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Offline EnsoMu

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What songs make you wistful?
« on: July 28, 2011, 10:54:37 PM »
Wistful:  Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing

I was sitting here tonight working on photos and listening to an R.E.M. playlist on youtube when R.E.M.'s Man On the Moon came on.  I was filled with the sort of feeling I felt back in the 90's when I was listening to it:  a sort of wistful longing for change of sort.  Back then I was stuck in a depression loop and the wistfulness to change was keenly felt.  Today's listening was a sort of double wistfulness, both for having those feeling of then hit me again, but also a mindfulness that the time I had bound out in my illness then is time I'll never get back.


So what songs make you wistful, and what are you wistful for?




Ghost edit to add a link to Man On the Moon, oh and if you don't have a link, don't worry.  I'd rather hear the story.
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Re: What songs make you wistful?
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2011, 12:22:01 AM »
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

It reminds me of my ex and it makes me wonder how everything went so wrong.
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Re: What songs make you wistful?
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2011, 12:58:29 AM »
I love that song, but then I love all Snow Patrol.
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Re: What songs make you wistful?
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2011, 01:14:39 AM »
Mostly, sad relationship songs make me feel better about the whole thing. They scratch the itch, express how I'm feeling and kinda... roll that emotion around a little.

This one sometimes makes me feel weird, though.

(I should be your) Girlfriend - The Servant


And this one often makes me feel wistful or melancholy, or can kick me into a full on staring-at-the-wall-unmoving funk. They should put a warning label on it or something. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful song, but do NOT listen to it when your mental defences are lower than usual.

Radiohead - No Suprises


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Re: What songs make you wistful?
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2011, 02:01:22 AM »
Quote from: S*S on July 29, 2011, 12:58:29 AM
I love that song, but then I love all Snow Patrol.

Yeah, that's because you are AWESOME.

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Re: What songs make you wistful?
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2011, 08:26:27 AM »
Pretty much EVERY SONG. OHNOES.
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Re: What songs make you wistful?
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2011, 08:32:37 AM »
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Not only is it already a wistful song and Kate Rusby's voice is perfect for wisftulness, the song has, uhm, associations for me.

It is like a triple whammy of wistful.
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Re: What songs make you wistful?
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2011, 08:45:44 AM »
Snow Patrol is amazing. <3 And it was so weird the first time I heard them on the radio here; I'd gotten Final Straw from a friend of mine who lives in the UK several months before anyone in the States heard of 'em, LOL.

For songs that make me wistful... I dunno. I don't tend to download them; I tend to form strong emotional attachments to songs sometimes, and when the reason for the attachment is gone... I tend to thrust the song away from me as hard as I can until the association goes away.

I suppose Georgy Girl makes me a bit ... wistful in the nostalgic sense? It reminds me of the me that existed before I started "coming into my own". I don't miss her, per se, but I remember being that girl so much...

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