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@Trifkin: Excellent selection. That song has come up on Pandora a whole bunch of times in the past couple of days and I'm not complaining.






Edit:

This.



And that.

Edit: sure, why not (although I've probably played it before in here):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJm769gRUi8&feature=related[/youtube]

Whiskey drinking song. For sure.

Also--why, yes!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ktrKtYFd4&feature=feedlik[/youtube]

Yeah, Cosmic Love is right on target but it's not as clear and simple as I like to listen to when I write -- but the theme/lyrics/feeling is exactly perfect. I've also worn myself out on that song by listening to it when I cook and drive. I had it on my playlist for about two months. Good suggestion though!

The piano solo....

Actually, this is getting creepy. I know that song!. It's Beautiful World by Hikaru Uteda, and it's utterly bizarre that you suggested two songs I already have and like. Although I'd never heard the piano version, but I will admit that it sounds too plain just as a piano. Piano and strings, maybe? I'll have to hunt for an instrumentation version with more oomph to it, not just a youtube video of an EGL pianist.

Further examples of what I'm looking for (possible reposts):



But I'm a little tired/sick of these songs, since I've been listening to them for months/years by this point.

Would something like this be in the ballpark?

To Kino, with love:



The last one might not go with the others... and it may be too powerful, musically, for the mood you need to set... but it gets me every time. T_T

EDIT: That Lain song reminds me very strongly of something... Hrmm. Sixpence None The Richer, maybe? I'll have to think on it. It's tickling my brain.

Unrequited love and emotional ruin? Okay, I'll try... I actually have a particularly hard time writing while I'm listening to something that has any lyrics at all. But I do like to use songs to get in a particular mood before I write. Actually, it doesn't matter what the music is like provided I'm not in control of it. That's partially why I like writing in bars, the music is something of white noise, but at the right bars I get to hear some really great stuff that I hadn't previously been aware of.

Anyway. I will try and suggest some stuff you may not have heard before that is on the softer side. I can't guarantee you'll like any of this, nor that it will fit into what you're looking for, but its worth a shot.

I realized as I was building this list that many of these songs begin rather slow and soft and build, so I do hope thats not off putting. This is some of the stuff that gets me into a writing frame of mind.




I don't know if any of that helped. But those were the songs that came to mind, so theres that.