Help me find this life-sucking song

June 10, 2008 10:08 PM

Songfilter: Big band/swing song, female vocals, all about why life sucks.

I think it's the closing theme of a movie, maybe a dark comedy? Swing-y song, alto female voice.

I can only remember the gist of the lyrics, but it was to how life sucks what "Ironic" is to irony (or not): it listed many ways in which life sucked. Sort of a darker Frank Sinatra's "That's Life". I loved it. Help me find it!

posted by svolix to Media & Arts (9 answers total)

Is That All There Is / Peggy Lee?
posted by misteraitch at 10:16 PM on June 10, 2008

Some background on the song, that is if Is That All There Is is it.
posted by user92371 at 11:01 PM on June 10, 2008

Perhaps you are thinking of Que Sera Sera -- which more of a who-knows-what-the-future may-bring kind of a song -- it was the opening and closing theme of "Heathers." The opening was the chipper Peggy Lee version, I believe, but the Sly Stone version at the end was certainly melancholy (and very beautiful.)
posted by Methylviolet at 12:05 AM on June 11, 2008

Oops -- Doris Day, not Peggy Lee.
posted by Methylviolet at 12:07 AM on June 11, 2008

Response by poster: I like these! But they aren't the song I'm looking for.

A neuron fired somewhere and I remembered that "life's a bitch" also figured prominently in the lyrics.
posted by svolix at 12:31 AM on June 11, 2008

Could it be "Prisoner of Life", featured in the movie "Short Cuts"? More jazz than big band but ya never know.
posted by h00py at 1:53 AM on June 11, 2008

Something from the Squirrel Nut Zippers?
posted by gjc at 6:06 AM on June 11, 2008

Jill Tracy and Abby Travis perform music like this. I'm not well-acquainted with either, but it's another place to look.
posted by crush-onastick at 8:38 AM on June 11, 2008

Something's Gotta Give - Ella Fitzgerald
something by Blossom Dearie?
posted by mattbucher at 1:36 PM on June 11, 2008