30 Day Song Challenge Day 04 – A song that makes you sad
Predictably, there are a lot (though I have a feeling not as many as for an upcoming one, "Songs you listen to when you're already sad"). A bunch of these are road-tested--while walking in mornings I have fought back tears when they came up, when I was just fine until.
"Ruth Marie" (and a bunch of Kozelek songs vaguely around that time period--"Sundays and Holidays" was one too) in particular reminds me of a very specific time in my life that was one of the saddest. Not in a clinically depressed way either like most of my teenage years--just deeply sad because, well, life is sad in those ways. I still think of all of those car rides to the hospital to see people for the last time and the tears start up again.
Richard Buckner - Elizabeth Childers (Edgar Lee Masters)
Mark Kozelek - Ruth Marie
P.J. Harvey - Sweeter Than Anything, Silence
Gillian Welch - Annabelle
Cat Power - Ice Water, Metal Heart, Colors and the Kids, Good Woman, Back of Your Head, Rockets
Radiohead - Kid A, Idioteque, Black Star, Bulletproof...I Wish I Was
Will Oldham - The Same Love That Made Me Laugh (Bill Withers, Live)
Yo La Tengo - Damage
Hayden - My Parent’s House
Jeremy Enigk - Explain
Low - Shame, Sunflower
Julie Doiron - Don’t Ask
Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone
Taking Pictures - Autumn Song
Throwing Muses - Serene
Young Marble Giants - Brand New Life
Tram - Now We Can Get On With Our Own Lives
This Mortal Coil - A Single Wish
Tom Waits - Martha
Crooked Fingers - The River (Bruce Springsteen)
Smog - Teenage Spaceship
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Of All the Things We’ve Made
American Analog Set - The Only Living Boy Around, The Postman, Play Hurt (not the album version but that weird promo piano-based one)
Iron and Wine - Jezebel
Bonny Billy and the Marquis de Tren - 2/15 (Rabindranath Tagore)
Dianogah - Time For a Game of Stick
Jose Gonzalez - Cycling Trivialities
Clyde Federal - Cold Marble
Josef K - It’s Kinda Funny
Patti Smith - Pissing in a River, Elegie
Joy Division - Disorder
The Karl Hendricks Trio - You’re a Bigger Jerk Than Me
Richmond Fontaine - Lost Son, the entire album (so I picked her up at St. Mary's/she was skinnier than before/it was hard to see anything at all)
Neko Case - Vengeance is Sleeping (Live), Knock Loud
My Morning Jacket - Bermuda Highway
The Organ - Love, Love, Love, There Is Nothing I Can Do
Snowden - Black Eyes
Tugboat Annie - Landlock Swim
Afghan Whigs - Rot, Ready (both Scrawl covers...here’s the original of Rot)
"Ruth Marie" (and a bunch of Kozelek songs vaguely around that time period--"Sundays and Holidays" was one too) in particular reminds me of a very specific time in my life that was one of the saddest. Not in a clinically depressed way either like most of my teenage years--just deeply sad because, well, life is sad in those ways. I still think of all of those car rides to the hospital to see people for the last time and the tears start up again.
Richard Buckner - Elizabeth Childers (Edgar Lee Masters)
Mark Kozelek - Ruth Marie
P.J. Harvey - Sweeter Than Anything, Silence
Gillian Welch - Annabelle
Cat Power - Ice Water, Metal Heart, Colors and the Kids, Good Woman, Back of Your Head, Rockets
Radiohead - Kid A, Idioteque, Black Star, Bulletproof...I Wish I Was
Will Oldham - The Same Love That Made Me Laugh (Bill Withers, Live)
Yo La Tengo - Damage
Hayden - My Parent’s House
Jeremy Enigk - Explain
Low - Shame, Sunflower
Julie Doiron - Don’t Ask
Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone
Taking Pictures - Autumn Song
Throwing Muses - Serene
Young Marble Giants - Brand New Life
Tram - Now We Can Get On With Our Own Lives
This Mortal Coil - A Single Wish
Tom Waits - Martha
Crooked Fingers - The River (Bruce Springsteen)
Smog - Teenage Spaceship
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Of All the Things We’ve Made
American Analog Set - The Only Living Boy Around, The Postman, Play Hurt (not the album version but that weird promo piano-based one)
Iron and Wine - Jezebel
Bonny Billy and the Marquis de Tren - 2/15 (Rabindranath Tagore)
Dianogah - Time For a Game of Stick
Jose Gonzalez - Cycling Trivialities
Clyde Federal - Cold Marble
Josef K - It’s Kinda Funny
Patti Smith - Pissing in a River, Elegie
Joy Division - Disorder
The Karl Hendricks Trio - You’re a Bigger Jerk Than Me
Richmond Fontaine - Lost Son, the entire album (so I picked her up at St. Mary's/she was skinnier than before/it was hard to see anything at all)
Neko Case - Vengeance is Sleeping (Live), Knock Loud
My Morning Jacket - Bermuda Highway
The Organ - Love, Love, Love, There Is Nothing I Can Do
Snowden - Black Eyes
Tugboat Annie - Landlock Swim
Afghan Whigs - Rot, Ready (both Scrawl covers...here’s the original of Rot)