Monday, November 21, 2005

Sad Bastard songs

I was realizing the other day I really have a penchant for the sad bastard category of songs. I take the term from theJack Black line in High Fidelity. And it's not like I listen to them to be depressed, it's just that I prefer them in general. They just soothe me and I also think that those songs have the better lyrics as well, the closer to poetry really.

Here is a sampling of my sad bastard tunes:

Tell Her This - Del Amitri
Overkill - Colin Hay
If I wrote you - Dar Williams
Miss you til I meet you - Dar Williams
Let him fly - Patti Griffin
#41 - Dave Matthews Band
Wicked Little Town - Hedwig and the angry inch
Origin of Love - Hedwig and the angry inch
Lover, you should have come over - Jeff Buckley
Lilac wine - Jeff Buckley
My Funny Valentine -- (prefer the slower covers that take a melancholy voice)
Mystery - Indigo Girls
Fare thee well - Indigo Girls
That's All - Mel Torme
Wonderwall - Oasis
This Hotel Room - The Poem Adept
Trouble - Ray Lamontagne
Arms of a Woman - Amos Lee
Your Cloud - Tori Amos
China - Tori Amos
You and I both - Jason Mraz
Helicopters - Barenaked Ladies
The Great Provider - Barenaked Ladies
Aluminum - Barenaked Ladies
For You - Barenaked Ladies
Love will come through - Travis

Yeah, I am a sap sometimes when it comes to my music. But, I will never have a Celine Dion original on there. Honestly, I think hell is eating McDonalds burgers with the old stryofoam containers in place bread and meat with a side beverage of Walmart mop bucket water, wearing burlap leotards and wool underwear thongs in a flaming hot room with poison ivy and pink eye listening to Celine sing on a firey stage while you are locked into your chair.
Yes, that is my hell.

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