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| fire pit..
at a writer's festival in the woods for a few days, and here's what i've been listening to deep in the night by the fire pit, alone with some cigarettes.. | | 1 |  | Fabrizio De Andre
Volume III
La Ballata dell'Eroe
An old Italian anarchist who wrote the most wrenching songs, Fabrizio De André has long been my go-to for quiet nights put away for sorrow and cinematic grief.. The man was critical of the church, the corruption that traversed the Italian workforce and unions, politics both left and right to the point that he was once kidnapped.. beauty.. | | 2 |  | The 13th Floor Elevators
Easter Everywhere
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
I'm always torn between this Dylan cover sunk in swirls of electricity, and Them's folkier take on the beautiful song.. Either will turn your feet to rubber on the right night.. | | 3 |  | Elza Soares
A mulher do fim do mundo
O Canal
The Brazilian singer's tragic life has been well-documented now as her international status has finally reached the dues it deserved.. in ways, there's few people more qualified to put her voice to songs of such beauty and loss.. | | 4 |  | Tom Waits
Big Time
Falling Down
In a career wracked with so many inimitable lyrical instants, Falling Down is still a singular wonder in Waits' catalogue.. She wants you to steal and get caught, for she loves for all that you're not.. go on, take a swig of that poison and like it, don't ask for silverware, don't ask for nothing.. no one like it around it.. | | 5 |  | Songs: Ohia
Didn't It Rain
Two Blue Lights
a short and patently miserable tune from Molina, the small king of all things devastating.. I love this song deeply.. it seldom leaves rotation.. | | 6 |  | Neil Young
Dead Man
Organ Solo
no proper mixtape is complete without a couple of well-placed instrumentals.. and this one, from the dubiously-lauded Jarmusch movie is as beatifically subtle, as the notoriously unsubtle Young got.. | | 7 |  | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
I See a Darkness
Raining in Darling
I will make mistakes alright.. Bonnie Prince Billy's voice, soft and cracked and unsettling can drive anyone to the brink.. but when it's done so prettily, who could mind really? | | 8 |  | Dirty Three
Cinder
She Passed Through
Warren Ellis' violin post-rock outfit make nothing but sad beauty.. it's no wonder he fell so heavily into scoring films with Nick Cave.. This sort of guttering music was built for long loaded silences, summer rain, and driving at night.. | | 9 |  | Karen Dalton
In My Own Time
Something on Your Mind
That voice, that violin, that grief-struck swing.. Dalton had no peers in her time, scantily-recognized as she was, and she has no competition now in her cult standing.. Come get stranded and overwhelmed.. | | 10 |  | Tindersticks
Waiting for the Moon
Sweet Memory
Tindersticks make music specifically for these sort of playlists, so you could pretty well throw a dart at their discography and chance upon heartbreak.. but i've always held a special spot for this one.. though Jism off the debut comes pretty damn close.. | | 11 |  | Mark Lanegan
Bubblegum
One Hundred Days
Lanegan's finest moment. everything about this song is airtight ruin.. his baritone, Homme's honed guitar flourishes, that lethargic chug of a rhythm, Goss' back vox.. it all comes together perfectly to leave you in tatters.. there is no morphine, I'm only sleeping, there is no crime to dreams like these.. | | 12 |  | Lambchop
Is a Woman
This Corrosion
a fantastically understated cover of The Sisters of Mercy gothic hit.. Lamchop navigate it with quiet sureness, splicing small portions of noise guitar amid a slide, acoustic strumming, female back vocals and lounge piano.. | | 13 |  | Various Artists (Country)
Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down
The Hawk
A Kris Kristofferson cover by Television mastermind Tom Verlaine, this is a perfect song in my opinion.. Immaculately constructed as was Verlaine's way, filled with scintialling guitar-work and with its soul intact, making it perhaps Verlaine's most personable moment, in a career that was built on making detached art rock that always seemed too clean to feel much.. this one floors me.. | | 14 |  | Van Morrison
Astral Weeks
Madame George
People tend to think that Dylan's Blood on the Tracks is the perfect heartbreak album, but to me, Astral Weeks towers over it.. It sweeps over you wrecks you with memories of what was and what could have been.. and this elongated paen to a drag queen in her twilight is nothing short of gorgeous.. | | 15 |  | Various Artists
We Are Only Riders
Lucky Jim
Off the first in a series of three tribute albums to the Gun Club founder and cowpunk vanguard Jeffrey Lee Pierce, this cover by Debbie Harry is as grim, doomed and wonderful as its original writer's life was.. | | 16 |  | David Bowie
Hunky Dory
The Bewlay Brothers
Top 10 Bowie, top 10 closing tracks, top 10 of everything, the Bewlay Brothers is sheer beauty from the mouth and the mind of the Thin White Duke.. | | 17 |  | Chavela Vargas
Somos
Paloma Negra
a ragged ballad to Frida Kahlo from the woman who was desperately in love with her, and shared a greater intimacy than most writers can imagine.. Chavela Vargas is unmatched in my music-listening.. the Costa Rican singer has figured in latin music in many roles, but her best moments always came when it was just her, a guitar and that voice that makes Tom Waits sound like he'd been sucking helium.. All tragedy and whiskey.. | | 18 |  | Patti Smith
Radio Ethiopia
Pissing in a River
slightly rowdier than most of this list, this Smith standard never fails to bring on sadness.. Springsteen worship in a way that even The Boss seldom mustered.. | | 19 |  | Leonard Cohen
Various Positions
Night Comes On
What melancholic playlist can do without the wretched troubadour himself.. I wanted the night to go on and on, but she said go back, go back to the world.. | | 20 |  | Brian Eno
Another Green World
I'll Come Running
in a very wonky, strangest and completely Eno way, this might be the best love song ever written.. it offers the most tender of submissions, a declaration made in earnestness and subverted only by the cheeky tone running through the song.. I'll come running to tie your shoe.. | | 21 |  | Nina Simone
Wild is the Wind
Wild is the Wind
If this song doesn't turn your whole being to paste, you will never feel again.. There's such dread laced into this beauty, something Simone could do unlike anyone else.. she remains in a league all her own.. | | 22 |  | Donovan
The Hurdy Gurdy Man
Teen Angel
all Lolita implications aside, this is one beautiful and supremely melancholic song.. Donovan's voice, usually so sly and mannered actually projects simple admiration.. | | 23 |  | Rodriguez
Cold Fact
Crucify Your Mind
protest songs have never been made so dulcet and deceptively pretty.. | | 24 |  | Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited
Queen Jane Approximately
He was always at his literary best in my mind when he stripped away all those Greenwich Village white knight stances, the spartan martyrdom, the pretenses and saviour complexes, and just zeroed in on the devastation that unites us all - love, dependence, loss.. | | 25 |  | The Twilight Singers
Blackberry Belle
Number Nine
just listen to this one.. come feel something, you senseless beast.. | |
butcherboy
08.03.18 | volume 2 to follow at some point.. | teamster
08.03.18 | Let's hope volume 2 has something even remotely worth listening to, yuck. | butcherboy
08.03.18 | i'll make sure to include some goofy-ass metal next time, don't you worry, baby doll.. | artiswar
08.03.18 | I've been meaning to check Mark Lanegan. He's awesome whenever he pops up in QotSA. | butcherboy
08.03.18 | check Bubblegum then.. it was essentially co-written by him and Homme | butcherboy
08.03.18 | common ground, is that you? | teamster
08.03.18 | Yes BB , at least somethings on the heavier side for the love of god ... | Papa Universe
08.03.18 | *sees a list with no capital letters and two dots at the end* ah, butcherboy's list
*sees Fabrizio at the beginning, Leonard in the middle and Rodriguez at the end* *tears up* you make papa proud | Papa Universe
08.03.18 | though La canzone di Marinella might be the best song of all times (with Suzanne and Cause) | Papa Universe
08.03.18 | Darius, I really don't wanna know. | Papa Universe
08.03.18 | like 25 or so | Pheromone
08.03.18 | How do you find yourself at a Writer's Festival? I get jealous at the thought of these sorta lives sometimes, make of that what you will. Good list! More importantly, though - fuck yeah! BewlayBrothers is top 2 Bowie songs ever, such an underrated track. | butcherboy
08.03.18 | You live in a big city, Phero? | LeftyMcRighty
08.04.18 | YEEEESSSSS....Let the melancholy meander through you apathetically.
Great selections Butcher! | Pheromone
08.04.18 | I’m at Uni at Sussex next to Brighton and that’s about as big as my local areas go | butcherboy
08.04.18 | cheers, Lefty!
Phero, big city summers are packed with all sorts of great events! | DoofDoof
08.04.18 | One Hundred Days the best Lanegan? Definitely one of his best | butcherboy
08.04.18 | that one and Come to Me are alway me favourites of his, Doof.. | DoofDoof
08.04.18 | Easily the best two on Bubblegum I'll give you that, I do like the cheesy closer 'Out of Nowhere' too
Other favourites: One Way Street, Kimiko's Dream House, Last One In The World, Carnival, Borracho, Sunrise, Wild Flowers | butcherboy
08.04.18 | kimiko's is beyond gorgeous.. and I've always been partial to the second half stretch of holy ghost (sunrise is smack dab in the middle of it).. don't forget me is another favourite, though not exactly pretty.. |
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