Melancholic Music

Many other Waits tracks but [video=youtube_share;0eSfcUzGTdk]http://youtu.be/0eSfcUzGTdk[/video]
 
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Or if you were looking for Waits—

[video=youtube_share;8055IqijQzo]http://youtu.be/8055IqijQzo[/video]

Which IMO is hard to top

"The Nickel" = 5th Avenue in New York City, around 42nd St/Times Square, much, much grittier when this almost inconceivably beautiful song was written about it, or even when I moved to the City, now nothing but banal corporate shit with the occasional poor degenerate homeless bastard such as the song speaks for, or with whom I work everyday. If he's lucky NYPD will give him to me, if not, fuck it, space and aesthetics for Japanese tourists take priority, off to Rikers with him. Giuliani et seq drove most of them out. Requisciat in pace, my beautiful City, I adopted up you as my home far too late …
 
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Or more Waits. I said, is hard to top. But listen to this.

Jesus Christ, this God-damned rain,
Will someone put me on a train?
I'll never kiss your lips again—
—or break your heart

[video=youtube_share;IYAiTg8Tdk4]http://youtu.be/IYAiTg8Tdk4[/video]

Shit actually makes me tear up a lot of the time …
 
Nice choices Nutty. I could list heaps of Nightwish, most of their best tracks have that epic/sad atmosphere. Great choice on the My Dying Bride song, the cello bit in that has haunted me for about 15 years. I even made it into several of my own tracks back when I made actual music.

Here's two of mine:

This has to be the best album cover of all time by the way.


This is another one that I find almost painful to listen to. It reminds me of my old, now deceased dog. I first heard it during his last months and it seems to really remind me of those times. Not really rock or anything, I don't know what this is:



It makes me feel really weird actually. Not entirely pleasant. Like I am somewhere else.

I love melancholy music. I have two loved chord patterns that feature in many, many sad and haunting songs. I have been writing music based on them for about 20 years. Its found in glory in the track by Bibio I posted. The chorus pattern is the sound of loss and sadness but hope too. :D They are chords of sorrow.
 
She has so many astoundingly great ones it's hard to pick eeven two but, not even because I'd say they are my favorites but because they come to mind—

[video=youtube_share;csif5R8BcTg]http://youtu.be/csif5R8BcTg[/video]

[video=youtube_share;2Vn39ZLU9B4]http://youtu.be/2Vn39ZLU9B4[/video]

My favorite female lyricist, ever (and qualified by female only because of Tom Waits and a couple others.) Also has a great diversity stylistically and can rock out on the guitar. She has a pretty voice if not the greatest range but it more than works for her.

She's great live especially in intimate settings. I've met her once just for a few minutes and another time she and a couple of other fans and I smoked cigarettes and talked outside the venue for like half an hour. I don't even think she is a regular smoker but someone called out to her and she bummed a smoke from someone and just shot the shit for a while until her people called her back to pack up or whatever. Incredibly gracious, down to earth, smart (and very, very good looking) woman who I don't think has put out a single shitty album and has been a working artist since the 80s. I don't think that can be said for a lot of artists at all.
 
^ Nice ;)

Well, this brings back memories of heartache for sure - because it (like a lot of bleeding-heart songs on the Album)speaks the total, brutal, fecking, truth is why. Damien Rice the Chuck Norris of passion-killing, depression inducing, folk singers. :p

 
The Frusciante song was clearly influenced by maggot brain - i thought about posting 'watermelon in easter hay' by Zappa which is also maggot brainesque.
 
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