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)
Here’s a version from 1988 without a sweary intro, though it is best heard in context as part of Joe’s Garage.
Thanks @slowoldman. That's an interesting performance, but doesn't really come close to the studio version.
Apologies if its already been posted:
Great cover version this one;
Ryan Adams - Wrecking Ball
Sun Kil Moon - Alesund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLUtcmJk0Q
a couple of bedsit classics I'm guessing will work for some of the demographic. Ages since I've heard either...
and a bonus...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisHhIRihMY
oh no. Doing classics and it looks like I forgot about Glen...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSarBcsKLU
Bit of nick drake would be apt
