melancholy rock-oriented songs thread (1 Viewer)

[FlapJacks]

not sure how else to describe it

here are some:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yAx2uCoHs Black - Danger Mouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj6jN6h1JbY Red Moon - The Walkmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blm95F-Ohhk Take me Down to the Infirmary - Cracker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uJ61jgFCMM Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7hECrjJHA Daylight - Peder

 

[Keerock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIiLvg58SY Extreme - More Than Words... one of my all time favs

 

[Terpman22]

Just heard this one the other day on some classic rock station. I always thought it was sad/good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFYVAntpw0 - Skid Row - I remember you

 

[FlapJacks]

Bruce Springsteen -- The River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcjJgU3x6J8

 

[Keerock]

Bruce Springsteen -- The River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcjJgU3x6J8

 

[Quint]

"Don't Close Your Eyes" - Kix

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

"Don't Close Your Eyes" - Kix

:ROFL:

 

[Quint]

"Don't Close Your Eyes" - Kix

:ROFL:

not "rock" enough?

 

[FlapJacks]

Jeff Buckley - Forget Her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCI3rfxTIM

 

[Politician Spock]

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

 

[glumpy]

Just about anything JJ Cale... Don't go to Strangers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXM9hWBnPLo

 

[Parrothead]

many of Bob Seger's songs are melancholy..

 

[Guest]

Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends

 

[Guest]

GNR - November Rain.

 

[Guest]

GNR - Don't Cry.

 

[Amused to Death]

The saddest song I know, Feel So Low by Porcupine Tree

 

[TheWalkmen]

not sure how else to describe it

here are some:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3yAx2uCoHs Black - Danger Mouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj6jN6h1JbY Red Moon - The Walkmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blm95F-Ohhk Take me Down to the Infirmary - Cracker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uJ61jgFCMM Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7hECrjJHA Daylight - Peder

Really?

Try Joy Division's Closer album.

 

[fatness]

Helpless

 

[Sabertooth]

Goodbye to Romance from Ozzy.

Also Used to Love Her by Guns and Roses. (Not sure if that's the title).

 

[Keerock]

Helpless

Love that song. Studio version way better.

 

[FlapJacks]

Goodbye to Romance from Ozzy.

Lisa Loeb Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0EqE9xp_2o

 

[satch]

"Ready for Love" by Bad Company

 

[Amused to Death]

Stop Swimming

I'll leave now this can't continue
But I forget which door I came through
And I know that the lift can be painfully slow
So I think I'll leave by the window

 

[Statcruncher]

Love's a Loaded Gun - Alice Cooper

Someday they'll put me in a squad car

Someday they'll throw away the key

 

[msommer]

Mama Said - Metallica

Unforgiven - Metallica

Child in time - Deep Purple

Six String Down - SRV Tribute

The Show Must Go On - Queen

 

[msommer]

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Hotel California - Eagles

 

[cstu]

In My Darkest Hour - Megadeth

 

[Parrothead]

Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[cstu]

Anything by the Smiths.

 

[cstu]

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

 

[Amused to Death]

The Raven That Refused to Sing - Steven Wilson (can't believe I forgot this - maybe sadder than "Feel So Low")

Sister I lost you
When you were still a child
But I need you now
And I need our former life
I'm afraid to wake
I'm afraid to love

Sing to me raven

I miss her so much
Sing to me Lily
I miss you so much

 

[Workhorse]

Beck's "Golden Age": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zAT15vaFk&feature=kp&safe=active

 

[msommer]

Edie (Ciao Baby) - The Cult

 

[FlapJacks]

Mama Said - Metallica

Unforgiven - Metallica

Child in time - Deep Purple

When a Blind man cries - Metallica covering Deep Purple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APIY8x5gy7w

 

[Apes with Guns]

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd

winner!

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Arms Around Your Love - Chris Cornell

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Mad World - Tears for Fears (and Gary jules version is good)

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac/Smashing Pumpkins

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who

Time - Pink Floyd

 

[Amused to Death]

Great Gig In The Sky

 

[Binky The Doormat]

A couple from a Todd Rundgren visit to Daryl's House

Sweet - Todd's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dlmlNgrXSQ

Wait for Me - Daryl's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NekaojZPzM

 

[Long Ball Larry]

All I Need - Radiohead

Probably should just say the entire catalogue, but I really like that song.

 

[Amused to Death]

All I Need - Radiohead

Probably should just say the entire catalogue, but I really like that song.

I was thinking "Fake Plastic Trees", but yeah, you could go with just about any Radiohead tune.

 

[zamboni]

"Ready for Love" by Bad Company

I wouldn't call that overly melancholy. Seagull is probably more relevant when it comes to Bad Co.

 

[Statcruncher]

Revelation (Mother Earth) - Ozzy Osbourne

 

[Amused to Death]

Marillion's always good for some sad songs:

When I Meet God

And if the bottle's no solution
Why does it feel so warm
And if that girl is no solution
Why did she feel so warm
And if to feel is no solution
Why do I feel
Why do I feel so tired
Why do I feel so broken
Why do I feel so outside
Why do I seem so blind
I'm so sick of feeling
It's ruined my life

Why do the gods

Sit back and watch
So many lost
What kind of mother
Leaves a child in the traffic
Turning tricks in the dark
What kind of god?

When I meet god

I'm going to ask her
What makes her cry
What makes her laugh
Is she just stars and indigo gas
Does she know why
Love has no end
But it's dark-angel friend
Tearing women and men
Slowly apart

 

[Parrothead]

Marillion's always good for some sad songs:

When I Meet God

And if the bottle's no solution

Why does it feel so warm

And if that girl is no solution

Why did she feel so warm

And if to feel is no solution

Why do I feel

Why do I feel so tired

Why do I feel so broken

Why do I feel so outside

Why do I seem so blind

I'm so sick of feeling

It's ruined my life

Why do the gods

Sit back and watch

So many lost

What kind of mother

Leaves a child in the traffic

Turning tricks in the dark

What kind of god?

When I meet god

I'm going to ask her

What makes her cry

What makes her laugh

Is she just stars and indigo gas

Does she know why

Love has no end

But it's dark-angel friend

Tearing women and men

Slowly apart

most songs from Misplaced Childhood or Clutching at Straws are melancholy..

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Ohio - Neil Young

Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young

Back to the Garden - Joni Mitchell/James Taylor/CSNY

 

[Amused to Death]

most songs from Misplaced Childhood or Clutching at Straws are melancholy..

"Going Under"

 

[Parrothead]

Riders on the Storm- The Doors

 

[glock]

The Godfather of "down head" music: Neil Young Live At The BBC 1971

 

[worrierking]

Drive-By Truckers- Angels and Fuselage

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Afgnan Whigs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvICV4_Jqnc