Fine then, I'll be the douchebag that comes out and blatantly says it. This comp is going to be pure shit if it keeps going in this new direction that it has, and some of the songs do in fact blow huge monkey balls, not as songs, but as songs for a compilation based on depression. Boo hoo, sob sob. Yes, the song that you (more than one of you) recommended might be depressing to you and you only. I find the song "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John, or "I Died In Your Arms Tonight" by Cutting Crew to be more depressing songs than the one I ended up recommending. The two previously mentioned songs are more love songs than depressing sad songs, but based on the circumstances for which I remember those songs, I find them to be more depressing than any dashboard song or sappy, depressing, fucking acoustic song. I recommended a sappy, depressing, fucking acoustic song because those songs are more depressing as songs themselves and I appreciate them more for fitting in to the flow in that way. No one gives a flying shit about what I've gone through or why I think I could justify putting tiny dancer as my song, not a single person. No one would hear that song and say, "shit, fruit must've gone through some tough shit." They'd probably skip right over it because it wouldn't make very much sense in a god damn depressing compilation.
"I'll slice my wrists and bleed on your freshly dug grave as I weep over the one thing that you never had", (pulled directly from my ass) sounds pretty fucking depressing to me, and depending on how that line were to be sung, that could be A) a very depressing song played to the sounds of one or two acoustic guitars (and/or piano) with melodic and easy to understand singing or B) an inaudible fit of screaming played to screeching rhythm changes and flying straightedge kicks. If B were the final answer, those lyrics wouldn't fit into a depressing compilation. Now if A were the answer, then you'd have an overall depressing song that could fit in better to the flow of the other songs on the compilation as well as fit in with the expectations of the person listening.
I know that I sound harsh, but because a song might remind you of when you wanted to kill yourself doesn't mean that it would still fit in well. Hell I fucking listened to Lauryn Fucking Hill when I wanted to kill myself in seventh grade and all of my so-called friends ditched me. I can't keep that kind of emotional attachment to it though. If I did, it'd be as if I expect it to happen again, and I could use "well this isn't the first time I've had this happen" as a god damn excuse. Songs shouldn't remind you of times that you wanted to kill yourself. The events and people that caused them to happen should be the only things that remind you of that, or else you haven't totally moved on and you need to get some god damn professional help. As with the three songs I mentioned that made me more depressed than anything else; I didn't listen to those during the time thereafter the events that ripped me in half, I avoided them so that I wouldn't have to feel that pain again. I listened to songs that help me cope with it instead of remind me of how bad it hurt. I already knew how it felt, I just wanted to hear something that could as closely as possible represent what I needed to hear to get over it.
Jesus H. Christ I'm way too pissed, I probably shouldn't even post this. People will hate me now. Fuck it.
[ December 06, 2003, 02:58 AM: Message edited by: Fruitacious B ]
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