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Originally Posted by carrie721
Hey, ledgies. What music do you like to listen to when you're down and out?
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. 
So. What do you like to listen to when you're down? Why? Talk to me, Ledgies! |
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.