I’m listening to Jacques Brel right now. What else y’all got for me? All genres and languages welcome.
Mad World Covered by Gary Jules
Last Kiss Covered by Pearl Jam
Curse of the Blackened Eye by Orville Peck
Last Kiss Covered by Pearl Jam
Oh second on this
The National and Bon Iver should be on this list.
Schnittke’s Choir Concerto.
When I’m feeling what I can only describe as ‘general despair at the state of things’ (weltschmerz?) I have to admit that Babylon Zoo’s Spaceman does a great job in vocalising what I feel.
Eyedea especially the song Even shadows have shadows
I reserve some wordless music for when my sadness gets critical. That way, they always sound bittersweet without me listening them to death.
- Lourié’s 5 Préludes Fragiles. Makes me feel aware of how easy I am to break at the moment, but also how pretty survivalism through fragility can be.
- Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. It’s not about a dead princess, just one in the past, but it makes me feel like I’m that princess, rich and sad and stepping around in a bright, cream-beige ballroom. Instead of just solely sad.
- Debussy’s Images. II. Hommage à Rameau. A quiet plaintiveness with occasionally rising energy helps me tend closer to neutrality.
- Stanchinsky’s Prelude in the Lydian Mode. As the n-tuplets get desperate, I get desperate to fix everything. But then the curses stop and we return to a pretty but occasionally sickly quiet. The nonsenses are pinpricks in its floral thoughts.
- Glinka/Balakirev’s The Lark. Reminds me that I’m fluttering, not just floundering.
In any order, but I usually start with the Fragile Preludes (especially the middle few of the set). Lyrical songs are usually for higher energy/mood to me
Down down down my itchy, Red water by rehab
“Real Big Sky”, Emma Ruth Rundle: https://youtu.be/bspwpdTvaUw
“For Everything a Reason”, Carina Round: https://youtu.be/AKqgE8z7PcA
“A Singularity - Re-Imagined by Carina Round”, Puscifer: https://youtu.be/ORcrjdXD0Xk
“Moon”, All the Luck in the World: https://youtu.be/hLZpvWvNdZo
“Dark Eyes”, All the Luck in the World: https://youtu.be/3sySciqN1x0
“Round Here”, The Counting Crows: https://youtu.be/SAe3sCIakXo
“Move Me”, Badflower: https://youtu.be/j2iM1mYuYD8
“.haunted.”, Dead Poet Society: https://youtu.be/xYclMPNwy0E
But if I’m being honest like 75% percent of what I listen to is sad. Lmk if anyone wants more.
It depends, if I’m feeling cathartic then I’ll listen to something like Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In
If I want to feel better then Electric Callboy - We Got the Moves
If I want to get angry then Off With Their Heads - Clear The Air
Well if you’re already into Brel… I can confidently give you Brassens. I consider him to have been the greatest poet. It’s difficult to convey just how beautifully he told mundane things (les copains d’abord, l’orage…), how he made life and death sweet (le testament, la prière…), how he brought the humblest people under the limelight (la complainte des filles de joie, l’auvergnat…), and elevated already beautiful works of poetry (Paul Fort, Victor Hugo) into musical classics (Gastibelza, le petit cheval…).
I listened to those Brassens tracks you recommended. I quite liked them. I must confess I don’t speak any French but I enjoyed them. “Les copains d’abord” was probably my favorite of the four. I looked up the translation, It’s a sweet song. Thanks for the recommendation!
I’m glad, les copains d’abord is perhaps his biggest classic. Have a good one 🎵
Smog - The Well
or some Brad Sucks
Portishead - Roads ( live version from the CD plz ) Carla Morrison - Dime Mentiras Sasha Sloan - The Only ( Two Lanes Remix )
mt. Marcy
Try some of Matt Elliott, it’s going to crush you
