Let's have a poll (or not): Is this the most depressing song ever or RAVEL

[UTUSN]

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[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Wow that is heavy. Existential angst.

I've always respected him for his honesty. And thought of him as more toward coal-miner folk music kinda like the Everly Brothers, whose father, Ike, was a coal miner in Kentucky, rather than actual country.


As far as depressing songs, the one that I always turned off when it came on the radio was
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".


I just didn't "get" Gordon Lightfoot. That's my not so humble musical opinion.


You talking Maurice Ravel? That French guy? What does that have to do with JC?

[uriel1972]

3. Hurt is a Nine Inch Nails song that Cash covered... nt

[UTUSN]

8. What does RAVEL have to do with JC? I might have been more precise & referred to "repetition"

How this "Hurt" song pounds its way from beginning to end, the way "Bolero" manages to repeat repeat repeat without (without what? without being boring?) .

Or what about the theme from The Third Man (what a movie confluence of genius -- Graham GREENE, Carol REED, Orson WELLS, and the music man who later did covered Zorba), with the same dang song played over and over throughout:

[Doc_Technical]

2. "Cold is Being"- Renaissance

[Glorfindel]

7. I like that! Thanks for posting it.

I had never heard of Renaissance; must investigate further.

[malthaussen]

9. Try this album, Glorfindel:

Annie Haslam has a wonderful, five-octave range.

-- Mal

[Glorfindel]

13. Many thanks! I shall certainly check it out.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. I find Ravel mesmerizing

like the piece Boat On The Ocean. It puts me into a trance and if I close my eyes I can almost see a sailboat at dawn skimming the ocean and then being tossed around on the high seas.

[pipi_k]

5. I dunno...how about...

It depresses the hell out of me, anyway...

[Glorfindel]

6. Maurice Ravel "La Valse" - I think it's a dance for the collapse of European civilization

Depressing, scary, and extremely well-done.

[Demoiselle]

11. I've been lucky enough to hear the Phila Orchestra play La Valse...

I was in the center of the orchestra seats, about 15 rows back from the stage apron.
I was a wet rag, teary and blown away by the end. And yes, I think Ravel wrote it just at the end of the Great War. ..I just checked, he started writing it in 1919, and it premiered in 1920. And he said it had nothing to do with the Great War or the collapse of the prewar world. I think he's a wonderful enough artist to reflect his times without even doing it consciously...

[malthaussen]

10. Pavane for a Dead Princess...

... not depressing, but mournful.

-- Mal

[UTUSN]

12. I love that, and I agree it's not depressing n/t

[sl8]

14. Bloodrock's DOA is none too cheery:

Nothing quite like this upbeat little ditty to chase them blues away:

...
Life is flowing out my body,
Pain is flowing out with my blood.
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying.
God in Heaven, teach me how to die.
...