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Ani Difranco - Willing To Fight (live)

...I've got friends all over this country
friends in other countries too
and I've got friends I haven't met yet,
I've got friends I never knew

But I got lovers who lose
I've only seen at a glance
I've got strangers for great-grandchildren
I've got strangers for ancestors
I was a long time coming
I'll be a long time going...

Arcade Fire - We Used To Wait

my favourite track so far, off of the new arcade fire album the suburbs

Dears (the) - Crisis 1 & 2

The melodic chill of the song crisis 1 & 2 from the 2008 album missiles by montreal indie band the dears.

Emmylou Harris - All My Tears

The Emmylou Harris song All My Tears from her 1995 album Wrecking Ball. Gospel, bluesy, cool bass, great vocals by Emmylou with backing from Daniel Lanois

Hayden - Bad As They Seem (live)

Poignant song about depression, being stuck in a rut, feeling old and yearning for the unobtainable.

John Martyn - Head And Heart

song from the former great

Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness

a haunting song originally written by will oldham, recorded by johnny cash on the album american iii (solitary man)

Mumford And Sons - The Cave

amazing folk-bluegrass ditty

Ray Lamontagne - Jolene

...A man needs something he can hold onto
A nine pound hammer or a woman like you
Either one of them things will do
Jolene
I ain't about to go straight
It's too late
I found myself face down in the ditch
Booze in my hair
Blood on my lips
A picture of you, holding a picture of me
In the pocket of my blue jeans
Still don't know what love means
Still don't know what love means...

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Let It Ride

Movin' like the fog on the Cumberland River
I was leaving on the Delta Queen
I wasn't ready to go
I'm never ready to go

Twenty-seven years of nothin' but
failures and promises that I couldn't keep
Oh lord I wasn't ready to go
I'm never ready to go

Let it ride
Let it ride easy down the road
Let it ride
Let it take away all of the darkness
Let it ride
Let it rock me in the arms of strangers,
angels until it brings me home
Let it ride
Let it roll
Let it go

Loaded like a sailor
Tumbling off a ferry boat
I was at the bar till three
Oh Lord, and I wasn't ready to go
I'm never ready to go
Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina
where they're gonna bury me
And I ain't ready to go
I'm never ready to go
Let it ride let it ride easy down the road
Let it ride
Let it take away all of this darkness
Let it ride
Let it rock me in the arms of strangers
, angels until it brings me home
Let it ride
Let it roll
Let it go
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Spoon - Before Destruction

Evolving looping sound

Spoon - Nobody Gets Me But You

Rhythmic amping song, nobody gets me but you. Merry Christmas.

Tegan And Sara - Are You Ten Years Ago

pop with some techno elements

The Black Keys - The Go Getter

...Mashed potatoes in cellophane
I see my life going down the drain
Hold me baby and don't let go
Pretty girls help to soften the blow

Palm trees, the flat broke disease
And LA has got me on my knees
I am the bluest of blues
Every day a different way to lose

The Go Getter...

Tom Petty - Waiting For Tonight

“Just out walking, letting my mind roam
If she hung around too much I might take her for granted
But when I was away, she seemed an angel
The only one who really cared about me
The only one without an angle
For so long I've been lonely
Now I'm too weak to fight

I've been waiting for tonight
I've been waiting for tonight ”

TV On The Radio - Will Do

Really good song off of TV on the Radio's new album Nine Types of Light.  I love the lyrics

 

...Your love makes a fool of you
You can't seem to understand
Our heart doesn't play by rules
And love has it's own demands

 

But I'll be there to take care of you
If ever you should decide
But you don't want to waste your life
In the middle of a lovesick lullaby

Anytime will do
My love
Anytime will do...

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