Melancholic Music

[oak]

Post some sad songs / albums that you can confide in when you're feeling low.

 

[pijo]

I need melancholia in my music. Will watch this thread with interest. I know that in some of my hardest times I "feel" music so much more intensely. I find that sad/melancholic music supports my emotional state as opposed to bringing me down.

 

[Enoch]

Oh, I am going to follow this thread, my favorite melancholic music is the ones with downer lyrics and upbeat music, I love contrast in music

 

[Melancholy_Melody]

My kind of thread (hence my username)! Sometimes you just need to wallow, or to at least feel less alone in your sadness. When a song captures your feelings and makes you feel like you’re not the only one, it’s a gift.

Julien Baker

 

[Melancholy_Melody]

Patrick Watson always gives me the feels.

 

[pijo]

My kind of thread (hence my username)! Sometimes you just need to wallow, or to at least feel less alone in your sadness. When a song captures your feelings and makes you feel like you’re not the only one, it’s a gift.

Julien Baker

Oh yeah Julien Baker is a queen of melancholy. Appointments is stunning. It is one song that has that desperado Seinfeld ep effect on me if you know what I mean.

 

[pijo]

Oh, I am going to follow this thread, my favorite melancholic music is the ones with downer lyrics and upbeat music, I love contrast in music

This makes me think of Jens Leckman, especially the album I Know What Love Isn't. Beautiful, moving music with at times an upbeat kind of feel.

 

[Melancholy_Melody]

Oh yeah Julien Baker is a queen of melancholy. Appointments is stunning. It is one song that has that desperado Seinfeld ep effect on me if you know what I mean.

Indeed I do! Usually I’m alone, so I don’t need to shush anyone, lol.

 

[Melancholy_Melody]

Mad world:

Original



Slowed down cover (Donnie Darko, anyone?)

 

[thisunfolds]

The first song should hit you right in the feels

 

[Critter]

Trespassers William - Different Stars

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Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier

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Marianne Faithfull - Negative Capability

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Pedro The Lion - It's Hard To Find A Friend

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(not a great pressing but I'm just pulling from my collection)

Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Things That We Are Made Of

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Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses

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Elliott Smith - Figure 8

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Hop Along - Get Disowned

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London Grammar - If You Wait

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Cat Power - Sun

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(a very important album for me)

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

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Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

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All albums (and one song) that help me in sad times.

 

[Enoch]

You might be interested in Adam Green. He's got a real sarcastic-kinda tone to him:

that was differnt

Mad world:

Original



Slowed down cover (Donnie Darko, anyone?)

I really like the Donnie Darko's versions

Carrie & Lowell is my go-to sad album

I heard the below on the radio today and it is disturbing how much it still resonates


maybe my favorite melancholic song


my favorite music and lyrics being the opposite of each other
https://youtu.be/ghb6eDopW8I

 

[Enoch]

I really liked this one

 

[Endtro]

This interview is still absolutely worth reading if you're looking for backstory on A Crow Looked At Me

Death Is Real: Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum Copes With Unspeakable Tragedy

A day in the life of the singer-songwriter following the death of his wife, Geneviève.

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I listened to this album when it came out twice. It was stunning and really affected me like no album I’d ever listened to. I bought the vinyl immediately and never opened it. I recently sold it without ever spinning it. I just don’t think I need to hear it again tbh.

I love sad music though. I’ll blow up this thread for sure.

 

[Enoch]

maybe my favorite melancholic song

I am preaching at my church on the 9th, it is Pentecost Sunday but the lectionary (we use) has a Romans passage so I chose this line as my focus verse "The very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words" I plan to use parts of Moment of Surrender in it as it has Pentecost-y stuff and sorrow

 

[Waitressboy]

So surprised never mentioned Aimee Mann so far




And probably the most accurate song about Deppresion ever written:

 

[Jan]

Vics saddest song


And sharon van ettens version

 

[Kris]

Roseanne Cash's album "Black Cadillac" has been played quite a bit by me recently. She wrote this album after her dad died. There's one song called "I Was Watching" that really gets me in the feels.

 

[pijo]

Damn. Julien Baker covering Frightened Rabbit is a perfect storm of melancholia.

 

[gaporter]

No melancholic music hurts my soul (in a good way) like Jason Molina. His music has helped me so much in the past, specifically the album Didn't It Rain. It's all even more harrowing knowing how it all ended up. The song of his that hits me the most is this one: