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Big time in agreement with Lynch for "Most of the Time" and "Not Dark Yet", also with Mrs. Peel for "It Makes No Difference" especially the Last Waltz version

 

I would add:

 

Comes A Time - Grateful Dead

 

I Shall Be Released - The Band/Bob Dylan

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"Dancing Partner" - Joe Pisapia

Just becaue I'm like that, you can hear this song at his MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/joepisapia

 

The day I went to visit her

Soon after she turned ninety-four

The coffee and the Entenmann's

We talked as if we were old friends

 

She filled me in on gossip

All the seniors in the complex

We talked about the days gone by

And then she told me with a sigh,

 

It's been twenty-seven years

He's passed away

It still feels like yesterday

 

The conversation turned to love

As any long talk always does

She asked about my situation

Was there someone I was dating

 

I told her of a pretty girl

Who's teaching me to dance

She told me how she love to dance

But only with one man then she said,

 

When they play that music

I turn the other way

Since my dancing partner's away

 

Driving home so late that night

My mind still recollecting

All the many things we talked about

Like living with and then without

 

I wondered to myself if I would

Ever love someone that way

And in the echoes of that night

I still can see her as she's saying,

 

When they play that music

I turn the other way

Since my dancing partner's away

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A Stone - Okkervil River

Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

Probably Will - Concrete Blonde

Wave of Mutilation (UK surf version) - The Pixies (I want this song played at my funeral)

The Bleeding Heart Show - The New Pornographers

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Street That Time Walks - Son Volt

 

These songs and many more give me chills every time.

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Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne

 

I can't believe no one mentioned this one yet - the whole record is magnificent melancholy.

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Anything by Jon Brion (that man understands bitterness!) but especially:

 

Knock Yourself Out, Here We Go, and Ruin My Day

 

"Trouble" is the one that gets me every single time. Also, the things he does with "Amateur" (co-written with Aimee Mann, of course--about their relationship, at that).

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"Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" - Bob Dylan

 

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe

It don't matter, anyhow

An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe

If you don't know by now

When your rooster crows at the break of dawn

Look out your window and I'll be gone

You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on

Don't think twice, it's all right

 

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe

That light I never knowed

An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe

I'm on the dark side of the road

Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say

To try and make me change my mind and stay

We never did too much talkin' anyway

So don't think twice, it's all right

 

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal

Like you never did before

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal

I can't hear you any more

I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road

I once loved a woman, a child I'm told

I give her my heart but she wanted my soul

But don't think twice, it's all right

 

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe

Where I'm bound, I can't tell

But goodbye's too good a word, gal

So I'll just say fare thee well

I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind

You could have done better but I don't mind

You just kinda wasted my precious time

But don't think twice, it's all right

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The Silos : Susan Across The Ocean

 

I LOVE that song. A penpal of mine put that on a mixed tape (er, CD) for me...killed me EVERY time!!!

 

 

 

Also, as weird as it sounds "What A Wonderful World" by the great Louis Armstrong.

 

I do think of the wonderful things but I also can't help but think of all the not-so-wonderful things...*BIG sigh*

 

 

 

 

And lots from Wilco...At My Window Sad & Lonely, Please Tell My Brother, Pieholden Suite, Lonely 1, PBPWM and On and On and On to name a few

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More heartbroken than breakin'...

 

Eddie Vedder - Long Nights

Golden Smog - Jennifer Save Me

Jayhawks - Blue

Pearl Jam - Nothing Man

Replacements - Answering Machine

The Smiths - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want

Far, Far Away - Wilco

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