Music which makes you feel different than the emotions conveyed in the lyrics.

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I was listening to Joy Division last night and for some reason, it made me very happy and warm. Do any musicians make you feel any different than you are 'supposed to'?

― KHL, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bryter layter. same deal...

― gareth, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the sisters of mercy make me laugh. (i like them all the more for it though).

― angela, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hahahah ALL THE HOUSE TUNES THIS YEAR!

Cos the lyrics are all depressing and bleak but musically they're pop ice cream vans.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't the Sisters of Mercy famously meant to be a bit of a joke that most of their fans took as straight?

― Winkelmann, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd love to see a source for the sisters of mercy/joke thing if you have one, herr winkelmann.

― angela, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Abba, perhaps bizarrely, seem to work like unto a thing of Joy Division.

― Tim Bateman, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently Eldritch was somewhat amused that lots of bands copied his vocal style, because he sang that way because that was the only way he could stay in tune.

― Siegbran Hetteson, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite track like this is Walking Up A One Way Street by Willie Tee, an old New Orleans soul number where he says he feels like he's swimming against the tide and is broken-hearted, over the perkiest, poppiest, loveliest happy tune imaginable. It makes the Archers' theme sound sombre. I recommend that everyone download it, because it is beautiful.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Help!" by the Beatles

― J Blount, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I've heard that Sisters' thing before. Some aged Goth on my Degree course told me about it just after I gaduated in '96. I was drunk though and can't remember his reasoning either, I believe he held it as gospel

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Please Release Me" as done by Willie Nelson and Ray Price on San Antonio Rose also does what Martin describes

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Agree about the Nick Drake. I realize he's supposed to be "depressing" and so forth, but I generally find the recordings to be warm and comforting, even "Pink Moon." Then again, I think grey, rainy days are comforting, too.

― mike, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"manic deprsion" by jimi - one of the most uplifting songs you'll find about such a crummy feeling.

― dyson, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For bleak or morose lyrics over 'happy' muisc: the Smiths and the Specials, obviously.

― scott pl., Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary J Blige's "Family Affair" and Andrew WK's "Party Hard" are both about partying, but there's this desperate, imperative, PARTY, DAMMIT tone to them that makes them both slightly depressing. Like forced sex with a limp dick, nothing ever really begins.

― Kris, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my god yes. Family Affair makes me want to kill, to hunt down and kill... it's every time someone attempts to force you to dance to a song that you don't want to dance to because "you're killing the atmosphere". I am not fucking dancing to Sum Forty-fucking-One, but because I don't know you and you appear to be bigger than me and you also seem to be so drunk you wouldn't actually mind murdering someone I'll just sort of shake my head and shuffle off, ta.

She did it on the follow up single, too. 'Dance For Me' - "like the ghost of Marvin, c'mon and dance for me." Thus, if I don't dance to Mary J Blige, I'll be pissing the spirit of Marvin Gaye off? Where did you pull that out of?

Put down almost all singles released in the past couple of years that mention DJ's, too. H and Claire, Jennifer Lopez, S fucking Club fucking 7 - "Hey, Clubbing-Person! You And I Are One!" No. No no no. Go. A. Way.

P.O.D. attempting to do 'positive thinking' via the medium of nu-metal also has the opposite effect on me... I am a right old whinger, aren't I?

― Mr Swygart, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"party hard" is depressing because it sucks so bad.

― dyson, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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