Day 7: “Only love can break your heart” – Play something inspired by heartbreak, or that got you through a rough patch.
Neil Young - Zuma
I bought this album on CD (back when I still collected those) years ago. A few days after getting it, I went through a particularly bad breakup. The CD stayed in my truck and accompanied me for the next several weeks everywhere I went. It was hell on earth during that period, but when I was driving around, Neil Young helped me escape for a little bit.
Filled with songs about heartbreak & rough patches, in particular "Call Your Girlfriend", "Dancing On My Own", "Love Kills", "Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do" and "Cry When You Get Older".
Day 06: “L.A., Uptight, City in the Smog”
Play something recorded in or references Los Angeles in some way. Beck - Odelay
Can’t get much is more LA than Beck and The Dust Brothers. Odelay was also recorded at the Beastie Boys’ legendary Atwater Village studio, G-Son.
Day 07: “Only love can break your heart”
Play something inspired by heartbreak, or that got you through a rough patch. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer
Written while estranged from his wife and living in a hotel. God’s Favorite Customer is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.
Day 7: “Only love can break your heart” – Play something inspired by heartbreak
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
This record (#5 on my N&G Top 50) explores heartbreak from two distinct angles. Raw and angry on Song for the Dumped and eloquent and reflective on Selfless, Cold and Composed. Both are apt.
Day 7: “Only love can break your heart” – Play something inspired by heartbreak, or that got you through a rough patch.
Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension
Where Carrie & Lowell is the sound of a heart broken by the death of a loved one, this is an album about a heart broken by a country and world, and maybe even a God, that keep finding new ways to betray the faith he had put in them.