Stuck by Stacie Orrico

One of these songs that always resound from the depths of my adolescence. I haven’t heard this in maybe a decade until today and, wonder of wonders, I still like it.

Now that I think about it, I think I like it so much because it — in its own childish, helpless way — describes the relentless pattern of thought of addiction.

Gloomy Sunday by Diamanda Galas 

A Spectre of Dust by Sinphonia

Memory (from Cats) by Epica

Sorry by Maria Mena

Katie Jane Garside from QueenAdreena

Love Affair by Regina Spektor

Inflammatory Writ by Joanna Newsom

Lorelei by Cocteau Twins

Blood Roses by Tori Amos

Losing My Religion, originally by R.E.M. and covered by Dia Frampton

Lightning Strikes performed by Klaus Nomi

Fallen by Sarah McLachlan

Always gets to me.

Pigeon Food by Larkin Grimm

I love the uncertain vulnerability and lyrics of this song. I enjoy the way the voices are layered and welded together into this Grimm collage. It also feels somehow always strikes me as a village-girl’s ballad to a lover who leaves her for city girls. Very enticing.

Cripple and the Starfish by Antony and the Johnsons