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1) Stevie Wonder - Love's In Need Of Love Today
2) Mavis Staples - Since I Fell For You
3) Ned Sublette, Lawrence Weiner & The Persuasions - Ever Widening Circles of Remorse
4) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
5) Fiona Apple - Oh Sailor
6) U2 - One
7) Mozart - Per Pieta, Ben Mio, Perdona
8) Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U
9) Question Mark & the Mysterians - 96 Tears
10) Roy Orbison - It's Over
You know how, even when you're the one who initiates the break-up, and you really (on an intellectual level) want the person you broke up with to find someone else and be happy, it still hurts when you find out s/he's dating someone new? Yeah, that's me. I'll be fine when my pragmatic side kicks in (soon, I hope).
11) David Gray - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
12) Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair/Canticle
13) John Lee Hooker - She Left Me By Myself
14) Sheryl Crow - My Favorite Mistake
15) Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
16) Talk Talk - It's My Life
17) Beach Boys - Help Me Rhonda
18) The Cure - Pictures Of You
19) Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now
20) The Smiths - I Want The One I Can't Have
Thanks, Eide! (I apologize for including so many poppy tunes. Lapse in judgment.)
Some of these songs are absolutely lovely. A good mix between things I haven't heard and things I haven't heard in awhile. I'll wait to the end to request my YSIs, but I may have quite a few if your set keeps up like this!
21) Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself
22) Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun
23) Suzanne Vega - Widow's Walk
24) Wilco - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
25) Cat Stevens - Wild World
26) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky
27) Billy Joel - And So It Goes
28) Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
29) Hank Williams III - Broke, Lovesick and Driftin'
30) Carpenters - Superstar (I just lost 2/3 of my listeners. Come on, I HAD to play it.)
31) Cars - Since You're Gone
32) Cat Power - Satisfaction
33) Combustible Edison - Surabaya Johnny
34) David Cassidy - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
35) Joni Mitchell - Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
36) Fugees - No Woman, No Cry
37) Godley & Creme - Cry
38) Gram Parsons - Love Hurts
39) Hank Williams, Jr. & Sr. - There's a Tear In My Beer
40) Johnny Cash - He Stopped Loving Her Today
41) Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
42) Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust
43) Keren Ann - I'm Not Going Anywhere
44) Sade - King of Sorrow
45) Los Secretos - Volver, Volver
Okay, kids, are we over it yet? Bleccchh, I know I sure as hell am. Onward.
No hurry or anything, but I'd love it if you could YSI these tracks:
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U
The Cure - Pictures Of You
The Smiths - I Want The One I Can't Have
Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself
Suzanne Vega - Widow's Walk
Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
Cars - Since You're Gone
Fugees - No Woman, No Cry