Not necessarily because of a slumping economy, dude. Some of us just prefer a dose of melancholy in our music.

/Joy Division ftw
//Tindersticks, too

I_Love_Cheesecake:Not necessarily because of a slumping economy, dude. Some of us just prefer a dose of melancholy in our music.

/Joy Division ftw
//Tindersticks, too

This!

FTFA, these are the sad tracks that people are listening to:

Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb"
Muse's "Time is Running Out"
Amy Winehouse's "Tears Dry On Their Own"
The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby"
The Smiths' "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"
Coldplay's "Trouble"
The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work"

This is the "happy" music the author thinks we should listen to:

"You Can Get It If You Really Want" - Jimmy Cliff
"Heroes" - David Bowie
"Good Day Sunshine" - The Beatles
"Good Vibrations" - The Beach Boys
"Hey Ya" - OutKast

Glitchwerks:"Heroes" - David Bowie

"And I, I will be mean... And you, you'll drink all the time..."

Yes. I've been thinking for the last few years that this was bound to happen...80s are on the way out, 90s are on the way back in, time to get depressed and mopey again because we've had a lot of good-time-party music in the mainstream lately.

I'm down again
And I don't know how to tell you
But maybe this time I can't come back
Because I might be too far down

I wish for real
That I could turn it on and off
Like hot and cold and up and down
Because I'm down again

I'm too far down
I couldn't begin to smile
Because I can't even laugh or cry
Because I just can't do it

If it was so easy to be happy
Why am I so down?
All I can do is sit and wonder
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/a9m ]
if it's going to end
Or if I should just go away forever

When I sit and think
I wish that I just could die
Or let someone else be happy
By setting my own self free

And you don't want the emotion
Because the taste it leaves is for real
But nothing's ever real until it's gone
And I might be too far down

And is this just another thrown away
Or is this the end of the whole stupid road
But you wouldn't want to
know how I feel anyway
Because the darkest hole is at
the end of the road

I'm down again
And I guess I'm not the only one who dreams
That there's not any way to tell you
Because I might be too far down

I can has grunge again?

/the good kind
//not the bullshiat Creed kind

CaesarSneezy:I can has grunge again?

/the good kind
//not the bullshiat Creed kind

Um... *sifts through records*
Here. Have some Vaselines.

Something a little melancoly

Something happy!


/No Rick rollin

Could just be emo kids, too.

I_Love_Cheesecake:Not necessarily because of a slumping economy, dude. Some of us just prefer a dose of melancholy in our music.

/Joy Division ftw
//Tindersticks, too

this as well. What some would call depressing, I would call pretty. I remember Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" being called very depressing, but I always thought ti was a very pretty track.

/lyrics are for suckers.

how's *this* for sad music / lyrics?

Joy Division "the Eternal"
Procession moves on, the shouting is over,
Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone.
Talking aloud as they sit round their tables,
Scattering flowers washed down by the rain.
Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden,
Watching them pass like clouds in the sky,
Try to cry out in the heat of the moment,
Possessed by a fury that burns from inside.

Cry like a child, though these years make me older,
With children my time is so wastefully spent,
A burden to keep, though their inner communion,
Accept like a curse an unlucky deal.
Played by the gate at the foot of the garden,
My view stretches out from the fence to the wall,
No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall.

"Sigh, it's the economy."

Why can't people listen to happy, upbeat, positive songs like Beautiful World, by Devo, or Lust for Life, by Iggy Pop, or Born in the USA, by Bruce Springsteen? You know, happy stuff...

I like to hear snappy, up-with-people artists, like Pere Ubu, or early Neil Young, or not-yet-dead Nick Drake. Man, those guys could really turn the world on with a smile.

Lust for Life, by Iggy Pop
I used to laugh so hard every time that cruise ship commercial came on.

Ant:Why can't people listen to happy, upbeat, positive songs like Beautiful World, by Devo, or Lust for Life, by Iggy Pop, or Born in the USA, by Bruce Springsteen? You know, happy stuff...

I still think it's pretty funny that quite a bulk of our most popular albums/songs are pretty bleak:

- Dark Side of the Moon
- The Wall
- Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music? "

/not obscure
//not in the least

I certainly prefer contemplative music over fluff. But even I like to kick it up every once in a while. So, here's my version of happy:
Happy (new window)

And for sad, there just so much to choose from. But this will do:
Sad (new window)

The emo trend in sales isn't related to the economy. It's related to the awful selection of popular music promulgated by the Industry. With MTV dead and the iPod eviscerating the old sales model, the Industry has backed itself into a corner of pop-crap failure. They only champion the surest of the sure: kiddie crap that sells to tweens who extort great sums from their parents for CD's, merch and concert tickets. Actual music fans have moved on, moved elsewhere. Thus, the Rohannas and Pussycat Dolls are returning less and less. The dinosaur acts (Madonna, Bruce) are also not what they once were. And the Industry doesn't get it. They will never get it. They are dead men walking.