I'm in the midst of reading Ander Monson's I Will Take the Answer. One of my favorite essays so far is "The Sadnesses of March," which recounts he and his wife's 64-song tournament of sad songs, which went viral.
As he relates, for some of us we really dig sad songs for a number of various reasons. I won't give away the details of the essay, but it's a fine piece of non-fiction.
Mr. Monson is also an alumnus, like me, of The Capstone, the University of Alabama. Roll Tide, sir, Roll Tide.
The purveyors of the tournament picked songs from a certain time period, and you can look forward to my own post that informs folks of some sad songs everyone should enjoy. I also like sad songs although I do not share Mr. Monson's love of Morrissey.
But to get to this post, they picked "Here Comes a Regular" from The Replacements. I get why they chose that tune, but I think it has stiff competition from this song from Let It Be.
Unfortunately, kids these days won't get the reference.
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