30 Day Song Challenge Day 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad
The mother lode.
Damien Jurado - Curbside
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Ryan Adams and Gillian Welch - Helpess (Live, Neil Young)
Pretty much any infamous Swans song, yeesh. It just makes you want to die, augh.
Cass McCombs - I Went To The Hospital, Your Mother and Father (yes, bizarre juxtaposition in that video...)
Mineral - wakingtowinter., Love Letter Typewriter, & Serenading, Unfinished (not for reasons most could guess, I'm sure)
Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek - Moments, Drop, a certain scratchy live--or demo maybe?--version of Michigan (can't find it on YT but here's something sort of close), Golden, Brockwell Park, Grace Cathedeal Park, Down Colorful Hill, Duk Koo Kim, Smokey (demo)
Thalia Zedek - Strong, Back to School
Elliott Smith - Waltz #1 (demo), Some Song (Acoustic)
Low - Words, Stay
Cat Power - Water and Air
Mazzy Star - Take Everything
Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep, The Morning Fog
Tori Amos - Marianne, Doughnut Song, Father Lucifer, Not the Red Baron, Cooling, Black Dove, Girl, Precious Things, Pretty Good Year, Bells For Her, Icicle, Cloud on My Tongue, Winter, China, Tear In Your Hand, Little Earthquakes, Cruel, Playboy Mommy, Concertina, Space Dog, Rattlesnakes (Lloyd Cole), Baker Baker
Kepler - I Will Not Return Your Records
Guided By Voices - Peep-hole
The Field Mice - Anoint (Live Peel), So Said Kay
Edith Frost - Thine Eyes, Temporary Loan
Two Dollar Guitar - Down to Sleep
Whiskeytown - Midway Park
Slint - Washer
Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers - Hospital, She Cracked
Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear
Spacemen 3 - So Hot
Regina Spektor - December (Demo)
Spiritualized - Angel Sigh
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes, Well I Wonder
Smog - All Your Women Things, Permanent Smile, Nineteen, One Less Star (so there's one less star in the sky/well who cares...) (Bill is one of the only people who can write a song that both works for "makes you sad" and "what you want to hear when you're already sad" for me)
Hood - (symbols), A Spell of Rain, Fashion Mistake of the Decade, Houses Tilting Towards the Sea, British Radars, I’ve Forgotten How to Live, Love Is Dead But Never Buried, Girl Called Heaven
Kristin Hersh - Hope, The Cuckoo, Houdini Blues
Codeine - Frigid Stars, the entire damn album (she stands next to the cigarette machine/'this device has got it made' she thinks/it has a cast iron stomach/but a camel for a heart)
His Name Is Alive - Drive the Dreamy Demon Down, As We Could Ever, the entire Home is In Your Head album
The Butchies - Heartfelt
Lisa Germano - Bad Attitude (the end always gets me)
P.J. Harvey - Nina
Liz Phair - Dead Shark
East River Pipe - Kill the Action
Sebadoh - Not a Friend
Sentridoh - the whole Winning Losers E.P.
Owen - Most Days And
Bon Iver - Roslyn
The Dirty Three - Some Things I Just Don’t Want to Know, Obvious is Obvious (Kim Salmon), I Really Should’ve Gone Out Last Night
The Spinanes with Sam Prekop - Reach vs. Speed
Blonde Redhead - Jetstar (there's a live version floating around that is my favorite, but not on YT)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Evergreen (The Diane Perry Tape)
Hayden - Nights Like These
Chappaquiddick Skyline - Leave Me Alone (New Order)
The Cure - All Cats Are Grey, Disintegration, Plainsong (that one is R's fault...along with certain Bedhead songs...oh context)
Damien Jurado - Curbside
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
Ryan Adams and Gillian Welch - Helpess (Live, Neil Young)
Pretty much any infamous Swans song, yeesh. It just makes you want to die, augh.
Cass McCombs - I Went To The Hospital, Your Mother and Father (yes, bizarre juxtaposition in that video...)
Mineral - wakingtowinter., Love Letter Typewriter, & Serenading, Unfinished (not for reasons most could guess, I'm sure)
Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek - Moments, Drop, a certain scratchy live--or demo maybe?--version of Michigan (can't find it on YT but here's something sort of close), Golden, Brockwell Park, Grace Cathedeal Park, Down Colorful Hill, Duk Koo Kim, Smokey (demo)
Thalia Zedek - Strong, Back to School
Elliott Smith - Waltz #1 (demo), Some Song (Acoustic)
Low - Words, Stay
Cat Power - Water and Air
Mazzy Star - Take Everything
Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep, The Morning Fog
Tori Amos - Marianne, Doughnut Song, Father Lucifer, Not the Red Baron, Cooling, Black Dove, Girl, Precious Things, Pretty Good Year, Bells For Her, Icicle, Cloud on My Tongue, Winter, China, Tear In Your Hand, Little Earthquakes, Cruel, Playboy Mommy, Concertina, Space Dog, Rattlesnakes (Lloyd Cole), Baker Baker
Kepler - I Will Not Return Your Records
Guided By Voices - Peep-hole
The Field Mice - Anoint (Live Peel), So Said Kay
Edith Frost - Thine Eyes, Temporary Loan
Two Dollar Guitar - Down to Sleep
Whiskeytown - Midway Park
Slint - Washer
Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers - Hospital, She Cracked
Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear
Spacemen 3 - So Hot
Regina Spektor - December (Demo)
Spiritualized - Angel Sigh
The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My Eyes, Well I Wonder
Smog - All Your Women Things, Permanent Smile, Nineteen, One Less Star (so there's one less star in the sky/well who cares...) (Bill is one of the only people who can write a song that both works for "makes you sad" and "what you want to hear when you're already sad" for me)
Hood - (symbols), A Spell of Rain, Fashion Mistake of the Decade, Houses Tilting Towards the Sea, British Radars, I’ve Forgotten How to Live, Love Is Dead But Never Buried, Girl Called Heaven
Kristin Hersh - Hope, The Cuckoo, Houdini Blues
Codeine - Frigid Stars, the entire damn album (she stands next to the cigarette machine/'this device has got it made' she thinks/it has a cast iron stomach/but a camel for a heart)
His Name Is Alive - Drive the Dreamy Demon Down, As We Could Ever, the entire Home is In Your Head album
The Butchies - Heartfelt
Lisa Germano - Bad Attitude (the end always gets me)
P.J. Harvey - Nina
Liz Phair - Dead Shark
East River Pipe - Kill the Action
Sebadoh - Not a Friend
Sentridoh - the whole Winning Losers E.P.
Owen - Most Days And
Bon Iver - Roslyn
The Dirty Three - Some Things I Just Don’t Want to Know, Obvious is Obvious (Kim Salmon), I Really Should’ve Gone Out Last Night
The Spinanes with Sam Prekop - Reach vs. Speed
Blonde Redhead - Jetstar (there's a live version floating around that is my favorite, but not on YT)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Evergreen (The Diane Perry Tape)
Hayden - Nights Like These
Chappaquiddick Skyline - Leave Me Alone (New Order)
The Cure - All Cats Are Grey, Disintegration, Plainsong (that one is R's fault...along with certain Bedhead songs...oh context)