Most Depressing 70's Songs
Gail Collier
Disco Stu wrote:
>
> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> Naturally".
> Any others come to mind?
FEELINGS! whoa, oh, oh, Feelings!
Gail
Cacilie Griffith
robbin decker wrote:
>
> an...@devonind.com (Disco Stu) wrote:
>
> > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> >depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> > It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> >Naturally".
> > Any others come to mind?
>
>
> BillCacilie writes:I think Seasons In The Sun is depressing enough with the
words,but what really gets me is the guitar part in-between the
verses.BRMM BRMM BRMM BRMM(guitar part)
ALAN MOORE
>an...@devonind.com (Disco Stu) wrote:
>
>> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>>depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
>> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
>>Naturally".
>> Any others come to mind?
>
>ANYTHING by Bobby Goldsboro
>
>Bill
>
Just about anything by the Carpenters, like "Goodbye to Love" or "
Superstar " to name a couple.
Alan M.
Tee
Gail Collier <gailc...@earthlink.net> writes: > Disco Stu wrote:
> >
> > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> > depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> > It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> > Naturally".
> > Any others come to mind?
>
>
PLEASE don't forget 1977's "Torn Between Two Lovers", by Mary MacGregor.
I couldn't stand this song when it first came out, and it REALLY makes
me retch today!
"torn between two lovers, feeling like a fool,
loving you both is breaking all the rules"
Excuse me, but ICK!!!
Tee
Rosemarie Lieffring
Hmmm....what about that Bread song. Found her diary under a tree....the
love she had was for him, not me. You know the one.....
<snip>
> > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> > depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> > It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> > Naturally".
> > Any others come to mind?
>
> FEELINGS! whoa, oh, oh, Feelings!
>
<snip>
Donnah Dunthorn
: Disco Stu wrote:
: >
: > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
: > depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
: > It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
: > Naturally".
"Shannon" by Henry Gross (?)
"Long, Long, Time" by Linda Ronstadt
"Love Hurts" by Nazareth
"Whippin' Post" by the Allman Brothers
d.
greg841
Gail Collier wrote:
>
> Disco Stu wrote:
> >
> > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> > depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> > It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> > Naturally".
>
> FEELINGS! whoa, oh, oh, Feelings!
>
"Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor!
Martin Nathan
Two of the most depressing songs I've ever heard are probably
unfamiliar to any readers of this group. They were only played a
couple of times each on WORC radio in WORCester, Mass in 1969.
One was called November Snow, by Rejoice. This song was very
depressing but it did have a fairly listenable tune to it. The other
song was called Today I Killed a Man I Didn't Know. I don't know the
name of the group.
The most depressing song from the 1970's has to What The World
Needs Now is Love/Abraham Martin and John by Tom Clay. This was a
spoken word song which made the top 10 in 1971 but it's absolutely
unlistenable more than once. It has a part where the police call a
father on the phone to to tell him his son has died of a drug
overdose, and the father cries his heart out. I respect the
sentiments of the song but I don't know how anybody can listen it to
it more than once.
Martin Nathan
Ken Stevens
On Sat, 04 Jan 1997 19:45:16 -0500, greg841 <gre...@concentric.net>
wrote:
LOVIN' YOU is easy 'cause your beautiful...and everday that we
ooooh....I'm more in love with you. Yech! :o<
kevxu
an...@devonind.com (Disco Stu) wrote:
> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
>Naturally".
> Any others come to mind?
Roberta Flack: After You
Bette Midler: Sad Guitar (?)
Jack
PauSto
"Cat's in the craddle"
Waaa!
--
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Brenda Thorne
Disco Stu (an...@devonind.com) writes:
> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> Naturally".
> Any others come to mind?
>
Wildfire by Michael Murphy always made me cry as a child. Also the Frank
Mills tune "Love me love me love" blah blah, not sure exactly what the
title is. Always made me weep. Packed away with the old vinyl of the era
I do have an lp of tearjerker tunes from the 60's/70's. The name and
contents escape me at this time.
Brenda
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tamrah
greg841 wrote:
>
> Gail Collier wrote:
> >
> > Disco Stu wrote:
> > >
> > > depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> > > It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> > > Naturally".
> > > Any others come to mind?
> >
> >
> > Gail
>
> "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor!
Diary (the words began to stick and tears to flow. Her meaning now was
clear to see. The love she'd waited for was someone else, not me...)
Sylvia's mother (Please Mrs. Avery I've just gotta tell her gooodbye,
tell her goodbye....)
Honey (and Honey I miss you, and I'm being good, and I long to be with
you, if only I could)
Touch me in the morning (then just walk away. We can't have tomorrow,
but we had yesterday)
Some of these may be sixties - hey, it all runs together in my mind.
Charles P. Hobbs
will...@netcom.com wrote:
> : > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> : >depressing hits of the '70's" cd.[...]
> Mr. Bojangles ("....his dog up and died. He up and died. After 20 years
> he still grieved.")
A song by Blue Magic called "Let the Sad Show Begin"(?)
Laura Beeby
In article <5aolg4$6...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
as...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Brenda Thorne) writes:
>
>Disco Stu (an...@devonind.com) writes:
>> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
>> Naturally".
>> Any others come to mind?
>>
>
>Mills tune "Love me love me love" blah blah, not sure exactly what the
>title is. Always made me weep. Packed away with the old vinyl of the era
>I do have an lp of tearjerker tunes from the 60's/70's. The name and
>contents escape me at this time.
>
>
>Brenda
>--
>if you don't expect too much from me you might not be let down... - gb
>
>For a good time:
> http://www.resudox.net/~roxy/
"Shannon" by Henry Gross -- the dead dog song
"Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill -- especially painful to Canadians
because of the 60% Canadian content law; D.J's were forced to play it
twice as much. That and "Having My Baby".
Laura
Tony & Robin
PauSto <pau...@er.com> wrote:
>Waaa!
I cannot remember who - but someone redid "Cat's In The Cradle". it
sounds good!! I always liked that song!!
Robin
http://www.bright.net/~phantoms/
"Sometimes people are criticized for being honest and
forthright because some people have not come to terms with
that part of themselves and have a hard time accepting it in
others." - Alanis
Trudi Marrapodi
In article <32D078...@primenet.com>, "Charles P. Hobbs"
<tra...@primenet.com> wrote:
"Sideshow." "See the man with the broken heart..." Yep, that's pretty
bad. But I dare anyone to beat the pathos of (assuming it's a '70s song,
it could be late '60s):
"I Started a Joke" by the Bee Gees
You know..."I started a joke, that started the whole world crying...I
started to cry, which started the whole world laughing...then I finally
died, which started the whole world living..."
Talk about feeling sorry for yourself...
Mitzi, la chanteuse
PauSto wrote:
>
> "Cat's in the craddle"
>
> Waaa!
I second, third, fourth, fifth, and infinity that. Right on target.
--Mitzi
Mitzi, la chanteuse
Er, I meant it was depressing to listen to, not "how sad".
--Mitzi
Scott
On 3 Jan 1997 19:06:28 GMT, an...@devonind.com (Disco Stu) wrote:
> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
>Naturally".
> Any others come to mind?
>
I just thought of the all time most depressing song: Reflections of
my life by Marmalade. "the world is a bad place, bad place, very very
bad place...ah, but I don't want to die here..."
Dubbleyou
"Charles P. Hobbs" <tra...@primenet.com> wrote:
>will...@netcom.com wrote:
>> : > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>> : >depressing hits of the '70's" cd.[...]
>> Mr. Bojangles ("....his dog up and died. He up and died. After 20 years
>> he still grieved.")
>A song by Blue Magic called "Let the Sad Show Begin"(?)
Wasn't that "Side Show"?
"So let the Side Show begin,
Hurry, hurry, step right on in
Can't afford to pass it by,
guaranteed to make you cry"
Francis McGill
"WOLD" by Harry Chapin
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot
"IOU" by Jimmy Dean
"Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine
"Telephone Line" by ELO
"Taxi" by Harry Chapin
"At Seventeen" by Janis Ian
"Lucille" by Kenny Rogers
"Desperado" by the Eagles
"Patches" by Clarence Carter
"Papa Was A Rolling Stone" by Temptations
"Freddie's Dead" by Curtis Mayfield
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Tony & Robin wrote:
> > . <-----Microscopic .sig (Pausto at erols dot com)
>
> I cannot remember who - but someone redid "Cat's In The Cradle". it
> sounds good!! I always liked that song!!
>
> Robin
> http://www.bright.net/~phantoms/
> "Sometimes people are criticized for being honest and
> forthright because some people have not come to terms with
> that part of themselves and have a hard time accepting it in
> others." - Alanis
"Daddy don't you walk so fast"
buck
I absolutely agree with this list!!!!!
Francis McGill <a052...@bcfreenet.seflin.org> wrote in article
<5b10hm$s...@nntp.seflin.org>...
Garrison B. Hack
Good list. Here are some of mine, too
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Smile a Little Smile for Me
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Anything by Helen Reddy and Jim Croce
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Daddy, Don't You Walk so Fast
Willy Don't Be a Hero
Amos Moses
Down by the River
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greg841
These songs are certainly painful, and, unfortunately, not completely
forgotten:
"Must Have Been Crazy" by Chicago
"Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" by Donna Fargo
"The Pina Colada Song" by Rupert Holmes
"Float On" by The Floaters
"It Never Rains in Southern California" by Albert Hammond
"Hopelessly Devoted to You" by Olivia Newton John
Just a few, anyway.
Greg
LCG123
On 3 Jan 1997 an...@devonind.com (Disco Stu) wrote
> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> Naturally".
> Any others come to mind?
Has anyone ever heard "The Green Green Grass of Home?" Jim Neighbors (sp?)
did one version. In it a man sings about wanting to touch the green green
grass of home once again, and how all his loved ones will cry when he
comes home. At the end you find out that he's in prison and wants to be
buried beneath the green green grass of home after his execution.
Real tear-jerker.
ste...@interport.net
On Sun, 05 Jan 97 10:58:55 -0500, be...@ican.net (Laura Beeby) wrote:
>In article <5aolg4$6...@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
>as...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Brenda Thorne) writes:
>>
>>Disco Stu (an...@devonind.com) writes:
>>> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>>> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
>>> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
>>> Naturally".
>>> Any others come to mind?
>>>
>>
>>Wildfire by Michael Murphy always made me cry as a child. Also the Frank
>>Mills tune "Love me love me love" blah blah, not sure exactly what the
>>title is. Always made me weep. Packed away with the old vinyl of the era
>>I do have an lp of tearjerker tunes from the 60's/70's. The name and
>>contents escape me at this time.
>>
>>
>>Brenda
>>--
>>if you don't expect too much from me you might not be let down... - gb
>>
>>For a good time:
>> http://www.resudox.net/~roxy/
>
>"Shannon" by Henry Gross -- the dead dog song
>"Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill -- especially painful to Canadians
>because of the 60% Canadian content law; D.J's were forced to play it
>twice as much. That and "Having My Baby".
>
>Laura
i was gonna say "Shannon" but somebody beat me to it. Also "Lonely
Boy" by Andrew Gold -- i used to cry over that when i was, say, 8 yrs
old. "Touch Me in the Morning" by Diana Ross, "At Seventeen" by Janis
Ian... basically i'm just rattling off my 45 collection here. why
were all these songwriters so damn depressed in the 70s?
Tony & Robin
ncc...@prodigy.net (Ken Stevens) wrote:
>On Sat, 04 Jan 1997 19:45:16 -0500, greg841 <gre...@concentric.net>
>wrote:
>>Gail Collier wrote:
>>>
>>> Disco Stu wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>>> > depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
>>> > It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
>>> > Naturally".
>>> > Any others come to mind?
>>>
>>> FEELINGS! whoa, oh, oh, Feelings!
>>>
>>> Gail
>>
>>"Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor!
>LOVIN' YOU is easy 'cause your beautiful...and everday that we
>ooooh....I'm more in love with you. Yech! :o<
The first thought I had when I read this was...ewwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Goldschmidt
>>>Disco Stu (an...@devonind.com) writes:
>>>> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>>>> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
>>>> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
>>>> Naturally".
>>>> Any others come to mind?
"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas (Kirschner Records, 1976). Suicide music.
"Life is pointless". Open up the windows and turn on the gas. (Wait a
minute...)
"Sitting Alone With My Shadow" by Jon Mark (Columbia Records, '75)
You don't know what "lonely" is till you've heard this!
"Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide (Red Star Records, 1977). The band's
name says it all! Never a "hit". A cacophonous electro-punk tune about
a guy who flips out and murders his family.
> why
>were all these songwriters so damn depressed in the 70s?
Maybe they were coming down off some bad drugs. Or maybe they saw the
Reagan era coming!
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Steve Ellis
More to the point, Kelly Solberg <ke...@perlmangroup.com> wrote:
>> > why
were all these songwriters so damn depressed in the 70s?>>
>> Maybe they were coming down off some bad drugs. Or maybe they saw the
>> Reagan era coming!
>> --
>>
I can buy that explanation. I always thought that Nixon was the
Beta-test release of Reagan.
Steve
Dona...@worldnet.att.net
lWhat about Bobby Sherman's "Honey I miss you" where his wife is dead.
Now that's depressing
Kelly Solberg
Paul Goldschmidt wrote:
>
> >>>Disco Stu (an...@devonind.com) writes:
> >>>> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> >>>> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> >>>> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> >>>> Naturally".
> >>>> Any others come to mind?
>
> "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas (Kirschner Records, 1976). Suicide music.
> "Life is pointless". Open up the windows and turn on the gas. (Wait a
> minute...)
>
> "Sitting Alone With My Shadow" by Jon Mark (Columbia Records, '75)
> You don't know what "lonely" is till you've heard this!
>
> "Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide (Red Star Records, 1977). The band's
> name says it all! Never a "hit". A cacophonous electro-punk tune about
> a guy who flips out and murders his family.
>
> >were all these songwriters so damn depressed in the 70s?
>
> Maybe they were coming down off some bad drugs. Or maybe they saw the
> Reagan era coming!
> --
>
> lot of fun!" - Gene Klavin
>
> Visit the Bartlepage
> <http://www.spectra.net/~bartle>
Paul Goldschmidt
Dona...@Worldnet.att.net wrote:
>lWhat about Bobby Sherman's "Honey I miss you" where his wife is dead.
>Now that's depressing
Ackshully, that's Bobby Goldsboro. What's saddest is that his wife
sounded like a classic 60's/70's airbrain. Now THAT's depressing!
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Kelly Solberg <ke...@perlmangroup.com> wrote:
>Has anybody mentioned "All By Myself" Eric Carmen?
Duly noted! Excellent choice!
Also, does anyone remember a parody of "Dust In The Wind" about "angel
dust" (as George Clinton called it, "the latest don't-try-it
drugette") called "Dust Up His Nose" ("He's turned on/It's not Cheryl
Tiegs, it's Secretariat")?
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DaHeretic
Dona...@Worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
> lWhat about Bobby Sherman's "Honey I miss you" where his wife is dead.
> Now that's depressing
Bobby Goldsboro.
Bobby Sherman did "Julie, Do You Love Me," "Seattle (theme song from
Here Comes the Brides)", "Easy Come, Easy Go", etc.
Lukens-Gable
Does anyone remember "Run Joey, Run" ?
It's a depressing and weird song about an unplanned pregenancy and the
girls father is out to shoot her boyfriend and gets shot herself in the
process of protecting him.
Terri and Jim
Bug Man
Yes. I have the CD with that song. The MOST depressing songs weren't
from the 70's, they were from the late 50s/early 60s. As in one name:
Bobby (I'm gonna kill myself if I hear another one of his songs) Vinton.
Mr. Lonely
Blue Velvet
etc...
gord klassen
Hi
How about the one that goes
"I learned the truth at seventeen,
when love was meant for beauty queens"
seeya
gordo
Tim Irvin
In article <wwwords-1901...@usr6-148.dial.roc.frontiernet.net>,
www...@frontiernet.net (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
[re: Run Joey Run]
> Please, we keep trying to FORGET that one...
Resistance is futile.
The earworm burrows deeper.
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Kelly Solberg
Mav wrote:
>
> Kelly Solberg wrote:
> >
> > Paul Goldschmidt wrote:
> > >
> > > >>>Disco Stu (an...@devonind.com) writes:
> > > >>>> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
> > > >>>> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
> > > >>>> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
> > > >>>> Naturally".
> > > >>>> Any others come to mind?
> > >
> > > "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas (Kirschner Records, 1976). Suicide music.
> > > "Life is pointless". Open up the windows and turn on the gas. (Wait a
> > > minute...)
> > >
> > > "Sitting Alone With My Shadow" by Jon Mark (Columbia Records, '75)
> > > You don't know what "lonely" is till you've heard this!
> > >
> > > "Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide (Red Star Records, 1977). The band's
> > > name says it all! Never a "hit". A cacophonous electro-punk tune about
>
> "How Much I Feel"... Ambrosia??? This was late seventies, right???
"Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" Crystal Gayle 1977
"When Will I Be Loved" Linda Ronstadt 1974
"Talking In Your Sleep" Crystal Gayle 1978
"You and Me Against the World" Helen Reddy 1974 (Always brings a tear to
my eye)
Tim Irvin
In article <5c199u$8...@top.MTS.Net>, gkla...@wpcusrgrp.org (gord klassen)
wrote:
> Hi
> How about the one that goes
>
> "I learned the truth at seventeen,
> when love was meant for beauty queens"
That would be Janis Ian, I believe.
Mav
CyberJohns
Is there any truth to the rumor that the Army rejected, as a recruiting
song, "Billy Don't Be a Hero"?
lwa...@rci.rogers.com
In article <5c199u$8...@top.MTS.Net> gkla...@wpcusrgrp.org (gord klassen) writes:
>From: gkla...@wpcusrgrp.org (gord klassen)
>Subject: Re: Most Depressing 70's Songs
>Date: 21 Jan 1997 02:22:54 GMT
>Hi
>How about the one that goes
>"I learned the truth at seventeen,
>when love was meant for beauty queens"
>seeya
>gordo
That was Janis Ian, right? Speaking of depressing, does anyone remember that
public service announcement she used to do where she's sitting by a stream
playing her guitar singing about the energy crisis?
... and I swum real good for as long as I could
Till the energy crisis begun
And the water drank the radiation leaking from the plant
By the hill, by the pond, by the sea
And the fish all up and died,
With me not far behind
And I'll swim no more in the sea
greg841
Here are two others to consider:
"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" Elton John
"Crazy Love" Poco
Both good songs, but depressing content.
Greg
Bug Man
Tim Irvin wrote:
>
> In article <wwwords-1901...@usr6-148.dial.roc.frontiernet.net>,
> www...@frontiernet.net (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
>
> [re: Run Joey Run]
>
> > Please, we keep trying to FORGET that one...
>
> Resistance is futile.
Daddy please don't it wasn't his fault
he means so much to me.
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married
just you wait and so.
Every night the same old dream
I hate to close my eyes
I can't erase the memory
the sound of Julie's cries.
She called me up late one night, said,
Joe, don't over
My dad and I just had a fight
and he stormed out the door.
I never seen him act this way.
My God, he's going crazy.
He says he gonna make you pay
for what we've done.
He's got a gun so
Run Joey Run Joey Run Joey Run
Daddy please dont......
Got in my car and I drove like mad
till I reached Julie's place.
She ran to me with tear filled eyes
and bruises on her face.
All at once I saw him there
sneaking up behind me. Watch out!
Julie yelled, he's got a gun
and she stepped in front of me.
Suddenly a shot rang out
and I saw Julie falling.
I ran to her. I held her close.
When I looked down, her hands were red.
And here's the last words Julie said:
Daddy please dont.......
Run Joey run Joey run Joey run Joey run..........
YES! ROCK! The 70's ruled!.. I mean were groovy..
Bug Man
Just you wait and SEE!. Ooops.
negr...@ivl.com
In article <ziggy29-ya0230800...@nntp.netgate.net>,
zig...@netgate.net (Tim Irvin) wrote:
>
> In article <wwwords-1901...@usr6-148.dial.roc.frontiernet.net>,
> www...@frontiernet.net (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
>
> [re: Run Joey Run]
>
> > Please, we keep trying to FORGET that one...
>
> Resistance is futile.
>
>
> --
> Tim Irvin, zig...@netgate.net ::: http://www.netgate.net/~ziggy29/
> -----
> Ratio of the amount that the (U.S.) federal government spent (in
> 1995) on Americans under 18 to those over 65: 1:5. (Harper's Index)
>
> Want to guarantee I'll *never* buy your stuff? Send me e-mail spam.
Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen put out an album in 1971 called "Lost
in the Ozone". One of the tracks was called 'Down to Seeds and Stems Again, Too"
Some memorable lyrics:
My dog died yesterday
And left me all alone
The mortgage company came by today
And repossessed my home
But that's just a drop in the bucket
Compared to losin' you
And I'm down to seeds and stems again too.
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David Monk
In article <32E69F...@perlmangroup.com>, ke...@perlmangroup.com says...
>
>Mav wrote:
>
>"Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue" Crystal Gayle 1977
>"When Will I Be Loved" Linda Ronstadt 1974
>"Talking In Your Sleep" Crystal Gayle 1978
>"You and Me Against the World" Helen Reddy 1974 (Always brings a tear to
>my eye)
Last one in this list reminds me of my own most depressing 70's song:
"Mahogany", by Diana Ross. To me, this song exemplifies the "sad" side
of the Seventies. (In the old days, "sad" was an antonym to "cool".)
Apone
IMHO "At 17" is a hauntingly beautiful song about a subject all too
familiar topic whom would be known in today's world as "socially
challenged".
She also did the song "Society's Child", about interracial love
Trudi Marrapodi
In article <32EB8E...@popalex1.linknet.net>,
jleb...@popalex1.linknet.net wrote:
> Tim Irvin wrote:
> >
> > In article <wwwords-1901...@usr6-148.dial.roc.frontiernet.net>,
> > www...@frontiernet.net (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
> >
> > [re: Run Joey Run]
> >
> > > Please, we keep trying to FORGET that one...
> >
> > Resistance is futile.
>
> Daddy please don't it wasn't his fault
> he means so much to me.
Squeaking in the highest, most squeaky, annoying female voice this side of
Kathy Ireland...
> Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married
> just you wait and so.
Well, it's "see," but...
> Every night the same old dream
> I hate to close my eyes
It's a nightmare...
> I can't erase the memory
> the sound of Julie's cries.
I can't erase the memory
the sound of David Geddes' cries!
> She called me up late one night, said,
> Joe, don't over
You left out "come." Too bad Joe and Julie didn't.
> My dad and I just had a fight
> and he stormed out the door.
> I never seen him act this way.
> My God, he's going crazy.
Sung with great emotion..."My GOD! He's goin' craaaazeh..."
> He says he gonna make you pay
> for what we've done.
OOH!
> He's got a gun so
So did Joey--that was the problem! Couldn't keep it in the holster!
> Run Joey Run Joey Run Joey Run
And you won't have to hear the rest of this song!
> Daddy please dont......
Rest of chorus mercifully omitted?
> Got in my car and I drove like mad
> till I reached Julie's place.
> She ran to me with tear filled eyes
> and bruises on her face.
Oh, the violence. A man who would hit his own pregnant daughter. Every
trailer park in America sobbed at this part.
> All at once I saw him there
> sneaking up behind me. Watch out!
LOOKOUTLOOKOUTLOOKOUTLOOOKOUTLOOKOUT...
> Julie yelled, he's got a gun
> and she stepped in front of me.
Poor Julie. Never realized that if her old dad would HIT her while she was
pregnant, he probably wouldn't have any compunctions about shooting her
either!
> Suddenly a shot rang out
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out.
> and I saw Julie falling.
> I ran to her. I held her close.
> When I looked down, her hands were red.
And she hadn't been eatin' M&Ms...but wait...her dad shot her in the HANDS??
> And here's the last words Julie said:
Julie please don't! Just die already, without making us listen again!
> Daddy please dont.......
But you left out the tragic part, where she sings "We're
gonna...get...mar...ried...", barely able to choke the words out, and
unable to finish the last line of the chorus before she dies. And the rest
is silence...thank God!
> Run Joey run Joey run Joey run Joey run..........
AAAGGGGGGGGHHHHH!
> YES! ROCK! The 70's ruled!.. I mean were groovy..
I'm just glad they're over...
Apone
What about the one from 1977 by Ronnie Milsap, "It was Almost Like a
Song"?
Another song from the same period, while not depressing, is annoying:
"You Light Up My Life" by Debbie Boone.
On Fri, 24 Jan 1997 21:57:31 -0500, greg841 <gre...@concentric.net>
wrote:
Kent Parks
Don't forget the eerie-sounding "Only Women Bleed"--Alice Cooper, 1975
Dennis Terrell
>
>
>>>>Disco Stu (an...@devonind.com) writes:
>>>>> I've always wished that some K-Tel-like company would release a "most
>>>>> depressing hits of the '70's" cd.
>>>>> It could feature (at least) "Seasons in the Sun" and "Alone Again,
>>>>> Naturally".
>>>>> Any others come to mind?
>
>"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas (Kirschner Records, 1976). Suicide music.
>"Life is pointless". Open up the windows and turn on the gas. (Wait a
>minute...)
>
>"Sitting Alone With My Shadow" by Jon Mark (Columbia Records, '75)
>You don't know what "lonely" is till you've heard this!
>
>"Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide (Red Star Records, 1977). The band's
>name says it all! Never a "hit". A cacophonous electro-punk tune about
>a guy who flips out and murders his family.
>
>> why
>>were all these songwriters so damn depressed in the 70s?
>
>
Shitty Record Ccompany contracts & expensive drugs would make any
singer-songwriter depressed.
Apone
Remember the CB'er song about the little boy "Teddy Bear" who died?
Robin
pa...@news.unc.edu (Kent Parks) wrote:
>Don't forget the eerie-sounding "Only Women Bleed"--Alice Cooper, 1975
Alice Cooper also did a wonderful song titled "I Never Cry". It is a
sad song,and was mt favorite song for a long time!!!
Robin
http://www.bright.net/~phantoms/
"Sometimes people are criticized for being honest and
forthright because some people have not come to terms with
that part of themselves and have a hard time accepting it in
others." - Alanis
Terri A Gordon
> >Don't forget the eerie-sounding "Only Women Bleed"--Alice Cooper, 1975
Unfotunately many people took the title literally, when he was trying to
get across the message of domestic violence and all the BS many women had
(and still do) to take from their men.
robbin decker
Teddy Bear, by Red Sovine, who did about a million trucker songs like
Phantom 309, Six Days on the Road, he really was kinda fun to listen
to while you were driving. They were all story songs. One of the
things about trucker music is that you tend to get lonely as hell OTR,
and you either need some good ol boy kickass songs to cheer you, or
some lost love/sad story to sing the blues along with. It helps when
home and family are hours or days away.
Bill
Welby
depressed because he wanted to go for a ride in a "Big Rig" yet no one
would take him, at the end of the song something was said about truckers
lining up and down both sides of his street to give him a ride.
Mark C.
