Melancholic Music

Pizza (hiatus)
Pizza
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDLiVwpv…
"Red Bottom Sky" - Yung Lean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMayAfYl…
"Don't Look Back in Anger" - Oasis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpRLQZk…
"Way To Fall" - Starsailor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDZYi0l…
"Closing Time" - Semisonic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqk…
"Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ…
"Sad!" - XXXTentacion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgN-vvVV…
"Paper Love" - Allie X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6_a-Su…
"Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim…
"Elegia" - New Order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omzJvwYO…
"Runaway" - Aurora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_HlPboL…
"Born To Die" - Lana Del Rey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag1gUxu…
"Fade Into You" - Mazzy Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZE…
"Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8hT3oDD…
"I'm Not the Only One" - Sam Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCkpzqqo…
"Skinny Love" - Birdy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzCDt2e…
"When the Stars Go Blue" - Tim McGraw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIZ-2FB5…
"Northwest Passage" - Stan Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMRpYtAh…
"Let Her Cry" - Hootie and the Blowfish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aVHLL5e…
"Would You Lay Me Down (In a Field of Stone)" - David Allan Coe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whWL9bQc…

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jackslash
6 years ago
If you want melancholy music you can't do better than Bessie Smith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXShOJV…
SirLapdancealot
6 years ago
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:
https://youtu.be/6KnYw4EwYGc
SirLapdancealot
6 years ago
Anything by 10,000 Maniacs is good too. In My Tribe and Our Time in Eden are both great albums for melancholic music.
NinaBambina
6 years ago
Mad World comes to mind...
flagooner
6 years ago
Mad World by Tears for Fears and anything by the Smiths immediately jumped at me.

People Who Died too, but just the lyrics.
NinaBambina
6 years ago
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).
NinaBambina
6 years ago
Also:
The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice
https://youtu.be/ILqjAVWywb0

Blackout by Muse https://youtu.be/dee3RSgUWiM

Wounded Bird by Charles & Eddie
https://youtu.be/9Dr45LfhDKM

Black by Danger Mouse
https://youtu.be/mDLGqMKd2SM
NinaBambina
6 years ago
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.

https://youtu.be/HpIRdElOt_8
nicespice
6 years ago
Hello by evanescence: It’s a song that about Amy Lee (lead singer) thinking about when her sister died as a child

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HPam_3D9eX…

SirLapdancealot
6 years ago
Heather Nova's cover of 'Gloomy Sunday'...
https://youtu.be/KpXGdrmbP18
nicespice
6 years ago
NinaBambina
6 years ago
By Your Side by Sade. (Absolutely beautiful)
https://youtu.be/C8QJmI_V3j4

(She has tons of others but that is by far my favorite of her. So talented.)
twentyfive
6 years ago
This tune by Billie Holiday has been called the cause of more suicides than any other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUCyjDOl…
nicespice
6 years ago
Ooh yeah and also One Song Glory. It’s a song from the musical Rent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=234NTB5rxV…
flagooner
6 years ago
Hearing boy bands makes me want to commit suicide. Does that count?
datinman
6 years ago
The River by Joni Mitchell. The saddest Christmas song ever.

https://youtu.be/GpFudDAYqxY
NinaBambina
6 years ago
Ok, if we're including musicals I'll also add a Rent some. "Without You" (there are several other sad ones in their lineup).
NinaBambina
6 years ago
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. :(
Countryman5434
6 years ago
Last dance with mary jane one of my favorite songs! R. I. P TOM PETTY!!!!!
nicespice
6 years ago
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.
NinaBambina
6 years ago
Obviously I remember other shots, like Collins with Angel. So sad.

I was a Rent-head in high school. Saw the musical live twice.
jackslash
6 years ago
Let's not forget this sad scene in The Blue Note club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lag-QRdK…
Pizza (hiatus)
6 years ago
"My Woman" - Al Bowlly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlQdjR85…
"Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKw…

Thank you everyone for your suggestions. Added to the play list.

@ twentyfive

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

www.youtube.com"

Thanks! I'll play it on repeat!
Pizza (hiatus)
6 years ago
"Llorando" - Rebekah del Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvAijRKZ…
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