21 mixes taggedtorch songs

A tribute to the sad fate of Joan Harris...
(including the most sexist song ever written)

10 tracks from Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Midnight In Paris (2011), Radio Days (1987), Anything Else (2003) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).

8 tracks featuring The Decemberists, The Pogues, and Leonard Cohen. Image of Fay Wray.

Twenty six nostalgic and beautiful vocal Jazz standards and torch songs from the past including music by Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Chet Baker.

A moody mix of atmospheric electronica-suffused pop and downbeat modern-day torch songs.

When you're in the mood for martinis and and a string of pearls, these tracks won't disappoint. Including music by Dinah Washington, Anita O'Day, and Ben Webster.

10 songs, 38 minutes. A short soundtrack for those weird times when you find yourself saying, "Well, they can't all be winners." Includes songs by Lykke Li, Danger Mouse, Luke Vibert, and many other grumbling grumblers.

10 songs I'd be listening to if I were a housewife in the 1950s, sitting on my couch in the dark with a cigarette, a glass of vodka and a box of Kleenex.

I watch French films to learn words we never communicate.

At midnight, a heartbroken man walks into a basement lounge. Orders a Scotch. Takes a seat. The lights dim, the music starts, and the sultry, smokey sounds of a torch singer fill the air. And so begins a night of smoldering sexuality, of slow seduction.

an hilarious and in no way ironic compilation by the Rose sisters

Sixteen tracks including music by Beirut, Dark Dark Dark, and Golem.