Category: Melancholy Monday Music
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My years of the late 1970s into the early 1980s were drenched in these two songs. I played them 'til the grooves were worn down. (see pinky finger on the mic) "Tonight's lunar eclipse means that in the next few days you'll have extra power to wake yourself up…
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One of my favorite Johnny Cash songs, sung by the best female singer, hands down: "I go out to a party and for a little fun, but I find a darkened corner, "cause I still miss someone." Ahhhh. I have something extra special for Tuesday, then I promise I will get back…
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Father John Misty ~ Every Man Needs A Companion "Joseph Campbell and the Rolling Stones couldn't give me a myth, so I had to write my own." Amen. Sad can be sexy: watch live version at Don Quixote's in Felton, California. KEXP always has great performances in the studio. See FJ…
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“I would swim over, the deepest ocean, just to see my love, before I die, but the sea is wide, and I cannot swim over, nor have I wings, so I could fly…” This was on the 1978 album The Bride Stripped Bare (Waddy Wachtel was one of the producers). I played it to…
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It's mournful monday again. Time for another beautiful sad song. This ones parfait for the day as I'll be traveling north. Vashti Bunyan is a 60s singer/songwriter ~ a 'discovery' (like Marianne Faithfull) of Andrew Loog Oldham (Rolling Stones manager, etc.). Devendra Banhart and Andy Cabic (Vetiver) are fans and collaborators of Vashti's…and you know they have good…
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I love sad music. It makes me so happy. I will endeavor to share a sad song every Monday, to kick off the week (we’ll see if a gemini gypsy gal can be that disciplined). This week I am in love with this song by The National and the ancien film footage brilliantly fused by omnisciencia…
So Sylvie 