I'm providing my own, personal master list of painful music, which lists those songs with which I masochistically bombard myself when I'm feeling lonely or sad.On My Own", from Les Miserables -
The classic unrequited love song. I first listened to this song when I was a senior in high school and was, at the time, lost in the quagmire of what was my first experience that I can legitimately call "love". Every line was a stab to my heart, perfectly reflecting my own situation. Its accuracy was startling for me then, and remains so even now.
"Feels Like Home", from Randy Newman's Faust -
This is obviously just a statement of my own personal opinion, but... BEST LOVE SONG EVER. This is a relatively plain, straightforward piece; lyrically simple, very light orchestration. Just two verses with a chorus after each. There's not even a bridge. But it's breathtaking. I'm so passionate about this song
.When She Loved Me", Sarah McLachlan (by Randy Newman) -
This is from the Toy Story 2 soundtrack, and in the movie it's about companionship, not a romance. But it's still an excrutiating tearjerker about not feeling loved.
"Losing My Religion", REM -
I'm not actually all that sure that this is about unrequited love, but it's always felt that way to me. Maybe lost love, or the process of losing it, would be closer... it's clearly love and pain, though, which is what makes it wallow-worthy
Ghost", Indigo Girls -
"The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota at a place where you can walk across with five steps down. And I guess that's how you started, like a pinprick to my heart, and at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown." Ouch. Emily Saliers really has a way with words
Romeo and Juliet", Indigo Girls (by Mark Knopfler) -
I like the lyrics to this song -- it's actually a Dire Straits song that the Girls covered -- but I've got to say it's Amy Ray's impassioned performance which has led me to love it so dearly..
Collecting You", Indigo Girls -
Another of Emily's songs..Also, she bemoans her "hairtrigger love and faulty spring". I think just about everyone, at some point, has fallen victim to their own over-eagerness to love.
The classic unrequited love song. I first listened to this song when I was a senior in high school and was, at the time, lost in the quagmire of what was my first experience that I can legitimately call "love". Every line was a stab to my heart, perfectly reflecting my own situation. Its accuracy was startling for me then, and remains so even now.
"Feels Like Home", from Randy Newman's Faust -
This is obviously just a statement of my own personal opinion, but... BEST LOVE SONG EVER. This is a relatively plain, straightforward piece; lyrically simple, very light orchestration. Just two verses with a chorus after each. There's not even a bridge. But it's breathtaking. I'm so passionate about this song
.When She Loved Me", Sarah McLachlan (by Randy Newman) -
This is from the Toy Story 2 soundtrack, and in the movie it's about companionship, not a romance. But it's still an excrutiating tearjerker about not feeling loved.
"Losing My Religion", REM -
I'm not actually all that sure that this is about unrequited love, but it's always felt that way to me. Maybe lost love, or the process of losing it, would be closer... it's clearly love and pain, though, which is what makes it wallow-worthy
Ghost", Indigo Girls -
"The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota at a place where you can walk across with five steps down. And I guess that's how you started, like a pinprick to my heart, and at this point you rush right through me and I start to drown." Ouch. Emily Saliers really has a way with words
Romeo and Juliet", Indigo Girls (by Mark Knopfler) -
I like the lyrics to this song -- it's actually a Dire Straits song that the Girls covered -- but I've got to say it's Amy Ray's impassioned performance which has led me to love it so dearly..
Collecting You", Indigo Girls -
Another of Emily's songs..Also, she bemoans her "hairtrigger love and faulty spring". I think just about everyone, at some point, has fallen victim to their own over-eagerness to love.