i think BBF meant nobody could be arsed actually organising a meet-up when the chance arose. they just let it slip away, another opportunity wasted. don't think it was quite code for 'axl never showed up' more like 'axl never decreed we'd meet so nobody else bothered either'.

lose hope. you're just wasting your energy.
they don't care.
they don't have any new music.
axl doesn't want the hassle & doesn't have the material.

oh yea I Want You by Elvis Costello is the winner. it's horrible but fucking the greatest song ever at the same time.

not even my old roommate could ruin that for me. fucking countless times he'd come in about 2/3/4 in the morning after another failed romantic endeavour & ask me to put that song on for him. it & leonard cohen. eventually i moved out & gave him a bunch of my cd's so he could continue to stew in his misery.
good times.

got my ticket for the belfast show p excited, but p expensive

tbh there are near as many boss songs that i can't fucking stand as that i fucking love. i mean for every racing in the streets there's an adam raised a cain, y'know? but when he's great he's fucking unbelievable, one of the best. Nebraska? come on! his first handful of albums, tho a few are a mixed bag, are by & large simply amazing. Darkness is a weird one, it's like half the best shit ever, half horrible crap but when it's good it's unfuckwithable - like Racing in the Streets.

i've never seen him before & seeing him open-air in belfast is something i didn't wanna miss cause i know he brings it live. really looking forward to it.

i would actually like a lot more of his songs if they didn't have saxophone solo's in them. Born to Run is ruined for me by that damn sax. i really fucking hate that shit!

jesus how could i forget Townes?!

Nothin'
Rake
Poncho & Lefty
Waiting Around to Die
Highway Kind
Snowin on Raton
St John the Gambler
Tecumseh Valley

he's the greatest.

^ great shout
my fave hank # is actually i'll never get out of this world alive. i find him weird cause he is depressing but also funny at the same time, y'know? but yea that is a sad fucking choice alright.

yea i take umbrage w/Fake Plastic Trees too - a song about boob jobs can't be considered one of the saddest ever. even RH aren't THAT depressing. tho i'm sure they've got a handful of runners in the 'dreariest song ever' comp.

the first thing(s) i thought of:
Curt Boettcher - It's a Sad Old World
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind
Patsy Cline - Fall to Pieces
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
The Replacements - Sadly Beautiful
Son House - Louise McGhee
Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
Robert Johnson - Love in Vain
Big Star - Holocaust
Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos
Crazy Horse - I Don't Want to Talk About It
Neil Young - Expecting to Fly
Neil Young - Oh, Lonesome Me
Elliott Smith - The Last Hour
Daniel Johnston - Walking the Cow