Someday I’ll write a real post. For now, though, another note about music. Few things sustain me like music. For the past few months, a playlist I created and called The Blues, has done that. I don’t listen to it every day. Just randomly from time to time when I get upset. Here is the track listing:
Love is a Losing Game – Amy Winehouse
Linger – the Cranberries
It Only Hurts When I Cry – Dwight Yoakam
Shadowboxer – Fiona Apple
Special – Garbage
You Cheated Me – Martha Wainwright
You Never Get What You Want – Patty Griffin
Free – Patty Griffin
Everybody Hurts – REM
Everything Reminds Me of Her – Elliott Smith
I’m Looking Through You – The Beatles
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Bob Dylan
Warwick Avenue – Duffy
I’m Not Gonna Beg – Natalie Merchant
Staring at the Sun – U2
So Cruel – U2
Asking for Flowers – Kathleen Edwards
Looking at it now, as I typed it, I think, when played on shuffle, it’s the perfect playlist. Subjectivity being the key…
April 28, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I love, LOVE sad songs. Not sure what that says about me.
Oh, I listen to the playlist you gave me (can’t remember what you titled it, but it’s happy songs instead of sad songs) a lot – listened just yesterday, in fact, and I love it. I need to find the list you sent me because I can’t remember who some of the artists are.
April 28, 2009 at 2:08 pm
i don’t cry. ever.