Dinah Washington - This Bitter EarthTalk Talk - New GrassSol Seppy - Enter OneBurial - Paradise Circus remix
any suggestions?
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
John Lennon - MotherGrouper - Living RoomElliott Smith - King's CrossingSmashing Pumpkins - For Martha
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
What do you mean by "soul crushing"?
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
That resonate and hit hard for you personally
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
Democratic National Convention - Fight Song
― flappy bird, Sunday, 18 December 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
We're All Alone - Boz ScaggsMan of the World - Fleetwood MacCondition of the Heart - PrinceLet's Go Out Tonight - Blue Nile
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
Chanel no 5 - mark eitzel
― calstars, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
The soul crushingist songs I can think of(at the moment).
Jason Molina - Don't It Look Like RainBig Star - HolocaustThe Lilac Time - Back In The Car ParkBillie Holiday - My ManLeonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag
― Pheeel, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
Nina Simone - Strange Fruit
― mizzell, Monday, 19 December 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
Absolutely "Holocaust" by Big Star...
also:
Paul Buchanan - Mid AirFelt - Down an August PathGilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)American Music Club - Here They Roll Down
― henry s, Monday, 19 December 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
Rodgers/Hart -- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 19 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
Beach Boys - 'Til I Die'Alan Parsons Project - 'Time'Nina Simone - 'Why (The King of Love is Dead)'
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 December 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
Red House Painters - Katy SongNick Drake - Man in a Shed (Nick Drake rules this thread)Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw RichardNew Order - Bizarre Love TriangleField Mice - SensitiveThe House of Love - Shine On
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
This is totally subjective, but, since I knew what the inevitable outcome would be, I was engaging only with light entertainment on election night rather than stressing myself out by constantly watching the returns. At one point, I idly checked the internet (and recognized that a whole other outcome now seemed inevitable) while watching Rita Coolidge perform 'We're All Alone' on The Muppet Show, and now that song sounds like the apocalypse to me. Like, just hearing it in my head right now makes me want to go to sleep and never wake up.
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
The Blue Nile - Family Life, Regret, Wish Me WellRon Sexsmith - Michael and His DadJacob Marley's Ghost - The World's Kite, PrometheusMark Kozelek - 1936Everything but the Girl - Two StarPaul Westerberg - Good Day, Sunrise Always ListensMatt Pond PA - It Is SafeJosh Rouse - Michigan ("Bedroom Classics" version)American Music Club - Western SkyPaddy McAloon - I Trawl the Megahertz
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
nice lists, alex and alpaca
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Stevie - Living for the CityGrandmaster Flash - The Message
― that's not my post, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Could have sworn there have been a few threads like this, but:
Kathleen Edwards, "Alicia Ross."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
Ah if there is I'm sorry Josh, was a little drunk when I posted this. Good lists though!
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
Sandy Denny - No End (especially the home-recorded solo piano version)Beth Orton - Pass in TimeRichard Youngs - It Will Soon Be FireChris Bell - You and Your SisterJudy Collins - Four Strong WindsNina Simone - Everything Must ChangeThe For Carnation - Moon Beams
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Monday, 19 December 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
i'll third "We're All Alone"
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
bpb "i see a darkness"
― marcos, Monday, 19 December 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Songs: Ohia - Blue Chicago Moon
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
Oh god yes @ 'I See a Darkness'
I swear to god I didn't even see that the Skaggs version of 'We're All Alone' had been posted when I posted about Coolidge's.
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 December 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
Swans - God Damn the SunSwans - Failureetc
― new noise, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Smog - River Guard
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Fake Plastic Trees
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Monday, 19 December 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
Oh god yes @ 'I See a Darkness'I swear to god I didn't even see that the Skaggs version of 'We're All Alone' had been posted when I posted about Coolidge's.― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, December 19, 2016 1:02 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago)
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 19 December 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
"I See a Darkness" completely! ^^
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:01 (seven years ago) link
seasons in the sun
― flappy bird, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Beach Boys - 'Til I Die'
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch)
i think "a day in the life of a tree" is even sadder/more crushing!
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 19 December 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
All good BB songs have an undercurrent of melancholy
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
*great
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
townes van zandt--marie
― estela, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
"Lungs" or "waiting around to die" - Townes
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link
Hell, any song by TVZ
Flyin ShoesNot Needed NowLive is to Fly
They're all elegies
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
Even "columbine" is sad as fuck
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
"Didn't we" by Jimmy Webb
― Neanderthal, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:29 (seven years ago) link
(I credit Webb cos it could be anybody's performance of the song really, Sinatra's, Harris's ,etc). like literally an elder gentleman almost sang that at karaoke the other night and I was happy as hell he aborted midway through. too much baggage tied to that one.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:31 (seven years ago) link
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski DayGillian Welch - I'm Not Afraid to Die
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
also even tho you obv ain't supposed to root for the guy, always found poor Jud's "Lonely Room" from Oklahoma misery inducing
― Neanderthal, Monday, 19 December 2016 23:35 (seven years ago) link
Folkal Point - Sweet Sir GalahadSofties - Hello RainPoppy Family - Which Way You Goin' Billy?Kathy & Carol - Just a Hand to HoldHope Sandoval - Down the StepsKristin Hersh - The LetterMarianne Faithfull - Late Victorian HolocaustLhasa - I'm Going InStina Nordenstam - Soon After Christmas (live version)Brian Wilson - Still I Dream of ItNina Nastasia - Bird of CuzcoCurth Boettcher - Another Time (demo)
and that one Sol Seppy song and all of those TVZ songs
― memories of a cruller (unregistered), Monday, 19 December 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
so many fragile souls on ilx it can't be healthy
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
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
Soul Coughing - "Maybe I'll Come Down" always gets to me, especially knowing how close M. Doughty was to death at that point
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
and oh yeah. "The Silent Boatman" by Parliament. WROOOONK
More American Music Club: "Why Won't You Stay" and "Sick Of Food"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
OHHHHH I almost posted 'The Silent Boatman', good call.
― what is the lever disease? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
Three favorites I forgot - Kate Bush - This Woman's Work (Sadly or not, will always associate this with its "She's Having a Baby" use)Paul Kelly - How to Make GravyThe Weakerthans - Plea from a Cat Named Virtute ("I know you're strong.")
I like "wibbly" as a description. If iPod listening to these at work, have to make sure it's not pre-meeting, to avoid watery eyes.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
80% of all Hank Williams songs, even some of the happy ones
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
Rickie Lee Jones - On Saturday Afternoons in 1963. (The part that gets me is when the orchestra comes in - "Years go by...years go by...")Melanie - Some Say (I Got Devil)Marianne Faithfull - Who Will Take My Dreams AwayThinking Plague - Fountain Of All TearsTindersticks - Walking
― Pheeel, Thursday, 22 December 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
Take it to the limit
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 22 December 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done Come
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 December 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6YQYlftCE
i know people here don't like the guy who sings this but:
i know i'm not supposed to say i'm sorryi know you've had more loves than mata haribut you're the star of my life storyand i'm so sorry
― Treeship, Thursday, 22 December 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjZ7x4mkaxE
That's the way things goAll people's changes they growI hide in this roomLet's hope it's not wastedOh, it's such a shame
― Treeship, Thursday, 22 December 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
this one though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzWYUomBpwg
Surely don't stay long I'm missing you now.It's like I told you I'm over you somehowBefore I close the doorI need to hear you say goodbyeBaby won't you change your mind?
this one isn't fair because it's one of the best songs ever
― Treeship, Thursday, 22 December 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
Terry Callier - Dancing GirlFor Against - DaylightJoy Division - Twenty Four HoursChristian Death - The DrowningCeremony - I Heard You Call My NameComsat Angels - On the Beach
― larry appleton, Thursday, 22 December 2016 04:18 (seven years ago) link
If I'm reaching for the crushing Mazzy Star, I'm reaching for "Into Dust".
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Thursday, 22 December 2016 04:58 (seven years ago) link
That reminds me ...
Jackson C. Frank - Milk and Honey
I messed up someone's day after recommending that one.
― larry appleton, Thursday, 22 December 2016 05:01 (seven years ago) link
Started a playlist of this thread last night. Looked at it this morning and thought "Oh god, what have I done," as putting all these depressing songs together in one place is possibly not the best idea anyone has ever had. But still.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUh3oHWXrJrRKOH5MrGVHmbNqiU5gyJdT
― Pheeel, Thursday, 22 December 2016 09:58 (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