What are some of your favourite melancholy songs?

[knowbuddy]

Songs I feel are melancholy always seem to boost my mood. Here are a few of my faves in no particular order. I know it sounds morbid but some of these would be perfect for my funeral - which I hope happens when I'm really, really old, so no deathwish at the moment

Roxy Music - More than This
U2 - Heaven and Hell
Concrete Blonde or Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
Concrete Blonde - True
Velvet Revolver - Loving the Alien
Lynyrd Skynyrd or Shinedown - Simple Man
Neverending White Lights ft. Dallas Green - Always
The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy
Force MDs - Tender Love
Notorious B.I.G. ft. 112 - Sky's The Limit

Add

The Church - Under the Milky Way
The Housemartins - Build

 

[Reggie Jected]

No Rain- Blind melon

Ain't No Sunshine- anybody
Tom's Diner- Suzanne vega
Hallellujah- Rufus Wainright
Boulevard of broken dreams- Green day
Sideshow- blue magic
Shame- Matchbox 20
Sittin by the dock of the bay- Otis Redding
Paint it black- Rolling Stones
Mr Brightside- The Killers
Ocean Breathes Salty- Modest Mouse

Im getting carried away...

 

[SofiasMami]

Hi-
These might be more bittersweet than melancholy:

Across the Universe by The Beatles
Ave Maria
One Tree Hill by U2


Teresa

 

[aspeckofdust]

I love me some Concrete Blonde.

A few for me...

Concrete Blonde - Dance Along The Edge
Type O Negative - Anesthesia
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Ministry - Should Have Known Better

 

[knowbuddy]

No Rain- Blind melon

Ain't No Sunshine- anybody
Tom's Diner- Sombody vega
Hallellujah- Rufus Wainright
Boulevard of broken dreams- Green day
Sideshow- blue notes
Shame- Matchbox 20
Sittin by the dock of the bay- Otis Redding
Paint it black- Rolling Stones
Mr Brightside- The Killers
Ocean Breathes Salty- Modest Mouse

Im getting carried away...

Yeah Bill Withers (same guy that did Lean On Me) is just so evocative, Ain't No Sunshine's a classic. I love Paint it Black. 3, 5, 6, 9 & 10 I'm unfamiliar with, I'll have to check them out.

 

[Reggie Jected]

Yea, I figured that was what this thread was about so I tried for some of the more obscure ones, enjoy.

 

[knowbuddy]

I love me some Concrete Blonde.

A few for me...

Concrete Blonde - Dance Along The Edge
Type O Negative - Anesthesia
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Ministry - Should Have Known Better

Yeah I kinda wish CB would have extended their comeback tour to Canada - the first album is one of a handful of albums where I love every song. Ministry didn't they have an album called The Land of Rape and Honey? I'm not familiar with A Perfect Circle, heard of Type O - but never listened to em. More stuff to peruse...

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Hi-
These might be more bittersweet than melancholy:

Across the Universe by The Beatles
Ave Maria
One Tree Hill by U2


Teresa

I love One Tree Hill, one of my fave U2 songs, Ave Maria I think of weddings where cutiepie flower girls throw roses. I'm not familar with that Beatles song, have to check it out.

 

[aspeckofdust]

Yeah I kinda wish CB would have extended their comeback tour to Canada - the first album is one of a handful of albums where I love every song. Ministry didn't they have an album called The Land of Rape and Honey? I'm not familiar with A Perfect Circle, heard of Type O - but never listened to em. More stuff to peruse...

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Yeah, Ministry did have an album by that title. The song I listed is from their first album called With Sympathy.

 

[Dessa]

Creep!
Between the bars by Elliott Smith
Other side of the world by KT Tunstall
Last request by Paolo Nutini
ATWA by SOAD
Hurt by Johnny Cash

 

[Reggie Jected]

the stone temple pilots' creep or radiohead's?

 

[Dessa]

RADIOHEAD

 

[Pheenix]

Agalloch - Desolation Song
Agalloch - Tomorrow Will Never Come
Agalloch - In the Shadow of our Pale Companion (I really recommend you check this out, it's great!)
Botch - Swimming the Channel vs. Driving the Chunnel
Wolves in the Throne Room - Behold the Vastness and Sorrow
I Hate Myself - Caught in a Flood with the Captain of the Cheerleading Squad (this is seriously the socially awkward anthem to end them all)
I Hate Myself - This is not the Tenkaichi Budokai

Aaaand I don't wanna spend more time writing these now.

 

[Riverman]

Gilbert O'Sullivan: Alone Again (Naturally)
Nick Cave: Watching Alice (+ a bunch of other Cave songs)
Tom Waits: Dirt in the Ground (+ a bunch of other Waits songs)
Tindersticks: If She's Torn
Pogues. Rainy Night in Soho
Triffids: Wide Open Road

Just to name a few...

 

[paulo]

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[knowbuddy]

the stone temple pilots' creep or radiohead's?

Both STP's and Radiohead's version of Creep are amazing.

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Creep!
Between the bars by Elliott Smith
Other side of the world by KT Tunstall
Last request by Paolo Nutini
ATWA by SOAD
Hurt by Johnny Cash

Are SOAD System of a Down? Hurt sounds like when he was on heroin. Interesting choice of genres.

 

[Adrolak]

Well almost all songs from Katatonia.
Woods of ypres - Ghosts of Summers Past
Woods of ypres - Allure of the Earth
Nest - almost all of it, it's also my thinking music/solitude music.
Sol invictus - In the days to come
Collapse under the empire, which oddly enough, is also very happy music, depending on my mood
Same thing as CUTE for The Best Pessimist
Death Cab for Cutie - Someday you will be loved
Hurt by Johnny Cash ( actually, it was crystal meth, not heroin when he wrote that song )
That's just some of it.

 

[knowbuddy]

Well almost all songs from Katatonia.
Woods of ypres - Ghosts of Summers Past
Woods of ypres - Allure of the Earth
Nest - almost all of it, it's also my thinking music/solitude music.
Sol invictus - In the days to come
Collapse under the empire, which oddly enough, is also very happy music, depending on my mood
Same thing as CUTE for The Best Pessimist
Death Cab for Cutie - Someday you will be loved
Hurt by Johnny Cash ( actually, it was crystal meth, not heroin when he wrote that song )
That's just some of it.

Cool, dang he was into Chrissy can't picture him tweakin

 

[PurpleDays]

I like everyone's choices. Mine would be anything by Laura Marling, DCFC, dido, regina spektor, radiohead, mumford + sons, joshua radin...

 

[Pheenix]

I don't quite get the little Johnny Cash talk here, did he pick up that song when he was on meth? Because he didn't write it.

 

[cumulus.james]

If you want melancholy try these

Avalanche by Leonard Cohen
In a lonely place by New Order
Stranger than kindness by Nick Cave and the bad seeds
The things you said by Depeche Mode
Street Spirit by Radiohead
Knives out by Radiohead
Keep talking by Pink Floyd
De Profundis (Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow) by Dead Can Dance
To day I died again by Simple Minds

And most importantly te most depressing song I ever heard is…

Diane by Gravenhurst