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sorry Freda

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I'm your friend, don't quote me
but not a friend worth knowing
yes, please don't ever know me as your friend

<3 Passion Pit

Tears of a Clown (as posted above)
Same Old Song
This Old Heart of Mine
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Love Child

But it's like, far out, these songs are just sad. Even the instrumentation has a real melancholy to it, but plenty of people just see them as fun, good time songs. But there's almost some real nostalgia in there or something. It's a real emotional slog to get through their albums because of it.

Plus, that guy Chris Brahney who died after the Stone Roses gig... I remember looking at his facebook and his last like was Passion Pit. Made me think of them as way more of a sombre band.

or Kissing A Fool. HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAA

by Of Montreal. Think it's the infectious disco beats.

Also, Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Stanton.

is a great shout.

Based on the fact that I had to go back and listen to the lyrics properly for the first time just now!

I don't know how it is over there, but here in the states, I've come across a couple ads with "Take A Walk" in them, most notably a Taco Bell ad.
It's hilarious because that's a song about a dude who's trying to make a life for his family and getting fucked by everything around him.

Manners had a lot of really sad stuff going for it ("Moth's Wings" being very notable, even if it was a very hopeful song), but Gossamer is such a tragic record in a lot of places. It's full of pop energy, but every single song is about how broken he is inside, and how he tries to fill that void with drugs and drink. I think that's why I like it, because it feels like a pleasant little in-joke between me and the band. I saw them on the tour for that record, and I got the chance to tell Michael Angelakos that the record really resonated with me for all of those reasons, and he seemed to respond well. So that's something.

I LOVE OVERSHARING

Even James Mercer has acknowledged how funny it is to see kids singing along happily to his sad-ass songs.

is practically the textbook definition of this.

Not exactly sad, but not very in love with the world for sure.

I should be so lucky.

Paper Thin Walls would come to mind but not many more.

They have upbeat songs, but none of them (save for Float On) really comes off as happy.

"I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved
Man, I was mean but I'm changing my scene
And I'm doing the best that I can"

:(

by We Are Augustines

Absurdly happy music with ridiculous bleak lines

lovely post

america, right?

they just played it on the radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIDeK7bVfUk

It's got a fairly prominent *sad* section.

and I can't help but feel happy when I hear it. it seems like she wrote the song in a bad place, recorded it in a good place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jRDVStzOY

sentimental </3

It's probably got much to do with Moz being a miserable bastard and Jonny Marr being utterly fantastic at bouncy and jangly riffs.

Girlfriend in a Coma and This Charming Man spring to mind. Girlfriend in a Coma is so pleasant and joyful musically.

I think Gossamer has been completely under-rated. It's my favourite record of 2012. Simply awesome.

I'll Be Alright is another instance of this. It seems to be about a dude who's living a toxic existence and telling those to move away before they're damaged, he'll be alright without them.

I think the thing I enjoy the most about that record is that he's singing from the position of someone who is consciously aware of having a lot of problems that need worked out, but who is somewhat powerless to really fix them. He's very convincing in this, but he never comes off as someone who is pretending to be the victim.

Between Fiona Apple, Passion Pit, and Silver Linings Playbook, 2012 had mental health in art COVERED.

It might be about their studio burning down, I dunno. Either way it does not contain happy lyricism. But boy, does that song make me wanna get my pump on. Energizing stuff.

Happiness to Heartbreak on a space shuttle.
Just brilliant.

though there's frequently a sort of optimism working with the melancholy, I think. I'm talking mainly about Electro-Shock Blues, here

Last line's a killer

Except the few songs which actually sound melancholy, and that Christmas album. But mostly their sound built around this thing.

Do You Realize?

but RCHP's Aeroplane is stupidly upbeat, while the lyrics sound decidedly depressed.

Looking in my own eyes, hey, Lord
I can't find the love I want
Someone better slap me before I start to rust
Before I start to decompose

by The Cure. The musical arrangement is all sweetness and light.

...killer last line.

Especially http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yG0YgUpPlg

Nathan Reich is good at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0m1XfFIYz4

But a tremendous record. Probably my favourite Wilco song.