I received a heart wrenching email from a teenage fan whose friend had just passed away suddenly in a car accident. The fan said his friends favorite song was the HUGE melancholy love song this foreign based permanent A list band had, and could they please play it at their concert the following night? We forwarded the email to the band, and not only did they play the song (which, well they would've anyway, let's be honest) but they dedicated it to the teen who passed away and had all of his friends and family backstage to meet the band after the show.
Rolling Stones just started their tour.
ReplyDeleteWild Horses, the Stones? All I got.
ReplyDeleteI think Dead Flowers can be eliminated as the song though.
ReplyDeleteNice, but did any alien abduction take place during the show? Cmon Enty, dont hold out on us now!
ReplyDeleteWild Horses would be waaaaayyyy down on the list of my favorite Stones songs, but whatever, people like dumb stuff. I can't quite picture the Stones dedicating it to a teen who died, etc, but I dunno, shrug, maybe with Mick's heart problem they softened.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Dead Flowers. Hm, I wonder if I should add that to the list of songs I want played at any memorial service I have? It's in my will. Would be funny.
ReplyDeleteI also have asked my good friend who's an Episcopal priest to mention "Ashes to ashes, funk to funky" at any memorial service.
Sweet Virginia was done last night.
ReplyDeleteU2-where the streets have no name?
ReplyDeleteNah that’s not Meloncholic-Maybe With or Without You?Otherwise Coldplay -Yellow came to mind
DeleteTeen Stones fans?? Maybe.
ReplyDeleteThe other night on the Teen Jeopardy tournament, the kids didn't know who Mick Jagger or Madonna was!😂
I wonder if the song was Paint It Black?? Lots of younger bands have covered it!!
I like the phish cover of loving cup better than theirs lol
ReplyDeleteMy guess is Angie
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Totally thought Yellow too! Go Trisha!
ReplyDeleteLove that damn song. Unfortunately I watched him sing it to Gwyneth once which almost killed it for me. almost....lol
DeleteL💛VE Yellow!!! Hate Goopster. 👎🏼
DeleteForeign based is off here, but Metallica just did this.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.herald.ie/news/metallica-sing-tribute-to-crash-victim-fan-chris-38210912.html
Wasn't enty running blinds about how the Stones were terrible people that kept sex slaves and raped underage girls? Interesting change of pace.
ReplyDeleteI like the Coldplay/Yellow guess.
LOVE Angie and Shine a Light for a more gospel-y vibe...it was Stones second night in Chicago last night. Bummed I missed them. Their music is eternal in my eyes (no matter what past behaviors i learn from this site!)
ReplyDeleteKrab- I love your pizzazz!😁
Someone said-- great find! Maybe Lars' Danish influence has finally overcome the band!
ReplyDeleteWow,@Someone, that's s good find! Nothing Else Matters is pretty melancholic!
ReplyDelete@Vita. Wow, I did not know Lars was from Denmark!
ReplyDeleteI find it impossible to believe that Mick Jagger did anything kindness related for anybody, unless he's had a life altering experience after his surgery.
ReplyDeleteIt says 'foreign based' not 'foreign' which might be significant. Where are bands based now for tax reasons?
ReplyDeleteGreat story Someone, although the person in the blind was a teen and the Metallica person was 26.
ReplyDeleteCars have killed more teens than cigarettes.
ReplyDeleteAre Radiohead on tour? If so then it's Creep.
ReplyDeleteFleetwood Mac are touring. I can see a song like Sara being appropriate.
ReplyDeleteOr Landslide.
DeleteInternational band members from UK, US and NZ, so not exactly foreign but based in London so foreign "based".
ReplyDeleteEesh- harder than I thought...this is a reader that received the letter, and is telling of the kindness. So, who knows when this happened? I guess we can be on the right track, as Enty might have posted now bc it relates to someone who is once again on tour.
ReplyDeleteIs Coldplay Permanent A? Radiohead? I dont know!
Creep is a great, melancholic song that I could see a teen loving. Fleetwood Mac could have several choices.Coldplay, too, if permanent A.
For some reason, Coldplay and U2 seem the foreign based permanent A I see most likely to do the meet and greet part. But, given the reason, perhaps any of them might
Nice one by Metallica!
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Coldplay and "The Scientist"
ReplyDeleteI think I found it. The song is Fix You and the band was indeed Coldplay.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/concert-review-coldplay-s-chris-706345
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony?
ReplyDeleteI don’t know. That teen died of cancer in 2013.
ReplyDeleteJust a side note and slightly off topic. The second night of the Rolling Stones tour in Chicago my friends, WHISKEY MYERS, opened for them. We are all pretty proud of our boys. They have busted their ass touring almost non stop. You can also hear their tunes on Paramounts, Yellowstone (show starring Kevin Costner).
ReplyDeleteDead Flowers is one of my favorite Stones songs. My funeral song will def be Way Over Yonder, hopefully played (piano) and sung live by Carole King but I am good with it just being played.
ReplyDeleteHoly Moley, Mama! Do you know Carole? That would be amazing!!
DeleteWild Horses
ReplyDeleteDead Flowers
Paint It Black
Loving Cup, by Phish
Angie
Sara
Landslide
Creep
The Scientist
Yellow
Fix You
Bittersweet Symphony
Thanks guys, for helping me create a melancholy song list! 😂 And a note to self to check out Whiskey Myers!
Amelia-- Congrats to Whiskey Myers! That's quite a triumph!
ReplyDelete@Freebird Add How It Ends by DeVotchKa to your list :)
ReplyDelete✔️ Done!
DeleteBrown Sugar, that's what I want at my funeral.
ReplyDeleteI want Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder.
ReplyDelete👆🏼To be played at my funeral.
DeleteIf I had to choose a funeral song for myself, it'd probably be Wild is the Wind by Bowie
ReplyDeleteI actually chose Shadowplay by Joy Division. Ian Curtis will not be singing it live.
ReplyDeleteAtmosphere is usually the first song I go to when I am in a funk.
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