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11-22-2012, 09:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | we had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun - nirvana used to play that too, but they didn't write it |
11-22-2012, 10:01 PM
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"Shiny Happy People" - R.E.M.
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11-22-2012, 10:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Princeton New Jersey | | | We're A Happy Family - The Ramones
Girl Of My Dreams - Bram Tchaikovsky
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11-22-2012, 10:09 PM
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11-22-2012, 10:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Austin, TX | | | Tears of A Clown. Happiest music ever. |
11-22-2012, 10:21 PM
| | | | The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead by XTC |
11-22-2012, 10:29 PM
| | | | Peace Frog by the Doors.
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11-22-2012, 11:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Kolkata (Calcutta), India | | | Another Sting song: All This Time. It's a tribute to his father, but has a pretty poppy tune.
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11-23-2012, 12:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Northglenn, CO | | | A lot of Steely Dan songs, although I guess it would be hard to characterize anything they do as particularly happy anyway.
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11-23-2012, 12:24 AM
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11-23-2012, 03:44 AM
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Rogue luthier employed at Knooren Handcrafted bass guitars | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The Netherlands | | "Jump they say" by David Bowie which is about a schizophrenic who is about to jump from a building because the voices in his head are telling him to do so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJt0SQec0I
Ask any Gen-X'er what song they used to sing along to and one that will always be named is "Alive" by Pearl Jam. Because of it having such an anthemic sing along hook. But it certainly isn't a "Great to be alive" song, not by a long shot. It's about a teenager finding out that his father never was his father but one of his mother's boyfriends who she just broke up with and later about incest with his mother. Leaving the teenager with his mind severely screwed up to ponder, "I'm still alive but do I deserve to be and if that's the question, who answers?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhsYC4gKy4
Steeley Dan's Donald Fagen's solo records also always came with a bitter aftertaste lyric-wise. Which is the case with "New Frontier" which can (and will) be mistaken about a kid who finished high school has his sweetheart by his side and is ready to get into the world and make it on his own. But it's actually about somebody who has prepared everything he could to survive a nuclear attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBruAooXPNU
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11-23-2012, 05:29 AM
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11-23-2012, 05:42 AM
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11-23-2012, 06:07 AM
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A cheery melodic song about a guy's girl friend or wife who is a nephomainac slut.
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11-23-2012, 06:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Dublin, Ireland | | | Springsteen's 'Born in The USA' springs to mind! Really quite a scathing critique of the treatment of Vietnam veterans. |
11-23-2012, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Wookieonbass Timothy. An upbeat song about a mine diaster and canibalism. | Isn't Timothy a mule? |
11-23-2012, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by MarkMgibson An upbeat Nirvana song - really? | Every time I hear Cobain sing "..I don't have a gun...," I think, "yes, you do." |
11-23-2012, 08:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | "Precious Time" by Van Morrison
"Dead Flowers" by the Stones |
11-23-2012, 08:31 AM
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11-23-2012, 08:31 AM
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Exar went out of business, so... | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | A surprising number of salsa/Afrocuban songs are like this. The tune will be super peppy, with dancers excitedly swinging around; yet the lyrics will be about slavery, sorrow, and all kinds of tragedy. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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