Ooo, good one, Lyra Jane!

The acoustic version of Sister Hazel's 'Your Mistake' is good.

I need to stop and go to work or I could do this all day.

Any ideas for strummy strummy aching love songs? Stuff like you might hear at the end of a tv drama to make you cry?

Oh, I've got tons of these. I've made entire tapes of this stuff, though it tends to be a bit more rootsy and a bit less singer/songwriter confessional. Still, plenty strummy. These tapes are all designed to cultivate melancholy.

IN THE PINES
A-SIDE: Women of Ireland - Laurie Lewis; Wayfaring Stranger - Emmylou Harris; Bargain Store - Dolly Parton; Blue Moon - Elvis Presley; Ain't No Ash Will Burn - Ranch Romance; Let the Mystery Be - Iris Dement; Every Time You Say Goodbye - Alison Krauss; Love Vigilantes - Oyster Band; I Don't Want to Spoil the Party - Rosanne Cash; Lullaby of London - June Tabor & The Oyster Band; Dirty Old Town - Pogues; When Will I Be Loved - Sandy Denny & Linda Thompson; Highway Kind - Townes Van Zandt; Hickory Wind - Emmylou Harris; Dallas - Flatlanders; Amazing Grace - Ron Wood

B-SIDE: On My Way to Kolozsvar Town - Marta Sebestyn; Streets of Sorrow - Pogues; Meet on the Ledge - Fairport Convention; Mo Ghile Mear - Mary Black; Snow Don't Fall - Townes Van Zandt; Whispering Pines - The Band; Brass Buttons - Gram Parsons; Shaking Hands (Soldier's Joy) - Michelle Shocked; The Light - Laurie Lewis; When the Circus Comes To Town - Los Lobos; Dark Skies - Alison Krauss; Finisterre - June Tabor & Oyster Band; Never Again - Richard & Linda Thompson; Drivin' on 9 - Ed's Redeeming Qualities; Black Eyed Dog - Nick Drake

BLACKWATER SIDE
A-SIDE: Mining for Gold - Cowboy Junkies; Kathleen - Townes Van Zandt; Jolene - Dolly Parton; Blackwater Side - Ann Briggs; Scarborough Settler's Lament - Stan Rogers; Bright Morning Star - Burns Sisters; Keeper of the Mountain - Flatlanders; My Life - Iris Dement; Here There and Everywhere -Emmylou Harris; She Moves Through the Fair - Carol Noonan; Second Lover's Song - Townes Van Zandt; Angel Eyes - Willis Alan Ramsey; Jesus Help Me To Stand - Alison Krauss; My Youngest Son Came Home Today - Mary Black; A Heart Needs a Home - Richard & Linda Thompson

B-SIDE: Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt; Night Comes In - Richard Thompson; Lay This Body Down - June Tabor; Time of No Reply - Nick Drake; Fotheringay - Fairport Convention; Three Fishers - Stan Rogers; Troublesome Waters - Iris Dement; St. John The Gambler - Townes Van Zandt; Down Where the Drunkards Roll - Los Lobos; I Long For Your Kiss -Lucinda Williams; Slow Surprise - Emmylou Harris; Genesis Hall - June Tabor

DAYS
A-SIDE: Days - Kirsty McColl; Living Life - K. McCarty; Thirteen - Big Star; You And Your Sister - Chris Bell; Which Will - Lucinda Williams; Coming Back To Me - Rickie Lee Jones; Dumb - Nirvana; Holocaust - Kendra Smith/Rainy Day; Little Angel Little Brother - Lucinda Williams; Forever Nightshade Mary - Latin Playboys; Johnsburg, Illinois - Tom Waits; As Tears Go By - Marianne Faithful; I'll Keep It With Mine - Nico; All Tomorrow's Parties - June Tabor & The Oyster Band

B-SIDE: Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith; State Trooper - Bruce Springsteen; Street Hassle: Waltzing Matilda - Lou Reed; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams -Nico; Fruit Tree - Nick Drake; Four Seasons In One Day - Crowded House; Ringside - Pete Ham; Julia - Beatles; Linden Arden Stole the Highlights - Van Morrison; Nightswimming - REM; Outside this Bar - American Music Club; Rainbow Sleeves - Ricki Lee Jones; Farewell Farewell - Fairport Convention; End of a Holiday - Fairport Convention

Also, "She Calls Your Name" - Beth Orton and "With Tomorrow" - Gene Clark.

The TVtome episode guide for the OC has song listings for the episodes

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There are some casting and episode title spoilers for upcoming O.C.s on the season 2 page at TV Tome. Nothing major, but I thought it was worth the heads up.

Strummy strummy death-of-love songs that make me a choky sobbing mess: "Act of Nature" and "Arrow" by Cheryl Wheeler; "Sleeper" and "Here in the Going Going Gone" by Greg Brown.

Haven't they always been here?

Yeeeeeessssssss . . . .

"Act of Nature" and "Arrow" by Cheryl Wheeler; "Sleeper" and "Here in the Going Going Gone" by Greg Brown.

Oh yeah, I'll second those, especially "Arrow" and "Here in the Going Going Gone". And I'll add Patty Larkin's "Good Thing", which was always Buffy and Angel's theme song in my head:

"I had dreams like distant thunder
I had hope like a prayer unheard
And this is nothing less than perfect
In a less than perfect world..."

One of my faves was hearing "The Darkest Night of All" by Lisa Germano on a Homicide: LOTS episode.

On an unrelated note, how great is "Jesus of Suburbia"? It's a nine-minute fucking song, and I can't stop listening to it.

Crap on a crap stick, with crap dipping sauce....

I'm trying to find a copy of The Feelies The Good Earth. There is one used copy on Amazon, for $99.

eta: Ooh, Rasputin Music has a copy for $10.99....