Inspired by Swiss Adam's excellent Isolation Mixes, here's ten songs about keeping your distance. I make no apologies for the fact that the Number One song appeared here just a couple of weeks ago.
10. Teri Nunn - Dancing In Isolation
Stop dancing in isolation
9. The Hoodoo Gurus - Isolation
You from me isolation!
Quarantine, Isolation! Refugee, isolation!
Apathy, isolation!
8. Toto - Isolation
I'm stranded here in a dream and there's no ticket back
I feel a cold wind blowin', my future looks black
7. John Lennon - Isolation
The sun will never disappear,
but the world may not have many years.
Isolation.
(I'm a fan of the Mercury Rev version.)
6. Joy Division - Isolation
In fear every day, every evening
5. John Mellencamp - The Isolation of Mister
I always felt like sorrow was a lesson
I always felt I needed to feel the pain
I thought happiness was a transgression
And I just took it as it came
I never wanted to say too much
To other people I did not understand
4. The Chameleons - Soul In Isolation
Oh, when you think of it, when you think of it
We're all souls in isolation
Alive in here, I'm alive in here
I'm alive in here
3. Iggy Pop - Isolation
Got a lot to do
Got a lot to say
Got a life to live
Here I stand
In isolation
2. The Darling Buds - Isolation
Silence
Does it ever get that good?
1. Warren Zevon - Splendid Isolation
Cool live version, different to the album version I posted recently. Just for variety.
Don't want to wake up with no one beside me
Don't want to take up with nobody new
Don't want nobody coming by without calling first
Don't want nothing to do with you
