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Gloomy Sunday

Postby MaD_hAND1e on Mon May 30, 2005 6:30 pm

Anyone heard of the story behind this?
What do you guys think?
If you haven't, check this out:
http://www.phespirit.info/gloomysunday/

Personally, I think this makes perfect logical sense... I read somewhere that only about 100-200 people have commited suicide after listening to this. Now... generally, really sad people will listen to sad songs, therefore the majority of the people who listened to this song + commited suicide, must have been really depressed to begin with, hence after listening they couldn't take it anymore and commited suicide.
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Postby Andrew on Mon May 30, 2005 9:19 pm

Agreed. I don't think any of the suicides connected with Gloomy Sunday have truly been spontaneous; surely there are some urban myths that have their roots in some true accounts of suicides linked with the song. Perhaps it might have triggered some suicides, but I'm sure a lot of the references in the suicide notes were made because the individuals felt the lyrics expressed how they were feeling in a manner they couldn't.
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Postby MaD_hAND1e on Tue May 31, 2005 6:57 am

Andrew wrote:Agreed. I don't think any of the suicides connected with Gloomy Sunday have truly been spontaneous; surely there are some urban myths that have their roots in some true accounts of suicides linked with the song. Perhaps it might have triggered some suicides, but I'm sure a lot of the references in the suicide notes were made because the individuals felt the lyrics expressed how they were feeling in a manner they couldn't.


Yea, its more like... what they call a "selection bias" in stats.
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Postby Strike Freedom on Tue May 31, 2005 3:57 pm

the song does sound sad, but not till a stage where you can kill yourself.
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Postby COOLmac© on Tue May 31, 2005 3:58 pm

coldplay has some sad songs. but it never triggered suicides, all this shit is just mere coincedence 8-)
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Postby kevC on Tue May 31, 2005 4:15 pm

Everytime I listen to Radiohead I want to kill myself.
I slip away
I slipped on a little white lie
We've got heads on sticks, You've got ventriloquists
Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed
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Postby COOLmac© on Tue May 31, 2005 4:20 pm

you seem to have some sort of problems....are you okay now? since radiohead has disbanded? :lol:
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Postby shadowgrin on Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:10 am

For real Coolmac? Post links, I can't find some.
*The 1st Coolmac post that I find interesting, creepy*
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Postby Drex on Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:16 am

It doesn't really matter if they are disbanded or not(unless you're a fan), the songs are still there...
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Postby shadowgrin on Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:44 am

I am.

The past songs are still there, but there will no more future songs. :cry:
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