In 2nd place and 9 points - Beetlejuice – LCD Soundsystem – New York, I love you but you’re bringing me down
What a great voice. An excellent recording. Really matches my own melancholy atm for bonus points. What could have been a straightforward solid low-key diddy picks up and gets heavy in a really interesting way around the three-minute mark. Adds a satisfying second level. This would also have been a nice submission for a walking song.
In first place and all the points - Pauwl - The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Swallowtail”
The song is my permanent mood right now. Played it twice in a row and then the full album three or four times since. This is one of those bands in the back of my brain that I’ve never actually given a shot. Thanks for this. I love it. I’m not sure if pauwl is even reading these reveals, but this is his second gold, absent or not.
This would have been my submission:
dat live version from Madison Square Garden iirc ohhhhh
Momma don’t goooooooooooooooo
1st comment on this vid 
Thanks for another great reveal Cassette! Also, sorry to hear this category resonates so much with your mood.
Tough category to rank…
Man I missed this reveal in more ways than one. Looking forward to checking these out tomorrow.
This was my hardest category by far. I guess I just don’t listen to a lot of sad music!
Of course I’m following. Walruses are my favorite part of this forum now.
this song is really sad
Oh yeah, this song is really sad. Maybe if you don’t have kids it doesn’t hit as hard.
Tears for Fears Goat
Cliched submission:
Warren Zevon’s Knocking on Heavens Door just came to mind too (dude was dying of cancer).
Elliott Smith as someone who actually battled addiction and demons, whose music was about that, and ultimately succumbed to suicide merited mention. I’ve always dug him too, my ex once told me “you like all this sad music” while I tried listening to him in the car.
This song had more acclaim but my submission felt more bare and sadly hopeful.
This made me stick on So Tonight That I Might See for the first time in forever this morning, but then my wife made me turn it off as it gave her flashbacks to being a moody teenager. Looking forward to going through all these properly.
At last I’ve found a way to nominate songs I like that should have a broader appeal than my absolute category favourites which no one would have liked.
Otherwise I’d have nominated this, a song sung on his own at the piano, pissed and stoned in the studio after everyone else had left, in the wake of the death of friends from drug overdoses…Gut wrenching.
Thanks for the reveal @cassette. What would you have made of this?
Thanks for the reveal, @cassette, though it happened overnight for me. I’m stuck working all day today, though, so it will be a fitting soundtrack to go through all these now. And the selections look great.
The rodeo vid aspect of my submission is funny. There seem to be two videos, one tied to the Linklater film Boyhood, of which this song is a big part of the soundtrack, and then this “official” video. I had never seen either video and chose the non-film one so as to not load the song with extra connotations. #Backfire!
A lot of progress made on this project this weekend…registration, creation of games and categories, joining and leaving games…still haven’t started on submissions, any scoring, reporting, presentation of submissions…it’s a pretty big project, but maybe something rudimentary that works after another couple weeks/weekends.
This is awesome.
It might be a couple days before I can get to these high school songs. Sorry. Work is crazy right now.
Haven’t listened to 1 or 2 yet but I suspect this song was robbed, great choice @Jalfrezi
Edit: OK winner was really good too, would have to listen to both a few more times.
Final reveal will be tomorrow afternoon. Here’s where we currently stand as the contestants race toward the finish line:
I rescind my sad song pick. I’m going to leave a song here with an actual trigger warning. Maybe don’t listen if you’re missing someone or love your wife.
“I don’t want to learn anything from this. I love you.”
In 2015, Phil Elverum’s wife, the Canadian artist Geneviève Castrée, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer four months after the birth of their first child. Castrée died at their home on 9 July 2016.[2] Taking inspiration from the Gary Snyder poem “Go Now”,[3] Elverum realised that he did not have to find any meaning in Castrée’s death but could write songs that described the experience.[4] He also found inspiration in the work of Julie Doiron, Sun Kil Moon and Karl Ove Knausgård.[5] Elverum wrote the songs over a six-week period[6] starting in September 2016.[7] Utilising some notes that he had written during Castrée’s illness and treatment,[7] Elverum wrote the lyrics down longhand on her paper[8] and recorded the songs in the room where she died using an acoustic guitar, one microphone and a laptop computer[7] as well as some of Castrée’s own instruments.[9] Since he had become the primary carer for his daughter, Elverum recorded the songs at night while his daughter was asleep or during times when she was visiting friends.[7] He stated that the songs “poured out quickly in the fall, watching the days grey over and watching the neighbors across the alley tear down and rebuild their house” and that he made the record and released it “just to multiply my voice saying that I love her. I want it known.”[10]
