angstPod.
C'mon....you know you've done it. Some of you do it in your cars. Some of you do it in your bedrooms. Some of you even do it at the office.
And some of you do it outside, in front of God and everyone.
You angstPod.
I know, I know...not all of you have iPods. We've covered that I don't possess one. But I do find myself in possession of a certain body of musical works that I listen to when I'm a bit....low. And if I had an iPod, I'd load up an indulgent playlist to meet my emotional valley head-on.
As it is now, though, I just pack my Winamp full of sorrow, and sit back to let the waves of meaning wash over me.
It could be existential longing that I need to deal with. It could be overarching weariness. It could be romantic turmoil. It could just be PMS. Whatever it is, though, I treat it with a musical cure. Almost everyone I know has done this at one point or another, because it's a better form of therapeutic response than alcohol or drugs, and always preferable to jumping off a bridge.
Some of you are rather gifted musically, and are thus able to compose your very own personal works of pain. You don't need anyone else's pathetic playlists, because your own tunes fit you to a 'T'. .
But for the rest of us, there is angstPodding.
Here, for you, my introductory angstPod playlist. Some of of the selections are wholeheartedly cheesy, but then again, so are many of my bad moods. Feel free to submit your own gutwrenchers. And remember...feeling pain is healthy. Emotional lepers just end up (unknowingly) eroding away their noses to spite their face.
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
--Carl Jung
- This Year's Love, David Gray
- Kathy's Song, Eva Cassidy
- How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, Al Green
- Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Pearl Jam
- Desperado, The Eagles
- 'Til I Get Over You, Michelle Branch
- Rock, Paper, Scissors, Ani DiFranco
- Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered, Ella Fitzgerald
- Don't Think Twice, Bob Dylan
- Crying, Roy Orbison and kd lang
- Strange Fruit, Billie Holliday
- The Scientist, Coldplay
- Walk Away, Ben Harper
- Best I Ever Had, Vertical Horizon
- Is This All, Jonatha Brooke and the Story
- This Woman's Work, Kate Bush
- She Thinks I Still Care (Live), James Taylor
- Both Sides Now, Joni Mitchell
- One, U2
- Hurt, Johnny Cash
- Send In The Clowns, Judy Collins
- Wise Up, Aimee Mann
- You Dont Know Me, Ray Charles
- Brick, Ben Folds Five
- Seperate Lives, Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
- Creep, Radiohead
- Stardust, Willie Nelson
- Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles
- Everybody Hurts, REM
- Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, Elton John
- Bookends, Simon and Garfunkel
- Sunrise, Norah Jones
Listen with tissue. I think I'm going to go make some mix tapes now! I think the fact that no one has anything to play them on makes them all the more quaint...
1:27:09 AM 
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