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blossomslut ages ago, so here it finally is:
50 songs I love, with pretty pictures and download links. Have at it :)
001. Besses O' The Barn Band - Bradford
(instrumental)
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002. Pulp- A Little Soul
You see your mother and me, we never got along that well, you see. I'd love to help you, but everybody's telling me you look like me. But please don't turn out like me. You look like me but you're not like me I know. I had one, two, three, four shots of happiness… I look like a big man, but I've only got a little soul. I only got a little soul. Yeah, I wish I could be an example… wish I could say I stood up for you and fought for what I thought was right, but I never did, I just wore my trenchcoat and stayed out every single night.
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003. Yeti- Northern Line
Hold on, where the bloody hell d’you think you’re going? The train ain’t moving now because it’s snowing on the Northern Line. Hey kid, tell me why the hell you think we’re stalling? Could it be because the leaves are falling on the Northern Line?
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004. The Bonzo Dog band- Button Up Your Overcoat
Eat an apple every day,
Get to bed by three,
Take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
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005. The Beatles- Got To Get You Into My Life
You didn't run, you didn't lie, you knew I wanted just to hold you, and had you gone you knew in time we'd meet again for I had told you, ooh, you were meant to be near me. Ooh, and I want you hear me say we'll be together every day.
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006. Mark Ronson- Amy ft. Kenna
I don't know why I let go, I want to be your friend. Flowers grow through my window and I love you again. Oh, I love you, oh… when you laid me down into your beautiful garden, flowers in the love of my arms, it’s God shining through to me I guess,
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007. Dirty Pretty Things- The North
Four more rotations and no one will hurt, these are the things I dream of. I've been thinking through the drinking, though my confidence is shrinking, that I might be fine… the North would be so proud of you.
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008. The Cooper Temple Clause- For The Last Time
I can’t see you anymore, the tears have blocked my view. I think it’s best that I don’t see, instead I’ll keep the memory of you smiling back at me, my love. I can’t believe this day has come, we have lost and they have won, we won’t complete what we’ve begun, it’s vanished like the setting sun. But it won’t be back to comfort us, to keep us warm when we’ve had enough. All that’s left for me to say- I’m sorry it had to end this way.
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009. The Cribs- Advice from a Roving Artist
Can't go home right now, and that's the truth. Julie Burchill's drinking free champagne on my roof . The front door's off limits, at least to the likes of me. See right here, right here, this is my story. Slept in a stranger's flat in all my clothes. In the morning I took a bus across the city to feel safe and closer to home. Passed a sign on the door, and a couple more, saying welcome to hard times, welcome to hard times. I thought of a friend whose window looks out onto nothing but fields, while outside mine the book shop was closing down. It's closed now.
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010. The Accidental- Time and Space
Time and space stretch out before you, and the universe implores you to take your place amongst all things, and to see what the morning brings. To your own self be true, there's nothing more to do. You are young and the world is open, so many words you've never spoken. Don't be afraid to stand your ground when your time it comes around. To your own self be true, there's nothing more to do. You are part of everything. Find your voice and start to sing.
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011. Jens Lekman- How Much You Mean To Me
I'm on my way to the USA, so give me your address and I will send you the only white dove from New York City, and call out your zip code in the Grand Canyon. I know you don’t really read my letters. The very thought of not knowing the exact location of the room where we shared our last kiss will eventually kill me, because it wasn’t just any kiss. It wasn't like a first kiss or a second kiss or a millionth kiss... but it was a perfect kiss. It was a kiss we had been working on forever.
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012. Malcolm Middleton- Blue Plastic Bags
The whole world’s going home with blue plastic bags. Six bottles of Stella, Jacob’s Creek, and twenty fags. And you know there is no shame, ‘cos we’re all doing the same.
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013. Frank Turner- Substitute
Well, I've had many different girls inside my bed, but only one or two inside my head. These days I cuddle up to my guitar instead but oh, what I would give, not to stumble but to really fall in love. And I could substitute my singing for the sound of someone sleeping next to me.
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014. Joel Plaskett Emergency- You Came Along
True love is sharper than stones and sticks, louder than bombs and clocks that tick. I feel as deep as the ocean blue when I'm standing here with you, and the world keeps spinning faster. What am I to do in the face of our disaster? I've been here before but I don't know what comes after. The night's a lonely place to be; when the lights go out I want you here with me.
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015. June Tabor- The King of Rome
On the day o' the big race a storm blew in. A thousand birds were swept away and never seen again. "Charlie we told you so. Surely by now you know, when you're living in the West End there ain't many dreams come true"… "Yeah, I know, but I had to try. A man can crawl around or he can learn to fly, and if you live 'round here, the ground seems awful near. Sometimes I need a lift from victory"
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016. Patrick Wolf- Teignmouth
So when the birds fly south, I'll reach up and hold their tails. Pull up and out of here and bridle the autumn gales, down to the burning cliffs, to the unrelenting roll, to marry the untold blisses, and anchor this lost soul. From my window I saw two birds lost at sea. I caught our reflection in that silent tragedy, but with hope prevailing I draw galleons sailing, in full sail billowing free.
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017. These United States- First Sight
You can get home, but you can't get in. Locks are like longing; an everchanging thing, and keys are just clouds made of metal and spark. We knew exactly who we were, and yet couldn't quite say who we still are. I saw it all happening in one grand epic sweep, from that first sight that we wouldn't get to sleep for a week, and generations would follow the course that we'd charted from that sofa across… I couldn't wait to get started.
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018. Belle and Sebastian- A Century of Elvis
There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here, around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite like the country, it's dead hidden - safe I suppose, made for night living. There's a lot of squirrels and birds, and Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there when he's jumped over the fence on his way to Byres Road. Sometimes you can go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore, so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you. I suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why he's come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels. I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot.
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019. Pete Doherty ft. Wolfman- For Lovers
I'm running away with you… that's all I ever do. That's all we ever mean. I forgive you, everything. Meet me at the railroad bar, about 7 o’clock. We’ll joke while the sun goes down, watch the lovers leaving town.
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020. Comet Gain- Record Prayer
In our pockets, receipts from machines. In our estate the lift don't work. Walking is hard, because here it's meant to be. In our flunky fingers, sobbing rings and sweat, from all that worried waiting for things to happen like you know they should, if only they would. And in our heads, visions of getting beat up in back alleyways. Too much mincing about. London schemes to devalue its youth.
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021. The Cooper Temple Clause- The Clan
We lose our way, so easily. Call it distraction, but it’s not for me. They call it visions, but we did stand tall. It’s not your fault, my timing’s flawed. We have our friends, few and far between. We keep them close, and treat them mean.
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022. Penguin Cafe Orchestra- The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's Going Away And It Doesn't Matter
(instrumental)
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023. Belle and Sebastian- This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
I'm not as sad as Dostoevsky, I'm not as clever as Mark Twain. I'll only buy a book for the way it looks, and then I stick it on the shelf again. Now I could tell you what I'm thinking, but it never seems to do you good. It's beyond me what a girl can see. I'm only lucid when I'm writing songs. This is just a modern rock song, this is just a sorry lament. We're four boys in our corduroys, we're not terrific but we're competent.
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024. Animal Collective- The Purple Bottle
And my dear dear dear khalana, I talk too much about you. Their ears are getting tired of me singing all the night through. Let’s just talk together, you and me and me and you, and if there's nothing much to say, well, silence is a bore…
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025. Darren Hayman And The Secondary Modern- Elizabeth Duke
I brought you a ring from Elizabeth Duke; took my own sweet time before proposing to you, because all those nights when you looked beautiful, I forgot to tell you how much I love you. I brought you a ring from Elizabeth Duke to buy some time before losing you, because all those nights when I was cheap and cruel, I forgot to tell you how much I love you.
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026. The Childballads- Cheekbone Hollows
I bought a white chocolate tea in the park on my lunchbreak. I bought a painting off the street of a haunted lake. I tried hard to make my world an exciting place. But I keep hearing talk of the doom, and they're sending the meek home. And that's not half as bad as the shadow that’s caught in the hollow of your cheekbone.
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027. The Mountain Goats- No Children
I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us. I hope we come up with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us. I hope the fences we mended fall down beneath their own weight, and I hope we hang on past the last exit. I hope it's already too late.
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028. Hefner- We Love The City
We love the city because it lets us down. We love the city, not the suburbs that surround. We love all the dirty things, that lead us to think, that maybe true love could be found. We love the city because it’s how we live. We love the city because it never loves us back. We love it all because sometimes, even though they're hard to find, it contains all the virtues we lack.
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029. Death Cab for Cutie- Different Names for the Same Thing
Alone on a train, aimless in wander, an outdated map crumpled in my pocket. But I didn’t care where I was going, because they’re all different names for the same place.
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030. Gwenno- Lime Chordial
Drizzly days and smoking out your window, sand in our sandwiches and hanging out at bus stops. Old black and white films and hiding in wardrobes, and hoping to find that other world…
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031. Marcia Aitken- I’m Still In Love
I’m still in love with you, boy. I’m still in love with you, boy. I’m still in love with you, boy… you don’t know how to love me. Not even how to kiss me. I don’t know why I love you, baby. I’m still in love with you, boy.
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032. The Miserable Rich- Pisshead
I'm dead as a dodo and flat on my ass. If you take my photo, I'll show you some class. They call me a pisshead, but what do they know? There’s more love in this head, than these eyes can show. From fears and fears and laughter and laughter and I’d feel much better if I had a drink… I feel much better when I’ve had a drink.
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033. The Cooper Temple Clause- Screwdriver Song
To be blind to the world is worth the loss, but I will see you still, from time to time. Goodbye old friend, sleep tight. Sweet dreams fall on time, my friend. Nothing can hurt you now. We'll share a drink in time, when all the shadow chasing’s done…
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034. Voxtrot- The Start of Something
If I die clutching your photograph, don't call me boring, it's just ‘cause I like you. Oh, take me on back, take me on back, take me back to the place where I could feel your heart. Is this the end or just the start of something really, really beautiful wrapped up and disguised as something really, really ugly?
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035. Amplifico- We Believe In Something Unusual
We're doing well just now, you know. Bobbin' along like a couple of boats in the sunshine, just happy to watch the world go by, and it's feelings like this that make it seem like you came from me. Your fingers and toes, eyes, and your thoughts all mingle with mine just like I can imagine looking down at my newborn being totally wowed by creation, the marvel of this genius little body.
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036. The Wave Pictures- Now You Are Pregnant
But I love the back garden at my parents' place, and I love the view out of my Glasgow window, and I love waking up on the floor of a flat in New York, and you don't know any of these things. And I've seen you selling shoes but you've never heard me sing, and I used to hate your boyfriend and the things you did.. Somehow I found out and I was disappointed, but I don't need therapy because I have cigarettes, and I don't have any bad memories… only bitter regrets.
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037. Nouvelle Vague- Dancing With Myself
If I looked all over the world and there's every type of girl, but your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself. So let's sink another drink ‘cause it'll give me time to think. If I had a chance, I'd ask the world to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.
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038. Francoise Hardy- La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi
(lyrics in French)
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039. Didz Hammond- Rocky Raccoon
(who cares about these lyrics, really?)
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040. Ryan Adams- English Girls Approximately
Tall drink of water, she's a Norfolk waterfall. Little daybreaker, she's shooting like a cannon ball, crazy like a rocket when you're coming through my radio. Kept me in your bed 'til the wintertime through the fall. Fall time come, and I guess my little bird can sing. Come on Elizabeth, come on Bethany, come on forever, I'm tired and I want to sleep.
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041. The Veils- The Valleys of New Orleans
Someday the walls will tremble with terrible flames, here ‘till the mouth of some hurricane sweeps them away. And if I had either love or fortune I’d shed them both here, but those cards are so rarely played I’ve hid them away…
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042. Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
And if the snow buries my neighborhood, and if my parents are crying, then I'll dig a tunnel from my window to yours. Yeah, a tunnel from my window to yours.
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043. The Libertines- Breck Road Lover
And if lust and despair are two bullets in the same gun, well, we've been playing Russian roulette for far too long.
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044. Jay Jay Pistolet- Hooked Up On Us
Oh, I really miss the spring in my step; the one that I contracted from that bed in which we slept, when our hands first intertwined and our lips first met. And I miss my clothes being ripped from me. You found out where I was and got there rapidly. Oh, I know not of a purer form of beauty… You can move on quickly if you want to, forget about our history if you must, you can find a new guy if you'd like to, but I'm still hooked up on us.
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045. Carmelite- Anarchy Dove
Lost in the woods, my axe in my hand. For each tree it severs a hundred more spring from the ground. Your desert winds howl, through columns of sand. Marooned in the ominous dunes of this desolate land… I’m plagued by your visions, anarchy dove.
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046. Joel Plaskett- Absentminded Melody
It’s dusk as all the shadows fall, the sun is laid to rest. At night the city comes to life as the light dies in the west. Here we stand as some local band sets circles ‘round the clock. Smoke so thick you need a lighthouse, so loud I can’t hear myself talk. Someone whispered in my ear, ‘It’s not like it was before’.
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047. Frank Turner- Love, Ire and Song
Oh, but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care. But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no. Oh, but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win. And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible…
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048. Billy Bragg- Levi Stubbs’ Tears
She ran away from home in her mother's best coat. She was married before she was even entitled to vote, and her husband was one of those blokes… the sort that only laughs at his own jokes. The sort a war takes away, and when there wasn't a war he left anyway.
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049. The Indelicates- The Sequel to Peter Pan and Wendy
You said we fight the pirates, wear our sewn on outcast badges righteously. And it's sad to fly higher- wax wings melting; but then I’m ever so much more than twenty. And we won't forget you, though you're far away. And we won't forgive you, you never came back to the window…
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050. The Veils- The Tide That Left And Never Came Back
Don't fall into all those sad stories you write. Your voice is so pretty when it gets caught in the right rhyme…
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blossomslut ages ago, so here it finally is:50 songs I love, with pretty pictures and download links. Have at it :)
001. Besses O' The Barn Band - Bradford
(instrumental)
download
002. Pulp- A Little Soul
You see your mother and me, we never got along that well, you see. I'd love to help you, but everybody's telling me you look like me. But please don't turn out like me. You look like me but you're not like me I know. I had one, two, three, four shots of happiness… I look like a big man, but I've only got a little soul. I only got a little soul. Yeah, I wish I could be an example… wish I could say I stood up for you and fought for what I thought was right, but I never did, I just wore my trenchcoat and stayed out every single night.
download
003. Yeti- Northern Line
Hold on, where the bloody hell d’you think you’re going? The train ain’t moving now because it’s snowing on the Northern Line. Hey kid, tell me why the hell you think we’re stalling? Could it be because the leaves are falling on the Northern Line?
download
004. The Bonzo Dog band- Button Up Your Overcoat
Eat an apple every day,
Get to bed by three,
Take good care of yourself,
You belong to me!
download
005. The Beatles- Got To Get You Into My Life
You didn't run, you didn't lie, you knew I wanted just to hold you, and had you gone you knew in time we'd meet again for I had told you, ooh, you were meant to be near me. Ooh, and I want you hear me say we'll be together every day.
download
006. Mark Ronson- Amy ft. Kenna
I don't know why I let go, I want to be your friend. Flowers grow through my window and I love you again. Oh, I love you, oh… when you laid me down into your beautiful garden, flowers in the love of my arms, it’s God shining through to me I guess,
download
007. Dirty Pretty Things- The North
Four more rotations and no one will hurt, these are the things I dream of. I've been thinking through the drinking, though my confidence is shrinking, that I might be fine… the North would be so proud of you.
download
008. The Cooper Temple Clause- For The Last Time
I can’t see you anymore, the tears have blocked my view. I think it’s best that I don’t see, instead I’ll keep the memory of you smiling back at me, my love. I can’t believe this day has come, we have lost and they have won, we won’t complete what we’ve begun, it’s vanished like the setting sun. But it won’t be back to comfort us, to keep us warm when we’ve had enough. All that’s left for me to say- I’m sorry it had to end this way.
download
009. The Cribs- Advice from a Roving Artist
Can't go home right now, and that's the truth. Julie Burchill's drinking free champagne on my roof . The front door's off limits, at least to the likes of me. See right here, right here, this is my story. Slept in a stranger's flat in all my clothes. In the morning I took a bus across the city to feel safe and closer to home. Passed a sign on the door, and a couple more, saying welcome to hard times, welcome to hard times. I thought of a friend whose window looks out onto nothing but fields, while outside mine the book shop was closing down. It's closed now.
download
010. The Accidental- Time and Space
Time and space stretch out before you, and the universe implores you to take your place amongst all things, and to see what the morning brings. To your own self be true, there's nothing more to do. You are young and the world is open, so many words you've never spoken. Don't be afraid to stand your ground when your time it comes around. To your own self be true, there's nothing more to do. You are part of everything. Find your voice and start to sing.
download
011. Jens Lekman- How Much You Mean To Me
I'm on my way to the USA, so give me your address and I will send you the only white dove from New York City, and call out your zip code in the Grand Canyon. I know you don’t really read my letters. The very thought of not knowing the exact location of the room where we shared our last kiss will eventually kill me, because it wasn’t just any kiss. It wasn't like a first kiss or a second kiss or a millionth kiss... but it was a perfect kiss. It was a kiss we had been working on forever.
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012. Malcolm Middleton- Blue Plastic Bags
The whole world’s going home with blue plastic bags. Six bottles of Stella, Jacob’s Creek, and twenty fags. And you know there is no shame, ‘cos we’re all doing the same.
download
013. Frank Turner- Substitute
Well, I've had many different girls inside my bed, but only one or two inside my head. These days I cuddle up to my guitar instead but oh, what I would give, not to stumble but to really fall in love. And I could substitute my singing for the sound of someone sleeping next to me.
download
014. Joel Plaskett Emergency- You Came Along
True love is sharper than stones and sticks, louder than bombs and clocks that tick. I feel as deep as the ocean blue when I'm standing here with you, and the world keeps spinning faster. What am I to do in the face of our disaster? I've been here before but I don't know what comes after. The night's a lonely place to be; when the lights go out I want you here with me.
download
015. June Tabor- The King of Rome
On the day o' the big race a storm blew in. A thousand birds were swept away and never seen again. "Charlie we told you so. Surely by now you know, when you're living in the West End there ain't many dreams come true"… "Yeah, I know, but I had to try. A man can crawl around or he can learn to fly, and if you live 'round here, the ground seems awful near. Sometimes I need a lift from victory"
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016. Patrick Wolf- Teignmouth
So when the birds fly south, I'll reach up and hold their tails. Pull up and out of here and bridle the autumn gales, down to the burning cliffs, to the unrelenting roll, to marry the untold blisses, and anchor this lost soul. From my window I saw two birds lost at sea. I caught our reflection in that silent tragedy, but with hope prevailing I draw galleons sailing, in full sail billowing free.
download
017. These United States- First Sight
You can get home, but you can't get in. Locks are like longing; an everchanging thing, and keys are just clouds made of metal and spark. We knew exactly who we were, and yet couldn't quite say who we still are. I saw it all happening in one grand epic sweep, from that first sight that we wouldn't get to sleep for a week, and generations would follow the course that we'd charted from that sofa across… I couldn't wait to get started.
download
018. Belle and Sebastian- A Century of Elvis
There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here, around the house - although it's right in the middle of the city it seems quite like the country, it's dead hidden - safe I suppose, made for night living. There's a lot of squirrels and birds, and Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes there when he's jumped over the fence on his way to Byres Road. Sometimes you can go out walking, and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know where you are anymore, so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you. I suppose that's why he spends so much time there, that's why he's come to live there, or maybe it's just the squirrels. I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot.
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019. Pete Doherty ft. Wolfman- For Lovers
I'm running away with you… that's all I ever do. That's all we ever mean. I forgive you, everything. Meet me at the railroad bar, about 7 o’clock. We’ll joke while the sun goes down, watch the lovers leaving town.
download
020. Comet Gain- Record Prayer
In our pockets, receipts from machines. In our estate the lift don't work. Walking is hard, because here it's meant to be. In our flunky fingers, sobbing rings and sweat, from all that worried waiting for things to happen like you know they should, if only they would. And in our heads, visions of getting beat up in back alleyways. Too much mincing about. London schemes to devalue its youth.
download
021. The Cooper Temple Clause- The Clan
We lose our way, so easily. Call it distraction, but it’s not for me. They call it visions, but we did stand tall. It’s not your fault, my timing’s flawed. We have our friends, few and far between. We keep them close, and treat them mean.
download
022. Penguin Cafe Orchestra- The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's Going Away And It Doesn't Matter
(instrumental)
download
023. Belle and Sebastian- This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
I'm not as sad as Dostoevsky, I'm not as clever as Mark Twain. I'll only buy a book for the way it looks, and then I stick it on the shelf again. Now I could tell you what I'm thinking, but it never seems to do you good. It's beyond me what a girl can see. I'm only lucid when I'm writing songs. This is just a modern rock song, this is just a sorry lament. We're four boys in our corduroys, we're not terrific but we're competent.
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024. Animal Collective- The Purple Bottle
And my dear dear dear khalana, I talk too much about you. Their ears are getting tired of me singing all the night through. Let’s just talk together, you and me and me and you, and if there's nothing much to say, well, silence is a bore…
download
025. Darren Hayman And The Secondary Modern- Elizabeth Duke
I brought you a ring from Elizabeth Duke; took my own sweet time before proposing to you, because all those nights when you looked beautiful, I forgot to tell you how much I love you. I brought you a ring from Elizabeth Duke to buy some time before losing you, because all those nights when I was cheap and cruel, I forgot to tell you how much I love you.
download
026. The Childballads- Cheekbone Hollows
I bought a white chocolate tea in the park on my lunchbreak. I bought a painting off the street of a haunted lake. I tried hard to make my world an exciting place. But I keep hearing talk of the doom, and they're sending the meek home. And that's not half as bad as the shadow that’s caught in the hollow of your cheekbone.
download
027. The Mountain Goats- No Children
I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us. I hope we come up with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us. I hope the fences we mended fall down beneath their own weight, and I hope we hang on past the last exit. I hope it's already too late.
download
028. Hefner- We Love The City
We love the city because it lets us down. We love the city, not the suburbs that surround. We love all the dirty things, that lead us to think, that maybe true love could be found. We love the city because it’s how we live. We love the city because it never loves us back. We love it all because sometimes, even though they're hard to find, it contains all the virtues we lack.
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029. Death Cab for Cutie- Different Names for the Same Thing
Alone on a train, aimless in wander, an outdated map crumpled in my pocket. But I didn’t care where I was going, because they’re all different names for the same place.
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030. Gwenno- Lime Chordial
Drizzly days and smoking out your window, sand in our sandwiches and hanging out at bus stops. Old black and white films and hiding in wardrobes, and hoping to find that other world…
download
031. Marcia Aitken- I’m Still In Love
I’m still in love with you, boy. I’m still in love with you, boy. I’m still in love with you, boy… you don’t know how to love me. Not even how to kiss me. I don’t know why I love you, baby. I’m still in love with you, boy.
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032. The Miserable Rich- Pisshead
I'm dead as a dodo and flat on my ass. If you take my photo, I'll show you some class. They call me a pisshead, but what do they know? There’s more love in this head, than these eyes can show. From fears and fears and laughter and laughter and I’d feel much better if I had a drink… I feel much better when I’ve had a drink.
download
033. The Cooper Temple Clause- Screwdriver Song
To be blind to the world is worth the loss, but I will see you still, from time to time. Goodbye old friend, sleep tight. Sweet dreams fall on time, my friend. Nothing can hurt you now. We'll share a drink in time, when all the shadow chasing’s done…
download
034. Voxtrot- The Start of Something
If I die clutching your photograph, don't call me boring, it's just ‘cause I like you. Oh, take me on back, take me on back, take me back to the place where I could feel your heart. Is this the end or just the start of something really, really beautiful wrapped up and disguised as something really, really ugly?
download
035. Amplifico- We Believe In Something Unusual
We're doing well just now, you know. Bobbin' along like a couple of boats in the sunshine, just happy to watch the world go by, and it's feelings like this that make it seem like you came from me. Your fingers and toes, eyes, and your thoughts all mingle with mine just like I can imagine looking down at my newborn being totally wowed by creation, the marvel of this genius little body.
download
036. The Wave Pictures- Now You Are Pregnant
But I love the back garden at my parents' place, and I love the view out of my Glasgow window, and I love waking up on the floor of a flat in New York, and you don't know any of these things. And I've seen you selling shoes but you've never heard me sing, and I used to hate your boyfriend and the things you did.. Somehow I found out and I was disappointed, but I don't need therapy because I have cigarettes, and I don't have any bad memories… only bitter regrets.
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037. Nouvelle Vague- Dancing With Myself
If I looked all over the world and there's every type of girl, but your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself. So let's sink another drink ‘cause it'll give me time to think. If I had a chance, I'd ask the world to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.
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038. Francoise Hardy- La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi
(lyrics in French)
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039. Didz Hammond- Rocky Raccoon
(who cares about these lyrics, really?)
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040. Ryan Adams- English Girls Approximately
Tall drink of water, she's a Norfolk waterfall. Little daybreaker, she's shooting like a cannon ball, crazy like a rocket when you're coming through my radio. Kept me in your bed 'til the wintertime through the fall. Fall time come, and I guess my little bird can sing. Come on Elizabeth, come on Bethany, come on forever, I'm tired and I want to sleep.
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041. The Veils- The Valleys of New Orleans
Someday the walls will tremble with terrible flames, here ‘till the mouth of some hurricane sweeps them away. And if I had either love or fortune I’d shed them both here, but those cards are so rarely played I’ve hid them away…
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042. Arcade Fire- Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
And if the snow buries my neighborhood, and if my parents are crying, then I'll dig a tunnel from my window to yours. Yeah, a tunnel from my window to yours.
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043. The Libertines- Breck Road Lover
And if lust and despair are two bullets in the same gun, well, we've been playing Russian roulette for far too long.
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044. Jay Jay Pistolet- Hooked Up On Us
Oh, I really miss the spring in my step; the one that I contracted from that bed in which we slept, when our hands first intertwined and our lips first met. And I miss my clothes being ripped from me. You found out where I was and got there rapidly. Oh, I know not of a purer form of beauty… You can move on quickly if you want to, forget about our history if you must, you can find a new guy if you'd like to, but I'm still hooked up on us.
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045. Carmelite- Anarchy Dove
Lost in the woods, my axe in my hand. For each tree it severs a hundred more spring from the ground. Your desert winds howl, through columns of sand. Marooned in the ominous dunes of this desolate land… I’m plagued by your visions, anarchy dove.
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046. Joel Plaskett- Absentminded Melody
It’s dusk as all the shadows fall, the sun is laid to rest. At night the city comes to life as the light dies in the west. Here we stand as some local band sets circles ‘round the clock. Smoke so thick you need a lighthouse, so loud I can’t hear myself talk. Someone whispered in my ear, ‘It’s not like it was before’.
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047. Frank Turner- Love, Ire and Song
Oh, but once we were young, and we were crass enough to care. But I guess you live and learn, we won't make that mistake again, no. Oh, but surely just for one day, we could fight and we could win. And if only for a little while, we could insist on the impossible…
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048. Billy Bragg- Levi Stubbs’ Tears
She ran away from home in her mother's best coat. She was married before she was even entitled to vote, and her husband was one of those blokes… the sort that only laughs at his own jokes. The sort a war takes away, and when there wasn't a war he left anyway.
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049. The Indelicates- The Sequel to Peter Pan and Wendy
You said we fight the pirates, wear our sewn on outcast badges righteously. And it's sad to fly higher- wax wings melting; but then I’m ever so much more than twenty. And we won't forget you, though you're far away. And we won't forgive you, you never came back to the window…
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050. The Veils- The Tide That Left And Never Came Back
Don't fall into all those sad stories you write. Your voice is so pretty when it gets caught in the right rhyme…
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Also, "Didz Hammond is amazing" = pretty much the best tag ever.
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also, #19, #37 and #46 didn't work for me. The first and last time out and the middle one says the file has been deleted. just thought i'd give you a heads up!
and uuuugh, now i'm so tempted to do this myself. it's so pretty and wonderful, but it must have taken forever.
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Gah! So many seem to have died, ugh. I uploaded them all before I went to London, so they must've broken in the meantime. Woes. New links:
19. For Lovers
37. Dancing With Myself
46.Absentminded Melody
It did take a long while, but it was fun!
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+ 5 is WONDERFUL. I don't know, I feel horribly uneducated when it comes to The Beatles, but I have never heard this before and it is completely delightful.
+ 6 is really fun!
+ The lyrics to 9 are amazing. I had a few songs by The Cribs but this one has a totally different sound.
+ I LOVE 10 LOTS.
+ Jens <33333 His lyrics are astounding to me.
+ It's amazing how you managed to upload songs I didn't have by artists I love, like 16!
+ I fell in love with 17 too just for how delightful the lyrics are.
+ LYRICS in 18. And his accent!
+ I really really liked 19!
+ See comment about song 16 regarding 24!
+ 27, 36 and 37 are all magical.
+ 34 and 42 were the only songs I had before, but I've spent a long time obsessing over both of them, so A+ choices there!
+ I loved both the songs by The Veils bucketloads.
+ Random last comment, but the picture you picked for 49 is fascinating to me. It's so pretty for no reason I can explain!
Ugh, I have a feeling this made no sense at all, but I really loved everything! Also your image choices were fantastic.
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-9- I love any song with a spoken vocal, but I think the sound of this one is just STUNNING. Especially when the boys come back in.
-10- yay! I love it when people love that song.
-16- Oof, you didn't have Teignmouth? You poor duck! Do you have his earlier albums?
-17- that's why I fell in love with it, too :)
-18- Right? Belle and Sebastian are magical.
-19- yay!
-24 is my favourite Animal Collective track by a MILE.
-The picture for 49 is oddly bewitching. I wish I knew where it came from (its source link on weheartit was a bust)
Thank you for telling me all the details! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)
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i might have to steal this idea from you, i'm sorry. i already did my 50 fave (and second-best fave) songs a couple years ago, but those images with the lyrics.. genius. xx
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Oh, please do!
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Number 10 seems to have broken, huh. Hang on one sec, I'll replace it.
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