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Melancholic Music

When I'm feeling down I like to listen to sad music. It helps me feel better eventually. I am making an ever-expanding playlist of sad songs to keep on my phone. Post your favorite moody music in this thread, and I'll add them to my collection.

My Playlist (Tentative):

"Ordinary World" - Duran Duran
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"Red Bottom Sky" - Yung Lean
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"Don't Look Back in Anger" - Oasis
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"Way To Fall" - Starsailor
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"Closing Time" - Semisonic
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"Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie
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"Sad!" - XXXTentacion
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"Paper Love" - Allie X
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"Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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"Elegia" - New Order
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"Runaway" - Aurora
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"Born To Die" - Lana Del Rey
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"Fade Into You" - Mazzy Star
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"Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains
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"I'm Not the Only One" - Sam Smith
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"Skinny Love" - Birdy
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"When the Stars Go Blue" - Tim McGraw
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"Northwest Passage" - Stan Rogers
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"Let Her Cry" - Hootie and the Blowfish
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"Would You Lay Me Down (In a Field of Stone)" - David Allan Coe
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jackslash

If you want melancholy music you can't do better than Bessie Smith.

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You gotta get into the Cocteau Twins as one of the best bands ever. Here is "Heaven or Las Vegas" but anything by them is beautifully melancholic:
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SirLapdanceanot

Anything by 10,000 Maniacs is good too. In My Tribe and Our Time in Eden are both great albums for melancholic music.

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NinaBambina

Mad World comes to mind...

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flagooner

Mad World by Tears for Fears and anything by the Smiths immediately jumped at me.

People Who Died too, but just the lyrics.

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NinaBambina

The Michael Andrews & Gary Jules version is much more melancholic imo. I think it might've been written for Donnie Darko (they use an original Tears for Fears song in that film, too).

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NinaBambina

Since pretty much everything by Lana Del Ray has some degree of melancholy, I'm adding her song "Radio" to the list because I like it.

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nicespice

Hello by evanescence: It’s a song that about Amy Lee (lead singer) thinking about when her sister died as a child

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SirLapdanceanot

Heather Nova's cover of 'Gloomy Sunday'...
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NinaBambina

By Your Side by Sade. (Absolutely beautiful)
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(She has tons of others but that is by far my favorite of her. So talented.)

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twentyfive

This tune by Billie Holiday has been called the cause of more suicides than any other

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nicespice

Ooh yeah and also One Song Glory. It’s a song from the musical Rent

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flagooner

Hearing boy bands makes me want to commit suicide. Does that count?

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datinman

The River by Joni Mitchell. The saddest Christmas song ever.

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NinaBambina

Ok, if we're including musicals I'll also add a Rent some. "Without You" (there are several other sad ones in their lineup).

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NinaBambina

And when I think of "Without You" from Rent I just remember poor Mimi in the stripper dressing room looking so sick and sad, then another quick shot of her dancing unhappily. :(

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Countryman5434

Last dance with mary jane one of my favorite songs! R. I. P TOM PETTY!!!!!

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nicespice

Hearing boy bands makes me want to commit suicide. Does that count?

Shouldn’t have admitted that. Now Nina is going to inbox you daily with boyband music :p

“And when I think of "Without You" from Rent I just remember poor Mimi in the stripper dressing room looking so sick and sad, then another quick shot of her dancing unhappily. :(“

That is true! That’s a really good one to include as well.

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NinaBambina

Obviously I remember other shots, like Collins with Angel. So sad.

I was a Rent-head in high school. Saw the musical live twice.

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jackslash

Let's not forget this sad scene in The Blue Note club.

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Pizza (hiatus)

"My Woman" - Al Bowlly
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"Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. Added to the play list.

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"This tune by Billie Holiday has been called the cause of more suicides than any other

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Thanks! I'll play it on repeat!

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