For a long time it was this song. I listened to it constantly like medication for years. Just hearing it again after a long time gives me a sad and nostalgic lonely feeling that's hard to describe.



Lately though, it's been this song. It sounds so ethereal and somber. I lay down in bed and turn this on and just disappear for a long, long time. Usually I pair it with some rain. It sounds magical to me, like a haunting angel's omen from another world.



That song definitely does it... Alison is one I can only turn on sometimes, because it instantly shifts me into this blissful state of hyper focused transcendence. I had it on repeat one night after drinking an entire pot of coffee whilst leading a blinding horde of calvary into a bloodbath in a super intense game and it felt like my entire room was on fire with laughing gas, god particles and god damn space juice. Good times? Maybe. Probably.

Surprising choice for you

The ones that come to mind first:
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset, Kentucky Moon
David Bowie - Fill Your Heart
Sleater-Kinney - Stay Where You Are
Eels - Going to your Funeral Part II
Kate Bush - Sat In Your Lap
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love, The Wind Cries Mary
Patti Smith - My Generation
Edit - important omission:
Boards Of Canada - Roygbiv

Yeah? I've never heard it.

Come as you Are
 

Come as you Are by Nirvana got me through some serious tough times growing up.

^ That sums up your night so well that I'm going to check out this Alison song. Welcome to MB, TTBB :wavey:

^ Yep, loved Waterloo Sunset and rushed out to buy the single as a kid. It helps that I know the place, and later learned that Ray Davies was thinking of a childhood stay in a London hospital when he wrote it. He really nails that odd blend of resignation, melancholy and optimism that goes with convalescence imo.
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This opening track really sets the mood for the songs that follow, and in my case takes me straight back to when I was 18 years old, the people I hung out with and the many new things that we were doing for the first time:-

Benny Hill would have been proud of you. Boots Randolph probably would shed a tear because you said his song touched your soul.