Indie songs from your teenage years that break your heart

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Don't leave me out on a limb here for God's sake. I've slowly been queueing up my Cd collection on winamp and in doing so have discovered a bunch of songs that absolutely killed me not so long ago. Which are your long-forgetten songs that used to matter so much but you'd forgotten about?

― Matt, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hearing all 7 minutes of Steamroller by The Family Cat in the pub the other night was fantastic!

― Jonnie, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Purple Rain' by Prince

― maryann, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops - not indie. Okay, how about 'Death and the Maiden' by the Verlaines!

― maryann, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The songs that break my heart tend to be related to breaking up with girls. The ones that stand out most are Orange Crush (breaking up with Jenny Hibben) and Mellow doubt by Teanage Fanclub (breaking up with Georgina Edwards.

― davel, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The World Carries On - the Frank and Walters

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mellow doubt by the fanclub is an UTTER heartbreaker. as is A New England as covered by Kirsty Macoll and Near Wild Heaven by REM (dunno about the indie credentials of those last 2 but huh i don't care!)

― katie, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ditto Mellow Doubt, Amazing Hangover by the Family Cat will do this for me too. A New England introduced me to the world of lesbianism via a long debate after Top Of The Pops with my Dad.

Any blustery Carter ballad can fill me with wist too.

― Pete, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But then at the hieght of indie, I was much more likely to listen to "I remember you" by skid row. *sigh*

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Steamroller was a real blast from the past, and in The Village too, very unexpected. I heard Vapour Trail by Ride for the first time in ages a couple of weeks ago and it brought up the goosebumps.

― chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Wedding Present's "You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends"

― Tom, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh yeah, and "I'm not always so stupid" heartbreaking stuff.

― chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You win some and you lose some
And I've lost the will to lose
My part time job
My faith in God
Falling....on a bruise
In this no-star bed and breakfast
The insolvency abuse makes me feel like
Throwing myself off the kitchen shelf
Falling on a bruise
And all of my unworldly goods
The bailiffs took them too!
With all the ducked bills and silly sods from Brian Mills' catalogue
Something borrowed bartered and blue
You win some and you lose some
You save nothing - NOTHING! - for a rainy day
You need a nutrasweet Daddy or some peppermint Paddy or just a hackneyed old cabby who can drive you and your babby away...

[DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DI-DUM, monster synth orchestra to fade plus the bit only Pete knows from memory...]

― DO YOU SEE, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OH DEAR GOD.

Making Plans for Nigel by XTC managed to make me cry, quite embarassingly once. Also I cried at LOVE VIGILANTES by New Order (sob he just wants to see his family but they were told he was DEEEEEEEEAD sob sob).

― Sarah, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bloody heck, I never thought those lyrics would ever enter my counsciousness again.

― chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

funnily enough, Ride for me too, Chris, but Taste rather than Vapour Trail.

― MarkH, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard Travelling Light by the tindersticks for the first time in ages the other day which I still love and is such a heartbreaking song.

― davel, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Careful Chris or I will do the bit only I remember. (Which I think I have done on a previous thread).

― Pete, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Come Back To What You Know" by Embrace kept me emotionally stable a short period at school, though I can't remember why I haven't heard it recently. You fogeys think you're so cool with your Teenage Fanclub and your Wedding Present, don't you?

― Graham, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey Davel the first time I heard that album I cried as well! Ahem, which may be a reason why it did not work with the Potential New Boyfriend of Sorts who was playing it to me at the time... oops.

― Sarah, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Get Me - Dinosaur Jr

Alcoholiday - Teenage Fanclub

Around & Love Theme From Santo Gold- Lotion

Barely Real - Codiene

I guess I've always been kinda rock.

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So this is how it feels to be lonely / This is how it feels to be smaaaaaaall...

― Madchen, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of us are so ancient that indie wasn't even invented when we were teenagers. My teen years are characterised by T. Rex and ABBA, and then punk.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Soul and fire-Sebadoh

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is how it feels when your world means nothing at alllllll....

I would say most of them killed me, I listen to only the saddest and most self pitying indie music that existed. I was a Smiths fanatic, for heavens sake.

― Nicole, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And this I know,

His teeth are white as snow...

What a gas it was to see him...

― misterjones, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Staying on a TFC tip - it would have to be 'Everything Flows' and 'God Knows It's True for me.

― Leigh, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I get home I am going to play some pixies very load!!

― davel, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in a world of 100 percent total happiness 24 hours a day. This is why I can't answer this. Actually I can't really think of any, again perhaps Spiritualized.

― Ronan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you jel for reminding us all that Alcoholiday is the greatest song ever.

― Nicole, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the pixies do break my heart, but in a kind of "so much joy that it might explode" way rather than a melancholy way. so i shall just say "GOT A TATTOOED TIT, SAY NUMBAH THIRTEEN!"

― katie, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The "so much joy that it might explode" thing, hehe, this is a good way of describing it. I guess this is what I get when I hear "Lazy" or "At Night" by Shakedown or any of the other dance things I love. I can be sitting in my living room just thinking "wow wow wow" without the aid of any chemicals. wahey! I don't think I ever got it with rock music, even the Pixies and such who I always loved, but obviously dance was the thing for me.

― Ronan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know why Chris is surprised at the Family Cat being played in the Village. Assuming it was quiz night, that is. Jeremy Spakealike is always playing stuff like that.

As for my answer to the question, any songs that mattered so much then I haven't really forgetten about. So my answer is N/A.

― N., Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As no one as poked fun at me for my Embrace comment I am assuming everything you're admitting is just as sad.
― Graham, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Man in the Moon" by Voice of the Beehive

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably something by the Cat's Miaow. Maybe, "Hollow Inside". Hm.

― OCP, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never felt TFC much outside of a couple of songs, neither of which were on Bandwagonesque. How the hell does "Alcoholiday" go anyway?

Muttered this elsewhere, but the Cure's "Trust," while not indie specifically, is a song with fraught memories that I will not revive here. I do remember suggesting the Wedding Present's "Come Play With Me" as weirdly representative of a friend's particular situation around the time it came out.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"star power" - sonic youth (or most of the rest of evol)

i want to go home right now and listen to it and take my friday afternoon nap. is anyone else at work, running on fumes after going out last night and getting maybe four hours sleep?

― drake, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Willing To Wait" by Sebadoh RULES this thread, although so does the song with similar sentiments by Yo La Tengo -- "Did I Tell You".

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Alcoholiday"

There are things I want to do but I don't know
If they will be with you, if they will be with you
There are things I want to say but I don't know
If they will be to you, if they will be to you
Listen ever get a feeling when you're taken by the hand
And led a course you can't command
Went to bed but I'm not ready
Baby I've been fucked already
Falling into line but I'm doing nothing
We've got nothing worth discussing.
Went to go but it's all hazy
People say I'm going crazy.

[Repeat all above]

[Bridge]

All I know is all I know
What I've done I leave behind and
I don't know what sort to find me.
All I know is all I know
What I've done I leave behind and
I don't know what sort to find me.
All I know is all I know
What I've done I leave behind and
I don't know what sort to find me.

End song...but personally I thought they were singing "I don't want my soul to find me" which appealed to me far more as a lyrical sentiment. Anyway, it was sorta mid tempo scuzziness, with loose guitar playing.

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I'm ancient and pre-indie like Martin. I had Spiral Scratch and some Ork singles, but there was nothing really heartbreaking on those records. I did quote the Buzzcocks "Breakdown" in my high school yearbook, though, and then the editors changed the lines "wander loaded as a crowd" back to Wordsworth, the imbeciles! Anyway, like N. said, if it broke my heart, I've remembered it. Like Patti Smith's "Birdland", Lou Reed's "Oh Jim", Big Star's "Way Out West".

― Arthur, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"motorcycle emptiness" and "little baby nothing" by MSP.

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Shorley Wall" by Ooberman

― Graham, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mad As Snow - Kitchens of Distinction, fucking heartbreaker and fucking amazing.

― Chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My answer to this is a less-flip-than-you'd-think "all of them."

― nabisco%%, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's really the ones from my very early teenage years that break my heart the most. Sometimes it's not even the songs themselves but just suddenly being hit by the rememberance of how it felt to be 13 and hearing something that felt like a window into another world, a world much more beautiful and exciting than mine, a world I desperately wanted to be a part of. Some of those worlds are strange, even frightening but ultimately transcendant; that's why my choice must be Patti Smith's "Birdland". It doesn't break my heart in a sad way, but if you put the record on and go with her, really go all the way out with her... I know my heart feels something tremendous. It's not a place I can go every day, but knowing that it's there when I want it is one of the things that makes life worth living.

― Sean, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Being a teenager right now I can say that lately the Magnetic Fields are mostly unbearable and make me want to throw things and cry. Every single song is saying, "Look at the suffering you cause!"

I do not have any idea what will seem heartbreaking in retrospect, although there are lots of songs that made me feel awful listening to them. The more I listen to songs the less painful they become. The ones that are or have been most beautiful becoming dull would be heartbreaking though.

― Maria, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'So Said Kay' ~ The Field Mice.
When my goilfriend at the time emigrated, I played this to death. It seemed to say - and mirror - a lot about our relationship and parting.

― DavidM, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Know I'll Never" -- Jilted John (NOT THAT I WAS AROUND FOR THAT OR ANYTHING, ahem)
"Teenage Kicks" -- The Undertones

Matt Coastaltown, what were yours, anyway?

― felicity, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN upside down

JULEE CRUISE falling THE WEDDING PRESESNT falling
SNAPPER snapper & the ocean, dead pictures, what are you thinking? + some solo Peter Gutteridge
SUGAR come around, hoover dam, good idea, judas cradle
SUEDE sleeping pills (not really indie I guess) MBV to here knows when, the things i miss
numerous Chills songs, even (at least) one I think is crap (halo fading)
THE BATS nine days THE SUGARCUBES water BAILTER SPACE make GRANT LEE BUFFALO fuzzy, (and later - honey don't think + mockingbirds) some ALASTAIR GALBRAITH/PLAGAL GRIND

earlier = THE CURE the exploding boy, pictures of you
some of DANIEL JOHNSTON's More Songs About Pain, various Chris Knox

― halo halo, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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Also, Ian R-M, you're spot on about "Delicate Cutters" oh my. Seeing her do that song live was a high point of my life.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

I wish I was 17 again sometimes :/

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

oh also: galaxie 500 "fourth of july" (remembered because i heard 'blue thunder' in the video store last night, the non-sax version unfortunately)..

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah died pretty dc was one of mine too. hummingbirds i had a cassingle of 'if a vow' which was much played too. also the falling joys lock it. and tiddas used to do an acappella version of come inside my kitchen that i taped off the radio and wore out.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

also nick cave and the bad seeds - the ship song. and that boys don't cry song about the shiver up the spine, whatever that was called? shiver i suppose.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

i loved loved loved the b-sides of "if a vow" - especially "paralysed" which is one of simon's most affecting tunes. i loved "lock it" at the time but i fear it is the most dated track on a very dated album.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

shivers xpost

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

HAND COPS TO TRASHCAN SINATRA SHAME

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

and the sundays 'here's where the story ends'

i think i liked 2 weeks in niagara falls better than paralysed. i still have that if a vow cassingle. it's a bit battered and wobbly though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

also my friend the chocolate cake i've got a plan.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Again, maybe not indie, but one of my favorite songs and one most like to make me cry is Satie's 5th Gnossienne.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Boys Next Door gem, not Boys Dont Cry! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

ahaha oops. getting all my teenage favourite songs/bands/albums/tshirts mixed up. i might have to have a little nostalgia floorgazing disco at my house tonight as a reminder.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Hanging out with my best friend when I was a teenager last night, oh it all came back up...

-Add It Up - Violent Femmes
-Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
-There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
-Under The Milky Way - The Church
-Beauty Lies - Sonic Youth

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Thursday, 25 August 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Youth "Brother James"
The Cure "A Few Hours After This", "A Thousand Hours"
Current 93 "Passing Horses"

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

-Too Far Down - Husker Du

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Thursday, 25 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Total Devastation - Many Clouds of Smoke

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Not exactly my teenage years...well when i was 20.

Zumpano - Temptation Summary

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

ive got more...just reminded of how much of a miserable bastard i was.

cure - letter to elise
red house painters - dragonflies
smashing pumpkins - mayonaise
kitchens of distinction - smiling
drop nineteens - kick the tragedy
seam - decataur

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

BILLY BRAGG - TANK PARK SALUTE

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

NOT SO INDIE BUT BASICALLY ALL OF TRACY CHAPMANS DEBUT.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

gene - london can you wait

― jon garvie (jaybob3005), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Eep! More I forgot!

For Against - "Shine", "Echelons", "December", and especially "The Effect"
Cocteau Twins - "The Tinderbox (of a Heart)", "Five Ten Fiftyfold", "Carolyn's Fingers", "The Spangle Maker"

Trayce, those Hugo Largo songs are on Drum, right? I've been meaning to get that. I love Mettle very much.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

And The Sundays - "Wild Horses". I've meant to mention them about four times now.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

mmm fingering reese on a rollercoaster. LET ME IN THE FUCKING HOUSE.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

please delete me. sorry im a bit pickled.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Chapterhouse "Pearl"

― blue, Friday, 26 August 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, those Hugo Largo songs are on Drum, right?

Aye, they are indeed. The whole album really is marvellous in a spare, distant kind of manner. Even the little bits where Stipe pipes up and sings work with the rest without being annoying.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 August 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

somehow I fucking forgot Love Will Tear Us Apart

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Ian, the Stones' original has a better guitar somehow. (/rockist)

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Billy Bragg – "The Saturday Boy"
Band of Holy Joy – "Baubles, Bangles, Emotional Tangles"

(btw I think a somewhat lax definition of "indie" is good for this thread)

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Also I am pleased that The Blue Aeroplanes' "Journal of an Airman" has been mentioned!

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Finally I get a chance to post on this.

Because of my best friend from university, who died three years ago:
Fish by Throwing Muses
1, 2, 3, 4 by Bauhaus
Together in Electric Dreams by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder
Forbidden Colours by David Sylvian

High school:
Perfect Circle by REM
Stretch Out and Wait by The Smiths
I Often Dream of Trains by Robyn Hitchcock
Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain*

*weirdly, one of the women doing backing vocals on this record is now a close friend!

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I was listening to "Fish" last night Suzy! Had a bit of a nostalgattack and got my old 'Muses CDs out to listen.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 28 August 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

what a great fucking thread...

Kitchens Of Distinction - Mad As Snow
Field Mice - So Said Kay, When Morning Comes To Town
Springfields - Are We Gonna Be Alright
Razorcuts - Brighter Now
Heidi Berry - Northshore Train
Durutti Column - Tomorrow
The Orchids - Blue Light
American Music Club - Ex-Girlfriend
Band Of Holy Joy - Bitten Lips
Galaxie 500 - Cold Night
Man From Delmonte - Mathematically Speaking
Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
TV Personalities - God Snaps His Fingers
Caroline Trettine - Sleep With Me
Wedding Present - Anyone Can Make A Mistake

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 28 August 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

this mortal coil's versions of Kangaroo and Song to the siren

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh, snap to the latter, CB, again on the college side of my list.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

The Durutti Column! "Sketch for Dawn II", "Never Known", "One Christmas for Yor Thoughts", "Smile in the Crowd", "Tomorrow" -- oh, they make my heart ache.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

bump

I cannot believe only one person has mentioned the Verlaines on this thread. Practically all of Bird-dog still gets me, especially 'Just Mum', 'Slow Sad Love Song' and the title track.

Ditto the Go-betweens: 'Head Full of Steam', 'To Reach Me', 'Bye-bye Pride', although the latter doesn't work as well as it used to.

Best of all though, is the Widdershins' 'Railway'.

― mrlynch, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Bye bye pride still causes a lump in my throat. Having said that I only heard it for the first time last year.

― badg, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

jesus christ none of them.

i've got enough drama/trauma in my adult life, i don't need to go looking back 20 years to find more.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

i mostly listened to metal/punk as a teen, i didn't have no time for no indie schmindie bollocks

― latebloomer, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

I need to write mine down as they come to me, rather than finish reading the thread first.

Suede - Introducing the Band
Paris Angels - All on You
Throwing Muses - Hate my Way
Dinosaur Jr - Get Me
Huggy bear - Her Jazz
And lots of others that will comes to me in dribs and drabs

There is a subset of songs which I heard on Peel when I first started listening to his show (early 1990 onwards basically) - bands like Sofahead, A Witness, When people were shorter and lived near the water, Thrilled Skinny etc. who I haven't heard for 15 years but, were I to, I would be immediately taken back to the thrilling, naive days of "wow, this music is weird and discordant and fast and it's doing something to my brain". So that sort of counts (and if anyone would like to email me any of this stuff, or point me in its direction, please do!).

Finally - I think Reading, Writing and Arithmetic just may be the finest album ever released.

― Mark C, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

My teenage years weren't filled with indie...
They were filled with Soul, Reggae, Hip Hop and Rave.
Indie was for the white kids.

― Stone Monkey, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Muttered this elsewhere, but the Cure's "Trust," while not indie specifically

huh? they invented indie! [nb do not question this, i will stick my fingers in my ears and go lalalala]

for me:

The Cure - Untitled
The Cure - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
The Cure - All Cats Are Grey
The Cure - Trust
The Cure - Like Cockatoos
The Cure - Sinking
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys

and my gut answer when i saw this thread title:

Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade
A House - When I First Saw You

Great thread! It's basically Feeling Gloomy's playlist.

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Evapor8"

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

dinosaur jr. - everything ever
pitchfork - rana
catherine wheel - car/girl stand still (always together on the mix tape for maximum sensitive-guy impact)

― kenan, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

"Too Drunk to Fuck"

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

and my gut answer when i saw this thread title:

Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade

Ha, mine too, then I looked upthread and saw I'd posted it already. Even reading my own earlier contributions upthread is making me all misty-eyed and sniffly.

― ailsa, Friday, 20 April 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, I've seldom felt so indulgent as while reading through this thread and piecing together my list. But I suppose that's the point.

The Cure – Apart
Smashing Pumpkins – Take Me Down
The sound of 16, maybe. Walks to college, headphones on, nails in palms. Both of the above still do for me. I blame them for everything, maybe.
Tindersticks - Mistakes
The Walkabouts – All For This – This more than anything. Journal with “All For This saves me again” scrawled at regular intervals. The epiphany of strings after the middle eight.
Comet Gain – Pier Angeli
Divine Comedy – Someone – Strings again! So loud that they distort, and it’s still not enough.
Morrissey – Late Night Maudlin Street
Lambchop – Theöne – “Gomer Pyle/ Is just a man/ Who served his country/ As best he can”. But it’s all in the squeak of the fretboard really.
Jacques – Somewhere
Field Mice – End Of The Affair – Saying “this is it, isn’t it?” to someone, because there’d never be a better time, and I needed a laugh, and feeling better for the reference and ten times worse. The mawkishness of the shoehorning feeding into the little heartbreak and all of it leaving me shuffling back tears in Shoreditch.
New Model Army – Green & Grey
Spearmint – Start Again – I don’t know how many times I’ve played it – only that it ought to have got tired long ago, and hasn’t.
Webb Brothers – Sleep If You Can

― Nicholas Passant, Friday, 20 April 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

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