melancholy rock-oriented songs thread (1 Viewer)

[Leroy Hoard]

Try Joy Division's Closer album.

also always liked this old vinyl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KV_C1QAwwo

 

[fatness]

Ambulance Blues --- Neil Young

Ramada Inn --- Neil Young (saw this performance live; song about a long marriage slowly coming apart)

Down By The River --- Neil Young

Cortez the Killer --- Neil Young

 

[Papa Georgio]

Rolling Stones - Wild Horses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE2B_kCfvss

Concrete Blonde - Joey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdpTcvSn8HQ

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

Drive--The Cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU

 

[Apple Jack]

Great thread idea.

 

[coyote5]

Estranged - Guns N Roses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmAY059TTY

Not sure what happened to the menu bar option that allowed you to name your link...

 

[TheWalkmen]

Billy Corgan acoustic version, To Shiela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1Z4p8Tdlk

Smashing Pumpkins, To Shiela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_3LhYwbN-U

Billy Corgan acoustic version, In the Arms of Sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcu98GTC74

Smashing Pumpkins, In the Arms of Sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vDtAmqhXoE

 

[TheWalkmen]

Joy Division, Decades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mKRjPHUNg

 

[DocHolliday]

Hurt - Johnny Cash version

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Something I Can Never Have - NIN

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Going back to the 70's for this one, could have put it in the best guitar solos thread.

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

 

[Limp Ditka]

Cure For Pain - Morphine

In Circles - Sunny Day Real Estate

Continuous Thunder - Japandroids

 

[rockaction]

Cure For Pain - Morphine

In Circles - Sunny Day Real Estate

Continuous Thunder - Japandroids

I'd forgotten this song. Used to listen to this album all the time. Nice link.

 

[cosjobs]

two LPs from the early 80s (late 70s?)

Elvis Costello - Almost Blue

Graham Parker - Squeezin' out the Sparks

 

[rockaction]

One By One All Day - The Shins

100,000 Fireflies - Superchunk cover of Stephin Merritt

Brand New Love - Sebadoh

 

[FlapJacks]

Elliot Smith - Waltz #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1ly1GMwwc

 

[Limp Ditka]

Travel Is Dangerous - Mogwai

Lone Star Song - Grant Lee Buffalo

Texarkana - R.E.M.

 

[17seconds]

All I Need - Radiohead

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

I have a tradition of listening to that song on takeoff everytime I fly. Just kinda works.

 

[Zow]

Swing life away

 

[rockaction]

They'll Need A Crane - They Might Be Giants

Ana Ng - TMBG

Actually, you could take all of "Lincoln" and it would be melancholy. Maybe not rock enough, but it's at least close to rock.

 

[Bottomfeeder Sports]

Vera - Pink Floyd

Long Nights and This Time - Crack the Sky

 

[Balco]

Buffalo Tom: Taillights Fade http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n_p9ManFBQ

Counting Crows: All my Friends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9krEYQld-o

R.E.M.: Try Not to Breathe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jpptsy2qbU

Brian Fallon (gaslight anthem): Handwritten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3aHvAfxgbU

American Slang http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DYPHOuGHfU

Great Expectations http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMZ-jdPGPBc

1930 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PReDl5C4EGs