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Post by Sulla on Mar 7, 2017 3:01:28 GMT
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Post by Nicko's Nose on Mar 7, 2017 3:44:54 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 3:46:37 GMT
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Post by bd74 on Mar 8, 2017 2:24:50 GMT
This one takes the cake for me.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 8, 2017 22:33:38 GMT
For me it's a tie between All By Myself by Eric Carmen and Without You by Harry Nilson.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 0:55:20 GMT
This one takes the cake for me. "Is the honey really sweet? Do I eat it with my hands or with my feet?"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2017 1:24:17 GMT
This one takes the cake for me. "Is the honey really sweet? Do I eat it with my hands or with my feet?" That band was sad, alright.
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Post by LaurenceBranagh on Mar 9, 2017 1:27:00 GMT
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Post by ninelives9 on Mar 10, 2017 1:22:12 GMT
For me it's a tie between All By Myself by Eric Carmen and Without You by Harry Nilson.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 1:44:29 GMT
EVERYBODY ON THE DANCEFLOOR!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 2:46:40 GMT
Always thought these lyrics were irredeemably, wretchedly depressing.
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Post by NileQT87 on Mar 10, 2017 12:35:15 GMT
This performance: June 21, 1977 His death: August 16, 1977
This is both one of his saddest and best performances. The smile kills me. This version of Unchained Melody isn't a love song like every other version before or since, so much as saying goodbye to the world.
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Post by NileQT87 on Mar 10, 2017 13:11:29 GMT
And while we're doing end-of-life works, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Requiem Mass in D Minor (died 8 bars into Lacrimosa with the rest finished by his pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr when Mozart could no longer write because of his swollen hands, though Süßmayr apparently had instructions and notes) certainly qualifies as one of the most beautiful pieces of music. And it unintentionally turned out to be Mozart's own Requiem for himself.
This work was actually a big fraud on the part of Count Franz von Walsegg-Stupach, who commissioned the work for his dead wife using the mysterious Messenger in Gray. Walsegg-Stupach had a habit of commissioning works and pretending they were his own, and this commission was to be exactly that. Constanze Weber, Mozart's widow, had Süßmayr complete the work (Joseph Leopold Eybler was first asked to complete it, but he told her that he couldn't after minimal work) in order to get the payment, with the completed work dated early 1792, though Mozart had died just after midnight on December 5, 1791 at the age of 35.
That part of Amadeus with the malicious commission from the mysterious messenger is not fiction, though the Antonio Salieri involvement certainly was. That actually came out of Salieri himself (1823) when he was indeed hospitalized for dementia and had a suicide attempt at the end of his life (1825), though he then denied it. Beethoven's conversation books because of his deafness even recorded the murder allegation gossip going around Vienna at the time. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera (1897) based on Aleksandr Pushkin's play (1830) on the very subject that well predates the play/film Amadeus (1979/1984).
Much of the account of Mozart's final illness comes from Sophie Weber (sister-in-law), though the exact illness is unknown. Mozart was indeed buried in a mass grave, though it was not so much about money as it was Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II's Enlightenment-era burial reforms due to coffins rising in the graveyard due to water levels and this ensured that bodies would decompose faster instead. This practice of people being put in mass graves proved obviously unpopular despite the science, but Mozart was a victim of this proclamation. The exact placement of his grave is unknown to this day, though a gravedigger claimed a skull was his and a funeral mask has turned up from the correct time and place that is thought to look like him. Constanze couldn't remember where in the graveyard he was buried. Mozart had two surviving sons, though neither married or had offspring.
Someone tore off the last words Mozart ever wrote in his own hand ("da capo") and this bit of the manuscript has never been recovered.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 10, 2017 19:28:37 GMT
Dust in the Wind (I don't need to post it, we all know it).
'Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see"
"Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky"
Real uplifting stuff
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 3:26:00 GMT
God, this album was dark.
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Post by geewizzz on Mar 11, 2017 3:45:21 GMT
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Post by ninelives9 on Mar 13, 2017 4:26:14 GMT
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Post by Nostalgias4Geeks🌈 on Mar 13, 2017 6:15:08 GMT
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Post by Nostalgias4Geeks🌈 on Mar 13, 2017 6:23:20 GMT
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Post by J.B. on Mar 14, 2017 9:49:52 GMT
Here is an off-beat song that has quite depressing lyrics, I believe. "Occhio per Occhio," or "Eye for an Eye," is a song from the soundtrack of For a Few Dollars More, one of my favorite movies. I think Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone ultimately made the right choice in keeping the instrumental version for the scene, but it's a very stirring song, with an equally compelling melody. I do prefer the Italian version to the English one, however.
Aside from the song, this instrumental piece, "Addio Colonnello," is very moving, if not exactly depressing. Ennio Morricone is a wonderful composer who is still working, I believe.
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