Lonely sounding songs

Another one that makes me feel lonely whenever I listen to it.
Radiohead - "How To Disappear Completely"

 

Frank Sinatra - P.S. I Love You

 

"Two Grey Rooms" Joni Mitchell

 

That's exactly what I was looking for.
Excellent choice.
Very well put. I wish I would have put it kind of like that. "Songs that evoke a feeling of loneliness without necessarily being about loneliness" .. something like that.

But all very interesting posts.
Music affects people differently.

 

Chet always seemed lonely ….

 

Not to derail this thread, but hopefully to enhance it, I think it's interesting that even without the lyrics, the song I posted above still conveys a strong sense of loneliness...

Here is Joni Mitchell talking about and then playing the demo of "Two Grey Rooms", titled "Speechless"

 

Alone Again Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Close thread now.

 

Cocteau Twins-The Thinner The Air, 1986

 

"So Far Away" Carole King
" I Must Have Been Blind" Tim Buckley
"A Dream Goes On Forever" Todd Rundgren

 

Terra Spencer "Melt"

 

Dream Academy's cover of the Smiths- Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (Instrumental), 1985
Desolation galore, Kate's Oboe playing is quite haunting.

 

Covenant-Helicopter, 2000

 

Looks Like Rain- Bobby "Ace" Weir

 

This classical piece used to totally wipe me out in my younger days when I heard it in a late-night TV ad: Satie's "Gymnopédie No. 1"

 

Elbow's Usually Bright.

 

Genesis. Squonk.

I opened up my sack and All I had
A pool of bubbles and tears
Just a pool of tears

 

The Temptations-"Lonely Lonely Man Am I"

 

Janis Ian-"In The Winter"

 

I like this "lonely" song.

 

Maybe part of it is the pacing of the album, but "Treefingers" increases that lonely desolate feeling for me....

 

Crowded House - most of their Time on Earth record qualifies... especially "A Sigh", "Silent House" and "English Trees."

 

Beach Boys-Caroline, No
Beach Boys-Til I Die
Beach Boys-Summers Gone

 

Gotta have some Scott Walker..."Time Operator"

 

Burning of the Midnight Lamp

Not just thematically but sonically as well - claustrophobic, psychedelic loneliness.