Tenebrous Audio

I have to thank my good friend David for this dark musical interlude. This CD compilation is justly called Going Down. I offered them as my penultimate wrap to this dark week (w/ appropriate videos where available).

1. REM Everybody Hurts

-when I saw the opening song, I knew this was going to be a great mix

2. Moody Blues Melancholy Man

-the standard rendition with some uplifting but dark winter scenes for mood(y)

3. Three Dog Night Easy To Be Hard

-1970 version with long hair and no smoothed out big band trappings

4. Police King Of Pain

-reunion tour version from Rio 2007

5. Van Morrison Melancholia

-a real hidden gem but hard to find on the net, only a thirty second snippet

6. M*A*S*H Theme Suicide Is Painless

-video is the funeral scene from the movie

7. Steppenwolf Desperation

-from the album Rest In Piece

8. Natalie Merchant Break Your Heart

-I know that it will hurt, I know that it will break your heart

9. Kansas Dust In The Wind

-with apologies, but the video is nearly the point of no return Otis

10. Sting Fragile

-listening to Sting and watching him are different experiences colored by gender

11. Peter Gabriel Don't Give Up

-if he had never left Genesis, you wouldn't know who Phil Collins is

12. The Who Behind Blue Eyes

-for something a little different, the Limp Bizkit cover

13. Van Morrison Underlying Depression

-the best I can do is the lyrics; too bad because the two Morrison songs on this list are brilliant

14. Neil Young Don't Let It Bring You Down

-a truly great cover by Annie Lennox

15. The Doors The End

-from the iconic opening of Apocalypse Now

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photo credit: archives

Main Entry: ten·e·brous

Function: adjective

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French tenebreus, from Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae

Date: 15th century

1 : shut off from the light : dark, murky
2 : hard to understand : obscure
3 : causing gloom