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JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,649
edited July 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I was flipping channels, and I came across a Swell Season performance....it brought back memories of a rough-patch with my girlfriend 2 years ago, and it also reminded me of the time we were supposed to go to a Swell Season concert, but my dad ended up in the ER that night, so we had to skip it.

Some of the Swell Season songs are sad enough, so to hear them during a heavy time makes it even worse!
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    edited June 2009
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    I was flipping channels, and I came across a Swell Season performance....it brought back memories of a rough-patch with my girlfriend 2 years ago, and it also reminded me of the time we were supposed to go to a Swell Season concert, but my dad ended up in the ER that night, so we had to skip it.

    Some of the Swell Season songs are sad enough, so to hear them during a heavy time makes it even worse!

    I know what you mean about those songs.

    For me:

    Twilight- Elliott Smith, takes me back to some very dark times of my life at the depths of my addiction.

    Oddly enough, most pop hits circa 2005-06 bother me. They played on a loop at my restaurant and I met my ex-gf there. I have vivid memories of us goofing around with the microphone up front, especially her singing into it. Gavin DeGraw is a big one, or Daniel Powter, James Blunt, etc. Not that I listen to that shit, but if I happen to be at a store and I hear it on the speakers, it's like I'm right back there...

    On the same note, the Killers' Mr Brightside, because it became a huge hit at the very time I got dumped by said girl for a guy she met on vacation.
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  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,649
    Did those events make you the bitter and intolerant man you are today?
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    five years ago my 2 buddies and i drove to reno to see todd snider play 2 shows on the roof of a museum...we had planned it way in advance and couldn't wait to go....well at the same time my mom was undergoing tests to determine why she was feeling so bad....my mom insisted that i still go even though i wasn't in the mood to go anymore...we went and had a great time but my mom was still on my mind...i got the call over that weekend that my mom had stage 4 liver cancer

    the shows were great and todd also released a new album...we listened to it on the drive home....that album always reminds me of hearing the worst news i'd ever heard...yet i love that album also...it's my favorite todd album....and my mom is still with us (although still undergoing chemo) 5 years later so hearing the album and the memories it brings up is bittersweet i guess

    also, dmb's bartender reminds me of my best friend who died of cancer and i was at the show were dmb led off the show with it when leroi died


    not sure if that's what you were asking joe, but this is what first came to mind
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Did those events make you the bitter and intolerant man you are today?

    Pretty much. Believe it or not, I used to be a hopelessly sappy romantic around here!
  • Bathgate66Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    depeche modes catalogue contains some very dark , depressing and dreary picks, i'd say .
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  • All5horizons1991All5horizons1991 Posts: 138
    Anything by Creed ;)
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    Throw Your Arms Around Me- Ed decicated this to his brother at Indy in 2000, a show my brother and I attended. My brother was killed in a car accident the day that VFC 04 tix went on sale(August 22)>which lead to the most emotional moment in concert going for me>>>> Man of the Hour at the Fox in St Louis.
  • PJGARDENPJGARDEN Posts: 1,484
    soulsinging wrote:
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Did those events make you the bitter and intolerant man you are today?

    Pretty much. Believe it or not, I used to be a hopelessly sappy romantic around here!

    Ya know deep down you are a sappy romantic :) The bitterness is just an act
  • AusticmanAusticman Posts: 1,327
    Great Gig in The Sky - Pink Floyd and Ture Colors - Cyndie Lauper They were both played at my sisters funeral. They always get to me. We were having a karaoke night and a few of my family were they and a mate's daughter who has an amasing voice sang True Colors. We were bunch of blathering fools by the end of it.

    Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton always make me a bit sad thinking of the reason he wrote it and that it's such a beautiful song.

    I was watching a clip of Man in the Mirrior from MJ the other day. It really is a awesome song. I think its his best. Just made me think of the sad tail that was his life and death.
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    That fucking Chumbawumba song was playing on the radio as I pulled up to my house one day after cheerleading practice and saw my dad on a stretcher being wheeled onto an ambulance. (Give me a break about listening to that song in my car; my car didn't have a cd or cassette player, and I was driving someone home who turned the radio to the top 40 station. :lol: ) He had collapsed and died while working in the yard. :( So...whenever I hear that song, I really feel sick, remembering that image. I'm sure I'm not the only one who becomes nauseated upon hearing that song, though. ;)
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    edited June 2009
    This thread's making me feel like a douchebag... I post songs I associate with getting dumped and everyone else has dead people memories tied to theirs. At least I've got Twilight in there to make me seem a little less trite... it did almost kill me.
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  • SarahLouSarahLou Posts: 175
    All5horizons1991 wrote:
    Anything by Creed ;)

    +1 ....plus anything by nickleback, and controversialy ANYTHING by radiohead...not because they hit me emotionally but because i think they are just not good....and should stop
  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    soulsinging wrote:
    At least I've got Twilight in there... at least that song almost killed me.

    Such a beautiful, tragic song.
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  • iamsam_pjiamsam_pj Posts: 300
    bad break up song..."please bleed" - ben harper...i listened to/screamed this on repeat after my boyfriend/fiance broke up with me for another girl. i can listen to it now and appreciate how music helps me to deal with difficult emotions.

    song that i'll burst into tear if i hear even now..."i'll follow you into the dark" - death cab...it is sad just thinking about the lyrics. almost unbearable to hear it now after the passing of my grandparents (mom's side)...a week to the day apart from each other. that song alone makes me almost never want to see death cab live again.
  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    soulsinging wrote:
    This thread's making me feel like a douchebag... I post songs I associate with getting dumped and everyone else has dead people memories tied to theirs. At least I've got Twilight in there to make me seem a little less trite... it did almost kill me.

    I don't think that should make you feel like a douchebag. I didn't mean to get so heavy with my response, actually. I feel like a debbie downer, :lol: I actually kind of get a kick out of the fact that I have such a sad association with that song. It's kind of funny if you think about it. :roll:
  • quelquefoisquelquefois Posts: 209
    "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Sufjan Stevens. I can't even talk about it!
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    I absolutely love Alice In Chains. however, I have had a very difficult time listening to them ever since my sister passed away two years ago from an overdose. I used to love to sing the songs and rock out to Chains all the time, but now everytime I want to put on one of their albums I actually fear the listening because it brings up way too many feelings and emotions. I don't know if I'll ever make it through the song 'Nutshell' without a fraction of sadness and tears.

    They were one of our favorite bands together :(
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  • NickyNoochNickyNooch Posts: 629
    "Gone Too Soon" by Michael Jackson

    And this was WAYYY before the MJ death. Just the saddest song I have ever heard.

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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Yeah, there are certain bands and or songs I really can't listen to anymore. It's kind of silly but sometimes you get bad associations/memories.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    I was flipping channels, and I came across a Swell Season performance....it brought back memories of a rough-patch with my girlfriend 2 years ago, and it also reminded me of the time we were supposed to go to a Swell Season concert, but my dad ended up in the ER that night, so we had to skip it.

    Some of the Swell Season songs are sad enough, so to hear them during a heavy time makes it even worse!
    Oh yes lots of songs.

    All or None Pearl Jam- Played this one a lot during a particular bad time.

    Helpless by Neil Young- I have not listened to it in two and a half years it used to be one of my favs by neil. When my grandad died it hit me hard i did not know what to do so i just kind of played this song on repeat. The lyrics are a bit different but that helpless feeling just sat there and seemed to resignate. if it comes on i turn it off or walk out of the room if someone plays it.

    Funeral by band of horses- always makes me remeber my grandad

    there are others but those float straight to the top.
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
    Ohana Festival 24 x2
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    PJGARDEN wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Did those events make you the bitter and intolerant man you are today?

    Pretty much. Believe it or not, I used to be a hopelessly sappy romantic around here!

    Ya know deep down you are a sappy romantic :) The bitterness is just an act

    I wish that was true.
  • sweet adelinesweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    pretty much anything by elliott smith, yet i listen to him all of the time.
  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    Life by the Drop by SRV...Society...and a few Sarah McLachlan songs all just make my heart ache.
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  • koda74koda74 Posts: 86
    Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven". I lost my childhood friend in a bad car accident around the time that song came out.

    Dixie Chicks song "Cowboy Take Me Away" reminds me when I lost my uncle to cancer back in 2000.
  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    i listened to Neil Young and Radiohead almost exclusively for a few months last year, in the build up to going to see both acts a few times in June. My uncle had been stuggling with cancer for a long long time, and his funeral was on the morning of a Neil Young gig, the same day as the Euro2008 final . It was a stunningly hot day down the country at the funeral, where i fell apart. Then i got in the car and came up to see NY show out in a gorgeous park in Dublin suburbs. They showed the final of Euro2008 on the screens before the gig... (I had watched nearly every single game with him in hospital). Then Neil did his thing. The whole thing had a weird feeling of finality or clousre to it (as opposed to depressing).


    I get the same thing about relationships too, i have very definite memories to The Killers, Death Cab, Bright Eyes...and Parliament, Brand New Heavies and Joan Armatrading.
  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    mandy sung by barree manilow causes me lots of sorrow
  • yellowporchyellowporch Posts: 510
    simple man lynyrd skynyrd and the pj cover of last kiss are always hard to listen too. those two songs i vividly remember my dad jamming out to in the car with me when i was young and didnt really have any music knowledge (he died in a motorcycle accident in 2005) now its weird to listen to songs he used to listen to and appreciate his taste in music and how the lyrics related to how he felt.
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    some of white stripes
    see my sig- that song is very sad- a son just wanting to connect and be understood
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    i did have a sig last time a looked!! see others having trouble too
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