Meagan Dreams, Episode 14: Solitude, etc. 10.1.2024
Join me for this week's installment of Meagan Dreams as I play and discuss songs that refer to or are about solitude and its many aspects - positive, negative and in between. You can listen to this show online at eardrumbuzz.net - I’ll be live on air from 6 PM to 9 PM Pacific time tonight, Tuesday, October 1st.
“Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.” - Roger Rosenblatt, (1994), “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”
“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” - Carl Jung Flyer image and design are by Patrick Dickson.
Meagan Dreams is live on Tuesdays at 6pm Pacific time on Eardrum Buzz Radio at www.eardrumbuzz.net
Tracklist:
The KLF - Alone Again with the Dawn Coming Up
Red Sparowes - Alone and Unaware, the Landscape Was Transformed in Front of Our Eyes
movement - Solitude (Adelaide, AUS band - request from Greg Peters - from a collection of demos)
MM welcome and spoken break
The Folk Implosion - Natural One
Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss
Sinead O’Connor - I am Stretched on Your Grave
MM spoken break
Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself
Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight
Trevor Something - Leave Me Alone
The Saints - (I’m) Stranded
MM spoken break
The Cure - Alone (Live in Riga, Latvia)
This Mortal Coil - Alone
Spiritualized - Always Together With You
M83 - You, Appearing
MM spoken break
Fischerspooner - Natural Disaster
M83 (Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation) - Solitude
Beastie Boys - Instant Death
Fiona Apple - Better than Fine
Alvvays - Easy on Your Own?
MM spoken break
The Motels - Only the Lonely
The Cure - How Beautiful You Are
Joy Division - Isolation
New Order - Leave Me Alone (2015 remaster)
MM spoken break
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone (live)
The Pretenders - I Go to Sleep
Slowdive - Sleep (2020 Remaster)
Andy Stott - Sleepless
MM spoken break & farewell
Depeche Mode - Only When I Lose Myself
A Place to Bury Strangers - I Need You
My Bloody Valentine - Come In Alone (Alternate Version)
Rowland S. Howard - Sleep Alone
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