American Pie (Don McLean)

Kind of, but not really. It's very good, and while it may be a little sad, it's a little quirky and amusing.

The length of this song alone is depressing

Boy, if I was going to get depressed about references to rock stars who died before they got old then please pass the prozac before I head to the record store.  Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Big Bopper, Eddie Cochran, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Gene Vincent, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Duane Allman, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Gram Parsons, Jim Croce, Marc Bolin, Keith Relf, Elvis Presley, James Honeyman-Scott, Bob Marley, Sid Viscous, John Lennon, Randy Rhodes, Ian Curtis, Johnny Thunders, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Kurt Cobain, Michael Hutchense, Shannon Hoon, Jeff Buckley...  Due to space constraints, Hip Hop would have to be a whole seperate list.

One of my all time favorites.  I think I was in about 10th grade at the time and, like spinette, recall the same big deal being made concerning all the music history references...it was like everyone your age as well as a few teachers who were trying to maintain a certain coolness were continuously trying to decode the song.  It was fun and interesting and even had a certain feeling of importance - but not at all depressing to me since I wasn't really old enough to wax nostalgic about the death of Rock and Roll at that point in time.  To my 15 year old mind it was alive and doing quite well.

Not depressing.  Just dopey and overplayed to death.  This was an attempt by a second-rate talent to come up with a commercial answer to a song like Dylan's "Desolation Row."  Was as disasterous as casting Oprah Winfrey in "The Dorothy Dandridge Story" or Tom Cruise in "Hamlet" would be.

Well Bye Bye Miss American Pie, rode my Chevy to the Levy but the Levy was dry, and good ol boys drinking whiskey and rye thinking this I'll be the day that I die. Oh this was incredible, the lyrics were so visual, (I met a girl who sang the blues, and asked for some happy news, and maybe we'd be happy for awhile). The song speaks about so many of our finest musicians, and of course notably, "The Day The Music Died" was about the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens, the 3 men who died Febuary 3, in a air plane accident. There was a movie regarding the death of Richie Valens, who sang such favorities as "Donna", and his trademark "La Bamba". There were many inferences to the song, as I was in the eighth grade when the song came out, we were like a class from the "Wonder Years" absorbing what our "cool" teachers were telling us about what the song meant.I remember there were references to, "The Beatles", "The Rolling Stones", "Janis Joplin" and prouably a lot of clich... Read more

It's upbeat and some have adopted it as an anthem. I'm only depressed that I'm listening to Don McLean and not Buddy Holly.