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Best songs to asauge a lonely heart ?

― anthony, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hm.... have recently been drowning in such music, so hopefully I can give a good answer:

Damien Jurado - Rehearsals for Departure (whole album) anything by the Softies almost anything by Daniel Johnston (try the 'Live in Berlin' album) Paul Westerberg - Suicaine Gratification (again, whole album) Spiritualized - Broken Heart (and the whole LAGWAFIS album) Bob Dylan - True Love Tends to Forget and (of course) 6ths - As You Turn To Go

― Jamie Morrison, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The thing that worked best for me was going back and listening to stuff you listened to before you met them - re=orient yourself, as it were.

― Tom, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ebow the Letter - REM; anything by Los Rodriguez; and lou reed works pretty well too.

― Geoff, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jamie, he said "as[sua]ge" a lonely heart not "drive a stick into and twist".

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like Tom's suggestion. For me that usually ends up being The Gories.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Way Behind Me, by The Primitives.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Try something without specific meaning, perhaps something in a language you don't understand or something instrumental. It should be music that SEEMS to be about everything right in the world. Like the Boredoms or Albert Ayler. Music not about the details but just about LIFE.

― Mark, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

little green apples... bobby gentry/glen campbell..

― Dan Mancini, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

sorry i gotta throw in.. 'cant put your arms around a memory'... johnny thunders..both original and ronnie spectors kinda recent version on kill rock stars...

― Dan Mancini, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Anything by Trembling Blue Stars. This assumes you were dumped, and are not happy with the situation, by the way. Failing that, and great if you were dumped for someone else, 'Prayer To God' by Shellac.

― Paul Strange, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Good point Tracer, but as you might've guessed I'm a misery loves company kind of person!

― Jamie Morrison, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Me, I like to lock myself in my room with a bottle of Jack Daniels and play Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits over and over and over, wailing along the drunker I become. For all her misery, the songs still manage to spill over with heart and soul (eek) and some sort of... energy that suffuces the lyrics and inspires a sort of "I will survive" attitude.

― masonic boom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I dunno, just stay far, far away from Carole King's "Tapestry". That's an album that could make me cry in the middle of having sex! Listening while in a depressed state could result in suicide. Or at least a really embarrassing, hand-scribbled, tear stained note delivered to your ex....

― Tim Baier, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Roxy Music, 'Siren' - not one of their better albs, but for this purpose, ideal

― tarden, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'Don't think twice, it's alright' - DYLAN

― mdieter, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...

i just figured out this weekend i've been dumped - it's been throwing muses university all sunday/monday.
and recommendations for today/rest of the week until i can get some serious booze into meself¿

― dysøn (dyson), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

orbison's only the lonely is going on repeat once i'm home that's fer sure.

― dysøn (dyson), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

You wouldn't know love - Nashville Bluegrass band

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

oh that "i found out i had been dumped" situation is the absolute worst.

i'd suggest some durutti column but getting a hold of it is kind of it's own heartache, sadly.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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