring to that long stretch of silence and then the screeching noise that lasts for about 5 seconds - well, that's just a flaw in the video's production. That instrumental really ends with the musical notes fading out at the end. I don't know what to make of that silence 'n' screeching. Extraterrestrial alien interference or sumpin', I s'pose.<br /><br />~ D-FensDogg<br />'Loyal American Underground'Stephen T. McCarthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00249125637725791567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-20600103204276710282012-03-30T08:45:49.659-07:002012-03-30T08:45:49.659-07:00man! another post where i don't know any of th...man! another post where i don't know any of the songs...<br />yikes!<br />*music fail*vic caswell https://www.blogger.com/profile/01218698236837610704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-73966124366889020212012-03-30T07:40:21.982-07:002012-03-30T07:40:21.982-07:00Nice picks, but no Tom Waits or Bob Dylan? I was ...Nice picks, but no Tom Waits or Bob Dylan? I was going to go with a Beach Boys song but though a lot of them sounded sad the lyrics more expressed longing and love. Your pick was right. I also though Morrison, but once again nothing sad came to mind. This morning I started thinking about Seger's "On the Road Again". "Sarah's Crime"--very nice but it sure has a weird ending--I don't know if was supposed to be that way or not.<br /><br />Glad you did this one. I knew you'd come out a champ.<br /><br />Lee<br /><b>Sad Songs Blogfests—Places I Remember</b><br /><a href="http://wrotebyrote.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Wrote By Rote</a><br />An A to Z Co-host blog<br /><br />GArlee Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11663942782929929334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-74319668569604729152012-03-30T07:04:27.693-07:002012-03-30T07:04:27.693-07:00Great classic and strong song list!
Jeremy [Retro...Great classic and strong song list!<br /><br />Jeremy [Retro-Zombie]<br />Visit The Madness:<br /><a href="http://izombielover.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">iZOMBIE</a>Jeremy [Retro]https://www.blogger.com/profile/09912258155288958827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-64934340316790936752012-03-30T04:52:45.952-07:002012-03-30T04:52:45.952-07:00What? No Bob Dylan or Tom Waits? Um ... do you hav...What? No Bob Dylan or Tom Waits? Um ... do you have a fever? Flu? I'm worried about you!Jessica Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10889900730906728317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-46834636543125760622012-03-30T04:37:41.896-07:002012-03-30T04:37:41.896-07:00Although I didn't know them all I did listen t...Although I didn't know them all I did listen to them being a music love. This was an excellent list and a pleasure to listen to.<br /><br />Yvonne,RHYTHM AND RHYMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11386975261804630799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-5551966454157070072012-03-30T04:28:29.158-07:002012-03-30T04:28:29.158-07:00"My wife left me for a lesbian, my dog got sh..."My wife left me for a lesbian, my dog got shot in a hunting accident, gasoline is four dollars per gallon, I’m out of bourbon, my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu, but it's sure nice talking to you, Dad. It's been sure nice talking to you." - pretty much sums it up!baygirl32https://www.blogger.com/profile/01355816922022246751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272211918278108300.post-3024239714427912442012-03-30T02:56:27.862-07:002012-03-30T02:56:27.862-07:00I don't know any of these, maybe I'm not a...I don't know any of these, maybe I'm not as old as I think,hmm! Great selection though, I loved the Bob Seger one :)<br /><br /><a href="http://universalgibberish.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Universal Gibberish</a>PRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081495393769749459noreply@blogger.com