Don’t confuse cable descramblers for converters….

Nice!…

At Hot Air, Allahpundit notes that science has identified the saddest song ever. Pfffffffffffft. That was my respect for science deflating just a bit. Not as much as it’s done over this whole “man-made global warming” foofaraw, but a measurable bit,…

The Verve are (were) very highly regarded within the music industry, and many musicians will tell you The Verve are (were) their favorite band.

I think, as you can probably guess, that they are correct.

“Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” always gets me. “She’s Leaving Home,” too.

Good choices, both. For those old enough to remember the days of prismatic tape on cars, I had “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” across the bottom of my rear window using the stuff, on a ‘70 Olds Cutlass W-31. I was always a sucker for the slow songs, though. Like “If” and “Colour My World”.

Yeah, yeah, so I’m old.

“Operator” by Jim Croce
“One Red Rose” – John Prine

Worst Christmas song – Some crap I heard Bjork sing on TV one night last year. It was so bad the tune was unrecognizable.

The theme from “Schindler’s List” and Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” are up there too.

I wish I could get paid for making up stupid lists like that.

I think what’s making people sad is that all those songs suck.

Scot on December 12, 2006 at 9:53 PM

Very clever, Scot.

I had the same experience while viewing, and listening to that video clip!

Thanks for the humor!

William

A device the size of a sugar cube will be able to record and store high resolution video footage of every second of a human life

One lump, or two?

Worst Christmas song ever — Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’. I almost get physically ill on that one.

Hey, this will cut down on graveyard real estate. Just vaporise the body after you die and bury the cube!

That is a matter of opinion, to be sure.

I would have a tough time naming the happiest song. Some of them are not songs with lyrics, or the lyric is merely a phrase repeated throughout the tune.

Tito Puente y su orchestra’s “Ran Kan Kan” is a real to tapper, finger snapper, hip swayer of a tune. It makes one want to get up and dance. It is difficult to hear Ran Kan Kan and remain depressed.

Some of the socca music is great as well. It is definitely happy music. Tunes by Sparrow, Beckett, and others puts you in a good mood.

Tunes like Brian Setzer’s rendition of “Jump and Jive” also make it difficult to be sad.

Many of the tunes from Bollywood movies from India can put a smile on your face as well. Some of the tunes from Lagaan, Main Hoon Na, Kabe Kushe Kabe Gum, and others put a smile on one’s face.

Jazz-bee bop sax player Charlie Parker, jazz pianist extraordinairre, Oscar Peterson, some of West Montgomery, George Benson, Jimmy Bruno, Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, and other great jazz guitarists play some great happy music. Ella Fitzgerals, Sarah Vaughn, Betty Carter, and others performed some up, happy tunes, and made one feel good, as did Lamber, Hendrix, and Ross, together or as soloists, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Joe Williams, and others.

Stravinski, Pucchini, Beethoven, Vivaldi, John Williams, and others composed some up, cheerful tunes-music as well.

Yes, it would be difficult to be sad with a lot of the music available, and even more difficult to choose which is the happiest tune.

As far as the saddest tune, who would even think about it?

Sad? I found the tune “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic to be rather sad in context of the movie. Baby, Baby, from Smokey Robinson and the Miracles was sad when I was in high school and the girls I had crushes on seemed to like someone else instead of me. “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” from Jimmy Ruffin, brother of The Temptations’ lead singer, David Ruffin was sad, as was “I Wish It Would Rain” the Temptations.

I know that the article states that they used instruments to check bodily changes during the playing of the tunes in order to measure which tunes produced what they though were the most defined reactions, thus sad, but still, these lists are so arbitrary.

William

And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man on the moon.
“When you coming home, son?” “I don’t know when,
But we’ll get together then, dad.
You know we’ll have a good time then.”

I’ve long since retired and my son’s moved away.
I called him up just the other day.
I said, “I’d like to see you if you don’t mind.”
He said, “I’d love to, dad, if I could find the time.
You see, my new job’s a hassle, and the kids have the flu,
But it’s sure nice talking to you, dad.
It’s been sure nice talking to you.”
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me,
He’d grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.

I couldn’t resist. Hep me Jesus!

Another sad song: “Ghost” by the Indigo Girls.

I’ll match a nine year old orphan freezing to death in a cold water flat and a horrible child labor situation to a “cat in a bag waiting to drown” any day. But that’s just me.

52Ranger on December 13, 2006 at 11:02 AM

This is so bad it’s really funny. The jazzy arrangement is oddly inappropriate.

Heart-wrenching.