# Raw songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492 "2011-03-13T02:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/1 "2011-03-13T02:54:11Z")
Sometimes the pain is obvious. What are some more example? [Thrown Down](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXDxgYspzFA) [Layla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUdlaLWSVM&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/2 "2011-03-13T03:06:01Z")
[Positivey 4th Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOP6R3JvNHg) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/3 "2011-03-13T03:53:37Z")
[Every Little Bit](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVM1cfCNWV8) [Waltz #2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLb33LZX4dc) ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/4 "2011-03-13T05:21:27Z")
Mink DeVille: “Little girl, little girl You know you move me. Move me so much I bring you home my pay. Little girl, little girl It should move you too when you see your good man broke down this way.” (RIP Willie) ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/5 "2011-03-13T05:50:56Z")
[_Goodnight, Irene_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3mj1E8LSU) (Can’t find a YouTube video for _The Loch Tay Boat Song_, but that’s another one and oozes pain.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/6 "2011-03-13T07:22:43Z")
Buddy Guy’s [Baby Please don’t Leave Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tdlmx_GO4) from _Sweet Tea_. IMO it’s his best album, partly due to the intentionally raw sound he sought during recording. The whole album is raw, but this track is just fucking _on fire_. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/7 "2011-03-13T07:27:42Z")
Portishead - [Glorybox](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF-GvT8Clnk) - Sure, it’s “trip-hop”, which normally aims for a cool-sounding beats over emotional outpouring - but on this track, Beth Gibbons’s demanding, wailing voice reminds everyone exactly what _that_ feels like, whatever the hell _that_ is. [Sour Times](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-TqR7ZzaZQ), indeed. Rilo Kiley - [Does He Love You?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfn2Y7ghWM) - Similar to the Portishead track, but approaching it instead from an American country/indie perspective, rather than an English trip-hop one. Ryan Adams - [Come Pick Me Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM0mjukDGRw) - I really may as well have just put damn near the whole _Heartbreaker_ album. Sigh. Ryan Adams is oft (and somewhat justly) maligned for the fact that for a period of time it seemed he was personally releasing more albums than most record companies do with all their artists. A lot of it was interesting but not quite there, so I like to reckon him to a sketch artist. But I think on this album, he shows why we continue to check out everything he does. It’s alt-country at its most lovesick, with all the highs and lows that follow. Bright Eyes - [Poison Oak](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjHACWmO0jQ) - Unabashedly melodramatic, a Bright Eyes track can be either unbelievably affecting, laughably pathetic, or both. On this one he reins it in a bit more, allowing for a powerful climax. Burial - [Archangel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlEkvbRmfrA) - Burial is an English producer/dj/electronic music artist/whateverthefuck who works in a murky, downbeat sort of sound template that sounds like the sort of thing that would soundtrack you being alone in a phone booth at night when its raining. Here he adds vocals that are pitch-shifted, stretched, and otherwise distorted over his characteristic beats, and the results are haunting. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/8 "2011-03-13T15:25:46Z")
> [@Peanuthead](#): > > Mink DeVille…(RIP Willie) Wow, I didn’t know Willie had died. What a loss. If anyone is unfamiliar with Mink DeVille, you owe it to yourself to check them out. Back on topic: [I Want You - Elvis Costello](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6sgsRAeSbM&feature=related) [Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - Nirvana](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKT1P7x_Pzo) [Piece of my Heart - Janis Joplin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVfoT1r8Ay4) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/9 "2011-03-13T18:13:36Z")
Me and Bobby McGee–Kristopherson and/or Joplin The Last Thing on my Mind–Tom Paxton So Long Marianne–Leonard Cohen ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/10 "2011-03-13T18:55:45Z")
The White Stripes cover of [Jolene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4rYaLBUpLA). I suspect that the proper course of action would be to simply to slap Jolene in the face, but regardless, the song is full of emotion. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/11 "2011-03-13T19:09:33Z")
The Replacements, [Unsatisfied.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_NzPt8YyD8). I can’t think of anything pithy to say, this song is just what I think of when someone says “raw.” ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/12 "2011-03-13T21:27:45Z")
Richard Thompson does loads: - [A Poisoned Heart And A Twisted Memory](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_LDcyPqAgw) [Shoot Out The Lights](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdvbKuzXpIA&feature=related) [Can’t Win](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtuxLq7IMsw) [Put It There Pal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5GshY7CEEA) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/13 "2011-03-14T13:17:05Z")
[Concrete Blond - Joey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpTcvSn8HQ). ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/14 "2011-03-14T15:19:57Z")
[Angie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RTWzsGO4Zc) ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/15 "2011-03-14T16:19:21Z")
[Stand Tall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCc8wyBBsbA) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/16 "2011-03-14T16:27:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > [Angie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RTWzsGO4Zc) [Angie](http://www.mydfz.com/Paxton/lyrics/angie.htm) redux ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/17 "2011-03-14T16:32:46Z")
Falling to Pieces, The Script. I also love the reggae dancehall remake of it by Angele Smith. There are countless more, of course. I am a sucker for the ‘raw’ songs. But since I just heard Falling to Pieces, that one is sticking out for me. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/18 "2011-03-14T16:38:57Z")
“Baby It’s You”, especially the version by [Smith](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4kof2_smith-baby-its-you_music). Most of _John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band_, plus “[Cold Turkey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnNEIVR9EM)”. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/19 "2011-03-14T17:38:29Z")
John Prine’s “Lake Marie” - especially the live version. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492/20 "2011-03-14T17:58:42Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > The White Stripes cover of [Jolene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4rYaLBUpLA). This was the first that came to mind and the one I came in to mention. No YouTube access at work for me, but I’d throw in “16, 16, Six” by The Drips and (this sounds like a joke, it’s not) Mariachi El Bronx’s cover of “I Would Die 4 U” by his purple majesty. Anything that Matt Caughthran is singing tends to go that way. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raw-songs/574492.md?page=2)