depressing songs to play at the porn store i work at, so customers forget they’re horny and go home


01. Iron & Wine - "The Sea and the Rhythm" (The Sea and the Rhythm [EP])
02. Air - "Alone in Kyoto" (Talkie Walkie)
03. Domotic - "There May Be a Tiger" (Ask For Tiger)
04. Cocorosie - "Lyla" (La Maison De Mon Reve)
05. Bjork - "Desired Constellation" (Medغlla)
06. The Books - "A Little Longing Goes Away" (Lost and Safe)
07. Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet - "Ghosts of Things To Come" (Requiem For a Dream Sountrack)
08. Architecture in Helsinki - "Where You've Been Hiding" (Fingers Crossed)
09. The Album Leaf - "Twenty Two Fourteen" (In a Safe Place)
10. The Microphones - "The Moon" (The Glow Pt. 2) or (Song Islands) - for an acoustic version
11. Xiu Xiu - "Little Panda McElroy (B)" (Fabulous Muscles)
12. Sufjan Stevens - "Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)" (Greetings From Michigan, the Great Lake State)
13. Jon Brion - "Theme" (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Soundtrack)

bonus track (for when they're driven away):
14. Rusty Santos - "I Am Loner" (Outside Versus In)

compiled by: Jess

01. Mi and L'Au - "Boxer" (Mi and L'Au)
02. Blur - "No Distance Left To Run" (13)
03. Okkervil River - "A Favor" (Sleep and Wake-Up Songs)
04. Bob Dylan - "It Ain't Me Babe" (Another Side Of Bob Dylan)
05. The Beatles - "For No One" (Revolver)
06. Elliott Smith - "Everything Reminds Me Of Her" (Figure 8)
07. Magnolia Electric Co. - "Hard To Love A Man" (What Comes After The Blues)
08. Belle and Sebastian - "The Boy Done Wrong Again" (If You're Feeling Sinister)
09. Bright Eyes - "Something Vague" (Fevers And Mirrors)
10. David Thomas Broughton - "Unmarked Grave" (The Complete Guide To Insufficiency)
11. Leonard Cohen - "Is This What You Wanted?" (New Skin For The Old Ceremony)
12. Angels of Light - "Come For My Woman" (Akron/Family & Angels of Light)

Compiled by: valdemar

note from valdemar: If the "When her blood is BROOOOOOOOOOOWWWNNNN!!!" sequence in Horsey doesn't scare them off I don't know what will.

01. Tori Amos - "Me and a Gun" (Little Earthquakes)
02. Low - "Embrace" (Things We Lost in the Fire)
03. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "Wolf Among Wolves" (Master and Everyone)
04. The The - "The Whisperers" (Naked Self)
05. Rachel's - "Last Things Last" (Systems/Layers)
06. Miranda Sex Garden - "Serial Angels" (Fairytales About Slavery)
07. The Black Heart Procession - "The Letter" (The Spell)
08. Magnolia Electric Co. - "Hard to Love a Man" (What Comes After the Blues)
09. Morphine - "The Saddest Song" (Good)
10. Feist - "When I Was A Young Girl" (Let it Die)
11. Current 93 - "Horsey" (Cats Drunk On Copper: Live at the Union Chapel)

Compiled by: TS Hamtramck
01. Gram Parsons - "That's the Bag I'm In" (Another Side of This Life)
02. Nick Lowe - "I'm a Mess" (The Convincer)
03. Roxy Music - "End of the Line" (Siren)
04. Willie Nelson - "Permanently Lonely" (Crazy: The Demo Sessions)
05. Homesick For Space - "Across This Barren Sea" (Unison)
06. John Fahey - "Dry Bones in the Valley" (Americana Masters: John Fahey)
07. Calexico/Iron and Wine - "Dead Man's Will" (In the Reins)
08. Nina Simone - "Strange Fruit" (Pastel Blues)
09. Antony and the Johnsons - "You Are My Sister" (I Am a Bird)
10. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Helpless" (Deja Vu)
11. Aimee Mann - "Wise Up" (Original Soundtrack: Magnolia)
12. Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World" (The Definitive Collection)

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