so many fragile souls on ilx it can't be healthy
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Violeta Parra - Gracias a la VidaRadka Toneff - The Moon's a Harsh Mistress
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
chappaquiddick skyline - leave me aloneelliott smith - needle in the hay et alred house painters - silly love songs
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
joy division - dead souls
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
paul simon--american tune
― estela, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
Eels - Medication is Wearing Off/Electro-Shock Blues
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
morphine - funeral for miles davis
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
rachels - wally, egon, and models in the studio
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
no other - gene clark
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link
kind of too many to name, you know?
any gram parsons track
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
hickory wind and hot burrito #2 to start with
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
liz phair - shane / nashville
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link
combination Taco Bell Pizza Hut
― a but (brimstead), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
Junior senior - boy meets girl
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
David Ruffin - "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)"
The Who - "Empty Glass"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:19 (seven years ago) link
land of talk - all my friends
― calstars, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:24 (seven years ago) link
Vickie Carr - It Must Be Him Bonnie Raitt Too Long at the Fair
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
― calstars, Monday, December 19, 2016 8:42 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Uuuuuuuuuugh, if we get into songs from that era with a similar level of aural melancholy about them and which prompted me to pull a comforter over my head and listen to them on repeat as the autumn sun went down and I meditated on the existential crisis of being fifteen, I will be here literally all day long.
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
A handful of tracks from Horse StoriesAnother handful of tracks from Moon Pix
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:21 (seven years ago) link
just gonna list a bunch of Elliott Smith songs in descending order of abyssal depression
PitselehStrung Out AgainEverything Reminds Me of HerI'm Doing OK, Pretty GoodBetween the BarsThe Biggest LieTwilight
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
oh fuck how could I forget
In This Hole - Cat Power
the song I'm listening to right now:Silver Jews, "Death of an Heir of Sorrows"
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:38 (seven years ago) link
Sandy Denny - No End (especially the home-recorded solo piano version)
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:42 (seven years ago) link
songs that, while perhaps too enervated to actually crush a soul, are just perfect for listening to with a crushed soul:
- Crooked Fingers, "Sleep All Summer"- Songs Ohia, "Being In Love"
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link
Charlie Rich - Feel Like Going Home (especially the demo version with him on solo piano)
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
John Cale "I Keep a Close Watch" and basically every other track off Music for a New Society, to some degree
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
the wrens - 13 months in 6 minutes
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 05:56 (seven years ago) link
Randy Newman - I Think It's Going To Rain Today.
I feel like I woke up with this in my head every day through November.
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 09:29 (seven years ago) link
Death Cab for Cutie - Photobooth
They pretty much bank on doing soul crushing pop so almost every song by them applies. This Julien Baker cover is specially heartbreaking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SIqyp3GLd0
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
Reposting from the Lhasa de Sela thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0wh5Zc6fA&
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
Radiohead - No Surprises
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
Another handful of tracks from Moon Pix― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch)
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
otm about No Surprises, the first line of that song pops up in my head fairly frequently
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
Blank Page - The Smashing Pumpkins
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 03:15 (seven years ago) link
the latest Sufjan is as bleak as advertised, yeesh. love it, though.
hmm, "Dark Globe" by Syd Barrett
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
"No Sense" ftw― attention vampire (MatthewK), miércoles 21 de diciembre de 2016 3:08 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 06:24 (seven years ago) link
Silver jews – trains across the seabark psychosis – a street scenehank williams – alone and forsakenbruce springsteen – racing in the streetgeeshie wiley – last kind wordsthin lizzy – honesty is no excuse
― An Alan Bennett Joint (Michael B), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 08:22 (seven years ago) link
Johnny Cash - "Hurt"Crack the Sky - "Long Nights"The Kinks - "See My Friends"Tim Hardin - "Don't Make Promises"Blink-182 - "Adam's Song"Phenomenal Handclap Band - "15 to 20"Nick Drake - "Time Has Told Me"Beulah - "A Man Like Me"Stone Sour - "Bother"Sam Cooke - "A Change is Gonna Come"Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"Ben E. King - "I (Who Have Nothing)"
― Lee626, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 08:29 (seven years ago) link
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, December 19, 2016 9:56 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That song fucking crushes me
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 08:37 (seven years ago) link
Cat Power - Color and the KidsSmog - To Be of UseWaxahatchee - BathtubTom Waits - TimeJoni Mitchell - A Case of YouRihanna - Higher
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 08:42 (seven years ago) link
Yup, Colours and the Kids is the track for me off Moon Pix.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 08:53 (seven years ago) link
How could I forget Boulder to Birmingham? That utterly crushes me.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 09:02 (seven years ago) link
God, I forgot the emotional shotgun that is Nick Drake's "Place to Be". Also Radiohead's "Pyramid Song" but that's amplified by a personal experience for me.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 11:00 (seven years ago) link
a fair few songs have broken my heart but I don't think I'd say any have crushed my soul. it sounds unpleasant
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 11:58 (seven years ago) link
xp re Cat Power - "Colors and the Kids" -- love this song, even learned to play it on piano, but I can't listen to it anymore bc it reminds me TOO much of (already mentioned upthread) Sandy Denny's solo piano demo of "No End"
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
I listened to a bunch of songs when I was still a bag of hormones with a newborn baby and they all turn me into a blubbering mess now.
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Tori Amos's voice in particular, can't even listen to a cover of Take on Me without going wibbly
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
Alice In Chains - 'Nutshell'Amy Winehouse - 'Wake Up Alone'Beach Boys - 'All I Wanna Do'Beck - 'Steal My Body Home'Blur - 'Sing'Buffalo Springfield - 'Expecting to Fly'Cocteau Twins/Harold Budd - 'Why Do You Love Me'Corinne Bailey Rae - 'I Would Like To Call It Beauty'Cynthia Dall - 'Wastebasket Kid II'Drag City Supersession - 'Nothing Rises to Meet Me'Gil Scott-Heron - 'Pieces of a Man'Joe Jackson - 'Breaking Us In Two'Juliana Hatfield - 'The Lights'Kermit the Frog - 'Bein' Green'Laura Nyro - 'You Don't Love Me When I Cry'Lisa Germano - 'Around the World'Marit Larsen - 'Under the Surface'Prince - 'Sometimes it Snows in April'Rilo Kiley - 'A Better Son/Daughter'Sade - 'It's Only Love That Gets You Through'Simon & Garfunkel - 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'Smog - 'Back In School'Spinanes - 'Hawaiian Baby'Syd Barrett - 'Last Night'
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Can't have American Music Club suggestions without "Kathleen"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
yes, Pheel! i need this right now, these can be soothing when you're in distress...
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 22 December 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link
Nillson / Don't Forget Me (or Marianne Faithful's version)
― mahb, Thursday, 22 December 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
"Alien Observer" - Grouper
Look into the night skyLooking towards the big lightsLooking towards the freeway Morning subway passes by my window
I feel it in the darknessI need to feel it sometimesI need to fall asleepMorning never is too far behind
Gonna take a spaceshipFly back to the starsAlien observerIn a world that isn't mine
― flappy bird, Thursday, 22 December 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
The Associates - Party Fears Two
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Thursday, 22 December 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
Kate Wolf singing Sandy Denny's 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes?':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgauX0bnN-0
my soul:
https://i.imgur.com/jb9Hmh9.gif
― ilxor-com-dog-meat-drawer-7-840-x-600.jpg (unregistered), Friday, 27 July 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
reminded me ofhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD1UY6KK-bc
― kinder, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
But that cover does nothing to my soul compared to the original. Sandy Denny's voice is the ultimate soul crusher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oBMDcLf6WA
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link