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Songs That Make Me Cry

Treasure Island Preview:
I Wish For Dreams Of Light

October 15, 2009

I’m sure I’ve said this many times, but I dig festivals because they give me a chance to drop in and say hi to people who were important to me as a youngun. I was hell of into Hüsker Dü’s New Day Rising, so I’m glad to have the opportunity to see Bob Mould (Sunday, [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Consider What He Says To You, Consider What’s To Come

September 15, 2009

I had a revelation in the mid-90s that I should have gotten a Scorpions tattoo in the 80s. By the time I thought of it, though, I felt it was too late — their music was watered down, and a Scorps tattoo would come off more ironic than rockin. I assumed I simply had missed [...]

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Don’t Lose Me Now, Don’t Lose Me Now

June 24, 2009

The last time I gushed over Okkervil River was a couple years ago, with the release of The Stage Names, an album that fully blindsided me and  still makes me ache. (Go get it. Really. Please?)
Today my gush concerns 2005’s Black Sheep Boy, an album that was much gushed-over upon its release, but didn’t stick [...]

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Summer Wasn’t Bad Below The Bridge

May 5, 2009

Oh, Lord, dear hearts, I made a beautiful, painful mistake yesterday.
Rainy Monday, I’m slow and shaky and settle in for some work. Townes Van Zandt’s been on my mind a lot lately (as per usual), so I decide to dive a lil’ deeper in the collection to hear some I haven’t listened to a thousand [...]

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I Will Rearrange My Plans And Change For You

May 1, 2009

I usually try to keep a pretty good variety going here in Vegetable land, so there haven’t been many artists who’ve been posted more than once or twice.
There are heavy and notable exceptions: Nick Cave’s various endeavors, George Jones, and The Avett Brothers.
See what I’m trying to say?
This is what I’m doing here, hunched over [...]

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I Thought That Saving You Would Save Me

April 7, 2009

A lot of not-music stuff always seems to come up when Urge Overkill is the topic of discussion, so it’s often overlooked that they wrote one of the best California songs ever.
Urge Overkill – Heaven 90210 from Saturation

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One Drink Too Many And A Joke Gone Too Far

December 16, 2008

This is another one you might have heard, maybe heard a lot, but if you ain’t, then somebody needs to play it for you — and itunes doesn’t love you, I do.
This also goes under the category of songs that would make me cry even if I didn’t understand English. Something about that backwards guitar [...]

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If You Need A Second Opinion, As You Seem To Do These Days

December 12, 2008

Many songwriters (some might say too many) write songs from such a personal place that the result is more than just a pop song. But when someone truly gifted applies himself to this sort of task, the result can be something so powerful that listening to it can feel like experiencing your own life, again [...]

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You’re The One Who’s Supposed To Know Her Way Around

August 18, 2008

Jimmy Webb’s Wikipedia entry calls Glen Campbell “the finest interpreter of Jimmy Webb songs,” and I would have to say that “interpeter” is the perfect word choice, because who knows what Jimmy Webb is talking about most of the time?
That’s not a slight (at least not in my universe) — I’m about as big a [...]

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My Heart Shies From The Sorrow

May 28, 2008

I haven’t posted a “song that makes me cry” in a while.
This one’s a top-notch weeper. I first heard this song the same way many people my age heard it — by This Mortal Coil with the ungodly good Elizabeth Fraser.
The first time I listened to the Tim Buckley original, I was expecting it to [...]

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