Melancholic music wanted.

I'm looking for some sad, melancholic music. I did a search on youtube but the results weren't really what i was after.
Music similar to Subterranean Homesick Alien and Exit Music (For a Film] from OK Computer would be great.

 

Steven Wilson Hand.Cannot.Erase

 

The complete works of Coldplay.

 

Red House Painters. Start with Katy Song.

 

The Cure - Disintegration
Neil Young - On the Beach
Nick Drake - everything

 

The new sufjan stevens album carrie and lowell; it's a melancholic masterpiece...

 

These guys are tough to beat for melancholy.

 

Try some Chopin, e.g. Ballades.

 

Twenty sad songs from among my favorites:

• "All By Myself" by Eric Carmen
• "Bright Eyes" by The Nolans
• "Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)" by ABBA
• "The End Of The World" by Skeeter Davis
• "Goodbye To Love" by the Carpenters
• "I Knew Love" by Nanci Griffith
• "I Need To Be In Love" by the Carpenters
• "I Wish I Could Cry (Early Version)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan
• "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" by Agnetha Fältskog
• "It Never Rains In Southern California" by Albert Hammond
• "It's Not The Same" by The School
• "It's Sad To Belong (To Someone Else)" by England Dan & John Ford Coley
• "My Heart's Symphony" by Gary Lewis & The Playboys
• "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" by Eric Carmen
• "Reflection" by Mulan (Lea Salonga)
• "Seasons In The Sun" by Terry Jacks
• "Treat Him Nicely" by Annette Funicello
• "Tryin' To Get The Feeling Again" by the Carpenters
• "The Winner Takes It All" by ABBA
• "You Make A Fool Of Me" by Miami Sound Machine

I've also purchased a number of albums of sad instrumental music, including:

• Sad Piano by Music That Will Make You Cry
• Sad Violin by Music That Will Make You Cry
• Sad Music: Sad Instrumental Piano Songs (Sad Songs That Make You Cry) by Sad Piano Music Collective
• Sad Piano Music - Sad Piano Songs and Melancholy Music by Sad Piano Music Collective
• Depressive, Classical Music For Sad Souls by Therapy Classic

 

Leonard Cohen

 

Philip Glass comes to my mind

 

Pound for pound the most melancholic album ever. I always wonder what made Robert Smith so sad when I listen to it. Beautifully, sad.

 

Get your hands on some Moody Blues material. With as much majestic melancholy as they've turned out over the years, they're a band that has always lived up to the billing of their name. Nights In White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Dawn Is A Feeling, I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Hundred, Watching And Waiting, And The Tide Rushes In, Isn't Life Strange, Driftwood, Dear Diary, Blue Guitar, Had To Fall In Love, In My World, Blue World -- and if you need a coup de grace closer, try Melancholy Man!

 

Garbage - You Look So Fine

Let's pretend, happy end...



If you're feeling really down, you could alternate it with The Trick Is To Keep Breathing.

Garbage - The Trick Is To Keep Breathing »

 

M. Ward
Elliot Smith

 

Fleetwood Mac when fronted by Peter Green and Danny Kirwan turned out some psychedelic melancholy classics: Earl Gray, Dragonfly, My Dream, Closing My Eyes, Before The Beginning, Albatross, Show Biz Blues, Like Crying, Although The Sun Is Shining, Underway, Dust, When You Say... The whole Then Play On project is a study in melancholia, and the dark, foreboding world Green and Kirwan were descending into (or more accurately, succumbing to).

 

In the vein of Leonard Cohen, try Bill Callahan (albums Apocalypse or Dream River)

 

Scott Walker I, II, and III have plenty, done beautifully.

 

The first thing that came to my mind.... really is a gloomy masterpiece

 

Just a Song Before I go ...Crosby Stills and Nash

Please Come to Boston ....Dave Loggins.

Melancholy Man ....The Moody Blues.