Powerful Songs That Make You Uneasy? (closed)

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 12:12 AM

"The Death Of Queen Jane"

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 03:09 PM

Phil Brown by Dave Mallett

It's about a town drunk who was a painter. David was one who saw beyond the obvious. Not unusual for Dave.

sample of the lyrics

and he'd come to town with his old wool hat pulled down
surrounded by the dogs that were his friends
At times too drunk to stand, he'd shake familiar hands
And sit around the ESSO station 'til his loneliness would end.Br> And all through the night, a faded yellow light
Would burn inside the room where he would stand
And play the old Victrola, drink his rusty wine
And conduct the Mozart music with his hard and shaking hand..

Man..I am so lucky to have this guy as a close friend.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Peg
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 06:22 PM

Counldn't sing "I But a Little Girl" for years; always cried when I heard this one singer do it live. Still get choked up when I sing it.

"Silent All These Years"; am I the only one (yeah right) who thinks Tori is speaking directly through/to me in that song??? Unbefuckinglievable.

"Kilkelly" is tough, yes. Sang it a coupel years back, three part harmony. A sad one and it needs be done right, solemn, not heavy, emotive, not sappy...

"How Fortunate the Man With None" that instrumental break just tears me apart...

Everything on side two of "Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush...

peg

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: ray bucknell
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 07:51 PM

Kathy Mattea's "Where've You Been?" (written by her husband about his grandparents in a nursing home); Phil Ochs' "No More Songs" (portending his suicide?); Tom Paxton's "On the Road from Srebrenica" (the first time I heard him perform it I almost got up and left the auditorium) and, for some reason unbeknownst to me, "Scarlet Ribbons" always chokes me up.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Linda Mattson
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 09:45 PM

There are so many. To name a few:

Christmas in the trenches Tenting tonight on the old camp ground Johnny I hardly knew ye The parting glass Too late - sung by Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin. Kate thought it was just about lovers who parted, until I mentioned the lines in the chorus "Too late too late, I saw those dark eyes fade away, Beneath that old elm tree, In heaven I know that I can say, A dark eyed angel waits for me, Too late too late..."

My friend Arlene Immerman does a workshop at our New Year's gathering - Songs that make you cry. Snif. -Linda

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 01:03 AM

Lonesome Robin

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Peg
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 02:25 AM

I'll second that, Kendall! (especially when you sing it)

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 09:23 AM

Thanks Peg. You obviously have great taste in songs. That second verse just tears me up. Most un-curmudgeonly!

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 10:33 AM

"I Am Stretched On Your Grave" by Kate Rusby.

"The Last Leviathan," mentioned above.

"How Will I Ever Be Simple Again?" by Richard Thompson.

"Love Don't Need a Reason," a show-tuney one whose author I can't remember but which became an anthem in the gay community and which I sang with a friend who is HIV positive and whose days are exceedingly numbered. Also "Ballad of the Sad Young Men," ditto.

"Cornflower Blue," by Kate Wolf for supremely personal reasons: It reminds me of when the kids dad and I fell in love back in our hippie-dippie days and I thought I'd have that love forever.

"Sonny's Dream" on the Mary Black CD because it represents letting life go by because we're too fearful and dominated by others to step outside a world that constricts us.

"Martha" by Tom Waits. Sometimes love never is requited, but the memory of its tenderness never leaves us.

And of course, "All Quiet Along the Potomac."

Now I want to learn about a dozen of the songs mentioned above. I adore gut-wrenching songs, musical drama queen that I am.

WW

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:45 AM

WW I have dozens of them in the back of my head. I'd be willing to share.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Dunc
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:55 AM

A few years ago I was involved in a ten day struggle to save a 50ft sperm whale which had taken a wrong turn and ended up trapped in the Firth of Forth on the east coast of Scotland. 'Moby' and I got to know each other well during those days and it made a big impact on me when he eventually died on a mudbank.

Because of this "THE LAST LEVIATHAN" always brings a lump to the throat and even a tear to the eye.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: bluebird
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 01:52 PM

Tennesee Waltz Jesse Winchester a song I was singing while walking down the road. Does not make me feel uneasy but it is a powerful song.....

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 01:58 PM

there is another whaling song (anti whaling) which goes..Its muffled boom the cruel harpoon that blast their lives apart.. Song of the Humpback whale. Everytime you buy something made in Japan, think what they are doing to the whales. Whale steak sells for $400.00 a pound in Japan, and, the scraps are made into dog food. They are killing thousands every year in the name of research. This is clearly a violation of the Whaling act, and, the Marine Mammals protection act. We have the right, under the MMPA, to put sanctions on Japan, but, our candy ass politicians wont do it.The great blue whale, the largest creature that ever lived, is doomed to extinction with an estimated 200 left in the world.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 04:30 PM

Is this true? If so, it makes me want to puke.

Well, look at how impossible it is to buy anything that isn't manufactured in China these days, and consider who's making all their cheap shit and how impossible it's been to get any of our fearful leaders to say, "YOu know, we'd love to buy this flood of cheap textiles and electronics and every other tchotke imaginable, but, well, the citizens of the United States sort of hate the idea that it's made with convict labor, many of them the patriots and lovers of freedom who were arrested marching in Tiannamen Square, and the labor of children. So, maybe you could sort of, like, stop doing that and we'd be happy to consider shutting down all our factories so we can spend $1 an item less to put your people to work ... "

But, hey. This is a music thread ...

ww

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 04:37 PM

I'm retired from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service. It is true.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Peter T.
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 06:28 PM

I happened into a music store yesterday, and heard Johnny Cash's version of "One" from his new album (the one that won the Grammy -- Solitary Man). It was not bad. A number of other songs were not that hot. I almost bought the album on the strength of it, however.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: cowboypoet
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:16 PM

The late and much lamented Townes Van Zandt wrote a song about the homeless called "Marie." One of the most powerful songs I've ever heard, and one that has never failed to produce a profound silence in place of applause from any audience I've ever played it for.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Plume
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:40 PM

Rosemary's Sister by Simon Nicol and From a Distance, but only as sung by Nanci Griffith. I have sprained my wrist wrenching the knob on the radio whenever Bette Midler's version comes on. Ray Charles's version of America gets me every time.

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:41 PM

I'm puking.

ww

Subject: RE: POWERFUL SONGS THAT MAKE YOU UNEASY?
From: Matt_R
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 12:32 AM

Heard a very powerful yet disturbing one the other day, by Queen, called "White Man". Even though my family didn't get here till the late 1880's, it still makes me feel guilty about what was done to the Native Americans.

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