[Words]

I was looking at charts and I stumbled upon Gowi's (never gets old) and I saw 'The Mantle'. I've never had love at all for black metal and I could right a poetic speach on why, but this is the only album that has ever intrigued me. Still I'm not sure though, just something about it... Anywho it got me thinking about some themes Gowi did and didn't bring up about the album. Loneliness, misery, ECT. I've been looking for albums to identify with. I'm looking for albums of almost any genre with themes of loneliness. Maybe a pick from God will fall from the heavens and be a Mix of loneliness and optimism or something. Still, beggars can't be choosers I guess.

[AfterHours]

Greatest of All Time

(though I know I missed some; put together in haste)

Bold = most likely to be what you're looking for

Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (1974)
Faust - Faust (1971)
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968)
Lorca - Tim Buckley (1970)
Desertshore - Nico (1970)
Geek the Girl - Lisa Germano (1994)
Suicide - Suicide (1977)
Improvisie - Paul Bley (1971)
Down Colorful Hill - Red House Painters (1992)
Saxophone Improvisations, Series F - Anthony Braxton (1972)
Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom (2010)
For Alto - Anthony Braxton (1968)
A Genuine Tong Funeral - Carla Bley/Gary Burton (1967)
People in Sorrow - Art Ensemble of Chicago (1969)
Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen (1968)
On the Way Down From Moon Palace - Lisa Germano (1991)
Happy Sad - Tim Buckley (1968)
Tonight's the Night - Neil Young (1975)
Red House Painters (Rollercoaster) - Red House Painters (1993)
Hex - Bark Psychosis (1994)
The Marble Index - Nico (1968)
Labradford - Labradford (1996)
California - American Music Club (1988)
Good - Morphine (1992)
2 - Black Heart Procession (1999)
Ceremony - Anna Von Hausswolff (2012)
Miss America - Mary Margaret O'Hara (1988)
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones (1979)
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk (1991)
Spirit of Eden - Talk Talk (1988)
I Could Live in Hope - Low (1994)
Dummy - Portishead (1994)
As Wichita Falls, So Falls Wichita - Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays (1981)
Inside Out - John Martyn (1973)
Blue - Joni Mitchell (1971)
If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby (1971)
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere - Neil Young (1969)
Metal Box - Public Image, Ltd (1979)
Evangelista - Carla Bozulich (2006)
Trust - Low (2002)
You Are Free - Cat Power (2003)
La Foret - Xiu Xiu (2005)
What Would the Community Think? - Cat Power (1996)
A Promise - Xiu Xiu (2003)
Viscera - Jenny Hval (2011)
Apocalypse, girl - Jenny Hval (2015)
Long Division - Low (1995)
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco (2002)
Charm of the Highway Strip - Magnetic Fields (1998)
The Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett (1970)
Electro-Shock Blues - Eels (1998)
Pink Moon - Nick Drake (1972)
Stateless - Dirty Beaches (2014)
Blanket Warm - Lullaby For the Working Class (1996)
Hejira - Joni Mitchell (1976)
Jessica Bailiff - Jessica Bailiff (2002)
The Complete Guide to Insufficiency - David Thomas Broughton (2005)
Ritual of Hearts - Maquiladora (2002)
Robin Holcomb - Robin Holcomb (1990)
Closer - Joy Division (1980)
Giles Corey - Giles Corey (2011)
Five Leaves Left - Nick Drake (1969)
If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle & Sebastian (1996)
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Best Classical
Best Films
Best Paintings

[Words]

[bobbyb5]

O'Keefe. Danny O'Keefe
I Can't Stand the Rain. Ann Peebles
Hejira. Joni Mitchell
Kozmic Blues. Janis Joplin
Mud Slide Slim and The Blue Horizon. James Taylor
Rhymes and Reasons. Carole King

[SquishypuffDave]

*cough*danieljohnston*cough*


Link

[rkm]

Beck - Morning Phase

[Luigii]

I would have choose George Michael's Older considering what George was talking about.

[carpents]

Humans are such interesting animals. Why would we get solace from hearing a complete stranger sing songs? It works though, and we all do it.

Maybe some Mount Eerie would fit? Although the last album (A Crow Looked At Me) isn't so much loneliness as it is heart-wrenching sadness. Hopefully I don't ever have the urge to listen to that one ever again.

[stangetzaway]

Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely by Frank Sinatra

When only the best will do

[Fischman]

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Tame Impala - Lonerism

Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

Cat Stevens - Catch Bull at Four