been digging Fountains of Wayne's 'Maureen' lately - simple power pop about wanting your friend to stop telling you about all the guys she's fucking instead of you. it ain't a classic tho

Katy Song - Red House Painters

Walk This Way - RUN DMC

Something Corporate - Konstantine

well, it's arguable that the song's about (requited) sexual obsession, but the lyrics are ambiguous enough that it could apply - I Want You (She's So Heavy) - The Beatles.

you've lost that lovin' feeling - the righteous brothers

there is some interminable agony and lust happening in that song.

hmmm i suppose if i get enough suggestions that i like and/or can source, might turn it into a radio special...

also, dusty springfield - breakfast in bed.

i think Try a Little Tenderness is along this theme

All I Wanna Do - Bob Dylan. unrequited love from the other side - with the guy telling the gal he just wants to be friends

oh i like the red house painters one. nice choice.

also, i can't get next to you - the temptations + thee more shallows. that's going on to the playlist.

oh, and it's not really 'unrequited' as much as 'realising we can't be together' ...

Nina Simone - I Don't Want Him (You Can Have Him)

heartbreaking, every. single. time.

Rilo Kiley - A man, me, then Jim

Bright Eyes - It's Cool We Can Still Be Friends

The Blow - Hey Boy

Park Ave. - Invitation to A Closet

Stars - Personal

that's all i can think of for now.

Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby. great 'sitting in the bar at 3am' song

The Turtles - Happy Together

The Temptations - Just My Imagination

Invitation to the Blues - Tom Waits. the soundtrack to the 'Dear random peson i saw today - i love you' thread

also, rilo kiley - does he love you?

yeah definitely! Also Bright Eyes - messenger bird. it just came on :)

Reindeer section: Your sweet voice

Your sweet voice Lets me know there is a choice Please me slow Oh, Much more slowly than that

And when we danced We danced warm cheek to cold cheek A sideways glance I knew you were looking at him

I can't call you a friend Cause when you left me here You left me here to die Don't worry I wont call you again Cause when I take a hint I take it pretty hard And when you broke my heart you broke it into shards of glass

The telephone yells out At me to wake I won't be blamed For someone else's mistakes It's your sweet voice Sounding cheery and warm It breaks my heart But I summon up all my charm

Can I call you my friend? It's been so long Since we have talked and I miss you Don't worry I'm over you right now So my feelings wont get in the way of it Oh, I miss the way we talked about the little things

OUCH!

yeah yeah yeahs - maps

weezer - across the sea

BTW - you forgot this one:

She said it was just a figment of speech
And I said you mean 'figure'
And she said no 'figment' because she could never imagine it happening
But it did
When we first met, I played the shy-boy
When she spoke to me for the first time, my nose began to bleed
She guessed the rest
The next day we went on a bus ride to the ferry
And when nobody came to collect our fares, why I knew then this was
something special
I couldn't stop thinking about her
And everytime I switched on the radio, there was somebody else singing
a song about the two of us
It was just like being on a fast ride at Fun Fair- the sort you want to get off
because it's scary and then, as soon as you're off again, you want to
get straight back on again
But oh love is strange
And you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth I suppose
She began going out with Mr. Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car park with his coat around her shoulders
I realized
I went home and thought about the two of them together until the bath
water went cold around me
I thought about her eyes and the curve of her breasts and about the point
where their bodies met
I confronted her about it
I said 'I'm the most illegible bachelor in town'
And she said 'Yea, that's why I can never understand any of those silly letters you send me'
And then one day it happened
She cut her hair
And I stopped loving her

mazzy star - fade into you

thought that one was obvious yo

I said 'I'm the most illegible bachelor in town'
And she said 'Yea, that's why I can never understand any of those silly letters you send me' And then one day it happened
She cut her hair
And I stopped loving her

Best lyrics ever.

Yep, it's The Saturday Boy.

Cannibal Ox - 'The Word'

It's like, I care about you, I think about you all the time it's like, we friends and shit? which means we treat each other right you'll be there for me when you gonna be there for me

Verse 1: [Vast Aire Kramer] yo it wasn't even like that I wanted my cardiovascular to fight back cupid had me runnin' circles blindfolded in the daytime with a flashlight looking for her yo, sit back, relax and smell the roses a fly girl by any other name would still be that but the trick is to see that I'm caught in between future's fantasies and memories I played back told my man I started sword fighting 'cause fencing was similar to tongue kissing if you wait too long you gonna end up confessin' all I think about is you undressin' I extended my thoughts in a relationship but they sunk like the titanic relation-ships she was in a love triangle but it wasn't like my feelings weren't there to make it a square penny's for her thoughts she's my very own American Beauty, red petals when we talk ...the f word

Chorus 1: [Vordul Megalon] She like music, got me heavily booted(?) when I'm out with her feelings be mixin' chemical elixirs, caught her like a sickness and can't get rid of it, these sexual addictions

Chorus 2: [Vordul] tangle witted in my opposite sex friendships with too many emotions, got me bent up and it's real ill when something going on but nothings being said trying to figure it out wrapped all in your head just spit it out and I'll truly understand what the problem is 'cause you got me twisted tryin' to stress birds kickin' that f word fuckin around, flirtin' and stressin' my nerves

Verse 2: [Vast] check this situation, I wore my lust like cologne she called it Obsession the background's black and white and we adolescents like what the fuck we know about love? the more I learn it's like the Clash of the Titans all I wanna do is avoid fightin' a little arguing's okay but not everyday and if we can't communicate what we got decays until the smell gets more pungent to the point where we can't be seen in public body parts fallin' apart, a symbol of what things do or better yet, a symbol of what friends do, they die and together forever just sounds fly that's how it sounded to me when I heard it and slow motion was her lips as she worded the f word ''don't take it personal, I like you a lot but I don't wanna lose what we got'' but what we got now is friction she tellin' me intimacy and friendship she ain't mixin' the f word

Chorus 1

Verse 3: [Vast] yo, you burnin' the candle at both ends I'm supposed to be the friend, I'm gettin' fried in the end the big bang theory, what is this a trend? you ask a girl out and the universe extends tell me to talk to the hand again and I'll read your palm I'm smellin' your shit now, don't know how to call all I wanted was grounds for understanding I ain't greedy, but to hold your heart I gotta put my hand in, why debate? you think you can fit me in that anorexic space between love and hate? I got all of the first one and none of the other and that's something I learned from my sister and my mother thought we was close in the genesis before all this technology was cordless, a senseless courtship this is more than just a song and when he's treating you wrong I'm more than just a shoulder to cry on the F word

Chorus 1 & 2

I'm not in love, so don't forget it It's just a silly phase I'm going through And just because I call you up Don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made I'm not in love, no-no (It's because...)

Can someone make me a mixtape?

I called this number three times already today
But I, I got scared, I put
It back in place, I put my phone back in place.
I still don't know if I
should have called up.
Look, just tell me why don't ya if I'm out of place.
'Cause here's your chance to make me feel awkward
And wish that I had
never even called up this place.
I saw you though today walk by with hippie Johnny.
I had to call up and say how I want to take his place.

So this phone call today concerns hippie Johnny.
He's always stoned, he's never straight.
I saw you today, you know, walk by with hippie Johnny.
Look, I had to call up and say, I want to take his place.
See he's stoned, hippie Johnny.
Now get this, I'm straight and I want to take his place.
Now look, I like him too, I like hippie Johnny.
But I'm straight
and I want to take his place.
I said, I'm straight
I said, I'm straight
I'm proud to say
Well I'm straight and I want to take his place.

Now I've watched you walk around here.
I've watched you meet these
boyfriends, I know, and you tell me how they're deep.
Look but, if these guys, if they're really so great,
tell me, why can't they at least take this place
and take it straight? Why always stoned,
like hippie Johnny is?
I'm straight and I want to take his place.
Oh I'm certainly not stoned, like hippie Johnny is.
I'm straight and I want to take his place.
I said, I'm straight
I said, I'm straight
I'm straight
I'm straight and I want to take his place
All right you Modern Lovers what do you say?
(I'm straight!)
Tell the world now
(I'm straight!)
I said
(I'm straight!)
Yeah I'm straight and I want to take his place.

trust - the cure

Awesome choice ruski. ^^

For me, Hot Burrito No. 1 by the Flying Burrito Brothers. It destroys me.

Oh, Gram.

aqueduct - frantic (roman polanski version)

Can someone pleeeeaassssseeeeee make me a mixtape? In need overe here.

girl from ipanema

you got love woes or somethin tramdriver?

^^Sumthink like that traffic. I think perhaps a mixtape would make things worse- kinda wallowing/indulging. I wonder if it is a general male thing, or applies roughly equal to both sexes.

Tears Dry on Their Own - Amy Winehouse Just a Friend - Biz Markie When Friend Rhymes With End - Ane Brun Avant La Haine - Romain Durais That Kind of Girl - Mary Lou Lord Too Drunk to Dream - Magnetic Feilds Grudge Fuck - Pernice Bros He Keeps Me Alive - Sally Shapiro Gray or Blue - Jaymay Commuter Love- Divine Comedy Paper Bag - Fioan Apple Nothing Came Out- Moldy Peaches How Am I Different - Aimee Mann How Can You Like Him ? - Paul Westerberg

I've got a million I'm a moper

definitely both sexes, tramdriver.

This one's a killer - the early version of Elliott Smith's Miss Misery:

I'll fake it through the day
With some help from Johnny Walker Red
And the cold pain behind my eyes
It shoots back through my head
With two tickets torn in half
And a lot of nothing to do
But it's alright
'Cos some enchanted night I'll be with you
Tarot cards and the lines in my hand
Tell me I'm wrong
But they're untrue
Got plans for both of us
That involved a trip out of town
to a place I've seen in a
magazine that you left lying
around
I can't hold my liquor
But I keep a good attitude
'Cos it's alright
Some enchanted night I'll be with you
Though you'd rather see me gone
Than to see it come the day I'll be
waiting for you anyway
Next door the TV's flashing blue frames on the wall
It's a comedy from the 70s
With the lead no one recalls
Vanished into oblivion
It's easy to do And I cry to see
When you talk to me
The day you said we were through
But it's alright
Some enchanted night I'll be with you

de.foxus - well I guess that is some kind of relief. Kinda a coincidence that some Elliot Smiths lyrics were posted as thinking earlier before how 'Walt #2' is about unrequited love.

how 'Walt #2' is about unrequited love.

it was written about his mother, so I'm not sure that it fits the 'unrequited love' context comfortably.

though 'that's the man she's married to now/ and that's the girl that he takes around town' suggests mum's relationship is in a right old state.

oh, and add Elliott Smith's 'Twilight'. glorious and fine.