Artist	Song
Ryan Adams	In My Time Of Need
from The Destroyer Sessions (2000)
Alexi Murdoch	Song for You
from Time Without Consequence (2006)
The Smashing Pumpkins	Landslide (Fleetwood Mac cover)
from Pisces Iscariot (1994)
The Weakerthans	Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure
from Reunion Tour (2007)
Reindeer Section	Cold Water
from Son of Evil Reindeer (2002)
Andrew Bird	Yawny at the Apocalypse
from Armchair Apocrypha (2007)
The Low Anthem	This God Damn House
from What The Crow Brings (2007)
Iron & Wine	Place To Be (Nick Drake cover)
from Forbidden Demos (2007)
Clem Snide	Find Love
from Soft Spot (2003)
Neko Case	Middle Cyclone (iTunes Originals Version)
from iTunes Originals - Neko Case (2009)
Damien Rice	The Animals Were Gone
from 9 (2006)
The Tallest Man on Earth	Graceland (Paul Simon cover)
from 9 (2006)
Morphine	In Spite Of Me
from Cure For Pain (1993)
The Frames	Suffer In Silence
from Burn The Maps (2005)
Modest Mouse	Bankrupt On Selling
from The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
Neil Halstead	Hi-Lo and Inbetween
from Sleeping on Roads (2002)
Charlie Rich	Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs
from Greatest Hits (2000)
Kathleen Edwards	Mercury
from Failer (2003)
The Antlers	Kettering
from Hospice (Remastered) (2009)
Jeff Buckley	Hallelujah
from Grace (1994)
Laura Cantrell	Sam Stone (John Prine cover)
from Future Soundtrack for America (2004)
My Morning Jacket	I Needed It Most
from At Dawn - Demos (2007)
Cat Power	Colors And The Kids
from Moon Pix (1998)
Grant Lee Phillips	Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me (the Smiths cover)
from Nineteeneighties (2006)
Calexico	I Send My Love To You (Palace Brothers Cover)
from I Am A Cold Rock. I Am Dull Grass (2006)
Rachael Yamagata	Reason Why
from Happenstance (Deluxe Version) (2007)
Elliott Smith	Say Yes
from Either_Or (1997)
Hem	When I Was Drinking
from Rabbit Songs (2002)
Tom Waits	Take it with me
from Mule Variations (1999)
Rachel's	NY Snow Globe
from Systems/Layers (2003)

Comment:

Today, we'd like to present our mixtape of sad songs.

This volume has been a long time coming - over a year by our count. And it goes without saying that these songs are subjective (read: very specific to one time, mood or person - though sometimes more than one, sometimes all three at once). Maybe it's setting the bar too low to call it simply a sad songs mix, maybe it's a mix of sensitive/emo songs, maybe it's a rainy mix, we dunno exactly, but these songs tug at our heartstrings.

We've included some sad song stalwarts - including Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, the Smiths, Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," Paul Simon's "Graceland" and John Prine - but with cover versions by Jeff Buckley (how could we not put him on there?), Grant Lee Phillips, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Tallest Man on Earth and Laura Cantrell. Don't worry - there's plenty of non-cover versions too, including Clem Snide, the Frames, Modest Mouse and Elliot Smith.

The Low Anthem's "This God Damn House" delivers quite a gut punch, "The newspaper on the table is three days old, I've read every book on the living room shelf, I'm losing my mind in this goddamn house." Though not be outdone by Neil Halstead with "Hi-Lo and Inbetween," "One day it just snowed, I guess, and they closed the roads into your heart. You came home like a dead star - no light left, no loving anymore." And don't even get me started with Kathleen Edwards' "Mercury," a forlorn tale if we've ever heard one.

Most of the songs in the mix is from last two decades - barring our reaching back to 1969 for Charlie Rich's "Life's Little Ups and Downs." It's not intentional, it's just the way that it worked. As much as we want to hate Ryan Adams, he absolutely kills "In My Time of Need" during the Destroyer Sessions, just had to put him on there.

We adore the last two songs, which paint New York very blue. Our hearts break when Tom Waits sings, "The ocean is blue, as blue as your eyes. I'm gonna take it with me when I go. Old long since gone, now way back when we lived in Coney Island. Ain't no good thing ever dies."

It won't speak to everyone, we know, but it speaks to us. Enjoy.

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