but this came on the radio the other night and reminded me how horrible Reagan was and made me wonder if we'd have all the factory farming today if it wasn't for the 80s.

Before Edith Piaf there was the popular and gritty depression-era singer Frehel, who sang about the same prostitutes, poor people down on their luck, and broken hearts that Piaf would sing about. This song is about a once beautiful woman who grew old and now finds herself abandoned by the lovers and admirers she once had. It's a song about the sadness of growing old and finding yourself alone.

I love it like I love Piaf, Lenya and Dietrich. Not always the sweetest voices, but heart wrenching.

Sorry that I don't have a link to it.
It came out around 1987 and I remember its effect on me.

When I first heard this song it was being sung by Evanesence. It is a heart-rending song of the angst of lovers separated. But the video that was included with the song was something completely different than the writers had intended. The result is a wrenching video coupled with the haunting tones of this song entitled:

''PEACE OR WAR, TIME TO CHOOSE''

It's been an earworm for me for the last couple weeks, since someone posted it here in the Lounge after Leonard Nimoy died. So haunting...

Per wiki, Ben Moody wrote all of the song except the "bridge" which was added by Amy Lee after the initial recording of it. His inspiration was rumored to be his grandfather's death.

Moody said that the song talks about "a spirit staying with you after its death and haunting you until you actually wish that the spirit were gone because it won't leave you alone."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Immortal


here is live performance with Jackie Evancho:

by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. It was considered very decadent for it's day. I was surprised to here the song that I only knew by the Doors (Whisky Bar) being sung -- I never knew it came from an opera.

Thanks so much for this. Amazing!

Kurt Weill is an almost forgotten genius. He wrote quite a few musicals, operas, whatever you want to call them. And some great songs.
I love "Lost in the Stars" and everything on "The Unknown Kurt Weill" by Teresa Stratas.
He died at age 50.
The only one of his stage productions I've seen was Street Scene at Houston Grand Opera some years ago.

Judy Garland--Lost in the Stars

....Crash.

Ow!

picked up my shorts they were finally dryeeeye

Last week I shot my baby down by the river. I was like 'Why don't I learn? This never makes me feel better!'

Got the sun on my shoulders and my toes in the sand
Woman's left me for some other man, aw but
I don't care, I'll just dream and stay tan,
Toss up my heart and see where it lands.....

Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore, non feci mi male ad anima viva.

I lived for art, I lived for love, I meant no harm to any living thing.

I lived for art, I lived for love,
I never did harm to a living soul!
With a secret hand
I relieved as many misfortunes as I knew of.
Ever in true faith
My prayer
Rose to the holy shrines.
Ever in true faith
I gave flowers to the altar.
In the hour of grief
Why, why, Lord,
Why do you reward me thus?
I gave jewels for the Madonna's mantle,
And songs for the stars, in heaven,
That shone forth with greater radiance.
In the hour of grief
Why, why, Lord,
Ah, why do you reward me thus?


once I start, I can't stop. All the gorgeous versions...

I heard a version by Annie Lennox on the radio today, in light of the OU scandal.

here is the classic version:

from Ireland

Regarding the song's meaning, O'Brien told The Sun it, "is a sort of ode to meaninglessness, that absolute void that we all feel at some stage in our lives, if not every single day. It sort of proposes that this void is the very thing that binds us all together as human beings on this planet."

they can all choke me up. i can't listen to them now but here they are:

This Mortal Coil with Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins.

And many, many others by the extraordinary Mr. Dylan

Gives me goosebumps EVERY TIME I hear it.

"A gardener like that one, no one can replace."

I'll just post the first song that punched me in the gut:

My girlfriend in Nevada...this was "our song." She was a waitress / bartender at the bar where I was the DJ. One thing led to another and there it was, you know? She asked me to pick a song for us to dance to. The lyrics to this one made me think about her the first time I heard it...she had a rough life. I cued it up and picked up my microphone and said "Oh, Patricia..." She was at the back of the bar, looked up, and slowly walked out onto the dance floor with a smile that never left her face. I hadn't felt that way since I was a kid at the junior high school dances. I held her next to me and time really did stand still. She later told me how nervous I was and how it was "cute."

The original gets me but this one knocks me over:

"like the enemies you burn." Making a Viet-Nam/Napalm connection.

It's really "like the enemies you've earned."

Works either way. Probably a little better as JM intended.

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An infinite loop of humanity at ninety eight point six ...

So you will understand if I don't post the vid for Seasons In The Sun. No Doubt has 'Don't Speak' which I am told is an homage to a pet Gwen Stefani lost and that song disturbs me too. Neither song can I listen too right now because I own a very old dog who like all my pets before will break my heart when she passes.

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It's about lonely nights, unrequited love, and wondering if anyone's going to cry for you when you die.

It's called "Iiwake" ("Excuses&quot .

Went to a symphony performance while (as it turned out) having a miscarriage.

I had been bleeding, after hearing the fetal heartbeat, but was still hoping for the best.

Once the music started playing, I knew it was over, and I just started sobbing.

I still can't listen to that piece of music, 5 years later....

[link:

Purely because of the gorgeous music and THAT VOICE. Natalie Merchant can tear my heart out and reduce me to tears like no other singer I have ever heard. Not Sandy Denny, not Annie Haslam, no one. Can't believe I forgot this. And I could post another half-dozen 10,000 Maniacs songs.

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley, my favorite cover was by kd lang. Mr. Buckley, himself, has said it has been overplayed. However, at my friend's memorial service, an incredible slide show was played, accompanied with a recording of my (too soon to be deceased) friend singing and playing Hallelujah on his guitar. I'll never hear that song again in the same way...and no version will be as good as his cover. He was such a talented and intelligent person, one of a kind! I miss him so much, and will in months to come...an annual motorcycle ride, his daughter's graduation, and years to come. Thursday nights are hard right now, as we saw the fire dept. going to his house 4 Thursday nights ago, and we laughed at the time, wondering what small fire did he set this time...just to learn the next morning he had been taken way too early from us.

It almost makes me feel like a forgiving person!

She has such a great voice...just the right blend of melody and scream.

my ex was a severe alcoholic. Dr Jekyll. Mr Hyde type.
Recovering from that after it exploded was horrendous.....and that song.....

that song........



She's fantastic.
On a happier note: The Vampire Song!

rips me apart everytime I hear it.

Maybe you had to be there to really understand...

Something about Moz's delivery of lyrics -- I am human and I need to be loved -- and Johnny Marr's shimmering, plaintive-wail guitar sound.

It was playing on the car radio as I was driving home alone after breaking up with my college boyfriend, the first guy I ever loved. Brutal. The song gave me the willies for 40 years, even through a wonderful 30-year marriage. Amazingly enough, I have reunited with that college boyfriend after we were both widowed & we're getting married. I can finally listen to it without the sads, lol.

Many, many versions. I love Billie Holiday, Sinead O'Connor and my latest favorite Angelina Jordan, an 8 year old Norwegian girl who could be Billie Holliday's reincarnate. This little girl is amazing and not at all precocious, which makes her even more endearing.