I don’t use Spotify due to these reasons. So here’s a list the songs dear to my heart, both Dutch and English.
my songs of comfort
cat list.txt | youtube-dl -f best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFptt7Cargc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEwtPwkeXjw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQTL-ws6p4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-oERBst8L0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBaaQ9tNdrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAqjksxc4iA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUzVCw8BEXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGpdhienMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXzx–YefD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKANEy_-nM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt2dxx9yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NnvZ7Yb5OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imf9vkeEono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cZyavt06U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99KH0TR-J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Utkr8LSdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYlNjQ5TTF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N3f9ALU58U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfrqK_uVDok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLdvpFIPReA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7lweNCCwS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMlFXouPk8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBaaQ9tNdrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDY2K_f_5-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7oQ93GZSxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3km9sdwyH8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngVHtE-iZSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtTDYMnKeJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A
favorite covers
one of my favorite covers - shiny toy guns plays depeche mode
one of my favorite scenes - gene kelly & cyd charisse in singin' in the rain
one of my favorite songs - want to get away, just for one day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqXg6Oniug
depeche mode covering bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6yzrZfgQvI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI
bowie covering nina simone - let me fly away with you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cSAKlu0OlU
nina simone covering leonard cohen - suzanne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgk_FJeo6aM
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/62576/
leonard cohen covers the bee gees - to love somebody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EujNOTSMw4
Sinead O’Conner, tears from the moon
Jackie; one of my favorite songs from the Irish Sinead O’Connor. She was around 20 when she sang it for her debut hit album The Lion and the Cobra 1987. It’s the opening track, short and setting the stage, 2 minutes and 28 seconds. It’s about sadness, the searching and longing. Hope, dreams, expectations, stuborness and disappointment.
“I reach for you, I reach in vain…”
The Other; R, R, F, K. Sometimes beyond death, present, often not reachable in this life, sometimes a little, sometimes there is the fleeting or imagined connection, through or beyond the senses. Dreams and ideals, “washing the sand, with my ghostly tears”
Jackie left on a cold, dark night Telling me he’d be home Sailed the seas for a hundred years Leaving me all alone And I’ve been dead for twenty years I’ve been washing the sand With my ghostly tears Searching the shores for my jackie-oh I remember the day the young man came He said, “your jackie’s gone We got lost in the rain” And I ran to the beach And laid me down “You’re all wrong”, I said And they stared at the sand “That man knows that sea Like the back of his hand He’ll be back some time Laughing at you” And I’ve been waiting all this time For my man to come Take his hand in mine And lead me away To unseen shores I’ve been washing the sand With my salty tears Searching the shore For these long years And I’ll walk the seas forever more Till I find my jackie oh
Relevant commentary
“Jackie” (alternatively ‘Jacky’) is the affectionate diminutive of James, a common Christian forename used in both Catholic and Protestant Ireland and of course in many other Christian countries; James being one of the apostles.
Sinead often references Irish literature (c.f. “Troy”), in this case perhaps it is J.M. Synge’s one-act play “Riders to the sea”, in which grief-stricken Maurya has lost her husband and all five sons to the sea. Sinead’s story may be a personal one as so much of her work is part autobiographical. It is not uncommon in island nations to lose loved ones in drowning.
Grief, like love (the two are inextricably linked, grief being the reaction to the loss of a loved one; the inability to express and feel the reciprocity of love in the finality of death) ‘is forever’ - we cannot contemplate it ending and become unaware how long we have dwelt within it. A hundred years is irrelevant in eternity; likewise the twenty five years of no longer having feelings capable of responding to happiness or joy in others. The singer is in denial: “You’re all wrong, I said…”, which is the acknowledged first stage of grief, allowing us a view of the immediacy of that recollection when she was first told of Jackie’s death. We hear her anger (second stage) in that denial, upbraiding the newsbringers for telling her and she runs to the sandy beach to be as near Jackie as physically possible, bargaining (third stage) with tears -and most likely prayers- for Jackie’s deliverance, safe and able to laugh at the tale-tellers.
It is unclear whether she enters the fourth stage (depression), although the compulsive repetition of behaviour, waiting and crying and searching the shore, but she has clearly not reached the final stage of acceptance and thus it is this endurance of mental pain that gives the song its tragic hook.
I love the reletless, rising throb of that rhythm guitar; the gain distortion and rising crescendo…. Wow! Could this have been done any other way? Possibly, but not as powerfully."
From: Drunkenpoet on Songmeanings. May 26, 2016
- Riders to the Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_to_the_Sea
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44504752?seq=1
https://www.grin.com/document/307444
- Over Sinead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor
https://diffuser.fm/sinead-oconnor-lion-and-the-cobra/
https://thequietus.com/…/12455-sinead-o-connor-interview
- Andere favorieten en songs met andere artiesten:
Take My Hand (In Tua Nua with Sinead O’Connor) 1984(!) voor haar debuutalbum)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBTEEZSV6sA
Heroine (1986 - voor haar debuutalbum)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwsK2mLFeI
https://www.discogs.com/The-Edge-With…/release/215234
Feel so different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5PwOHJfoA
Drink before the war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5V00sUBhI
You made me the thief of your heart (soundtrack In the name of the Father)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON0hoRwqSw
Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBhlRo4-rI
Song to the Siren (cover). This Mortal Coil zong het nummer nog beter in Lost Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88wL8oRf45U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ
Take me to church
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMzY_KQIKjU
Prayer for England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buj0nZWTjZg
A new born child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngVHtE-iZSQ
Three babies (over miskramen, kindjes voor wie je niet kan zorgen en wellicht abortus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXno2cMrFpo
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858613749/
All kinds of everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlAA1AYQaLM
Help me through the night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5i_vF7DRA0
No man’s woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD_Z3td4nRU
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/87177/
Troy en Troy - Push remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6BKQ6wPY6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ad0qVhfdfA
I had a baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cAHOX6Cniw
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859452761/
https://www.theguardian.com/…/01/sinead-oconnor-new-album
Lullaby for Cain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcW3o5Q8ako
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/34094/
My special child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0EzHUmthE
It’s all good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHlfozGrZE
Guide me God (I’ll always know you’re there. Guide me God and I will find you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbUCWS8WLF0
Release (over Jezus en de Verrijzenis, Hemelvaart en Pinksteren)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhIkAKJzs8
Kingdom of Rain (over liefde tussen een man en vrouw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIklk1gHbuQ
Special cases (check yourself for your own shit in relationships with men)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ31yNp6Nao
It’s only life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD1uk_cx6tI
https://www.musixmatch.com/…/Elaine…/It-s-Only-Life
1000 mirrors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUVErnrbVEc
Harbour (my heart is full, my heart is wide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yf4s-ONxGI
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/124833/
Tears from the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFALnpU3zlo
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858483119/
Beach house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gnxTAwHHTE&t=1654s
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859510444/
Maynard James Keehan
Sober here’s a shadow just behind me Shrouding every step I take Making every promise empty Pointing every finger at me Waiting like a stalking butler Who upon the finger rests Murdered now the past it cost me Just because the son has come Jesus, won’t you fucking whistle Something but the past and done? Jesus, won’t you fucking whistle Something but the past and done? Why can’t we not be sober? Just want to start this over And why can’t we drink forever? I just want to start this over I am just a worthless liar I am just an imbecile I will only complicate you Trust in me and fall as well I will find a center in you I will chew it up and leave I will work to elevate you Just enough to bring you down Mother Mary, won’t you whisper? Something but what’s past and done Mother Mary, won’t you whisper? Something but the past and done Why can’t we not be sober? I just want to start this over And why can’t we sleep forever? I just want to start this over Why? I am just a worthless liar I am just an imbecile I will only complicate you Trust in me and fall as well I will find a center in you
I will chew it up and leave
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Trust me
Why can’t we not be sober?
I just want to start things over
And why can’t we sleep forever?
I just want to start this over
Why?
I want what I want
I want what I want
I want what I want
I want what I want
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/35159/
reaction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uePIntiofo
reaction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3L42kKemrg
reaction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4BsoYFEAA8
reaction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXwqyoxz1k
reaction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBLRoFOFe5E
about maynard james keenan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_James_Keenan…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM34WZUjJgA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDRzYsLQM2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-AqQV1wp2Y
Steven Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGXWir2y1hQ
Low
congregation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtTDYMnKeJQ
holy ghost https://youtu.be/SASH2LyTSBQ
below and above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNjlIa3ezM
bright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnTZz0YWF38
closer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7yoW26DQB8
always up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-QXr41WFgA&t=632s
Mazzy Star
into dust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Utkr8LSdc
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/16200/
Metalligeek
He put lyrics on one of my favorite instrumental Metallica songs (Orion, 1986) a while ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrty05oMTOg
a mashup with Megadeth’s holy wars… the punishment due (1990)
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/37675/
Doug Helvering reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q20ZE_8iy7E
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The Church
Steve Kilbey and Karin Jansson (The Church) about writing the song ‘Under the Milky Way" in 1988.
Steve: “I smoked a joint and started playing the piano and she came in the room and we just made it up.”
The title is from an Amsterdam music and cultural venue, Melkweg (Dutch for “Milky Way”), which Steve used to frequent.
“I just stumbled upon it and for some reason it has struck this wonderful sense of universality with people that most of my songs don’t.”
[..]
Karin about songwriting with Steve: “it’s a very spontaneous thing. It’s not as if someone has put us together to write a hit song. It’s more like sometimes when we write together, a song comes knocking on the door”.
[..]
Steve: [..] You can hear it wasn’t written for profit. It’s an accidental song I accidentally wrote and accidentally became a single and accidentally became a hit.
In 2001, the song was featured in the soundtrack for the movie Donnie Darko – wikipedia
Steve talking about it:
https://youtu.be/bZIYEVxKH4s?t=40
It was written by singer Steve Kilbey & his girlfriend at the time, Karin Jansson (of the Swedish all-girl punk band Pink Champagne) at his mother’s house in Australia. Kilbey imagined himself in a late night bar at closing time in the opening line “Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty…” . The rest of the song flowed out in a very stream of conscious fashion with the two of them passing ideas back & forth between one another that same night. – explanation by EternalTearsOfSorrow
https://songmeanings.com/profiles/view/17307240/
The Power of Love
to all the people i have known and loved
holly johnson miming the eternal child: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxoXTD-QhQ
remixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWR_FNj3-hA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8nITsyXd6s
info and lyrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Love_(Frankie_Goes_to_Hollywood_song) https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858544870/
other love songs I like https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg_O3072fDaM0LC9luWcaARd54jxm7l8V
The Gathering
One of my favorite songs on the album named after one of man’s greatest relics, the Mandylion. At the end of the song there’s a quote by J.R.R. Tolkien.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVPv6MRYV9k
“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.” ' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings. – J. R. R. Tolkien quoting Simone de Beauvoir, “A Very Easy Death” in the BBC’s ‘In Their Own Words’ ‘68 interview and mixed by The Gathering in ‘95.
my dear, don’t leave me now
close at the edge of my end
all this time you have been my friend
don’t go, stay for a while
my dear, you’re losing me now
this will be my last hour
hear my voice, see my face
see how sick i am
how i long for your embrace