{"id":807924,"date":"2020-05-29T12:49:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1006008"},"modified":"2020-05-29T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:49:43","slug":"music-at-home-lonely-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/music-at-home-lonely-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Music at Home: Lonely Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loneliness has always had a place in pop music, from \u201cAre you lonesome tonight?\u201d<\/a> to \u201cMy loneliness is killing me.\u201d<\/a> What else are songs, if not a way for artists to reach out across the vast stretches of space and time that separate them from their listeners? A great song can make you feel less alone in the world, or reflect your solitude back in a new form. Right now, with much of the world staying far away from their friends and loved ones in the name of public health, those songs feel more appropriate than ever. Here, as part of Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s weekly playlist<\/a> series, \u201cMusic at Home<\/a>,\u201d are 18 songs to remind you that everyone else out there is feeling lonely these days, too.<\/p>\n

(Find this playlist on Spotify here.)<\/a><\/p>\n

Bad Bunny, \u201cYo Perreo Sola\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The catchiest song in the world right now? El Conejo Malo\u2019s toast to someone who\u2019s just fine dancing by herself, thanks: \u201cShe\u2019ll call you if she needs you\/But for now she is alone.\u201d This song would be ruling the clubs if any were open; it also sounds pretty sweet in an empty living room.<\/span><\/p>\n

LVL UP, \u201cStoned Alone\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Two minutes of trapped-inside-your-head madness, expressed with maximum melodic joy by the dearly departed New York band. (For a softer touch, try Lost in the Country<\/em><\/span><\/a>, the new album from LVL UP\u2019s Dave Benton, a.k.a. Trace Mountains.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Kid Cudi, \u201cDay N Nite\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Take it back to 2008, when the future was full of promise and the lonely stoners out there still had a shot at resuming their social lives at some point. It\u2019s okay if you find yourself relating a little more than usual to \u201cMr. Solo Dolo\u201d these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gorillaz, \u201cAll Alone\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A beat that\u2019s perfect for those moments when you\u2019re so bored that you feel like you\u2019re about to start bouncing off the walls, plus three vocalists (Damon Albarn, Roots Manuva, and Martina Topley-Bird) who sound like they\u2019re on different planets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wilco, \u201cHow to Fight Loneliness\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff Tweedy has some advice: \u201cShine your teeth \u2019til meaningless\/Sharpen them with lies.\u201d Okay, maybe he\u2019s not being completely sincere, but those gently descending acoustic chords are a genuine gift to anyone feeling stressed out.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Joni Mitchell, \u201cAmelia\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Joni Mitchell takes a long drive by herself in the desert on this heartbreaker from 1976\u2019s Hejira<\/em>. She searches for the meaning of life in the sky and confides in Amelia Earhart\u2019s ghost before giving up and checking into a motel. It\u2019s one of the best songs ever about how isolating the life of a creative artist can be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roy Orbison, \u201cOnly the Lonely\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Orbison raised the lonely-heart pop song to the level of the sublime on this 1960 classic. No wonder it\u2019s the song Bruce Springsteen cited by name when he wanted to set the mood in the opening lines of \u201cThunder Road\u201d 15 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Ocean, \u201cSolo\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hell on earth and the city\u2019s on fire,\u201d Frank Ocean sings sweetly on this Blonde<\/em> highlight. His empty-bed lament sounds better than ever in the hell-on-earth known as the summer of 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nico, \u201cWrap Your Troubles in Dreams\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nico really knew how to convey that desperately lonely feeling when she sang. This song from 1967\u2019s Chelsea Girl<\/em>, written for her by Lou Reed, offers a nicely ambiguous note of relief: \u201cWrap your troubles in dreams\/Send them all away\/Put them in a bottle, and across the seas they\u2019ll stay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Carole King, \u201cSo Far Away\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDoesn\u2019t anybody stay in one place anymore?\u201d Well, yeah, that\u2019s kind of the problem \u2014 we\u2019re all stuck in place. This song is still an all-time tearjerker if you\u2019re missing anyone\u2019s face at your door.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitski, \u201cLonesome Love\u201c<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A snappy goodbye to an ex who leaves you feeling lonelier than you were before you saw them, with a particularly choice bridge: \u201c\u2018Cause nobody butters me up like you\/And nobody fucks me like me.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Deerhunter, \u201cAgoraphobia\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Deerhunter\u2019s 2010 album Microcastle<\/em> opens with a minute and a half of beautiful guitar distortion, followed by this creepy yet tender plea for someone to lock the singer up in a concrete cell.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galaxie 500, \u201cSnowstorm\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Well, I\u2019m looking at the snowflakes, and they all look the same\/And the clouds are going by me, they\u2019re playing some kind of game.\u201d This 1989 song makes being snowed in sound dreamily romantic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonard Cohen, \u201cFamous Blue Raincoat\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Cohen\u2019s catalog is full of last-call confessions, but none hits with quite the same \u201cfour in the morning, the end of December\u201d intensity as this 1971 song in the form of a letter to the Romeo in a raincoat who broke up his last relationship. He\u2019s still smarting from what happened between them: \u201cI guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hop Along, \u201cHappy to See Me\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the band drops out so Frances Quinlan can sing unaccompanied about sorting through mixed feelings while listening to the radio and cruising weird videos on YouTube. (The one she ends up watching was recorded by someone\u2019s dad at 4 a.m., the same time as Leonard Cohen wrote his letter.) It\u2019s the quietest moment on 2015\u2019s Painted Shut<\/em>, and one of the most powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neil Young, \u201cOn the Beach\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The entire second side of 1974\u2019s On the Beach<\/em> is Neil at his loneliest. It peaks with this song\u2019s zonked-out, alienated blues. \u201cI need a crowd of people\/But I can\u2019t face them day-to-day\u201d resonates even more in the era of the socially distanced seashore. <\/span><\/p>\n

Low, \u201cI Remember\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Four minutes of keyboard drone and eerie memory from the Midwestern masters of minimalism, off 1999\u2019s Secret Name<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rob Mazurek, \u201cWaxing Crescent #1\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hopefully you\u2019re breathing a little easier than you were before you began this playlist. Ease those last cares away with this ambient cornet piece from 2014\u2019s exceedingly soothing Alternate Moon Cycles<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Loneliness has always had a place in pop music, from \u201cAre you lonesome tonight?\u201d to \u201cMy loneliness is killing me.\u201d What else are songs, if not a way for artists to reach out across the vast stretches of space and time that separate them from their listeners? A great song can make you feel less alone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 21:36:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}