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When I needed to believe that I wasn't alone........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Z_hXyisPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4fcITCQh9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpILIIo9ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7UHd7NVegE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-lAOdQrGo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM
You?
If you want music to sit around feeling depressed, hard to beat Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave. I won't try linking to anything because I'm in a decent mood and don't want to spend the rest of the week feeling shitty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSaiewifTGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgMsACFMIq8
all these resonate with me
ah one more 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUwhnO-nTLo
The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the 'Rock ‘n’ Roll' era. You may dispute this, but I’m right and you’re wrong!” – John Peel.
just one, there are dozens I could have picked, but they all sound the same.
ah, go on then......
There are literally millions of songs within the topic. But when I’m feeling a bit melancholic, Ray LaMontagne always hits the spot... I’m a massive fan.
Try this one out “Trouble”
Some faves already above. Here’s another:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klN627MMm2E
James Grant. Winter.
The closing 'But I hate when I feel like this and I never hated you' just tears me in half.
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Ah yes, Joe Jackson, great choice. Also:
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DezB almost got it right (and iirc he’s even posted this one on my behalf so shame on him for posting je ne me quitte pas!
Sorry metalheart 😊 I’ll find some more later, but thread has come a week too late for me, if you get my drift...
Erykah Badu is pretty good at coming out with deep soulful melodies, try this one. I thinks she’s awesome..
Hmm not embedding.
Automatic Savile-detector on the new forum working well.
The simplicity of Dusty's love triangle heartbreak.
You've been crying your face is a mess
Come in baby, you can wipe the tears on my dress
She's hurt you again, I can tell
I know that look so well
Canny believe Al Green has not been mentioned, How can you mend a broken heart, For the good times, funny how time flies by all cracking covers
This was written by Emmylou Harris about her late boyfriend, Gram Parsons, formerly of The Byrds:
Another of Emmylou’s songs, this one can break my heart if it catches me in a fragile mood. It’s a song I’d like played at my funeral, and I’ve been fortunate to see her play it live.
The Wedding Present, Bewitched - "....but the moment's gone" There's not a more poignant lyric anywhere. Surely everyone has missed 'a moment' at some time?
Skeeter Davis set the bar pretty high a long time ago. Updated by The Carpenters and Brenda Lee and best of all Sharon Van Etten
Jason Molina mentioned above but...
The real truth about it is no one gets it right
The real truth about it is we're all supposed to try
There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross
The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off
If I've got the maps or if I'm lost
The National ft Lauren Mayberry
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Proof that he doesn't just do bitterness...
And this is painfully brilliant.