Your favorite "lonely" albums.

Elliott Smith self-titled or XO... listen at your own risk though, since it will only help to aggravate any suicidal tendencies.

Also... Manic Street Preachers album Generation Terrorists.

Leonard Cohen and the Tindersticks spring to mind for a good wallow in misery.

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Elliott Smith self-titled or XO... listen at your own risk though, since it will only help to aggravate any suicidal tendencies.
I prefer From a Basement on the Hill - this got a lot of play the first couple days after a recent breakup.

Lonely albums are always in my rotation.

elliott smith- s/t or either/or. Lyrically, xo and basement are pretty dark, but not as much aesthetically (at least throughout the whole album).

It's much easier to do songs as most of my favorite loney/desolate songs aren't on albums completely dedicated to it.

Some of my favorite lonely songs:
gram parsons- "do you know how it feels to be lonely"
uncle tupelo- "moonshiner"
hank williams- "i heard that lonesome whistle"
mazzy star- "look on down from the bridge"
elliott smith- "no name #5"
bob dylan- "if you see her say hello"
jeff buckley- "lover, you should've come over"
the mountain goats- "the mess inside"
wilco- "someone else's song"


i'll stop but i could go on all day and only listed one per artist. I listen to this stuff despite my mood though.

I would differentiate between lonely, introspective, heartbreaking, and emotional songs though. Maybe i'm anal but i get very different moods and feelings from similar sounding songs. I have various playlists on my ipods for different moods.

Sarah McLachlan:

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Possession, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
Surfacing (Do What You Have To Do, Angel)

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I thought Conne got a job...?

Jon.

Stock boy at the Pic N Save? I was talking about a real job that causes you stress.

Anything by Trembling Blue Stars. Specifically

Little Gunshots from Alive to Every Smile
Never Loved You More from Lips That Taste of Tears
Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise from Broken by Whispers

Every one of their (his) albums is just chock-a-block full of depressing songs that will allow you to wallow in your pity. If you're not careful, they will also convince you that it was all your fault.

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Boy, if I'm depressed, the last thing I want to listen to is some dreary audio valium!

Conne, I think you ought to put all your George Michael and Wham! cds on shuffle, strip down to your tightie whities and dance your troubles away.

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Anything by Trembling Blue Stars. Specifically

Little Gunshots from Alive to Every Smile
Never Loved You More from Lips That Taste of Tears
Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise from Broken by Whispers

Every one of their (his) albums is just chock-a-block full of depressing songs that will allow you to wallow in your pity. If you're not careful, they will also convince you that it was all your fault.

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Have you got anything by the Field Mice? Pretty much an earlier incarnation of the Trembling Blue Stars. Some of their stuff is a bit too self pitying for me - makes me want to shout get over it!

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mazzy star- "look on down from the bridge"

wow. yes yes yes yes yes.

The Cure's "Disintegration"
The Smith's "The Smiths" (or any Smiths album for that matter)

-Jeff

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Conne, I think you ought to put all your George Michael and Wham! cds on shuffle, strip down to your tightie whities and dance your troubles away.
Not a bad idea! George Michael's Greatest Hits is a treasure.

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Have you got anything by the Field Mice? Pretty much an earlier incarnation of the Trembling Blue Stars. Some of their stuff is a bit too self pitying for me - makes me want to shout get over it!

I only have one FM album and admittedly haven't listened to it much. And I've never heard Northen Picture Library.

I find it striking that Bobby Wratten can write now eight albums of sad/I'm Sorry/I Miss You/It's All My Fault songs and they all seem original. I'm amazed. (Though I haven't heard much of the newest one.)

I saw him at the Velvet Lounge here in DC a few years back ('03?) and he basically played an entire set of all the songs I wanted to hear. It was amazing. One of the best shows I've been to (and in one of the worst ****-holes).


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...Bobby Wratten can write now eight albums of sad/I'm Sorry/I Miss You/It's All My Fault songs...
Need a musician douchebag nominee thread for this guy

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Need a musician douchebag nominee thread for this guy


No, Wratten is definitely not a DB. Feeling sorry for himself, you bet. But you get the distinct lession (it's much more than an impression) that he really did mess it up, she really was his one true love, and life will NEVER be the same. It's pure honesty.

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I really don't know who could beat Sinatra in this category, if you're talking about "good" music. If you're not -- well, Jandek comes across as genuinely lonely, spookily and sometimes suicidally so, on the vast majority of his albums.