Songs that sound cheerful but are really quite dark!

[albionism]

Isolation by Joy Division, very easy to bounce around
to but grim as fuck.

 

[badseed]

Isolation by Joy Division, very easy to bounce around
to but grim as fuck.

Good call..

There is a Carter song with lyrical delivery that matches this really well.
The words are interchangeable, try it it's fun.

I gave you my name and independence
and the best seven years of my life
With twelve months suspended from sentence
and fifty two lovely black eyes

Isolation Isolation

Mother I tried please believe me,
I'm doing the best that I can.
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through,
I'm ashamed of the person I am.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What a trip down memory lane: back to a time when we couldn't easily link to Youtube videos.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[albionism]

Good call..


There is a Carter song with lyrical delivery that matches this really well.
The words are interchangeable, try it it's fun.

I gave you my name and independence
and the best seven years of my life
With twelve months suspended from sentence
and fifty two lovely black eyes

Isolation Isolation

Mother I tried please believe me,
I'm doing the best that I can.
I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through,
I'm ashamed of the person I am.

What's the carter song?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[gabi]

Foster the People's 'Pumped up Kicks'.. All joyous melodies and lovely whistling.

Actually about a kid walking through a school shooting other kids.

 

[isvicthere?]

Foster the People's 'Pumped up Kicks'.. All joyous melodies and lovely whistling.

Actually about a kid walking through a school shooting other kids.

Pedantic note: isn't it a shopping mall, rather than a school?

Good song, though.

 

[isvicthere?]

"Lola" by the Kinks, which is about a new guy in London who unwittingly cops off with a transsexual.

 

[rubbershoes]

'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it?

 

[badseed]

What's the carter song?

Sealed with a Glasgow kiss

 

[albionism]

Cheers, just had a listen and yeah, you could splice those vocals
onto Isolation.

 

[Knotted]

There's lots of very dark cheerful folk songs. Eg Old Woman from Wexford - a good ol' jig about murder with a twist:

Spoiler

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Thin White Rope - "Macy's Window". The tune itself is upbeat, but the song is about loneliness and despair:

 

[caleb]

Not so much cheerful, but most people seem to think this song is about fucking and ignore how melancholy it really is:



These lyrics especially:

Whenever blue teardrops are fallin'
And my emotional stability is leaving me
There is something I can do
I can get on the telephone and call you up baby

[...]

Baby, I got sick this mornin'
A sea was stormin' inside of me
Baby, I think I'm capsizin'
The waves are risin' and risin'

There's a sense of sickness and longing that seems really dark to me, especially given Marvin's situation at the time the song was written and recorded.

 

[isvicthere?]

Has anyone said "Every breath you take" by the Police yet? It's a very popular wedding choice, but is actually about a stalker: "every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you".

 

[Arty Drum]

bye bye baby .. don't make me cry.....



(i'm not sure they're that unhappy baby's gone actually)

 

[Arty Drum]

omg poor humpty dumpty

 

[panpete]

Hit me baby one more time by Britney Spears.
Date Rape by Sublime.