a youtube thread for wrist-slashing depression-soaked country songs of sadness and desperation

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must be AT LEAST as soul-crushing as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNRzzHtUNi4

scott seward, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO6XpbaLkCU

Geoffrey Mujangi Bia-Curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:27 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mhw_DGIW5o

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:29 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjTleVFH2j4

Prof. Einstein Geniuspants (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:31 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4yjGzWOvI&feature=related

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

man I need to get some more Porter

Prof. Einstein Geniuspants (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jlVdC4qxsQ

Geoffrey Mujangi Bia-Curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS_UPHsEofU

Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:40 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtDLN4LoPZA

Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:41 (sixteen years ago)

I could slap together a decent Porter comp if anyone's interested.

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:47 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR1pBKjV1rI

Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

I could slap together a decent Porter comp if anyone's interested.

*raises hand*

all I have is one of his albums with Dolly

Prof. Einstein Geniuspants (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:49 (sixteen years ago)

I'll have to convert some stuff from scratchy flea market vinyl, but I've been meaning to do that anyway...

There's also the Rubber Room comp out there if you're looking for Porter's most psychotic stuff.

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvW6_-TP5cs

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRiQ4zz8n4M

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

i wish i was at home so i could watch all these :(

Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

not exactly wrist-slashing, but still...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbzc77Tz6PA

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffHcGlF0xDw

Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

Was just listening to "Mama Tried" but Merle is often a winky unrepentant villain imo

Geoffrey Mujangi Bia-Curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

Not complaining about that song being on this thread tho, just saying.

Geoffrey Mujangi Bia-Curious (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

spotify:track:3I6wdxs1GiKG7VX79HlITM

A stretch perhaps but everyone should hear/love this song

David Katz (davek_00), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

is merle's winking unrepentence not a source of wrist-slashing depression, though? at least for mama?

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:57 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-UURtRJh3k

('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuUr-cB7PnY

Not as good as the Keith solo bootleg version, but I love the way he sings this one.

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:35 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MTFwvMzH-0&feature=related

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmrAFomvXAA

Moreno, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

this was the last thing he recorded before he drank himself to death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFk9FKi6ik

Moreno, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpHnHOQ-vk

itchy rainbolt (clotpoll), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

Eddie Noack is a good call; I just discovered that one recently.

Ferlin' Husky's "Drunken Driver" is about as maudlin as they come:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-kykDYQw0

Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:15 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QTGnEYknNE&feature=PlayList&p=4DC60F8FE818F95F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=36

Just got the record these are from, "Stories We Could Tell"... It's not the best thing they did but some nice moments - this version here of Brand New Tennessee Waltz is actally better than the record.

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

Amazing how they look younger here than your average rock band today, and this is almost 20 years after Bye Bye Love.

Brio, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfMh_paMmqA

Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcMLDoc9eg

Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JlXGhaI1os

that's not my post, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 05:52 (sixteen years ago)

Couldn't find an acceptable YouTube version by Tom Russell. Dave Alvin does a good cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWFidfR7OAw

that's not my post, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 06:46 (sixteen years ago)

great version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_xza4eseV0

Zeno, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:13 (sixteen years ago)

Lefty's original is ace but Keith is my favorite (country) singer and this live version is savage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tp_JzOkInw

Euler, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:34 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FikZwgj89HI

that's not my post, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:36 (sixteen years ago)

one more for the road (btw Elvis' 1976 version is also wrist-slashing, esp. b/c we know what's coming around the corner)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smlaq1ezQRM

Euler, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 07:46 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXJPVRw3hmk

mottdeterre, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksw2yU3ahs8

mottdeterre, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

all-time heartbreaker imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkFmCY9IZ0

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdEdWHpD7w0

hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:24 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RAepGhVZEI

NB: YouTube doens't have it, but Paycheck's "I Did the Right Thing" is a real slash-and-hack-at-yer wrists weeper. And even weepier is Bobby Braddock's version, that isn't on YouTube either.

mottdeterre, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:30 (sixteen years ago)

^Okay, I didn't watch this all the way through. My god, whoever put the pictures with this ought to be horse whipped!

mottdeterre, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:34 (sixteen years ago)

^^Something along the lines of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rG-kYthNCA

mottdeterre, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 19:37 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKuTeDUPljQ

dad a, Monday, 1 February 2010 14:26 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNQcClaPzh0

dad a, Monday, 1 February 2010 14:49 (fifteen years ago)

i can't find any youtube for this, but Narvel Felts has another great song of agony, "Everything I Taught Her Was Bad".

Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 February 2010 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPhs5_bqHlk

dad a, Monday, 1 February 2010 15:00 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I could slap together a decent Porter comp if anyone's interested.

eh?

Wrinkles, I'll see you on the other side (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 February 2010 18:07 (fifteen years ago)


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