The 15 Song Album collection:

[jazbo8]

01 - It's Getting Better All the Time - Brooks & Dunn
02 - A Thousand Steps To Nowhere - Jimmy Buffett
03 - Things Can Only Get Better - D:REAM
04 - The End - The Doors
05 - Happy Days Are Here Again - Barbra Streisand
06 - Dust In The Wind - Kansas
07 - Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
08 - Feel Like Going Home - The Notting Hillbillies
09 - Lucky You, Lucky Me - Memories Of Machines
10 - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker

 

[Charles Darwin]

01 - It's Getting Better All the Time - Brooks & Dunn
02 - A Thousand Steps To Nowhere - Jimmy Buffett
03 - Things Can Only Get Better - D:REAM
04 - The End - The Doors
05 - Happy Days Are Here Again - Barbra Streisand
06 - Dust In The Wind - Kansas
07 - Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
08 - Feel Like Going Home - The Notting Hillbillies
09 - Lucky You, Lucky Me - Memories Of Machines
10 - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
11 - Big Calm - Morcheeba

 

[gasboss775]

01 - It's Getting Better All the Time - Brooks & Dunn
02 - A Thousand Steps To Nowhere - Jimmy Buffett
03 - Things Can Only Get Better - D:REAM
04 - The End - The Doors
05 - Happy Days Are Here Again - Barbra Streisand
06 - Dust In The Wind - Kansas
07 - Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
08 - Feel Like Going Home - The Notting Hillbillies
09 - Lucky You, Lucky Me - Memories Of Machines
10 - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
11 - Big Calm - Morcheeba
12 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

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06 - Dust In The Wind - Kansas

One of my favourite gloomy songs!

 

[Charles Darwin]

Dang,, simul post...
Thought that might happen... then I simulpost a pesimistic one ...I'll know it

Things Can Only Get Better--- wasn't that the Blair number...many thought it was the portent of doom..

Yep keyboards performed by Professor Brian Cox of CERN and BBC fame and chosen to be Blair's election theme tune for the '97 general election.

 

[drewburn]

01 - It's Getting Better All the Time - Brooks & Dunn
02 - A Thousand Steps To Nowhere - Jimmy Buffett
03 - Things Can Only Get Better - D:REAM
04 - The End - The Doors
05 - Happy Days Are Here Again - Barbra Streisand
06 - Dust In The Wind - Kansas
07 - Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
08 - Feel Like Going Home - The Notting Hillbillies
09 - Lucky You, Lucky Me - Memories Of Machines
10 - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
11 - Big Calm - Morcheeba
12 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
13 - So far from the Clyde - Mark Knopfler

 

[bendyha]

12 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
13 - So far from the Clyde - Mark Knopfler


BUZZ:::::::::::::::::::::::::Got a double downer there.....

 

[levistubby]

"Got a double downer there..... " No! - Getting away from the Clyde is good!

 

[kec]

01 - It's Getting Better All the Time - Brooks & Dunn
02 - A Thousand Steps To Nowhere - Jimmy Buffett
03 - Things Can Only Get Better - D:REAM
04 - The End - The Doors
05 - Happy Days Are Here Again - Barbra Streisand
06 - Dust In The Wind - Kansas
07 - Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
08 - Feel Like Going Home - The Notting Hillbillies
09 - Lucky You, Lucky Me - Memories Of Machines
10 - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
11 - Big Calm - Morcheeba
12 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
13 - So far from the Clyde - Mark Knopfler
14 - It's the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M.

 

[gasboss775]

I'm confused as I always thought of No. 14 as a happy song?

 

[gasboss775]

Can we get some consensus on whether 15 should be happy or sad, I could work with either?

 

[Konzentr8]

Can we get some consensus on whether 15 should be happy or sad, I could work with either?

The guy that wrote it claimed the lyrics were meant to make people smile .
Source .. Michael Stipe interview with Q magazine circa 1992

 

[Cal Weldon]

13 is about recycling. So far from the Clyde simply distances the ship from the shipyard.
14 has a sad title but it's not what you call a sad song so...?

 

[gasboss775]

01 - It's Getting Better All the Time - Brooks & Dunn
02 - A Thousand Steps To Nowhere - Jimmy Buffett
03 - Things Can Only Get Better - D:REAM
04 - The End - The Doors
05 - Happy Days Are Here Again - Barbra Streisand
06 - Dust In The Wind - Kansas
07 - Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
08 - Feel Like Going Home - The Notting Hillbillies
09 - Lucky You, Lucky Me - Memories Of Machines
10 - Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
11 - Big Calm - Morcheeba
12 - Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
13 - So far from the Clyde - Mark Knopfler
14 - It's the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M.
15 - Falling To Pieces - Faith No More

 

[gasboss775]

I had what I thought was a great original topic and I've forgotten what it was!

 

[gasboss775]

What about memorable VS forgettable, again in alternating themes.

01 - Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

 

[kec]

14 has a sad title but it's not what you call a sad song so...?

I was only going by the title, but you're right, it is a happy song

 

[soundbrigade]

01 - Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
02 - I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel

 

[soundbrigade]

And thanks for great themes that alternate that way they do.
I have another similar idea ...

 

[Konzentr8]

Opps wasn't paying attention again quoted the wrong post in my reply about the R.E.M. song .

 

[bendyha]

Still don't get the optimism instilled by ship breaking...but others have rushed on...

What about memorable VS forgettable, again in alternating themes.

I assume unforgettable = memorable, and, don't remember = forgettable, so, can't forget= memorable

01 - Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
02 - I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel
03 - I Can't Forget - Leonard Cohen