# Recommend me some great slow numbers since 2000 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803 "2016-04-01T03:50:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/21 "2016-04-10T12:41:11Z")
A couple more: Mylene Farmer - [Nous Souviendrons Nous](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_DPP69Qts) [Dernier Sourire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aScfh3m70e0) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/22 "2016-04-10T13:47:18Z")
[Reason Why](https://youtu.be/hxZnAFnYKJE?list=PLxfKU2w4-bRLXlpkSZL2dHgTkr4rCKKBe) - Rachel Yamagata [Don’t Fall Apart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJVfgias37k) - Royal Wood [The Blues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhS7y1iusRw) - Switchfoot ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/23 "2016-04-10T15:21:08Z")
I have a Rachel Yamagata CD that just gathers dust ☹ Bought id 'cause I liked her name and while there is nothing to object to, in fact a lot of her stuff is ‘nice’ it just doesn’t seem to stick. That link^ kicked off a playlist that has been running for a while and a lot of the songs are fine but don’t seem very memorable. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/24 "2016-04-10T15:33:20Z")
For fans of Dashboard - [Public Transit Blues](https://soundtracktosleepdc.bandcamp.com/track/public-transit-blues-ke) by Karen Estrella. Although it is more medium-slow and I only internally categorize it as slow due to its acousticness. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/25 "2016-04-10T15:38:18Z")
Another medium but downbeat song from Bay Faction: unfortunately the album cover is NSFW so I am breaking the link: Sasquatch .22: https ://www. youtube. com /watch?v=SJm1HG595-A ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/26 "2016-04-10T21:11:13Z")
“Put Your Lights On,” by Everlast with Santana. _(Whoops! Came out in 1999. Won a Grammy in 2000, though.)_ ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/27 "2016-04-11T04:54:58Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > “Put Your Lights On,” by Everlast with Santana. > > _(Whoops! Came out in 1999. Won a Grammy in 2000, though.)_ But no Rob Thomas, right?!?! ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/28 "2016-04-13T00:08:15Z")
If they don’t need to be in English, here are a few in other languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FDRLXaf4gQ&index=42&list=PLA34046A4B9425E66 https://www.youtube.com/embed/OKNlG9yWW6w?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLA34046A4B9425E66 https://www.youtube.com/embed/61uVHd8OL6Y?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLA34046A4B9425E66 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/29 "2016-04-13T00:20:45Z")
This lovely song by Danielle Brisebois was just thrown away in the background of the film “As Good as it Gets”, and as far as I know, was never released as a single. https://www.youtube.com/embed/F65rNx5PrO8?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLEBE3EA5E63170598 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/30 "2016-04-13T07:51:42Z")
Gillian Welch (with Dave Rawlings), [Hard Times](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k35haKwqY14). ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/31 "2016-04-13T13:53:30Z")
> [@Myglaren](#): > > I have a Rachel Yamagata CD that just gathers dust ☹ > Bought id 'cause I liked her name and while there is nothing to object to, in fact a lot of her stuff is ‘nice’ it just doesn’t seem to stick. > > That link^ kicked off a playlist that has been running for a while and a lot of the songs are fine but don’t seem very memorable. She’s one of those artists that are good in small doses, but over a whole album it all kind of sounds the same. I call it the “Tom Petty Effect.” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/32 "2016-04-16T13:04:00Z")
If you’re a songwrier, I want to mention again one of the clips I posted above, and comment on it. Its “Cafe Robinson” by Marie Jo Therio, a French Canadian singer from New Brunswick. She composes and sings and accompanies heself, in songs that are asymmetrical. That is, they are not plotted out to fit into a rigid geometrical form with a fixed end, but just wander on as long as the singer still has something to express, meandering according to the feeling the music evokes. Cafe Robinson goes on for over 6 minutes, letting the feeling dictate the pacing, rather than the other way around. This is a style that is typical in soukous music of West Africa, in which it is common for a track to go on for 6 or 8 minutes, because the artists still have something to say, and are not constrained to get the thing over with in the rigid Sony-imposed three minutes. If you write music, this might be an interesting thing to play with. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fC3eUxbMsrc/hqdefault.jpg ""Le café Robinson" - Marie-Jo Thério") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC3eUxbMsrc) ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/33 "2016-04-18T22:30:20Z")
[quote=“jtur88, post:32, topic:750803”] If you’re a songwrier, I want to mention again one of the clips I posted above, and comment on it. Its “Cafe Robinson” by Marie Jo Therio, a French Canadian singer from New Brunswick. She composes and sings and accompanies heself, in songs that are asymmetrical. That is, they are not plotted out to fit into a rigid geometrical form with a fixed end, but just wander on as long as the singer still has something to express, meandering according to the feeling the music evokes. Cafe Robinson goes on for over 6 minutes, letting the feeling dictate the pacing, rather than the other way around. This is a style that is typical in soukous music of West Africa, in which it is common for a track to go on for 6 or 8 minutes, because the artists still have something to say, and are not constrained to get the thing over with in the rigid Sony-imposed three minutes. If you write music, this might be an interesting thing to play with. [/QUOTE] Thanks, that's cool! ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803/34 "2016-04-19T07:25:25Z")
[quote=“jtur88, post:32, topic:750803”] If you’re a songwrier, I want to mention again one of the clips I posted above, and comment on it. Its “Cafe Robinson” by Marie Jo Therio, a French Canadian singer from New Brunswick. She composes and sings and accompanies heself, in songs that are asymmetrical. That is, they are not plotted out to fit into a rigid geometrical form with a fixed end, but just wander on as long as the singer still has something to express, meandering according to the feeling the music evokes. Cafe Robinson goes on for over 6 minutes, letting the feeling dictate the pacing, rather than the other way around. This is a style that is typical in soukous music of West Africa, in which it is common for a track to go on for 6 or 8 minutes, because the artists still have something to say, and are not constrained to get the thing over with in the rigid Sony-imposed three minutes. If you write music, this might be an interesting thing to play with. [/QUOTE] Ah, very nice, I’ve been looking for music of that kind, composed through rather than following some standard verse-refrain scheme… Gesendet von meinem D5503 mit Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-great-slow-numbers-since-2000/750803.md?page=1)