I saw the Cranberries thread and it instantly made me think about horrible thoughts attached to music. I experienced something really traumatic when the song "Dreams" was playing on a car radio.

Has any song (regardless of its quality -- happy or somber) made you feel bad or think back to a horrible, tragic or sad event?

Whenever I hear the song "Smile" by Rene & Angela, I think back to the time my father said he saw someone get his brains blown out at an ATM machine while the song was playing. He can't listen to that song without thinking about it.

JANFAN4L said:

yeah , do u know that song "and sometimes when we touch, the honesty's too much and i have to close my eyes, i wanna hold u till i die" i don't know the name of the singer but when i was little i broke my arm and that song was playing

the other song is Red Hot Chilli Peppers "Scar tissue", i remember that song was playing when my dad told me that my mom died i swear i still haven't gotten over that

"Better Days (the grandma song)" by Diane Reeves
Reminds me of my late grandmother

"Secret Garden" by Quincy Jones
it's really sad, but this song was playing at a HS dance and a guy i liked did not ask me to dance and I watched him dance w/ another girl whom he happened to like...broke my poor little teenage heart

Xavier23 said:

::draws a blank::



Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" has that affect on me. So many of my relatives had that song played at their funerals.

Oh, man, this thread is deeper than I thought. I'm getting melancholic.

Xavier23 said:

Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill (Google search)

I have bad memories, but I don't attach them to music.

Or I'm just having a mental block - my psyche is really good at that.

CinisterCee said:

Music evokes emotion. Songs cull remembrances. Certain songs take me back to certain events, locations and time periods.

That's why I can't listen to music when I'm making love. I don't want to remember that person when I listen to that track. It's like they leave an imprint on it — especially if they did me wrong.

most things by the beach boys, prince, michael jackson and norah jones.

which is just great.

JANFAN4L said:

In that case, there's quite a few tracks destroyed by bad memories.

There's a song that reminds me of a R E A L bad day

I was on my car, listening to Truth Hurts's "Addictive" song on the radio(back when it was an instant hit).

I was enjoying a cup of green tea while driving and basically got carried away with the song, and BAAAM I found myself running into a parked car SO BAD and my burning tea splashed all over my face, my eyes were literally like this O O from horror, and as i was about to step out of the car and..

BRRRRRAAAAAM!!

Another fuckin' car came from the back and hit mine even BADLY so we ended up 3 pretty cars chained together, Oh and whatever left from my tea got splashed all over my clothes

Well, there it is

BTW JANFAN4L, nice seeing you posting here again, chile

CinisterCee said:

LOL.

Harlepolis said:

Hey there, Harlepolis*!

D*mnnnnn. That's a wild story. I guess the Truth really does Hurt (bad pun, I know — ).

Fade Into You by Mazzy Star

This song reminds me of how I was trying to pull every once of myself togther after I found out that my grandmother had a stroke and would never be healthy again. It makes me so sad.

I hate to say this, but many if not most of my favorite love songs of all time are attached to bad memories.

(Harlepolis' story reminded me)

An album that was playing when I crashed and wrote off my last car has continued to have diminished enjoyability due to the memory attached to it.

Harlepolis said:

Sometimes songs are the best things to come out of bad relationships. I got turned on to the song "I Wanna Be The One" by Stevie B from someone I now strongly despise, but I love the track. Great Freestyle cut.

the closest thing i can come up with is Cher's Believe.

it conqures images of the ghastly dance number she did during her Farewell Tour.....i still have nightmares of her horrid dancers in their horrid costumes...

namepeace said:

aw dude

JANFAN4L said:

More optimistic spin on that.

sosgemini said:

Which Farewell Tour was that?

sosgemini said:

It was FUN

Her lovely red wig and silver outfit and gay men swinging from the ceiling.
You're not be very faithful to the gayness of Cher
[Edited 5/4/05 11:09am]

sosgemini said:

Even worser than the dancers on Kylie's tour prancing around in glow-in-the-dark speedos to "Your Disco Needs You"?

Just the description alone by other orgers destroyed the song for me.

JANFAN4L said:

LOL
the title of the song destroyed it for me

jayaredee said:

Yo, I don't know which is worse. Sh*t's double-edged.

dreamfactory313 said:

the last one....well, hopefully it is the last one

umm, janfan, thanks for warning me about this kylie person that you mentioned...



and jay, sowwy...i think im missing a gay gene or something because i HATED the Village People's opening performance too..

sosgemini said:

I didn't get the Village People at mine. I got Cyndi Lauper, and she was really good.

jayaredee said:

Damn!! Damn!! Damn!!!

CinisterCee said:

Or, paradoxically, I didn't truly appreciate some songs until I fell for someone who ultimately rejected me. The funny thing is, I can hear those songs and remember 1) feelings I had for that someone, 2) how the song made me think about that someone, and 3) the rejection itself. Some songs I caught on to AFTER the deed was done, but they're still meaningful. Examples of these kinds of songs:

"Adore" -- Prince
"And God Created Woman" -- Prince
"Living For The Love of You" -- The Isley Brothers
"My Life" -- Mary J. Blige
"Kiss From A Rose" -- Seal

" Can't Make U Love Me" --

"Old Friends 4 Sale (original) -- Prince and the Revolution
"Lost In You" -- Chris Gaines
"Fly Me To The Moon" -- Frank Sinatra

"Fool of Me" -- Me'Shell Ndegeocello
"Valse" -- Bill Evans
"I'll Do Anything" -- Ginuwine
"Everything's All Right" -- J.C. Superstar
"Sincerity" -- Me'Shell Ndegeocello