Saddest Song of '80s.....

"Our Time in Eden" was on my desert albums list for a really long time. Haven't listened to it in a while, but next time I do it'll probably hit me that "These Are Days" is actually about a school shooting or something.

 

Its another great one. I've been to 10 concerts in my life and two were 10,000 Maniacs.

Getting into the 90's, she got a little (more) preachy. I fell off the wagon.

 

Great song.

 

I was the same way. I got into them just as they were breaking up, so I never went to a concert, but they were a favorite through my early college years. And then Natalie Merchant went off on her own, started catering to the Lillith Fair crowd, and I got the sense I wasn't the audience she was going after as a solo artist.

 

I was chatting with a coach before a baseball game today, and Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" started playing over the PA. I mentioned how it was a depressing song, since Tommy and Gina's life pretty much sucks on every level. He said he'd never really paid attention the lyrics and just thought it was a song about being an underdog.
After thinking about it some, it got me wondering which side that falls on. Is it a depressing tale of blue collar hopelessness? An encouraging song about fighting against the odds? Can it be both?

 

I dunno, but with the grunting-orangutang opening, LOAP is just begging for a Blue Swede "Ooogah Chocka" remake.

 

Cyndi is incredible. The lyrics for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" are actually really sad in a lot of ways—it just doesn't seem like it because of the music. "I want to be the one who walks in the sun" kills me every time I hear it.

Third Eye Blind pulled the same trick with "Semi-Charmed Life." Poppy, hooky song behind a suicide note, basically.

 

I loathe Bon Jovi and I loathe that song.
That said, it is clearly intended to be hopeful.
Despite their difficult circumstances, the couple has each other. They have love that can carry them through their troubled lives.

What a terrible song.

 

You're a music snob?

#politicsthread

 

I don't think of myself as a music snob.
I think of myself as having excellent taste in music, though.

(I once micturated on Bon Jovi's old home in Sayreville, NJ.)

 

If you're pissing on the guy's house, seems snobby to me.

 

I wouldn't do such a thing now.
At the time, I was a 19-year-old college student under the influence of drugs and alcohol.