Emotional songs and procrastination

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Emotional Songs

Am currently sitting on the patio of my garden drinking a beer and taking in the wonderful views of the Lake District – perhaps for the final time before emigrating to Denmark.

Am also listening to one of the most emotional songs I have ever heard – Johnny Cash and his very final song before passing away – “Hurt”

When you watch the YT video and listen to the music you will realise that despite his early success and riches, he ends up with nothing – no friends, no money, no acclaim, nothing. And it made me realise that despite how we lead our lives – rich or poor – the end result will always be the same, death!

I think Cash’s point in this song is that you really need to make the most of every single day of your life. Even when you’re a success it will eventually turn to shit some day and you’re left with nothing but memories.

When you’re young you probably don’t give a shit about such wisdom, and rightly so I guess. But the more I listen to Cash’s song the more I realise that time is running out and that things that you’ve always put off for another day need to be realised before you end up looking back regretting on what could have been.

“Hurt” is probably the most depressing/uplifting song I have ever heard, even to the point of me shedding a few tears at how his life came to nothing when he finally died in September 2003.

Music is a great motivator and I think after listening to this it has given me the incentive to do those things that I have always put on the back burner for one reason or another. And in this context the move to Denmark will almost certainly happen because if I don’t I will regret it when I look back in 20 odd years time.

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Nominated by Technocunt.

I can relate to this oh so very well Techno, the song Are you reeling in the years by Steely Dan says it for me sir. C.A.

156 thoughts on “Emotional songs and procrastination”

  1. ‘holding back the years’ by Simply Red I find cloying.
    I don’t like it when its ‘cloying’
    ‘How long has this been going on’. The guy from Mike and the Mechanics. Reaching for sentiment.
    He did one about his late father which was a bit cloying.
    Adele is cloying.

    • For cloying try Ed Sheeran’s Joker and the Queen.

      Like a wedding cake made with peanut butter and a ‘sad face’ emoji in icing.

      • Lewis Capaldi’s ‘Pointless’ is like all the above, but done in batter, like a deep fried Mars Bar.

  2. Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
    Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
    Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
    Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

    Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
    You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
    And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
    No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

    And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
    Racing around to come up behind you again
    The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older
    Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

    Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
    Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
    Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
    The time is gone, the song is over
    Thought I’d something more to say…

    (Time by Pink Floyd)

  3. Johnny Cash had a hard life.
    These rock star wankers are all middle class art students really,
    But not the Country stars.

    His name wasn’t really John , just ‘J’ cash,
    His parents were dirt poor.
    His brother was killed in a accident putting up fencing and his dad told Johnny

    “it should of been you”

    A horrible thing to say to a boy.

    He came up on Sun records with fellow budding singer Elvis Presley and they were friends.

    Carl Perkins(blue suede shoes) was another friend,
    They both had scars all over their hands from picking cotton as kids

    Johnny Cash was the dogs bollocks.
    Raw talent, humour and could sing a song that’d make you cry.

    RIP the man in black

    https://youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFSc?si=bL6UCZV7KusyX5_9

  5. If you really want to uplift yourself, just remember this wonderful nugget of wisdom:
    At some point in the future, you’ll be thought of for the very last time.

    • It will probably be the thought of a hybrid of a Filipino and R2D2 wiping my repulsive arse.

    • It is said that you die twice. Once when you do die and then again when someone speaks your name for the last time.

  6. If I may be nihilistic…there is no point in anything…in 500m years, the Earth will still be habitable. The average temperature will be warmer, and CO2 will begin siphoning out of the atmosphere and into rocks. The Sun will be about 5% more luminous. The types of plants that thrive will be different than we enjoy today. Our descendants will not look like what we consider to be “normal humans”. Species may use a little more silicon and a less carbin where possible. Erosion and tectonics will have changed a lot of the surface, continents will have moved. We’ll have passed Pangea II, new buckling of new continents have begun, while what we know and love today has been mashed together, and both subducted and heaved up.
    At about 1b years from now, the increased luminosity will only be 10%. The oceans are shrinking more rapidly, and at this point, we start a runaway timer for them to evaporate entirely. The atmosphere expands, and the water vapor traps more heat. More loss of atmosphere by the solar wind occurs. Our plate tectonics reduce due to less weight on them sloshing around. The moon is 40,000 kilometers further away (424,000km vs 384,000km). A day on earth will be over 29 hours. The earth is about 15,000km further from the Sun’s core, but 10,000km closer to the sun’s surface. Carbon accelerates its deposition into rocks. Life is very different, and current us would not be able to breathe the atmosphere. Grasses and shrubs still exist, but there are no more tall trees, vines, etc. Maybe some small animals at high elevations, and in cooler regions. 27% of the oceans are gone, both folded into the mantle, and evaporated, split, and blown away.
    At about 1.5by from now, the dynamo effect of the core will become more unstable, and the axis will shift massively. The rotation of the days will change from millennia to millennia. There may be times where one of the new poles is aimed directly at the sun, with the other pole an icy tundra. There may not be plant or animal life anymore, with microbes, fungii, etc taking refuge in rocks, caverns, and places that have avoided direct sunlight. Anything remaining would seem very alien to us.
    Around 2by, the dynamo of our core will be failing. The atmosphere will continue to be stripped away more rapidly, most notably the lighter gasses. Probably not much in the way of plant life either. Cellular colonies with very alien biology would still be around. Nitrogen fixing bacteria are what allows life to continue, reducing the atmospheric pressure, lowering the temperature, and attenuating the loss of the oceans.
    By 3by, our planet will be mostly desolate and scoured. Earth will be like Venus is today, with a thick, hot atmosphere. Surface temps are in the 300F / 140C range. No living organisms remain, but there would be evidence of the last life in the fossil record. There hasn’t been plate movement in hundreds of millions of years, and the deepest trenches of the last oceans would be where the last strongholds had been, but still being displaced by sediment, etc.
    By 4by, our planet will have patches of magma and hot rocks. The edge of the Andromeda galaxy will be stretching out to our galaxy, because it will be closer to our core than to Andromeda’s.
    Around 5by, the Sun has very little hydrogen left to fuse, and is now fusing almost entirely helium. It is 67% more luminous than we see now. Our galaxy will begin merging with Andromeda, with galactic orbits being very unstable for billions of years until the oscillations align with the new spin of the new core. The Sun’s core contracts, and the outer layers expand as it heats up.
    7.5by, the Sun will be 2730 TIMES brighter than it is now. The Earth will be a lava ocean with ceramic icebergs. The surface temperature will be 3900F / 2100C. The sun has lost 33% of its mass due to increased solar wind, and therefore all of the planets orbits are about 50% larger than they are today. Mercury and Venus are absorbed. The moon has slowed due to the drag of being inside the chromosphere. The moon shatters as it gets closer than 19,000km to the Earth. Those pieces deorbit, and the splash causes Earth’s molten mantle to spray into the Sun. Even reducing it’s mass, and moving outward, this precipitates a rapid dissolution of the Earth into the Sun (hundreds of years). The Sun shows up with a 0.01% increase in metal across its light spectrum for any observers. The stars look different, and more of them. The Milky Way is still merging with Andromeda.
    Eventually, the helium fusing to carbon and oxygen is mostly done, and the shell of red hot gas will be shed into a new planetary nebula. The remaining core will be a white dwarf of about 54% of our current star’s mass. No more fusion occurs, so it loses heat by radiation, shrinking until it reaches equilibrium with electron degeneracy pressure. It will continue to cool for many tens of billions of years.

  7. If I may be nihilistic…there is no point in anything…in 500m years, the Earth will still be habitable. The average temperature will be warmer, and CO2 will begin siphoning out of the atmosphere and into rocks. The Sun will be about 5% more luminous. The types of plants that thrive will be different than we enjoy today. Our descendants will not look like what we consider to be “normal humans”. Species may use a little more silicon and a less carbin where possible. Erosion and tectonics will have changed a lot of the surface, continents will have moved. We’ll have passed Pangea II, new buckling of new continents have begun, while what we know and love today has been mashed together, and both subducted and heaved up.
    At about 1b years from now, the increased luminosity will only be 10%. The oceans are shrinking more rapidly, and at this point, we start a runaway timer for them to evaporate entirely. The atmosphere expands, and the water vapor traps more heat. More loss of atmosphere by the solar wind occurs. Our plate tectonics reduce due to less weight on them sloshing around. The moon is 40,000 kilometers further away (424,000km vs 384,000km). A day on earth will be over 29 hours. The earth is about 15,000km further from the Sun’s core, but 10,000km closer to the sun’s surface. Carbon accelerates its deposition into rocks. Life is very different, and current us would not be able to breathe the atmosphere. Grasses and shrubs still exist, but there are no more tall trees, vines, etc. Maybe some small animals at high elevations, and in cooler regions. 27% of the oceans are gone, both folded into the mantle, and evaporated, split, and blown away.
    At about 1.5by from now, the dynamo effect of the core will become more unstable, and the axis will shift massively. The rotation of the days will change from millennia to millennia. There may be times where one of the new poles is aimed directly at the sun, with the other pole an icy tundra. There may not be plant or animal life anymore, with microbes, fungii, etc taking refuge in rocks, caverns, and places that have avoided direct sunlight. Anything remaining would seem very alien to us.
    Around 2by, the dynamo of our core will be failing. The atmosphere will continue to be stripped away more rapidly, most notably the lighter gasses. Probably not much in the way of plant life either. Cellular colonies with very alien biology would still be around. Nitrogen fixing bacteria are what allows life to continue, reducing the atmospheric pressure, lowering the temperature, and attenuating the loss of the oceans.
    By 3by, our planet will be mostly desolate and scoured. Earth will be like Venus is today, with a thick, hot atmosphere. Surface temps are in the 300F / 140C range. No living organisms remain, but there would be evidence of the last life in the fossil record. There hasn’t been plate movement in hundreds of millions of years, and the deepest trenches of the last oceans would be where the last strongholds had been, but still being displaced by sediment, etc.
    By 4by, our planet will have patches of magma and hot rocks. The edge of the Andromeda galaxy will be stretching out to our galaxy, because it will be closer to our core than to Andromeda’s.
    Around 5by, the Sun has very little hydrogen left to fuse, and is now fusing almost entirely helium. It is 67% more luminous than we see now. Our galaxy will begin merging with Andromeda, with galactic orbits being very unstable for billions of years until the oscillations align with the new spin of the new core. The Sun’s core contracts, and the outer layers expand as it heats up.
    7.5by, the Sun will be 2730 TIMES brighter than it is now. The Earth will be a lava ocean with ceramic icebergs. The surface temperature will be 3900F / 2100C. The sun has lost 33% of its mass due to increased solar wind, and therefore all of the planets orbits are about 50% larger than they are today. Mercury and Venus are absorbed. The moon has slowed due to the drag of being inside the chromosphere. The moon shatters as it gets closer than 19,000km to the Earth. Those pieces deorbit, and the splash causes Earth’s molten mantle to spray into the Sun. Even reducing it’s mass, and moving outward, this precipitates a rapid dissolution of the Earth into the Sun (hundreds of years). The Sun shows up with a 0.01% increase in metal across its light spectrum for any observers. The stars look different, and more of them. The Milky Way is still merging with Andromeda.
    Eventually, the helium fusing to carbon and oxygen is mostly done, and the shell of red hot gas will be shed into a new planetary nebula. The remaining core will be a white đwarf of about 54% of our current star’s mass. No more fusion occurs, so it loses heat by radiation, shrinking until it reaches equilibrium with electron degeneracy pressure. It will continue to cool for many tens of billions of years

    • Fuck me Thomas … I better cram a few more beers and holidays in – quick.
      But don’t worry unduly, Jesus will have returned and saved us all before then – after all, he did promise!
      Won’t he / she / it / them ????

    • About a billion years left for us then, you say?

      Well, apart from Keith Richards. And probably Gary Lineker, that cunt is too spawny to let the end of our Solar System affect him. He’ll probably pull a parallel universe out of his arse, just for him and his slaves, right on the doomsday button.

    • Thomas, you need to find a lovely lady and empty your bollocks in her sharpish.

      I sense you are a bit too deep in thought, man.

      • I think he said he’s going to Colorado soon to blow his load in some skank in a truck stop toilet.

        Just be careful she doesn’t lure you to somewhere where you get mugged eh Thomas?

        I’ve heard a story about someone who was lured somewhere and woke up with a kidney missing. Not sure if that’s more of a Ciudad Juarez thing.

      • I thought it was a Glasgow thing.

        ‘Aye pal.. good U’s an’ E’s fer me fro’ noo on!’

  8. “Chemical Warfare” by Slayer always cheers me up,thinking of great mounds of dead enemies.

    The theme tune to The Great Escape might be a cliché now but nevertheless reminds me of a great generation of English people long gone,but also that nothing lasts forever..

    So pass the brandy,the suns out.

  9. Being a callous, borderline sociopath and misanthrope, I notice the cruel irony some random emotionally loaded song can create in a certain place or situation.
    There have been times where family and friends have been unable to bear listening to a song from a radio or sound system and walked away from view.

  10. Fuck me you mard cunts. Even the Cunt Engine has gone all mard.

    Can we have a nom showing some nice jiggly tits?

    This is ‘is a cunt’ not a Radiohead convention.

    It’s no surprise to me, that the admittedly talented and likeable Mr Cash died after releasing ‘Hurt’. Died of mardness.

    Put ‘I’m a believer’ or summat on, you mard arses.

  11. There is a song sweeping the underground airwaves of America by a fellow named Anthony Oliver that is evoking lots of emotion on all sides.

    “Rich Men North of Richmond”:

    https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro

    Traditional American music from the descendants of the Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scots) who settled Appalachia, the title refers to the Establishment in Washington DC which is just north of Richmond, Virginia. It is a soulful lament about the state of our (once great) nation brought on by the cunts in Washington DC.

    This won’t be everybody’s cup of tea.

    • For those who don’t appreciate the music, here are the lyrics:

      I’ve been selling my soul, workin’ all day
      Overtime hours for bullshit pay
      So I can sit out here and waste my life away
      Drag back home and drown my troubles away

      It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to
      For people like me and people like you
      Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
      But it is, oh it is

      Livin’ in the New World
      With an old soul
      These rich men north of Richmond
      Lord knows that all just wanna have total control
      Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
      And they don;t think you know, but I know that you do
      ‘Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end
      Cause of rich men north of Richmond

      I wish politicians would look out for miners
      And not just minors on an island somewhere
      Lord, we got folks in the street ain’t got nothin’ to eat
      And the obese milkin’ welfare

      Well, God if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds
      Taxes ought not to pat for your bags of fudge rounds
      Young men are puttin’ themselves 5 feet in the ground
      ‘Cause all this damn country does is keep kickin’ them down

      Repeat Chorus

    • It’s powerful stuff, General. I gather he’s been offered millions for a recording contract and told the cunts to fuck off. Will he hold out against the lure of all that filthy lucre forever I wonder?

      • Hey Geordie,

        He has indeed turned down multiple recording offers including one reported to be worth $8 MILLION!

        Whether he holds out remains to be seen but I think perhaps he might.

        The Republican Party appropriated his song after their (farcical excuse for a) debate. He told them to stop using his song as they were as much a part of the problem as the Demonrats were.

        Many of us view most members of the Republican Party and indeed its leadership and hierarchy (with a few notable exceptions) as part and parcel of the Establishment Uni-party that dwells in the swamp north of Ricnmond.

  13. “Now just remember kids , we are all closer to death now than before I started this assembly “.

    Used to wind my headteacher up loads. And have the year 7 s in tears. Think cunts. Still showed they’d been listening.

    If I’d have just said don’t waste time they wouldn’t have heard a thing.

    • Soft little shits. That sort of joke was everyday from our teachers, but then many were having breakdowns, drinking problems, divorces and general depression.

      With my year group, they were right to.

  16. Agree, Techno. You will only regret the opportunities you don’t take. Judy Garland’s “The Man that got Away” is my absolute favourite such song. Her delivery is electric.

    Also, if you are going to fuck off, Copenhagen/Denmark are absolutely beautiful places to live. Mrs Twenty and I visit as often as we can.

  22. A great album from the 70s is by the guy who was in The Byrds, Gene Clark, who ended up drinking himself to death. I thought of him because Mis called Hank Williams, “the hillbilly Shakespeare” and Clark has been called that.

    No Other by Gene Clark is the album.

    “Some Misunderstanding” (8-minute epic)
    https://youtu.be/W1oGyxLtqok?si=77dQEgez06r3sgwU

  24. Oddly recently i happened to hear Elvis just pretend, the live version. I’d forgotten how well he could sing, really a mood setter.

    • It became popular from the late 70s onwards to sneer at Elvis.

      The Vegas years.

      But he was working class made good,
      More than that speccy twat Lennon.
      A truck driver who took his chance and made it big.

      I think he was fuckin brilliant.
      The snake hipped young rocker
      AND the fat cunt in a sequinned suit.

      I saw some documentary of him playing Vegas.
      Well past his best and he was still fuckin great!

      The audience were going bananas.

      • Wow! Some voice on the lad eh six?!

        Looked poorly there,
        Shame, think he was a decent bloke like.

        RIP

      • I like Elvis as well. If you’re going to use the much-overused term ‘icon’ for a 20th Century performer, Elvis is worthy. Ive appreciated him more as I get older, where I do not rate Lennon as a legend. McCartney perhaps, as I prefer his stuff from the seventies.

        My favourite Elvis song is ‘In the Ghetto’.

  25. Music to listen to whilst passing into the next world, any one of:
    Mahler Symphony 2 finale
    Bruckner symphony 9 final movement
    Bruch Kol Nidrei

    • Sounds vERY high brow Maven.

      I’ll cheque out to Crocodile shoes by Jimmy Nail

      • Actually, thinking about it, LL, Mis would probably prefer a Viking funeral.

        The blazing ship drifting slowly out to sea, the inconsolable hound eventually pulling itself free and rushing across the pebbly beach, howling hauntingly.

        The torches blazing away as the mourners make their way back to the village, and a voice says..

        “So where do you think his mead stash is, then?”

      • I’d like that LL and those around me would promise me that,
        But they’d fuck it up.

        Sounds cynical but left to my family I’d end up on a tractor inner tube on the Mersey with just my beard alight

        Here’s how I’d like it

        https://youtu.be/iqXrjq2ePlw?si=10BUVyfsHU-gyOm-

        Ps
        I obviously don’t expect Tony Curtis to be there.
        But it’d be nice if he was.

      • Not sure the ducks at the local pond would appreciate your burning carcass on a country cream gate, polluting their habitat.

  28. I’m late to this nomination but can I just add that you need to stop being an overly emotional gaylord?

  29. I was just thinking about writing a song about procrastination, but I think I’ll do it tomorrow 🤔

  30. I’ve been painting the kitchen all day and I must say after reading these comments I’m feeling quite emulsional.

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