I'm going to keep pushing this band. "Roberta C" by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is one of the saddest and most beautiful songs I've heard in a long time. It would be absurd if not for the obvious sincerity of performance. Weep like the sap you know you are:

Carson, Flannery, and Jerome
Line the bookshelves at home
Waiting tables at some cafe to pay my student loans
If they didn't make me sneeze
I'd get a cat and name her eloise
It'd be someone to talk to in the least

A listless intellectual in her prime
Scrabble high score: 409
With nothing remarkable to leave behind

Smoking lights
Working nights
And frequent trips to the public library
Don't make much of a life
But it's all going to change
Maybe tonight
I'm leaving something to remember me by

A listless intellectual in her prime
Scrabble high score: 409
And the note on the bed:
"True love is hard to find"

Edit: "Bobby Malone Moves Home" is not as sad but almost as great. Reminds me of Will Oldham.

Joy Division - Decade
Six Organs of Admittance (or Jandek) - I'll Sit Alone and Think a lot About You
Souled American - Frozen
Loch Lomond - Del Fuego
Mark Glynne & Bart Zwier - Friends and Celebrities
Codeine - Loss Leader
Gate - Have Not
Thalia Zedek - Temporary Guest
Come - Power Failure

garble wrote:Catpower also does a great cover of Smog's "Bathysphere."

Shit...I always assumed it was the other way around.

"Hardly Getting Over It" - Husker Du
"Needle In the Hay" - Elliot Smith
"Velour" - Jack Drag
"The Rose" - Bette Midler (this song made me fuckin' BAWL when I was a kid)

"Send A Picture Of Mother" - Johnny Cash

Be sure to use the At Folsom Prison version for maximum effect.
That tune will rip your heart out, throw in in the dirt and stomp on it.

"I Go To Pieces" - Peter & Gordon

If i was gonna make a sad song mix it would most likely include the following.

Scott Walker - "World's Strongest Man"
PW Long - "Tomorrow"
William Elliot Whitmore - "Dry"
Rolling Stones - "Moonlight Mile"
Dianogah - "Dreams Of Being King"
Big Star - "Kangaroo"
Rachels - "Frida Kahlo"
Pinebender - "For The Love of Everything"
Neil Young - "Borrowed Tune"

anything by Tim Hardin or Fred Neil

-Jeremy

oucheh wrote:If i was gonna make a sad song mix it would most likely include the following.

Scott Walker - "World's Strongest Man"
PW Long - "Tomorrow"
William Elliot Whitmore - "Dry"
Rolling Stones - "Moonlight Mile"
Dianogah - "Dreams Of Being King"
Big Star - "Kangaroo"
Rachels - "Frida Kahlo"
Pinebender - "For The Love of Everything"
Neil Young - "Borrowed Tune"

anything by Tim Hardin or Fred Neil

-Jeremy

Right here, my man.

Townes Van Zandt: Tecumseh Valley