Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to) - by Andarthiel
Gray on 17/9/2019 at 23:05
[video=youtube;mGk0opOKqvI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGk0opOKqvI[/video]
One day when I grow up, this is the kind of stuff I aspire to make. Never mind the fact that I'm almost already older than these Mancunians. Even old thick morons can dream, can't we? Darren is only a couple of years ahead of me. Graham a bit more.
Tocky on 18/9/2019 at 05:05
I like that Eels cover of Oh Well. I has guitar breaks that go with the words much better than the original though I still love that.
This is just the latest in my search for the perfect poor me song though you really can't beat Ronstadts Poor Poor Pitiful Me.
[video=youtube_share;88lEWTEk3jg]https://youtu.be/88lEWTEk3jg[/video]
Anybody got a better one?
Sulphur on 18/9/2019 at 05:16
Yeah. Yeah. The whole of Quadrophenia is the ultimate poor me song. Sure, it ends on a high note, but you could also read it as the protagonist and his four personalities fucked off into the arms of the ocean wide and black. Still, what a capper of an act Love Reign O'er Me is.
*Come to think of it, most of The Who's stuff really is poor me songs.
Sulphur on 18/9/2019 at 05:43
Also this is more of a cry of anguish than a poor me song, but I remember I forgot to post it here. So here is an old fashioned rock song by a band about good old fashioned hurtin'.
[video=youtube;IZ0Xjl5KusI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ0Xjl5KusI[/video]
Gray on 18/9/2019 at 12:35
Anything from the first 3-4 Nine Inch Nails albums. Pretty Hate Machine is only poor me stuff. Point in question:
[video=youtube;WAGAoy5WZWY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAGAoy5WZWY[/video]
[video=youtube;kuoFiIFkdAA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuoFiIFkdAA[/video]
[video=youtube;PTFwQP86BRs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFwQP86BRs[/video]
But having said that, I can probably find 30 years of Depeche Mode where almost every single song is a "poor me". It all depends on how whiny and annoying you want to get.
Massive Depeche Mode fan, me. Not just for the whininess, but yeah, sometimes for the whining.
SubJeff on 18/9/2019 at 22:05
Love NIN. Saw them in London last year. Ace.
Tocky on 19/9/2019 at 04:34
I've never thought of Love Reign O'er Me as a poor me song at all. Do love that Mannequin Pussy though. Now there is a sentence I never thought I would say. "I still love you stupid fuck" is a great line and encapsulates a breakup better than an operas worth of words. And yeah, NIN had some whiny ones but I never thought of closer as one of those. I guess I'm looking more for the over the top stuff in the vein of (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i19d1QnstsA) Locomotive Breath. I never know what I'm looking for exactly till I find it.
Screw it. Here is some Ry Cooder Feelin' Bad Blues from the movie Crossroads which was a hell of a damn movie. I don't think he recorded this one here in Oxford but he has recorded some here. I used to work in a building he recorded in. They tore that shit down for apartments. They tear everything good down for apartments here.
[video=youtube_share;ftRMqJaAFyI]https://youtu.be/ftRMqJaAFyI[/video]
Gray on 19/9/2019 at 04:42
Let me give you the exact opposite of what you asked for. I'll explain why.
Imogen Heap: Speeding Cars.
[video=youtube;uA6SzJj5wVw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA6SzJj5wVw[/video]
It has all the elements of a "poor me" song, except from the other perspective, the dumper rather than the dumped. I've never heard such a good example of that. I don't know how many whiny songs I buried myself in when I was dumped by some girl, and this gives me the chance to see what it might be like from her point of view.
Partly, of course, I'm reminded of this because I've got tickets to go see Imogen Heap live for the first time in November, but that's another story. I'll probably be true to form and post something about that after the event.
[Edit]
Only saw NIN live once, they kept cancelling shows I had planned to go to, probably the heroin or just some bad indigestion. But when I did finally get to see them, it was awesome. Probably after the release of Year Zero, and the wall of noise segment was just glorious, burned into my brain forever. It was much longer than on the album, but I wished it would never end. I mean the Aphex Twin type noise break in The Great Destroyer, that was so awesome. I still look to that for inspiration on how to punish my drum machines. For that tour, they had a big wall of LED lights that'd flash in time with the noise. Made a very strong impact. It felt a bit like this, but in my mind, it was a bigger, better thing. It was just Trent and the screen.
[video=youtube;06hCku23WiE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hCku23WiE[/video]
Tocky on 19/9/2019 at 05:07
Gah. I don't like that one at all. No offense but a breezy oh well by a pop sounding girl? It grates on me in voice and sentiment. I would rather be cursed out than a tra la la don't much care but love ya emptiness.
Washing it out with some smoke before I hit the hay.
[video=youtube_share;1NI1WzFAlTo]https://youtu.be/1NI1WzFAlTo[/video]
Gray on 19/9/2019 at 05:17
Sorry, just trying to give you stuff you didn't expect. It might not suit your taste. My taste is quite wide. It can't all be bluesy kick-ass. Like that one.