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What is "Slow Sunday"
It's a concept that me & a friend had some years ago.
Sunday nights are made for slow songs, sad songs, songs about regret, lost loves, lost chances.
You listen to them in that come-down-feeling after the weekend,
knowing that ahead of you is just another week of work, school, life........

David Gates - Suite: Clouds, Rain - atmospheric, very long, very 70's!, but carries you away on a journey
David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours - NOT the Sylvian solo version, this is from the Merry Christmas Mr...OST
The Dream Academy - The Party (acoustic version) - A b'side, available on a Japanese Best Of CD - really cutting lyrics
Wheat - Don't I Hold You - "Don't I hold you like you want to be held", such melancholia
Ben Folds Five - Brick - Once you know what this song is about it is suddenly even sadder
Hothouse Flowers - Trying To Get Through - A beautiful lament against the pressures of life
Jackson Browne - The Road - The emptiness of life on the road, with great violin playing
Playing At Trains - Lust - This is a demo of an unreleased song - should have been No.1
Boys Next Door - Shivers - I hate Nick Cave usually. From the Dogs In Space soundtrack, great film
del Amitri - One Thing Left To Do - even by del Amitri's standards, this is really bleak
Well Well Well - Consequences - Only ever released on vinyl (I'd love a CD copy) - great lyrics
Deacon Blue - Circus Lights (acoustic version) - Ricky's voice cracks as he sings it with only a piano as company
Barenaked Ladies - Blame It On Me (original EP version) - Funny/sad lyrics - This is NOT the same as the album version
The Lemonheads - Shakey Ground - Can men & women just be friends? Evan acoustic and poignant
China Drum - Biscuit Barrel (acoustic version) - As a punk band this is still intense even if it is acoustic
James Young - Songs They Never Play On The Radio - A smokey, drunken night of nostalgia put to music
del Amitri - Scared To Live - Hidden away on a Bside as are most del classics
Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing - There are some early live recordings without the "80's studio effects"
Fish - Cliche - Great lyrics & guitar work but possibly 2 minutes too long
Billy Bragg - Tank Park Salute - One of the saddest songs ever written - always makes me cry
Then Jerico - Darkest Hour - A rare acoustic moment
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game - my summer of love
World Party - And I Fell Back Alone  - "If we walk through each other as we leave the room you don't have to tell me that it's over"
Hazel O'Connor - Will You - We've all been here
Black - Let Me Watch You Make Love - "Let me watch you make love and imagine that it's me" - enough said
The Shangri-Las - Past, Present & Future - Manufactured group or not, still a great song from the 60's
Theme From M*A*S*H - Suicide Is Painless - One of the saddest songs ever
Latin Quarter - Voices Inside - Loneliness and despair set to music
Erasure - Piano Song - A rare piano song from Erasure - "never get angry at stupid people"
The Verve - History - Despite stealing much of the lyrics from a dead poet.......
Ezio - Just To Talk To You - This is either about obsession or stalking!
The Cure - Pictures Of You - from their best album 'Disintegration'
Depeche Mode - Somebody - Electro-popsters produce a beautiful piano ballad? "Though things like this make me sick..."
Tom McRae - You Cut Her Hair - The music is purposefully disturbing and so is his delivery.
Andy White - Come Down To The Sea - A piano song about politics? What are the "Dark Times"? Not sure
Japan - Ghosts - With THAT voice and the spooky sounds this is very disconcerting indeed.
Black - Sweetest Smile
Bettie Serveert - Shades - A B' side, piano rather than swirling guitars and that glorious voice.
Deacon Blue - Long Distance From Just Across The Road - A rare B' side, finishes with the slow piano intro to Loaded
World Party - Watching & Waiting
del Amitri - Someone Else Will - Another great B Side, melancholy and despair by Justin once more
Lenny Kravitz - The Difference Is Why - Those 60's instruments really sound suitably soulful on this ballad
Jazz Butcher - Girl Go
Heidi Berry - Northshore Train
U2 - All I Want Is You
Pearl Jam - Black - "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star, In somebody else's sky, but why, can't it be mine"
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Yazzoo - Only You
Japan - Nightporter
U2 - One
Nick Drake - Northern Sky
Anita Lane - The World's A Girl
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Swim - So Long Manhattan
Ricky Ross - The Further North You Go - It's true, we are friendlier up North. And Dundee is a beautiful city.
Jonathan Richman - Twilight In Boston - Another song about a hometown, let Jonathan take you on a tour with just his guitar to help
Don Henley - A Month Of Sundays
The Housemartins - Think For A Minute - In the 80's, imminent nuclear annhilation was a very real threat and this about sums it up
Jethro Tull - She Said She Was A Dancer - The best Dire Straits song DS never recorded with some wickedly funny lyrics too
The Four Of Us - Hymn For Her
Bruce Cockburn - Pacing The Cage
The Beatles - Fool On The Hill
Embrace - Fireworks
The Hothouse Flowers - Ecuador -
Travis - Slide Show
George Michael - Cowboys And Angels
David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind - A rare cover for Bowie, the vocal delivery just makes the song as the music sweeps along
This Picture - Death's Sweet Religion (acoustic version)
Gene - I Can't Help Myself (piano version)
Marillion - Lavender
CountingCrows - Anna Begins
James Taylor - Fire & Rain - some people see this as a happy song, but if you saw it used in that movie with River Phoenix......
Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman
Then Jerico - Sugarbox
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Elton John - Rocket Man
Liz Phair - Chopsticks
The Eagles - Last Resort
Sting - The Shape Of My Heart
Prince - Old Friends For Sale (demo version)
Brad - Buttercup
U2 - So Cruel
Wilco - The Lonely 1
Kiss - Beth
Depeche Mode - Sometimes
The Monkees - Shades Of Grey
Patrick Swayze - She's Like The Wind - Talented actor, good looking, and he can sing & write a good song too!
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have (acoustic version) - Just with a piano this sounds even more desperate
The Field Mice - Willow
Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary - Written by Victoria Williams (who guests on it) simply beautiful, warm and mysterious
The Moody Blues - Forever Autumn
U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - Forget the single mix, great lyrics
Prince - Sometimes It Snows In April - The intro is too long, but here Prince nails the emotion of loss incredibly
Eurythmics - I Need You - Eurythmics do an acoustic song, no, really.
Billy Joel - And So It Goes
The Lemonheads - Postcard
Black - Wonderful Life
Circus Of Power - Circles
Kirsty McGee - Plane Vapours
Athlete - Wires
Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost
I Am Kloot - The Deep Blue Sea