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Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 14:32**

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Feeling down? Listen to The Smiths

A record by Mancunian band The Smiths has been voted the best song to listen to when you're down.

I Know It's Over topped a poll of tunes which people turn to when they are depressed, broken-hearted or just having a bad day.

Written by Morrissey, the song is taken from the 1986 album The Queen Is Dead.

It begins with the lines: "I can feel the soil falling over my head/And as I climb into an empty bed/Oh well. Enough said."

The Songs That Saved Your Life poll was carried out by BBC radio station 6 Music and voted for by thousands of listeners.

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Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 14:51**

Interesting that Comfortably Numb also made in into the top ten. Allegedly the Floyd version but knowing how cheery goths are I have my doubts ...

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 15:07**

Quiff Boy wrote:
Feeling down? Listen to The Smiths

A record by Mancunian band The Smiths has been voted the best song to listen to when you're down.

Are they having a laugh???
If I felt depressed, Morrissey's whiney voice is the last thing I'd wanna hear and it'd have me reaching for the pills or pulling the trigger faster than Fast Jack McFast in Fast-town

(or something).

(Sorry to anyone who likes them, but I've never liked them. No need to post huge amounts of replies defending the geezer. I'm sure he's a nice bloke and all but just accept that some people's musical preferences are different to others, ok?)

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 15:25**

For the curious:

1. The Smiths - I Know It's over
2. Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want
3. REM - Everybody Hurts
4. The Cure - Pictures Of You
5. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
6. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
7. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
8. Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
9. Blur - This Is A Low

10.The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine

All together now ...'Happy days are here again ...'

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 15:26**

Hey, listen to This Charming Man or What Difference Does It Make, and I defy your ankles not to wiggle. And as any doctor can tell you, ankle-wiggling has never been a sign of depression.

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 15:41**

can't beat 'Wake me up before you GoGo' for a cheer up!

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 15:51**

So shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like anybody else does

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 16:16**

Thrash Harry wrote:So shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like anybody else does

Picked up the taTu version of that recently - very squeaky and quite nasty. Not in a good way.

The CD also featured their Eurovision entry ... which is classic Europop par excellence. Love it

Would recommend the (now deleted) Ukrainians release "Pizni iz The Smiths". Four covers (Bigmouth, Queen is Dead, Meat is Murder, What Difference ...) done in east European folk stylee. Excellent.

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 16:20**

Johnny Boy wrote:For the curious:

1. The Smiths - I Know It's over
2. Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want
3. REM - Everybody Hurts
4. The Cure - Pictures Of You
5. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
6. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
7. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
8. Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
9. Blur - This Is A Low
10.The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine

I don't get it. If you're feeling down the last thing I want to listen to is depressing music. (Well, I haven't heard, [or can't recall] all the songs in that chart, but at least half of them are depressing.)

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 16:27**

man LOVES to wallow in his own pity. teenagers LIKE being depressed and alienated. sometimes it's good FUN to be really grumpy all day. when you're down, you want someone who's down with you (not some cheerful pappy nonsense).

I can supply adages for all occasions. bar mitvah jokes, anyone?

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 17:01**

Hmm. Yeh well teenagers are weird. If I'm feeling down I listen to some happy bouncy music to lift my mood. I find your mood is influenced my the music you listen to (which is why I don't listen to rap any more, as it makes me wanna go and do a drive-by.)

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 17:11**

Johnny Boy wrote:For the curious:

1. The Smiths - I Know It's over
2. Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want
3. REM - Everybody Hurts
4. The Cure - Pictures Of You
5. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
6. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
7. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
8. Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
9. Blur - This Is A Low
10.The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine

All together now ...'Happy days are here again ...'

That's, like, SO the Radio 6 demographic. Both of them.

(yes, yes, I'm one...

)

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 17:21**

Lowrider wrote:That's, like, SO the Radio 6 demographic. Both of them.

(yes, yes, I'm one... )

Are you sure? You do know that the station is called 6music, don't you?

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 17:26**

Johnny Boy wrote: 9. Blur - This Is A Low

I bloody love that song
A good cheery up SG song is Afternoons and coffee spoons - Crash Test Dummies

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 18:00**

Dan wrote: I don't get it. If you're feeling down the last thing I want to listen to is depressing music. (Well, I haven't heard, [or can't recall] all the songs in that chart, but at least half of them are depressing.)

Conversely, happy music makes me really depressed. What a crazy mixed-up world we live in...

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 18:58**

DerekR wrote:
Lowrider wrote:That's, like, SO the Radio 6 demographic. Both of them.

(yes, yes, I'm one... )
Are you sure? You do know that the station is called 6music, don't you?

Is the BBC sure?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio6

works. It's a redirect, but hardly an indication of confidence

LR

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 19:19**

I find Emerson, Lake & Palmer's version of Aaron Copeland's Fanfare For The Common Man lifts me out of any low.

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 19:20**

Showing your age there RS

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 19:39**

My boyfriend has always sworn by Black Sabbath's "Killing yourself to live"........for various reasons.....
I listen to The Smiths (their melancholyI find quite uplifting!), or I bop around to Midnight Configuration!!!!!!!!!

Posted: **10 Mar 2004, 19:45**

Spacemen 3 - Ode To Street Hassle. Oooooooooooohhhhh yes.

Posted: **11 Mar 2004, 01:05**

Red Sunsets wrote:I find Emerson, Lake & Palmer's version of Aaron Copeland's Fanfare For The Common Man lifts me out of any low.

Me and thee, lad. Me and thee.

Posted: **11 Mar 2004, 01:10**

Then again:

When I was young
I listened to the radio
Waiting for my favourite songs
When they played
I'd sing along
It made me smile

Posted: **11 Mar 2004, 09:53**

Thrash Harry wrote:Then again:

When I was young
I listened to the radio
Waiting for my favourite songs
When they played
I'd sing along
It made me smile

i ******* love the carpenters

Posted: **11 Mar 2004, 12:31**

I dunno...........you wear stupid shoes and listen to The Carpenters!!! Honestly!! I'll just look at the 'goth' Quiffy in the gallery and think that once you had taste!!!!

Posted: **11 Mar 2004, 22:11**

Dan wrote:I don't get it. If you're feeling down the last thing I want to listen to is depressing music. (Well, I haven't heard, [or can't recall] all the songs in that chart, but at least half of them are depressing.)

For me, it's about finding comfort in the knowledge that *someone else* has/had been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, you know? Knowing that you're not utterly alone in your misery really helps, sometimes...

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