Trapped in a Glass Case of Emotions
| Trapped in a Glass Case of Emotions | |
| Created by: | siobahnit |
| Tracks: | 12 |
| Length: | 00:49:41 |
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| Created on | 8/29/06 7:56pm |
| Level | 5 |
| Points | 2464 |
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| Unique visitors | 53 |
| This mix was ranked #14 out of 30 entries for this contest | |
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Being sad, morose, or melancholy is an enormous part of being human, and seeing as how this world just keeps getting bigger, so do the feelings of loneliness. This comp is of songs that remind me of feeling that way, and having the knowledge that there are times when nobody can fucking help. Listen and weep, weiners.
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| 1 | The Cars : Drive |
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This song is basically about feeling completely and utterly sorry for yourself -simply drowning in your sadness. I know that everyone has at least once in their life sat in their car and cried whilst driving or being pulled over somewhere. Though Benjamin Orr's voice is a little cheesy in this song, it really stresses the main point of it all: "You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong."
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Track 1 from Heartbeat City
Length: 00:03:54 Year: 1984 |
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This song is basically about feeling completely and utterly sorry for yourself -simply drowning in your sadness. I know that everyone has at least once in their life sat in their car and cried whilst driving or being pulled over somewhere. Though Benjamin Orr's voice is a little cheesy in this song, it really stresses the main point of it all: "You can't go on thinking nothing's wrong." SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Jimmy Eat World : Drugs Or Me |
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This song reminds me a lot of The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work," and although both songs move me deeply, I picked this particular one because it truly voices the desperation of watching someone fall away from you. There is no end to the pain one feels when witnessing a drastic change in someone he or she loves or cares for. It is a deep and common hurt that occurs in everyone's life.
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Track 2 from Futures
Length: 00:06:25 Year: 2004 |
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This song reminds me a lot of The Verve's "The Drugs Don't Work," and although both songs move me deeply, I picked this particular one because it truly voices the desperation of watching someone fall away from you. There is no end to the pain one feels when witnessing a drastic change in someone he or she loves or cares for. It is a deep and common hurt that occurs in everyone's life. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | The Magnetic Fields : I Don't Really Love You Anymore |
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It is a sad truth that past bad experiences with love often harbour themselves deep within someone, and in turn, that person will manifest those sarcastic insecurities into a relationship that is actually worth investing trust in. At face value, these lyrics are casually cruel, but under the bouncing strings and light melody, there is a very vulnerable sadness. SHOW MORE
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Track 3 from i
Length: 00:02:33 Year: 2004 |
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It is a sad truth that past bad experiences with love often harbour themselves deep within someone, and in turn, that person will manifest those sarcastic insecurities into a relationship that is actually worth investing trust in. At face value, these lyrics are casually cruel, but under the bouncing strings and light melody, there is a very vulnerable sadness. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | The Libertines : Music When the Lights Go Out |
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"And alarm bells ring/When you say your heart still sings/When you're with me/Oh, darling, please forgive me/I no longer hear the music." What a perfect way of saying that you have fallen out of love, but what a devastating realisation that you finally have to admit it.
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Track 4 from The Libertines
Length: 00:03:02 Year: 2004 |
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"And alarm bells ring/When you say your heart still sings/When you're with me/Oh, darling, please forgive me/I no longer hear the music." What a perfect way of saying that you have fallen out of love, but what a devastating realisation that you finally have to admit it. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Jeff Buckley : Lover, you should have come over |
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The title says it all: the should/could/would haves of relationships. The countless hours looking back and wondering if it were salvageable if someone had done just one thing differently. Jeff Buckley knows how to communicate exquisite and angst-dripping sadness through his whispers and screams. SHOW MORE
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Track 5 from Live at L'Olympia
Length: 00:07:47 Year: 2001 |
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The title says it all: the should/could/would haves of relationships. The countless hours looking back and wondering if it were salvageable if someone had done just one thing differently. Jeff Buckley knows how to communicate exquisite and angst-dripping sadness through his whispers and screams. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Keane : Everybody's Changing |
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Who hasn't felt this way before? It is an eerie feeling to know that everyone around you can change within an instant, but it is even more frightening to know that you can subsequently change without knowing it. Suddenly, it is all different, and you cannot even keep your own head together.
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Track 6 from Hopes And Fears
Length: 00:03:35 |
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Who hasn't felt this way before? It is an eerie feeling to know that everyone around you can change within an instant, but it is even more frightening to know that you can subsequently change without knowing it. Suddenly, it is all different, and you cannot even keep your own head together. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | M83 : Don't Save Us from The Flames |
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Amidst the insistent banging of an electric keyboard, and the ambiguous sighs of Nicolas Fromageau, it is apparent that there is some kind of battle being fought in this song. It makes me think of the slight hysteria that occurs within you when you have hit rock bottom, and you almost welcome the tears because you know you can't be fixed until you are broken. SHOW MORE
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Track 7 from Before the Dawn Heals Us
Length: 00:04:16 Year: 2005 |
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Amidst the insistent banging of an electric keyboard, and the ambiguous sighs of Nicolas Fromageau, it is apparent that there is some kind of battle being fought in this song. It makes me think of the slight hysteria that occurs within you when you have hit rock bottom, and you almost welcome the tears because you know you can't be fixed until you are broken. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Death Cab for Cutie : Death of an Interior Decorator |
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This song is about being unable to know love without pain. Ben Gibbard based this song on director Woody Allen's only dramatic film "Interiors." It is about a woman whose husband leaves her in her early 30s, to raise three extremely emotional and different daughters alone. They grow up, get married, and have their own marital issues whilst the main character still holds on to the hope that her husband will return. The film ends with her drowning herself after numerous failed suicide attempts, and it is said perfectly: "... walked into the angry sea/It felt just like falling in love again." SHOW MORE
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Track 8 from Transatlanticism
Length: 00:02:56 Year: 2003 |
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This song is about being unable to know love without pain. Ben Gibbard based this song on director Woody Allen's only dramatic film "Interiors." It is about a woman whose husband leaves her in her early 30s, to raise three extremely emotional and different daughters alone. They grow up, get married, and have their own marital issues whilst the main character still holds on to the hope that her husband will return. The film ends with her drowning herself after numerous failed suicide attempts, and it is said perfectly: "... walked into the angry sea/It felt just like falling in love again." SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Django Reinhardt : I'll Never Smile Again |
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I normally connect to songs with well-written lyrics, but this particular artist captures emotions so much better through his instrumentals. It sounds like when you casually tell your friends that you are miserable, and they will really never know how true it is. SHOW MORE
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Track 9 from Django's Blues
Length: 00:02:42 |
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I normally connect to songs with well-written lyrics, but this particular artist captures emotions so much better through his instrumentals. It sounds like when you casually tell your friends that you are miserable, and they will really never know how true it is. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Damien Rice : Volcano |
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Oh, the King of Sadness, Damien Rice! I treasure this song because of its unique message. Most sad love songs deal with the fact that one is being abandoned or betrayed, but this is about having to push a lover away because you can no longer bear to stay with them. "You give me miles and miles of mountains/But I ask for the sea." SHOW MORE
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Track 10 from 0
Length: 00:04:38 Year: 2003 |
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Oh, the King of Sadness, Damien Rice! I treasure this song because of its unique message. Most sad love songs deal with the fact that one is being abandoned or betrayed, but this is about having to push a lover away because you can no longer bear to stay with them. "You give me miles and miles of mountains/But I ask for the sea." SHOW LESS
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| 11 | David Byrne : Glass, Concrete and Stone |
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The beauty in the humming cello and Dave Byrne's poetic way of expressing that nothing matters anymore makes this a true heartwrencher. He paints the scenario by saying "it is just a house/not a home" and that his "bags are down and packed/for traveling." It is basically a journey to self-death and acknowledging oneself as a pretender. SHOW MORE
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Track 11 from Grown Backwards
Length: 00:04:13 Year: 2004 |
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The beauty in the humming cello and Dave Byrne's poetic way of expressing that nothing matters anymore makes this a true heartwrencher. He paints the scenario by saying "it is just a house/not a home" and that his "bags are down and packed/for traveling." It is basically a journey to self-death and acknowledging oneself as a pretender. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Neil Diamond : Love on the Rocks |
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Most people hear "Neil Diamond" and think shiny shirts, hairy chests, and drunken shouting. But I hear "Neil Diamond" and think "PURE AWESOMENESS." The message in this tune really seals the deal, and the undebatable truth of "We all know this song." Just like we know all the rest of them. SHOW MORE
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Track 12 from The Essential Neil Diamond (Disc 2)
Length: 00:03:40 |
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Most people hear "Neil Diamond" and think shiny shirts, hairy chests, and drunken shouting. But I hear "Neil Diamond" and think "PURE AWESOMENESS." The message in this tune really seals the deal, and the undebatable truth of "We all know this song." Just like we know all the rest of them. SHOW LESS
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The One Year Anniversary Badge
Milk was a bad choice! And by 'milk', I mean this 'this mix', and by 'bad choice', I mean 'great choice'.
9/19/09 8:54am
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Magic - I love Jeff Buckley and The Libertines and am just really getting into the Magnetic Fields
8/18/07 2:13pm
The New Years 2007 Badge
I don't like the Libertines, I've never really gotten what's great about Jeff Buckley, and Death Cab never did anything for me... but you put Neil Diamond on here, and that's pretty effin awesome, so + + + !
12/16/06 4:33pm
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I'm glad you put Drive on there, really great. Glass, Concrete and Stone.
8/29/06 8:05pm
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