The Pity Partygoer’s Playlist
Have fresh wounds you’d like to rub some salt & soda into? Wishing the heart plug in your aching cavity was just a little easier to reach? Looking for some insulin therapy after a gluttony of gaiety?… If so, let the wallowing commence via this venture into self-loathing and mindless contempt for all adjectives with excessive use of consonants (ie: bubbly, fluffy, funny…). Roll out a rug of rusty nails and flail about with me as we flagellate our way through the Pity Partygoer’s Playlist.
Note: This list is entirely objective and subject to personal taste, influence (suggestions welcome), addition, rearrangement and revision without notice; so visit often or subscribe for the latest.
Easing into the Salty Puddle
- Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye & Kimbra
- Someone Like You – Adele
- Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
- And So it Goes – Billy Joel
- High Hopes – Pink Floyd
- Whiskey Lullaby – Brad Paisley
- Mr. Cellophane – John C. Reilly (Chicago)
- Hate Me – Blue October
- Goodbye My Lover – James Blunt
- Lightning Crashes – Live
- Black – Danger Mouse & Norah Jones
- Good Kisser – Lake Street Dive
Mucking about the Swamps of Sadness
- Without You – Harry Nilsson
- Mad World – Michael Andrews
- Have to Drive – Amanda Palmer
- Ne Me Quitte Pas – Nina Simone
- How to Disappear Completely – Radiohead
- My Immortal – Evanescence
- Drown in My Own Tears – Ray Charles
- When You’re Gone – Dolores O’Riordan
- Objects in the Rear View Mirror… – Meat Loaf
- Sail – Awolnation
- Sally’s Song – Fiona Apple
- When I’m Gone – Joey + Rory
Minor-keyed Razorblades
- Hurt – Johnny Cash
- Exit Music (For a Film) – Radiohead
- Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor – The Eels
- Strange Fruit – Nina Simone
- The End – The Doors
- Breathe Me – Sia
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Party Rules
Every party has rules and the pity party is no exception. While these rules are typically assumed and unspoken the following attempt to highlight a few of these rules has been made for clarity’s sake:
- The focus must be on suffering, misery, and despair (preferably yours) – No pity party is complete without total self-absorption to the point wanton complacency.
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