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Wow, what a dark song!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I was just listening to Barry Manillo ( don't judge! ) Coppa Cobaba, and I was suddenly such by what a dark song that is.
Perfect pop fluff, but the lyrics....
They fall in love, there's a fight, he dies, she drinks herself to death over 40 years. Bleak!
What other pop songs that makes everyone dance with joy have a similar bleak, theme?
If Beckett wrote pop songs? |
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By *ty31Man
over a year ago
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Every Breath You Take by The Police is about a stalker.
You're Gorgeous sounds like an abusive relationship.
On a lighter note, The Macarana is about a threesome a young lady has whilst her fella is away with the army. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The who , behind blue eyes ,
Is I great song , was covered by limp bisket a few years back ,,,,
But it’s been hijacked and is a well know neither nazi anthem , there are videos on YouTube showing it being sung and played at the neo nazi meeting , very dark ? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I guess another one is "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed.
You think it's about a perfect day, but it's really about being a hopeless retched junky and your life fleeting in a haze of worthless moments.
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"Every Breath You Take by The Police is about a stalker.
You're Gorgeous sounds like an abusive relationship.
On a lighter note, The Macarana is about a threesome a young lady has whilst her fella is away with the army."
Stephen Jones (Babybird) is in my opinion one of the most underrated musical genius this country has produced. If you like melancholy thought provoking music, look no further. "You're gorgeous" just pays the bills.
....."He drowned his stepson in the duckpond
Let the wifebeater out to make a pop song
He put razor blades, in the ice cream
Shot a paedophile in a wet dream"...
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Depeche Mode....almost all of their post Vince Clarke stuff, but Blasphemous Rumours is pretty up there for bleakness.
Or maybe Johnny Cash, he had a fair few dark moments- Cocaine Blues (shot his woman, got arrested) Folsom Prison blues (banged up, looking at the free people), 25 minutes to go (countdown to getting hung), long black veil (man shags best mates wife, mistaken for criminal, dies to keep the affair secret, she mourns him the rest of her life).
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