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12 September 2006

Songs that are happy but... NOT →[More:]
I plan to post a couple here and ask for more from you. But should I yousendthem in the form of MP3s or in the AAC format thet iPod prefers? Or does it matter? Tks.

post by: shane at: 18:55 | 14 comments

Mp3s.

posted by mudpuppie 12 September | 18:59

MP3s. itunes will convert them, and some folks don't use ipod.

posted by eekacat 12 September | 19:14

King Apparatus - Michael and Anne

posted by Zack_Replica 12 September | 19:31

"Girlfriend in a Coma
...I know, I know, it's really serious..."

posted by shane 12 September | 20:00

Behind Blue Eyes, by the Who.

posted by eekacat 12 September | 20:46

"boys don't cry" and "in between days" by the cure immediately come to mind.

posted by syntax 13 September | 07:22

Ghaaah. I've got a great one, one of my alltime fave songs, but my connection went down last night. I hope this thread isn't off the page by the time I get home from work.

posted by shane 13 September | 07:31

Sound of Silence. Simon/Garfunkle

posted by jessamyn 13 September | 09:12

Lots and lots of They Might Be Giants.

When It Rains It Snows - about a murder
The End Of The Tour - about a girl killed in a car crash
The Pencil Rain - about nuclear war
etc.

posted by bugbread 13 September | 09:44

"Smile" by Lily Allen. A hateful song disguised in a cheery upbeat reggae-ish tune.

posted by essexjan 13 September | 18:38

AAAH! Here it is, one of my all-time fave cheery melodies, I can listen to it a dozen times in a row:

They send in the special police

To deliver us from liberty
                  and keep us from peace

May the words sit ill
                  upon their tongues
When they tell us that justice
                       is being done
And that freedom lives in the barrels
                            of a waaaaaarm
                                                    gun

-The Beat[en] Generation by The The (Matt Johnson)

posted by shane 13 September | 18:52

Fuck, man, anything from The The's first album counts too.

posted by klangklangston 13 September | 20:20

"Love is Dead" by the Mr T Experience is the platinum-iridium standard of genre. Anyone who disagrees is wrong.

posted by Triode 13 September | 21:06

"Nothing Bad Happens" by Oingo Boingo

posted by croctommy 14 September | 17:02

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