Tearjearkerz
HERE COME DEM TEARS AGAIN. Sad songs for sad-bastard people. Some are consolatory; most are not. |
| 30 |  | Unwound
New Plastic Ideas
It's a shattered day all around |
| 29 |  | Carissa's Wierd
Songs About Leaving
Not Another Sunrise |
| 28 |  | Modest Mouse
Good News For People Who Love Bad News
I like books about drifters, songs about the same; they both seem to make me feel a little less insane. |
| 27 |  | Wu-Tang Clan
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
'Can it all be so simple' specifically- 'Brothers passin' away- i gotta make wakes' |
| 26 |  | 2pac
Greatest Hits
we all came from a woman / got our name from a woman / and our game from a woman /I wonder why we take from our women / why we rape our women. do we hate our women? |
| 25 |  | Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
I've looked for love and i've looked for light- but does it have to be cruel and oh-so bright? |
| 24 | | Erykah Badu
New Amerykah Part One (Fourth World War)
Telephoneeeeee- it's Old Dirty. He wants to give you directions home. |
| 23 |  | mewithoutYou
Brother, Sister
I do not exist (only you exist) |
| 22 |  | The Mountain Goats
Get Lonely
I will find a crowd and blend in for a minute and I will try to find a little comfort in it and I will get lonely and gasp for air |
| 21 |  | David Thomas Broughton
The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
All of these questions are too ambiguous. |
| 20 |  | Notorious B.I.G
Ready to Die
A brilliant gangster rap album that also features the most brutally acute expression of self-loathing and remorse i have ever heard: 'I bet my momma wished she got that fuckin' abortion'. CHILLS EVERY TIME |
| 19 |  | Slint
Spiderland
Glances with amusement- with evasion -- with contempt. So distant. |
| 18 |  | Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
There's a black crow sitting across from me / his wiry legs are crossed / he's dangling my keys / he even fakes a toss |
| 17 | | Various Artists
Tuwhare - Poems by Hone Tuwhare set to music by recording artists from New Zealand Aotearoa
Speak to me, brother |
| 16 |  | Max Richter
The Blue Notebooks
So simple but so powerful. |
| 15 |  | Early Day Miners
Let us Garlands Bring
A masquerade ball, a mardi gras mask, a cheap facade |
| 14 |  | Eluvium
Copia
When the fucking fireworks come in |
| 13 | | Mono and Worlds End Girlfriend
Palmless Prayer
Untitled 1 = :'(. Untitled 3 = :') |
| 12 |  | Burial
Untrue
Once upon a time you were the one I adored |
| 11 |  | Scrawl
Velvet Hammer
Make a domestic violence joke after listening to this go on i fucking dare you |
| 10 | | The Afghan Whigs
Gentleman
I DO NOT FEEEEAR YOUUUUUU |
| 9 |  | Regina Spektor
Soviet Kitsch
Somedays aren't yours at all,
They come and go
As if they're someone else's days
They come and leave you behind someone else's face
And it's harsher than yours
And colder than yours don't call me don't write |
| 8 |  | William Baskinski
The Disintegration Loops
In which one loop speaks numerous harrowing truths. Essential. |
| 7 |  | Kanye West
Late Registration
My aunt Pam can't put those cigarettes down,
Now my lil cousin smokin those cigarettes now,
His job trying to claim that he too niggerish now,
Is it cuz his skin blacker than licorice now?
I can't figure it out... |
| 6 |  | The Smiths
The Smiths
John you'll never be a man |
| 5 |  | Burial
Burial
Whose fault? No-one but myself. |
| 4 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
Don't send letters. Letters always get burnt. |
| 3 | | Wilco
Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
All my lies are only wishes I know I would die if i could come back new |
| 2 |  | Joni Mitchell
Both Sides Now
Tears, and fears, and feeling proud / to say 'I love you' right out loud. |
| 1 |  | The Wrens
Meadowlands
'13 Months in Six Minutes' is too fucking much. The perfect distillation of malaise, the anguished guitar solo that sounds like a heart breaking, the resounding ravages of time - and life- on love. Oh God it hurts. I knew we'd never write. |
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