LiveMusic Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 A new round... what's your fave dark song? A couple that come to mind. "Working Class Hero" by John Lennon "My Old Friend The Blues" by Steve Earle "Waiting Around To Die" by Townes Van Zandt "Hurt" by Johnny Cash > > > [ Live! ] < < < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RG203 Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 "The Road Goes On Forever" - Robert Earl Keen "1952 Black Vincent Lightning" - Richard Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch. Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 "DOA", Bloodrock "Enter Sandman", Metallica (also the greatest attempt at capturing a nightmare ever on video, excellent!) Anything by Alice in Chains (that guy had a voice!) Botch "Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking" - George Will www.puddlestone.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeronyne Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Not including Goth bands... "Superman" Crash Test Dummies "Run Like Hell" Pink Floyd "Hey You" Pink Floyd "Head Like a Hole" Nine Inch Nails "Brick" Ben Folds Five "Silent All these Years" Tori Amos "Breakfast in Vegas" Praga Khan "Somebody" Depeche Mode "Faith, Too" Tragically Hip "For instance" is not proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJDM Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 "The Colour Hurts" Curve DJDM.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillWelcome Home Studios Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 In reverse order "Ticking, Ticking" by Elton John "The Sniper" by Harry Chapin (seriously disturbed.) One might also consider "The End" by The Doors or "The Gift" by The Velvet Underground, and the Vanila Fudge version of "Season of the Witch". Bill "I believe that entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot." Steve Martin Show business: we're all here because we're not all there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YourMotherShouldKnow Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 "It's A Miracle" by Roger Waters "Moonlight Sonata" Beethoven "Orestes" A Perfect Circle "Afterimage" by Rush "Shape of my Heart" by Sting "Love's in Need of Love Today" Stevie Wonder "Silent Night/7 O' Clock News" Simon & Garfunkel There are lots more...Aristotle musta been right that art is a catharsis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveMusic Posted September 8, 2004 Author Share Posted September 8, 2004 Originally posted by LanceMo: "Moonlight Sonata" Beethoven Absolutely. Wow, that is a fave or all time for sure. My ex used to play that on piano and man, I'd want in her pants. > > > [ Live! ] < < < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Great thread, Duke.. Hurt is my most recent favorite dark song... and it's certainly destined to be a Classic (with a capitol "C"). This ain't gonna be a short list. I love dark songs. (BTW - Great call bpark for Harry Chapin's Sniper. A lot of Harry Chapin songs fall into this category and I love 'em all. The saddest has to be The Shortest Song about a starving family. In A New York Minute - The Eagles A Month of Sundays - Don Henley There Was A Little Boy - Toy Matinee Empty Air - The Peregrins The Highwayman - The Highwaymen (Cash, Kristofferson, Jennings, Nelson) Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith Laura - Billy Joel Captain Jack - Billy Joel No Son Of Mine - Genesis The Man's Too Big - Dire Straits Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting Russians - Sting We Work The Black Seam - Sting Children's Crusade - Sting That's the short list. Pretty much the whole Dream Of The Blue Turtles album is a fantastic, dark album. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbach1 Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Dave Loggins "Please come to Boston" Crash Test Dummies "Superman" song Laura Branigan "Ti Amo" Nazereth "Love Hurts" bbach Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spokenward Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 John Prine "Angel from Montgomery" Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love" Allan Toussaint "From a Whisper to a Scream" Otis Redding "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super 8 Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Ooooh, some good one's listed here! I wish I could clonk the links to hear some samples of the songs I didn't recognize. Okay, let's see if these are dark enough. "Don't Fear the Reaper" B.O.C "Prison Sex" Tool "Dogs" or "Sheep" Pink Floyd Actually, there are quite a few dark tunes out there. I think this list thread could go on for a while. Ooooh, one more....a classic: "Playground In My Mind" Clint Holmes Yup! 'My name is Michael, I've got a nickel'. It may not sound dark, but it makes me want to stike my head repeatedly with dull objects till the lights go out. Super 8 Hear my stuff here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Oh my GOD this is gonna take awhile, maybe I'll try to shorten it Uh here we go! - Nine Inch Nails: The Becoming (screaming crowd sample background!) - Nine Inch Nails: Somewhat Damaged (admire the bluntness but kinda painful "where the fuck were you?" lyric) - Nine Inch Nails: Eraser (powerful, tortured guitar line, lyric "erase me/kill me") - Mudvayne: Nothing To Gein (about Ed Gein) - Type O Negative: Red Water (Christmas Mourning) - Primus: Bob (suicide of Les' friend) - Machines Of Loving Grace: Golgotha Tenement Blues (from Crow 1 movie, dark bass line) - The Cure: The Kiss (more tortured guitar work) - Nirvana: Polly - Bjork: Army Of Me - Stevie Ray Vaughan: Life Without You - Marilyn Manson: Sweet Dreams (cover) - Quake 1 soundtrack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super 8 Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Originally posted by Phait: - Quake 1 soundtrackAlright, if you're gonna start doing video game music, then you HAVE TO put Diablo 1 on the top of the list. It just doesn't get any darker, or creepier, than that! Super 8 Hear my stuff here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Never played Diablo, sorry Oh, a couple tracks from Hitman 1. And the Blood 1 soundtrack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankieP Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Love Will Tear Us Apart - JOY DIVISION Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 WannaBe - Spice Girls Músico, Productor, Ingeniero, Tecnólogo Senior Product Manager, América Latina y Caribe - PreSonus at Fender Musical Instruments Company Instagram: guslozada Facebook: Lozada - Música y Tecnología www.guslozada.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan South Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 What do you mean by dark? Sad? Bitter? Angry? Enraged? Perverted/kinky (dark side)? Guilt-ridden? Suicidal? Obscure? The Black Knight always triumphs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Originally posted by Dan South: What do you mean by dark? Sad? Bitter? Angry? Enraged? Perverted/kinky (dark side)? Guilt-ridden? Suicidal? Obscure?Yes Músico, Productor, Ingeniero, Tecnólogo Senior Product Manager, América Latina y Caribe - PreSonus at Fender Musical Instruments Company Instagram: guslozada Facebook: Lozada - Música y Tecnología www.guslozada.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Let's go back a ways...back to the 60s...AM radio. Bobbie Gentry..."Ode to Billy Joe". Not my favorite song in the world...but, if you listen just to the guitar and voice, it's a straightforward, simple, I-IV-V blues song. Might even be a boring tune. Then you add those ominous strings...and listen to the lyrics. Disaster all over...everyone's dying or having bad things happen. What were they throwing off the bridge? Don't know why that happened to pop into my mind. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bejeeber Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 A few from the variety pack that pop into me noggin right off: "Home" Sheryl Crow "My Own Summer" Deftones "Infected" Bad Religion "I Don't Live Today" Jimi Hendrix "Gimme Shelter" Rolling Stones Just a pinch between the geek and chum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlampson Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 The Smashing Pumpkins - Behold! The Night Mare ----------- John\'s Songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Base Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Alice Cooper - The Ballad of Dwight Fry, Wind-Up Toy, ok actually most of them...! Metallica - Fade to Black, One Anything I write (I'm a miserable git) Fa Fa FA Fa fa fa fa fa FA fa FA FA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle ggurl Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Here's some more, dark in diff'rent ways: "Animal," "terrible Lie," "sin," just about anything ... 9 Inch Nailz "How Soon is Now?" The Smiths (do I have the title right?) and others by them "Blasphemous Rumours", "Walking in My Shoes," "In Your Room," others, Depeche Mode Original Latin Jazz CD Baby "I am not certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur." Patti Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 How 'bout "Behind The Wall of Sleep" by The Smithereens... "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveMusic Posted September 8, 2004 Author Share Posted September 8, 2004 Originally posted by Gus Lozada: Originally posted by Dan South: What do you mean by dark? Sad? Bitter? Angry? Enraged? Perverted/kinky (dark side)? Guilt-ridden? Suicidal? Obscure?Yes Haha, yeah, what he said. I was actually thinking of songs where the singer is despondent about something. I mean, if we're talking sad songs, that's kinda different. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones is sad but I dunno if it's dark. Same for "Long Black Veil" by Lefty Frizzell. Or "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix or "A Man Needs A Maid" by Neil Young. "Pusher Man" by Steppenwolf of "Needle and the Damage Done" by Neil Young are about bad things (evil of drugs) but I dunno if they are "dark." "Dark" to me meant despondent or you know, dark. One more time, to me, these are perfect... "Working Class Hero" by John Lennon "Hurt" by Johnny Cash Some excellent songs listed here. Chugging along nicely. I played some dark songs at a gig last Sunday night and a girl friend said "Wow, for awhile you got a bit too dark on us" and the guy next to her said "No, don't change anything!" (I played silly songs as well.) It's fun to play/listen to dark songs to me. I dunno, I like them. I love minor chords. I am a sucker for a minor chord. And then there's Steve Earle's "My Old Friend The Blues." It's not laden with minors but it's dark because of the lyric. His best friend is the blues. > > > [ Live! ] < < < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phait Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Originally posted by geekgurl: Here's some more, dark in diff'rent ways: "Animal," "terrible Lie," "sin," just about anything ... 9 Inch NailzI hate it when people always get the title wrong (animal?) it's "Closer" -- no offense. But hey, at least you heard more than that one song, because Trent write's some much less "disturbing" or dark songs and quite some beautiful inbetween calm-somber stuff - like the Still CD of the deluxe "And All That Could Have Been". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 The entire "Smell The Glove" album. How much more black could it be? The answer is: none, none more black. The use of Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet". Billie Holliday "Strange Fruit" Much of Tom Waits' catalog is dark. If I had to pick one, it's "Frank's Wild Years". It begins "Frank settled down in the Valley, and he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife's forehead" and ends with him laughing as he torches his house (including his wife's Chihuahua). And yet, it's funny as hell. Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life", especially Johnny Hartman's take Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyscots Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 erm, most of my favorite songs are dark! Most of the tunes I make are dark aswell. Dunno why, I'm not a dark person! Would you class Radiohead as dark? Massive Attack's last two albums, some very dark stuff there. Lots of Nine Inch Nails. Potishead, Tricky, A lot of Pink Floyd, I could go on for a while, so I wont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Posted September 8, 2004 Share Posted September 8, 2004 Elenor Rigby Cry, Baby, Cry Blue Jay Way She Said Happiness is a warm Gun She's Leaving Home Okay, so I'm in a Beatly mood... -David http://www.garageband.com/artist/MichaelangelosMuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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