Recommend some melancholy music (RR)
aleit
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Was feeling kind of blue this morning. Put on John Martyn - StormBringer. Followed by Arthur Russell - World of Echo. Last night it was Barbara Mason on Arctic and Ike Quebec.I need some new music to get through those sorts of days. Suggestions? Can be jazz, folk, soul, total outsider/loner shit. anything.
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just what the doctor ordered. shit is mad somber and meloncholy, but really well done.
kind of like a psych-sampled-rock-blues-killyourselfyourlifesux steez.
oh and the velvet underground works nice too.
More John Martyn (Solid Air)
Devendra Banhart
Cinematic Orchestra - Wheel within a wheel
Brit Jazz (Don Rendell etc)
Express Rising (D Carfegna)
Tortoise - Millions now living will never die
Slim Smith & The Uniques or similar JA Rocksteady
MOre more.
That first Terry Callier on Prestige really nice? Never actually heard it- more folky?
Meri Wilson-Itinerary
Buck up champ
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T.N.
too obvious. but thanks.
Is this a message to me or an album?
mr n drake
miles in a silent way.
astral weeks
coltrane favourite things usually lifts me up..
do you want music to cheer you up or go with the mood?
some nina simone
Sayin...it kinda starts and stops there for me. Nothing else even comes close.
Tim Buckley
Nico
Leonard Cohen
Almost anything on 4AD
yes.
I listened to this driving a rental car after a red-eye to Yurp... started to fall asleep on the A1. Not cool. It's stoner moody loops rather than black dog steez.
OK. I understand. the obvious is sometimes the hardest to see.
haha. i remember that album. charlie haden's son. used to listen to that- all emo and stuff.
more suggestions of older stuff. stuff that satisfy the mood + the record geek in me.
The Pearl
Harold Budd & Brian Eno
Daniel Lanois - Acadie
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Gone To Earth or Secrets of the Beehive
David Sylvian
permission to skip directly to side 2 for maximal melancholy
nico - chelsea girl
devendra banhart - cripple crow
lester young - blue lester
cat power- myra lee
legend of sleepy john estes
six organs of admittance - dark noontide
this here is bobby timmons
music of the lobi
mal waldron - mingus lives
tin hat trio - the rodeo eroded
smog - rain on lens
i mean you can't really go wrong with astral weeks or bob dylan either
Side 1. "See the sky about to rain"
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
been playing On the Beach to death.
Have played Nick Drake and Astral Weeks to death.
Tim Buckley sounds happy at this point.
Loren Mazzacane Connors' guitar strings are falling off.
I interviewed Cat Power after her first LP came out on that Italian label on a street corner in Ypsilanti, MI- right in front of the Deja vu strip club. She was so sweet and nervous and drunk. She could not play guitar for the life of her.
But the suggestions are much appreciated.
Tim Buckley - Lorca
bowery electric - s/t
tim buckley - happy/sad
roy harper - stormcock
fursaxa will fuck your life up in a permanent way.
this album is excellent.
I was working with a woman and together we put on shows so her band would have decent people to play with. Ms.Power was one of the nicest we dealt with. I'm not a fan of her music at all, so I didn't watch the show and worked the door, but folks I spoke to after were floored at how incapable she was at live perfomance. One person said they thought she was going to start crying at one point.
This reminds me of "Wine-Stained Lips" a song by her one-time boyfriend's band Smog that is melancholy and romantic. Not a fan of theirs either, but this song is quite nice.
see also Laughing Stock
can somebody actually break down the whole chan marshall / cat power phenomenom thing.. i had moon pix back when it came out.. sorta forgot about chick. why exactly is she so tortured???