20 Best Melancholic Songs

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(1) How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead [Actually most of Radiohead's music fits into this category]
(2) Tequila Sunrise - the Eagles
(3) Wichita Linesman - Glen Campbell
(4) Both Sides Now - Glen Campbell
(5) Human - the Human League
(6) Blood of Eden - Peter Gabriel/Sinead O'Connor
(7) Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush
(8) Small Town Boy - Bronski Beat
(9) A Different Corner - George Michael
(10) High and Low - A-HA
(11) Listen Up - Oasis [B-Side to Cigarrettes and Alcohol.]
(12) Rocking Chair - Oasis [B-Side to another single, I can't remember which]
(13) Tomorrow - U2
(14) Everyday is like Sunday - Morrissey
(15) Girlfriend in a Coma - The Smiths
(16) Wild Horses - The Rollings Stones or the Gram Parsons version, either will do
(17) In my Hour of Darkness - Gram Parsons / Emmylou Harris
(18) Love Hurts - Gram Parsons / Emmylou Harris
(19) Hearts on Fire - Gram Parsons / Emmylou Harris
(20) Sweetness Follows - REM


Will you be able to beat this list? No you won't.
 
I only have 1 song to ad:

The Living Dead- Suede.

That tune makes me tear every time I hear it. Fucking junkies.


Where's all the money gone?
I'm talking to you
All up the hole in your arm
Is the needle a much better screw?
But oh what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.

Where is this life of fun that you promised me?
Nothing here works but your works and I mean it
I have to leave
But oh what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.

If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back, let's talk about the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall.

I know where the money's gone--
I know what you do
'Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and
The needle's a much better screw
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.
 
Fuck I don't have that song. I only have their first 3 albums.

I was almost going to include the Beautiful Ones from Dog Man Star from but left it out for some reason.
 
financeguy said:
Fuck I don't have that song. I only have their first 3 albums.

I was almost going to include the Beautiful Ones from Dog Man Star from but left it out for some reason.
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I'll post it for you.

http://s37.you send it.com/d.aspx?id=0MH9DHCUP72K128G0RFCY2BQ7R
 
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MrBrau1 said:
I only have 1 song to ad:

The Living Dead- Suede.

That tune makes me tear every time I hear it. Fucking junkies.


Where's all the money gone?
I'm talking to you
All up the hole in your arm
Is the needle a much better screw?
But oh what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.

Where is this life of fun that you promised me?
Nothing here works but your works and I mean it
I have to leave
But oh what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.

If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back, let's talk about the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall.

I know where the money's gone--
I know what you do
'Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and
The needle's a much better screw
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go.
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Dear Lord I was just listening to that on the way home. One of the best songs ever. Hell, that whole 'Stay Together' EP is stellar.
 
Just about everything I listen to is melancholic....

I could put up a list of every song I listen to and throw 20 darts. :)
 
random thoughts of mine, not a definitive list

a-ha : the swing of things
judas priest : before the dawn
afi : this time imperfect, ever and a day, morningstar
eric clapton : tears in heaven
the left banke : walk away renee
queen : dear friends
NIN : something I can never have
joy division : love will tear us apart
cyndi lauper : sally's pigeons
stone sour : bother
U2 : mothers of the disappeared, BAD, The Ocean
Johnny Cash : hurt (nin cover)
the tea party : correspondences
live : overcome
mazzy star : fade into you
billie myers : kiss the rain
sting : fragile
 
Pink Floyd - Hey You
Green Day - Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)
The Arcade Fire - Crown Of Love
U2 - Exit
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (the beginning)
Coldplay - What If
 
JUST A FEW...
1. Love Is Blindeness - U2
2. Hang On To My Vertigo - Rupert Hine
3. Flannagan's Song - Robyn Hitchcock
4. Johnny Mathis's Feet - American Music Club
5. Sunday Morning Coming Down - Crooked Fingers
6. Hurt - Johnny Cash
7. Tramp The Dirt Down - Elvis Costello
8. Your Favorite Dylan Song - The Gunshy
9. Sittin On A Fence - The Rolling Stones
10. Comforting Sounds - Mew
11. Deep Song - Billie Holiday
12. Weightless Again - The Handsome Family
13. Tomorrow - U2
14. Sad Professor - R.E.M.
15. Red Army Blues - The Waterboys
16. Ambulance Blues - Neil Young
17. Borrowed Tune - Neil Young
18. The Kids - Lou Reed
19. Nightime - Big Star
20. Atmosphere - Joy Division
 
no particular order


Lady Grinning Soul, Wild Is The Wind, Some Are, David Bowie
Saxophone Song, Strange Phenomenon, Kate Bush
Please,Please,Please Let Me Get What I Want, The Smiths
Love Is Blindness, One, 2 Shots Of Happy..., U2
1 More Cup Of Coffee, Bob Dylan
Angie, The Stones
If There Is Something(live), Roxy Music
Rust, Empire State Halo, Echo & the Bunnymen
Let it Be, Here There & Everywhere, The Beatles
Sebastian, Tumbling Down, Cockney Rebel
Blindfold, Morcheeba
Old & Wise, Alan Parsons Project
Year Of The Cat, Al Stewart
Songbird, Fleetwood Mac
Such A Woman, Heart Of Gold, Neil Young
 
Harry Vest said:

14. Sad Professor - R.E.M.
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:up:


I think it's important we don't confuse 'melancholic' with 'melodic', though. For instance, I would consider Green Day's Time Of Your Life melodic, not melancholic. :shrug:

Anyway, here goes...

1. The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
2. Hey You - Pink Floyd
3. Wasted Time - Eagles
4. Everybody Hurts - REM
5. Only When I Lose Myself - Depeche Mode
6. Low Man's Lyric - Metallica
7. One (live w/ strings) - U2
8. Street Spirit (fade out) - Radiohead
9. When You're Gone - The Cranberries
10. They Dance Alone - Sting
11. Love Hurts - Nazareth
12. The Final Cut - Pink Floyd *really the whole album*
13. She's Leaving Home - The Beatles
14. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
15. Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty
16. The End - The Doors
17. Jerry Was There - Kula Shaker
18. Run Baby Run - Sheryl Crow
19. Yesterday - The Beatles
20. Wake Up Dead Man - U2
 
Ryan Adams - How do you keep love alive
Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath
Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago
Ryan Adams - La Cienega just smiled
Ryan Adams - Oh my sweet Carolina
Ryan Adams - Come pick me up

:wink:
 
20 songs guys!! 20!! Not 1!:wink:

Some of ye are going to have to try harder. :wink:

I would also like to congratulate Harry Vest for including The Waterboys' Red Army Blues. A superb choice.
 
these are just some of my favorites, maybe people have differing definitions of melancholy :shrug:

Bruce Springsteen -The River, Thunder Road, Independence Day, Brilliant Disguise, One Step Up, You're Missing, Streets Of Philadelphia, Devils And Dust

Sinead O'Connor-Nothing Compares To You, I Am Stretched On Your Grave

Sarah McLachlan -Angel, I Will Remember You, Good Enough

The Police - So Lonely

Fields Of Gold - Eva Cassidy version

Roy Orbison -Crying, In Dreams

Ray Charles -You Don't Know Me

REM - Nightswimming, Everybody Hurts

Pavarotti- Nessun Dorma
 
RH - Scatterbrain
DMB - Grace is Gone
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
Gordon Downie - Chancellor
Cash - Hurt
PJ - Lowlight
STP - Creep
Arcade Fire - In the Backseat
Cure - Fascination Street
SP - Galapagos
U2 - Your Blue Room
Smiths - That Joke isn't Funny anymore
The Hip - Pigeon Camera
White Stripes - You got her in your pocket
Alice In Chains - Down in a Hole
 
Sting - Russians
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home / Vera
U2 - October
Led Zeppelin - Going To California
America - Horse With No Name
A-Ha - Hunting High And Low
Phil Collins - Separate Lives
Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
Journey - Little Girl
No Doubt - Don't Speak
 
i'll give it a go...

1 u2 - mothers of the disappeared
2 u2 - wake up dead man
3 u2 - love is blindness
4 r.e.m. - everybody hurts
5 jeff buckley - hallelujah
6 jeff buckley - last goodbye
7 third eye blind - slow motion
8 third eye blind - the background
9 a perfect circle - judith
10 a perfect circle - 3 libras
11 a perfect circle - orestes
12 nine inch nails - hurt
13 tool - the patient
14 tool - the grudge
15 death cab for cutie - tiny vessels
16 the beatles - let it be
17 scott weiland - barbarella
18 pink floyd - comfortably numb
19 radiohead - high & dry
20 kansas - dust in the wind :)

a bit random but that's totally off the top of my head.
 
How could I forget Hallelujah, I love the Leonard Cohen version too

also Nirvana - All Apologies , especially the version that's on the Unplugged CD

Elvis - Are You Lonesome Tonight

Clannad- Theme From Harry's Game

Bonnie Raitt -I Can't Make You Love Me If You Don't
 
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