Have you ever worked on a song that is so sad...

... that it makes you feel sad?


I've got 2 of them going on and it's struggle to find an antidote after listening for a while.



Thoughts?


best regards,
mike

I do it all the time.  But I'm a miserable ol cuss.

Hmmm. What kind of sadness is evoked?
 
Emotional and physical sadness derived from one's relation to the lyrical content, or stirred from a great music score? 
 
Or sadness like I experience, evoked from how pathetic a song I just created.
 
For your sake, I hope it the first one, in which case you did well.

Down in the jungle living in a tent you don't use money you don't pay rent. You don't even know the time but you don't mind. 

I remember reading an interview w/ Mike Hedges where he talked about the The Cure albums he's worked on that were so dark and depressing and how the whole process was making every one miserable and how he himself ended close to a nervous breakdown.

I never thought of it that way. Personally, I am perfectly at home in that stuff. 
It's happy songs I wouldn't be comfortable with. :s

I have a song in the works that I'm writing for my daughter. It's something that gets me all misty when I work on it so it's been in the works for a year.

craigb


Cure songs never depress me.

Me neither. 


But then again, after giving it a bit of thought, I can't really imagine people jumping around and being playful while recording an album like Faith or Seventeen Seconds. I mean, for pretty much any album, but even more so w/ albums like these.


I guess some people need to forget about the gloomy stuff for a while and put on the ole Hawaiian shirt every now and then. I can understand how it can be suffocating, in theory.



Here's the interview, btw.


http://www.soundonsound.c...cles/classictracks.htm

craigb


I actually remember listening to Disintegration while wearing a Hawaiian shirt.  Had some mushroom tea as well.  We put a sofa out on the front lawn for a fun summer night.

LOL That must have been a night. 


I am almost certain that a Hawaiian shirt even just touching my skin would mean my disintegration. ;) 

Oh bugger....

Seeing as I've never worked on a song that is so sad that it made me feel sad, I decided to try working on a sad song to see if it made me feel sad.

However, my new song "Drowning unwanted orphaned puppies in a toxic stream where all the fish are dead and are glowing neon green and the world is ending also by the way" didn't make me at all sad.

But when I changed the title of the song slightly to "Drowning unwanted orphaned puppies who have terminal cancer and smell a bit whiffy in a toxic stream where all the fish are dead and are glowing neon green and the world is ending also by the way" did make me a little sad...

But only because I couldn't find a good rhyme for "whiffy" (any help gratefully received).

Bristol_Jonesey


"jiffy"?

 

 
You're a lifesaver Col.
 
I only had this and I was really struggling:
      "Phew these orphaned puppies are starting to reek a bit whiffy; I'll pop down the stream and drown them in a few minutes"
 
This is why I don't write lyrics

Hey Steve, write a song about the tragedy shown below.  That might make you sad.

craigb


Hey Steve, write a song about the tragedy shown below.  That might make you sad.

 
Best place for that dishwater
 
 
 
 
 

i've been working on a song about my father's passing (cancer) for about 4 years now...

it's almost done, but it's been a really hard one.


most are just dirt simple....
but not this one.