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I've put a load of these onto a playlist on spotify, and then from there their similar songs algorithm has offered up
Hobart Paving - St Etienne
Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
Your Ghost - Kristin Hersh
Atmosphere - Joy Division (those bells make me cry on their own, it's the most beautiful sound ever recorded)
St Swithuns Day - Billy Bragg
A Pair of Brown Eyes - Pogues
Where do you go to my lovely - Peter Sarstedt
- I now have headphones on, a glass and half a bottle of Jim Beam. Thanks STW 🙁
Think I need to practise posting video.
if youtube, just below the video is a share button which gives you a link to copy. Put this in directly, and the video appears.
There's something about this song that does it for me
Marvin, always Marvin
Ska/Rocksteady can mix the cheeriest tunes with the most depressing lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lf-LUMtk3k
Der Leiermann by Schubert played on guitar by Charlie James will trump anything you can mention imo.
Most of Pavements Slanted and Enchanted has a beautiful melancholy. Absolutely resonates far too often.
Leonard Cohen should do the trick.
He's an amateur. If you want the real stuff, go for Nick Cave. Like Cohen but a better voice and less cheerful.
As mentioned by theotherjonv
Most of my YouTube lists are a bit meloncholy
https://youtu.be/Z7h5lXNPhjk?list=RDMMZfW4-nP2G1Q
https://youtu.be/9t2paMM0QT8?list=RDMMZfW4-nP2G1Q
https://youtu.be/GWJ0xr0Zv0Q?list=PL4TRmp0diKHKAWV7WT-VHShgASpQZe0Yv
https://youtu.be/bhLr2agrf0c?list=PLQePFSeKrIK40EgjHixqY_gLH3PoVZ44d
Der Leiermann by Schubert played on guitar by Charlie James
Thanks for that now I will have to start practicing.
Pretty much anything from Jason Molina
Or a spot of Codeine?
Just been listening to Der Leiermann from Schubert's Winterreisse. The definition of melancholy.
... Barber's Adagio for Strings
Still very sad but try to keep your hands below shoulder hight when it drops
Hobart Paving – St Etienne
One of my top melancholy picks too.
Here's another track that's always given me the feels...
And you'd have to be very brave to cover Mazzy Star's Fade Into You, but J Mascis more than does it justice. More melancholy than the original?
And the whole of Dylan's Blood on the Tracks.
Anything by Phoebe Bridgers, who is awesome by the way, but Funeral and Killer would be a good start...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jcq5NlYz1PU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=psZuC10Oa4E
'you never knew me' by Magazine.
It's probably one of my favourite songs of all time
That tempo...
Streets of love by Rolling Stones. I actually cried on a bus because of that song once
Great call Fingerbang!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uM3YROq_cLY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtrALjg0-xQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2xhmPectY9U
And if you can watch this video without crying you have a heart of stone
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbEFTv9zr0
Lots of TVZ that fits the bill
"Theres only two types of music in the world, the blues and zippitydoodah and this aint zipittydoodah" Townes Van Zandt
Enough of the sad stuff have a laugh.
Enough of the sad stuff have a laugh.
FFS that's not even related to funny, more than anything else anyone had posted you are trying to drive people to suicide with that humourless shit!
And back to some proper music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrd_3VMC3c&ab
Richard Thompson - How will I be simple again?; Devonside; Down where the Drunkards Roll; Sisters; Calvary cross and quite a lot more ...
Leonard Cohen - Last Year's man, Avalanche, in fact the whole of "Songs of Love and Hate" should do it.
Fairport Convention - Who know where the Time goes
Sandy Denny - Solo
Joni Mitchell - Amelia
Traditional - Banks of the Nile; Four Loom Weaver etc etc etc.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Mercy Seat and many more .....
Yes, I am a 'Certain age'.
Leonard Cohen should do the trick.
But hide the knives first.
When you 'get' Leonard, you won't feel suicidal.
I very nearly started a very similar thread myself quite recently – I was going to lead with
Then go on to suggest
And the absolutely magnificent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTUS9iU2lbw
The could make a Cbeebies presenter mope.
I posted that earlier and do love it.
I also however love this version too
Takes a while to get going, but this has an lovely kind of gentle melancholia.
Interesting to contrast with the Kid Loco remix, which makes the same tune feel a bit brighter and more hopeful.
New tune from The Wonder Stuffs Miles Hunt is a great song imo.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=0pghJqNKYJA
When the author heard Cash’s version of Hurt he said it was like losing your girlfriend. He didn’t own the song any more. One of my absolute favourite tracks.
Richard Thompson you say...
When the author heard Cash’s version of Hurt he said it was like losing your girlfriend. He didn’t own the song any more. One of my absolute favourite tracks.
Very powerful and moving. Even more so hearing it with the video as well.
Lamb.. 'Gabriel'
I didn't see this in any previous posts
https://www.loudersound.com/features/mellon-collie-and-the-infinite-sadness-25-years-of-the-90s-last-great-rock-album
So much good music here! Really pleased to see the Jazz Butcher, among many others.
Have I just missed it or has no one posted this - the album cover alone should do it...
I have a playlist entitled “Low” so this is very easy...
Phil Campbell’s Cried Some Diamonds always brings a tear to my eye
Totally haunting song from Danny Cavanagh and Anneke van Giersbergen.
Written by Liverpool band Anathema, I think about the passing of their dad (there were three brothers in the band). Anneke has the most amazing voice.
Nice version of Time after Time by same girl... (bit of a long intro, but quite charming nonetheless)
if youtube, just below the video is a share button which gives you a link to copy. Put this in directly, and the video appears.
That doesn't seem to work for me. When I do a "Preview" it just shows the link url, no video window.
Will it work if I actually "Post" it?
I don't get a preview option when I post. I just paste the link in the white box and hit submit. Seems to work for me.
I don’t get a preview option when I post. I just paste the link in the white box and hit submit. Seems to work for me.
Thanks...it works.
"One fine day" from Madam Butterfly .... Maria Callas singing.
It always makes me well up.I don't really know why but it does.
My two.
^^^
Northern Sky somewhere up page is one of my favourite songs, but on this thread Nick Drake feels a bit like cheating. But all time biggest selling rapper also sounds sad most of the time, for some reason...
I don't think anyone has posted this yet.
Zappa's "Watermelon in Easterhay" does it for me. Someone played it for me back in 1982 when I'd just lost someone very close to me, and it's haunting, beautiful, and carries such a sense of loss and longing for what might have been. Best heard on a decent stereo, or at least some good headphones.
I won't post the link because the spoken intro is sweary, but it's easy enough to find.
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Oooh, I'm going to have to take some time listening to all of this. Can't right now - spinning through while the wife watches Bake Off.
These are a few I'd like to add. All of them have moved me very much. As others have said, all of Nick Drake's could go on here. Pretty sure he never did an equivalent of Bowie's Laughing Gnome? Leonard Cohen, I've never really got. Maybe later..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb4yfCTuU-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp5a3ksuDUU
Has Jeff been on yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfE6PJmGS8
The theme to Schindler’s List could also be added here too. It may slip towards bleak rather than melancholy.
The intro music from "The Bridge"...... Saga lives.
ah, talking of theme tunes...
Some great tracks suggested here (Sad to hear about John Prine RIP). I have a Spotify playlist titled Beautiful melancholy, here are some of my current favourites
Michigan - The Milk Carton Kids
Lua - Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst is a master of Melancholy IMHO)
Nostalgia Blues · Simon Joyner
Gretchen Peters - Five Minutes
Some great music in this list.... Melancholia for me is summed up in this cover version, Phil Collin's Against the Odds covered by the Postal Service. So beautiful and so sad.
Boom-boom...
Really pleased to see the Jazz Butcher
Good to know there's at least one other fan out there.
Another great melancholy Butch number (it's actually this one which has Sonic Boom on guitar)...
For some reason I have been listen to this. A lot...
Spiritualized:
Medication
Take good care
Walk with Jesus
Belle and Sebastian:
The state I'm in
The Violent Femmes:
Good Feeling
LCD Sound System:
Someone Great
Psychic Ills: it's all pretty melancholy.
This has to be the best playlist yet on here, some great music and a lot new to me.
Sinead O'Connor - Ode To Billy Joe
Silver Jews - Random Rules
Other favourites by Silver Jews 'Candy Jail' and 'Dallas'
Iron and Wine - Naked as We Came
Other favourites by Iron and Wine - 'Sodom, South Georgia', 'Such Great Heights' and 'Flightless Bird American Mouth'
Del Amitri - Driving with the Brakes On
This one KILLS me. Just so powerful:
Townes Van Zandt has been mentioned, here is a song that marked his death. Makes me cry every time, place names are all wrong but it all sums up my brother who died almost 10 years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMknbUBLu5E
Some very excellent dirges listed already. My selection -
All desperately sad yet beautiful
Zappa’s “Watermelon in Easterhay” does it for me.
Ah yes. I came home and played that the day he died. Here's a version from 1988 without a sweary intro, though it is best heard in context as part of Joe's Garage.
...so titled because apparently "trying to play a solo with this band is like trying to grow watermelons in Easter hay". I remember from an interview.
Here's one, the optimistic side of melancholy but still...
& another.
Extra marks for cross genre YouTube mashup
Another one from the masters of melancholy, but a cover version.
(it's quite nice this thread isn't a Smiths / Morrissey compilation actually)