![]() Meanwhile The Smart Beatle sought a nobler path and created some of the most earnest, achingly humorless songs ever put to wax.Īutumn in New York (Billie Holiday) “So on this gray and melancholy day, I’ll move to a Manhattan hotel.”Penned and recorded a half century prior to the nightmarish events of September 11th, Lady Day’s touching torch song was obviously not intended as an homage to the darkest Autumn day in New York’s history, but tell that to my (manly) tear ducts. ![]() For The Cute Beatle this meant finding a home atop Billboard’s charts with a fun but forgettable series of silly love songs. ![]() You didn’t need me.”When the Fab Four parted ways at the close of sixties, the band’s chief frienemies John Lennon and Paul McCartney both saw their divorce as a liberation, a chance to pursue their true artistic callings. With a less gifted singer at the helm, the results would have been a strings-laden sap-fest, tailor-made for early 70’s am pop Drake takes us on a deeper journey – one that doesn’t spare us the scenic route of his broken soul. What other songs would you add to this list? 10. Way to Blue (Nick Drake) “Have you seen the land living by the breeze?”English acoustic brooder Nick Drake lived the kind of short, sad life that seemed designed to produce tear-jerking anthems, and Way to Blue brings on the waterworks like no other in his tragically slim body of work.
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