Seb Flyte's top 20 MISERABLIST Anthems!

[Sebastian Flyte]

OK folks here it is : the ultimate collection to down 100 paracetamols & a bottle of Jack Daniels to.

20) "Caroline Says II" : Lou Reed

The second part of the "Berlin" album is very disturbing stuff - this gem concerns a depressed girl "all of her friends call her Alaska" - who sticks her arm through a pane of glass while they take speed.

[Bunty's Magic Vegetable]

haven't you already DONE this?

[jester]

1) It Hurts - Lena Phillipsson

Oh LENA! "Hurts, oh it hurts, really hurts, in the middle of the night". The depths of her pain.

[Sebastian Flyte]

Originally posted by gggggg
haven't you already DONE this?

that was ALBUMS this is songs

[Sebastian Flyte]

19) "Fire & Rain" James Taylor

Manic depressive Taylor wrote this about a friend who killed herself. Classic autumnal acoustic song - used in the classic River Phoenix film "Runnig on Empty".

[Sild]

Joe Dolce - Shaddup You Face


Woman left in trauma after being told to keep quiet over her lack of manners...

[jester]

Eighth Wonder - I'm Not Scared

He's always telling lies and that's the only truth. She's not SCARED.

[Sebastian Flyte]

18) "Suicide Song" Louden Wainwright III

A very strange song - full of lines like "when you're feeling hung up/go string yourself up by your neck" sung in a high Neil Young like voice. Chilling.

[Sebastian Flyte]

17) "Miserable Lie" : The Smiths

The first MOz entry : from the first album. A CLASSIC - "I need advice/I need advice/nobody ever looks at me twice" wails Morrissey in falsetto. Marr's music is suitably dark & harsh.

[octophone]

Originally posted by Sebastian Flyte
17) "Miserable Lie" : The Smiths

The first MOz entry : from the first album. A CLASSIC - "I need advice/I need advice/nobody ever looks at me twice" wails Morrissey in falsetto. Marr's music is suitably dark & harsh.

Without doubt, the WORST track on that album, or any of their other albums for that matter.

[Sebastian Flyte]

16) "My Mummy's Dead" : John Lennon

No comment

[Sebastian Flyte]

15) "Joan of Arc" Leonard Cohen

Sung in a deadpan drony voice - Cohen sings about the burning of Joan of Arc as a metaphore for love - the flames burning the lover .

[Sebastian Flyte]

14) "Pennyroyal Tea" Nirvana

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
Where I can sigh eternally

[Sebastian Flyte]

13) "Never Had No One Ever" The Smiths

Nicely sequenced to follow "I Know its Over" this is a simple lyric turned into a mini epic by Marr's excellent music. The cover by Billy Bragg is also very good indeed.

[Sebastian Flyte]

12) "Not Dark Yet" : Bob Dylan

From Dylan's darkest album "Time Out of Mind".

I've been down to the bottom
In a whirlpool of lies
I ain't looking for nothing
In anyone's eyes
Its not dark yet
But its getting there

[David]

S Club 7 - Reach

I'm sure they're reaching for the razorblades!

[Sebastian Flyte]

11) "A Most Peculiar Man" : Simon and Garfunkel

About a lonely man in a bedsit who "turned on the gas/with the windows closed /so he'd never wake up/to a silent world". Grim.

[Sebastian Flyte]

10) "Famous Blue Raincoat" : Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen could sing 'Dancing Queen' and still sound suicidal - its his flat guitar strumming and drony, monotonous voice that does it. This cheery little number is about his brother shagging his wife behind his back .

[Sebastian Flyte]

9) "Digital" : Joy Division

I feel it closing in
Feel it closing in
Day in
Day out
Day in
Day out

[Sebastian Flyte]

8) "Black Eyed Dog" : NickDrake

The Black Eyed Dog is a metaphore for depression - thc song is starkly strummed on an acoustic guitar wth a harrowing 'detached' vocal.

[Sebastian Flyte]

7) "Seasick Yet Still Docked" : Morrissey

The hilight on "Your Arsenal" and one of the very best Moz solo songs. About a 'poor freezingly cold soul' with no 'charm'. Moz sounds utterly down on this.

[Sebastian Flyte]

6) "Angel Eyes" : Frank Sinatra

Dreary , bleak song from "Only the Lonely" - about a depressed man sitting drunk in a bar while his lover is off with some other bloke. "Skuse me: while I disappear" sings Ole Blue Eyes.

[Sebastian Flyte]

5) "Chelsea Hotel No 2" : Leonard Cohen

Oh dear. Self-hating depressed moaning - "you told me again/you prefer handsome men/but for me you would make an exception" sings the old droner while being given a blow-job in the Chelsea hotel .

[Sebastian Flyte]

4) "Unloveable" The Smiths

Classic Moz - "I wear black on the outside/cause black is how I feel on the inside". Part of the doom trilogy on THe World Won't Listen along with Asleep & Half a Person.

[Sebastian Flyte]

3) "Love Will Tear Us Apart" : Joy Division

Classic new wave song - reminds me always of the student bar at uni.

[Sebastian Flyte]

2) "I KNow Its Over" : The Smiths

One of the hilights of "The Queen is Dead" and one of the absolute essential Smiths songs. As near essential as music ever gets.

[Sebastian Flyte]

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!!

[lolly]

Is it The Hokey Cokey?

[Sebastian Flyte]

Have you guessed it??????????????????????????????

[Sebastian Flyte]

1) Asleep: The Smiths

There can be no other winner! Morrissey's suicide song.

[Agnetha]

What open minded variation....

[octophone]

No "Wave Of Mutilation"?

[Sebastian Flyte]

There is lots of variation in this list - stuff from outside my era like from the 60s & a Sinatra song.

[Agnetha]

6 of them were Morrissey/ Smiths. Do we really need a fucking topic about the same old shite... It's getting REALLY BAD

[Sebastian Flyte]

Originally posted by Agnetha
6 of them were Morrissey/ Smiths. Do we really need a fucking topic about the same old shite... It's getting REALLY BAD

Well obviously a miserablist theme will mean a few Smiths songs. There is plenty of other stuff in the list.

[Kate]

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