slough of despond - a list in progress

Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Scraps.
Categories: Music, Songs, Lists.

Months ago I promised our friend Joy the bartender a mix of bleak, dark, depressing songs, and finally got round to recording it a couple days back. It's far from perfect; in its eventual final form I wouldn't be surprised if I replace half of these:

3 comments.

ethan

Comment on December 4th, 2007.

I don't know "Dumb It Down," but I have trouble imagining anything by The Divine Comedy being "bleak." Or even depressing, really, at least not in the way that, f'rinstance, Richard and Linda Thompson could be depressing. Now there's bleak.

Scraps

Comment on December 5th, 2007.

True, and it's one of the ways I'm going to have to tweak the mix. "Dumb It Down" is a bitter indictment, and is bleak in that sense, but it's true that it doesn't feel like a personal bleakness, like the kind of thing that makes one contemplate suicide or anything.

Steve

Comment on January 10th, 2008.

When I read the first paragraph I knew Randy Newman would be on the list someplace.

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