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July 28, 2011 10:50 AM   Subscribe

MusicFilter! I'm looking for music that fits my current mood. I got great input when I wanted to revel in my awesomeness. Now, I'm feeling shitty and need to toe tap and sway to something else. Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man is on rotation in my brain. So is Amy Winehouse's You Know that I'm No Good.

Is this a specific type of song? Tortured soul, wallow in your awfullness? What should I listen to that gives me this same type of something? I'm open to different genres and have my new Pandora station going as well. The first song that Pandora brought up was Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me, which I love but it's not quite right.

Bonus: In Trouble Man, I always thought the lyrics were, I come apart, but when I looked them up, they say I come up hard. Which is correct?
posted by mokeydraws to Media & Arts (12 answers total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 
General Public: Tenderness.
posted by HeyAllie at 10:54 AM on July 28, 2011


Pretty confident it's 'come up hard.' 'Come apart' doesn't make nearly as much sense in the song.
posted by box at 10:56 AM on July 28, 2011


My standard answer for this is Lily Allen. I particularly like Smile. The girl is awesome, but totally NSFW.
posted by Leezie at 10:57 AM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]


Oh man, have I got a band for you.

Tindersticks. Start out with Cherry Blossoms.
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:07 AM on July 28, 2011 [1 favorite]


I like The Twilight Singer for the darkness. Anything from Blackberry Belle works for me. Ol' Dulli's got a little Soul in him too, so it might dovetail with Marvin nicely.
posted by kris.reiss at 11:48 AM on July 28, 2011


Beautiful South, "Your Hit Parade"

I have no poem that describes my charm
No story told that's short and sweet
I have no hymn, I have no psalm
This song I have it has no beat
Yes it has no beat
No tapping of feet
Yes it has no beat


(Actually, the South has quite a bit that might fit this question--"Old Red Eyes Is Back" and "Liar's Bar" spring to mind.)

Possibly also "Wild Sage" by the Mountain Goats (other Mountain Goats may work also, especially from Get Lonely, but this one is the one I'm closest to)
posted by dlugoczaj at 12:01 PM on July 28, 2011


Oh, another one that popped up for me the other day that I hadn't thought of in ages: "Bound for the Floor" by Local H.
posted by dlugoczaj at 12:03 PM on July 28, 2011


Well Pauline always cheers me up as do the bodysnatchers and this man blows me away.
posted by adamvasco at 12:13 PM on July 28, 2011


Try the "sad" tab on Stereomood.
posted by haqspan at 2:17 PM on July 28, 2011


The Smiths
posted by Clustercuss at 2:45 PM on July 28, 2011


And, like Kafkaesque mentioned, if you go with Tindersticks, you have to include "Come Feel the Sun", "Rented Rooms" "Let's Pretend", "Buried Bones".

I hope these help!
posted by foxhat10 at 6:17 PM on July 28, 2011


I generally don't like Mumford and Sons (my husband refers to them as Whiny and Sons), but there's something about their song Little Lion Man. I think it's being able to sing along and belt out the line "I really fucked it up this time, didn't I my dear?"
posted by Lexica at 6:49 PM on July 28, 2011


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