100 Songs For The Lonely

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100. Animal Collective - Queen In My Picture
99. Jandek - Your Other Man
98. Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
97. Palace - Will You Miss Me When I Burn?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

96 Another Saturday night - Sam Cooke
95 Has he got a friend? - Richard and Linda Thompson

― pete s, Monday, 22 December 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

94 - Frank Sinatra - Goodbye

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

93. savoy grand - arm the lonely (or indeed anything they've done)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

92. smog - your new friend

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

91. Jesus & Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

91. future bible heroes - lonely days
90. closer musik - one, two, three (no gravity)

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

88. "Lonley as You" Foo Fighters

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

87 Terraplane Blues - Robert Johnson
86 I'm so Lonesome i could cry - Hank Williams
85 Lonesome Suzie - The Band

― pete s, Monday, 22 December 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

84 Do you know how it feels to be Lonesome? - Flying Burrito Bros.

― pete s, Monday, 22 December 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

83 A Good year for the Roses - George Jones
82 She thinks i still care - George Jones
81 The Grand Tour - George Jones
80 These Days i barely get by - George Jones
79 The Door - George Jones

(sorry couldn't pick one, but you can't leave any of em out IMO)

― pete s, Monday, 22 December 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

89 was skipped so..
89. blue nile "over the hillside"
78. blue nile "downtown lights"
77. st etienne "spring" (everything i ever wanted a girl to say to me + a funky beat = instant cure).

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

89 was skipped so..
89. blue nile "over the hillside"

No it wasn't! 91 was repeated.

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

76. Alex Niedt - "But I Love You"
75. Daniel Johnston - "Some Things Last a Long Time"
74. Lycia - "The Morning Breaks So Cold and Gray"
73. Red House Painters - "Katy Song"
72. Jandek - "I Passed By the Building"
71. Nick Drake - "Place To Be"
70. Nick Drake - "Which Will"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 22 December 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

something from Heartbreaker to thread, i can't be bothered to choose.

― pete s, Monday, 22 December 2003 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

69. Nick Drake - "Fly" (Time Of No Reply version)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 22 December 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Now it's all messed up!

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

68. in dreams - roy orbison
67. she's got you - patsy cline
66. nobody's lonesome for me - hank williams
65. tonight was a disaster - casiotone for the painfully alone

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, i'm a mite confused - is this songs to soothe people when they're lonely, or is it songs ABOUT loneliness, or both?
Cos if it's the former a lot of my stuff rubs it in.....

― pete s, Monday, 22 December 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ts: elevation vs. wallowing

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I need one before the other.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

63. American Music Club - Lonely
62. Black Sabbath (with Dio) - Lonely Is The Word
61. Neil Young - The Loner
60. American Music Club - This Year
59. American Music Club - Last Harbour

You could keep going with Mark Eitzel really.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

58 If you see her, say Hello - Bob Dylan

― pete s, Monday, 22 December 2003 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

57. Kristin Hersh - Your Dirty Answer

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

56. Big Star - Holocaust

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

55. Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight
54. Hank Williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah.

53. "Walking After You" Foo Fighters (don't really like that song, but it helps)

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

(alt. to 54/5 - the Cowboy Junkies versions)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

52. Bonnie Billy and the Marquis de Tren - II-XV

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

51. Jane Siberry and KD Lang - Calling all Angels

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

50. The Uniques-"People Rocksteady"

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

49. Wishing )If I Had A Photograph of You) -- Flock of Seagulls

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

48. Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely -- Husker Du

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Would "Never Talking to You Again" work then?

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

47. Lonely - Tom Waits
46. Blue & grey shirt - American Music Club

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry aja, x-post

44 then. big louise - scott walker

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 22 December 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

42. (in an attempt to fix the bungled numbers/ordering, and counting "Never Talking..." as 45...) Amps For Christ - Fractured

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

41. Palace - Kid Of Harith
40. Indian Summer - Aren't You Angel?
39. Unwound - Scarlette
38. Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need A New Heart

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

37. Only the Lonely -- Roy Orbison
36. 'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel -- Cowboy Junkies
35. State Trooper -- Bruce Springsteen
34. Ghost in This House -- Alison Krauss

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

33. "How I Miss You" (b side to a Foo Fighters single)

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

32. Dr. Hook - If Not You
31. R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

30. Yoko Ono - Winter Friend

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wanderlist.com/lonelylovesongs

― Aja (aja), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

29. Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your Dog
28. Cat Power - Good Woman

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

27. when you were mine - prince

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

or maybe the crooked fingers vers?

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)

26. lonely at the top - randy newman (light relief)

if you actually compile this ian i'd love to hear it!

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 22 December 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

25. Descendents - Hope

gaz--hopefully once i get back at school and have access to file sharing/high speed internet/cd burner, i will.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i am not lonely but i have a weird little twisted soft spot in me for this stuff.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

well, we already had one Frank entry, but we really need to represent this all-time wrist-slitter:

24. Frank Sinatra - "In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning"

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep
You lie awake and think about the girl
And never ever think of counting sheep

When your lonely heart has learned it’s lesson
You’d be hers if only she would call
In the wee small hours of the morning
That’s the time you miss her most of all

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

23. david johansen - frenchette

― dan (dan), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

22. neil young - only love can break your heart

don't know how i forgot about that one so long.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

23. Fat Day: You Love Me

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 22 December 2003 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha. Fat Day = guaranteed way to cheer up! just thinking about those guys makes me smile. You win, Douglas.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 22 December 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

22.Waylon Jennings, "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself"
21.David S. Ware, "Threads"

― dylan (dylan), Monday, 22 December 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

20. Four Tops "Ask the Lonely"

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 22 December 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

alone -custard

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 22 December 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

19. Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Alone Again (Naturally)"

- I imagine that its mention could prompt some groans, but I picked it for its inclusion in one of my all-time favorite movie scenes: the "phone call" sequence in "Virgin Suicides"

― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 22 December 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

18. The The: Dogs Of Lust

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(the above is very appropriately from a record which was promoted as "10 Songs For The Lustful and The Lonely").

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

17. The Wedding Present ... Dalliance
16. FZ/The Mothers of Invention ... Go cry on somebody else's shoulder
15. The Police ... So Lonely(!!!)
16. Love ... Alone Again Or (!!!!!!)

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

15) Belle & Sebastian - Don't Leave The Light On, Baby

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 22 December 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i've read the list twice and still didn't see it

14) lonesome town - ricky nelson (and if it's on there, replace with cramps version)

― mason r butler, Monday, 22 December 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

13) How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore? - Prince

― Jedmond, Monday, 22 December 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

12. Eels - It's a Motherfucker

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

11. All Alone - Flying Burrito Bros

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

10. star of bethlehem - neil young

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 22 December 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

9. "The hunchback of San Francisco" - Perry Blake

― Sami (Sami), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

8. gary jules- mad world.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

7. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
6. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2

― DougD, Monday, 22 December 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

5. The Walker Brothers - "In My Room"

no smiths or morrissey?

― kinski (kinski), Monday, 22 December 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we ought to have some Smiths in the top 4 and end it with Heartbreak Hotel, but that's up to the next posters...

― DougD, Monday, 22 December 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Arab Strap - "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"

― GerryNemo (GerryNemo), Monday, 22 December 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― jed (jed_e_3), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

2. Morrissey - Now My Heart Is Full

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Those are two of my favorite songs

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 22 December 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

all you need is every song hank williams ever recorded.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 23 December 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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