Alas, that’s how Prince wanted it. But people are throwing videos up on YouTube as fast as they can right now!
Prince : Kiss
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Interesting counterpoint to the copyfighter perspective:
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Everything is Free
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Music from people who were actually there:
Velvet Underground, Heroin.
It ain’t pretty, it ain’t nice, but it is true.
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West Side Story : Cool
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Out of likes so …
Let’s hope there’s a change and more is shared.
On a related theme:
The Lemonheads, It’s a Shame About Ray
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Fucked-up and crazy as they were, it still remains true that my junkie days were the only time in my life when I wasn’t fucking miserable every goddamned day.
Everclear Heroin Girl.
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Marginally more positive:
Everclear, Santa Monica
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I feel happy to see what you will post here. Misery loves company. 
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One last one:
The Lemonheads, My Drug Buddy
Had one of these twenty years ago. Lost her in a moment of crazy. Never found another.
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I haven’t heard the phrase moment of crazy before, and it’s a comforting pairing. To me, painful loss can feel too overwhelming to remember. Loss does happen within bounded moments. Seeing the boundaries is reassuring to me.
Slightly less mopey.
After my big breakup in my late twenties (AKA the end of Heroin Girl), I took the bike out for a month-long desert run. This song was on permanent loop in my brain the whole way.
The Triffids, Wide Open Road
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That is one of those magical songs that has been played to death, and yet I will still turn up the radio every time it comes on.
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If I wasn’t an atheist, this is what I’d sing in church.
The Pretenders, Hymn to Her
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There is nothing like a desert for change.
More David McComb:
Yet another heroin casualty, of course.
The Triffids, Bury Me Deep in Love
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The Pretenders, Talk of the Town.
Chrissie Hynde is another one of those Audrey Hepburn people. I could quite happily listen to her singing the dictionary.
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