Nuggets 365 – Rejecting Affection

David Berman and partner

Songs about rejection, both from the perspective of the person rejected and the ‘rejector’. Uplifting in a doomscrolling way.

David Berman‘s swansong performing as Purple Mountains is just epic. Read the whole sad story here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Mountains_(album)

#10cc, #an-horse, #arthur-alexander, #barbara-lynn, #boygenius, #club-8, #darondo, #lee-dorsey #moose, #purple-mountains, #r-dean-taylor, #roky-erickson, #sparklehorse, #springtime-carnivore, #superette, #the-conquests, #the-radio-dept, #the-shirelles, #the-spinto-band, #the-supremes, #the-underdogs, #trevor-dandy, #valerie-june, #vashti-bunyan, #white-town, #wilson-pickett

Nuggets 169 – After Dark

Nuggets 169 - After Dark

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Mellow mixes rule.

#al-kooper, #barbara-lynn, #bobby-blue-bland, #candi-staton, #casiotone-for-the-painfully-alone, #chewingum, #clyde-stacy, #courtney-barnett, #dom-kelly, #etta-james, #foxygen, #francoise-hardy, #jacco-gardner, #lambchop, #nicolette-larsen, #piyama-party, #shuggie-otis, #swirlies, #the-mardi-grass, #the-relict, #white-fence