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Moods
Austere
Overview
Albums
Songs
Austere Song Highlights
Enjoy the Silence
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
Personal Jesus
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Tim Brymn
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Nina Simone
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Bert Williams
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Hans Zimmer
Nina Simone
Everything in Its Right Place
Radiohead
Radiohead
Chelsea Hotel No. 2
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Way to Blue
Nick Drake
Nick Drake
Just a Gigolo
Julius Brammer
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Irving Caesar
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Leonello Casucci
Thelonious Monk Quartet
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye
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James Nyx, Jr.
Grover Washington, Jr.
Frankie
Mississippi John Hurt
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Traditional
Mississippi John Hurt
Bright Size Life
Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
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Bob Moses
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Jaco Pastorius
My Black Mama, Pt. 1
Son House
Kometenmelodie 2
Ralf Hütter
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Florian Schneider
Kraftwerk
My Man's Gone Now
George Gershwin
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DuBose Heyward
Nina Simone
Mojo Hand
Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
Fly on the Windscreen
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
All Along the Watchtower
Bob Dylan
Michael Hedges
She's Not There
Rod Argent
The Zombies
Packin' Trunk Blues
Lead Belly
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Alan Lomax
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John A. Lomax
Lead Belly
The Court of the Crimson King/The Return of the Fire Witch/The Dance of the
Robert Fripp
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Ian McDonald
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Peter Sinfield
King Crimson
Rid of Me
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
Tom Dooley
Doc Watson
In My Place
Guy Berryman
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Jonny Buckland
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Will Champion
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Chris Martin
Coldplay
Do You Love Me?
Martyn Casey
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Nick Cave
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
The Bottle
Gil Scott-Heron
Brian Jackson
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Gil Scott-Heron
Nothing Ever Was, Anyway
Annette Peacock
Paul Bley
Erb
Jim Hall
Lee Konitz
Lost!
Guy Berryman
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Jonny Buckland
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Will Champion
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Chris Martin
Coldplay
I Loves You, Porgy
George Gershwin
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Ira Gershwin
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DuBose Heyward
Miles Davis
All of Me
Gerald Marks
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Seymour Simons
Lester Young-Teddy Wilson Quartet
Countless Blues
Milt Gabler
Kansas City Six
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Lester Young
Showroom Dummies
Ralf Hütter
Kraftwerk
Thelonious
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Sound and Vision
David Bowie
David Bowie
Devil Got My Woman
Skip James
Skip James
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Skip James
Skip James
He Ain't Comin' Home No More
Angelo Badalamenti
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John Clifford
Nina Simone
Walking Blues
Robert Johnson
Son House
My Black Mama, Pt. 1
Son House
Son House
Trane's Blues
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
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Miles Davis Quintet
Atlantic City
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Special Rider Blues
Son House
Son House
Criss-Cross
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Autobahn
Ralf Hütter
Kraftwerk
The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie
David Bowie
Humph
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk
Devil in the Bayou
Harry Choates
Harry Choates
Stella by Starlight
Ned Washington
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Victor Young
Joe Pass
Which Side Are You On?
Traditional
Almanac Singers
A Rose for Emily
Rod Argent
The Zombies
Etched Headplate
Burial
Burial
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