Sad Songs

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Where is the line between the music whose sadness you enjoy and the music whose sadness you don't?

What is the saddest song you can listen to? And the saddest song you can't?

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's any kind of "too sad" line: I'm fine with self-pity and straight-out apocalyptic stuff. I urge anyone who hasn't heard it to seek out the version of Robert Fripp's arrangment of Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes the Flood," which I find one of the most harrowing songs *ever*. Some of my favorite Elton John songs are from his late 70s self-pity and depression era.

I think I *don't* like the overblown stuff that Lex talks about - somehow Mariah scatting all over the place with that voice of hers strikes me as totally disengenuous, so that's probably a comment on Lex and I as much as the music.