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

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

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…

‘you never knew me’ by Magazine.

It’s probably one of my favourite songs of all time
That tempo…

https://g.co/kgs/74Tmd3

Streets of love by Rolling Stones. I actually cried on a bus because of that song once

Great call Fingerbang!

And if you can watch this video without crying you have a heart of stone

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

https://youtu.be/T4yh2NZ0kJwHe

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

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

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.

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