Grieving songs
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Cathartic
These are songs that I found to be effective at releasing pent-up grief after Jenny's disappearance and death.
- "Little Lamb Dragonfly", Paul McCartney/Wings, Red Rose Speedway
- "All Dead", Queen, News of the World
- "The Cask of Amontillado", Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
- "Mother and Child Reunion", Paul Simon
- "Great Gig in the Sky", Pink Floyd
- "Where's Summer B.?", Ben Folds Five
- "Through the Long Night", Billy Joel, Glass Houses
- "Ode to Billie Joe", Bobbie Gentry
- "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight", The Beatles, Abbey Road
- "Goodbye to Love", The Carpenters
- "Shangri-La", ELO, New World Record
- "Bluebird Fly Away", ELO, Secret Messages
- "Now You're Gone", Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre
- "Blown Away", Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre
- "Alyson", Elvis Costello
- "Harmony", Elton John
- "I'm Sorry", Elton John
- "The Last to Know", Dan Fogelberg, Phoenix
- "Bluebird Is Dead", ELO, On the Third Day
- "One Summer Dream", ELO, Face the Music
- "Bluebird", ELO, Secret Messages
- "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd, (eponymous)
- "Prayer for the Dying", Seal
- "While You See a Chance", Steve Winwood, Arc of a Diver
- "Drive", The Cars
- "Turn of the Century", Yes
- "Diamonds and Rust", Joan Baez ("well I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again")
Too Much
These are songs I couldn't listen to for several years afterwards.
- "She's Leaving Home", The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's
- "Wild World", Cat Stevens
- "Angie", Rolling Stones
Later
These are songs which would probably be on one of the above lists if I had heard them at the time (most of them were released later).
- "The Luckiest", Ben Folds, Rocking the Suburbs
- "Losing True", The Roches, Keep On Doing
- "I Can Tell", Michael Penn, Resigned
- "Heaven Beside You", Alice in Chains
- "Eternal Flame", The Bangles
- "Ghosts", Dan Fogelberg, The Innocent Age
- "You and the Mona Lisa", Shawn Colvin
- "Paris Nocturne", Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg, Twin Sons of Different Mothers
- "Julie Don't Live Here", ELO, Time (CD remaster with extra tracks)
- "Love Doesn't Kill You", Fastball, The Harsh Light of Day
- "Wading in Deeper", Katzenjammer
- "One Headlight", The Wallflowers, Bringing Down the Horse