Should do the trick

Won’t work for everyone, but the trumpet solo near the end of this track is intense

Gillian Welch Revelator.
If you’ve not heard this before, persevere and listen to the guitar sections middle and end, glorious.

[video] https://youtu.be/aVyattex0l8%5B/video%5D

Last one

did you say soul??

Some great songs. And of course the Jazz Butcher and Racheland

I’m not saying these are necessarily great songs but they always touch a nerve. Actually, most are great.

Lamb – Gorecki

Smiths – Suffer Little Children, also Jeane for kitchen sink bleakness.

David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Marc Almond from one of his live big band shows or Jools Holland even better, but I’m going for playlist available)

Christine and the Queens – Night 17 to 52 (or Nuit 17 a 52 if you like the French)

REM – Nightswimming

Half Man Half Biscuit – Ol’ Tige https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT60bXcwVes

Been listening to some odd stuff tonight so;

Obscure but great melancholy…

Wow you guys really embraced this, nice one.

Always come back to this.

Melancholy you say?

How could I forget

I’ve got Leonard Cohen playing right now. I was introduced to him some 35 or more years ago by the same person who played me this. You know when you try to work out what 8 records you’d pick for Desert Island Disks and it always ends up changing and it’s hard to get it down to 80, well this one is the one I’d rescue from the waves and it’s been that way since the day I first heard it.

Jonathan Richman, Summer Feeling

I posted a Warren Zevon song about his cancer diagnosis but the sweary title – rightly – triggered moderation.
Any search on youtube should find his song “My ****’* ****** Up”

I know its over – the smiths

I can’t believe no one has put up the definitive melancholy ballad:

Maybe everyone on STW is too young.

This has to be my go to:

https://youtu.be/LyMGEq82uL4

Maybe everyone on STW is too young.

Well for those of a certain age

Almost anything by Malcolm Middleton 😀

Kinda makes me smile and cry at the same time.

Lots of TVZ that fits the bill

Oh dear, what a miserable bunch we are.

Here’s one that makes me happy.

I love a good melancholy song, and there are loads to choose from! One of my current favourite singer/songwriters is Phoebe Bridgers, a remarkable talent with a lovely voice.
I’ll just post up a list, ‘cos I’ve had difficulty finding videos of some of these songs/artists in the past.

Kate Rusby – ‘My Young Man’
Emmylou Harris – ‘Boulder To Birmingham’, ‘Prayer In Open ‘D’
Phoebe Bridgers – ‘Emotional Motion Sickness’, ‘Christmas Song’
John Grant – ‘Pale Green Ghosts’
Elbow – Kindling (featuring John Grant)
Elliot Smith – ‘Waltz #2 (XO)’
Eddi Reader – ‘Old Soul’
Don Henley – ‘The Last Worthless Evening’, ‘New York Minute’, ‘The Heart Of The Matter’
ABBA – ‘Cassandra’
Alison Moyet – ‘This House’ ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas’ (from Love Letters CD single)
Beth Nielsen Chapman – ‘Sand and Water’ (A really heartbreaking song especially when you know it’s backstory)
Better Oblivion Community Centre – ‘Didn’t Know What I Was In For’, ‘Chesapeake’,

Plenty more where those came from, but enough to be going on with for now. 😎

I cannot listen to this song without thinking of someone a few years younger than me I have met and chatted with a few times, and probably fell in love with, AFAIK completely unrequited! 🙁

eulach
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Oh dear, what a miserable bunch we are.

Didn’t bother reading the first post then? 😉

I managed to find Alison Moyet’s 1987 live version of ‘Ne Me Quitta Pas’ from the CD mentioned above, but the version of ‘This House’ on the single is different to the one released later on ‘Hoodoo’; it’s longer, with a quite extraordinary guitar solo on the end, and it only seems to exist on that CD single.

Found a live version of ‘This House’, not quite up there with the original version, but good nonetheless.

That weird pathos of nonsense that only Half Man Half Biscuit can manage… A Man of Constant Sorrow (with a Garage in Constant Use

And the utter whimsical melancholy wonderfullness of the Divine Comedy

And we can’t have a melancholy playlist without the House of Love.