Playlist for a rough night?
 

Hey, ledgies. What music do you like to listen to when you're down and out?

My usual suspects:

Cyndi Lauper - Shine This song is so uplifting, it's hard to feel bad when you listen to it. Cyndi can fix anything.
Cyndi Lauper - Product of Misery For when I need to remind myself that I'm not defined by my past.
Fleetwood Mac - Why Y'all know what there is to say about this song. Perfection.
Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me Because misery loves company.
Barbra Streisand - On A Clear Day Because you can see forever and ever and ever more!
Fleetwood Mac - Storms Pretty self-explanatory
Dolly Parton - Stairway to Heaven OK, laugh if you must, but this version is so. good. Seriously. This song reminds me that I haven't ruined my life yet. :rolleyes:

So. What do you like to listen to when you're down? Why? Talk to me, Ledgies!

You know what I listen to. Aside from the obligatory Shine and True Colours, I also like Midnight Radio. And um, you know, everything by Cyndi. Oh, lately, it's been Anna Blue I turn to. *rhymes*

Stevie's Somebody Stand By Me.
Both Sides Now, Joni Mitchell. I love her voice, whether it's the flutey original, or the remake with that lowered, smoky sound. I know she dismisses it as being fluffy, early stuff, but whatev. Still moves me.
Hurt, Johnny Cash. The way it just builds instrumentally...
Songbird or Why, Fleetwood Mac.
Ballad of Lucy Jordan, Marianne Faithfull.
My Generation, Patti Smith. Just to help me get my attitude back. :laugh:
Everybody Hurts, R.E.M. I dunno. It's just a nice reminder that... well, everbody hurts.

I forgot Somebody Stand By Me!!! I've probably listened to that more than anything else I mentioned. I also like Both Sides Now, even though I'm not a huge Joni fan. I gotta listen to more Marianne Faithfull.

Anyone who loves this Dolly cover is a friend of mine. It is sheer brilliance.
Have you ever heard He's Alive from White Limozeen ? That song could about make a Christian out of me. When the choir kicks in, every hair on my body stands on end.

I don't tend to wallow much these days, but my top three records for a self pity party are probably :

George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice

Rosanne Cash - Interiors

Joni Mitchell - Travelogue

Oh, and any Trisha Yearwood weepy song. The greatest being The Nightingale, Down On My Knees, River Of You and Lonesome Dove.

On edit - I didn't say why I like these.

George - Because of the melancholy and yearning of the music and his plaintive, pleading voice. Especially when he howls out in the last song, "You once said there's a way back for every man/So here I am/Don't people change/Here I am/Is it too late to try again/Here I am." Tears. My. Guts. Out.

Rosanne - Oh Lord. The record is the anatomy of a breakup. It is the quintessential breakup record. The writing is so clean, concise and clear. My favorite song has this corker of an opening:

"Distance makes the heart start wondering absence makes the anger grow
The world may just be spinning through us and separation lets it show
I walk away the fear and anger I'm talking through the tears each day
I push myself to points of danger but nothing makes it go away
I want a cure a mental geographical cure a physical chemical cure
Sugar or shopping drinking or dropping the emotional highs of my life in disguise
There's one thing for sure I want a cure."

Joni - ? HA. Because she is Joni and she is a f*cking genius. This record runs the gamut and it is all set against the
backdrop of an orchestra. It has sad songs and not sad songs. But it is ultimately uplifting as I shiver with wonder that someone this talented was ever even born.

Trisha - Minor chords, sappy lyrics, a crystalline pure voice, and world class delivery. She whispers in all the right places,
and blows the roof off at exactly the right moment. A good sad Trisha song makes me feel like my favorite person on earth seduced me, made mind numbing love to me and then dumped me. Sheer perfect miseria.

*sends you some Marianne!* Oh, and you need this version of True Colours if you don't have it already... It's from Yokohama 1991, and at the very end she goes, "I love you" in this soft, sincere voice. Gets me every time. :(

I would say the first 15 times I heard this song, I wept. Like, real crying, for real. It absolutely tears me apart. I still tear up when I hear it, no matter how many times I have ... I can't stop myself. I haven't heard that song - I should pick up WL.

I really like Rosanne Cash, but I can't say I've heard much George Michael in my day. I'm familiar with Joni's stuff, but as I said in a previous post, I'm not a huge fan.

In particular, "Cowboys and Angels"

Jeez.......... what makes a rough night???

Emotional????

"Blue" - Joni
"Mystery" - Indigo Girls
"Smoke and Ashes" - Tracy Chapman
"Blue" - Joni
"For The Roses" - Joni

UM! I need that. Both MF and TC. :)

Yeah, emotional. That's what I'm talking about. Man, people really hit the Joni material hard on a rough night!

I sent ya I'm Gonna be Strong from that show, too. Gaaaaawd, Cyndi. She is too good. Marianne is on her way.

Listening to TC already :)

You pretty much rule. :thumbsup:

Aw, shucks ma'am, t'weren't nuthin'. :o

Holy god, this version of I'm Gonna Be Strong ... Christ.

I KNOW. God damn, she nails that one like nobody's business. Sup Unconditional Love. I know a lot of people don't like this, or ANTR, but... it's nice.

sighhhhhhhhhhh.