Here's a mix CD of a playlist I've kept from one iPod to the next. I don't really have a name for it other than the generic Acoustic Ballads, but I've learned to live with it. Any other adjective would be inaccurate; any other noun contrived. Songs have come and gone in this list, but they all have one thing in common: they're mostly stripped down songs about love, loss and yearning, and they're unabashedly sentimental. It doesn't necessarily mean they're gooey and clichéd. Most of these are not off-the-shelf expressions of abstract feelings, but experiences written as stories, as intentions, as streams of consciousness. These guy don't think you wasted their love; they watched you deal in a dying day and throw a living past away. You haven't got them so confused; they're turning over TV stations, situations running through their heads. In other words, they're the anti-Celine.
As usual, you can listen to the songs two ways: click on the image below to hear them all in one go, or on the song titles to hear them individually.
- Somebody That I Used To Know : Elliott Smith
- No Fear Of Falling : I Am Kloot
- Saturday : Josh Rouse
- Naked As We Came : Iron & Wine
- To Be Alone With You : Sufjan Stevens
- I Wouldn't Miss It For The World : Johnathan Rice
- Poetry & Aeroplanes : Teitur
- Sleeping To Dream : Jason Mraz
- Only You : Joshua Radin
- Your Sweet Voice : The Reindeer Section
- Trouble : Ray LaMontagne
- My Winding Wheel : Ryan Adams
- Kathleen : Josh Ritter
- Dogs : Damien Rice
- Silent Sigh : Badly Drawn Boy
- Babylon : David Gray
- On Your Side : Pete Yorn
