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and made all the more downbeat by the performance:
Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel do Roy Harper's 'Another Day'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvt5YnocRp8

I can't stand to hear or watch this again :|
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James Blast wrote:and made all the more downbeat by the performance:
Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel do Roy Harper's 'Another Day'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvt5YnocRp8

I can't stand to hear or watch this again :|
Oh. Ow. That's just...too painful for words. :(
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What is the source of the video? 20+ years on and I no longer have just audio. :eek:
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Petseri wrote:What is the source of the video? 20+ years on and I no longer have just audio. :eek:
It's from Kate's 1979 TV Christmas special. Interesting if slightly cringy in places looking back on it now! Let me know if you need a copy! :wink:
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I think it's overacted and overdone emowise.
The Cure's Apart is mucho worse. Nice enough a tune for listenint to twice, and leaving you as a moralic wreck after the second time.
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eotunun wrote:I think it's overacted and overdone emowise.
I beg to differ. Whilst the couple on the screen definitely are playing it for drama, that appears to be an artistic choice: it's the 'movie' version of a breakup. (The big hint is that it's on a screen...) The contrast with the 'actual' couple is stark, and I think they did a very convincing job of portraying what it's really like - awkward, uncomfortable, sad, and banal all at once. It's f**king heartrending - especially if you've been through that scene yourself, over and over and over... :cry:
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7anthea7 wrote:awkward, uncomfortable, sad, and banal all at once
Genius! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

I still won't watch it ever again, it's really too much :|
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JansenClone wrote:It's from Kate's 1979 TV Christmas special. Interesting if slightly cringy in places looking back on it now! Let me know if you need a copy! :wink:
1979 !!! :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: ... won't need a copy, hell ...
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eotunun wrote:I think it's overacted and overdone emowise.
The Cure's Apart is mucho worse. Nice enough a tune for listenint to twice, and leaving you as a moralic wreck after the second time.
In my perception, the Cure's Apart is about quite a different story ...
and - right - mucho worse - the whole video ...
I couldn't get the patience together to watch (and listen to it :urff: ) only for once.

I have to admit, that I really forgot - 'til now - what Kate Bush actually can to do with her voice ... :eek:
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I think Apart is a heartbreaking song; because it is so understated (compared to other wobbly Bob songs).

Another heartbreaker for whole different reason is Tori Amos', Playboy Mommy. I can hardly hear that without a huge lump forming in my throat. :(
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Gene Pitney - Something´s gotten hold of my heart..after hearing this, I´ve lost my heart..somewhere at someone´s house.. :cry:
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Brendan Perry's Medusa. :|






And Bury Me Deep. :wink:
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Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel, ya baisturts ;D
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Big Si wrote:Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel, ya baisturts ;D
Brings up me appetite, that song, 'specially fer hare with prunes an' broon sooce! ;D

Saddest song ever? Close call between these:

- Edge of Sanity - When all is said (it was a 'moment in time' thaang, blame me, nah!)

- Cathedral - Frozen Rapture

- Anathema - Sweet Tears

- My Dying Bride - Catherine Blake

- Nadja - Touched (aarhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

- Winter - Goden

- Tiamat - Deeper Kind Of Slumber (so sweet)

- Katatonia - Sweet Nurse

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Anathema - Sweet Tears
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behind blue eyes covered by limp bizkit.
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:Anathema - Sweet Tears
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Most depressing song ever?

The Mr Blobby Song.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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Nope! that's just annoying pop pap, like ABBA
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JansenClone wrote:
Petseri wrote:What is the source of the video? 20+ years on and I no longer have just audio. :eek:
It's from Kate's 1979 TV Christmas special. Interesting if slightly cringy in places looking back on it now! Let me know if you need a copy! :wink:
Thanks for the offer. :notworthy: I will keep you posted. Slightly cringy indeed, but emotional nevertheless.

Does the special include Kate and Steve Hackett doing The Angel Gabriel track as well? See my source for the audio. (That has the best live version of Games without Frontiers which I have heard. :notworthy: )
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New Dawn Fades is quite a downer. And Asleep by the Smiths is pretty fcuking depressing too.
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Petseri wrote:
JansenClone wrote:
Petseri wrote:What is the source of the video? 20+ years on and I no longer have just audio. :eek:
It's from Kate's 1979 TV Christmas special. Interesting if slightly cringy in places looking back on it now! Let me know if you need a copy! :wink:
Thanks for the offer. :notworthy: I will keep you posted. Slightly cringy indeed, but emotional nevertheless.

Does the special include Kate and Steve Hackett doing The Angel Gabriel track as well? See my source for the audio. (That has the best live version of Games without Frontiers which I have heard. :notworthy: )
This is the DVD:

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The other Gabriel track is worth watching for the 70's collars on his shirt alone! It's an Epping Forest DVD so the quality is amazing, they're pretty good those Genesis bootleggers! :wink:
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Big Si wrote:Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel, ya baisturts ;D
I think it was Puressence's version that Debaser played me on the way to Leeds. Either way, choon.

Most depressing song? I dunno, whatever s**t makes me think of people I used to love.
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Most depressing but in a good way.

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF0lRYhhiwI


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'Fade Into You' is more melancholic than it is depressing. That, imho, goes for all Mazzy Star music, which I love very, very much (Ahh, Hope Sandoval....). 'New Dawn Fades', on the other hand is rather depressing, but JD did one better in that department, I think, with 'The Eternal'. That's just near unbearably depressing, what with the lyrical subtext being both literal and figurative death with a funeral for a backdrop and the music hitting it home in all its understatedness. It even beats 'Atmosphere', which is pretty bleak by anyone's standards...
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