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Audio: What song do you listen to when you are sad?
Submitted by Nat.The true 'sad' song is imbued with a sense loss or resignation often intermingled with a bitter sweet nostalgia, an unrequited, unattainable desire, or a passion so blinding that it meets a tragic & inevitable end. The sad song may be my favorite kind of song. On the really grey days I like to draw a bath and listen to the saddest songs I can think of. The dolor echoing in the bathroom transforming the space into chamber of mourners in a Spanish village. My tears co-mingle with the salt of my sweat, the chlorine, fluoride, and rust from the tap water. Tonight finds me on the fence. If I do end up in the tub, I'll be listening to these songs:
Leonard Cohen: famous blue raincoat
Leonard Cohen: Chelsea Hotel No.2
The Cure: the funeral party
Antony & The Johnsons: river of sorrow
The dirty three: I really should have gone out last night
Magnetic fields: Don't look away
Johnny Cash: Hurt
Elliot smith: Between the bars
Kritin Hersh: Me & My Charms
Fugazi: I'm so tired
psychedelic furs: torch
Dire Straits: Romeo & Juliet
The mountain goats: no children
Neutral Milk Hotel: The Communist Daughter
Solomun Burke: fast train
Nina simone: Lilac wine
cat power: wild is the wind
patti smith: we three
prince: purple rain
the smiths: asleep
the smiths: please please please let me get what i want
the velveteen: penning the penultimate
