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Posted by steviest on 12/23/2007

Songs to get you through the post-festive season malaise. Be of good cheer!

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1. Gillian Welch - Revelator

"Darling remember, when you come to me, I'm a pretender, and not what I'm supposed to be.."

2. Nico - These Days

"Please don't confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them.."

3. The Handsome Family - So Much Wine

"Listen to me, Butterfly, there's only so much wine you can drink in one life and it will never be enough to save you from the bottom of your glass.."

4. The Jayhawks - Stick In The Mud

"Why do good things divide? Why did they all choose sides?"

5. Belle & Sebastian - Slow Graffiti

"So how about it? Show me please how I will look in twenty years And let me please, Interpret history in every line and scar that's painted There in front of me.."

6. Tindersticks - Travelling Light

"Some things you have to lose along the way.."

7. Joni Mitchell - River

"It's comin' on Christmas They're cutting down the trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace, Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on.."

8. Cat Power - The Greatest

"Once I wanted to be the greatest No wind of waterfall could stall me And then came the rush of the flood Stars of night turned deep to dust.."

9. Sibylle Baier - I Lost Somethign In The Hills

"I lost something in the hills.."

10. My Morning Jacket - One In The Same

"to all the people I've loved... don't think poor of me it wasn't till I woke up... that I could hold down a joke or a job or a dream"

11. Camera Obscura - Dory Previn

"I can’t see what he once meant to me Do you think it’s time I put it out of my mind I can’t see what he once meant to me Do you think it’s time I put it out of my mind I think it’s time I let my love for him die .."

12. Karen Dalton - Blues On The Ceiling

"I'll never get out of these blues alive I'll never get out of this crazy blues alive.."

13. Lucinda Williams - Minneapolis

"A dozen yellow roses All that's left in Minneapolis I wish I'd never seen your face or heard your voice You're a bad pain in my gut I wanna spit you out Open up this wound again Let my blood flow red and thin Into the glistening Into the whiteness Into the melting snow of Minneapolis"

14. Judy Roderick - You Were On My Mind

"I've got aches and I've got pains and Got some wounds to bind..."

15. Tindersticks - I Know That Loving

"Like feet that have never been walked on I know that Hands that never held no blame Can't you see that I guess you're staying Eyes that have never cried angry tears It's always the same A face that never felt that shame Well that's my heart It's calling out your name .."

16. Tom Waits - christmas cards from a hooker in minneapolis

"hey charlie for chrissakes do you want to know the truth of it? i don't have a husband he don't play the trombone and i need to borrow money to pay this lawyer and charlie, hey i'll be eligible for parole come valentines day.."

17. Lambchop - The Book I Haven't Read

"The shivers on my spine could be what we had in mind Remember all the times we said we could be We should be in....."

18. A Girl Called Eddy - People used to dream about the future

"Once we were people Who used to dream about the future Once we were people With stars in our eyes.."

19. Gram Parsons - Hearts on Fire

"what could I do except to cry and moan Lord, what have I done?"

20. Aretha Franklin - Sweet bitter love

"My magic dreams have lost their spell..."

21. Gillian Welch - I Dream A Highway

I'm an indisguisable shade of twilight Any second now I'm gonna turn myself on In the blue display of the cool cathode ray I dream a highway back to you.."

22. Patti Smith - Elegie

"I just don't know what to do tonight, My head is aching as I drink and breathe Memory falls like cream in my bones, moving on my own."

23. The National - Baby, We'll Be Fine

"Take a forty-five minute shower and kiss the mirror And say, look at me Baby, we'll be fine All we gotta do is be brave and be kind I put on an argyle sweater and put on a smile I don't know how to do this I'm so sorry for everything.."

24. Leonard Cohen - Last year's man

"But the skylight is like skin for a drum I'll never mend and all the rain falls down amen on the works of last year's man.."

25. Lincoln - Little Mistakes

"Little mistakes, my little mistakes..."

26. Vashti Bunyan - Winter Is Blues (extra track)

"Winter is blue Living is gone Some are just sleeping In spring they’ll go on Our love is dead Nothing but crying Love will not find even One more new morning.."

27. Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes

"Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving I do not count the time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes?"

28. Richard and Linda Thompson - Down Where The Drunkards Roll

"See that lover standing Staring at the ground He's looking for the real thing Lies were all he found..."

29. Nick Drake - Fly

"Please give me a second grace Please give me a second face I've fallen far down The first time around Now I just sit on the ground in your way.."

30. Belle & Sebastian - The Boy Done Wrong Again

"What is it I must do to pay for all my crimes? What is it I must do? I would do it all the time.."

31. John Cale - Hanky Panky Nohow

"If the sacheting of gentlemen Gives you grievance now and then What's needed are some memories of planing lakes Those planing lakes will surely calm you down.."

32. Malcolm Middleton - burst noel

"Last year I got knives for Christmas Stayed at home and no one missed us Lying on the bathroom floor I don’t want to ho-ho-ho no more.."

33. Fleetwood Mac - Storms

"Every hour of fear I spend My body tries to cry Living through each empty night A deadly calm inside.."

34. Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

"All the things I should've said That I never said All the things we should of done That we never did All the things I should've given But I didn't Oh darling make it go Make it go away Give me these moments back Give them back to me Give that little kiss Give me your hand.."

35. The Go-Betweens - I'm Allright

"Splashing and dashing myself A sad man Trying to lift a hundred weight If I can When I say I'm available She smiles She doesn't want to hurt me It's OK I'm Allright..."

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