My Favorite Album - Der Kaurich

Album: Love is Hell Artist: Ryan Adams Release: May 3, 2004

Track Listing:

1."Political Scientist" 4:33

2."Afraid Not Scared" 4:13

3."This House Is Not for Sale" 3:53

4."Anybody Wanna Take Me Home" 5:31

5."Love Is Hell" 3:19

6."Wonderwall" Noel Gallagher 4:09

7."The Shadowlands" 5:18

8."World War 24" 4:17

9."Avalanche" 5:09

10."My Blue Manhattan" 2:23

11."Please Do Not Let Me Go" 3:37

12."City Rain, City Streets" 3:49

13."I See Monsters" 3:57

14."English Girls Approximately" 5:42

15."Thank You Louise" 2:52

16."Hotel Chelsea Nights" 5:10

“An utterly gloomungous affair with barely a crack of light piercing the lowering clouds of misery.” - Uncut 2004. 

This is a pretty apt description of the album, which is part of the reason I love it so.

It is almost Love is Hell season. Music, for me, is tied to a time and place. Love is Hell is a winter album saved for the first big snow in Michigan. Still to this day I can remember listening to Political Scientist while walking to the bus stop. Sight lines are barely 3 feet in front of you as the swirling greyish white that is Michigan winter surrounds you. The sun is barely breaking through the clouds. The wind is blowing just enough to remind you it is bone chilling cold. The album meets the weather realities of winter with tales of how love does not work out. It meets harsh weather with the one of the harsh realities of life, that relationships do not typically work. So give the album a spin as the temperature drops and your heart starts to cool on love.



Der Kaurich is a political activist, music lover, and Tigers fan living in Baltimore.



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