Mad, Rammstein Skin is

I agree as well, which posed me a bit of a problem for this post. I wanted to play happy songs, or at least songs that weren’t depressing.

My brain wanted to post a few songs from CSN’s “Live It Up”, a much ignored album of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, which happens to be my favorite album of theirs.

There are a few problems with this.

First, while there are a number of good songs on this album, they are also very depressing.

Examples:

Haven’t We Lost Enough?

Time heals all – so they say – I don’t know
Sometimes nothing is clear
Maybe someday I’ll understand
But I know for a start there’s a place in my heart
That is yours and it won’t disappear

Yours and Mine

I can see a boy of fourteen
He’s got a rifle in his hand
He’s dying to defend his desert land

He’s got an arm around his father
Another arm around his gun
Must the child in the father die so young?

House of Broken Dreams

Separate houses – separate hearts
It’s hard to face the feelings tearing us apart
And in this house of broken dreams, love lies

See what I mean? Beautiful, heartfelt lyrics. And all uniformly depressing.

There’s another problem with that theme, though. Not a song on this album can be found on Youtube being sung by CSN. A cover or two, but not enough to work with. Ticks me off, really.

I thought about playing some songs from Justin Hayward & John Lodge’s “Blue Jays” album, but, you know, I’ve done enough Moody Blues posts for now.

And I really didn’t have it in me to do a robot theme today.

So, I’ll go with the songs that have mostly snapped me out of the depressed mood the other music I was listening to put me in. (Yes, picking out out music for this blog can be depressing occasionally. If you have as much good depressing music as I do…)

I’m Going Slightly Mad – Queen

Isn’t Freddie Mercury great? I love the showmanship in this video. And I was inevitably reminded of a line from Douglas Adams “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” while watching this.

“Ford, you’re turning into a penguin. Stop it.”

You know, somehow I’m reminded of Voltaire. And, yay, bananas!

I Am Rammstein – Voltaire

All right, you all know Rammstein. Now, here’s Voltaire’s take on what they actually are saying…

Reminds me a bit of David Bowie, in Cheech and Chongs “Earache My Eye“, actually.

Skin Is, My – Andrew Bird

And here we have Andrew Bird singing about his skin. I’m not sure why, but it just seems to fit. Being Andrew Bird, it fits the category of “slightly mad”, anyways. That’s probably why I like his music…