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Thread #34322   Message #462190
Posted By: Jim Dixon
14-May-01 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: Help: Psychology songs
Subject: RE: Help: Psychology songs
As I have said before, I think David Bromberg's Someone Else's Blues is a pretty good description of clinical depression. Of course there are a lot of blues songs that describe depression, but most of them focus on something bad happening to the narrator, and causing him to "have the blues." Bromberg's song, by contrast, points out that blues or depression doesn't necessarily have an identifiable external cause. And it's clever and funny (sort of).