Recently on Facebook, a friend posted a query to everyone to respond with a "favorite song" playlist of 10 songs, starting with his own. After about two days of continuous responses, numbering something like 150, I took a shot. Then I thought to myself,
Hey, Match Cut LOVES lists, so post it there!
So I present my "All Time Playlist." I do not present this as the ten greatest songs of all time, no sir. I also don't pretend this represents all types of music as really, it's just your typical pop/rock, folk, blues music. I didn't even include any jazz, despite that probably being what I listen to more than anything.
Really, it's just ten awesome songs that I love and that as I selected each one, I jotted down some thoughts and reasonings for their inclusion. It's a glimpse into my own mind more than anything. There is no order. It's entirely random.
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10. "From the Morning" (Nick Drake, Pink Moon, 1971)
The album is melancholy and intimacy at its perfection… and yet, it ends with this song with its major-sounding sunny undertones and more cheerful gaze. Drake sings of a brighter time, and knowing that he ends his chamber-piece masterwork with this song, the last studio track we ever will hear from him, brings a bittersweet smile that goes well beyond the music itself. It is as powerful in its understated happiness as the rest of the album is in its haunting melodies.