Secretly sad songs...

I posted about this recently. The idea came about through listening to the song 'Iceberg' by 10CC...a really jaunty jolly tune with really quite dark lyrics.
Having been really into punk and new wave in my formative years, it took a wee while to rediscover how very clever and inventive 10CC were.

'Iceberg' - 10CC

Secretly Happy:

Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Gome

Secretly Sad:

Bruce Springsteen - Bobby Jean

WEDNESDAY


Sounds upbeat, but a sad subject. Something for all of us to look forward to. If we live that long...


'Old Folks Boogie' - Little Feat



The guys do their best to make this song sound sad, but they're enjoying themselves too much. And it is very funny!


'It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long'

The Notorious Cherry Bombs

DC,

So, your roof is leaking?

Meat Purveyors ~ Hey Little Sister

The Happening - The Supremes

amazingly happy pop tune, the funk brothers at their best, and you'd have thought 'The Happening' was a happy happening -but a really unhappy dark lyric.Suicidal, almost.

#1 total agreement, Julie. I first saw 10CC in the Apollo in 1974 when Sheet Music came out - totally blown away by the musicianship (Eric Stewart must be our greatest unsung guitarist heros) and hilarious Jewish humour.Sheet Music remains one of the best albums ever made imho.

By the way, I've been petitioning to have something from Plastic Beach played for the last year - my album of 2010 - and today put the case once more. Pleased to hear Melancholy Hill, but yet again, no acknowledgment

regardez youse

henri

'you can go your own way'....fleetwood mac (is back,were nivver away, hooray)

comes under the category............sounds happy but is quite sad really



cheers frae the dale.

another 'appy little ditty but sooooooo sad.

'you were right'...............badly drawn boy

is worth it just to hear him 'turn madonna down'


cheers frae the dale

Some miserable sounding songs are actually quite reassuring and life-affirming. They don't necessarily translate into happy. Happy is overrated. Reassuring suits me better.
Carole King You've Got A Friend
REM Everybody Hurts

A Brighter Beat - Malcolm Middleton

Now you've gone and left me and there's nothing here

Thairis air a' Ghleann - Runrig - achingly sad melody, uplifting lyrics

I looked behind me
Without rancour without pity
To where my footprints were scattered
On their journey through the dust
From the beginning to an end of time
And to the bright everlasting days
Beyond the valley

We will praise
The love and the grace
That gave us our existence
So lowly beneath a sun
As it poured out its light
On alien stars

You came down
To a barren wilderness
And you raised the shadow from the valley
Gratitude and shame
The measure in each hand
We will proclaim your name in voice
On Gods way

Happy ... yet sad?

'Beautiful World' ... Devo
Disco beat disguises apocolyptic thoughts


Sad ... yet happy?

'Because We're Dead' ... The Slow Club
Anything but!

Anyway Bryan you would be sad too if Tricia Yearwood chucked you.

Which reminds me

Trishia Yearwood - believe me baby I lied

#4 nope


Jeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz.........


A boat is a vessel which may or may not have a "roof" (as you put it). If it doesn't, there's no roof to leak so you are wrong. If there is a facility to go below decks, there has to be a means of getting there. Now that means that rain can collect in that area and thence overflow into the cockpit drains. Now such drains do not flow directly into the sea because that could mean that, in turn, the sea could flow into the boat (ie the boat will leak). To avoid this, the drains flow into the bilge where the water can be collected for removal by pump in a controlled manner.


And so you have been telt




Again


DC

Wednesday:

New Faces - The Rolling Stones

A sad story about someone who is intensely worried that his girl fancies somebody else. It is sung in a jaunty manner with no fewer than three accoustic guitars, each expertly played.

Get It On Bryan.



DC

But you're more likely to play

When I'm dead and gone - McGuinness Flint


but I'll leave it up to you









(as though I have a choice...)


:-)

DC

#5

a dead cert ... If ever there was a competition to find the winner of the most certain certainty in certainville!
... that'll be the kiss of death then old son ...

Bryan, if you're doing 'Here Comes My Baby - The Tremeloes' there is a a recent remaster of the original hideous mix in which the bass level is totally out of kilter with the rest of the recording.

It's worth a listen as it actually improves on an absolute pop classic,

regardez youse

henri

Happy to second Believe me baby I lied (#12)

Slow me down - Aberfeldy
The one that got away - Allison Moorer
Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi
Substitute - the Who
Dreaming of you - the Coral
Misguided angel - Cowboy Junkies
Little bird - Emmylou Harris
Little does she know - Kursaal Flyers
Relator - Yorn/Johansonn
Since you been gone - Rainbow
Stay - Sugarland

Joe
Linlithgow

Sad songs that sound happy ?How about Country Joe and the Fish's infamous antiwar anthem "Feel like I'm fixing to Die,Rag".In the Woodstock film there was even a little"tempo ball" over the words inviting us to sing along to the happy refrain"Hooray, we're all going to die!"I saw them at Isle of Wight in 1970 when they preceded the song with notorious(1970, remember)"Fish Cheer"where Joe would spell out the word fish beginning with of course "Give me an F"and so on but the audience had other ideas and soon it became another "F"word!Now, Joni Mitchell..love her but "Big Yellow Taxi"drives me nuts it annoys me so much.There she is yodeling away about "You dont know what you got till it's gone"(the planet ,that is)and even ending with a giggle!I love the Mamas and the Papas cover of Rodgers and Hart's paradoxically titled "Glad to be Unhappy"No explanation needed here.Could we have Country Joe please Bryan?..All together now,"Give me an F"!!Cheers,Willie Bartke
Tempo Ball...mmm,now where have I heard that before! ;0)

#1,#6.10CC are coming to Glasgow on 5th March,Julie and Henri.I was at the Apollo ,probably Greens then too ,Henri.Brilliant band that they were I think they suffered a bit (imho)from not having much stage charisma and no front man really.One of UK's best groups ever just the same.Will definitely be checking out that March gig.Funny, Henri, I was going to suggest the Supremes"The Happening"too! Cheers(but no fish)!Willie Bartke

Sounds Happy but sad

There's a ghost in my house / R Dean Taylor
Harvest for the world / Isley Brothers
Love Lies Bleeding / Elton John
Dancing The Night Away / Motors
Your Favourite Shade of Blue / Adventures
In Your Letter / Reo Speedwagon


Sounds sad but happy


After all these years / Journey
Celebration of a life together

#18 seconds for Relator and # 19 for Country Joe.

He Didn't Have to Be - Brad Paisley (thanks to SG)

never fails to raise a tear, it's probably the happiest song I know

Happy lyrics to a sad tune:

Wonder if we might get a Chris Wood track tonight Bryan, now that some more of the world has heard of him with his double-success in the recent 'Folk Awards' (one for Best Folk Singer Of The Year).

'Summerfield Avenue' is a collection of happy childhood memories, deliverd in Chris Woods typical understated and refective style.

Got tickets to see the man himself in Shrewsbury next month... can't wait!

Changed my mind


Free Four - Pink Floyd.

A short, very cheery little song about old age and impending death. Just the thing to get folk's feet tapping.

In fact, I like this song so much, I have it for my ringtone.......


Have a happy day


:-)


DC

#19 No fishin' chance!

Am I the only one who will be having a "Fish cheer"if they play Scissor Sisters "Comfortably Numb"?:0)Willi Bartke

Dead Flowers - Frankie Miller

and we won't be having that one either.

#26 DC will join you, with a lobster or two to chuck at the radio

Tu-Ber-Cu-Lucas and the Sinus Blues - David Lindley

a tragic little tale to a jolly tune

#26 / #27 the radio will be used for bait

DC

Previously on the Blog....

EC in the North Sea - forget Yosemite Sam, should read Gattuso.

"Dont Worry, Be Happy" - a happy tune but it makes me so depressed whenever I hear it. I wonder why?


Here's a little song I wrote
It might make you wanna boak

How many of last night's songs were actually by artists who have been depicted in cartoon form?

'Breaking Up Is Hard To Do' - Neil Sedaka. Think he did a slow version but the original was quite jaunty.

#33

Surprised you didnt ask for the DC version, Julie.

Sally Don't You Grieve - Woody Guthrie
Grown So Ugly - Captain Beefheart

#34

This DC, of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5fPDYPk8YE

Though, Oor DC has a sleeveless cardigan very much like that one.

This one is a shoo-in.

Still Gonna Die - Old Dogs

A bunch of grown men having a ball pointing out the inevitability of death.
You can laugh or you can cry. But you're still gonna die!

;o)

#36 - Adam - You owe me a lunch. I just lost mine.

;o)

#36 You mean the one you left last time you were here? Ah, I wondered who owned that 70s item

DC

#31 if you're happy and you know it clap your hands has the same depressing effect on me.

Stamp your feet.

TEAR STAINED LETTER from HAND OF KINDNESS by RICHARD THOMPSON

THE ANGELS TOOK MY RACEHORSE AWAY from HENRY THE HUMAN FLY by RICHARD THOMPSON

I’M GLAD from SAFE AS MILK by CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

DON’T SING NO MORE SAD SONGS from ODD DITTIES by KEVIN AYERS

#30 Maybe EC is Rank Bajin?

#42

Here's a high octane version of a great song

Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee

jaunty little number, but heard in a particular way, quite sad

regardez youse

henri

#42 - #44 - I didn't know that was one of his! Support for Tear Stained Letter

:o)

Dancing by Myself - Generation X
Crossroads - Cream
Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King

#43 ah, you've met him?

DC

Previously on the Blog.....

#128 - Nothing new there Gaie. On Wild Men night we had Ozzy Ozbourne (Crazy Train) in the first hour and Black Sabbath (Paranoid) in the second.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xnkrc

#39
In which case send it waast by to Senga.

#49 Och well, maybe they'll make up for it tomorrow when we have blues night. That's what they mean by musicians who sing about their own genre? You don't hear people singing 'I got the folk song/heavy metal/trance/indie/techno/punk/dubstep for you' do you?
Sorted.

and in any case

We're All Going to Die - Malcolm Middleton

#50 too late, I chucked it out a couple of years ago because it was beginning tae ferment

DC

#46 Someone else does it?

Almost forgot - another Holland - Dozier - Holland classic:

Band of Gold - Freda Payne

comes complete with the completely common sense advice not to consummate your marriage - much less expensive

regardez youse

henri

Squeeze - up the junction

James - sit down

A very sad tale of a ordinary bloke going about his daily business who falls in love, gets mixed up in a love triangle and is slain by his love rival. All sung in a most jolly manner.

Ernie / benny Hill


Or even better
Bryan / blogetariat.

Has noone recorded it yet?

Glen, further to your comparison of Bruce's "Working on a Dream" and Teddy Thomson's "In My Arms"...

Whatabout Ron Sexsmith's "Believe It When I See It" and Bruce's "Girls in their Summer Clothes"?

I believe it's being reissued as a covers album under the title Play Jar Eyes

You are worrying about Bruce copying others songs at a time like this - inflation up, unemployment up, our hero mariner manning the pumps and we don't even know if Handley has had a second date?!!!

He's seeing her again - she deliberately left her pension book

Strange. There were several sad tune/happy lyrics suggestions here on the blog that were ignored in spite of requests for same.

So nothing new then



Bilges cleared btw