Sad/melancholic songs you like?

Page 2 of 9 [ 143 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 9 Next

Joined: 29 Jun 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,341

30 Jul 2009, 1:54 pm

No Suprises - Radiohead
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead

The Album "A Grand Don't Come For Free" by The Streets, if you ignore the alternate ending on the ending song "Empty Cans."

Working Class Hero - John Lennon
Mother - John Lennon

pakled
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Nov 2007
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,015

30 Jul 2009, 6:24 pm

hmm...don't know the real name, but 'Please let me get what I want' by the Smiths
'Supper's Ready' by Genesis

LinnaeusCat
Velociraptor

Joined: 22 Jul 2009
Gender: Female
Posts: 484
Location: Le Monde

30 Jul 2009, 7:06 pm

Very sad. Very simple and beautiful vocal.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA_ubhYgjAc[/youtube]

Beck - Everyone's Gotta Learn Sometime
Elliot Smith - Pretty Ugly Before
Rain on Me - The Who

Almost anything sung by Aimee Mann or Damien Rice

Movie Soundtrack Music:

Happy Birthday, Nicholas - Howard Shore (The Game Soundtrack)
Sonata for a Good Man - Gabriel Yared (Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen Soundtrack)
Engagement - Alexandre Desplat (Birth Soundtrack)

_________________
?How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.?--Albert Einstein

INTJ.

Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

30 Jul 2009, 11:49 pm

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke

i_wanna_blue
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 9 Aug 2008
Gender: Male
Posts: 11,113

31 Jul 2009, 10:17 am

keane - she has no time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e95RD9Bz-w[/youtube]

keane - hamburg song

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqCPqsTd8w[/youtube]

DarrylZero
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Jun 2009
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,726

31 Jul 2009, 11:09 am

That I can think of at the moment...

Vocalise-Rachmaninoff
Black Thumb-Lori Carson (actually, just about anything off her albums Everything I Touch Runs Wild and Where It Goes)
In Spite of Me-Morphine (and most of the other songs from Cure For Pain)
Just about anything by The Smiths, Morrissey, or Joy Division

This may be kind of weird, but I often find happy love songs to be mildly depression-inducing.

I also really like the music from the Cymbalta ads.

CGstucknthe80s
Blue Jay

Joined: 16 Mar 2008
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Posts: 81
Location: Wyoming, MI

31 Jul 2009, 9:12 pm

Here's my list:

1: "Anything Can Happen" by composer Marcus Miller (the theme song to the 1997 basketball dramedy "The 6th Man". This song never ceases to make me cry, and it's very hard to get me to cry.)

2: "What If" by 112 (the lead singer, Marvin "Slim" Scandric, as he sings about how he has drastically messed up his relationship with his girl and voices his regrets, you can hear the increasing pain in his voice. For an R&B song, this was the most emotional one I've heard in a long time.

3: "Toy Soldiers" by Martika (great anti-drug song coming from the heart of the Drug Wars era, this came out around 1988)

4: "She's Out Of My Life" by Michael Jackson (Nuff said. Very emotional song, circa 1979.) R.I.P. Michael Joseph Jackson

Prof_Pretorius
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,520
Location: Hiding in the attic of the Arkham Library

31 Jul 2009, 11:20 pm

Shine On You Crazy Diamond, I fancy that I may want it played at me funeral/

_________________
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke

DarrylZero
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 Jun 2009
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,726

01 Aug 2009, 2:17 am

I'm feeling a bit melancholy right now, so I thought I'd post some more.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZdx9e3YdVY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAUq0p1B6Ic[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icC4O5mq_-4[/youtube]

pat2rome
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 29 Jun 2009
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,819
Location: Georgia

01 Aug 2009, 1:25 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMHL1lEQBk[/youtube]

Edit: Just read my signature and realized another good melancholy song I like.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQtlrBziyzI[/youtube]

Edit (again):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhdOQ5BnBys[/youtube]

_________________
I'm never gonna dance again, Aspie feet have got no rhythm.

marshall
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Apr 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 10,752
Location: Turkey

01 Aug 2009, 3:04 pm

Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vFaoA7t2RE

The song is soooo spacey, desolate, plaintive, yet beautiful as well. When I'm in a certain frame of mind the weird vocal effects at the end of the song make me feel close to tears.

I prefer a kind of cold distant melancholy to the more sentimental sadness that a lot of pop music tries to create. Stuff that brings to mind images of dilapidated buildings, windswept snow, and lonely bedraggled wanderers.

Last edited by marshall on 01 Aug 2009, 3:20 pm, edited 2 times in total.

activebutodd
Veteran
Veteran