Sail Away by David Gray

Yours?

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M

Numerous tracks by the Manic Street Preachers, The Everlasting especially.

depends on the type of downer...

Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Wild Horses - Rolling Stones

Any Slow NOrah Jones (recently, Humble Me)

If I sort of want to stay down and mellow then "Time" by Pink Floyd

If I want to come back up - One Way by Blondie

Keith richards-say its' not you

John Lennon- Don't let me down

Eric Clapton- bell bottom blues

Led Zeppelin- Since I've been loving you

Audioslave-like a stone

Friends will be friends. Queen and Freddie Mercury

'On the Beach' by Neil Young - a whole album of it!

Four Seasons-Vivaldi

Led Zeppelin- Since I've been loving you

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Oi! I was going to say that !

Well , heres a few others then...

Led Zep - That's the way

Led Zep - Tea for One

Hendrix - Manic Depression

Free - Oh I wept

Free - Be my Friend

Free - Heartbreaker

Jeff Beck - Cause we ended as Lovers

Oh Bloody ###### I'm feeling misty eyed already......

Ain't It Fun - Guns N Rosses

You Can't Always Get What You Want - Rolling Stones

Losing My Religion - REM

Explorer

Solitaire Neil Sedaka

Eagles - Wasted Time, Desperado

Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven, Knocking On Heaven's Door

Til' Tuesday - Voices Carry

When we're on a downer - do we need to say whether it is a song to pick us up?

or a favourite depressing song to ride the mood?

ride the mood:

Split Enz. I Hope I Never

Aloof. One Night Stand

Massive Attack. Unfinished Sympathy

Roxy Music. More Than This

pick up:

anything by the Pixies

Fabienne Del Sol. Laissez Tomber Les Filles - link

Mental As Anything. Too Many Times

there's a song called "Crazy", circa 1997/98, can't remember the artist (NOT Seal) can anyone enlighten me?

Pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen.... especially the track that was featured in Natural Born Killers... Waiting for the miracle or something

totster

Pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen.... especially the track that was featured in Natural Born Killers... Waiting for the miracle or something

totster 

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Is he still alive, Tots?

there's a song called "Crazy", circa 1997/98, can't remember the artist (NOT Seal) can anyone enlighten me?

I'm pretty sure the song you are thinking of is by a band called "Icehouse":

You gotta be crazy baby... to want a guy like me...?

Everybody Must Get Stoned (Dylan)

Good Morning Heart Ache (Billy Holliday)

Yesterday (McCartney)

Bob Dylan: Shelter from the Storm

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud

I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured

I'll always do my best for her, on that I give my word

In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved

Everything up to that point had been left unresolved.

Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,

Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail,

Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there

With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair.

She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Now there's a wall between us, somethin' there's been lost

I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed.

Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount

But nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts

And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

I've heard newborn babies wailin' like a mournin' dove

And old men with broken teeth stranded without love.

Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn?

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes

I bargained for salvation an' they gave me a lethal dose.

I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Well, I'm livin' in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line

Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.

If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born.

"Come in," she said,

"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

Everybody Hurts - R. E. M.

Think Twice - Celine Dion

With or Without You - U 2

Everything I do, I do it for you - Bryan Adams

Then Shania Twain will cheer me up with her " I'm gonna Getcha good

Bad - U2

Death Is Not The End by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

It's sung by him, Kylie Minogue, Shane McGowan and a few others sing a verse each... It's very slow and more depressing than anything else I've ever heard, even Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks.

I once played it at a party and it completely killed the atmosphere stone dead and the party never recovered - I wasn't invited to any more.

Anyway, I had split up with Karen and wasn't having a very good time so I didn't see why anyone else should.

Anyway, I had split up with Karen and wasn't having a very good time so I didn't see why anyone else should.

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totster

Agree with most of Leornard Cohen's songs.

I'm so lonsome I could cry, and a few others by Hank Williams.

Many by Joy Division.

Some by Nirvana, The The, Johnny Cash, and even Elvis!

Pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen.... especially the track that was featured in Natural Born Killers... Waiting for the miracle or something

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Is he still alive, Tots?

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Oh yes, alive and kicking!

My song is

The Weight....by The Band.

I’m still standing – Elton John, that gets every one down that knows me, since I still am.

O.K. back to the topic:-

Love Hurts - Queen and Freddie Mercury

Love Hurts...written by Gram Parsons in the early 70s. He died of a drug overdose not long after in the California desert. He was taken to a morgue in San Bernadino and a mate of his went and stole the corpse and burned it out in the desert per Parsons' wish.

Switch to the fenlands of Lincolnshire in 1998 where tutsi was on a job and driving home from work and was listening to a live interview with Emmylou Harris (a friend of Parsons) on radio 2 (?). She ended the interview with the song. So tortured and anguished I had to pull off the road to listen to it.

Jesus...

Used to enjoy playing Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me on the piano when I could remember how to play it

U2 - With or Without You

Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Eric Clapton version also wins)

A recent one, bit more upbeat but winning lyrics - Amiel - Love Song

Splodganessabounds (SP?) - any song

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Everything I do, I do it for you - Bryan Adams

i hate that song.

to pick me up if i'm down. Firestarter- The Prodigy

If i'm down and want to get further down. i great song. The End - the Doors