or, a playlist : songs for the lovestruck and forlorn
Here's a playlist I've kept from one iPod to the next. I don't really have a name for it other than the generic Acoustic Ballads, but I've learned to live with it. Any other adjective would be inaccurate, any other noun contrived. Songs have come and gone on this list, but they all have one thing in common: they're stripped down songs about love, loss and yearning, and they're unabashedly sentimental. It doesn't necessarily mean they're gooey and clichéd. Most of them are not off-the-shelf expressions of abstract feelings, but experiences written as stories, as intentions, as streams of consciousness.
As usual, you can listen to the songs two ways: Click on the image below to hear them all in one go, or on the song titles to hear each song individually.
- Somebody That I Used To Know : Elliott Smith
- No Fear Of Falling : I Am Kloot
- Saturday : Josh Rouse
- Naked As We Came : Iron & Wine
- To Be Alone With You : Sufjan Stevens
- I Wouldn't Miss It For The World : Johnathan Rice
- Poetry & Aeroplanes : Teitur
- Sleeping To Dream : Jason Mraz
- Only You : Joshua Radin
- Your Sweet Voice : The Reindeer Section
- Trouble : Ray LaMontagne
- My Winding Wheel : Ryan Adams
- Kathleen : Josh Ritter
- Dogs : Damien Rice
- Silent Sigh : Badly Drawn Boy
- Babylon : David Gray
- On Your Side : Pete Yorn
