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26 Jun 2011, 5:03 pm

I was thinking about what the gloomiest 60s songs are.

Anything with Nico singing on it wins by default...but there's still 'Johnny Remember Me' and 'Tell Laura I Love Her'. There's all that Shangri-Las stuff.

There's 'Did You See His Name?' by The Kinks.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xZghyIdrho[/youtube]

I know it doesn't sound gloomy, but read the lyrics:

http://www.kindakinks.net/discography/s ... hp?song=80

What gloomy old tunes do you suggest?

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26 Jun 2011, 5:13 pm

I dunno if this is gloomy, it's kinda mixed. Good excuse to post some Scott Walker

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6YWDm0GSU[/youtube]

Hey, look, no autotune

This is kinda gloomy. Awesome song though.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXDx_dDnK08[/youtube]

I love the Shangri Las incidentally

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26 Jun 2011, 5:20 pm

Moog wrote:

I dunno if this is gloomy, it's kinda mixed. Good excuse to post some Scott Walker

[clip was here]

Hey, look, no autotune

This is kinda gloomy. Awesome song though.

[second clip was here]

I love the Shangri Las incidentally

You never need an excuse to post Scott Walker in my threads!

Also that Lee Hazlewood song was genius! You win this thread! I will go to bed happy and sad at the same time now!

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26 Jun 2011, 5:32 pm

puddingmouse wrote:

You never need an excuse to post Scott Walker in my threads!

Also that Lee Hazlewood song was genius! You win this thread! I will go to bed happy and sad at the same time now!

Glad you think so. That song, I agree, is genius.

I will try to think of more, but my memory doesn't work this way very well, I need to wait for them to pop up.

Oh here's a proper good one:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzCkD3vRukA&feature=related[/youtube]

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27 Jun 2011, 4:49 pm

Yay, classy on Moog.

I first heard this on the Quadrophenia movie soundtrack:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQstQST1GiM[/youtube]

I like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X70s1n36lc&feature=fvsr[/youtube]

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27 Jun 2011, 5:16 pm

puddingmouse wrote:

Ellie Greenwich - You Don't Know

I like that too! Never heard it before.

Here's another Lee Hazelwood tune, kinda Bacharachish

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDsoQtC8HA[/youtube]

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27 Jun 2011, 5:17 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWuNz6tiogw[/youtube]

lolololololol

He sounds like tone-deaf Jonathan Richman. I'm not sure what year it came out. It might be pre-60s.

This song makes me 'We've always been happy and gay...'

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8hq5eN85uo[/youtube]

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27 Jun 2011, 5:26 pm

Moog wrote:

Here's another Lee Hazelwood tune, kinda Bacharachish

Much better than the last couple of things I posted. :lol:

I love Bacharach.

The Shirelles - Baby It's You

(I can't find any good videos, but you know what it sounds like).

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27 Jun 2011, 6:08 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzyDT4MQGA[/youtube]
He wasn't wrong.

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27 Jun 2011, 9:42 pm

The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsX03LOMhI[/youtube]

California Dreamin' by The Mamas and the Papas.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xN9r0bWe78[/youtube]

Yesterday by The Beatles.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNnaxGFO18o[/youtube]

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27 Jun 2011, 10:59 pm

One of my friends showed me this a few months ago:

Brothers Four - Greenfields

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46o1joHp7t0[/youtube]Interestingly enough, there was also a famous Russian song built off the same melody in the 80s (I think). Unfortunately, most of the people here won't be able to understand the lyrics (and thus fully appreciate how beautiful it really is), but if anyone wants to listen to it, here it is:

Эдита Пьеха - Город детства

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtR7WNQsJIo[/youtube]I find it incredibly amusing how, until very recently, Russian music was pretty similar to Western pop music from 20+ years prior.

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28 Jun 2011, 3:19 am

Descartes wrote:

The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.

California Dreamin' by The Mamas and the Papas.

Yesterday by The Beatles.

I was about to post the first two.

FUUUU-

I've got more gloomy 50s music, anyways.

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28 Jun 2011, 3:20 am

Oh, and it's not in English, but it's from the 60s and I consider it somewhat gloomy sounding, so...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyXdxrTBjl8[/youtube]

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28 Jun 2011, 1:13 pm

Ambivalence wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VzyDT4MQGA[/youtube]
He wasn't wrong.

This is good.

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28 Jun 2011, 1:16 pm

Aerith wrote:

Interestingly enough, there was also a famous Russian song built off the same melody in the 80s (I think). Unfortunately, most of the people here won't be able to understand the lyrics (and thus fully appreciate how beautiful it really is), but if anyone wants to listen to it, here it is:

Эдита Пьеха - Город детства

I can't understand it but it's nice.

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29 Jun 2011, 12:41 am

I'd say "The Last Hooray", by Wimple Winch. Unfortunately that is very rare, so I have no link.
Here's some of the lyrics:

I'm trying my best to act like a grown up, but I know I'll make a fool of myself
I'm doing the best that I can
Baby I'm just a man
I wish I was somebody else

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