Peppy Songs About Death, Volume 2 6/13 '22
More music reviews from those same three CD cases!
Track 1: A brief mention of hellfire, but otherwise just high levels of peppiness. ***
Track 2: Not so peppy, and imagines an end to many avoidable deaths. Still not bad. **
Track 3: A quiet meditation on a shadowy location. **
Track 4: Aha. Exactly one dead bird, but a very moving eulogy for her. ****
Track 5: This song has only 7 words. It's easy to listen to, at least. **
Track 6: Again no obvious physical death, but a genuine classic that can't be ignored. It's about spiritual death, perhaps? *****
Track 7: One dead brother, lauded with exceptional peppiness. Bring tissues. *****
Track 8: A bright love ballad that suddenly threatens to burn down cities and hear the lamentation of the women as they are also destroyed. ****
Track 9: An extremely peppy hymn to a baby destined for salvific sacrifice. ****
Track 10: A cheerful day in the park, then BANG, nuclear holocaust. Mrs. Ferret claims to hate this song, but this time she played along bravely. *****
Track 11: A great song that possibly threatens death by drowning, but I think that's just metaphorical. ****
Track 12: A young man has become a petty criminal for reasons that are unclear to him. He probably didn't kill anyone, but who knows? **
Track 13: A remixed version of track 6, probably the singers' best-known song. It's been covered by a heavy metal group. *****
Track 14: Dead leaves remind us of the inevitability of aging, loss, and death. ****
Track 15: I can't find anything to particularly like about this one, but they can't all be hits. *
Track 16: This song literally refers to the death of raindrops, but no one cries about dead raindrops, right? **
Track 17: After this remix/sequel of track 12, my son said "That song is so good, why is it so short?" This made me very happy. ****
Track 18: Entirely instrumental, with hints of track 22. Reasonably peppy. ***
Track 19: There's no trigger warning in this song about the suicide of a gentleman in otherwise pleasant circumstances. ****
Track 20: Wow, a second consecutive suicide, of a man in less pleasant circumstances. Who compiled this album? I don't like this one as much, probably because it's not as peppy. **
Track 21: Definitely refers to death, but I'm fairly hopeful that this is just a reference to the death of a love affair. Brief and lacking pep. **
Track 22: More relationship death, but peppier. ***
Track 23: A rocking ode to individual isolationism that contrasts a peppy beat with a less-peppy message. ****