Songs with vocals that have piano primarily as the background - ones that sound similar to Jade McNelis' "Wins" (link provided) [more inside]
posted by paperlanterns on Sep 28, 2008 - 13 answers

My sister is having a rough month. She's toughing it out through a Jerry Springer-scale divorce drama while dealing with potentially serious medical problems. She's asked me to find songs for a compilation about difficult Decembers to help her get through. [more inside]
posted by MrVisible on Dec 25, 2007 - 28 answers

The piano music of Yoko Kanno in this solo blew me away. Where can I find more of it? Similar artists? [more inside]
posted by mwang1028 on Dec 19, 2007 - 12 answers

"Emotionally ambivalent" Christmas Songs? [more inside]
posted by Jaybo on Dec 15, 2007 - 40 answers

Melancholy love songs required for an unusual playlist. More inside. [more inside]
posted by greytape on Sep 16, 2007 - 49 answers

Poetry filter:- help me identify the author of this poem and maybe direct me to a volume containing it. The title (I think) is THE CONCEPTION... [more inside]
posted by mycapaciousbottega on Jan 22, 2007 - 8 answers

I am head over heels in love with someone who is draining my life from me. [more inside]
posted by skjønn on Aug 12, 2006 - 33 answers

Help: weed related sloth / amotivational syndrome . [more inside]
posted by lalochezia on Sep 17, 2005 - 22 answers

Melancholy fiction for a dark season: here in the Northeast U.S. we're in the midst of a particularly miserable January. I'm looking for some contemporary fiction that echoes the bleakness of the weather. What extraordinary books have you curled up with recently that are elegiac, darkly funny or otherwise wintry in tone?
posted by killdevil on Jan 27, 2005 - 50 answers