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displaced: azure ray

down in virginia: emily sparks

pictures of you: the cure

i was thinking i could clean up for christmas: aimee mann

baby plays around: elvis costello

she was the one: Holdsapple and Stamey (dB's)

english rose: the jam

grafton st: nanci griffith

south tacoma way: neko case

strange fruit: billie holiday

 

sorry if some of these have been duplicated...

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Here's some more:

 

Everything is Free - Gillian Welch

Elizabeth, You Were Born to Play that Part - Ryan Adams

Voices - Ryan Adams

Cataracts - Andrew Bird

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes - Beck

 

 

I like the songs that allow you to wallow in sadness. As much as it sucks, when I'm miserable, I want to really feel miserable.

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oh my God.

 

"Chelsea Hotel No. 2" by Leonard Cohen.

 

 

Runners up:

 

 

"Mother" by John Lennon

"If You See Her, Say Hello" by Bob Dylan

"Hang Down Your Head" by Tom Waits (I listened to on the plane the last time I saw my ex-gf.)

"You Know You're Right" by Nirvana (This one just hurts; it's a song I love that's so sorrowful, and he died 2 months after recording it.)

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Did anyone say

"I Still Miss Someone" by Johnny Cash ?

 

Oh, and I completely second "Hot Burrito #1".

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Your 8th Birthday by Cloud Cult is simultaneously both heart-wrenchingly sad and filled with hope and optimism. When Craig Minowa wails his deceased son's name "Cayden" during the chorus, i choke up even having heard the song seemingly hundreds of times.

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