I am giving serious consideration to less-than-desirable money making options (hey, Kathleen Hanna did it!), a wee bit tipsy, and these are the three songs that I think are the most beautiful ever and I just played them in a row.


"Dear John" by Nice (1991)

Lyrics like a short story in song form.


"Cattle and Cane" by The Go-Betweens (1983)

The notoriously difficult time signature gives both a nostalgic quality as well as a timeless one.


"Golden Brown" by The Stranglers (1982)

In between beating up The Clash and doing lots of drugs, they wrote this song and scored a #2 hit on the British top 40. It has a very English, traditional sensibility about it – a bit reminiscent of The Pentangle (who I am also a huge fan of). Plus this video is fucking class.