Soul crushing songs

chappaquiddick skyline - leave me alone
elliott smith - needle in the hay et al
red house painters - silly love songs

joy division - dead souls

paul simon--american tune

Eels - Medication is Wearing Off/Electro-Shock Blues

morphine - funeral for miles davis

rachels - wally, egon, and models in the studio

no other - gene clark

kind of too many to name, you know?

any gram parsons track

hickory wind and hot burrito #2 to start with

liz phair - shane / nashville

combination Taco Bell Pizza Hut

Junior senior - boy meets girl

David Ruffin - "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)"

The Who - "Empty Glass"

land of talk - all my friends

Vickie Carr - It Must Be Him
Bonnie Raitt Too Long at the Fair

liz phair - shane / nashville

― 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.

A handful of tracks from Horse Stories
Another handful of tracks from Moon Pix

just gonna list a bunch of Elliott Smith songs in descending order of abyssal depression

Pitseleh
Strung Out Again
Everything Reminds Me of Her
I'm Doing OK, Pretty Good
Between the Bars
The Biggest Lie
Twilight

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"

Sandy Denny - No End (especially the home-recorded solo piano version)

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"

Charlie Rich - Feel Like Going Home (especially the demo version with him on solo piano)

John Cale "I Keep a Close Watch" and basically every other track off Music for a New Society, to some degree

the wrens - 13 months in 6 minutes

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.

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

Reposting from the Lhasa de Sela thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0wh5Zc6fA&

Radiohead - No Surprises

Another handful of tracks from Moon Pix
― Froyo On My Slacks (Old Lunch)

otm about No Surprises, the first line of that song pops up in my head fairly frequently

Blank Page - The Smashing Pumpkins

the latest Sufjan is as bleak as advertised, yeesh. love it, though.

hmm, "Dark Globe" by Syd Barrett

"No Sense" ftw
― attention vampire (MatthewK), miércoles 21 de diciembre de 2016 3:08 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^

Silver jews – trains across the sea
bark psychosis – a street scene
hank williams – alone and forsaken
bruce springsteen – racing in the street
geeshie wiley – last kind words
thin lizzy – honesty is no excuse

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)"

the wrens - 13 months in 6 minutes

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, December 19, 2016 9:56 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That song fucking crushes me

Cat Power - Color and the Kids
Smog - To Be of Use
Waxahatchee - Bathtub
Tom Waits - Time
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Rihanna - Higher

Yup, Colours and the Kids is the track for me off Moon Pix.

How could I forget Boulder to Birmingham? That utterly crushes me.

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.

a fair few songs have broken my heart but I don't think I'd say any have crushed my soul. it sounds unpleasant

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"

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.

Tori Amos's voice in particular, can't even listen to a cover of Take on Me without going wibbly

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'

Can't have American Music Club suggestions without "Kathleen"

Soul Coughing - "Maybe I'll Come Down" always gets to me, especially knowing how close M. Doughty was to death at that point

and oh yeah. "The Silent Boatman" by Parliament. WROOOONK

"Alien Observer" - Grouper

Look into the night sky
Looking towards the big lights
Looking towards the freeway
Morning subway passes by my window

I feel it in the darkness
I need to feel it sometimes
I need to fall asleep
Morning never is too far behind

Gonna take a spaceship
Fly back to the stars
Alien observer
In a world that isn't mine

The Associates - Party Fears Two

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

reminded me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD1UY6KK-bc

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