I've been avoiding music for the past week (seriously, i almost freaked out at a store when etta james started with "at last")...but today I put a few songs on a playlist, hoping to jar a catharsis...
it's nothing new or too creative, but it's working for me...you'll notice that there are several artists that are repeated...these are artists that i have gone to many times over the years for soothing, balm-like relief for any sort of heartache...
1. i just don't think i'll ever get over you...colin hay
2. brightest...copeland
3. breathe me...sia
4. there cannot be a close second...copeland
5. lies...glen hansard and marketa irglova (from the "once" soundtrack)
6. look after you...the fray
7. that particular time...alanis morissette
8. goodbye my lover...james blunt
9. fidelity...regina spektor
10. hold on...sarah mclachlan
11. ordinary people...john legend
12. never is a promise...fiona apple
13. where does the good go?...tegan and sara
14. next lifetime...erykah badu
15. chasing pavements...adele
16. microphone preacher (i write your name on my thumb)...HYIM
17. romeo and juliet...dire straits
18. fear...sarah mclachlan
19. holes...ani difranco
20. my way home...citizen cope
21. when your mind's made up...glen hansard and marketa irglova (from the once soundtrack)
22. samson...regina spektor
23. this year's love...david gray
24. full of grace...sarah mclachlan
25. the entire soundtrack to "the last five years"...jason robert brown
#8 has really been on repeat. say what you want about james blunt, but dude knows how to croon about the end of a relationship with your best friend.
#13 seems especially appropriate right now. and a friend of mine listened to it over and over again when the love of his life left him.
#16 is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard in my entire life. it is, literally, poetry set to music. it is one of my favorite songs, and, ironically, it is one that he introduced me to.
some of them are indulgent, weepy, "chick" songs. eh. i'll take it.
i suggest that anyone who has ever been in love purchase the soundtracks to both "once" and "the last five years"...they are amazing.
enjoy. or, you know, sob uncontrollably on the treadmill at the gym. whatever works for you.
what do you listen to when the floor has fallen out from under your life?
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1. Donnell Jones, "Where I Wanna Be"
2. John Legend, "Again"
3. Jose González, "Cycling Trivialities"
4. Amos Lee, "Colors"
5. Alanis Morrisette, "Not the Doctor"
6. Jeff Buckley, "Lilac Wine"
7. Jeff Buckley, "Hallelujah/I know it's over" Live Version from Mystery White Boy album
8. Randy Crawford, "End of the Line"
9. Once soundtrack, "Once"
10. Michael Jackson, "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
11. Aretha Franklin, "Ain't No Way"
12. Rihanna feat. Ne-Yo, "Hate that I Love You"
13. The Scarlet Pimpernel Soundtrack (The Musical), "Don't Turn Away, it's only Love"
14. Alanis Morrisette, "Would You Forgive me Love"
15. D'Angelo, "Once Agin"
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