Oh, "Seasons in the Sun." God, I loved that song. Then there was "Shannon," which was about a guy's dog dying, if I remember correctly.
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There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Oh, good grief, David Geddes, "Blind Man in the Bleachers." Cheap sentimental tearjerker, but so very, very effective.
Terry Jacks -- Seasons in the Sun
That was the very first one that came to my mind. Maybe also Dire Straits, "Brothers In Arms". Oh, and also their song from the same album, "The Man's Too Strong".
I'm not sure if I remember how to get in there, but sure! Thanks.
I uploaded it to:
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I discovered that my .mp3 of Feed the Tree was 15 years old and 128 kbps. I uploaded that one and then managed to find the CD, so I uploaded it again at 203 kbps VBR.
Amy, let me know when you see this and I'll redact the account into.
Oh, "Seasons in the Sun." God, I loved that song.
I loved that song when it came out (I was 7 or 8). That song has such strong associations with my childhood that I don't want to use it for this playlist.
Yet another example of me loving sad songs about death as a child.
Seasons in the Sun is taken from a Jacques Brel song, and he dealt with that sort of subject matter a lot. You might look at recordings of "My Death," though I don't have a specific one to point to.
Got it, tommy! Thanks!
You might look at recordings of "My Death," though I don't have a specific one to point to.
Ooh. I have a Bowie cover of that. Yeah, that might work.
And I never would have made that connection between "Seasons in the Sun" and "My Death".
The production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris I saw did the Seasons in the Sun song in French. It was the only song they did with no English.
Got it, tommy! Thanks!
You're welcome!
I just remembered that I had stopped listening to that album for years because I only had it in 128 kbps and was too lazy to find the CD. Which took less than five minutes.
(My playlist is in iCloud or whatever so it was using an AAC version.