Sad Songs & Waltzes

Somehow my iTunes got all buggered and I hadn't noticed but there was a lot of music that was available on my iPod but not in my iTunes music library. It was fairly easy to fix. I had to move some files and then reassociate those songs with the file location.

In the process though I ended up listening to snippets of quite a lot of my music. I tend to focus intently on this kind of activity and lose track of time and things that are going around me. I forget to eat (hence my handle and why I don't own a game system) and go to the bathroom etc..

When I woke up from this task a few hours had gone by and my nose was all sniffly and I noticed a pile of wet kleenex next to the keyboard. I had been crying off and on throughout the entire thing. Weird. But not because I was particually sad or anything like that but because of the music. I scrolled back through the list of songs that I had been dicking around with and listening to and it made sense.

Here in sort of alphabetical order by artist (according to the file names not the iTunes names) is a list of songs that make me cry like a baby girl baby even if I just hear a snippet:

• Until You Come Back To Me - Aretha Franklin


• Prettiest Eyes - Beautiful South


• Must I Paint You A Picture - Billy Bragg


• Hesitating Beauty - Billy Bragg & Wilco


• Sad Songs & Waltzes - Cake


• Heaven - Cigar Store Indians


• Mint Car - The Cure


• American Dreaming - Dead Can Dance


• Our Love Is Here To Stay - Dinah Washington


• Squeeze Me - Dinah Washington


• Man Out Of Time - Elvis Costello & The Attractions


• Tampa - Gipsy Kings


• Polkadots & Moonbeans - Hot Club of Cowtown


• Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans - Miss Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers


• Horizon - Let's Active


• Wildwood - Paul Weller


• The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - The Pogues


• You're My Best Friend - Queen


• I was going to say Grey Gardens, but the entire fucking Poses album makes me cry - Rufus Wainwright


• Overjoyed - Stevie Wonder


• In Love For The First Time - The Style Council


• You're The Best Thing - The Style Council


• World Before Columbus - Suzanne Vega


• Earn Enough For Us - XTC

I'm sure there are plenty more, these are just the ones I just happen to listen to today.

Oh yeah, enjoy the picture at the top of the pretty floating lady. She makes me cry too if I look at her long enough.