Thesis: Ohio is the saddest state Literally any song with the word “Ohio” in the title is guaranteed to be a total bummer, even if it’s also a total banger - ThreadSky

seeshespeak.bsky.social • 31 days ago

Thesis: Ohio is the saddest state

Literally any song with the word “Ohio” in the title is guaranteed to be a total bummer, even if it’s also a total banger

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jpinnv.bsky.social•31 days ago

Where he got the bread to go,
Ain’t nobody knows

profdownie.bsky.social•31 days ago

Am I missing references to Niel Young, et al. in this thread?

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

He’s definitely there in spirit.

phasmatic.bsky.social•31 days ago

even if it just references a place IN Ohio. https://genius.com/Rem-cuyahoga-lyrics

pluribus-unum.co•31 days ago

"My town was gone." 🌇💔

drreznicek.bsky.social•31 days ago

Bowling For Soup's Come Back to Texas adds to your argument

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

YES

brusowrites.bsky.social•31 days ago

Especially thinking of Look at Miss Ohio for some reason today

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Exactly, me too

ebrandom.bsky.social•31 days ago

yes my first thought as well

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Ohio is the home of suffering, it’s true

brusowrites.bsky.social•31 days ago

You could put together a melancholy as all playlist ~ now playing Carry Me Ohio

alexiamandla.bsky.social•31 days ago

Ohio by @andrewmcmahonmusic.bsky.social was my go-to cry song for a while as a California-to-Ohio-to-California transplant!

julia-rosethorn.bsky.social•31 days ago

That’s because Ohio itself is a bummer. (I say this as an Ohioan).

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

I say all of this as an ex-Ohioan and yes, agreed

alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social•31 days ago

"Bloodbuzz Ohio" - yeah, checks out.

hannah-sakura.bsky.social•31 days ago

Damien Jurado’s ‘Ohio’ is one of my all-time favourite sad songs.

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

omg that song is BRUTAL

annakornbluh.bsky.social•31 days ago

even the name is a lament, a deflationary greeting, a broken heart salute

rhetoricpj.bsky.social•31 days ago

Chrissie Hynde/The National overlap, here for it!

annakornbluh.bsky.social•31 days ago

subtle plea also for all the great bands from there

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Exactly, as Modest Mouse proves when they sing the word — a consonant-less cry

dougalmcneill.bsky.social•31 days ago

This solves a mystery I've been worrying over these twenty years: why Gillian Welch singing "oh me oh my oh" works (works too well!!!) when really, looking at it on the page, this should be a silly line.

liammcilvanney.bsky.social•31 days ago

Bizarrely, I discovered this song for the first time yesterday…

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

WHAT

liammcilvanney.bsky.social•31 days ago

Late but in earnest…😉

meganfaragher.bsky.social•31 days ago

Can confirm.

mpbrown.bsky.social•29 days ago

Au contraire

https://youtu.be/OaoWkDkKiBQ?si=GrSN2C3ReXkNKT36

mikevachow.bsky.social•31 days ago

Pretenders wrote that essay.

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Wow, really?!?! I’ve NEVER heard of that COMPLETELY OBSCURE song!

sincerely-elkhorn.bsky.social•31 days ago

According to science, Indiana is the saddest. It is only by abandoning Indiana that writers gain the fortitude to write sad songs about Ohio.

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Crossroads of America but then after driving through it, you’re just somewhere worse, like Ohio

sincerely-elkhorn.bsky.social•31 days ago

Ohio: Hart Crane and James Wright.
Indiana: Colonel Sanders and John Dillinger.

brianbeatty.bsky.social•31 days ago

Indiana can also claim Scatman Cruthers and Jimmy Hoffa.

ilovemyplants.bsky.social•31 days ago

From Seneca to Cuyahoga Falls

ebrandom.bsky.social•31 days ago

"the people of cleveland, who've suffered for so many years"

fivefteditrix.bsky.social•31 days ago

Having listened to, e.g., "Carry Me, Ohio" a lot when my ex was bailing, I'd be inclined to think this right. The exception, maybe, is "Look at Miss Ohio," which always strikes me as oddly hopeful as much as it is sad?

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Dude “Miss Ohio” is a complete tragedy!

fivefteditrix.bsky.social•31 days ago

Just in the regular way of many of our lives, though, yeah?

seeshespeak.bsky.social•31 days ago

Precisely, which is the heaviest and realest of tragedies, after all

fivefteditrix.bsky.social•31 days ago

True, true!

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