Soft Rock Suicide
| Soft Rock Suicide | |
| Created by: | sparkymonroe |
| Tracks: | 21 |
| Length: | 01:19:31 |
| Keywords |
1. Soft 2. Rock 3. Suicide |
| Created on | 6/6/10 5:50am |
| Level | 2 |
| Points | 1410 |
| Total visitors | 9 |
| Unique visitors | 6 |
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If you've ever had occasion to listen to the soft rock, whether it was during a road-trip hostage crisis, or while hunting and gathering at the grocer's, or while waiting to have a tooth pulled, then you know how depressing it can be and how appropriate many of genre's songs would be for inclusion on a suicide mixtape. Drifting away to the sounds of that ever-so-lilting AM flotsam and jetsam might just be the ticket for softly going into the night. And if that's a dreadful thought for you to think, then think of this tape as a sad bastard mix tucked away for a rainy day*.
Post Script- (I'd rather listen to this tape than R.E.M.'s "Automatic For the People" like a certain famous someone did before finishing himself off with a bang. But whatevers.)
*Disclaimer: This is a hypothetical suicide mixtape. It's not the first or the last to be made in the wide world of mixtapes. Life is great, more or less. This isn't meant to be all scary. Thanks.
Post Script- (I'd rather listen to this tape than R.E.M.'s "Automatic For the People" like a certain famous someone did before finishing himself off with a bang. But whatevers.)
*Disclaimer: This is a hypothetical suicide mixtape. It's not the first or the last to be made in the wide world of mixtapes. Life is great, more or less. This isn't meant to be all scary. Thanks.
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| 1 | Tommy James and the Shondelles : Draggin' the Line |
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Meditation on the workaday world, smiling, knowing it will all be over soon. No more punching the clock! (possible reference to drugs is optional).
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Track 1 from Very Best of
Length: 00:04:31 Year: 1993 |
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Meditation on the workaday world, smiling, knowing it will all be over soon. No more punching the clock! (possible reference to drugs is optional). SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Chicago : 25 or 6 to 4 |
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This song works for obvious reasons. Staring blindly into space Getting up to splash my face Wanting just to stay awake Wondering how much I can take Should I try to do some more 25 or 6 to 4 SHOW MORE
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Track 2 from Chicago II
Length: 00:05:00 Year: 1970 |
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This song works for obvious reasons. Staring blindly into space Getting up to splash my face Wanting just to stay awake Wondering how much I can take Should I try to do some more 25 or 6 to 4 SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Band of Horses : No One's Gonna Love you |
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Contemporary soft rock. A band of neutered horses. I could shed a horse tear over this though.
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Track 3 from Cease to Begin
Length: 00:03:39 Year: 2007 |
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Contemporary soft rock. A band of neutered horses. I could shed a horse tear over this though. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Bread : If |
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What a dreary, but beautiful, beautiful song. This could be the part of the mix where you think about the one that got away.
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Track 4 from The Best of Bread
Length: 00:02:36 Year: 1973 |
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What a dreary, but beautiful, beautiful song. This could be the part of the mix where you think about the one that got away. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | King Harvest : Dancing in the Moonlight |
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This song makes me reflexively pensive. So cheery, like driving off a bridge.
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Track 5 from Have a Nice Day- Volume 17
Length: 00:02:53 |
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This song makes me reflexively pensive. So cheery, like driving off a bridge. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | 10cc : I'm Not In Love |
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Whenever I run across a 10cc record at a thrift shop, I wonder about what the original owner might have been like. This is also another song to think about that certain unforgettable someone.
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Track 6 from The Best of 10cc
Length: 00:06:08 Year: 2002 |
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Whenever I run across a 10cc record at a thrift shop, I wonder about what the original owner might have been like. This is also another song to think about that certain unforgettable someone. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | The Carpenters : Rainy Days and Mondays |
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How long does it take to die from carbon monoxide poisoning? If that's how you're going out, it would be about time to start your engine.
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Track 7 from Carpenters
Length: 00:03:39 Year: 1971 |
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How long does it take to die from carbon monoxide poisoning? If that's how you're going out, it would be about time to start your engine. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Carole King : So Far Away |
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Most of these songs are very peaceful, like a morphine drip.
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Track 8 from Tapestry
Length: 00:03:55 Year: 1971 |
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Most of these songs are very peaceful, like a morphine drip. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | England Dan & John Ford Coley : I'd Really Love to See You Tonight |
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This is an upbeat song, which is not really depressing, but it makes me sad for some reason. Maybe it's because it's such a sweet way of saying, "Hey, I ain't gonna tie you down, let's just get together tonight, sweet stuff." This song also sort of works on a "Ain't No Permanent Thing" mix. I find most of these songs hypnotizing in their mellow melodious sways. SHOW MORE
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Track 9 from Super Hits of the 70s
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This is an upbeat song, which is not really depressing, but it makes me sad for some reason. Maybe it's because it's such a sweet way of saying, "Hey, I ain't gonna tie you down, let's just get together tonight, sweet stuff." This song also sort of works on a "Ain't No Permanent Thing" mix. I find most of these songs hypnotizing in their mellow melodious sways. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Genesis : Throwing It All Away |
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I think this album is under-appreciated. I was sitting alone at a bar in a foreign land and this song came on. Along with the self service beer taps, playing songs like that one had to increase the night's take for the bar. SHOW MORE
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Track 10 from Invisible Touch
Length: 00:03:51 Year: 1986 |
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I think this album is under-appreciated. I was sitting alone at a bar in a foreign land and this song came on. Along with the self service beer taps, playing songs like that one had to increase the night's take for the bar. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Seals & Crofts : Diamond Girl |
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A loverly doverly song for that last half hour before the bell tolls for that last call for alcohol.
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Track 11 from Diamond Girl
Length: 00:04:14 Year: 1973 |
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A loverly doverly song for that last half hour before the bell tolls for that last call for alcohol. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Air Supply : All Out of Love |
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Another love song. I guess that unrequited love or bungled love really makes us do some crazy stuff. Oh, by the way, if you're doing the pill thing, make sure to take some anti-nausea medicine before you wake up all embarrassed.
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Track 12 from Love in Love
Length: 00:04:03 Year: 1980 |
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Another love song. I guess that unrequited love or bungled love really makes us do some crazy stuff. Oh, by the way, if you're doing the pill thing, make sure to take some anti-nausea medicine before you wake up all embarrassed. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Walter Egan : Magnet and Steel |
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A classic for a dimly lit situation.
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Track 13 from Eazy Rock Ultimate Collection
Length: 00:03:20 Year: 2006 |
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A classic for a dimly lit situation. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Atlanta Rhythm Section : So In To You |
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Keeping the mix alive.
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Track 14 from Sounds of the Seventies: 1977
Length: 00:03:17 Year: 1990 |
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Keeping the mix alive. SHOW LESS
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| 15 | Elvin Bishop : Fooled Around and Fell in Love |
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This section flows so well that you can't really turn back.
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Track 15 from Struttin' my Stuff
Length: 00:04:36 Year: 1975 |
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This section flows so well that you can't really turn back. SHOW LESS
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| 16 | The Cars : Drive |
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This song reeks of mental breakage.
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Track 16 from Heartbeat City
Length: 00:03:54 Year: 1984 |
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This song reeks of mental breakage. SHOW LESS
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| 17 | The Floaters : Float On (Short Version) |
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A song where each member of this RnB vocal group introduce themselves by their name and Zodiac sign belongs here. The easy breeziness of the music itself is a great way to start the afterlife.
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Track 17 from Sounds of the 70's: 1977 Take Two
Length: 00:04:13 Year: 1991 |
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A song where each member of this RnB vocal group introduce themselves by their name and Zodiac sign belongs here. The easy breeziness of the music itself is a great way to start the afterlife. SHOW LESS
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| 18 | Goldfrapp : Horse Tears |
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Impotent eyes that cannot come crying anymore.
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Track 18 from Felt Mountain
Length: 00:05:10 Year: 2000 |
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Impotent eyes that cannot come crying anymore. SHOW LESS
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| 19 | Young Marble Giants : Wind in the Rigging |
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Whoops, mispelled the album name from whence this track came. Should be Colossal Youth. No way to do it over, either. How fitting.
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Track 19 from Colassal Youth
Length: 00:02:25 Year: 1980 |
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Whoops, mispelled the album name from whence this track came. Should be Colossal Youth. No way to do it over, either. How fitting. SHOW LESS
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| 20 | My Bloody Valentine : Incidental Peace |
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This is an instrumental ambient track MBV made with Skylab for a charity album. It's rather vague like a fugue state so I mixed the the following track inside the song's gently rumbling haze for a final send off. This kind of breaks the soft rock theme, but the song entwined within hopefully keeps the theme alive to the bitter end.
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Track 20 from Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip
Length: 00:05:36 Year: 1996 |
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Track Description:
This is an instrumental ambient track MBV made with Skylab for a charity album. It's rather vague like a fugue state so I mixed the the following track inside the song's gently rumbling haze for a final send off. This kind of breaks the soft rock theme, but the song entwined within hopefully keeps the theme alive to the bitter end. SHOW LESS
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| 21 | reggie milner : I Can't Live Without You |
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Just sounds so hazy and forlorn, a rather timeless quality to it. Perfect. Goodbye.
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Track 21 from The Lost Soul of Detroit
Length: 00:02:31 |
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Just sounds so hazy and forlorn, a rather timeless quality to it. Perfect. Goodbye. SHOW LESS
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